Original subtitles

(Male Announcer reads text on screen)

(Musical jingle)

(soft acoustic music)

(Marianne speaks in Norwegian)

[Baby] Da-da.

(soft acoustic music continues)

(Axel speaks in Norwegian)

(dog faintly barks)

(Marianne speaks in Norwegian)

(Axel speaks in Norwegian)

(Marianne speaks in Norwegian)

(Axel speaks in Norwegian)

(baby babbling)

(Marianne and Axel speaking in Norwegian)

(baby speaks)

(soft acoustic music) (baby babbling)

[Baby] Da-da.

(dog faintly barks)

Any relationship where one is diminished

at the cost of the other,

it's not worth having.

(lighter flicks)

You're young, you're beautiful,

you've got your whole life ahead of you.

You know? So make it your own.

(plate clatters)

(Charmian clears throat)

Why are you crying?

What? (plates clattering)

I mean, you arrived back yesterday,

and since then, he has beat you, tried to slice his wrists,

chased you down the street bleeding,

ridiculed you at Douskos...

[George] Oh, Charm, can we please-

What? Fucking what?

- Well, maybe it's not- - [Charmian] Marianne.

Mm?

Do you remember what I said the first time we met?

If you allow your happiness to depend on a man,

then you are in for a world of pain.

Yeah. (grunts)

What?

(baby cooing)

I need to...

I need to get him home.

Um...

Um, yep.

Thank you for this.

(baby crying) (plates clattering)

Ah, well, that went well.

Shut the fuck up, George!

(plates clattering)

(baby crying)

Get off me! Get off.

(hypnotic acoustic music)

(hypnotic acoustic music continues)

♪ Ah, ah, ah ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪

(hypnotic acoustic music fades)

(mellow acoustic music)

(mellow acoustic music continues)

(seagulls faintly chirping)

Hi.

Hi, there.

Sorry.

Um...

Um.

I just wanted to check if you're okay.

Last night, I saw a little of a scene and...

I saw you running, with your baby and...

(donkeys braying)

(baby coos) (Marianne shushes)

(soft acoustic music) (bird chirping)

Hi.

Hi.

(soft acoustic music continues)

I'm sorry about earlier.

I didn't mean to intrude.

I'm okay. He...

He has his demons.

Where is he?

Uh, he has gone sailing,

trying to figure out what he wants.

Okay, well, can I walk you home?

I mean, if it's not...

We're going the same way, it's a very small island.

- Yeah. - [Leonard] All Right.

(soft acoustic music)

So, um...

You sing, and you're a writer?

I don't know why everyone thinks that.

I'm really an ice hockey player.

(Marianne chuckles) (soft acoustic music)

[Marianne] They told me about you.

"They"?

Well, what else did "they" say?

You have a voice one can listen to for hours,

that you are smart,

and that you sleep with anything with a pulse.

(soft acoustic music)

Well, that certainly covers

both ends of the spectrum, doesn't it?

Is it true?

Some of it.

(soft acoustic music)

This is my home, so...

Thank you for walking me home.

I have to put him to bed, so.

Right.

Yeah. Thank you.

(baby whines)

I could really, um...

I could sing a lullaby, if you'd like.

(baby babbles)

(Marianne and Leonard chuckling)

Sure.

(baby babbling)

(Marianne shushes)

(Marianne speaks in Norwegian)

(Leonard chuckles)

All right.

(baby babbling)

(harmonica blows)

Hi.

(baby babbling)

(soft harmonica music)

♪ Travelling baby ♪

♪ Stay awhile until the night is over ♪

♪ I'm just a station on your way ♪

♪ I know I'm not your mother ♪

♪ She used to wear her hair like you ♪

♪ Except when she was sleeping ♪

♪ And then she'd weave it on a loom ♪

♪ Of smoke and gold and breathing ♪

♪ Travelling, baby, stay awhile ♪

♪ Until the night is over ♪

♪ She used to wear her hair like you ♪

♪ Except when she was sleeping ♪

Thank you.

