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We may think ourselves
familiar in this day and age
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with the notion that
whores of every description
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can very easily
achieve fame and fortune.
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But towards the end of the 19th century
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in what came to be known in France
as the belle époque,
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a select group of courtesans
became, for a short period,
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the most celebrated and powerful women
in the long history of prostitution.
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There was Émilienne D'Alençon,
who fancied herself as an actress,
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but was better known as the woman
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who'd all but bankrupted
King Leopold II of Belgium.
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There was Liane de Pougy,
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who, when shown
a million and a half francs worth of jewels
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by her lover of the moment
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became paralyzed with indecision.
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Thus,
obliging him to buy her the entire display.
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She later became a nun.
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There was La Belle Otero,
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Spanish dancer, provoker of suicides
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and lover of at least
six crowned European monarchs,
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whose breasts served as models
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for the cupolas
on the new Carlton Hotel at Cannes.
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And there was Lea de Lonval.
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Born Leone Vallon,
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envied by many
as the most beautiful of all.
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Her good sense had enabled her
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to avoid the most dangerous hazard
facing those of her profession,
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namely falling in love.
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Now, with the departure
of her most recent lover
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to his Russian estates,
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Lea, aware that she was not far away
from being a certain age
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was beginning to entertain the idea
of retiring.
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Is there anything in the world
more wonderful
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than a bed all to oneself?
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- Good night, madame.
- Mm, good night, Rose.
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Headquarters of the belle époque
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was Maxim's restaurant
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whose maître d'
possessed an indispensable notebook
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containing a long list of names
of available women.
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More Pommery.
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Pommery is on its way, Fred.
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One of his most regular customers
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was Fred Peloux, known as Chéri,
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the rich but neglected son
of another celebrated courtesan.
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As the only child of a woman
focused obsessively on her career,
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Chéri had led a solitary
and often confusing life.
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Now, at the age of 19,
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truth be told, after several years
of conscientious debauchery,
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he was exhausted enough
to be starting himself to think longingly
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of the notion of retirement.
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Every so often,
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Lea de Lonval found it necessary
to rise early
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and prepare herself
as if for gladiatorial combat.
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Oh, Rose, why did I agree to have lunch
with that dreadful woman
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in that hideous mausoleum?
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To the Palace of Varieties, Ernest.
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Like most women
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who have devoted their lives
to various forms of love
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and been ostracized from polite society
as a result,
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Lea now found herself confined
to an extremely narrow circle of friends.
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Today, she was visiting
her former colleague, Charlotte,
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once one
of her most ruthless competitors,
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a woman of legendary astuteness
and skill
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at extracting immense sums
from her clients.
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Normally ravenous for gossip,
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today Charlotte was preoccupied
with a particular problem of her own.
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That child will be the death of me.
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- The death of me.
- Charlotte, that child is 19.
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Can you remember
what a gorgeous little boy he was?
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All those curls.
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I expect I remember better than you.
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I can't imagine what you mean.
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Sometimes I wonder
if it's the same person.
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Black circles under his eyes.
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Doesn't get up
till the middle of the afternoon.
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Never stopped nagging me
until I bought him a new motorcar.
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And I used to think of myself
as such a happy mother.
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We all have our cross to bear.
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To tell you the truth,
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I was hoping
you might have a word with him.
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I?
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He's always thought of you
as a kind of godmother.
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He pays no attention to me anymore.
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But I'm sure he'll listen
to anything you have to say.
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"No more than ten cigarettes a day,"
he said.
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And brandy only at the weekend.
He said it was my heart.
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So there is one.
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- Nounoune.
- Chéri.
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What time do you call this
to be making an appearance?
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- Oh, my God, who's that?
- Don't start that.
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Ah, yes, you're my mother, aren't you?
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I vaguely remember meeting you
a few times when I was little.
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That's not at all amusing.
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I was told you were seen in a bar
last week
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sitting on old Lili's knee.
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Don't be ridiculous.
Lili hasn't got any knees.
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They disappeared years ago.
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You see what I mean?
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Show me your tongue.
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You shouldn't drink gin.
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- Or brandy.
- Well, it wouldn't be polite
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to let my mother drink alone,
now would it?
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You don't look at all well.
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You're quite right, Lea.
He's a bag of bones. A bag of bones.
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- I feel fine.
- You're a bad color.
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Distinctly green about the gills.
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I meant to ask you,
my dear, are you free on Sunday?
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No, I'm going down
to my house in Normandy tomorrow.
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- With Speleieff?
- No, that's over.
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Speleieff's gone back to Russia.
Do concentrate.
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Your memory, Chéri.
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We went to the farewell dinner
a couple of months ago.
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Ah, yes. We had langoustine.
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I could just do with a plate of them now.
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One minute he won't eat,
the next he's asking for langoustine.
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Which one are you taking to Normandy
with you?
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I'm going on my own.
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Nice to be so rich.
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You're welcome to come if you like.
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There's nothing to do there
but eat, drink and sleep.
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Where is this place?
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It's just down the coast from Honfleur.
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I'm so exhausted all the time.
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I said you don't look at all well.
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Pfft, pfft, pfft!
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Do you good
to spend some time in the country.
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Just simple things.
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Grilled chicken,
strawberries and cream.
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No women.
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- No women? Sounds irresistible.
- Ha-ha-ha.
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Has anyone ever explained to you
why your eyes are so beautiful?
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No.
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It's because they're shaped like a sole.
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Like a sole, the fish.
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This end, you see, by your nose
is the head of the sole.
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And the upper curve is the back.
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And the lower line here is the flat belly.
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- I see.
- Yes.
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If it were curved under the eyes
as well as above it,
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it would be shaped like a flounder.
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And then you would look stupid.
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Well, well,
you learn something every day.
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These are heavy.
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Yes.
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Mm.
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Why did I start calling you Nounoune,
can you remember?
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I don't know.
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You were 6 at the time
and not disposed to discuss your reasons.
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Is that when you christened me Chéri?
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Well, I expect I thought
one good nickname deserved another.
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Kiss me.
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Kiss me.
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I'm not sure that was very intelligent.
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Oh, what? Oh...?
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You think I've never kissed
a handsome mouth before?
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You think
that's going to make me lose control?
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I mean, even if we were to...
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Not that I can see that happening.
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Well, you raised the subject.
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Let's say no more about this, shall we?
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The garden smells beautiful
this evening.
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It's the rose acacia.
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Come here.
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Mm.
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Nounoune.
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- Don't lose your temper.
- I'm not.
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Yes. Fatal mistake for a boxer.
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- I'm not a boxer.
- Come on.
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- Come on.
- Unh. Unh!
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No, you're not.
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I've known your mother
since she was in the Corps de Ballet.
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I first met her
when she was just beginning to realize
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that art lovers are a more reliable source
of income than art.
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I can't honestly say I've ever liked her.
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Nobody does.
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Ah!
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But you know our profession.
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We're really not able
to make friends outside of it.
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Women who do what we do,
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no one else would ever understand.
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Say something.
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What?
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Tell me something about yourself.
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Nothing to tell.
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Uh...!
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He'll never make a boxer.
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I didn't take him on for his boxing skills,
Patron.
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No, of course you didn't.
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It's strange.
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I can't describe it.
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It's like being in bed
with an African or a Chinese.
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Not that I've ever had that experience.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Patron,
am I embarrassing you?
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Not at all, madame.
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I can't criticize his character,
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mainly because
he doesn't seem to have one.
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All the other young men
I've had to do with
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can't wait to tell you
all their innermost secrets.
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He never says a word.
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There's something about him,
something mysterious, I can't explain.
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We were just talking about you.
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If I were a woman, Monsieur Chéri,
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I think I'd say,
"I'll come back in ten years time."
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Wouldn't do you much good, would it?
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Do you enjoy being spiteful?
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I always find it cheers me up, yes.
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Few weeks, Patron. Just a few weeks,
then I'll send him on his way.
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But she didn't,
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and six years later
they were still together.
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This was something
of a surprise to her,
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but the truth is
she felt entirely comfortable
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with a companion
so embedded in her own milieu
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that he required of her
no pretence whatsoever.
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Both of them were dimly aware
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that this state of affairs
could not go on indefinitely.
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But for now, they were lulled
by the soothing routines of habit.
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Every so often,
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a disapproving world would draw attention
to the unsuitability of their life together.
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They would take note,
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and then once again fall back
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into the comfortable bickering
of an old married couple.
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Can I have it?
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It looks just as good on me
as it does on you.
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Ugh, take if off,
you'll wear out the thread.
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Whoever it was gave you these,
he wasn't kidding.
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Did you hear what I said? Take it off.
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It'd make a wonderful wedding present.
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Who for?
- For me.
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Who do you think for? For me.
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You're just scared I'll make off with it.
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No, but I know you.
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If I were to offer it to you,
you're quite capable of accepting.
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Well, why wouldn't I?
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You can't say I don't look good in them.
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If I did, you wouldn't believe me.
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Don't scrunch up your nose like that
when you laugh.
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- You'll give yourself wrinkles.
- Not for a while.
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You know, you can look
really ugly sometimes, you know that?
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You're lying.
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- It's a minority view.
- Ha, ha.
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- No, none of that this morning.
- Yes.
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No, you're having lunch with the harpy,
your mother.
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Oh, God. And it's already 20 to 12.
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- Are you coming?
- No, I've been let off.
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I wasn't invited.
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- Really?
- Mm.
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Strange.
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I thought so too.
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I've been ordered to join you for tea.
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Marie Laure is coming.
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With that ghastly daughter of hers.
251
00:17:51,008 --> 00:17:52,997
Her daughter is very pretty.
252
00:17:53,142 --> 00:17:56,733
And clever enough
not to be as pretty as Marie Laure.
253
00:17:56,875 --> 00:17:58,807
If you say so.
254
00:17:59,341 --> 00:18:02,172
Rose. Run my bath.
255
00:18:07,541 --> 00:18:09,564
Ugh, I hate it when you wear a veil.
256
00:18:10,142 --> 00:18:12,903
Really, have you no manners?
257
00:18:13,341 --> 00:18:16,330
Never reproach a woman
for wearing a veil.
258
00:18:17,008 --> 00:18:18,496
She always has her reasons.
259
00:18:18,641 --> 00:18:21,130
Marie Laure, as beautiful as ever.
260
00:18:21,274 --> 00:18:23,797
Lea, I don't know if you remember
my daughter, Edmée.
261
00:18:23,942 --> 00:18:25,373
Of course, I do.
262
00:18:25,508 --> 00:18:28,031
- Have you left school?
- Well, of course she has.
263
00:18:28,175 --> 00:18:30,436
What would a lovely girl of 19
want with school?
264
00:18:30,575 --> 00:18:31,768
- Eighteen.
- Eighteen.
265
00:18:31,908 --> 00:18:33,204
Eighteen. That's what I meant.
266
00:18:33,341 --> 00:18:35,432
Marie Laure,
you're one of the only women I know
267
00:18:35,575 --> 00:18:38,439
- who could carry off that color.
- Ha, ha.
