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A Gentle Woman

She looked about 16. Remember?

I paid no attention to her at first

I was being smart

What a treasure!

At that moment, I suddenly noticed her...

...and began to think about her

Next time, she brought an amber cigarette holder...

I wouldn't do it for another

She took the bills

I knew she'd return

When she did, we spoke

Her parents dead...

...some relatives used her as a servant

I spend the little they give me on books

That's all I have. I've nothing left. After...

After?

- I'll manage - How?

I don't know. Maybe I'll advertise, like this

No. This is how it's done

Young student...

Young studente seeks au pair or housework

Come. The gold interests me

You keep the Christ, I'll take the metal

Me? Why?

No

Don't scorn what is offered you

I've been poor too,

and if I do a job I detest...

Your revenge is on the poor, but not on me?

I am thet power which intends evil...

...but engenders good. I know the saying

- Have you read Goethe? - Not very carefully

Mephistopheles says that when he meets Faust

You are odd

She meant: "I didn't expect to find an educated man"

I'm sure she thought that

She was delighted with me

Museum of Natural History Zoological and Botanical Garden

Say yes, and I promise you happiness

It all seems impossible

All what?

Men... a man...

And love? Don't you love anyone?

No. Not yet

You don't want love. You want me to agree to marry you

What do you want?

I don't know... something more. Marriage bores me

Millions of women... hope for marriage

Perhaps. But there are monkeys, too

Don't come with me. I live just here

I asked you not to follow me

Why?

This house... these people are sinister

Say yes, and you can leave here forever

Say yes! Say it!

You have given your vows,

and I pronounce you man and wife

I quenched this elation

This apartment will have to do until we can afford better

We cann go to the cinema...

...but rarely to the theatre, it's too costly

It will take 4 or 5 years to save capital

What capital?

- You despise money, I know. - I don't care about it

I must broaden your outlook, so you see thing differently

I wanted a solid happiness

Why did we take to silende from the first?

- Who are those girls? - Pleasants, come to lend a hand

How beautiful they are, what rosy cheeks!

I know whose eyes are bigger than his belly

I was sure, then, of her love. She loved me

Or wanted to love me? Or wanted to love

All that time... I suffered from incessant jealousy.

Where've you been?

She had a passion for books and records

You know the Natural History Museum?

You must go, you'll be amazed

The same material for all animals, differently arranged...

...for a mouse, an elephant, for a man.

She made me see woman as an instrument of pleasure

We make a pair, too. All built to a pattern

- Don't you like floers? - Me?

- What are you looking at? - You

Isn't this dangerous?

No

Our first quarrel arose over her whimsical buying...

...paying too much

It's easy to be generous

It's my money

Maybe. But it gives you no rights over me

I have the right to protect our living

Don't try ruling me with money. Understand?

Idiot!

Coward!

Her face changed in a second

Gentleness was replaced by defiance, revolt

I waited for her all day. I'd been given tickets for "Hamlet"

Hurry!

Where have you been?

I can't not know

Not know what?

A hit, a very palpable hit

Hamlet, this pearl is thine

To thy health. Pass him the cup

I'll play this bouy firts; set it by awhile

On guard!

Another hit; what say you?

Our son shall win

He's fat and scant of breath. Here, Hamlet, take my napkin,

The queen carouses to thy fortune,

Gertrude, do not drink,

I will, my lod; I pray you pardon me

- The poisoned cup; it is too late. - Come, let me wipe thy face

I dare not drink yet, madam by and by

Part them

They are incens'd

Look to the queen there, ho!

They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?

How is't Laertes?

Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe; Osric

I am justly killed with mine own treachery

No, no, the drink, the drink

O, my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drind! I am poisoned

O, Villainy! Ho! Let the door be locked! Treachery! Seek it out

It is here, Hamlet. Thou art slain

The treacherous instrument is in thy hand unbated and envenom'd

The foul practice hath turned itself on me

Lo, here I lie, never to rise again. Thy mother's poisoned

I can no more. The king, the king's to blame

The point, envenomed, too!

Then venom, do thy work

O, yet defend me, friends. I am but hurt

Here, thou incestuous murd'rous damned Dane

Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?

Follow my mother

He is justly served. It is a poison tempered by himself

Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet

Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, nor thine on me!

Report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied

Never believe it. I am more an antique Roman than a Dane

As th'art a man, give me the cup. Let go. By heaven, I'll have it!

What a wounded name,

things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!

If thou did'nt ever hold me in thy heart,

absent thee from felicity awhile

And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,

to tell my story

O, I die! The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit

But I do prophesy th' election lights on Fortinbras

He has my dying voice,

so tell him with th' occurents,

more and less, which have solicited

The rest is silence

Now cracks a noble heart

Good night, sweet prince

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Why does the drum come hither?

I knew it they omitted this, so they could bellow

This is Hamlet's advice to the players:

Speak the speech as I pronounced it to you,

trippingly on the tongue

But if you mouth it, as many of our players do,

I had as lief the towncrier spoke my lines

I had as lief the towncrier spoke my lines

for in the very torrent, tempest, whilwind of your passion,

I had as lief the towncrier spoke my lines

you must acquire and beget a temperance...