Perfect...

Perfect voice for lullabies.

I'll take any audience I can get.

Sleeping or awake.

(soft acoustic music)

You know, I've been where you are.

Where the road maps all end.

(soft acoustic music continues)

Yeah.

All right.

So long, little angel.

(lively harmonica music)

(lively harmonica music fades)

So what you're saying is that the woman you love,

just got abandoned by the father of her child,

and you're happy?

(bottles clinking)

Well...

Right.

That doesn't say much.

Well, if you stop and think about it,

I'm not an alpha male.

I've never been, I can't compete with the alpha male.

But I suffer.

And I know suffering.

You should open with that when you see her again.

Right.

You know, it isn't just that she's some

traditional Nordic beauty.

And she is, but when she dances around, just...

(Leonard shivers)

It's so dangerous.

Oh!

(Leonard sighs)

Thinking about her a lot.

But I'm not happy.

I'd be cruel if I was happy.

Well, I don't know. I've never felt happiness.

Is this happiness?

[Göran] You look happy.

- Do I? - Yeah.

It's okay to be happy.

(soft ambient music)

(water splashes)

(soft ambient music continues)

(pills rattling)

(acoustic guitar strumming)

♪ I have not lingered in European monasteries ♪

♪ You say is it good for you ♪

♪ But you know that I never do ♪

Fuck.

(acoustic guitar clatters)

(door slams) (accordion playing)

Uh...

Any messages, telegrams for me?

[Postman] No, sorry, Marianne.

You're being dictated to again.

What?

I said you're being dictated to again.

No, no.

He said that he was going to write, so I just-

He's gone sailing with his mistress.

(accordion playing)

What?

He's on a boat with Patricia.

George ran into them at the port in Athens.

(accordion playing)

(Charmian speaks in foreign language)

(Marianne sighs)

(baby wailing)

(Marianna shushes)

(Marianne speaks in Norwegian)

(baby wailing)

("Athina Pireas Thessaloniki" by Stelios Kazantzidis)

(cleaver thudding)

(Leonard and Butcher speaking in Greek)

(Leonard and man speaking in Greek)

(traditional Greek vocal music continues)

(traditional Greek vocal music continues)

(Leonard speaks in Greek)

(traditional Greek vocal music continues)

(basket clattering) (Leonard grunts)

(traditional Greek vocal music continues)

Hi.

Hi.

(Marianne speaks in Norwegian)

You walked by yourself?

[Marianne] Nice setup.

You're welcome to any of it.

For a vegetarian, I've been eating a lot of loukaniko.

Uh, very nice. A secret recipe.

(baby babbling)

Do you know Angelino?

Um, his grandmother, um...

Was tortured in the war for the recipe for loukaniko,

and was shot by the Germans because she wouldn't give it up.

Really?

You're right not to believe me, I was lying,

obviously, to keep you here.

(Marianna speaks in Norwegian)

[Leonard] You keep speaking your code language.

Yeah.

It's her secret language.

Well, if you're ever, you know, available,

I'd like to learn Norwegian.

Um...

A very good Norwegian word is...

Loukaniko is...

(Marianne speaks in Norwegian)

(Leonard chuckles)

(Leonard speaks in Norwegian)

Something like that, yeah.

Um, can I offer you some pølse?

[Marianne] Sure.

Yeah, yeah? Okay.

(Marianne speaks Norwegian) (soft acoustic music)

What kind of wine do you prefer?

This is okay. Thank you.

Hey.

That's a good boy.

♪ I was always working steady ♪

♪ But I never called it art ♪

♪ I got my shit together ♪

♪ Meeting Christ and reading Marx ♪

♪ It failed my little fire ♪

♪ But it spread the dying spark ♪

♪ Go tell the young Messiah what happens to the heart ♪

(water splashes)

(soft acoustic music)

(Marianne laughs)

♪ Well, I should have seen it coming ♪

♪ After all, I knew the chart ♪

♪ Just to look at her was trouble ♪

♪ It was trouble from the start ♪

♪ Sure, we played a stunning couple ♪

♪ But I never liked the part ♪

♪ It ain't pretty, it ain't subtle ♪

♪ What happens to the heart ♪

(soft acoustic music) (water bubbling)

(seagulls cawing)

You all right?