268
00:18:38,575 --> 00:18:42,940
- Well, I think it's time we were going.
- Surely not. It's still early.
269
00:18:43,075 --> 00:18:45,234
No, well,
the child is not very used to company.
270
00:18:45,374 --> 00:18:48,034
Only because she's had to lead
such a solitary life.
271
00:18:48,175 --> 00:18:50,367
Why don't you all come to lunch
on Thursday.
272
00:18:50,508 --> 00:18:52,838
- I can do that.
- I'll have to check.
273
00:18:52,975 --> 00:18:55,702
- Say goodbye, Edmée.
- Chéri will show you out.
274
00:18:55,841 --> 00:18:57,238
On your feet, lazybones.
275
00:18:57,374 --> 00:18:59,567
Lovely to see you.
276
00:19:07,641 --> 00:19:10,199
Delightful pair. Delightful.
277
00:19:10,341 --> 00:19:12,534
Marie Laure certainly looks magnificent.
278
00:19:12,675 --> 00:19:14,903
Yes, she was very beautiful in her day.
279
00:19:15,042 --> 00:19:18,031
And she can carry off
that awful color of puce.
280
00:19:18,175 --> 00:19:21,005
I suppose she's right
about Edmée being 18.
281
00:19:21,142 --> 00:19:24,699
Yes, she had her the year
after she got that enormous pink diamond
282
00:19:24,841 --> 00:19:27,238
out of Khalil Bey and left him flat.
283
00:19:27,374 --> 00:19:30,602
We always thought that singing teacher
must be the father, didn't we?
284
00:19:31,942 --> 00:19:34,305
Shall we take a turn
around the grounds?
285
00:19:38,308 --> 00:19:40,240
I need to have a word with you
about Chéri.
286
00:19:40,374 --> 00:19:42,102
- I thought as much.
- Ha, ha.
287
00:19:42,241 --> 00:19:44,469
As you know,
I've never stood in your way.
288
00:19:44,608 --> 00:19:46,733
On the contrary,
I've always been grateful to you.
289
00:19:46,875 --> 00:19:49,966
- So I should hope. He's cost me enough.
- Ha-ha-ha.
290
00:19:50,274 --> 00:19:53,070
You know me.
I'm very content with my lot.
291
00:19:53,208 --> 00:19:54,834
I have everything I need.
292
00:19:54,975 --> 00:19:57,338
Not that we haven't worked hard for it,
both of us.
293
00:19:57,474 --> 00:19:58,997
- You know what I'm saying.
- Mm.
294
00:19:59,142 --> 00:20:00,539
But lately...
295
00:20:00,675 --> 00:20:02,641
- Yes?
- I've been thinking about what's missing
296
00:20:02,775 --> 00:20:03,832
from my life.
297
00:20:03,975 --> 00:20:05,032
Oh, not love, surely?
298
00:20:05,174 --> 00:20:07,333
You're always saying how happy you are
to be rid of it.
299
00:20:07,474 --> 00:20:09,838
Ah, ha, goodness, yes.
300
00:20:09,975 --> 00:20:13,270
No,
I mean something altogether different.
301
00:20:14,841 --> 00:20:16,238
Grandchildren.
302
00:20:20,341 --> 00:20:22,069
Grandchildren?
303
00:20:22,208 --> 00:20:24,800
I'm arranging a marriage for Chéri.
304
00:20:26,975 --> 00:20:29,566
- Has he been told?
- Of course, he has.
305
00:20:29,708 --> 00:20:32,173
- Hasn't he said anything to you?
- No.
306
00:20:32,308 --> 00:20:35,433
Ha, ha, oh, what a dreadful boy he is.
307
00:20:35,575 --> 00:20:37,598
I mean,
of course, it's not as if there's any rush.
308
00:20:38,575 --> 00:20:40,632
Oh, you mean,
it's not happening right away?
309
00:20:40,775 --> 00:20:41,832
Oh, good heavens, no.
310
00:20:41,975 --> 00:20:43,941
End of next month.
311
00:20:45,075 --> 00:20:48,234
Ah. You've made a deal
with Marie Laure.
312
00:20:48,374 --> 00:20:50,306
It wasn't easy.
313
00:20:50,441 --> 00:20:53,134
She's hard as nails, that one.
Hard as nails.
314
00:20:53,274 --> 00:20:54,638
She wanted separate bank accounts.
315
00:20:54,775 --> 00:20:56,434
- Can you imagine?
- Easily.
316
00:20:56,575 --> 00:20:58,165
Anyway, it's all arranged now.
317
00:20:58,308 --> 00:21:00,399
What a wonderful life
they're going to have.
318
00:21:00,541 --> 00:21:03,939
- Youth, beauty, money.
- Ha-ha-ha.
319
00:21:04,075 --> 00:21:05,665
What's so funny?
320
00:21:05,808 --> 00:21:10,206
You're throwing Edmée to Chéri
like a Christian to the lions,
321
00:21:10,341 --> 00:21:12,500
and you think she's going to have
a wonderful life?
322
00:21:12,641 --> 00:21:15,402
Wh...? What do you mean?
He's the kindest, sweetest...
323
00:21:15,541 --> 00:21:17,530
- What do you know about him?
- I'm his mother.
324
00:21:17,675 --> 00:21:19,641
Since when?
325
00:21:19,975 --> 00:21:21,406
I'm sorry, Lea.
326
00:21:21,541 --> 00:21:23,973
I'm sorry. How very clumsy of me.
327
00:21:24,107 --> 00:21:25,698
- I've upset you.
- Not in the least.
328
00:21:25,841 --> 00:21:29,364
- Well, naturally, it's come as a shock.
- No, Charlotte, not at all.
329
00:21:29,508 --> 00:21:32,303
I've been expecting it.
I've been expecting it for years.
330
00:21:32,441 --> 00:21:34,407
I've been expecting you
to come and take him away,
331
00:21:34,541 --> 00:21:37,030
and hand him over
to some other loose woman.
332
00:21:37,174 --> 00:21:40,470
Oh, Lea, that's a very ugly expression.
333
00:21:40,608 --> 00:21:42,733
I don't think so.
334
00:21:45,741 --> 00:21:48,536
You have nothing to worry about,
Charlotte.
335
00:21:49,042 --> 00:21:52,405
You're getting him back
in very good condition.
336
00:21:52,541 --> 00:21:55,405
I've kept him away from opium,
and cocaine
337
00:21:55,541 --> 00:21:58,030
and the cheaper sort of drink.
338
00:21:58,408 --> 00:22:01,374
I believe you'll find
he's a credit to both of us.
339
00:22:01,508 --> 00:22:03,269
I'm sure.
340
00:22:03,408 --> 00:22:06,636
It doesn't mean that little girl
is going to be able to handle him.
341
00:22:06,775 --> 00:22:09,570
- Young women have their methods.
- You may be right.
342
00:22:09,708 --> 00:22:12,538
- I can't say I remember.
- Ha.
343
00:22:12,975 --> 00:22:14,964
You were worried,
weren't you, Charlotte?
344
00:22:15,107 --> 00:22:16,733
Admit it.
345
00:22:16,875 --> 00:22:19,670
You were afraid
I was going to bleed all over you.
346
00:22:19,808 --> 00:22:22,399
I was only afraid of one thing.
347
00:22:22,541 --> 00:22:25,803
- That I might cause you suffering.
- Ha-ha-ha.
348
00:22:25,942 --> 00:22:28,032
Oh, that's right. Laugh at me.
349
00:22:28,174 --> 00:22:30,333
Laugh at me
and call me an old romantic.
350
00:22:30,474 --> 00:22:32,463
All I want
is to see the young people happy.
351
00:22:32,608 --> 00:22:35,574
Oh, you always were
disgustingly sentimental.
352
00:22:35,708 --> 00:22:39,265
Oh, come here. Oh.
353
00:22:46,308 --> 00:22:48,968
You smell so good.
354
00:22:49,441 --> 00:22:50,498
Don't you find,
355
00:22:50,641 --> 00:22:56,232
now the skin's a little less firm,
it holds perfume so much better?
356
00:23:07,608 --> 00:23:10,039
The least you could have done
was tell me yourself.
357
00:23:10,174 --> 00:23:12,333
She wanted to tell you.
358
00:23:12,474 --> 00:23:15,304
She thought it would come better
from her.
359
00:23:21,708 --> 00:23:24,003
You and your mother
have been cooking this up for months.
360
00:23:24,141 --> 00:23:27,130
- Why are you giving me a hard time?
- Because you're a coward.
361
00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:31,067
How much is she worth?
362
00:23:32,208 --> 00:23:33,572
A million and a half.
363
00:23:35,107 --> 00:23:37,767
- From her father?
- How should I know?
364
00:23:37,908 --> 00:23:40,135
She doesn't know who her father is
any more than I do.
365
00:23:40,274 --> 00:23:43,866
All I know is,
she's worth a million an a half.
366
00:23:44,007 --> 00:23:47,098
- And you?
- Oh, I'm worth far more than that.
367
00:23:47,241 --> 00:23:50,639
So you'll have more than enough.
368
00:23:51,074 --> 00:23:53,336
More than enough?
369
00:23:53,875 --> 00:23:56,864
You and I don't think about money
the same way, Nounoune.
370
00:23:57,007 --> 00:24:01,269
How much do you think you've saved
while I've been paying for everything?
371
00:24:01,408 --> 00:24:04,431
Fifty thousand a year? Sixty?
372
00:24:04,575 --> 00:24:07,097
Multiplied by six.
373
00:24:08,041 --> 00:24:10,007
Haven't I been worth it?
374
00:24:21,575 --> 00:24:24,938
Anyway, she certainly is very pretty.
375
00:24:26,775 --> 00:24:29,138
She seems quite bright.
376
00:24:31,308 --> 00:24:33,069
What's your impression?
377
00:24:33,208 --> 00:24:35,197
I have no idea.
378
00:24:35,341 --> 00:24:37,500
I expect I'll find out sooner or later.
379
00:24:37,641 --> 00:24:40,368
How does she feel about you?
380
00:24:42,941 --> 00:24:45,737
She admires me.
381
00:24:46,308 --> 00:24:48,706
Loves me as far as I can tell.
382
00:24:48,841 --> 00:24:50,807
- She doesn't say much.
- Mm.
383
00:24:51,141 --> 00:24:53,471
- What about you?
- I didn't say anything.
384
00:24:54,308 --> 00:24:57,502
I see, it's a real love match.
385
00:24:57,641 --> 00:25:00,607
Why do we have to talk about her?
You're the one I'm worried about.
386
00:25:00,741 --> 00:25:03,332
Me? Why?
387
00:25:03,474 --> 00:25:07,839
- What are you going to do?
- What am I going to do?
388
00:25:07,974 --> 00:25:11,600
What, do you mean,
what am I going to do now?
389
00:25:37,974 --> 00:25:40,338
You're so beautiful.
390
00:25:42,974 --> 00:25:46,407
A good body lasts a long time.
391
00:25:47,041 --> 00:25:49,564
Everyone knows that.
