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It began as a holiday.
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Arthur Howitzer Junior,
college freshman...
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eager to escape a bright future
on the Great Plains...
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convinced his father, proprietor
of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun...
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to fund his transatlantic passage
as an educational opportunity...
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to learn the family business...
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through the production of a series of
travelogue columns...
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to be published for local readers
in the Sunday Picnic magazine.
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Over the next ten years,
he assembled a team...
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of the best expatriate journalists
of his time...
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and transformed
Picnic into The French Dispatch...
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a factual weekly report
on the subjects of world politics...
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the arts, high and low, fashion,
fancy cuisine, fine drink...
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and diverse stories of
human interests set in faraway quartiers.
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He brought the world to Kansas.
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His writers line the spines
of every good American library.
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{\an8}Berensen...
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Sazerac...
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Krementz...
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Roebuck Wright.
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One reporter known
as the best living writer...
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in quality of sentences per minute.
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One who never completed
a single article...
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but haunted the halls
cheerily for three decades.
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One privately blind writer who wrote
keenly through the eyes of others.
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The uncontested crackerjack
of grammatical expertise.
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Cover illustrations by Hermès Jones.
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Famously gracious with his writers...
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Arthur Junior was less courteous
with the rest of the magazine's staff.
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Oh, no, what's that?
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I need a turkey.
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Stuffed and roasted on a table
with all the trimmings and pilgrims!
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His fiscal management system
was convoluted but functional.
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Give her 150 francs a week
for the next 15 years...
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against five American cents per word,
minus expenses.
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His most repeated literary advice,
perhaps apocryphal, was simply this...
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Just try to make it sound
like you wrote it that way on purpose.
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His return to Liberty comes precisely
50 years after his departure,
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{\an8}on the occasion of his funeral...
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{\an8}by which time the magazine's
circulation exceeds...
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{\an8}half a million subscribers
in 50 countries.
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{\an8}A willow hamper containing umpteen pins,
plaques, and official citations...
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of the highest order
is buried at his side,
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along with an Andretti Ribbon-mate...
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and a ream of triple bond,
Egyptian cotton typing stock.
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He received an Editor's burial.
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In his will, he stipulated that...
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immediately upon his death, quote...
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The presses
will be dismantled and liquefied.
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The editorial offices will be vacated
and sold.
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The staff will be paid ample bonuses
and released from their contracts...
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and the publication of the magazine
will permanently cease.
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Thus...
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the publisher's obituary will also serve
as that of this publication.
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All home delivery readers will, of course,
be refunded, pro rata...
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for the unfulfilled portion of
their subscriptions.
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His epitaph will be taken verbatim
from the stenciled shingle...
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fixed above the door of his inner office.
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Berensen's article.
The Concrete Masterpiece.
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Three dangling participles,
two split infinitives...
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and nine spelling errors
in the first sentence alone.
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Some of those are intentional.
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The Krementz story,
Revisions to a Manifesto.
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We asked for 2,500 words,
and she came in at 14,000...
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plus footnotes, endnotes,
a glossary, and two epilogues.
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It's one of her best.
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- Sazerac?
- Impossible to fact-check.
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He changes all the names and only writes
about hobos, pimps, and junkies.
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These are his people.
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How about Roebuck Wright?
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His door's locked,
but I could hear the keys clacking.
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Don't rush him.
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The question is, who gets killed?
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There's one piece too many
even if we print another double-issue...
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which we can't afford
under any circumstances.
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A message from the foreman.
One hour to press.
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You're fired.
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Really?
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Don't cry in my office.
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Shrink the masthead, cut some ads,
and tell the foreman to buy more paper.
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I'm not killing anybody.
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Good writers. He coddled them.
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He coaxed them.
He ferociously protected them.
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What do you think?
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For myself?
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I would start with Mr. Sazerac.
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These were his people.
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Ennui rises suddenly on a Monday.
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Through the time machine
of poetic license...
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let us take a sight-seeing tour.
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A day in Ennui over
the course of 250 years.
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The great city began as a cluster
of tradesman's villages.
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Only the names remain unchanged.
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{\an8}The Bootblack District.
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{\an8}The Bricklayer's Quarter.
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{\an8}The Butcher's Arcade.
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{\an8}Pick-pocket Cul-de-Sac.
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{\an8}On this site, a fabled market...
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{\an8}vending all forms of
victuals and comestibles...
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{\an8}under a single vast,
glass-and-cast-iron canopy...
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{\an8}later demolished, as you can see...
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in favor of a multi-level shopping center
and parking structure.
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Like every living city...
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Ennui supports a menagerie
of vermin and scavengers.
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The rats which colonized
its subterranean railroad.
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The cats
which colonized its slanty rooftops.
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The anguillettes which colonized
its shallow drainage canals.
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After receiving the Host,
marauding choirboys...
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half-drunk on the Blood of Christ,
stalk unwary pensioners...
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and seek havoc.
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In the Flop Quarter, students.
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Hungry, restless, reckless.
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In the Hovel District...
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old people.
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Old people who have failed.
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The automobile.
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A mixed blessing. On the one hand...
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the honking, skidding, speeding,
sputtering, and backfiring.
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The emission of toxic fumes
and filthy exhaust-pollution...
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the dangerous accidents,
the constant traffic, the high...
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Fuck!
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Department of Local Statistics.
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Average rainfall, 750 millimeters.
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Average snowfall, 190,000 flakes.
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Eight-point-two-five bodies
are pulled from the Blasé river each week.
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A figure which remains consistent despite
population growth...
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and advances in health and hygiene.
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As the sun sets,
a medley of unregistered streetwalkers...
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and gigolos replaces the day's
delivery boys and shopkeepers...
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and an air of promiscuous calm
saturates the hour.
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What sounds will punctuate the night?
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And what mysteries will they foretell?
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Perhaps the doubtful
old maxim speaks true.
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All grand beauties...
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withhold their deepest secrets.
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"Rats, vermin, gigolos, streetwalkers."
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You don't think it's almost
too seedy this time?
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- No, I don't.
- For decent people.
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It's supposed to be charming.
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"Pick-pockets, dead bodies,
prisons, urinals..."
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You don't want to add a flower shop...
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- or an art museum?
- No, I don't.
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A pretty place of some kind?
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I hate flowers.
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You could cut the second half
of the second paragraph, by the way.
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You already repeat it later.
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Okay.
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We take as the subject
of tonight's lecture...
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the great painter at the vanguard...
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and heart of
the French Splatter-school Action-group...
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Mr. Moses Rosenthaler.
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Widely celebrated, as you know...
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for the bold dramatic style,
and colossal scale of his middle-period...
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in particular, of course,
the polyptych-tableaux known as...
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Ten Reinforced Cement
Aggregate Load-Bearing Murals.
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He remains, in my opinion,
the most eloquent...
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and certainly, the loudest artistic voice
of his rowdy generation.
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How does this pivotal piece
come to find its way...
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into its unique position
as a permanent installation here...
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at the Clampette Collection?
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The story begins in a mess hall.
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The exhibition,
Ashtrays, Pots, and Macramé...
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{\an8}a group show of handicrafts
by amateur artisans...
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incarcerated in the lunatic section
of the Ennui Prison-Asylum...
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might, perhaps, have been omitted
from the annals of art history...
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had it not been for the inclusion
in its number of a small painting...
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by Mr. Rosenthaler,
who was, at that time...
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{\an8}serving a 50-year sentence
for the crime of double homicide...
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{\an8}and the observation of that work
by a fellow inmate...
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{\an8}the Levantine art dealer
Mr. Julian Cadazio...
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{\an8}who, by fateful coincidence,
happened to be imprisoned...
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in the adjoining annex on a charge of
second-degree sales tax evasion.
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Guard.
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Who painted this picture?
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Citizen 7524.
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I believe that unit designates maximum
security for the demented and deranged.
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Are you able to provide me an escort
and a Friendly Visit Stamp...
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for immediate use?
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Simone, Naked, Cell Block J, Hobby Room.
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I wanna buy it.
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Why?
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Because I like it.
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It's not for sale.
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Yes, it is.
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- No, it isn't.
- Yes, it is.
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- No, it isn't.
- Yes, it is.
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- No, it isn't.
- It is, yes. It is.
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All artists sell all their work.
It's what makes you an artist.
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Selling it.If you don't wish
to sell it, don't paint it.
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Question is, what's your price?
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50 cigarettes.
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Actually, make it 75.
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Why do you keep looking at that guard?
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She's Simone.
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I don't want to buy this
important piece for 50 cigarettes.
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-75.
- Or 75 of prison currency.
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I want to pay you 250,000 francs
in legal French tender.
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Do we agree on the sale?
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I can only offer a deposit of...
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83 centimes, one candied chestnut,
and four cigarettes.
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Everything I have at this
present moment in time.
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However, if you'll accept my
signatory voucher, I assure you...
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a check for the outstanding balance
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will be remitted to your account
within 90 days.
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Where do you bank?
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Never mind.
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How'd you learn to do it, by the way?
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Paint this kind of picture.
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Also, who'd you murder,
and how crazy are you, really?
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I need background information
so that we can do a book about you.
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It makes you more important.
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Who are you...
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Moses Rosenthaler?
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Born rich, the son
of a Jewish-Mexican horse rancher...
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Miguel Sebastian Maria
Moisés de Rosenthaler...
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trained at the École des Antiquités
at significant family expense.
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But, by the end of his youth...
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he had shed all the luxuries...
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of his comfortable background
and replaced them with...
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Squalor.
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Hunger.
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Loneliness.
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Physical danger.
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Mental illness.
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And, of course...
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{\an8}Criminal violence.
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He did not pick up a brush
during the first decade...
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of his long prison sentence.
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Permission to sign up for
activity privileges, gardienne.
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This thing?
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What do you mean?
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Tell the group about yourself.
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- I don't wanna do that.
- It's mandatory.
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- They know me already.
- That's not the point.
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- I haven't even prepared a speech.
- Say something.
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Well, I've been here
3,647 days and nights.
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Another 14,603 to go.
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I drink 14 pints of mouthwash rations
per week.
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At that rate...
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I think I'm going to
poison myself to death...
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before I ever get to see the world again,
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which makes me feel...
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very sad.
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I gotta change my program.
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00:20:17,367 --> 00:20:20,011
I gotta go in a new direction.
246
00:20:20,078 --> 00:20:24,432
Anything I can do to keep my hands busy,
I'm gonna do.
247
00:20:26,293 --> 00:20:28,353
Otherwise...
248
00:20:29,296 --> 00:20:32,148
I think maybe it's gonna be a suicide.
249
00:20:38,638 --> 00:20:43,034
And that's why I signed up
for clay pottery and basket weaving.
250
00:20:45,020 --> 00:20:46,955
My name is Moses.
251
00:20:47,939 --> 00:20:49,457
Take a pew.
252
00:21:02,662 --> 00:21:05,056
What's your name, gardienne?
253
00:21:05,123 --> 00:21:06,349
Simone.
254
00:21:13,089 --> 00:21:16,484
Certain women do gravitate
toward incarcerated men.
255
00:21:16,551 --> 00:21:18,403
It's a recognized condition.
256
00:21:19,304 --> 00:21:21,865
Something about the captivity of others...
257
00:21:21,932 --> 00:21:25,201
enhances the experience
of their own freedom.
258
00:21:25,393 --> 00:21:27,495
I assure you, it's erotic.
259
00:21:27,938 --> 00:21:29,539
Look at her, by the way.
260
00:21:29,606 --> 00:21:31,458
Born into quasi-serfdom...
261
00:21:31,608 --> 00:21:33,168
16 brothers and sisters.
262
00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,211
Illiterate until she was 20.
263
00:21:35,278 --> 00:21:37,630
Now, a woman of considerable property.
264
00:21:37,697 --> 00:21:38,965
Radiant.
265
00:21:39,032 --> 00:21:40,133
Good God.
266
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,384
Wrong slide. That's me.
267
00:21:43,161 --> 00:21:47,557
Simone, of course, refused all
Rosenthaler's entreaties of marriage...
268
00:21:47,624 --> 00:21:49,851
which, we are told, were frequent...
269
00:21:49,918 --> 00:21:52,270
and marvelously enthusiastic.
270
00:21:52,796 --> 00:21:55,732
I wanna say it as simple as I can.
271
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,401
To try to shape it into words.
272
00:21:58,969 --> 00:22:00,779
The feelings in my heart.
273
00:22:01,513 --> 00:22:03,114
- I don't love you.
- I love you.
274
00:22:03,431 --> 00:22:04,532
What?
275
00:22:04,557 --> 00:22:06,076
I don't love you.
276
00:22:06,476 --> 00:22:07,660
Already?
277
00:22:07,727 --> 00:22:08,828
Already what?
278
00:22:08,895 --> 00:22:10,413
Already how do you know that?
279
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,165
How can you be sure? It's so quick.
280
00:22:12,232 --> 00:22:13,666
I'm sure.
281
00:22:14,568 --> 00:22:15,669
Ouch.
282
00:22:16,278 --> 00:22:17,629
That hurts me.
283
00:22:17,696 --> 00:22:21,132
The cruelty of it. The cold-bloodedness.
284
00:22:21,199 --> 00:22:24,010
You said what you wanted to say.
I tried to stop you. That's it.
285
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,471
I said part of what I wanted to say.
286
00:22:26,538 --> 00:22:28,848
I was in the middle of it. There's more.
287
00:22:29,082 --> 00:22:30,308
No.
288
00:22:31,042 --> 00:22:33,395
- No what? Will you...
- No.
289
00:22:33,461 --> 00:22:34,562
- Will you marry me?
- No.