(water splashes) (insects chirping)

How do you...

How do you leave your child?

How does anyone do that?

I mean, leaving me is one thing, but...

Just leaving him? Just like that?

I just...

I don't know.

(water splashes)

Thank you.

(insects chirping)

For what?

Today has been a good day.

I have to get going.

(baby cooing)

Mm.

(Marianne speaks in Norwegian)

(mellow acoustic music)

(bell faintly tolls)

(mellow acoustic music continues)

(Leonard and man speaking in Greek)

This is a problem, man, isn't it?

Here you are.

You know I'm gonna have both.

(mellow acoustic music continues)

(baby wailing)

(Marianna speaks in Norwegian)

(baby wailing)

(mellow acoustic music continues)

♪ My lady can sleep upon a handkerchief ♪

♪ Or if it befall upon a fallen leaf ♪

♪ I have seen the hunters kneel before her hem ♪

(bell tolls)

♪ Even in her sleep, she turns away from them ♪

(mellow acoustic music continues)

(bell tolls) (bottle clangs)

♪ The only gift they offer is their abiding grief ♪

(baby wailing)

♪ I pull out my pockets for a handkerchief or leaf ♪

(mellow acoustic music fades)

(Leonard knocking)

[Marianne] Huh?

(Leonard knocking)

(Marianne speaks in Norwegian)

(Marianne sighs)

(Leonard knocking)

(rooster crows) (birds chirping)

Sorry. I didn't mean to disturb you.

Uh, yeah, a little.

Um, what do you...

I just came back to drop off this.

(dog faintly barks)

I made a little plan for us today if you're not busy,

but if it's bad timing, then, of course,

we can take a rain check.

But if you are interested-

And what time is it already? What-

Oh, I don't know. I don't sleep very much.

Hey, I think it's six in the morning, or so.

(baby babbles)

(rooster crows) (soft acoustic music)

(Leonard speaks Norwegian)

So, you wanna be my new babysitter now?

[Leonard] Yes. I'd love to.

(waves crashing)

(soft acoustic music continues)

(chuckles) What?

(soft acoustic music continues)

(Marianne chuckles) - That's a boat.

Yeah, I can see it's a boat.

So...

The three of us are going on this boat?

If Axel can work the rudder.

[Marianne] And presumably you're a very good sailor?

No, never done it. (baby coos)

(Leonard chuckles) - [Marianne] No?

Never done it. I lied to the guy I rented from.

But you do know how to sail, right?

I mean, I did.

I grew up at the ocean at my grandmother's house.

so I got my first dinghy when I was eight.

(Marianne laughs) (Leonard chuckles)

I don't know what a dinghy is,

but you sound fairly confident.

Let's go sailing then.

I suppose I didn't really think about this.

(Marianne laughs) - Should I take the child?

[Marianne] You take my child.

- Okay. - All right.

My love.

(lighthearted acoustic music)

Do you wanna release the tiller?

[Leonard] No, I'll keep watch.

Right. (laughs)

[Leonard] Okay.

(lighthearted music continues)

Looking good.

There you go!

That's the Greek sailor.

[Leonard] That's not bad for a Jew from Montreal.

(lighthearted acoustic music continues)

What do you want? I mean, look at me.

I am married to somebody else, I have his child,

I live in his house, and I have nothing.

So, I just wonder what you want.

You know, you have talent,

and you know, you got it all figured out,

so I just don't understand, honestly.

Well then, I'm not at all what you think I am.

I don't have anything figured out at all.

I mean, I...

Can't you tell?

It's very dark, very cluttered in my mind.

Really.

(water splashes)

[Marianne] What do you mean by that?

Okay, would you like the short version,

or the four hour version?