392
00:26:01,974 --> 00:26:03,963
Are you going to be all right?
393
00:26:04,107 --> 00:26:06,039
Of course I am.
394
00:26:06,174 --> 00:26:10,038
It'll be wonderful not to find
all the towels floating in 6 inches of water
395
00:26:10,174 --> 00:26:13,867
every time I come into the bathroom.
396
00:26:14,007 --> 00:26:16,633
I think I'll have it redecorated.
397
00:26:19,641 --> 00:26:21,072
What do you expect me to do?
398
00:26:21,208 --> 00:26:23,265
Go and pine away in Normandy?
399
00:26:23,408 --> 00:26:24,873
Stop dyeing my hair?
400
00:26:25,007 --> 00:26:26,633
- Is that what you want?
- Yes.
401
00:26:26,774 --> 00:26:28,967
You're not the first young man
I've said goodbye to.
402
00:26:29,107 --> 00:26:32,834
Yes, I know, but what I thought might
be appropriate is if I were the last.
403
00:26:33,341 --> 00:26:34,829
I'm only thinking of you.
404
00:26:36,807 --> 00:26:38,171
If it's any consolation,
405
00:26:38,308 --> 00:26:40,967
I've been with you longer
than anyone else in my life.
406
00:26:41,107 --> 00:26:44,073
And I've certainly never devoted
as much time and consideration
407
00:26:44,208 --> 00:26:46,299
to the end of any of my affairs.
408
00:26:46,441 --> 00:26:49,737
But you can't expect me
to curl up and die.
409
00:26:50,675 --> 00:26:53,163
When is the wedding, anyway?
410
00:26:53,308 --> 00:26:55,638
September the 25th.
411
00:26:56,274 --> 00:26:58,137
You seem very casual about it.
412
00:26:58,274 --> 00:26:59,830
Why not? It's all been arranged.
413
00:27:00,241 --> 00:27:03,207
Ceremony at 2.
Reception at mother's house.
414
00:27:03,341 --> 00:27:05,966
Sleeper to Italy.
Honeymoon by the lakes.
415
00:27:06,107 --> 00:27:08,471
- Do people still go to the lakes?
- They do.
416
00:27:08,608 --> 00:27:12,506
- And what about the girl?
- What about her? She'll be there.
417
00:27:12,907 --> 00:27:15,271
And I won't be.
418
00:27:16,974 --> 00:27:19,497
Nounoune, you'll always be there.
419
00:27:20,041 --> 00:27:21,973
I mean,
you know, in case I need anything.
420
00:27:24,408 --> 00:27:26,737
You are to be kind to her,
do you hear me?
421
00:27:27,907 --> 00:27:30,237
Don't make her suffer.
422
00:27:30,374 --> 00:27:32,636
It's her turn now.
423
00:27:33,141 --> 00:27:35,164
Mine is over.
424
00:27:35,608 --> 00:27:36,937
That's not what I want.
425
00:27:38,907 --> 00:27:40,271
Oh, I'm afraid, from now on,
426
00:27:40,408 --> 00:27:43,896
what you want
has very little to do with anything.
427
00:27:48,241 --> 00:27:50,173
We'll get Rose to help you pack.
428
00:27:50,575 --> 00:27:52,097
What? Why?
429
00:27:52,241 --> 00:27:55,503
You're getting married next month.
There will be a lot of preparations,
430
00:27:55,641 --> 00:27:58,198
which you'll need to be making
from home.
431
00:27:58,341 --> 00:27:59,398
But...
432
00:27:59,541 --> 00:28:03,598
Can you imagine how rich I'm going to be
when I don't have to pay for you anymore?
433
00:28:03,740 --> 00:28:05,070
What about my replacement?
434
00:28:05,208 --> 00:28:08,402
Oh, some loose change
and a packet of cigarettes.
435
00:28:08,541 --> 00:28:12,734
And a Kir Royal on Sundays,
if he behaves himself.
436
00:28:25,241 --> 00:28:26,729
Say something.
437
00:28:27,274 --> 00:28:29,502
- Nounoune.
- What?
438
00:28:30,974 --> 00:28:32,997
Just say something.
439
00:28:36,508 --> 00:28:37,633
Come on.
440
00:28:37,774 --> 00:28:40,536
Let's go shopping one last time.
441
00:28:40,674 --> 00:28:41,731
What for?
442
00:28:41,874 --> 00:28:44,397
Your wedding present, of course.
443
00:28:44,541 --> 00:28:47,904
There is a big pink pearl at Schwabe's.
444
00:28:48,041 --> 00:28:50,234
Ha, ha, pink?
445
00:28:50,374 --> 00:28:54,999
Ah, let's go for something
a little more masculine, shall we?
446
00:28:55,141 --> 00:28:57,073
A regular white pearl.
447
00:28:57,208 --> 00:28:59,901
I think I know the very one.
448
00:29:10,674 --> 00:29:12,334
Amen.
449
00:30:04,541 --> 00:30:05,767
What do you think?
450
00:30:06,174 --> 00:30:08,140
Beautiful.
451
00:30:10,374 --> 00:30:11,771
When did you get this?
452
00:30:11,907 --> 00:30:13,600
Today.
453
00:30:16,074 --> 00:30:18,665
Isn't that a little flaw?
454
00:30:18,807 --> 00:30:21,898
It's tiny. You have a very good eye.
455
00:30:22,041 --> 00:30:23,666
I've been very well-trained.
456
00:30:23,807 --> 00:30:26,637
Wonderful color, isn't it?
457
00:30:27,241 --> 00:30:29,139
Does this mean
there's someone new in your life?
458
00:30:30,041 --> 00:30:33,132
No, I bought it myself.
459
00:30:33,341 --> 00:30:36,273
Eleven thousand six hundred.
460
00:30:37,540 --> 00:30:39,166
Now, ladies and gentlemen.
461
00:30:39,308 --> 00:30:40,933
Ready?
462
00:30:42,107 --> 00:30:43,437
Oh!
463
00:30:44,408 --> 00:30:46,067
I'm so sorry I have to rush off.
464
00:30:46,208 --> 00:30:49,072
Goodbye, Edmée. Fred.
465
00:30:49,208 --> 00:30:50,867
Enjoy yourselves in Italy.
466
00:30:51,007 --> 00:30:52,496
Bye.
467
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:57,273
I suppose we're lucky
she got off her back for a couple of hours.
468
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,266
Darling.
469
00:31:05,408 --> 00:31:07,737
Wonderful to see you.
470
00:31:09,374 --> 00:31:11,703
I must have been sad before
like this, Rose.
471
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,703
Can you remember?
472
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,863
After little Lequellec, perhaps?
473
00:31:16,007 --> 00:31:18,473
No, madame,
it was Monsieur Bacciocchi.
474
00:31:18,607 --> 00:31:19,766
Oh.
475
00:31:19,907 --> 00:31:23,703
- You cried for days.
- I was only 28 then.
476
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,738
My mistake was keeping Chéri
for six years.
477
00:31:26,874 --> 00:31:28,170
Being with someone for six years
478
00:31:28,308 --> 00:31:31,103
is like following your husband
to the colonies.
479
00:31:31,241 --> 00:31:33,832
Time you come back, you've forgotten
what you're supposed to wear,
480
00:31:33,974 --> 00:31:36,769
and nobody remembers who you are.
481
00:31:36,907 --> 00:31:38,839
Do you mind opening the window?
482
00:31:38,974 --> 00:31:40,167
Is that a good idea?
483
00:31:40,308 --> 00:31:42,035
It's really stuffy in here.
484
00:31:42,174 --> 00:31:43,969
I don't like doing it.
485
00:31:44,107 --> 00:31:45,868
It would be so easy for somebody
to climb in.
486
00:31:46,007 --> 00:31:48,996
Oh, promises, promises.
487
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,238
I'm sure I should be telling you lovebirds
something,
488
00:32:00,374 --> 00:32:02,703
but I can't think for the life of me what.
489
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:03,897
Hardly surprising.
490
00:32:04,041 --> 00:32:08,030
Isn't this the first time
anyone's ever been married in our family?
491
00:32:08,374 --> 00:32:10,635
Goodbye, darling.
492
00:32:10,774 --> 00:32:12,740
Goodbye.
493
00:32:13,540 --> 00:32:15,699
All aboard.
494
00:32:16,507 --> 00:32:17,632
Goodbye, darling.
495
00:32:18,574 --> 00:32:20,563
Goodbye.
496
00:34:09,174 --> 00:34:11,662
How old are you anyway?
497
00:34:12,473 --> 00:34:15,530
I told you, I'm 19 in January.
498
00:34:16,607 --> 00:34:18,505
It's obscene.
499
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,538
Well, you're only 25.
500
00:34:26,807 --> 00:34:29,602
Twenty-five years old.
501
00:34:30,340 --> 00:34:34,205
I don't know why I find it shocking
that you're so much younger than me.
502
00:34:36,274 --> 00:34:39,330
You have such beautiful eyes, Fred.
503
00:34:42,274 --> 00:34:44,637
Yes. Do you know why?
504
00:34:44,774 --> 00:34:46,865
Is it because I love them?
505
00:34:47,307 --> 00:34:48,466
No, it's not.
506
00:34:48,874 --> 00:34:52,328
It's because my eye
is shaped like a sole.
507
00:35:20,074 --> 00:35:21,937
When you're finished with that hat,
Madame Lea,
508
00:35:22,074 --> 00:35:23,131
I hope you'll think of me.
509
00:35:23,273 --> 00:35:24,899
That blue one that you gave me,
remember?
510
00:35:25,041 --> 00:35:26,370
It lasted me two years.
511
00:35:26,507 --> 00:35:29,268
I can just see you in that hat, Aldonza.
512
00:35:29,407 --> 00:35:31,339
I hope you don't run
into any pregnant women.
513
00:35:31,473 --> 00:35:33,234
I know what suits me,
thank you very much.
514
00:35:33,373 --> 00:35:36,169
I wore a hat very like that
when I danced Sylvia
515
00:35:36,307 --> 00:35:39,138
at the Turkish gala in the '89 exhibition.
516
00:35:39,273 --> 00:35:40,739
Do you remember, Charlotte?
517
00:35:40,874 --> 00:35:43,601
No, I left halfway through the evening
with Count Orloff,
518
00:35:43,740 --> 00:35:45,501
and didn't get back for two years.
519
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,800
I don't know how you could go off
like that with a strange man.
520
00:35:48,941 --> 00:35:50,770
All men are strange.
521
00:35:51,141 --> 00:35:53,265
Hear, hear.
- Yes, but I mean to say...
522
00:35:53,407 --> 00:35:55,396
Shut up and deal.
523
00:35:55,540 --> 00:35:57,972
Ow, oh! My arthritis.
524
00:35:58,107 --> 00:36:02,300
And to think I used
to have the most beautiful hands.
525
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:06,930
King Alfonso XII used to drink
from my cupped palms.
526
00:36:07,074 --> 00:36:09,972
He called them
his mother-of-pearl seashells.