290
00:23:01,489 --> 00:23:03,216
I'm gonna need art supplies.
291
00:23:04,492 --> 00:23:07,512
Canvas, stretchers, brushes, turpentine.
292
00:23:07,579 --> 00:23:09,222
What do you want to paint?
293
00:23:09,456 --> 00:23:11,057
The future.
294
00:23:15,128 --> 00:23:16,896
Which is you.
295
00:23:18,548 --> 00:23:21,526
Widely not considered
a great connoisseur...
296
00:23:21,593 --> 00:23:24,612
Julian Cadazio, nevertheless,
had an eye for something,
297
00:23:24,679 --> 00:23:27,532
and he did us all a very good turn...
298
00:23:27,599 --> 00:23:30,493
when the hour he was released
from prison...
299
00:23:35,941 --> 00:23:38,543
We're done with flowers and fruit bowls.
300
00:23:38,735 --> 00:23:41,171
We're finished with beaches and seascapes.
301
00:23:41,571 --> 00:23:44,257
We're getting out of armor, rugs,
and tapestries, too.
302
00:23:44,824 --> 00:23:46,217
I found something new.
303
00:23:57,045 --> 00:23:58,188
Modern art?
304
00:23:58,296 --> 00:24:00,648
Modern art. Our specialty, starting now.
305
00:24:00,715 --> 00:24:02,317
- I don't get it.
- Of course you don't.
306
00:24:02,384 --> 00:24:03,568
- Am I too old?
- Of course you are.
307
00:24:03,635 --> 00:24:05,779
- Why is this good?
- It isn't good. Wrong idea.
308
00:24:05,845 --> 00:24:07,030
That's no answer.
309
00:24:07,097 --> 00:24:09,032
My point. You see the girl in it?
310
00:24:09,140 --> 00:24:10,283
No.
311
00:24:10,350 --> 00:24:12,452
Trust me, she's there.
312
00:24:14,729 --> 00:24:17,165
One way to tell if a modern artist
actually knows what he's doing...
313
00:24:17,232 --> 00:24:20,669
is to get him to paint you a horse
or a flower or a sinking battleship...
314
00:24:20,735 --> 00:24:22,504
or something that's
actually supposed to look like...
315
00:24:22,571 --> 00:24:24,714
the thing that it's actually
supposed to look like.
316
00:24:24,990 --> 00:24:27,217
Can he do it? Look at this.
317
00:24:27,909 --> 00:24:30,345
Drawn in 45 seconds right in front of me
with a burnt matchstick.
318
00:24:30,453 --> 00:24:32,681
A perfect sparrow. That's excellent.
319
00:24:32,747 --> 00:24:33,848
May I keep it?
320
00:24:33,915 --> 00:24:35,308
Don't be stupid. Of course not.
321
00:24:35,375 --> 00:24:38,520
The point is, he could paint
this beautifully if he wanted...
322
00:24:38,587 --> 00:24:40,772
but he thinks this is better.
323
00:24:40,839 --> 00:24:42,899
And I think I sort of agree with him.
324
00:24:43,508 --> 00:24:46,986
Simone, Naked, Cell Block J, Hobby Room
is probably a masterpiece...
325
00:24:47,053 --> 00:24:50,156
worth a significant, even exorbitant,
sum of money.
326
00:24:50,974 --> 00:24:52,242
But not yet.
327
00:24:52,934 --> 00:24:55,286
The desire must be created.
328
00:24:57,564 --> 00:24:59,207
How long is he in for?
329
00:25:10,660 --> 00:25:12,470
Mr. Rosenthaler...
330
00:25:13,121 --> 00:25:15,598
why should we put you back on the street?
331
00:25:16,625 --> 00:25:19,102
Because it was an accident, Your Honor.
332
00:25:19,961 --> 00:25:22,480
I didn't intend to kill anybody.
333
00:25:23,006 --> 00:25:26,276
You decapitated two bartenders
with a meat saw.
334
00:25:30,889 --> 00:25:33,116
The first bartender was an accident.
335
00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:36,411
The second one was self-defense.
336
00:25:36,895 --> 00:25:39,456
Well, be that as it may...
337
00:25:39,522 --> 00:25:42,667
what demonstration of genuine remorse,
or, at the very least...
338
00:25:42,734 --> 00:25:45,420
regret can you offer
for beheading these men?
339
00:25:49,741 --> 00:25:51,259
They had it coming.
340
00:25:51,743 --> 00:25:53,720
- I beg your pardon?
- Forgive me.
341
00:25:55,747 --> 00:25:57,766
Is there a part of this ritual
where you ask...
342
00:25:57,832 --> 00:26:00,518
if anybody has something
to say before it's too late?
343
00:26:00,627 --> 00:26:01,936
Like, at a wedding.
344
00:26:02,003 --> 00:26:04,147
- No.
- I'll be brief.
345
00:26:08,551 --> 00:26:11,029
We all know this man is a murderer.
346
00:26:11,096 --> 00:26:14,783
Totally guilty of first-degree homicide,
any way you slice it.
347
00:26:14,849 --> 00:26:15,992
That's a given.
348
00:26:16,059 --> 00:26:19,496
However, he's also that rare
once-in-a-generation guy...
349
00:26:19,562 --> 00:26:23,166
that you hear about, but never get
the chance to discover for yourself.
350
00:26:24,192 --> 00:26:26,252
An artistic genius.
351
00:26:26,903 --> 00:26:28,426
Surely, there ought to be
a double standard
352
00:26:28,446 --> 00:26:29,923
for this sort of predicament.
353
00:26:30,156 --> 00:26:34,135
Supposedly, he's a psychotic, by the way.
That's not his fault.
354
00:26:34,202 --> 00:26:36,763
Respectfully, I submit...
355
00:26:38,498 --> 00:26:41,309
maybe we could think up
some other way to punish him?
356
00:26:42,002 --> 00:26:45,188
Rosenthaler's right to petition
for parole was permanently revoked...
357
00:26:45,255 --> 00:26:46,940
for the duration of his sentence.
358
00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:49,859
No further questions.
359
00:26:50,260 --> 00:26:54,197
Nevertheless, Cadazio and his uncles were
unanimous in their decision...
360
00:26:54,264 --> 00:26:57,200
to promote the artist
as his exclusive brokers...
361
00:26:57,267 --> 00:26:59,160
throughout the free world.
362
00:27:01,521 --> 00:27:04,457
Simone travelled far and wide.
363
00:27:06,234 --> 00:27:07,919
The Ennui Salon.
364
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,215
The Royal Exposition.
365
00:27:13,491 --> 00:27:16,428
The International Pavilion
at the Liberty, Kansas State Fair...
366
00:27:16,494 --> 00:27:18,722
which was very nearly
burned to the ground.
367
00:27:19,122 --> 00:27:21,558
In short, the picture was a sensation.
368
00:27:24,002 --> 00:27:26,604
Even the artist's all but forgotten
earlier work...
369
00:27:26,671 --> 00:27:30,525
inspired wildly robust sales
on the secondary market.
370
00:27:32,010 --> 00:27:35,822
Meanwhile, Rosenthaler
continued to work in confinement.
371
00:27:36,181 --> 00:27:39,784
Strikingly, the artist favored
raw materials sourced...
372
00:27:39,851 --> 00:27:42,746
exclusively from within
the prison-asylum domain.
373
00:27:43,396 --> 00:27:45,165
Powdered eggs.
374
00:27:45,523 --> 00:27:47,042
Pigeon blood.
375
00:27:47,442 --> 00:27:48,918
Shackle grease.
376
00:27:49,069 --> 00:27:50,962
Coal, cork, and dung.
377
00:27:51,029 --> 00:27:52,589
Fire, of course.
378
00:27:53,031 --> 00:27:54,883
Bright yellow scullery soap.
379
00:27:54,950 --> 00:27:57,927
{\an8}And fresh cream of millet
as a binding agent.
380
00:27:59,204 --> 00:28:01,556
Simone liked to stand still.
381
00:28:01,623 --> 00:28:04,601
Indeed, she was Olympian in her ability...
382
00:28:04,668 --> 00:28:07,854
to hold extremely challenging positions
for extended periods of time.
383
00:28:08,088 --> 00:28:11,858
She exhibited very little vulnerability
to extremes of heat or cold.
384
00:28:11,883 --> 00:28:14,778
After even the most adverse
forms of exposure...
385
00:28:14,844 --> 00:28:18,948
her skin remained unburned,
unblemished, un-goose-pimpled.
386
00:28:19,015 --> 00:28:20,158
Another tidbit.
387
00:28:20,225 --> 00:28:23,161
She genuinely enjoyed
the smell of turpentine...
388
00:28:23,228 --> 00:28:27,499
and in later years actually wore it
in the application of her toilet.
389
00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:30,960
She was more than a muse.
390
00:28:35,949 --> 00:28:37,509
Throw the switch.
391
00:28:45,917 --> 00:28:49,062
Throw the switch, you cocksucker.
392
00:28:54,050 --> 00:28:56,403
What's wrong with you? Go back to work.
393
00:28:57,262 --> 00:28:59,072
I can't.
394
00:28:59,431 --> 00:29:01,449
I won't. It's too hard.
395
00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:04,160
It's torture.
396
00:29:04,477 --> 00:29:07,914
I'm literally a tortured artist.
397
00:29:10,775 --> 00:29:12,335
Poor baby.
398
00:29:13,028 --> 00:29:14,129
Get out.
399
00:29:31,254 --> 00:29:32,355
Is that what you want?
400
00:30:10,293 --> 00:30:12,062
What's your problem?
401
00:30:13,588 --> 00:30:15,065
I don't know what to paint.
402
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,442
The French Splatter-school Action group.
403
00:30:59,843 --> 00:31:03,613
A dynamic, talented, lusty, slovenly,
alcoholic...
404
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,533
violent pack of creative savages.
405
00:31:07,475 --> 00:31:10,620
They inspired and very often...
406
00:31:10,687 --> 00:31:14,082
personally attacked each other
for two decades and more.
407
00:31:14,149 --> 00:31:16,001
I'll have my drink now.
408
00:31:20,864 --> 00:31:23,675
Remember, in those days, as you know...
409
00:31:23,742 --> 00:31:27,846
it was much more socially acceptable
for a painter or a sculptor...
410
00:31:27,913 --> 00:31:31,850
to hit another fellow
with a chair or even a brick...
411
00:31:31,958 --> 00:31:35,937
or walk around with a black eye
or a broken tooth and so on.
412
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,316
Indeed, I'm jumping ahead,
but in my own experience...
413
00:31:40,383 --> 00:31:44,029
Rosenthaler could be quite
unpredictably impulsive.
414
00:31:44,095 --> 00:31:47,741
Meaning, I refer to the pigment locker
beneath his studio...
415
00:31:47,807 --> 00:31:49,909
in the Boulevard des Plombiers,
on one occasion...
416
00:31:49,976 --> 00:31:52,208
he grabbed me and put me in there,
417
00:31:52,228 --> 00:31:55,749
and inappropriately, sort of,
tried to fuck me...
418
00:31:55,815 --> 00:31:58,084
against the wall in the corner
of that pigment locker.
419
00:31:58,151 --> 00:32:01,504
He was crazy. Officially certified.
420
00:32:11,164 --> 00:32:14,392
The Cadazios, of course,
represented them all.
421
00:32:24,761 --> 00:32:26,446
It's three years later.
422
00:32:26,554 --> 00:32:28,406
We've made you
the most famous painter alive...
423
00:32:28,473 --> 00:32:31,451
based on one small,
scribbly, overrated picture.
424
00:32:31,518 --> 00:32:32,994
You're an art school course.
425
00:32:33,061 --> 00:32:34,662
You're an encyclopedia entry.
426
00:32:34,729 --> 00:32:37,624
Even your disciples have won
and squandered multiple fortunes...
427
00:32:37,691 --> 00:32:40,502
yet you refuse to show us
so much as a sketch or a study...
428
00:32:40,569 --> 00:32:43,797
for a single new piece
during this entire, protracted period.
429
00:32:43,863 --> 00:32:45,465
How long are we meant to wait?
430
00:32:45,532 --> 00:32:47,717
Well, don't answer,
because we're not asking.
431
00:32:48,451 --> 00:32:50,595
We already printed the invitations.
432
00:32:50,662 --> 00:32:52,055
We're coming in.
433
00:32:52,330 --> 00:32:54,516
All of us. The collectors. The critics.
434
00:32:54,666 --> 00:32:57,185
Even your second-rate imitators
we represent who suck up to you...
435
00:32:57,252 --> 00:32:59,938
and smuggle you goodies and probably
turn out to be better than you are.
436
00:33:00,171 --> 00:33:02,153
The bribes alone
are going to be outrageous,
437
00:33:02,173 --> 00:33:03,483
as these guards can assure you.
438
00:33:03,592 --> 00:33:05,068
But we're gonna pay 'em.
439
00:33:05,218 --> 00:33:06,903
So, finish it, whatever it is.
440
00:33:07,345 --> 00:33:09,280
The show is in two weeks.
441
00:33:17,147 --> 00:33:19,165
She thinks it's ready, by the way.
442
00:33:19,566 --> 00:33:20,750
It's ready.
443
00:33:23,361 --> 00:33:25,296
I could use another year.
444
00:33:28,241 --> 00:33:32,220
My employer, at that time,
received the intriguing summons...
445
00:33:32,287 --> 00:33:34,264
by rapid-priority wire.
446
00:33:34,331 --> 00:33:38,059
I refer, of course,
to Upshur "Maw" Clampette.
447
00:33:39,210 --> 00:33:41,354
Astute collector of antiquities.