Uh...

I think four words version.

Uh...

The seven deadly sins.

How do you do it?

[Leonard] Do what?

Turn life into poetry.

Well, that's not poetry.

I didn't make that up, you know.

[Marianne] I know. (Leonard chuckles)

I try anything that works

to get some to blacken the page.

[Marianne] You want?

You know, I try meditation, I try dissolution.

I try insomnia, I try getting drunk.

I try getting high.

You know, until the blood splatters on the floor,

or on the paper, there's nothing.

It does sound a little pretentious.

Let me make you a pretentious sandwich.

Let me get you a potential wine.

Come on, sailor.

It's quite hard to move on a sailboat, so...

(Marianne chuckles) - You all right?

[Marianne] Mhm.

(waves crashing)

(soft acoustic music)

(seagulls cawing)

(soft acoustic music continues)

(Marianne speaks in Norwegian)

(harmonica plays)

(soft acoustic music continues)

What did you say?

You don't have to live the life that you're writing about.

- But it helps, I think. - That's not true.

(Charmian laughs)

- Some of us do. - Hey!

Hello.

- (chuckles) Hi. - Some of us must.

- [George] Hello. - Oh, wow.

[George] Here's trouble.

Don't you two look happy.

We didn't mean to stop any conversation-

[Allen] No, no, no, no, no, no!

What were you talking about?

Assholes! We were talking about assholes,

or ourselves, as assholes tend to do.

Hello.

(Allen and Marianne speak in French)

Marianne, this is Allen.

The Allen Ginsburg.

[Marianne] Allen.

[George] Allen, Marianne.

Allen's just rented a place out here for a bit.

Oh!

It's more cave than a place.

It is where I monk-like go to put my writing-

(people laughing)

You're quite jolly. Are are you celebrating something?

Yes, um...

I went to the bank in Athens,

and we got a little royalty check in.

Okay. Very good.

Congratulations.

Thank you, Leonard.

But you wouldn't say if you saw the amount.

(Charmian laughs)

Oh, speaking of money.

I ran into Axel.

Now, can you believe it?

He tried to sell me his boat.

Silly bugger owes Greek customs $2,000.

Is there anything I can do?

Can you believe that? $2,000.

George!

Said he forgot to pay 'em. I mean, what a moron!

Was she with him?

[Charmian] I'm sorry, Marianne.

Oh!

Oh, bugger me.

I...

I really put my foot in it, haven't I?

Darling, I'm sorry, love.

Really, I'm sorry.

Oh, God.

Three times, I kicked you.

Three times.

My dear.

Thank you very much.

[Allen] Leonard.

[George] Anyway...

[Allen] To assholes!

(glasses clinking)

[All] To assholes!

(sink running)

(soft dramatic acoustic music)

(soft dramatic acoustic music continues)

(soft dramatic acoustic music continues)

(Nick speaks in Greek)

Chairs, chairs.

(mysterious acoustic music)

Here is to Greek boys!

(people cheersing)

And if you won't drink to that,

I will have all your glasses!

One, two, three, go!

Not you, Greek boys.

Keep drinking, I love you.

(mysterious acoustic music continues)

Oh, my dear, you're perfect.

(Marianne laughs)

You're perfect, you're perfect.

Now, if we may finish this self-indulgent nonsense

that we're talking about,

my statement is that it is possible

to be a normal, decent person,

and yet be fully alive.

Do you agree?

(mysterious acoustic music continues)

I want to dance.

Perfect. Where have you been all my life?

I love to dance.

I love to dance!

[Man] Opa!

Opa!

Opa!

That's what we say in Greece.

Opa!

(people cheering) (Marianne claps)

(people shouting)

- Hey. - Hey.

(hypnotising acoustic music fades)

(people clapping)

(lively acoustic music) (people whistling)

(lively acoustic music continues)

(man yells in Greek)

(people clapping)

(lively acoustic music continues)

(people shouting)

(man speaks in Greek)

Go, go, go, go!