527
00:36:10,107 --> 00:36:12,164
I always thought
he was one of the duller kings.
528
00:36:12,307 --> 00:36:15,001
He adored my hair,
down below my knees.
529
00:36:15,141 --> 00:36:16,697
Monsieur de Thou, the deputy,
530
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,704
used to say there was enough hair
to carpet the stairway to heaven.
531
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,499
- And now what's left?
- A very nice wig.
532
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,469
Are you all right, Lea, my dear?
533
00:36:25,607 --> 00:36:27,664
You don't seem quite your usual self.
534
00:36:27,807 --> 00:36:29,137
No, I'm fine.
535
00:36:29,273 --> 00:36:31,103
Except for having eaten that vast meal.
536
00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:33,604
I'm going to have to go on a diet.
537
00:36:33,740 --> 00:36:36,171
- Oh. Haven't you suffered enough?
- What...?
538
00:36:38,974 --> 00:36:40,269
Oh, you mean that.
539
00:36:40,407 --> 00:36:42,703
No, I wish it worked that way.
540
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,931
I'd give up any number of young men
if it meant I could lose a few kilos.
541
00:36:47,473 --> 00:36:50,303
You're amazing, Lea.
There's nobody like you.
542
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,167
Keep your eyes on the cards.
543
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,906
Have you ever seen weather
like this in October?
544
00:36:56,041 --> 00:36:57,870
You're right, it's extraordinary.
545
00:36:58,007 --> 00:37:02,064
And if it's like this here, just imagine
what it must be like in Italy.
546
00:37:05,041 --> 00:37:06,233
Are you all right, my dear?
547
00:37:06,373 --> 00:37:08,999
I'm just going
to get a breath of fresh air.
548
00:37:55,907 --> 00:37:57,532
Lea. Lea.
549
00:37:57,674 --> 00:37:59,765
Come back, they've arrived.
550
00:37:59,907 --> 00:38:00,964
Who?
551
00:38:01,106 --> 00:38:02,766
The happy couple.
552
00:38:06,807 --> 00:38:09,069
Lea. Lea, darling, it's been,
553
00:38:09,207 --> 00:38:10,332
mm, ages.
554
00:38:10,473 --> 00:38:13,132
And this is Prince Guido,
the love of my life.
555
00:38:13,273 --> 00:38:14,364
Perhaps you've already met.
556
00:38:14,507 --> 00:38:16,769
- Yes, of course, of course, madame.
- No, don't slobber.
557
00:38:16,907 --> 00:38:18,532
Oh, he's gorgeous, isn't he?
558
00:38:18,674 --> 00:38:21,105
A touch of restraint
wouldn't come amiss, Lili.
559
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:23,399
No, no, Baronne,
don't be such a curmudgeon.
560
00:38:23,540 --> 00:38:24,767
Please, sit.
561
00:38:24,907 --> 00:38:27,532
They're very sweet together.
562
00:38:27,674 --> 00:38:29,367
They remind me of the children.
563
00:38:29,507 --> 00:38:31,302
That's why we came,
to ask how they were.
564
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,804
- How was the wedding?
- Glorious, glorious.
565
00:38:33,941 --> 00:38:36,964
A riot of orange blossom,
and the bride looked like a dream.
566
00:38:37,106 --> 00:38:38,800
A Madonna. A Madonna.
567
00:38:38,941 --> 00:38:41,270
And my boy was walking on air.
568
00:38:41,407 --> 00:38:43,373
What news of the honeymoon?
569
00:38:43,507 --> 00:38:45,769
- Italy, the lakes.
- Oh, idyllic.
570
00:38:45,907 --> 00:38:50,100
Yes, I remember when General Petrescu
took me to Florence and Venice.
571
00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:52,468
- In a coach?
- No, no, by train.
572
00:38:52,607 --> 00:38:55,801
Weren't they horribly uncomfortable,
those early trains?
573
00:38:55,941 --> 00:38:58,930
Not like the ones
my Chéri and Edmée have been taking.
574
00:38:59,073 --> 00:39:01,904
Don't you have any more colorful details
for us?
575
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,233
Oh. I can't think what you mean.
576
00:39:04,373 --> 00:39:06,896
I'm sorry, it's my weakness.
577
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,438
Guido will tell you that I adore it
when he talks dirty.
578
00:39:10,574 --> 00:39:13,062
Speaking of which,
do we think that Marie Laure
579
00:39:13,207 --> 00:39:15,173
gave the bride any words of advice?
580
00:39:15,307 --> 00:39:16,967
Marie Laure couldn't wait to get away.
581
00:39:17,106 --> 00:39:19,732
I wouldn't think she'd ever had
such a thing as a conversation
582
00:39:19,874 --> 00:39:21,737
with her daughter in her life.
583
00:39:21,874 --> 00:39:26,169
Then did no one give the poor
little thing her instructions for newlyweds?
584
00:39:26,307 --> 00:39:30,399
In this day and age, Lili,
people know what they're doing.
585
00:39:30,540 --> 00:39:32,904
At least, my Chéri does.
586
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,301
Doesn't he, darling?
587
00:39:35,307 --> 00:39:37,739
Of course, Guido and I
would get married tomorrow
588
00:39:37,874 --> 00:39:39,203
if he were of age.
589
00:39:39,340 --> 00:39:40,533
Really, Lili?
590
00:39:40,674 --> 00:39:43,606
Then I'd be a real princess,
wouldn't I, Guido?
591
00:39:46,307 --> 00:39:48,796
He always calls me his principessa.
592
00:39:48,941 --> 00:39:50,429
Don't you, darling?
593
00:39:50,574 --> 00:39:53,540
The only problem is his father.
594
00:39:53,674 --> 00:39:56,162
My father is the duke of Parese.
595
00:39:56,307 --> 00:39:58,899
He says if I marry Lili,
he'll put me in a convent.
596
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,472
- A convent?
- Sounds delicious.
597
00:40:01,607 --> 00:40:03,368
Oh, come here, my darling.
598
00:40:03,507 --> 00:40:06,302
Come and kiss me. Mm!
599
00:40:07,207 --> 00:40:10,401
Oh, yes. Ha-ha-ha.
600
00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:12,729
- Oh!
- Oh, I'm sorry.
601
00:40:12,874 --> 00:40:14,897
Don't worry.
It's good luck, spilling a glass.
602
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:16,563
Unless, of course, it's colored glass.
603
00:40:16,707 --> 00:40:17,764
I have to leave.
604
00:40:17,907 --> 00:40:19,270
Why? Where's the fire?
605
00:40:19,407 --> 00:40:23,032
Well, I'm not sure
there's a delicate answer to that.
606
00:40:23,173 --> 00:40:24,571
You don't mean...?
607
00:40:24,707 --> 00:40:26,195
What? Already?
608
00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:27,431
Thank you for lunch.
609
00:40:27,574 --> 00:40:29,506
You can't leave us
in suspense like this.
610
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:30,799
No, tell us, tell us.
611
00:40:30,940 --> 00:40:32,270
You've got to tell us everything.
612
00:40:32,407 --> 00:40:34,873
No, it's too early in the day.
It has to be a secret.
613
00:40:35,006 --> 00:40:36,302
What? Wha...?
614
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,031
For the time being at least.
615
00:40:39,874 --> 00:40:41,396
Wha...?
616
00:40:52,540 --> 00:40:54,563
Good evening, madame.
617
00:40:59,574 --> 00:41:02,301
I'll need a fire in my room tonight, Rose.
618
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,497
The heat is on, madame, but of course.
619
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,503
And I'll need a hot water bottle as well.
620
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,799
Just some toast and grapes for dinner.
621
00:41:08,940 --> 00:41:12,065
Tell Marcel to do me
that chocolate with an egg yolk beaten in.
622
00:41:12,207 --> 00:41:14,070
Yes, madame.
623
00:41:47,607 --> 00:41:48,936
Mm!
624
00:42:05,173 --> 00:42:08,162
Chéri.
625
00:42:31,173 --> 00:42:34,435
You're up very early this morning,
madame.
626
00:42:34,574 --> 00:42:36,164
Are you all right?
627
00:42:36,307 --> 00:42:37,568
Not really.
628
00:42:37,707 --> 00:42:39,002
What's the matter?
629
00:42:39,140 --> 00:42:42,129
You know, age.
630
00:42:48,873 --> 00:42:50,601
You know what we're going to do,
Rose?
631
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,802
We're going to get in the car
and drive down to Biarritz.
632
00:42:54,940 --> 00:42:56,770
Towards the sun.
633
00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:08,502
My dear Charlotte,
634
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:12,765
I'm sorry to slip away
without saying a proper goodbye.
635
00:43:12,906 --> 00:43:16,236
I am probably making
a complete fool of myself.
636
00:43:16,373 --> 00:43:17,838
But then again, why not?
637
00:43:17,973 --> 00:43:19,269
Life is short.
638
00:43:19,407 --> 00:43:21,600
Let's do our best to enjoy it.
639
00:43:21,740 --> 00:43:24,672
Remember me to the boy
when he comes back.
640
00:43:24,806 --> 00:43:28,466
P.S., don't bother
to try bribing my butler.
641
00:43:28,607 --> 00:43:34,005
No one in my household
knows anything about this escapade.
642
00:43:36,540 --> 00:43:37,937
So, what did he say?
643
00:43:38,073 --> 00:43:40,766
He said that he wasn't going
to be able to come along to see us
644
00:43:40,906 --> 00:43:42,769
for at least another 18 months.
645
00:43:44,073 --> 00:43:45,198
Madame.
646
00:43:45,340 --> 00:43:49,738
The Hotel Grand Palais
in Biarritz had, for some years now,
647
00:43:49,873 --> 00:43:52,567
been a happy hunting ground
for Lea and her like.
648
00:43:52,707 --> 00:43:53,797
Put those over there.
649
00:43:53,940 --> 00:43:57,031
A place where you might
easily find yourself shoulder to shoulder
650
00:43:57,173 --> 00:43:59,298
with the British prime minister.
651
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,804
Or in some more intimate posture,
with the Prince of Wales.
652
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:09,831
However, this time, it was not a customer
Lea was on the lookout for,
653
00:44:09,973 --> 00:44:12,303
it was a consolation.
654
00:44:33,473 --> 00:44:35,836
Madam, monsieur.
655
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,429
Have you seen Jocelyn?
656
00:45:21,739 --> 00:45:25,331
Won't you join my son and me
for a pot of tea, madame?
657
00:45:25,607 --> 00:45:29,596
That's so kind. I'd be delighted.
658
00:45:38,140 --> 00:45:40,402
Welcome home, darling.
659
00:45:40,540 --> 00:45:41,869
How are you?
660
00:45:42,006 --> 00:45:44,598
How are you?
Let me have a look at you.
661
00:45:44,739 --> 00:45:46,330
Oh, you're not looking at all well.
662
00:45:46,473 --> 00:45:50,166
- Two days on the train. I'm fine.
- Are you all right, dear?
663
00:45:50,307 --> 00:45:52,330
I've been feeling a bit tired.
- Good, good.