Carrying on as if nothing had had happened infuriated me

I feared her silence, so I asked no more questions

That night as always, we delighted in each other

But she didn't change her ways...

...and I sought only the possession of her body

My real torment began one day...

You changed the desks without telling me

This was his third visit!

Suddenly, I wanted to shoot, to destroy them

Do you know what it is to suffer with such a gentle woman?

...beautiful woman...

It's a rending, burning agony

I was sure I'd find them together

She was back, as if nothing had happened

Afterward, everything was an excuse to quarrel

If it hadn't been the flowers it would've been something else.

I thought you didn't like flowers

Who gave them to you?

- No one. - Someone did. You're lying

Tell me

Let me go!

- Where are you going? Stay! - It isn't possible now

I know where you're going

Operation Adler was to destroy the R.A.F. prior to invasion

Goring promised troop transports would be unopposed

This great air battle lasted from July 1st to August 20th

1,300 German bombers and 1,200 fighters,

against 57 British squadrons

The entire R.A.F.

I feared she might act against herself

She was tormenting me

Is it true what they say?

3 years ago you were a bank manager; they fired you

I'd never told her. Why not?

Pride, perhaps? I hoped she would understand

I wasn't fired, resigned over an irregularity I didn't commit

Afet that you were more or less a beggar

I was desperate, out of work

Not now; you've become a financier again

Who told her?

I went to her former home

I had to know

Was it the boy who saw her at the shop?

They game me a name and address

Boulevard Lannes

I forgot about the gun in my pocket

Why did I decide to walk that way?

Suddenly, she sat up and spoke

Get out. Come on

I'd made out a few words. They were to her credit

She might've seen me in the mirror, and thought quickly

But such doubt was impossible. She had rejected his advances

I knew it. To hurt me, out of hatred,

she'd gone to this boy, whose face I didn't even try to see

She was deeply affected... It lasted till we got home

I was exhausted. She just sat in the chair

It was the first time she hadn't slept beside me

When I awoke, daylight shone through the curtains

I pretended to be asleep

I'd glanced so quickly, she might think I was really asleep

It wasn't likely I'd close my eyes having seen what I had

She might stop if she thought I'd seen and expected death

The bed proved I had seen that I knew

The gun remained on the table

I'm here, alive. It's me. Look

For 6 weeks you and the nurse cared for her

I spared no expense. I was even happy to spend on her

But I avoided her eyes

After the funeral, I'll go away for a week

No, wait! Anna. Stay

Sleep...

I want to pray, but I can only think

When she got up, you sat her in that armchair

She, too, wass content to say lillte

I told myself she must have time to forget

Winter passed as a time of waiting

We often walked together; not always in complete silence

I tried to dispel the air of silence

You were right: the same raw material for all animals

It's extraordinary

I never saw her looking at me. Was it timidity on her part?

She had such a gentle manner

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

There's a gulf between painting, and this

irritated sometimes, but not angry

I did'nt see her as a criminal I'd forgiven her

She seemed beaten, humillated. I felt great pity for her

But I felt a certain satisfaction, too. I enjoyed our inequality

I bought some worthless things, as a gesture

I felt she was really pleased about that

She was so pale and thin, I was struck by her pensiveness

She's weak after her illness

Take her to the sea, or to the mountains

I feel quite well

I didn't realize then: she was ashamed

because I cared like a real husband

But a month later... you remember

- Is she singing? - Sometimes, when you're out

In my house! Has she forgotten I exist?

I did not pity her it was something else

No one would understand my feeling of rapture

The fault was mine... a man's foolish image of a woman

I wanted to take, not give; take you and give nothing

But I shall give you all, make a paradise for you

Say something

I want to believe in you, yto be proud through utter faith

i love you. I want you

Don't torment me

We're going away. This shop is a great mistake

We'll go wherever you like. Tomorrow, now, at once!

I love you

And I was thinking you'd leave me

She let slip words that pierced my heart

As loh as I was near her, I couldn't but hope; I was happy

I was not paying attention to her fear

She said: I was thinking you'd leave me

And me appealing to her; me, the husband in need of love

Is it hereditary, the young bird's ability,

to emit the particular song of its species,

or is it learned by listening, by imitation?

What can we do?

It seems almost certain that, to a variable degree,

every bird is predisposed to its characteristic song

We must leave everithing and go

Where?

I thought merely of going, that was the main thing

Anywhere. Far away... with space and sunlight

We'll live new life together

But we won't be new

We will be

- Can one change? - Complely

Our quarrels and un happiness will disappear

Nothing will remain. You will let me adore you, worship you

I want something else

Why? I love you. I'll always love you

Isn't that enough?

That terrible evening, when I found you on Boulevard Lannes,

I saw how understanding you were, repulsing that boy

How innocent, too

This motning she was still alive

I was struck by her calm; I'd tossed all night

I shall be a faithful wife. I will respect you

I kissed her wildly,

like a husband after a long absence

But why did I go out then? And why did she...?

What's wrong, Madame?

Nothing, leave me. No. Come here

- Are you reconciled? Happy? - Yes, Anna, happy

Open your eyes. For only a second