Go after her!

Young love, young love!

Woo!

(Allen laughs) (people clapping)

Did you see me dance? Did you see me dance?

[Göran] Yeah.

(Allen sighs)

It's my first night in the island,

and I've already been part of a Greek drama.

Is it moments like this

that make you happy that you're gay?

I'm gay?

(people laughing)

Have you ever tried dating a gay man?

We're all about drama, baby!

The weight of the world is love, my Swedish friend.

And it doesn't matter what sex the burden is.

It's all about yama, yama.

To everyone on this island, I love you,

Leonard.

Yes?

This is the time you go after her.

(man speaks in Greek)

No, he's very little.

(baby babbling)

- [Göran] Go get her. - All right?

Yeah.

(lighthearted acoustic music)

(man laughs)

(man speaks in Greek)

(men speaking in Greek)

(people laughing)

What?

Are you angry with me?

I'm very confused.

Are you disappointed

I didn't drag you out of there for dancing?

I don't know.

I saw you in there, and you were just smiling at me,

so I don't know, I don't know.

Well, I was smiling at you be cause you looked beautiful.

(Marianne laughs) And you looked free.

You did.

And you looked sexy.

And I wanted you, that's all.

You can dance with whomever you'd like.

I'm not someone who's going to chain you to your stand.

You know? It's not interesting to me.

I...

Marianne, I'm not him.

I'm not Axel.

For better or for worse, I'm a different guy,

and I don't wanna play any games with you.

But how do you know that?

Because I don't want to. I don't want to.

Okay, you don't want to, but these things just happen,

and you don't realise them, because you're a fucking man.

Okay?

They happen, and they happen to me.

You think that I should just trust you out of nothing?

I love you.

What?

I love you. I didn't...

I didn't want it to happen, you know?

It's not...

But I've fallen in love with you, and I-

- No. - Well, it's the truth.

I can't deny myself the truth.

I'm hopelessly in love with you.

I can't do anything.

I can't sleep, I can't dream,

I can't walk around without thinking about you.

- See? - You don't believe me?

I love you! - No.

I love you.

I'll do anything. What can I do?

Would you like me to run around and get down on my knees?

I will. - No, no.

I love you.

I love you. - Don't, stop!

I'm not being Romeo. I love you.

I'll do anything you like.

If you want me to leave you alone.

Do you want me to leave? I'm in love with you.

Stop it!

(soft romantic music)

I love you.

(soft romantic music continues)

- Don't be on your knees. - Okay.

You can stand on your feet.

I mean it, I...

(Marianne grunts)

Okay? - Yeah.

(soft romantic music continues)

Okay then, I should go and pick up my son.

[Leonard] What?

(soft romantic music continues)

You can come with me.

(soft romantic music continues)

(soft romantic music continues)

(Marianne inhales)

I love you.

(soft romantic music continues)

For Christ's sake. (Marianne chuckles)

(soft romantic music continues)

Their lips are bruised with new and old bruises.

Her hair and his beard are hopelessly tangled.

(soft romantic music continues)

When he puts his mouth against her shoulder,

she's uncertain whether her shoulder

has given or received the kiss.

(soft romantic music continues)

All her flesh is like a mouth.

He carries his fingers along her waist,

and feels his own waist caressed.

(soft romantic music continues)

In the bed, the lovers slowly, and deliberately,

and silently, perform the act of love.

(Marianne exhales)

(soft romantic music continues)

(rooster crows)

(soft romantic music continues)

(lighter flicks)

(baby cooing)

(soft romantic music continues)

(typewriter clacking)

(goats bleating)

Hi.

What are you writing?

Secret.

(soft romantic music continues)

(chuckles) Hello.

Hm...

I should probably get home.

(soft romantic music continues)

You probably should.

(Marianne chuckles)

Go. - Yeah. I'm leaving.

I'm leaving right this very moment. Can't you see?

- I don't need you. - Mhm.

(typewriter clacking)

(soft dramatic string music)

(boat honks)

Gosh, I used to love this place when we first moved here.