664
00:45:52,473 --> 00:45:54,371
But you must tell me
what's the matter with him.
665
00:45:54,507 --> 00:45:58,996
Have you been looking after him properly?
He's looking positively sinister.
666
00:46:14,273 --> 00:46:17,670
Thank you.
Thank you for a most wonderful evening.
667
00:46:22,606 --> 00:46:26,369
I don't suppose you'd care
for a nightcap, would you?
668
00:46:40,773 --> 00:46:42,296
Ah.
669
00:46:42,773 --> 00:46:44,671
What was the date on the letter?
670
00:46:44,806 --> 00:46:48,761
- What letter is that, darling?
- The letter from Lea, as you well know.
671
00:46:48,906 --> 00:46:51,065
Oh, I'm not sure.
672
00:46:51,207 --> 00:46:53,832
Sometime
around the beginning of October.
673
00:46:53,973 --> 00:46:56,996
And you say you don't know who it is?
674
00:46:57,140 --> 00:46:58,401
Who what is, my love?
675
00:46:59,806 --> 00:47:01,965
The man she went away with.
676
00:47:02,106 --> 00:47:03,402
This is the thing.
677
00:47:04,273 --> 00:47:07,262
Nobody knows. A total mystery.
678
00:47:07,407 --> 00:47:08,633
Of course, you know me.
679
00:47:08,773 --> 00:47:11,467
I've been able to make a few inquiries.
680
00:47:11,606 --> 00:47:12,765
And?
681
00:47:13,639 --> 00:47:17,094
He's young. Very young, I'm told.
682
00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:20,070
Not someone you'd boast about,
but very...
683
00:47:20,207 --> 00:47:24,230
Mm. You know, handsome.
684
00:47:30,573 --> 00:47:33,472
Be some muscle-bound boxer
if I know anything.
685
00:47:34,839 --> 00:47:37,862
Good to have some decent coffee
at last after all that Italian muck.
686
00:47:38,839 --> 00:47:40,237
Do you like my new outfit?
687
00:47:40,606 --> 00:47:42,266
How do I look in this bonnet?
688
00:47:42,873 --> 00:47:46,237
Like an old convict.
Enough to give anyone a fright.
689
00:47:49,073 --> 00:47:50,936
Oh, it goes without saying
690
00:47:51,073 --> 00:47:53,164
you're welcome to stay here
as long as you like.
691
00:47:53,307 --> 00:47:54,533
As long as you like.
692
00:47:54,673 --> 00:47:58,401
I can't stay here.
I'm allergic to rag and bone shops.
693
00:47:58,539 --> 00:48:00,301
I don't know where else
you're going to stay.
694
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,803
They haven't nearly finished
your house.
695
00:48:09,839 --> 00:48:13,237
Bastard builder says it's going
to take another four months.
696
00:48:13,373 --> 00:48:15,565
Look at them. Four months.
697
00:48:15,706 --> 00:48:17,332
Pull away.
698
00:48:19,407 --> 00:48:22,430
- Fred?
- What?
699
00:48:22,806 --> 00:48:25,295
Doesn't she live near here?
700
00:48:25,739 --> 00:48:27,830
Other side of the park.
701
00:48:28,806 --> 00:48:31,398
You go back.
I have just thought of something.
702
00:48:35,373 --> 00:48:38,339
- All right, Marcel?
- Monsieur Peloux.
703
00:48:38,739 --> 00:48:42,137
- Hard at work as ever.
- Very nice to see you again, sir.
704
00:48:42,273 --> 00:48:44,500
I hope madame is well.
705
00:48:45,106 --> 00:48:47,936
Couldn't really tell you, sir.
We've only had the odd postcard.
706
00:48:48,073 --> 00:48:50,595
- Where from?
- Not rightly sure, sir.
707
00:48:50,739 --> 00:48:53,103
We send all her mail to the lawyer
and he forwards it.
708
00:49:01,140 --> 00:49:03,605
Money between us, sir?
There's no need for that.
709
00:49:04,673 --> 00:49:08,071
Anyway, can't tell you what I don't know.
710
00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:10,229
I could give you the name
of madame's lawyer.
711
00:49:10,373 --> 00:49:12,100
No, it's all right.
712
00:49:13,606 --> 00:49:16,436
- When will she be back?
- No idea, sir.
713
00:49:16,573 --> 00:49:18,335
Whenever she feels like it.
714
00:49:18,739 --> 00:49:21,899
We keep the place ticking over
just in case.
715
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,199
But, you know,
I wouldn't be in the least surprised
716
00:49:24,340 --> 00:49:25,703
if you said to me now:
717
00:49:25,839 --> 00:49:27,998
"There she is
coming around the corner."
718
00:49:37,806 --> 00:49:42,239
So finally,
the whole thing was just up to mother.
719
00:49:42,373 --> 00:49:45,032
But I found it so powerful.
720
00:49:45,173 --> 00:49:47,604
- It was so powerful. Moving.
- Yes.
721
00:49:47,739 --> 00:49:50,500
To my core,
I've never had an experience like it.
722
00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:53,728
I'll go and see how cook is doing
with the duck.
723
00:49:53,873 --> 00:49:56,464
We'll have to try
and put a bit of flesh on you, Lea.
724
00:49:56,606 --> 00:49:58,902
You're a bag of bones.
725
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,767
Are you having trouble with your memory,
Madame Peloux? Occasional blackouts?
726
00:50:02,906 --> 00:50:05,667
- What can you mean?
- You called Edmée Lea.
727
00:50:05,806 --> 00:50:08,295
It's the third time you've done it today.
728
00:50:08,439 --> 00:50:09,496
Don't mind me, dear.
729
00:50:09,639 --> 00:50:12,730
I have so much on my mind,
I can scarcely remember my own name.
730
00:50:12,873 --> 00:50:15,498
No one's ever as busy as the person
with nothing to do.
731
00:50:22,173 --> 00:50:24,434
Perhaps you should send her
on a rest cure.
732
00:50:24,973 --> 00:50:26,632
Thank you for defending me.
733
00:50:26,773 --> 00:50:30,364
Or was it her you were defending,
my predecessor?
734
00:50:33,372 --> 00:50:36,134
You're not scared
of my illustrious mother, are you?
735
00:50:36,273 --> 00:50:38,262
When a door slams,
it can give you a shock.
736
00:50:39,106 --> 00:50:42,004
But it's not as frightening as the snake
that slides under the door.
737
00:50:42,140 --> 00:50:43,435
You mean, your mother?
738
00:50:43,573 --> 00:50:45,539
I don't know
if you could call her a mother.
739
00:50:45,673 --> 00:50:47,798
She never noticed me
until I started to look pretty,
740
00:50:47,940 --> 00:50:50,133
and then she couldn't wait
to get rid of me.
741
00:50:51,273 --> 00:50:53,636
I just got left
with all Madame Peloux's friends.
742
00:50:53,773 --> 00:50:55,932
That's why I know how to do petit point.
743
00:50:56,073 --> 00:50:58,937
Or, look, old Madame Aldonza
from the ballet
744
00:50:59,073 --> 00:51:01,971
showed me how to do
an entrechat quatre.
745
00:51:12,773 --> 00:51:16,001
So I suppose we're both orphans, really.
746
00:51:18,173 --> 00:51:20,071
Yes, that's right.
747
00:51:23,140 --> 00:51:24,867
Orphans.
748
00:51:30,906 --> 00:51:33,303
Chéri, what's the matter?
749
00:51:36,839 --> 00:51:38,805
You called me Chéri.
750
00:51:39,539 --> 00:51:41,562
Well, you're frightening me.
751
00:51:42,306 --> 00:51:44,295
Are you all right, Fred?
752
00:51:45,606 --> 00:51:48,868
Yes, it's just the thought
of our being orphans, that's all.
753
00:52:20,306 --> 00:52:23,534
Why do you always turn your back
on me?
754
00:52:29,940 --> 00:52:32,872
You haven't been listening
to a word I've been saying.
755
00:52:33,006 --> 00:52:34,403
What?
756
00:52:35,773 --> 00:52:37,636
You never listen to what anyone says.
757
00:52:40,639 --> 00:52:43,332
I expect you were thinking
about your Lea.
758
00:52:45,106 --> 00:52:47,731
Yes, as a matter of fact I was.
759
00:53:09,839 --> 00:53:11,828
I hate you.
760
00:53:12,372 --> 00:53:15,066
You don't love me. You never loved me.
761
00:53:15,206 --> 00:53:19,161
You're hardly even aware I exist.
You're a degenerate.
762
00:53:20,172 --> 00:53:23,297
All you ever think about
is that old woman.
763
00:53:31,306 --> 00:53:35,932
- I'm sorry you find me so boring.
- It's not that.
764
00:53:36,073 --> 00:53:38,664
- It's just I have no idea what it is you want.
- What I want?
765
00:53:38,806 --> 00:53:40,102
- Listen.
- No.
766
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:41,967
No, I don't want one of your lectures.
767
00:53:42,106 --> 00:53:44,970
I don't want to be told
why I'm too young to know what's going on
768
00:53:45,106 --> 00:53:47,663
or why your eye is shaped like a mullet.
769
00:53:47,806 --> 00:53:48,965
A sole.
770
00:53:53,606 --> 00:53:57,004
I just can't understand
why you're so aggrieved.
771
00:53:58,272 --> 00:54:00,966
Do I go out on my own in the evening?
772
00:54:01,739 --> 00:54:03,602
Do I sleep in a separate bedroom?
773
00:54:05,206 --> 00:54:08,105
- Am I having an affair?
- How would I know?
774
00:54:09,573 --> 00:54:12,505
Don't you like the way I make love
to you?
775
00:54:15,339 --> 00:54:17,703
You call that love?
776
00:54:17,873 --> 00:54:19,930
Oh, God.
777
00:54:20,073 --> 00:54:21,971
Oh, my God.
778
00:54:24,006 --> 00:54:27,460
Mm, oh, my God. Oh, God.
779
00:54:28,139 --> 00:54:31,469
Oh, God. Mm. Mm.
780
00:54:32,206 --> 00:54:33,638
At times of insecurity,
781
00:54:33,773 --> 00:54:36,705
Chéri's instinct was to return
like a homing pigeon
782
00:54:36,839 --> 00:54:39,032
to the familiar distractions of Maxim's.
783
00:54:39,172 --> 00:54:41,297
Good evening.
Is the Vicomte Desmond in this evening?
784
00:54:41,439 --> 00:54:42,496
Chéri.
785
00:54:42,639 --> 00:54:45,071
The impersonal friendship,
the exaggerated laughter,
786
00:54:45,206 --> 00:54:48,138
the clink of glasses
and the sound of gypsy violins.
787
00:54:48,272 --> 00:54:49,966
Fred. Well, well, well.
788
00:54:50,105 --> 00:54:51,935
Mind if I join you?
- Delighted.
789
00:54:52,072 --> 00:54:54,095
What are you drinking now
you're an old married man?
790
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:55,296
Chamomile tea?
791
00:54:55,439 --> 00:54:57,132
Pommery as usual.