448
00:33:41,421 --> 00:33:43,148
Great friend to the avant-garde.
449
00:33:43,214 --> 00:33:46,609
Her collection, even in its infancy,
was well-known and important...
450
00:33:46,676 --> 00:33:50,447
as was her residence,
Ingo Steen's first American commission...
451
00:33:50,513 --> 00:33:53,742
informally known as the Doorstop House.
452
00:33:54,351 --> 00:33:58,580
It was my duty, and I may say,
my privilege to catalogue...
453
00:33:58,647 --> 00:34:02,083
archive, and advise, although she did
whatever the hell she wanted...
454
00:34:02,150 --> 00:34:04,294
no matter what you told her, anyway.
455
00:34:04,861 --> 00:34:09,341
Thus, we began the long journey
from Liberty to Ennui.
456
00:34:10,325 --> 00:34:13,303
My dear Mrs. Clampette, Maw, if I may,
457
00:34:13,369 --> 00:34:16,514
please join us for the first display of
Mr. Moses Rosenthaler's...
458
00:34:16,581 --> 00:34:18,188
extremely exciting new work,
459
00:34:18,208 --> 00:34:20,351
which I, myself,
have not yet been permitted to see.
460
00:34:20,585 --> 00:34:23,313
In order to facilitate the viewing
in a timely fashion...
461
00:34:23,380 --> 00:34:24,778
it may prove necessary for us
462
00:34:24,798 --> 00:34:27,067
to surreptitiously gain access
to the facility...
463
00:34:27,133 --> 00:34:29,235
where the artist currently resides.
464
00:34:29,427 --> 00:34:32,155
Please rely on my operatives to organize
any and all details...
465
00:34:32,222 --> 00:34:33,947
and preparations for your visit.
466
00:34:34,099 --> 00:34:38,078
Caution, do not bring matches, lighters,
or sharp objects of any kind.
467
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,456
We await your confirmation
with cheerful anticipation.
468
00:34:41,523 --> 00:34:45,710
Yours most truly, Cadazio Uncles
and Nephew Galerie concern.
469
00:34:49,197 --> 00:34:52,425
The paddy wagon collected us directly
after the night's final round...
470
00:34:52,492 --> 00:34:53,597
of working girls and revelers
471
00:34:53,617 --> 00:34:56,471
were delivered to the drunk tank
at 3:00 a.m.
472
00:35:42,876 --> 00:35:45,020
Moses, are you here?
473
00:35:48,173 --> 00:35:49,941
Any words of introduction?
474
00:35:50,008 --> 00:35:53,528
Or perhaps, a welcome to our
wonderful guests, some of whom...
475
00:35:53,595 --> 00:35:56,114
have traveled a great distance
to come see your work, I hope?
476
00:35:56,181 --> 00:35:59,034
Or, alternatively, just, I don't know.
477
00:35:59,601 --> 00:36:00,702
Hello?
478
00:36:03,813 --> 00:36:05,957
Quiet, please!
479
00:36:06,524 --> 00:36:08,209
Quiet, please!
480
00:36:12,030 --> 00:36:14,341
I did it. It's good! This is historic.
481
00:36:14,407 --> 00:36:16,217
Open the champagne! I did it.
482
00:36:16,284 --> 00:36:17,385
Music!
483
00:36:23,708 --> 00:36:25,143
Why are you sitting in a wheelchair
like an invalid?
484
00:36:25,210 --> 00:36:27,187
You should be dancing on the tables!
It's a triumph!
485
00:36:32,425 --> 00:36:33,943
Do you like it?
486
00:36:35,011 --> 00:36:36,738
Do I like it?
487
00:36:37,013 --> 00:36:38,365
Yes.
488
00:36:44,688 --> 00:36:46,790
Look at Maw, she's mesmerized.
489
00:36:49,150 --> 00:36:50,835
This here's a fresco, t'weren't it?
490
00:36:50,902 --> 00:36:53,755
Precisely. He's a Renaissance master
of the highest order.
491
00:36:53,822 --> 00:36:55,762
He mines the same vein
as Piperno Pierluigi
492
00:36:55,782 --> 00:36:56,883
when he illuminated...
493
00:36:56,950 --> 00:37:00,136
The Christ Before God's Heavenly Altar
in 1565.
494
00:37:00,203 --> 00:37:02,972
Maw, nobody has an eye
for things nobody has ever seen...
495
00:37:03,039 --> 00:37:05,141
like Maw Clampette of Liberty, Kansas.
496
00:37:05,208 --> 00:37:07,644
We should be ashamed to even gather
in her presence.
497
00:37:07,711 --> 00:37:09,437
Why the fuck did she say fresco?
498
00:37:10,505 --> 00:37:13,274
Are they painted into the walls?
499
00:37:13,883 --> 00:37:16,194
Oh, no. What has he done?
500
00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:18,655
You fucking asshole.
501
00:37:18,763 --> 00:37:19,989
Are you seeing this? Look at this!
502
00:37:20,056 --> 00:37:22,158
- Well, I think it's utterly wonderful.
- It's crucial!
503
00:37:22,225 --> 00:37:24,869
It's probably a turning point in
the evolution of human pictography.
504
00:37:24,936 --> 00:37:28,206
Scratched and plastered into a reinforced
cement aggregate gymnasium.
505
00:37:28,315 --> 00:37:29,833
He even painted onto the radiators!
506
00:37:29,941 --> 00:37:33,670
Maybe one of them restoration fellers out
at the Fondazione dell'Arte Classico...
507
00:37:33,737 --> 00:37:35,797
could figure a way to rustle
them pictures loose.
508
00:37:35,864 --> 00:37:37,757
We're in a maximum-security prison, Maw.
509
00:37:37,824 --> 00:37:38,925
It's federal property.
510
00:37:38,992 --> 00:37:41,511
Even to begin the bureaucratic nightmare
would require years...
511
00:37:41,620 --> 00:37:44,931
of negotiation with a team of highly-paid,
arrogant, obnoxious advocates.
512
00:37:44,998 --> 00:37:47,225
I don't even know how you'd peel them off.
It's a fresco.
513
00:37:47,626 --> 00:37:50,729
Hey! It's a fresco!
514
00:37:51,588 --> 00:37:52,652
So what?
515
00:37:52,672 --> 00:37:55,275
Can you even begin to fathom
the shit-ton of money...
516
00:37:55,342 --> 00:37:58,319
my uncles and I have squandered
to get to this point of no return?
517
00:37:58,637 --> 00:37:59,863
Look at them!
518
00:38:01,348 --> 00:38:02,412
You've ruined us!
519
00:38:02,432 --> 00:38:03,992
Does it mean nothing to you?
520
00:38:04,225 --> 00:38:05,410
I thought you liked it.
521
00:38:05,769 --> 00:38:08,580
I think it stinks!
522
00:38:09,689 --> 00:38:10,874
Get out of that wheelchair!
523
00:38:10,941 --> 00:38:13,585
I'm going to kick your ass
up and down this hobby room!
524
00:38:15,820 --> 00:38:18,673
Don't growl at me,
you convicted murderer.
525
00:38:18,907 --> 00:38:23,595
You homicidal, suicidal,
psychopathic, no-talent drunk!
526
00:38:48,061 --> 00:38:50,163
Why didn't you tell me, gardienne?
527
00:38:51,106 --> 00:38:53,333
Because you would've stopped him.
528
00:39:00,115 --> 00:39:01,675
We have to accept it.
529
00:39:01,741 --> 00:39:03,760
His need to fail is more powerful...
530
00:39:03,827 --> 00:39:06,554
than our strongest desires
to help him succeed.
531
00:39:06,621 --> 00:39:08,765
I give up. He's defeated us.
532
00:39:08,832 --> 00:39:11,226
- He's defeated us.
- Sad, but there it is.
533
00:39:12,711 --> 00:39:16,648
Anyway, at least,
he finished the motherfucker.
534
00:39:17,549 --> 00:39:20,985
It is, perhaps, the most interesting
contemplation of peripheral vision...
535
00:39:21,052 --> 00:39:22,696
I've ever seen.
536
00:39:30,478 --> 00:39:32,247
Well done, Moses.
537
00:39:41,573 --> 00:39:45,343
Well done, Moses.
This has a greatness to it.
538
00:39:46,870 --> 00:39:49,597
If you plastered it deep enough,
it may last.
539
00:39:50,749 --> 00:39:52,934
We'll come and see it again one day.
540
00:39:53,126 --> 00:39:54,561
God willing.
541
00:39:54,753 --> 00:39:57,272
You'll already still be here, of course.
542
00:39:59,633 --> 00:40:01,401
It's all Simone.
543
00:40:16,441 --> 00:40:20,003
At that moment, they were both aware of
Simone's intention...
544
00:40:20,153 --> 00:40:21,301
to leave her position
545
00:40:21,321 --> 00:40:23,548
at the Ennui Prison-Asylum
the following day...
546
00:40:23,740 --> 00:40:26,259
endowed with funds
provided by the Cadazios...
547
00:40:26,409 --> 00:40:30,430
as compensation for her work
as Rosenthaler's model and muse.
548
00:40:31,456 --> 00:40:34,142
She was reunited with the estranged child
to whom...
549
00:40:34,251 --> 00:40:35,935
she had given birth in her youth,
550
00:40:36,002 --> 00:40:38,688
and the two never again lived apart.
551
00:40:39,589 --> 00:40:42,400
She and Rosenthaler
maintained a regular correspondence...
552
00:40:42,467 --> 00:40:44,361
for the rest of the artist's life.
553
00:40:49,766 --> 00:40:52,327
Mrs. Clampette would like
to put the piece on hold.
554
00:40:53,645 --> 00:40:54,746
The half-sticker?
555
00:40:54,813 --> 00:40:56,081
Yes, please.
556
00:40:56,147 --> 00:40:57,749
Should she choose to finalize the sale...
557
00:40:57,816 --> 00:41:00,627
will this amount be acceptable to you
and your uncles?
558
00:41:04,281 --> 00:41:05,590
Can we get a deposit?
559
00:41:06,533 --> 00:41:09,427
Maw? An advance against the total sum?
560
00:41:11,121 --> 00:41:14,391
Tell them stingy Frenchmen
I ain't making no promises.
561
00:41:14,457 --> 00:41:17,268
Ten Reinforced Cement
Aggregate Load-Bearing Murals...
562
00:41:17,335 --> 00:41:19,938
was to remain on hold under the name
Upshur Clampette...
563
00:41:20,005 --> 00:41:22,065
for the subsequent 20 years.
564
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:27,821
{\an8}Which prisoners?
565
00:41:32,601 --> 00:41:35,245
{\an8}Tell them we don't bribe
rapists and pickpockets. It's unethical.
566
00:41:35,312 --> 00:41:38,373
Besides, I didn't bring an additional
6,000,000 francs in small bills.
567
00:41:45,155 --> 00:41:46,423
How'd you get out there?
568
00:41:46,990 --> 00:41:48,383
What do we do?
569
00:41:48,575 --> 00:41:49,884
Lock the door.
570
00:41:59,044 --> 00:42:01,688
In the aftermath, 72 prisoners...
571
00:42:01,755 --> 00:42:03,612
and six members
of the French Splatter-school
572
00:42:03,632 --> 00:42:06,317
lay dead or mortally wounded.
573
00:42:06,384 --> 00:42:09,571
Moses Rosenthaler,
for acts of extreme valor...
574
00:42:09,638 --> 00:42:13,867
which saved the lives of nine guards,
22 distinguished visitors...
575
00:42:13,934 --> 00:42:16,077
and the Ministers
of Culture and Urbanity...
576
00:42:16,144 --> 00:42:19,539
received his freedom
with probation for life.
577
00:42:21,566 --> 00:42:24,502
And was decorated
in the Order of the Caged Lion.
578
00:42:31,076 --> 00:42:34,971
One score later, as per
Maw Clampette's detailed instructions...
579
00:42:35,038 --> 00:42:38,892
Cadazio and his own nephews arranged for
the entirety of the hobby room...
580
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:43,938
to be relocated onboard a Goliath aviation
12-engine artillery transport...
581
00:42:44,005 --> 00:42:47,025
directly from Ennui to Liberty.
582
00:42:51,388 --> 00:42:54,783
In this form, the avant-garde
assumed its place...
583
00:42:54,849 --> 00:42:57,410
upon the plains of Central Kansas.
584
00:43:09,864 --> 00:43:12,133
{\an8}"Pencils, pens, erasers, thumbtacks...
585
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,344
{\an8}"pushpins, typewriter repairman."
586
00:43:15,203 --> 00:43:17,018
{\an8}Why am I paying for a hotel room
587
00:43:17,038 --> 00:43:19,349
{\an8}at a beach club
on the North Atlantic coast?
588
00:43:19,416 --> 00:43:21,393
{\an8}Because I had to go there to write it.
589
00:43:22,085 --> 00:43:24,896
{\an8}"Breakfast, lunch, dinner, laundry,
nightcap, midnight snack."
590
00:43:25,046 --> 00:43:29,150
{\an8}What is wrong with the desk
right here in your office?
591
00:43:29,217 --> 00:43:30,610
{\an8}Courtesy of this magazine.
592
00:43:30,677 --> 00:43:33,488
{\an8}Don't ask me to be indiscreet about
what happened between me and Moses...
593
00:43:33,555 --> 00:43:36,157
{\an8}at a seaside inn 20 years ago.
We were lovers.
594
00:43:36,224 --> 00:43:37,992
{\an8}I went back to remember.
595
00:43:38,351 --> 00:43:39,703
{\an8}On my dime.
596
00:43:39,769 --> 00:43:40,995
{\an8}Yes, please.