(Marianne chuckles)

I mean, it was a struggle,

but everything felt like it was the beginning.

I just finished "Peel Me a Lotus".

- Oh. - No...

I loved it. I really did.

Thank you.

I mean, the island's not like that anymore.

It seems that the yearly passage of the creative pull

in all these clever and immoral young people

has had its inevitable effect.

And a beautiful little port

is on the verge of becoming chic.

Oof.

Hey.

Hey.

Ugh.

(draw rattles) (pills rattling)

(Leonard speaks in Greek)

(bell tolls) Oh.

Hey, my favourite two.

Hey.

You all right?

It's from Axel.

Um...

Patricia is in a coma,

because she drove her car off a cliff,

and he wants me to come to Athens.

Yeah.

Is she...

Is she dying?

I don't know yet.

Dad.

Da-da.

(baby babbles)

Are you going to go?

I mean, I don't love him anymore.

Oh, of course.

Why do you think he asked you to come?

Yeah.

But then again, it's like I'm obviously

the closest thing to a friend that he has.

I mean, it's...

What do you think?

(baby babbling)

I think whatever you do is the right thing.

Thank you. (baby babbling)

These are lamb racks.

Would you like some lamb racks?

I mean, I'm starting to think you were lying

when you told me you were a vegetarian.

'Cause there's an awful lot of loukaniko and lamb racks.

Yeah, I've been a very bad vegetarian.

(soft acoustic music)

Is there gonna be anything left for us to eat?

You're crowding the whole dish.

Here. (Marianne blows)

Look at me, I wouldn't serve you something very hot.

Mhm.

(Marianne chuckles)

(soft acoustic music continues)

(pan sizzling)

Ja, ja, ja, ja, ja!

Okay, okay! Stop!

(flame whooshes) (Marianne screams)

(Marianne laughs)

Clearly...

Clearly...

Jesus!

We've learned some lessons.

(Leonard and Marianne laughing)

Wow.

It's been a pleasure cooking with you.

(Marianne laughs)

Let's let this cool down, then call the fire department.

(Marianne laughs)

(soft acoustic music continues)

I'm scared to go.

(Marianne sighs)

(soft acoustic music continues)

I think if you're lucky enough to give love,

then you really can't give too much of it.

[Marianne] Hmm.

But...

You have to be strong enough to carry that burden.

I just wish I didn't have to go.

Well, you don't have to do anything.

No, I...

The only thing you must do

is stop getting blonde hairs in my mouth.

(Marianne laughs)

Mm.

(lively acoustic music)

(cars honking)

(lively acoustic music continues)

(lively acoustic music fades)

Hi.

Hi.

Um...

(Axel speaks in Norwegian)

Hmm.

(Marianne and Axel speaking in Norwegian)

(Marianne and Axel speaking in Norwegian)

(Marianne and Axel speaking in Norwegian)

Okay, we're gonna do this.

(baby fussing) It's okay.

Oh, no! It's okay, it's okay!

♪ Oh yeah, that is a foot ♪

♪ That is a nice foot ♪

♪ This is my hand and that is your foot ♪

♪ I'm going to change you now ♪

♪ Please don't start crying ♪

♪ I can't give you the guitar ♪

♪ 'Cause I know what you're gonna do ♪

♪ You're gonna try and eat it ♪

♪ Like you always do ♪

(baby squeals)

(Patricia breathes heavily)

(Marianne sighs)

(Patricia breathes heavily)

(Patricia grunts)

(Patricia mumbles)

Patricia, it's...

(Patricia yelps) Yeah, yeah, yeah!

(Patricia breathes heavily)

Hello? (intense music)

(hand slamming) Hello?

Anyone! Help.

Please, please.

Please, hurry. (nurse yells in Greek)

Hurry!

Doctor!

(Patricia breathes heavily)

(nurse speaks in Greek) (intense music continues)

(intense lively bass music)

(intense lively bass music continues)

(intense lively bass music continues)