792
00:54:57,272 --> 00:54:58,636
Something else to get you started?
793
00:54:58,773 --> 00:55:01,898
Pommery first. Pommery last.
794
00:55:16,072 --> 00:55:17,436
Can I ask you a favor?
795
00:55:17,573 --> 00:55:19,471
Of course. What?
796
00:55:19,606 --> 00:55:22,902
Make a call to Neuilly.
Ask for my mother.
797
00:55:23,039 --> 00:55:24,903
Tell her I'm having dinner with you.
798
00:55:25,039 --> 00:55:28,006
Suppose I get Madame Peloux,
your wife.
799
00:55:28,139 --> 00:55:31,333
Tell her the same thing.
She's very well-trained.
800
00:55:31,906 --> 00:55:34,633
Who is that woman staring at me?
801
00:55:34,906 --> 00:55:36,531
You know, that's La Loupiote.
802
00:55:36,673 --> 00:55:42,004
A friend of Lea's or a colleague,
I suppose, once upon a time.
803
00:56:02,005 --> 00:56:03,904
You didn't even say hello to me.
804
00:56:04,039 --> 00:56:06,335
Hello. How are you?
805
00:56:07,339 --> 00:56:09,737
Some people have all the luck,
don't they?
806
00:56:09,873 --> 00:56:13,305
Pretty as a picture and rolling in money.
807
00:56:23,606 --> 00:56:26,071
All the luck and no clue
what to do with it.
808
00:56:29,573 --> 00:56:31,505
Get off home back to your mommy.
809
00:56:32,773 --> 00:56:34,568
Poor boy.
810
00:56:39,839 --> 00:56:41,737
Evening, monsieur.
811
00:56:48,139 --> 00:56:50,469
It was a splendid evening.
812
00:56:50,773 --> 00:56:53,330
I thought we were going out.
813
00:56:53,472 --> 00:56:56,336
- I'm going up to bed.
- Oh?
814
00:56:58,439 --> 00:57:00,996
I'm going to take a room here.
815
00:57:03,606 --> 00:57:05,196
You go.
816
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:15,103
And how long will you be staying,
monsieur?
817
00:57:15,539 --> 00:57:17,402
I don't know.
818
00:57:17,873 --> 00:57:20,805
Let's just take it one day at a time,
shall we?
819
00:58:31,939 --> 00:58:35,531
Shall I introduce you to the English girl?
820
00:58:36,639 --> 00:58:38,104
No.
821
00:58:40,139 --> 00:58:44,595
I tell you,
she knows some amazing tricks.
822
00:58:45,739 --> 00:58:47,136
I said no.
823
00:58:50,105 --> 00:58:52,935
Can I do something for you, my dear?
824
00:58:53,072 --> 00:58:55,265
Shall I make you a pipe?
825
00:58:57,806 --> 00:58:59,431
No, thank you.
826
00:58:59,573 --> 00:59:02,061
I'll have some cocaine.
827
00:59:06,673 --> 00:59:08,934
I'm so sorry.
828
00:59:09,739 --> 00:59:12,034
I know what the trouble is.
829
00:59:12,172 --> 00:59:14,400
You have everything
you can possibly want.
830
00:59:15,905 --> 00:59:18,394
And none of it means a thing.
831
00:59:25,105 --> 00:59:28,128
The thing is, I don't know where she is.
832
00:59:29,339 --> 00:59:31,271
Or who she's with.
833
00:59:38,272 --> 00:59:39,897
It's all right, you don't need to worry.
834
00:59:46,573 --> 00:59:47,766
They're fake.
835
01:00:35,905 --> 01:00:37,768
I'll go.
836
01:00:47,472 --> 01:00:48,699
What is it?
837
01:00:48,838 --> 01:00:51,703
Lea. May I come up and see you?
838
01:00:51,838 --> 01:00:52,895
I'm busy.
839
01:00:53,905 --> 01:00:55,098
Just for a few minutes.
840
01:00:55,239 --> 01:00:57,171
I don't think so. Not this evening.
841
01:00:57,772 --> 01:00:59,432
Later perhaps.
At the end of the evening.
842
01:00:59,939 --> 01:01:02,405
Give my regards to your mother.
843
01:01:18,573 --> 01:01:20,004
Oh, it's you.
844
01:01:22,172 --> 01:01:24,001
How long is this going to go on?
845
01:01:24,139 --> 01:01:26,162
I don't know.
846
01:01:26,306 --> 01:01:28,135
It's been nearly three weeks now.
847
01:01:28,272 --> 01:01:30,737
Poor little Edmée is frantic with worry.
848
01:01:30,872 --> 01:01:33,566
On the contrary,
her letter was extremely calm.
849
01:01:33,705 --> 01:01:35,569
What letter? Show it to me.
850
01:01:35,705 --> 01:01:37,671
- I threw it away.
- Ugh.
851
01:01:37,805 --> 01:01:41,999
But she said she'd wait to hear from me
and sent regards from all your friends.
852
01:01:42,905 --> 01:01:45,303
Looks like Marie Laure
really did bring her up properly.
853
01:01:45,439 --> 01:01:46,802
Oh, you'll be the death of me.
854
01:01:46,939 --> 01:01:48,928
I strongly doubt it.
855
01:01:53,239 --> 01:01:55,603
Who is it, my darling?
856
01:01:55,772 --> 01:01:58,102
You can tell me.
857
01:02:13,406 --> 01:02:14,599
Rose.
858
01:02:14,738 --> 01:02:16,727
It's a postcard from old Lili.
859
01:02:16,872 --> 01:02:21,998
Chéri, Monsieur Peloux, has run off.
860
01:02:22,139 --> 01:02:24,537
Oh, he's left his wife.
861
01:02:24,805 --> 01:02:28,669
Can't say it comes
as any surprise to me, madame.
862
01:02:29,172 --> 01:02:31,763
I dare say the divorce will be more fun
than the wedding.
863
01:02:36,105 --> 01:02:38,900
That goes straight up to madame's room.
864
01:02:40,072 --> 01:02:41,799
- Straighten that one.
- Right.
865
01:02:49,539 --> 01:02:51,095
Bring that bag up.
866
01:02:51,239 --> 01:02:52,898
Come along.
867
01:03:19,672 --> 01:03:21,400
Francois.
868
01:03:22,072 --> 01:03:24,163
Francois.
869
01:03:26,672 --> 01:03:27,729
Monsieur.
870
01:03:28,772 --> 01:03:31,295
Take this lot into the house for me,
would you?
871
01:03:34,072 --> 01:03:36,038
They're for Madame Peloux.
872
01:03:39,705 --> 01:03:41,433
My wife.
873
01:03:58,805 --> 01:04:00,668
Are you back now?
874
01:04:02,905 --> 01:04:04,428
Yes.
875
01:04:05,972 --> 01:04:07,461
Yes.
876
01:04:09,905 --> 01:04:11,700
Back for good.
877
01:04:25,972 --> 01:04:28,370
Three hundred and twenty francs
for Vaseline.
878
01:04:28,505 --> 01:04:31,336
What does Ernest do? Drink it?
879
01:04:33,805 --> 01:04:35,566
We ought to burn all of these.
880
01:04:42,772 --> 01:04:47,137
Twice yesterday,
I thought I saw Chéri on the street.
881
01:04:52,206 --> 01:04:54,728
Do you think he'll ever come back?
882
01:04:54,872 --> 01:04:57,168
I couldn't say, madame.
883
01:04:58,072 --> 01:04:59,299
Do you want him to?
884
01:04:59,439 --> 01:05:01,734
No, I saved him once.
885
01:05:01,872 --> 01:05:04,702
I couldn't do it all over again.
886
01:05:08,206 --> 01:05:09,865
Do you think I should change my hair?
887
01:05:19,605 --> 01:05:21,094
Madame.
888
01:05:33,339 --> 01:05:34,634
- Charlotte.
- Lea.
889
01:05:34,772 --> 01:05:37,829
You're back home.
And Chéri's back home as well.
890
01:05:37,972 --> 01:05:40,529
Back with his lovely wife.
891
01:05:40,905 --> 01:05:42,427
The young couple
are happier than ever.
892
01:05:42,572 --> 01:05:46,027
So all is well with the world.
893
01:05:48,738 --> 01:05:50,295
I don't know if you heard.
894
01:05:50,438 --> 01:05:52,996
But he disappeared on us
for weeks on end.
895
01:05:53,405 --> 01:05:55,395
We had no idea where he was.
896
01:05:55,538 --> 01:05:57,970
We were worried sick.
897
01:05:58,105 --> 01:05:59,832
Anyway, that's all in the past.
898
01:05:59,972 --> 01:06:01,199
What a relief.
899
01:06:01,339 --> 01:06:05,566
I must say, my dear.
You look more beautiful than ever.
900
01:06:06,772 --> 01:06:09,364
I don't know how you manage it.
901
01:06:09,505 --> 01:06:12,131
But, of course, you know,
Chéri was just sowing a few wild oats.
902
01:06:12,272 --> 01:06:13,737
Is that so?
903
01:06:13,872 --> 01:06:15,565
I wouldn't dream of blaming you,
904
01:06:15,705 --> 01:06:17,228
but you had such a tight hold on him.
905
01:06:17,372 --> 01:06:19,564
With any luck,
he'll have got it out of his system.
906
01:06:19,705 --> 01:06:21,830
That's exactly what I said
to his little wife.
907
01:06:21,972 --> 01:06:23,597
I must say, she was astonishing.
908
01:06:23,738 --> 01:06:25,931
Of course, she was very lucky
to have me there with her.
909
01:06:26,072 --> 01:06:27,628
You took the words out of my mouth.
910
01:06:27,772 --> 01:06:29,965
Even so, my dear,
she behaved like a saint.
911
01:06:30,105 --> 01:06:32,969
Sweetness and light.
Sweetness and light.
912
01:06:33,105 --> 01:06:34,365
Patience on a monument.
913
01:06:34,505 --> 01:06:36,733
- Not one single word of reproach.
- Frightening.
914
01:06:36,872 --> 01:06:38,770
And when he came back, all smiles,
915
01:06:38,905 --> 01:06:40,996
as if he'd just got in
from a stroll in the park,
916
01:06:41,139 --> 01:06:44,003
she didn't open her mouth.
They just headed straight for the bedroom.
917
01:06:44,672 --> 01:06:46,968
I can promise you,
for the next hour and a half,
918
01:06:47,105 --> 01:06:50,003
there wasn't a woman in the world
happier than me.
919
01:06:50,405 --> 01:06:52,394
Except possibly Edmée.
920
01:06:54,206 --> 01:06:56,104
Oh, no. Ha-ha-ha.
921
01:06:56,505 --> 01:06:59,835
I don't think Edmée's very keen
on all that. Ha, ha.
922
01:06:59,972 --> 01:07:02,802
Bit of a cold fish, I'd say.
Like her mother.
923
01:07:03,638 --> 01:07:05,070
Is that right?
924
01:07:05,206 --> 01:07:08,569
Anyway, the important thing
is that he's now ready to settle down.