597
00:43:42,856 --> 00:43:44,165
{\an8}Add it up.
598
00:44:06,087 --> 00:44:07,522
{\an8}March 1st.
599
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,235
Negotiations between undergraduates
and the university administration...
600
00:44:12,302 --> 00:44:14,154
break down abruptly
in early morning hours...
601
00:44:14,220 --> 00:44:16,990
after clamorous debate,
angry name-calling...
602
00:44:17,057 --> 00:44:19,743
and, finally, outright gambling over...
603
00:44:20,393 --> 00:44:24,789
the right of free access to the girl's
dormitory for all male students.
604
00:44:24,940 --> 00:44:27,125
The protest which ended in a stalemate...
605
00:44:30,570 --> 00:44:32,881
{\an8}...gave the superficial appearance
of a vanity exercise...
606
00:44:32,948 --> 00:44:35,300
{\an8}for the pimple-cream
and wet-dream contingent.
607
00:44:38,745 --> 00:44:41,806
But, in fact,
the sexes were equally represented.
608
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,475
Young lady...
609
00:44:44,125 --> 00:44:45,226
shoes!
610
00:44:46,962 --> 00:44:50,315
And all participants emphasized
the basis of their frustration...
611
00:44:50,382 --> 00:44:53,568
a desire, more, a biological need...
612
00:44:54,302 --> 00:44:56,738
for freedom. Full stop.
613
00:44:57,764 --> 00:44:59,657
It has exploded into symbolism...
614
00:44:59,724 --> 00:45:01,576
and everybody's talking about it.
615
00:45:04,854 --> 00:45:05,955
March 5th.
616
00:45:06,356 --> 00:45:07,874
Late supper at the B's.
617
00:45:08,191 --> 00:45:10,877
Eldest boy, 19, not home
since yesterday morning.
618
00:45:12,529 --> 00:45:15,840
{\an8}Father chanced upon him midday,
marching alongside his comrades.
619
00:45:15,907 --> 00:45:17,008
Their slogan...
620
00:45:17,617 --> 00:45:19,678
"The children are grumpy."
621
00:45:20,036 --> 00:45:21,101
Thank you.
622
00:45:21,121 --> 00:45:23,765
An additional dinner guest,
thus far, fails to appear.
623
00:45:23,832 --> 00:45:25,225
For this, I am grateful.
624
00:45:25,292 --> 00:45:27,602
Had not been informed of his invitation
in first place.
625
00:45:27,669 --> 00:45:30,730
We didn't mean to offend you. We're sorry.
626
00:45:30,797 --> 00:45:34,067
We thought you might decline
the invitation if we warned you.
627
00:45:34,134 --> 00:45:35,360
- You were right.
- Yeah.
628
00:45:35,427 --> 00:45:37,993
Local news reports aggressive
crowd-control methods
629
00:45:38,013 --> 00:45:40,240
in use on street today. Quote...
630
00:45:40,307 --> 00:45:42,784
Just give him a chance.
He's very intelligent.
631
00:45:43,351 --> 00:45:45,245
So, how long has it been
since what's-his-name?
632
00:45:45,312 --> 00:45:46,496
I know you mean well.
633
00:45:46,563 --> 00:45:49,958
"It begins with a prickly tingling
of the exposed skin."
634
00:45:54,613 --> 00:45:56,172
I'm not an old maid.
635
00:45:56,698 --> 00:45:57,799
We don't think that.
636
00:45:58,575 --> 00:45:59,639
Of course you're not.
637
00:45:59,659 --> 00:46:03,013
"Then, a reddening and swelling
of the orbital muscles."
638
00:46:03,288 --> 00:46:04,597
Take me at my word.
639
00:46:04,956 --> 00:46:06,808
I live by myself on purpose.
640
00:46:06,917 --> 00:46:09,060
I prefer relationships that end.
641
00:46:09,210 --> 00:46:12,188
I deliberately choose to have
neither husband nor children.
642
00:46:12,255 --> 00:46:16,484
The two greatest deterrents to any woman's
attempt to live by and for writing.
643
00:46:17,093 --> 00:46:18,778
- Why are we crying?
- Because it's sad.
644
00:46:19,304 --> 00:46:20,447
We don't want you to be alone.
645
00:46:20,513 --> 00:46:22,032
Loneliness is a kind of poverty.
646
00:46:22,098 --> 00:46:23,575
I'm not sad. My eyes hurt.
647
00:46:23,642 --> 00:46:25,452
There's something wrong
with your apartment.
648
00:46:25,518 --> 00:46:29,122
"Finally, a barrage of searing pain
as snot pours from the nostrils...
649
00:46:29,189 --> 00:46:30,915
"and the throat spasms and constricts."
650
00:46:30,982 --> 00:46:32,083
Don't breathe.
651
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:46,556
I'm naked, Mrs. Krementz.
652
00:46:47,290 --> 00:46:48,600
I can see that.
653
00:46:48,667 --> 00:46:50,602
- Why are you crying?
- Tear gas.
654
00:46:50,710 --> 00:46:51,853
Also...
655
00:46:52,879 --> 00:46:54,856
I suppose I'm sad.
656
00:46:57,259 --> 00:46:59,652
Please turn away.
I feel shy about my new muscles.
657
00:47:04,349 --> 00:47:06,659
Go tell your parents you're home.
They're worried.
658
00:47:06,726 --> 00:47:08,787
I'm expected back on the barricades.
659
00:47:08,853 --> 00:47:10,372
I didn't see any barricades.
660
00:47:10,438 --> 00:47:12,957
Well, we're still constructing them.
661
00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:15,043
What are you writing?
662
00:47:15,110 --> 00:47:16,461
A manifesto.
663
00:47:16,528 --> 00:47:18,546
I told them not to invite Paul,
by the way.
664
00:47:18,613 --> 00:47:21,174
Maybe you're sad,
but you don't seem lonely to me.
665
00:47:21,241 --> 00:47:22,342
Exactly!
666
00:47:22,409 --> 00:47:24,969
I saw you at the protest
on top of a bookcase taking notes.
667
00:47:25,245 --> 00:47:28,056
Is there a story in us?
For the people of Kansas.
668
00:47:28,331 --> 00:47:29,396
Maybe.
669
00:47:29,416 --> 00:47:30,600
Then you should study our resolutions.
670
00:47:30,667 --> 00:47:33,853
Or, anyway, will you proofread it?
My parents think you're a good writer.
671
00:47:35,463 --> 00:47:36,564
Give it to me.
672
00:47:45,932 --> 00:47:47,367
It's a little damp.
673
00:47:48,476 --> 00:47:49,786
Physically or metaphorically?
674
00:47:49,853 --> 00:47:52,580
Both. Based on the cover
and the first four sentences.
675
00:47:52,647 --> 00:47:54,416
Don't criticize my manifesto.
676
00:47:54,482 --> 00:47:55,792
Oh, you don't want remarks?
677
00:47:55,859 --> 00:47:57,377
I don't need remarks, do I?
678
00:47:57,444 --> 00:47:58,670
I only asked you to proofread it...
679
00:47:58,737 --> 00:48:01,006
'cause I thought you'd be even more
impressed by how good it already is.
680
00:48:01,072 --> 00:48:03,174
Let's start with the typos.
681
00:48:03,742 --> 00:48:06,636
Can the faculty succeed
if the students fail?
682
00:48:07,287 --> 00:48:08,888
It remains to be seen.
683
00:48:09,956 --> 00:48:11,349
- Paul Duval.
- Lucinda Krementz.
684
00:48:11,416 --> 00:48:12,517
How do you do?
685
00:48:13,668 --> 00:48:15,270
Your beard is scratching me.
686
00:48:16,338 --> 00:48:19,983
Unexpected guest finally arrives.
Looks like hell.
687
00:48:20,050 --> 00:48:21,860
Describes odyssey across city.
688
00:48:22,093 --> 00:48:23,695
Stalled trains, stalled buses...
689
00:48:23,762 --> 00:48:27,073
broken windows, paving stones
flying in all directions.
690
00:48:28,141 --> 00:48:30,243
Anyway, we're here.
691
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,787
The famous Lucinda. Hello.
692
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,623
I did not know you were coming.
They did not tell me.
693
00:48:35,690 --> 00:48:37,792
This is not an official meeting.
694
00:48:43,740 --> 00:48:44,841
Good evening.
695
00:48:54,209 --> 00:48:55,435
Start without me.
696
00:49:09,474 --> 00:49:13,244
March 10th. City services at a halt,
one week and counting.
697
00:49:13,311 --> 00:49:15,622
Public transportation, suspended.
698
00:49:15,689 --> 00:49:18,875
Piles of garbage, uncollected.
Schools on strike.
699
00:49:18,942 --> 00:49:20,669
No mail, no milk.
700
00:49:20,735 --> 00:49:21,836
It's me again.
701
00:49:21,861 --> 00:49:23,385
What will normal reality be?
702
00:49:23,405 --> 00:49:27,258
Next week, next month, whenever, if ever,
we get the chance to experience it again.
703
00:49:27,742 --> 00:49:28,843
Anyone's guess.
704
00:49:28,868 --> 00:49:30,178
What's this part?
705
00:49:30,245 --> 00:49:31,763
I added an appendix.
706
00:49:31,913 --> 00:49:33,223
- You're joking.
- No, I'm not.
707
00:49:33,290 --> 00:49:35,141
You finished my manifesto without me.
708
00:49:35,208 --> 00:49:37,060
I made it sound like you, I think.
709
00:49:37,127 --> 00:49:38,645
Just more clear, more concise...
710
00:49:38,712 --> 00:49:40,146
a bit less poetic.
711
00:49:40,213 --> 00:49:43,942
Put it this way, this isn't
the first manifesto I've proofread.
712
00:49:48,179 --> 00:49:50,156
Impossible to imagine these students,
713
00:49:50,223 --> 00:49:52,951
exhilarated, naive,
brave in the extreme...
714
00:49:54,269 --> 00:49:56,913
returning to their obedient classrooms.
715
00:50:05,447 --> 00:50:06,715
Who was that?
716
00:50:06,781 --> 00:50:08,341
- Your mother.
- My mother.
717
00:50:08,408 --> 00:50:10,135
My mother?
718
00:50:10,201 --> 00:50:11,803
What did she want?
Did you tell her I was here?
719
00:50:11,870 --> 00:50:13,430
- Yes.
- Why?
720
00:50:13,663 --> 00:50:15,432
Because she asked. I don't lie.
721
00:50:15,999 --> 00:50:17,100
Was she upset?
722
00:50:17,208 --> 00:50:18,309
I don't think so.
723
00:50:18,335 --> 00:50:20,228
- What did she say?
- She nodded.
724
00:50:20,295 --> 00:50:21,479
What did you say?
725
00:50:21,546 --> 00:50:24,232
I told her I was working on an article
about you and your friends.
726
00:50:25,008 --> 00:50:26,109
So, you are.
727
00:50:26,343 --> 00:50:28,361
I've already written 1,000 words.
728
00:50:28,428 --> 00:50:29,904
I asked to interview her.
729
00:50:29,971 --> 00:50:31,036
Did she agree?
730
00:50:31,056 --> 00:50:32,407
Yes, of course.
731
00:50:34,517 --> 00:50:35,785
Well, I am upset!
732
00:50:35,852 --> 00:50:37,620
I don't know how to feel.
733
00:50:37,979 --> 00:50:40,498
Am I in trouble?
Why would my mother be so calm?
734
00:50:40,565 --> 00:50:42,125
Is this proper?
735
00:50:42,442 --> 00:50:45,503
This is all off-the-record. Everything.
My whole life.
736
00:50:47,656 --> 00:50:49,341
What am I supposed to do now?
737
00:50:50,659 --> 00:50:53,178
I should maintain journalistic neutrality.
738
00:51:02,671 --> 00:51:04,689
I like how ruthless you are.
739
00:51:05,131 --> 00:51:07,317
It's part of your beauty, I think.
740
00:51:09,135 --> 00:51:11,613
So, you've got 1,000 words already?
741
00:51:14,099 --> 00:51:15,492
The kids did this.
742
00:51:15,558 --> 00:51:19,537
Obliterated 1,000 years of Republican
authority in less than a fortnight.
743
00:51:19,813 --> 00:51:21,623
How and why?
744
00:51:21,690 --> 00:51:24,292
Before it began,
where did it begin?
745
00:51:30,198 --> 00:51:33,593
{\an8}It was another time. It was another Ennui.
746
00:51:33,702 --> 00:51:37,389
{\an8}Must be nearly six months ago, I guess.
My sisters were still 12, anyway.
747
00:51:43,628 --> 00:51:46,231
You danced to the Craze
and the Lait Chaud.
748
00:51:48,508 --> 00:51:52,320
You wore your hairdo in the Pompidou,
the Crouton, or the Fruits-de-Mer.
749
00:51:53,555 --> 00:51:54,995
Your slang mixed bits of Latin
750
00:51:55,015 --> 00:51:57,784
with philosophy jargon
and manual signaling.
751
00:51:59,561 --> 00:52:02,247
Devil's advocates bickered
and debated perpetually, ad nauseam,
752
00:52:02,314 --> 00:52:03,998
only for the sake of argument.
753
00:52:07,110 --> 00:52:08,670
Every clique had a rival.
754
00:52:11,865 --> 00:52:14,926
The Nuts had the Bolts.
The Sticks had the Stones.
755
00:52:14,993 --> 00:52:16,933
The Jocks had us, the Bookworms,
756
00:52:16,953 --> 00:52:18,763
until Mitch-Mitch failed
the baccalaureate...