925
01:07:08,705 --> 01:07:09,830
Love his house.
926
01:07:09,972 --> 01:07:13,495
He'll take care of his money
and he'll adore his children.
927
01:07:15,239 --> 01:07:17,932
Well, you don't have to make it sound
quite so depressing.
928
01:07:27,005 --> 01:07:29,630
This cognac is 74 years old.
929
01:07:29,772 --> 01:07:32,034
Oh, must be appallingly expensive.
930
01:07:32,172 --> 01:07:35,934
Lotte, that's sweet of you
to be concerned.
931
01:07:36,072 --> 01:07:40,800
You wouldn't be if you knew how much my
oil stocks had gone up this last quarter.
932
01:07:41,139 --> 01:07:43,071
You never told me you were in oil.
933
01:07:43,206 --> 01:07:46,296
You were wrapped up
in your matrimonial arrangements.
934
01:07:46,438 --> 01:07:49,269
Not too wrapped up
to miss buying into Compressed Fuels.
935
01:07:49,405 --> 01:07:52,303
Well, and you never told me either.
936
01:07:54,471 --> 01:07:57,767
The last thing I wanted was to barge in
on your new love affair.
937
01:07:57,905 --> 01:08:00,496
How is all that, by the way?
Still happy?
938
01:08:00,638 --> 01:08:02,627
- Very.
- Do you have a photo?
939
01:08:02,772 --> 01:08:05,068
Your spies haven't come up
with anything, then?
940
01:08:05,206 --> 01:08:06,933
Oh, what spies?
941
01:08:07,072 --> 01:08:09,129
You know I never listen to gossip.
942
01:08:09,271 --> 01:08:11,067
But Chéri said to me this morning,
just as l...
943
01:08:11,206 --> 01:08:12,263
He knew you were coming?
944
01:08:12,405 --> 01:08:13,598
Of course.
945
01:08:15,572 --> 01:08:16,902
Why should that make you blush?
946
01:08:17,805 --> 01:08:19,828
So you told him I was back?
947
01:08:19,972 --> 01:08:21,165
No.
948
01:08:21,305 --> 01:08:23,169
He told me.
949
01:08:23,305 --> 01:08:24,430
He sent me.
950
01:08:25,172 --> 01:08:28,331
He was so anxious
to have some news of you.
951
01:08:29,305 --> 01:08:31,135
What do you expect?
952
01:08:31,271 --> 01:08:34,260
How could he forget a woman like you?
953
01:08:34,838 --> 01:08:38,463
If you want my opinion,
you've only to lift a finger...
954
01:08:38,605 --> 01:08:40,935
I don't want your opinion.
955
01:08:48,405 --> 01:08:51,997
That woman always makes me feel
so grubby.
956
01:08:52,139 --> 01:08:55,071
I can't stop myself
from going down to her level.
957
01:08:55,206 --> 01:08:56,899
She's always been a troublemaker.
958
01:08:57,039 --> 01:08:59,903
I landed a good few blows today.
959
01:09:00,039 --> 01:09:04,232
We're like two dogs
fighting over an old slipper.
960
01:09:04,605 --> 01:09:06,230
She made me realize something.
961
01:09:06,371 --> 01:09:09,531
When we parted, Chéri and I,
962
01:09:09,672 --> 01:09:15,071
we each lost the only
really honorable thing in our lives.
963
01:09:20,738 --> 01:09:25,761
Beautiful handles, don't you think,
for such an old vase?
964
01:09:25,905 --> 01:09:27,700
Yes, madame.
965
01:09:31,172 --> 01:09:34,968
Maybe I should start a business.
What do you think?
966
01:09:36,538 --> 01:09:38,470
Aline Mesmacker
opened that restaurant.
967
01:09:38,605 --> 01:09:41,298
Apparently, she's making a fortune.
968
01:09:41,638 --> 01:09:43,695
Or I could finance Khun.
969
01:09:43,838 --> 01:09:47,395
I know he wants
to open his own fashion house.
970
01:09:47,538 --> 01:09:53,164
Ugh, what am I talking about?
I've always hated the idea of working.
971
01:09:53,638 --> 01:09:56,433
This was my only place of business.
972
01:09:56,572 --> 01:09:59,936
And the customers have all gone.
973
01:10:08,338 --> 01:10:09,804
It's after midnight.
974
01:10:11,939 --> 01:10:14,030
Go see who it is.
975
01:10:17,072 --> 01:10:18,129
Monsieur Peloux.
976
01:10:18,271 --> 01:10:20,362
There's something
I have to talk to her about.
977
01:10:20,505 --> 01:10:22,630
Madame would be ready
to see you in the morning.
978
01:10:22,772 --> 01:10:25,567
Shan't be more than five minutes.
- Monsieur, please.
979
01:10:26,605 --> 01:10:27,935
Monsieur, no. Please don't go up.
980
01:10:28,072 --> 01:10:30,230
Out of my way, Rose.
- No, monsieur, please.
981
01:10:30,371 --> 01:10:31,564
No. Madame...
982
01:10:31,705 --> 01:10:34,603
No, Madame is not here...
Monsieur, no.
983
01:10:35,005 --> 01:10:36,470
No.
984
01:10:36,905 --> 01:10:38,268
Madame...
985
01:10:38,405 --> 01:10:40,997
I'll deal with this, Rose.
986
01:10:43,738 --> 01:10:46,295
You might, at least, take your hat off.
987
01:10:48,905 --> 01:10:51,666
- May I sit down?
- If you want to.
988
01:10:55,405 --> 01:10:56,735
Do you mind if I smoke?
989
01:10:57,939 --> 01:10:59,996
Do what you like.
990
01:11:02,905 --> 01:11:03,962
Marcel let me in.
991
01:11:04,104 --> 01:11:05,331
Well, why wouldn't he have?
992
01:11:05,471 --> 01:11:08,699
You expect me to change my staff
every time you get married?
993
01:11:08,838 --> 01:11:11,998
- No, all I meant was...
- How long were you intending to stay?
994
01:11:12,138 --> 01:11:14,071
Please note I haven't asked you
what you mean
995
01:11:14,205 --> 01:11:16,398
by bursting in on me
in the middle of the night.
996
01:11:16,805 --> 01:11:20,067
- You can ask, if you like.
- No, I'm not interested.
997
01:11:21,538 --> 01:11:24,595
So you don't even want to know
why I'm here?
998
01:11:26,205 --> 01:11:28,228
I've come back.
999
01:11:29,738 --> 01:11:34,295
It never occurred to you that barging
in like this might be embarrassing?
1000
01:11:35,838 --> 01:11:37,599
You understand what I'm saying?
1001
01:11:43,071 --> 01:11:45,594
Your friend's not back yet.
Is that what you mean?
1002
01:11:45,738 --> 01:11:47,226
That's not of your bus...
1003
01:11:47,371 --> 01:11:49,564
Not in there. How many times?
1004
01:11:52,638 --> 01:11:54,433
What's this?
1005
01:11:54,572 --> 01:11:57,333
- An emerald.
- I can see it's an emerald. I'm not blind.
1006
01:11:57,471 --> 01:11:59,937
What I mean is, who gave it to you?
1007
01:12:00,071 --> 01:12:01,128
No one you know.
1008
01:12:01,271 --> 01:12:03,567
It's beautiful, isn't it?
1009
01:12:03,705 --> 01:12:05,830
Everyone admires it. Everywhere I go...
1010
01:12:05,972 --> 01:12:08,028
That's enough.
1011
01:12:11,905 --> 01:12:13,598
- What are you doing?
- Calling the police.
1012
01:12:13,738 --> 01:12:15,636
Don't be ridiculous.
1013
01:12:26,104 --> 01:12:28,003
Nounoune.
1014
01:12:31,238 --> 01:12:33,466
Oh, Nounoune.
1015
01:12:35,205 --> 01:12:36,831
Say you're sorry.
1016
01:12:36,972 --> 01:12:38,631
Why should I?
1017
01:12:38,772 --> 01:12:41,329
It's that or leave the house.
1018
01:12:42,972 --> 01:12:44,665
- Sorry.
- I can't hear you.
1019
01:12:44,805 --> 01:12:46,065
I'm sorry.
1020
01:12:47,438 --> 01:12:49,301
That's better.
1021
01:12:50,038 --> 01:12:52,266
What's the matter?
1022
01:12:53,038 --> 01:12:54,163
What's happened?
1023
01:12:54,305 --> 01:12:57,669
Nothing's happened.
I've come back, that's all.
1024
01:13:00,772 --> 01:13:02,795
Nounoune.
1025
01:13:14,872 --> 01:13:16,633
Shh.
1026
01:13:21,838 --> 01:13:23,565
So, then...
1027
01:13:25,371 --> 01:13:26,996
Do you love me?
1028
01:13:27,138 --> 01:13:28,866
Yes.
1029
01:13:29,738 --> 01:13:31,260
Yes.
1030
01:13:31,405 --> 01:13:32,894
Yes.
1031
01:13:44,138 --> 01:13:46,161
Do you have a lover?
1032
01:13:48,371 --> 01:13:50,530
Do you or do you not have a lover?
1033
01:13:50,672 --> 01:13:52,262
No.
1034
01:13:53,238 --> 01:13:55,534
Except for you.
1035
01:13:56,405 --> 01:13:58,633
I love you.
1036
01:14:31,572 --> 01:14:33,435
You're awake.
1037
01:14:33,572 --> 01:14:35,299
So are you.
1038
01:14:35,805 --> 01:14:38,236
- What time is it?
- What difference does it make?
1039
01:14:38,371 --> 01:14:41,360
I don't know yet.
- You're back.
1040
01:14:44,371 --> 01:14:46,701
Tell me. Ahem.
1041
01:14:47,971 --> 01:14:50,096
Uh, tomorrow...
1042
01:14:50,238 --> 01:14:53,398
Don't worry, I'll take care of everything.
1043
01:14:54,538 --> 01:14:56,197
Mm?
1044
01:14:56,871 --> 01:15:00,031
We'll try to be as discrete as we can,
1045
01:15:00,171 --> 01:15:04,160
causing as little scandal or suffering
as possible.
1046
01:15:04,305 --> 01:15:08,032
We'd better go back down south
for a few months.
1047
01:15:08,171 --> 01:15:12,035
Somewhere peaceful
so we can look at each other.
1048
01:15:13,238 --> 01:15:17,193
You just go back to sleep
and leave it all to me.
1049
01:15:29,938 --> 01:15:31,632
All right.
1050
01:15:32,138 --> 01:15:33,865
Thank you.
1051
01:15:35,338 --> 01:15:37,634
No, that's too late.
1052
01:15:43,038 --> 01:15:45,470
Isn't there something earlier?
1053
01:15:57,138 --> 01:16:00,468
Isn't there one at noon or 12:30?
1054
01:16:02,738 --> 01:16:05,033
No, that's too early.
1055
01:16:15,071 --> 01:16:16,298
All right, then.
1056
01:16:16,438 --> 01:16:19,529
Two for 3:15, first class.
1057
01:16:20,004 --> 01:16:21,493
Thank you.
1058
01:16:41,238 --> 01:16:43,295
- More to eat?
- No, thanks.
1059
01:16:44,305 --> 01:16:45,827
- Not hungry?
- Not really.
1060
01:16:45,971 --> 01:16:47,130
Take your rhubarb pills.
1061
01:16:47,271 --> 01:16:48,464
I wish you wouldn't fuss.
1062
01:16:54,371 --> 01:16:55,428
We need to talk.
1063
01:16:55,572 --> 01:16:58,060
Let's get it over with, shall we?
1064
01:16:58,672 --> 01:17:00,729
You've come back,
1065
01:17:01,071 --> 01:17:03,663
that's the important thing.
1066
01:17:04,605 --> 01:17:07,798
How could I ever have thought
you were just like all the others?
1067
01:17:07,938 --> 01:17:11,302
Why didn't I realize you were the one?
1068
01:17:11,438 --> 01:17:12,801
The only one.
1069
01:17:12,938 --> 01:17:15,836
The love that comes along only once.
1070
01:17:19,771 --> 01:17:22,431
Now, let's be practical.
1071
01:17:22,572 --> 01:17:25,697
Are you willing to leave
all the arrangements to me?
1072
01:17:26,737 --> 01:17:29,965
Oh, how are we going
to let them know?
1073
01:17:30,371 --> 01:17:33,166
A letter is probably the best way.
1074
01:17:33,305 --> 01:17:35,793
Quite short and to the point,
I should think.
1075
01:17:36,572 --> 01:17:37,901
I'll help you write it.
1076
01:17:38,438 --> 01:17:40,461
We need to get some of your things
before we leave.
1077
01:17:40,605 --> 01:17:41,968
I hope your mother will cooperate.
1078
01:17:42,104 --> 01:17:44,070
Will you stop pulling at the skin
on your toe.
1079
01:17:44,771 --> 01:17:47,862
That's the way
to get an ingrown toenail.
1080
01:17:50,605 --> 01:17:53,503
Don't you have anything
to contribute to this discussion?
1081
01:17:53,638 --> 01:17:55,069
You're like a 12-year-old.
1082
01:17:55,205 --> 01:17:58,069
With you, Nounoune, I'm likely to stay
that way for the rest of my life.
1083
01:17:59,438 --> 01:18:01,063
What do you mean?
1084
01:18:01,205 --> 01:18:02,932
What I say.
1085
01:18:03,071 --> 01:18:05,299
It's true, isn't it? You can't deny it.
1086
01:18:06,804 --> 01:18:10,237
Most people would be pleased
to have the secret to eternal youth.
1087
01:18:11,737 --> 01:18:13,431
Its part of your charm, stupid.
1088
01:18:13,572 --> 01:18:15,595
I don't know why you're complaining
to me about it.
1089
01:18:15,737 --> 01:18:16,964
I'm complaining to you about it
1090
01:18:17,104 --> 01:18:19,536
because if I am like a 12-year-old,
it's your fault.
1091
01:18:19,671 --> 01:18:21,535
My fault?
1092
01:18:23,038 --> 01:18:24,265
Oh, my poor Nounoune.
1093
01:18:24,405 --> 01:18:25,598
I can do without your pity.
1094
01:18:25,737 --> 01:18:28,363
What did you mean, my fault?
1095
01:18:28,737 --> 01:18:31,203
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that.
1096
01:18:32,271 --> 01:18:35,169
It's just that, for me, you were always...
1097
01:18:35,704 --> 01:18:37,670
I was always?
1098
01:18:40,871 --> 01:18:44,497
You sound as if you're reading the eulogy
at my funeral.
1099
01:18:53,305 --> 01:18:58,431
You think you can go on drifting back
and forth between Edmée and me?
1100
01:18:59,737 --> 01:19:01,294
Is that what you have in mind?
1101
01:19:05,938 --> 01:19:08,336
Well, if it is,
1102
01:19:08,471 --> 01:19:12,426
you'll have to learn to look
a good deal less guilty than that.
1103
01:19:12,971 --> 01:19:16,199
Unless she's a lot stupider
than I take her for.
1104
01:19:16,338 --> 01:19:19,735
Or perhaps you think you can get your
mother to keep her under lock and key
1105
01:19:19,871 --> 01:19:23,633
while you wander around
doing what you feel like.
1106
01:19:24,305 --> 01:19:26,328
She's not gonna put up with it forever,
you know?
1107
01:19:26,471 --> 01:19:28,698
Don't forget,
she's Marie Laure's daughter.
1108
01:19:28,837 --> 01:19:31,360
The poison's bound to come out
somehow or another.
1109
01:19:31,505 --> 01:19:33,061
- She may be a...
- Stop it, Nounoune.
1110
01:19:33,538 --> 01:19:36,003
I can't allow you to ruin my idea of you.
1111
01:19:36,371 --> 01:19:37,496
What?
1112
01:19:37,637 --> 01:19:40,069
Talking like that,
you sound like my mother!
1113
01:19:42,438 --> 01:19:44,301
Before I got married, you said to me:
1114
01:19:44,438 --> 01:19:46,733
"Be kind to her, try not to let her suffer."
1115
01:19:46,871 --> 01:19:49,429
That's what you're like.
You're a good person.
1116
01:19:49,971 --> 01:19:53,664
Even last night you said
you hoped I hadn't done something cruel.
1117
01:19:53,804 --> 01:19:55,895
You're above all that!
1118
01:19:59,371 --> 01:20:01,337
Nounoune.
1119
01:20:02,505 --> 01:20:04,834
That's why I've always loved you.
1120
01:20:06,637 --> 01:20:08,126
Why did you come back?
1121
01:20:12,405 --> 01:20:15,064
- I was just starting...
- Well, I wasn't.
1122
01:20:16,938 --> 01:20:17,995
Neither was I.
1123
01:20:20,871 --> 01:20:23,531
I came back
1124
01:20:24,205 --> 01:20:25,898
because I couldn't go on without you.
1125
01:20:29,271 --> 01:20:33,635
You have no idea what my life's
been like these past few weeks.
1126
01:20:34,737 --> 01:20:38,295
Now I know what it is to suffer
because of a woman.
1127
01:20:40,871 --> 01:20:44,633
When I found out you were back,
I was so relieved.
1128
01:20:44,771 --> 01:20:47,067
I thought I could go home.
1129
01:20:47,205 --> 01:20:49,568
Everything would be all right.
1130
01:20:50,537 --> 01:20:53,470
But all I could think about was...
1131
01:20:54,305 --> 01:20:57,702
And then last night,
I came back here and...
1132
01:20:58,471 --> 01:21:00,334
You came back here and...
1133
01:21:04,971 --> 01:21:07,562
You found an old woman.
1134
01:21:15,771 --> 01:21:19,498
Yes, you found an old woman.
1135
01:21:20,904 --> 01:21:22,699
Don't cry. Why are you crying?
1136
01:21:22,837 --> 01:21:25,894
I'm so grateful to you.
1137
01:21:26,305 --> 01:21:27,793
Were you really in love with me?
1138
01:21:27,938 --> 01:21:31,234
Did you really think
I was such a good person?
1139
01:21:32,837 --> 01:21:35,598
If I had been a truly good person,
I'd have made a man of you
1140
01:21:35,737 --> 01:21:40,669
instead of thinking of nothing
but your pleasure and my happiness.
1141
01:21:41,871 --> 01:21:45,201
I wouldn't have kept you all to myself.
1142
01:21:45,804 --> 01:21:47,929
Look at me.
1143
01:21:52,671 --> 01:21:54,637
You're right.
1144
01:21:55,271 --> 01:21:59,294
The qualities you lack,
I expect it is my fault.
1145
01:21:59,437 --> 01:22:05,268
But 30 years of easy living
does make you very vulnerable.
1146
01:22:06,704 --> 01:22:10,761
So no, I never did talk to you
about the future.
1147
01:22:11,271 --> 01:22:13,169
Forgive me.
1148
01:22:13,737 --> 01:22:17,226
I loved you as if we were going
to die the same day.
1149
01:22:18,938 --> 01:22:22,461
I carried you in my heart
for such a long time.
1150
01:22:23,737 --> 01:22:29,136
I forgot you were going to have
to carry your own burdens.
1151
01:22:30,271 --> 01:22:32,532
A young wife.
1152
01:22:33,338 --> 01:22:35,963
Perhaps even a child.
1153
01:22:38,104 --> 01:22:39,933
And so
1154
01:22:41,338 --> 01:22:43,565
you're going to suffer.
1155
01:22:44,404 --> 01:22:46,734
You're going to miss me.
1156
01:22:47,205 --> 01:22:52,694
And you're going to have
to try to find enough wisdom and tolerance
1157
01:22:52,837 --> 01:22:54,962
not to cause suffering to others.
1158
01:22:59,238 --> 01:23:01,204
The thing is,
1159
01:23:01,971 --> 01:23:05,425
now you've had a taste of youth.
1160
01:23:06,404 --> 01:23:11,462
It's never satisfying,
but you'll always want to go back for more.
1161
01:23:17,271 --> 01:23:19,328
You must go.
1162
01:23:21,470 --> 01:23:22,800
I love you.
1163
01:23:22,938 --> 01:23:25,200
But it's too late.
1164
01:23:28,038 --> 01:23:30,197
So get dressed.
1165
01:23:30,338 --> 01:23:32,565
And go away now.
1166
01:24:22,804 --> 01:24:24,963
Chéri felt capsized,
1167
01:24:25,104 --> 01:24:29,468
as if he'd been present
at some irreversible catastrophe.
1168
01:24:35,871 --> 01:24:39,803
And, indeed, far sooner than he
or anyone else could have predicted,
1169
01:24:39,938 --> 01:24:43,301
the belle époque itself
was swept away utterly by a war
1170
01:24:43,437 --> 01:24:47,733
in which he fought
and from which he returned unharmed.
1171
01:24:55,270 --> 01:24:57,429
He's going to come back.
1172
01:25:07,437 --> 01:25:10,335
At the same time,
he was unable to suppress a sense
1173
01:25:10,470 --> 01:25:14,198
that he had escaped from something,
that he was a free man again,
1174
01:25:14,337 --> 01:25:19,202
a feeling he eventually came
to realize was entirely misguided.
1175
01:25:19,337 --> 01:25:21,599
It was many years
before he understood
1176
01:25:21,737 --> 01:25:24,464
that both of them
had been quite unjustly punished.
1177
01:25:24,604 --> 01:25:27,365
Lea, for having been born
so many years before him.
1178
01:25:27,504 --> 01:25:29,527
And Chéri, for having failed to grasp
1179
01:25:29,671 --> 01:25:34,262
that Lea was the only woman
he would ever be able to love.
1180
01:25:40,704 --> 01:25:43,932
And once he was settled in his mind
that this was the case,
1181
01:25:44,071 --> 01:25:46,434
he looked out his old service revolver
1182
01:25:46,571 --> 01:25:49,230
and put a bullet in his brain.