757
00:52:18,830 --> 00:52:21,307
and got sent down
to National Duty-obligation.
758
00:52:21,416 --> 00:52:23,601
Three months in the Mustard Region.
759
00:52:58,870 --> 00:53:01,890
He was sent to the Mustard Region
for National Duty-obligation.
760
00:53:05,168 --> 00:53:06,269
I'm sorry?
761
00:53:07,796 --> 00:53:10,690
How dare you? Who gave you permission
to besmirch our friend?
762
00:53:10,757 --> 00:53:11,821
Does it occur to you...
763
00:53:11,841 --> 00:53:14,194
he's very probably somewhere marching
in the middle of the night right now...
764
00:53:14,261 --> 00:53:16,946
carrying a 50-pound sack of gunpowder
and peeling stale potatoes...
765
00:53:17,013 --> 00:53:19,699
while he digs a latrine trench
in the rain with a tin cup?
766
00:53:19,766 --> 00:53:21,451
He doesn't want to be in the military.
767
00:53:28,984 --> 00:53:32,587
Easy for you to say
from the comfort of the Sans Blague.
768
00:53:40,245 --> 00:53:42,097
Mitch-Mitch, what are you doing here?
769
00:53:42,163 --> 00:53:44,557
You're supposed to be in the Mustard
Region for another two months.
770
00:53:44,749 --> 00:53:46,935
Five years later, I, myself, translated...
771
00:53:47,002 --> 00:53:51,648
Mitch-Mitch Simca's poetic interpretation
of his National Duty-obligation service.
772
00:53:55,176 --> 00:53:58,279
The flashback scene
in Act Two of Goodbye, Zeffirelli.
773
00:53:58,346 --> 00:54:01,032
In North Africa,
I caught a bullet in the tail.
774
00:54:01,516 --> 00:54:03,832
In South America, I caught a chunk
of high-explosive shrapnel
775
00:54:03,852 --> 00:54:05,161
in the left wing.
776
00:54:05,604 --> 00:54:08,915
In East Asia, I picked up a rare,
microbial, infectious gut-parasite...
777
00:54:08,982 --> 00:54:12,752
in the lower abdominal cavity,
and I've got them all with me right now...
778
00:54:12,819 --> 00:54:14,254
still in my body...
779
00:54:15,030 --> 00:54:18,216
but I don't regret my choice
to wear this uniform.
780
00:54:18,783 --> 00:54:21,678
And in 16 years, I'll get my pension.
781
00:54:22,913 --> 00:54:25,306
Well, that's your bedtime story, ladies.
Lights out!
782
00:54:25,373 --> 00:54:28,184
Hup! Ho! Hut! Lights out!
Covers tucked! Blankets on!
783
00:54:28,251 --> 00:54:29,644
- Pray your prayers!
- Sir!
784
00:54:34,716 --> 00:54:37,402
Amen. Amen. Amen.
785
00:54:45,060 --> 00:54:46,995
Psst, Mitch-Mitch. Psst.
786
00:54:47,312 --> 00:54:49,998
Psst, Mitch-Mitch. What do you wanna be?
787
00:54:50,315 --> 00:54:51,379
What?
788
00:54:51,399 --> 00:54:53,209
What do you want to be, Mitch-Mitch?
789
00:54:53,735 --> 00:54:56,629
With my grades,
I'll be an assistant pharmacist.
790
00:54:56,696 --> 00:54:58,423
Will that make you be satisfied?
791
00:54:58,907 --> 00:55:01,634
It won't depress me.
I should have studied harder.
792
00:55:01,701 --> 00:55:03,136
And you, Robouchon?
793
00:55:03,203 --> 00:55:06,473
I have no choice.
I'll work for my father's glass factory.
794
00:55:06,539 --> 00:55:08,224
Someone has to take over.
795
00:55:08,291 --> 00:55:09,392
It's normal.
796
00:55:09,417 --> 00:55:11,186
Vaugirard. What's your plan?
797
00:55:11,419 --> 00:55:13,563
I suppose I'll continue
to be an attractive wastrel...
798
00:55:13,630 --> 00:55:15,398
like my cousins on both sides
of the family.
799
00:55:15,465 --> 00:55:17,233
- Your cousins are the best.
- I love your cousins.
800
00:55:17,300 --> 00:55:19,486
- Yeah.
- What about you, Morisot?
801
00:55:21,388 --> 00:55:23,281
Morisot, what do you want to be?
802
00:55:25,767 --> 00:55:27,077
A protestor.
803
00:55:28,311 --> 00:55:29,376
What'd he say?
804
00:55:29,396 --> 00:55:31,039
He said, "A protestor."
805
00:55:31,106 --> 00:55:32,170
What does he mean?
806
00:55:32,190 --> 00:55:33,291
I don't know.
807
00:55:33,316 --> 00:55:36,628
I thought Morisot was supposed to be
a professor of geological chemistry.
808
00:55:36,695 --> 00:55:37,921
Morisot's crying.
809
00:55:38,738 --> 00:55:39,923
Who said "shh"?
810
00:55:40,365 --> 00:55:41,591
I won't do it.
811
00:55:43,285 --> 00:55:46,346
It's only eight more weeks, Morisot,
before we complete the program.
812
00:55:46,621 --> 00:55:48,390
I don't mean the program.
813
00:55:50,292 --> 00:55:53,395
I mean from when we go home
until retirement age.
814
00:55:53,461 --> 00:55:57,899
That 48-year period of my life, I mean.
That's what I won't do.
815
00:55:58,842 --> 00:56:03,279
I can no longer envision myself
as a grown-up man in our parents' world.
816
00:56:12,022 --> 00:56:14,541
Morisot!
He went out the window!
817
00:56:16,234 --> 00:56:17,919
- Is he dead?
- I don't know.
818
00:56:17,986 --> 00:56:19,254
How far did he fall?
819
00:56:19,321 --> 00:56:20,422
Five floors with high ceilings.
820
00:56:20,488 --> 00:56:23,258
It rained last night.
Maybe the mud's still soft.
821
00:56:23,325 --> 00:56:24,551
He's not moving.
822
00:56:26,077 --> 00:56:27,554
He's still not moving.
823
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:30,515
He's still not moving.
824
00:56:31,750 --> 00:56:33,143
He's still not moving.
825
00:56:34,127 --> 00:56:35,603
He's still not moving.
826
00:56:36,338 --> 00:56:37,647
He's still not moving.
827
00:56:38,506 --> 00:56:39,941
He's still not moving.
828
00:57:09,621 --> 00:57:13,224
The next morning, Mitch-Mitch was arrested
for Desertion and Desecration,
829
00:57:13,291 --> 00:57:14,893
and the Sans Blague became headquarters...
830
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,395
for the Movement of Young Idealists
for the Revolutionary Overthrow...
831
00:57:17,462 --> 00:57:19,314
of Reactionary Neo-liberal Society.
832
00:57:19,381 --> 00:57:20,523
What are you doing?
833
00:57:23,093 --> 00:57:24,361
They can live together.
834
00:57:25,220 --> 00:57:26,780
Tip-top with Charvet.
835
00:58:08,013 --> 00:58:11,199
There followed, a brisk,
unpredictable tit-for-tat...
836
00:58:11,266 --> 00:58:13,618
between Ennui's elders and its youngers.
837
00:58:14,811 --> 00:58:16,454
August.
838
00:58:16,521 --> 00:58:19,499
Community Whisper Campaign
denounces student movement.
839
00:58:20,150 --> 00:58:21,501
September.
840
00:58:21,568 --> 00:58:24,337
Sans Blague coffee license
revoked by official decree.
841
00:58:26,281 --> 00:58:27,590
October.
842
00:58:27,657 --> 00:58:29,718
Propaganda Committee erects
pirate radio tower...
843
00:58:29,784 --> 00:58:31,678
on Physics Department rooftop.
844
00:58:32,996 --> 00:58:34,222
November.
845
00:58:34,289 --> 00:58:37,308
Meal plan blockade
of the undergraduate cafeteria.
846
00:58:38,126 --> 00:58:39,519
December.
847
00:58:39,586 --> 00:58:42,022
Check-out protest
at the Bibliothèque Principale.
848
00:58:42,088 --> 00:58:44,357
Entire library circulation
legally removed...
849
00:58:44,424 --> 00:58:48,236
until five minutes before
incur of massive overdue book fines.
850
00:58:48,303 --> 00:58:49,571
January.
851
00:58:49,638 --> 00:58:51,698
Mitch-Mitch released to parental custody.
852
00:58:53,183 --> 00:58:54,659
February.
853
00:58:54,726 --> 00:58:56,494
The girl's dormitory uprising.
854
00:58:57,979 --> 00:59:00,373
It all, in the end, leads to...
855
00:59:01,107 --> 00:59:02,250
{\an8}March.
856
00:59:02,317 --> 00:59:03,877
{\an8}The chessboard revolution.
857
01:00:01,209 --> 01:00:02,560
What page you on?
858
01:00:09,884 --> 01:00:11,403
{\an8}I think so. By definition.
859
01:00:20,729 --> 01:00:22,747
{\an8}In spite of the purity of their cause...
860
01:00:22,814 --> 01:00:25,667
{\an8}to create a free, borderless,
utopian civilization...
861
01:00:25,734 --> 01:00:27,168
{\an8}the students, nevertheless...
862
01:00:27,235 --> 01:00:30,171
{\an8}split into factions before
fully uniting in first place.
863
01:00:35,785 --> 01:00:39,139
One thing is now finally clear,
they are answering their parents.
864
01:00:39,456 --> 01:00:42,142
What do they want?
To defend their illusions.
865
01:00:42,208 --> 01:00:43,768
A luminous abstraction.
866
01:00:51,134 --> 01:00:53,528
{\an8}I am convinced
they are better than we were.
867
01:01:10,028 --> 01:01:12,505
{\an8}Mrs. Krementz suggested it, actually.
The appendix.
868
01:01:14,574 --> 01:01:16,676
{\an8}Polished it. Certain passages.
869
01:01:33,093 --> 01:01:34,736
I inscribed it to you.
870
01:01:43,270 --> 01:01:45,663
{\an8}Remind myself, "You are a guest
at this manifestation.
871
01:01:45,730 --> 01:01:49,334
"Not my fight. Stay out of it, Lucinda.
Keep your mouth shut."
872
01:01:49,401 --> 01:01:50,919
I have to say something.
873
01:01:51,570 --> 01:01:53,755
You're a very bright girl, Juliette.
874
01:01:54,239 --> 01:01:56,966
If you put away your powder puff
for one minute, forgive me...
875
01:01:57,033 --> 01:01:59,177
and think for yourself for one minute,
forgive me...
876
01:01:59,286 --> 01:02:01,513
you might realize
you're all in this together.
877
01:02:01,580 --> 01:02:03,098
Even the riot police.
878
01:02:11,131 --> 01:02:12,232
{\an8}Our move.
879
01:02:17,470 --> 01:02:19,531
{\an8}That was impolite. Of me.
880
01:02:19,806 --> 01:02:21,658
I withdraw the remark.
881
01:02:24,394 --> 01:02:25,662
{\an8}I beg your pardon.
882
01:02:27,897 --> 01:02:28,998
{\an8}I'm sorry.
883
01:02:30,984 --> 01:02:32,085
{\an8}Thank you.
884
01:02:33,194 --> 01:02:34,462
{\an8}You're sure?
885
01:02:39,868 --> 01:02:41,511
{\an8}Sure you're not a child?
886
01:02:43,872 --> 01:02:46,975
{\an8}Then learn to accept an apology.
That's important.
887
01:02:52,881 --> 01:02:54,024
Grown-ups.
888
01:02:57,010 --> 01:02:58,737
Our move. The mayor's waiting.
889
01:03:19,574 --> 01:03:22,010
Kindly leave me my dignity.
890
01:03:23,328 --> 01:03:25,889
She's not an old maid.
She's not in love with me.
891
01:03:25,956 --> 01:03:27,682
She's our friend. I'm her friend.
892
01:03:27,749 --> 01:03:29,684
She's confused.
She wants to help us.
893
01:03:30,210 --> 01:03:32,729
She's angry.
She's a very good writer.
894
01:03:34,130 --> 01:03:36,775
It's a lonely life, isn't it?
895
01:03:38,176 --> 01:03:39,569
Sometimes.
896
01:03:40,762 --> 01:03:43,865
It's true. I should maintain
journalistic neutrality...
897
01:03:43,974 --> 01:03:45,367
if it exists.
898
01:03:47,269 --> 01:03:50,038
Please excuse me, Mrs. Krementz.
899
01:04:15,964 --> 01:04:17,691
It's just fireworks.
900
01:04:18,258 --> 01:04:19,818
She's the best of them.
901
01:04:20,302 --> 01:04:23,029
Stop bickering. Go make love.
902
01:04:27,809 --> 01:04:30,203
Me, too. Except for Mrs. Krementz.
903
01:04:31,354 --> 01:04:32,664
I thought so.
904
01:04:45,577 --> 01:04:46,928
March 15th.
905
01:04:50,498 --> 01:04:54,310
Discover on flyleaf of my composition book
a hasty paragraph.
906
01:04:55,045 --> 01:04:57,522
Not sure when Zeffirelli
had the chance to write it.
907
01:04:57,672 --> 01:04:59,733
Late that night while I slept?
908
01:05:00,258 --> 01:05:04,320
Poetic, not necessarily in a bad way.
Reads as follows...
909
01:05:08,391 --> 01:05:10,744
Post script to a burst appendix.
910
01:05:10,810 --> 01:05:13,329
An invincible comet speeds
on its guided arc...
911
01:05:13,396 --> 01:05:16,708
toward the outer reaches
of the galaxy in cosmic space-time.
912
01:05:16,983 --> 01:05:18,793
What was our cause?
913
01:05:20,904 --> 01:05:22,964
Recollection of two memories.
914
01:05:23,114 --> 01:05:25,633
You. Soap scent of drugstore shampoo...
915
01:05:25,700 --> 01:05:28,636
ashtray of stale cigarettes, burnt toast.
916
01:05:29,537 --> 01:05:31,765
Her. Perfume of cheap gasoline...
917
01:05:31,831 --> 01:05:35,268
coffee on the breath, too much sugar,
cocoa butter skin.
918
01:05:35,877 --> 01:05:37,520
Where does she spend her summers?
919
01:05:39,130 --> 01:05:41,358
They say it's the smells
you finally don't forget.
920
01:05:41,424 --> 01:05:43,026
The brain works that way.
921
01:05:44,052 --> 01:05:45,904
I've never read my mother's books.
922
01:05:45,971 --> 01:05:49,199
I'm told my father was really
quite remarkable during the last war.
923
01:05:49,266 --> 01:05:50,742
Best parents I know.
924
01:05:52,352 --> 01:05:53,953
The girls' dormitory.
925
01:05:54,396 --> 01:05:58,249
First time I've come inside, except
to vandalize it during demonstrations.
926
01:05:58,733 --> 01:06:02,754
I said, "Don't criticize my manifesto."
She said...
927
01:06:04,906 --> 01:06:06,883
I feel shy about my new muscles.
928
01:06:08,034 --> 01:06:11,429
Her large, stupid eyes watched me pee.
929
01:06:15,125 --> 01:06:16,851
A thousand kisses later...
930
01:06:16,918 --> 01:06:20,397
will she still remember the taste
of my tool on the tip of her tongue?
931
01:06:22,299 --> 01:06:25,944
Apologies, Mrs. Krementz.
I know you despise crude language.
932
01:06:32,267 --> 01:06:33,993
Additional sentence at bottom of page...
933
01:06:34,060 --> 01:06:37,163
completely indecipherable
due to poor penmanship.
934
01:06:42,068 --> 01:06:46,506
"Revisions to a Manifesto.
Page four, asterisk one.
935
01:06:48,450 --> 01:06:49,843
"The promotion of..."
936
01:07:09,638 --> 01:07:10,822
I'll be right back.
937
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:20,123
Zeffirelli!
938
01:07:49,886 --> 01:07:53,156
He is not an invincible comet
speeding on its guided arc...
939
01:07:53,223 --> 01:07:56,576
toward the outer reaches of the galaxy
in cosmic space-time.
940
01:07:59,771 --> 01:08:02,415
{\an8}Rather, he is a boy who will die young.
941
01:08:04,025 --> 01:08:06,127
{\an8}He will drown on this planet...
942
01:08:06,611 --> 01:08:09,381
in the steady current of the deep, dirty,
magnificent river...
943
01:08:09,447 --> 01:08:13,718
that flows night and day through the veins
and arteries of his own ancient city.
944
01:08:15,829 --> 01:08:18,264
His parents will receive a telephone call
at midnight...
945
01:08:18,330 --> 01:08:22,143
dress briskly, mechanically,
and hold hands in the silent taxi...
946
01:08:22,210 --> 01:08:24,813
as they go to identify the body
of their cold son.
947
01:08:27,257 --> 01:08:30,402
His likeness, mass-produced
and shrink-wrap packaged...
948
01:08:30,468 --> 01:08:33,071
will be sold like bubblegum
to the hero-inspired...
949
01:08:33,138 --> 01:08:36,073
who hope to see themselves like this.
950
01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:38,702
{\an8}The touching narcissism of the young.
951
01:08:55,118 --> 01:08:56,594
March 30th.
952
01:09:01,207 --> 01:09:03,643
Across the street, a glaring metaphor.
953
01:09:03,919 --> 01:09:08,273
Bell rings, pupils scamper inside back
to their obedient classrooms.
954
01:09:13,637 --> 01:09:16,948
A creaky swing sways
in the deserted schoolyard.
955
01:09:28,442 --> 01:09:29,544
Come in!
956
01:10:18,451 --> 01:10:22,222
Someone told me you have
a photographic memory.
957
01:10:22,289 --> 01:10:24,891
- Is that true?
- That is false.
958
01:10:24,958 --> 01:10:27,268
I have a typographic memory.
959
01:10:27,335 --> 01:10:30,855
I recollect the written word with
considerable accuracy and detail.
960
01:10:30,922 --> 01:10:35,568
In other spheres, my powers of retention
are distinctly impressionistic.
961
01:10:35,635 --> 01:10:38,822
I'm known to my intimates
as a most forgetful man.
962
01:10:38,888 --> 01:10:41,533
Yet you remember
every word you ever wrote.
963
01:10:41,891 --> 01:10:44,327
The novels, the essays, the poems,
the plays...
964
01:10:44,394 --> 01:10:47,330
The unrequited valentines. Sadly, I do.
965
01:10:48,064 --> 01:10:49,457
May I test you?
966
01:10:49,524 --> 01:10:50,792
If you must.
967
01:10:50,859 --> 01:10:53,461
Unless we try the patience
of your viewership...
968
01:10:53,904 --> 01:10:57,757
{\an8}or the esteemed spokesmen
for Gemini tooth powder?
969
01:10:58,366 --> 01:11:00,719
My favorite piece
is the one about the cook...
970
01:11:00,785 --> 01:11:02,721
where the kidnappers get poisoned.
971
01:11:02,787 --> 01:11:05,557
"Do students of the table
dream in flavors?
972
01:11:05,624 --> 01:11:09,185
"That was the first of the questions
a reporter for this magazine...
973
01:11:09,252 --> 01:11:11,646
"had diligently prepared in advance
of his encounter...
974
01:11:11,713 --> 01:11:13,523
"with Lieutenant Nescaffier...
975
01:11:13,715 --> 01:11:17,068
"ranking chef at District Headquarters
on the narrow river-peninsula...
976
01:11:17,135 --> 01:11:19,821
"known as the Rognure d'Ongle.
977
01:11:20,138 --> 01:11:22,157
"All such queries were to
remain unanswered in...
978
01:11:22,223 --> 01:11:24,284
"the course of that eventful evening."
979
01:11:25,435 --> 01:11:27,203
Shall I carry on?
980
01:11:27,812 --> 01:11:28,997
Please.
981
01:11:34,152 --> 01:11:35,754
{\an8}I'd arrived insufficiently early.
982
01:11:38,073 --> 01:11:40,008
Though the suite of rooms
on the penultimate floor...
983
01:11:40,075 --> 01:11:43,428
of the grand edifice was hypothetically
indicated on a floorplan...
984
01:11:43,495 --> 01:11:45,347
provided on the back
of the carte de dégustation...
985
01:11:48,375 --> 01:11:52,270
...it was nigh impossible to locate,
at least for this reporter.
986
01:11:52,337 --> 01:11:54,272
A weakness in cartography.
987
01:11:54,673 --> 01:11:56,608
The curse of the homosexual.
988
01:12:01,888 --> 01:12:04,240
Monsieur Nescaffier made
his name and reputation.
989
01:12:04,307 --> 01:12:07,535
{\an8}He is fanatically celebrated among cooks,
cops, and capitaines...
990
01:12:07,602 --> 01:12:10,163
{\an8}not to mention squealers, stoolies,
and snitches...
991
01:12:10,563 --> 01:12:13,041
{\an8}as the great exemplar
of the mode of cuisine...
992
01:12:13,108 --> 01:12:15,919
known as Gastronomie Gendarmique.
993
01:12:20,574 --> 01:12:24,052
"Police cooking" began with the stake-out
picnic and paddy-wagon snack...
994
01:12:24,119 --> 01:12:26,638
but has evolved and codified
into something refined...
995
01:12:26,705 --> 01:12:29,808
intensely nourishing, and,
if executed properly...
996
01:12:29,916 --> 01:12:31,726
marvelously flavorful.
997
01:12:33,003 --> 01:12:34,104
Fundamentals...
998
01:12:34,170 --> 01:12:36,231
highly portable, rich in protein...
999
01:12:36,298 --> 01:12:38,233
eaten with the non-dominant hand only...
1000
01:12:38,300 --> 01:12:41,069
the other being reserved
for firearms and paperwork.
1001
01:12:48,768 --> 01:12:51,746
Most dishes are served pre-cut.
Nothing crunchy.
1002
01:12:52,063 --> 01:12:53,248
Quiet food.
1003
01:12:56,109 --> 01:12:59,170
Sauces are dehydrated and ground
to a powder to avoid spillage...
1004
01:12:59,237 --> 01:13:01,381
and the risk of
the tainting of a crime scene.
1005
01:13:03,199 --> 01:13:06,261
Diners are expected to provide their own
fourchettes de poche...
1006
01:13:06,369 --> 01:13:08,263
often engraved with the arcane mottoes...
1007
01:13:08,330 --> 01:13:10,890
and off-color sayings of their
respective precincts.
1008
01:13:37,609 --> 01:13:40,253
How are you planning to kill me?
1009
01:13:43,490 --> 01:13:45,133
I believe this to be...
1010
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:47,594
a case of mistaken identity.
1011
01:13:51,373 --> 01:13:55,018
Have you been in the chicken coop
for a very long while?
1012
01:14:02,092 --> 01:14:03,943
I beg your pardon.
1013
01:14:17,649 --> 01:14:20,085
Monsieur Nescaffier,
even during his apprenticeship...
1014
01:14:20,151 --> 01:14:21,753
in a provincial fire department,
1015
01:14:21,820 --> 01:14:23,838
aspired to a lofty perch...
1016
01:14:23,905 --> 01:14:26,424
and there can be no higher position
in the métier than that of...
1017
01:14:26,491 --> 01:14:28,927
Chef Cuisinier for the private dining
room of the...
1018
01:14:28,994 --> 01:14:31,513
Commissaire de la Police Municipale.
1019
01:14:40,547 --> 01:14:42,565
Forgive my tardiness.
1020
01:14:44,467 --> 01:14:46,403
No, not at all. Not at all.
1021
01:14:49,306 --> 01:14:51,199
Mr. Wright, may I present my mother...
1022
01:14:51,266 --> 01:14:53,743
Louise de la Villatte.
You can call her Maman.
1023
01:14:53,810 --> 01:14:55,036
We all do.
1024
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:57,872
This is my oldest friend, Chou-fleur.
1025
01:14:57,939 --> 01:15:01,042
When I met him,
he was a girlish little schoolboy...
1026
01:15:01,109 --> 01:15:03,670
with ringlets and a full set of teeth.
1027
01:15:03,904 --> 01:15:06,381
Now, he looks like a corpse.
1028
01:15:07,032 --> 01:15:09,300
In the corner, Patrolman Maupassant.
1029
01:15:09,367 --> 01:15:10,969
He'll be serving.
1030
01:15:11,494 --> 01:15:12,762
Cocktails.
1031
01:15:17,042 --> 01:15:20,228
And this is my son, Gigi,
in the crime-lab smock.
1032
01:15:20,295 --> 01:15:23,314
What are you stealing
from my personal records?
1033
01:15:23,715 --> 01:15:25,358
Unsolved cases.
1034
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:27,694
{\an8}Well, say hello to Mr. Wright.
1035
01:15:27,802 --> 01:15:28,903
Hello, Mr. Wright.
1036
01:15:29,054 --> 01:15:30,530
Hello, Gigi.
1037
01:15:31,556 --> 01:15:34,909
Full name, Isadore Sharif de la Villatte.
1038
01:15:37,020 --> 01:15:39,039
The Commissaire and his only son...
1039
01:15:39,105 --> 01:15:42,208
widowered and motherless,
left the colony where the boy was born,
1040
01:15:42,275 --> 01:15:44,544
cemented together by their shared grief.
1041
01:15:44,611 --> 01:15:46,338
Gigi was six.
1042
01:15:47,197 --> 01:15:50,300
His schoolrooms were the station house
and the squad car.
1043
01:15:51,534 --> 01:15:55,347
He was educated by forensic tutors
in the traditions of law enforcement.
1044
01:15:56,790 --> 01:16:00,518
His first drawings were facial composites
based on eyewitness testimony.
1045
01:16:03,338 --> 01:16:06,316
His first words were in Morse code.
1046
01:16:06,466 --> 01:16:09,616
{\an8}It was, I suppose, wonderfully obvious.
1047
01:16:09,636 --> 01:16:12,781
He was brought up to succeed
the Commissaire himself.
1048
01:16:14,599 --> 01:16:16,910
Yes, I've read you. In the magazine.
1049
01:16:18,228 --> 01:16:20,121
To your satisfaction?
1050
01:16:20,438 --> 01:16:22,374
Of course. Of course.
1051
01:16:22,440 --> 01:16:23,792
Good writer.
1052
01:16:26,278 --> 01:16:29,297
I trust you are already familiar
with this genius.
1053
01:16:29,364 --> 01:16:31,091
At least by reputation.
1054
01:16:31,157 --> 01:16:32,717
Lieutenant Nescaffier.
1055
01:16:32,784 --> 01:16:34,094
I surely am.
1056
01:16:47,424 --> 01:16:50,402
The drink, a milky, purplish aperitif...
1057
01:16:50,468 --> 01:16:54,781
ferociously fragrant, overtly medicinal,
ever so faintly anesthetizing...
1058
01:16:54,848 --> 01:16:57,909
and cooled to a glacial viscosity
in a miniature version...
1059
01:16:57,976 --> 01:16:59,332
of the type of vacuum-flask
1060
01:16:59,352 --> 01:17:02,122
normally associated
with campsites and schoolrooms...
1061
01:17:02,355 --> 01:17:03,707
cast a spell...
1062
01:17:03,773 --> 01:17:06,334
which, during the subsequent
60-second interval...
1063
01:17:06,401 --> 01:17:08,420
was to be mortally broken.
1064
01:17:08,486 --> 01:17:10,922
On three overlapping dramatic timelines...
1065
01:17:10,989 --> 01:17:13,174
the following events came to pass.
1066
01:17:16,828 --> 01:17:18,138
One.
1067
01:17:19,164 --> 01:17:21,933
Monsieur Nescaffier began
his mysterious ritual.
1068
01:17:22,375 --> 01:17:25,895
I can neither comprehend nor describe
what occurs behind a kitchen door.
1069
01:17:25,962 --> 01:17:28,023
I have always been content
to enjoy the issue...
1070
01:17:28,089 --> 01:17:30,817
of an artist's talent without unveiling
the secrets of the chisel...
1071
01:17:30,926 --> 01:17:32,569
or the turpentine.
1072
01:17:33,595 --> 01:17:34,821
Two.
1073
01:17:40,226 --> 01:17:41,786
Patrolman Maupassant...
1074
01:17:41,853 --> 01:17:44,122
responding to an infrequently
illuminated signal...
1075
01:17:44,189 --> 01:17:46,082
delivered a telephone to his superior.
1076
01:17:53,657 --> 01:17:54,758
Go ahead.
1077
01:17:59,621 --> 01:18:01,765
As you know by now,
we have kidnapped your son...
1078
01:18:01,831 --> 01:18:04,684
and absconded to a secure location
which you will never discover.
1079
01:18:04,751 --> 01:18:06,895
Release or execute the Abacus...
1080
01:18:06,962 --> 01:18:09,397
and the little boy will be safely
returned to your custody.
1081
01:18:09,506 --> 01:18:13,360
Failure to do so by sun-up will result
in your son's violent death.
1082
01:18:20,350 --> 01:18:21,743
Three.
1083
01:18:21,935 --> 01:18:23,661
The skylight window
of the makeshift nursery...
1084
01:18:23,728 --> 01:18:26,956
which occupies the attic quarters
jimmied ajar.
1085
01:19:01,182 --> 01:19:04,202
The getaway and eventual motor pursuit
was rendered vividly...
1086
01:19:04,269 --> 01:19:06,329
if, perhaps, a bit fancifully,
in a comic strip...
1087
01:19:06,396 --> 01:19:08,164
published the following week.
1088
01:19:42,891 --> 01:19:44,993
Though the infamous Ennui gang war...
1089
01:19:45,060 --> 01:19:48,747
"Winter Crimewave" had eradicated
a healthy number of thugs and hooligans...
1090
01:19:48,813 --> 01:19:50,582
it had also claimed the lives...
1091
01:19:50,649 --> 01:19:53,501
of a disgraceful proportion
of innocent citizens.
1092
01:19:55,362 --> 01:19:57,922
Due to the surprise capture
of the racketeering accountant...
1093
01:19:57,989 --> 01:20:01,593
Albert "the Abacus", in possession
of a valise containing payroll stubs...
1094
01:20:01,660 --> 01:20:04,304
for all three of the city's
major syndicates...
1095
01:20:04,371 --> 01:20:07,223
the law-abiding community's hopes
for an accelerated resolution...
1096
01:20:07,290 --> 01:20:09,517
to the crisis had been renewed.
1097
01:20:14,547 --> 01:20:17,692
However, this turn of events had
forcefully rattled the cages...
1098
01:20:17,759 --> 01:20:20,195
of the denizens
of the criminal underworld.
1099
01:20:26,309 --> 01:20:29,412
For myself, I had failed to recognize
the Abacus...
1100
01:20:29,562 --> 01:20:32,332
but as it happened,
I knew the chicken coop.
1101
01:20:32,399 --> 01:20:34,167
This is not in the article, by the way.
1102
01:20:34,234 --> 01:20:36,503
If I refer to Mr. Howitzer,
do you know who I mean?
1103
01:20:36,570 --> 01:20:38,254
Of course. Arthur Howitzer, Jr.
1104
01:20:38,321 --> 01:20:40,340
Founder and editor of The French Dispatch.
1105
01:20:40,448 --> 01:20:43,843
It was my first week in Ennui
when I suffered the misfortune...
1106
01:20:43,910 --> 01:20:46,638
of being arrested
in a drinking establishment...
1107
01:20:46,705 --> 01:20:48,807
on the fringes of the Flop Quarter...
1108
01:20:48,915 --> 01:20:52,394
along with a number of
newly-found companions.
1109
01:20:52,460 --> 01:20:54,145
What was the charge?
1110
01:20:54,462 --> 01:20:55,980
Love.
1111
01:20:56,715 --> 01:20:59,150
You see, people may or may not
be mildly threatened...
1112
01:20:59,259 --> 01:21:01,820
by your anger, your hatred,
your pride...
1113
01:21:01,886 --> 01:21:04,280
but love the wrong way...
1114
01:21:04,347 --> 01:21:06,658
and you will find yourself
in great jeopardy.
1115
01:21:07,267 --> 01:21:10,537
In this case, a chicken coop jail cell
for six days straight.
1116
01:21:10,895 --> 01:21:14,165
I had no one who cared to rescue me,
and no one who cared to scold me.
1117
01:21:14,566 --> 01:21:18,503
And the only local number
committed to my typographic memory was...
1118
01:21:19,029 --> 01:21:21,214
Printer's District 9-2211.
1119
01:21:21,281 --> 01:21:25,051
While I regret we are unable to publish
either of these specific pieces...
1120
01:21:25,160 --> 01:21:28,304
I would be very pleased to consider
other submissions in the future.
1121
01:21:28,371 --> 01:21:30,598
Or if you find yourself in Ennui...
1122
01:21:36,338 --> 01:21:37,856
I'd never met the man.
1123
01:21:38,381 --> 01:21:41,735
I knew how to reach him
only because I wanted a job.
1124
01:22:00,278 --> 01:22:01,880
Let's see here.
1125
01:22:02,948 --> 01:22:06,009
High school newspaper,
poetry club, drama society.
1126
01:22:06,117 --> 01:22:09,054
Wrote the school song.
Words and music.
1127
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:12,432
Junior researcher,
cub reporter, assistant editor.
1128
01:22:12,540 --> 01:22:13,725
Fires and murders.
1129
01:22:13,792 --> 01:22:15,101
That's how I started.
1130
01:22:15,168 --> 01:22:17,145
My father owned the paper, of course.
1131
01:22:17,379 --> 01:22:20,065
Bit of sports, bit of crime,
bit of politics.
1132
01:22:20,131 --> 01:22:22,442
Shortlisted twice, Best Essays.
1133
01:22:22,509 --> 01:22:25,070
Deep South, Midwest, East Coast.
1134
01:22:25,136 --> 01:22:26,529
Vast country.
1135
01:22:27,222 --> 01:22:29,115
Haven't been there in 20 years.
1136
01:22:29,724 --> 01:22:33,328
Not now.
I'm conducting a job interview.
1137
01:22:33,687 --> 01:22:36,664
Your writing samples are good.
I re-read them in the taxi.
1138
01:22:36,731 --> 01:22:38,333
Have you ever done any book reviews?
1139
01:22:39,526 --> 01:22:40,710
Never.
1140
01:22:40,777 --> 01:22:43,838
You're gonna be in there another few hours
before they process you out.
1141
01:22:45,907 --> 01:22:47,842
Read this. Give me 300 words.
1142
01:22:49,035 --> 01:22:52,722
I'll pay you 500 francs
minus the 250 I advanced for your bail...
1143
01:22:52,831 --> 01:22:56,059
but I'll re-advance that
against cost of living.
1144
01:22:56,167 --> 01:22:58,728
Bring me a first draft tomorrow morning...
1145
01:22:58,795 --> 01:23:01,189
and however you go about it, Mr. Wright...
1146
01:23:01,256 --> 01:23:04,359
try to make it sound like you
wrote it that way on purpose.
1147
01:23:12,559 --> 01:23:13,910
Thank you.
1148
01:23:16,354 --> 01:23:17,914
No crying.
1149
01:23:25,906 --> 01:23:28,341
It came to be known
as the "Night of a Thousand Slugs."
1150
01:23:28,408 --> 01:23:29,718
I'm reciting again.
1151
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:33,221
How the Commissaire and his elite team of
experts and analysts...
1152
01:23:33,288 --> 01:23:36,975
succeeded so swiftly in determining
the location of the kidnappers' lair...
1153
01:23:40,879 --> 01:23:41,980
Well...
1154
01:23:46,217 --> 01:23:47,986
I just don't know.
1155
01:23:51,264 --> 01:23:53,575
The tools of the trade, I suppose.
1156
01:24:00,273 --> 01:24:02,459
But succeed they did.
1157
01:24:36,851 --> 01:24:38,286
Who were they?
1158
01:24:40,021 --> 01:24:41,539
It was later revealed.
1159
01:24:42,565 --> 01:24:45,919
A hired crew of bandits and gunmen
imported by the ranking bosses...
1160
01:24:45,986 --> 01:24:49,673
of the Ennui rackets
and their network of underworld middlemen.
1161
01:24:51,366 --> 01:24:55,261
Chauffeur Joe Lefèvre,
a once almost promising instrumentalist.
1162
01:24:56,329 --> 01:24:58,973
Stetson, Spinster,
and Hieronymus Von Altman,
1163
01:24:59,040 --> 01:25:00,642
Dutch masterminds.
1164
01:25:01,126 --> 01:25:04,688
Marconi Brutelli,
the Mediterranean anarchist.
1165
01:25:05,755 --> 01:25:08,608
A pair of hooligans, estranged cousins.
1166
01:25:09,843 --> 01:25:13,113
A trio of showgirls, all junkies.
1167
01:25:15,056 --> 01:25:17,158
Plus one small, resourceful prisoner...
1168
01:25:17,225 --> 01:25:20,704
determined to free himself and
reduce taxpayer expense.
1169
01:25:31,489 --> 01:25:33,091
What's that noise?
1170
01:25:34,492 --> 01:25:37,512
Air bubbles in the radiator pipes.
It's pressurized.
1171
01:25:37,579 --> 01:25:39,305
Sounds like Morse code.
1172
01:25:40,624 --> 01:25:42,517
Vaguely, maybe.
1173
01:25:44,210 --> 01:25:46,813
I'm Gigi, by the way.
What's your name?
1174
01:25:46,922 --> 01:25:49,607
I'm not gonna tell you that.
This is a felony.
1175
01:25:50,634 --> 01:25:53,945
You're not a criminal.
You're just a mixed-up showgirl.
1176
01:25:54,179 --> 01:25:56,614
- Ha.
- Ha, yourself.
1177
01:25:57,140 --> 01:25:58,491
Shut up.
1178
01:25:59,267 --> 01:26:00,660
What color eyes do you have?
1179
01:26:00,810 --> 01:26:02,162
Blue?
1180
01:26:11,529 --> 01:26:12,756
Hello.
1181
01:26:14,324 --> 01:26:15,633
Hello.
1182
01:26:19,829 --> 01:26:21,681
Sing me a lullaby.
1183
01:26:21,748 --> 01:26:23,266
I'm scared.
1184
01:26:52,445 --> 01:26:54,464
Are you asleep?
1185
01:27:00,412 --> 01:27:03,765
The Commissaire adored Gigi
with all his voluminous heart.
1186
01:27:03,832 --> 01:27:07,268
However, his mind, that exceptional
machine for the detection...
1187
01:27:07,335 --> 01:27:09,479
and investigation of criminal activity,
1188
01:27:11,006 --> 01:27:12,774
had been whirring since dinnertime.
1189
01:27:16,386 --> 01:27:19,489
And he was in a condition
of dire calorific depletion.
1190
01:27:21,975 --> 01:27:25,912
Nescaffier, back in the field
for the first time in six years...
1191
01:27:25,979 --> 01:27:28,206
came prepared to dazzle.
1192
01:27:32,402 --> 01:27:35,255
The change was instantaneous.
1193
01:27:42,871 --> 01:27:44,180
Nescaffier.
1194
01:27:44,247 --> 01:27:47,684
Even as the faintest hints of the aromas
of the great chef's kitchen...
1195
01:27:47,751 --> 01:27:49,894
ribboned into
the Commissaire's nostrils...
1196
01:27:49,961 --> 01:27:54,149
he began to envision and
formulate a multi-pronged battle-plan.
1197
01:27:54,215 --> 01:27:55,400
To start...
1198
01:27:55,467 --> 01:27:57,277
Deviled eggs of the precinct canary...
1199
01:27:57,344 --> 01:27:59,529
served in shells of its own meringue.
1200
01:28:01,598 --> 01:28:02,699
{\an8}Next...
1201
01:28:04,017 --> 01:28:05,368
{\an8}Kidneys.
1202
01:28:05,435 --> 01:28:08,163
{\an8}Poached with plums
from the mayor's rooftop arbor.
1203
01:28:10,899 --> 01:28:12,000
{\an8}Then...
1204
01:28:13,109 --> 01:28:15,628
{\an8}minced lamb bon-bons
in pastry wrappers.
1205
01:28:17,822 --> 01:28:18,965
Blasé oyster soup.
1206
01:28:21,076 --> 01:28:22,510
A magnificent city-park pigeon hash.
1207
01:28:22,577 --> 01:28:23,678
Finally...
1208
01:28:24,913 --> 01:28:27,057
{\an8}...tabac pudding with quadruple cream.
1209
01:28:30,377 --> 01:28:31,691
{\an8}May I interrupt with a question?
1210
01:28:31,711 --> 01:28:33,401
- Please.
- Forgive me.
1211
01:28:33,421 --> 01:28:34,981
Just permit me to dog-ear
the page. Mentally.
1212
01:28:35,048 --> 01:28:36,149
I beg your pardon.
1213
01:28:36,508 --> 01:28:39,611
You've written about the American negro,
the French intellectual...
1214
01:28:39,678 --> 01:28:41,613
- the Southern romantic...
- And the anti-negro.
1215
01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:42,781
The anti-negro.
1216
01:28:43,556 --> 01:28:48,119
Scripture, mythology, folklore,
true crime, false crime...
1217
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:50,955
the ghost story, the picaresque,
the bildungsroman.
1218
01:28:51,022 --> 01:28:53,083
But more than anything,
over all these years...
1219
01:28:53,149 --> 01:28:54,876
you've written about food.
1220
01:28:55,151 --> 01:28:56,586
Why?
1221
01:28:57,696 --> 01:29:00,548
Who? What? Where? When? How?
Valid questions...
1222
01:29:00,615 --> 01:29:05,178
but I learned as a cub stringer,
never, under any circumstance...
1223
01:29:05,245 --> 01:29:08,640
if it is remotely within your power
to resist the impulse...
1224
01:29:08,748 --> 01:29:10,725
never ask a man why.
1225
01:29:11,418 --> 01:29:12,894
It tightens a fellow up.
1226
01:29:13,503 --> 01:29:15,897
I apologize, but I'm gonna
hold you to it... - Torture.
1227
01:29:16,131 --> 01:29:17,195
...if you'll agree.
1228
01:29:17,215 --> 01:29:21,027
Self-reflection is a vice
best conducted in private or not at all.
1229
01:29:22,095 --> 01:29:23,613
Well...
1230
01:29:24,264 --> 01:29:27,158
I'll answer your question out of
sheer weariness...
1231
01:29:28,977 --> 01:29:31,705
but I truly don't know
what I'm about to say.
1232
01:29:35,108 --> 01:29:38,586
There is a particular sad beauty...
1233
01:29:39,321 --> 01:29:43,425
well-known to the companionless foreigner
as he walks the streets of his adopted...
1234
01:29:43,491 --> 01:29:47,220
preferably moonlit, city.
In my case, Ennui, France.
1235
01:29:48,121 --> 01:29:49,723
I have so often...
1236
01:29:50,624 --> 01:29:54,269
I have so often shared
the day's glittering discoveries with...
1237
01:29:56,880 --> 01:29:58,148
no one at all.
1238
01:29:58,965 --> 01:30:02,110
But always, somewhere along
the avenue or the boulevard...
1239
01:30:02,177 --> 01:30:04,946
there was a table set for me.
1240
01:30:06,056 --> 01:30:10,201
A cook, a waiter, a bottle,
a glass, a fire.
1241
01:30:12,228 --> 01:30:14,456
I chose this life.
1242
01:30:16,316 --> 01:30:20,128
It is the solitary feast that has been
very much like a comrade...
1243
01:30:20,195 --> 01:30:23,048
my great comfort and fortification.
1244
01:30:24,866 --> 01:30:27,594
Do you remember
where you placed the bookmark?
1245
01:30:28,328 --> 01:30:30,555
Of course, silly goose. "Meanwhile."
1246
01:30:30,956 --> 01:30:33,433
"Meanwhile, across the street..."
1247
01:31:26,219 --> 01:31:29,698
Hold your fire! Hold your fire!
1248
01:31:38,273 --> 01:31:41,084
During a lull in the skirmish,
an ancient concierge...
1249
01:31:41,151 --> 01:31:43,461
veteran of two wars,
limped across the street...
1250
01:31:43,528 --> 01:31:45,588
to deliver an enigmatic message.
1251
01:31:58,335 --> 01:32:02,397
I'm speaking to the leader of the gang
of kidnappers on the top floor.
1252
01:32:02,672 --> 01:32:05,275
Do you have a working kitchen
in your lair?
1253
01:32:05,342 --> 01:32:07,110
My son needs a snack.
1254
01:32:07,177 --> 01:32:09,696
Allow us to send in our precinct cook...
1255
01:32:09,804 --> 01:32:12,115
along with some supplies and provisions.
1256
01:32:12,182 --> 01:32:14,784
He will prepare a supper
of sufficient proportions...
1257
01:32:14,851 --> 01:32:17,537
to feed you and all your accomplices.
1258
01:32:18,355 --> 01:32:20,040
We already ate.
1259
01:32:26,529 --> 01:32:28,214
Is it an underling...
1260
01:32:28,615 --> 01:32:30,759
or Nescaffier himself?
1261
01:32:58,645 --> 01:33:00,497
Blackbird pie.
1262
01:33:12,784 --> 01:33:15,220
Required, of course,
to sample each item...
1263
01:33:15,579 --> 01:33:18,556
the chef ate the deathly poison.
1264
01:33:24,045 --> 01:33:25,897
For the little boy.
1265
01:33:27,632 --> 01:33:28,942
Stop.
1266
01:33:30,760 --> 01:33:32,487
Write down the recipe.
1267
01:33:44,107 --> 01:33:45,333
Help...
1268
01:33:48,403 --> 01:33:50,088
But Nescaffier survived...
1269
01:33:50,155 --> 01:33:52,215
thanks to the extreme fortitude...
1270
01:33:52,282 --> 01:33:56,511
bolstered and braced, season upon season,
by the richest, most potent plates...
1271
01:33:56,578 --> 01:33:58,304
pans, and sauce pots...
1272
01:33:58,371 --> 01:34:01,516
of his almost superhuman stomach.
1273
01:34:02,584 --> 01:34:04,102
He knew well, of course...
1274
01:34:04,169 --> 01:34:07,313
Gigi loathed and despised
the radish in all its forms...
1275
01:34:07,380 --> 01:34:09,399
with a deep, unbridled passion,
1276
01:34:09,466 --> 01:34:11,276
and had never so much as touched one...
1277
01:34:11,343 --> 01:34:14,988
or even spoken the word,
during his entire young lifetime.
1278
01:34:15,347 --> 01:34:17,323
However, as it happened...
1279
01:34:18,516 --> 01:34:21,036
the chauffeur hated radishes, too.
1280
01:36:25,644 --> 01:36:27,120
Take the wheel!
1281
01:36:51,002 --> 01:36:53,646
Perhaps the most stirring and startling
phenomenon witnessed...
1282
01:36:53,713 --> 01:36:57,108
over the trajectory of that
protracted dinner date was this...
1283
01:37:09,646 --> 01:37:13,208
A delicious irony. Monsieur Albert...
1284
01:37:13,275 --> 01:37:14,548
accountant to the demi-monde
1285
01:37:14,568 --> 01:37:17,212
and remote cause
of the entire spectacular contretemps...
1286
01:37:17,279 --> 01:37:18,802
had been forgotten in the chicken coop
1287
01:37:18,822 --> 01:37:20,674
from Thursday dinner
to Monday breakfast...
1288
01:37:20,740 --> 01:37:23,176
and had very nearly starved in his cell.
1289
01:37:23,451 --> 01:37:25,845
It was only the convalescent
Monsieur Nescaffier himself...
1290
01:37:25,912 --> 01:37:28,306
who retained the presence
of mind to prepare the prisoner...
1291
01:37:28,373 --> 01:37:31,017
an omelette à la policier,
which he delivered warm...
1292
01:37:31,084 --> 01:37:33,436
wrapped in a day-old search warrant.
1293
01:37:35,171 --> 01:37:37,399
The Abacus ate well that morning.
1294
01:37:40,302 --> 01:37:42,570
A word from Gemini tooth powder.
1295
01:37:45,432 --> 01:37:47,497
It was supposed to be
an article about a great chef.
1296
01:37:47,517 --> 01:37:48,618
It is in part.
1297
01:37:48,685 --> 01:37:50,203
For the Tastes and Smells section...
1298
01:37:50,270 --> 01:37:53,039
I understand.
The assignment was perfectly clear.
1299
01:37:53,940 --> 01:37:56,668
Perhaps, you fail to grasp...
1300
01:37:56,735 --> 01:38:00,255
that I was shot at
and hand-grenaded against my will.
1301
01:38:00,822 --> 01:38:02,888
I only asked to be fed,
and was, marvelously,
1302
01:38:02,908 --> 01:38:04,843
as I described in some detail.
1303
01:38:05,493 --> 01:38:08,263
Nescaffier only gets one line of dialogue.
1304
01:38:10,624 --> 01:38:14,602
Well, I did cut something he told me.
It made me too sad.
1305
01:38:15,462 --> 01:38:17,272
I could stick it back in, if you like.
1306
01:38:18,840 --> 01:38:20,442
What did he say?
1307
01:38:41,571 --> 01:38:42,964
Martin... Martin...
1308
01:38:43,031 --> 01:38:44,382
Guillaume Martin.
1309
01:38:54,417 --> 01:38:56,227
They had a flavor.
1310
01:38:58,088 --> 01:38:59,689
I beg your pardon?
1311
01:39:01,007 --> 01:39:05,236
The toxic salts in the radishes...
1312
01:39:05,303 --> 01:39:06,988
they had a flavor.
1313
01:39:07,973 --> 01:39:10,700
Totally unfamiliar to me.
1314
01:39:11,351 --> 01:39:15,663
Like a bitter, moldy, peppery...
1315
01:39:16,439 --> 01:39:19,417
spicy, oily kind of...
1316
01:39:20,485 --> 01:39:21,920
earth.
1317
01:39:22,696 --> 01:39:25,590
I never tasted that taste in my life.
1318
01:39:26,408 --> 01:39:28,426
Not entirely pleasant...
1319
01:39:28,952 --> 01:39:31,012
extremely poisonous...
1320
01:39:31,413 --> 01:39:34,015
but still, a new flavor.
1321
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:37,394
That's a rare thing at my age.
1322
01:39:39,462 --> 01:39:42,065
I admire your bravery, Lieutenant.
1323
01:39:42,591 --> 01:39:44,609
I'm not brave.
1324
01:39:45,176 --> 01:39:46,861
I just wasn't...
1325
01:39:46,970 --> 01:39:48,655
in the mood to be...
1326
01:39:48,930 --> 01:39:51,074
a disappointment to everybody.
1327
01:39:52,809 --> 01:39:54,536
I'm a foreigner, you know.
1328
01:39:55,854 --> 01:39:58,206
This city is full of us, isn't it?
1329
01:39:59,107 --> 01:40:01,042
I'm one myself.
1330
01:40:03,069 --> 01:40:05,255
Seeking something missing.
1331
01:40:07,073 --> 01:40:09,509
Missing something left behind.
1332
01:40:12,621 --> 01:40:14,764
Maybe with good luck...
1333
01:40:14,831 --> 01:40:17,183
we'll find what eluded us...
1334
01:40:17,834 --> 01:40:20,437
in the places we once called home.
1335
01:40:29,304 --> 01:40:31,781
That's the best part of the whole thing.
1336
01:40:32,557 --> 01:40:34,993
That's the reason for it to be written.
1337
01:40:37,103 --> 01:40:39,080
I couldn't agree less.
1338
01:40:41,024 --> 01:40:44,336
Well, anyway, don't cut it.
1339
01:41:14,015 --> 01:41:15,408
Are we all here?
1340
01:41:16,101 --> 01:41:18,620
I guess you know.
It was a heart attack.
1341
01:41:34,035 --> 01:41:35,345
No crying.
1342
01:41:42,335 --> 01:41:44,604
Is somebody coming to take him away?
1343
01:41:44,671 --> 01:41:46,815
There's a strike at the morgue.
1344
01:41:50,343 --> 01:41:51,528
Who was with him?
1345
01:41:51,595 --> 01:41:53,029
He was alone.
1346
01:41:53,096 --> 01:41:54,864
Reading birthday telegrams.
1347
01:41:57,434 --> 01:42:00,328
Don't light the candles.
He's dead.
1348
01:42:01,313 --> 01:42:02,997
I'll have a slice.
1349
01:42:03,481 --> 01:42:04,833
Me, too.
1350
01:42:05,775 --> 01:42:08,420
We need to draft something. Who wants it?
1351
01:42:08,486 --> 01:42:09,587
We've got a file.
1352
01:42:09,613 --> 01:42:11,047
I'm working on the art.
1353
01:42:13,867 --> 01:42:15,593
That's him.
1354
01:42:19,623 --> 01:42:21,474
Let's write it together.
1355
01:42:21,541 --> 01:42:22,606
Write what?
1356
01:42:22,626 --> 01:42:24,394
The obituary.
1357
01:42:25,879 --> 01:42:28,773
Arthur Howitzer, Jr.
Born in North Kansas...
1358
01:42:28,840 --> 01:42:32,152
10 miles from the geographical center
of the United States.
1359
01:42:32,218 --> 01:42:33,570
Mother died when he was five.
1360
01:42:33,637 --> 01:42:36,239
Son of a newspaper publisher,
founder of this magazine.
1361
01:42:36,306 --> 01:42:38,575
The French Dispatch,
previously known as Picnic.
1362
01:42:38,642 --> 01:42:42,620
A largely unread Sunday supplement
to the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun.
1363
01:42:42,687 --> 01:42:44,247
It began as a holiday.
1364
01:42:44,314 --> 01:42:45,457
Is that true?
1365
01:42:45,523 --> 01:42:46,708
Sort of.
1366
01:42:49,080 --> 01:42:50,848
What happens next?
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