"Jacques Perrin won Volpi Cup as best actor at the 27th Venice Festival for this movie" "Half a Man" "Translated and Subtitled in English by poenir" ""Hide not your wounds to thine eyes and others, hence they will rot..." ""... and death will follow." "Expose them to sunlight and health will ensue. "" "This movie is dedicated to Ernst Bernhard" "How could it have happened?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "When did it begin?" "I'm here." "So maybe you'll stop following me." "And you call it friendship?" "It's becoming a nightmare, an obsession." " So, what do you want?" " Nothing." "I just wanted to say hello." "Well, thank you." "I'm really moved." "I saw you yesterday, as well." "Am I under surveillance?" "I don't understand you." "You do nothing else but spying on me." "You're acting as if I was maybe, a criminal." "Or something like that." "What did you want to tell me?" "Nothing." "So why are you looking at me like that?" "What's up with you?" "Is something wrong?" "I was looking forward to this moment." "You can't make sense of it." "You're unable to understand why I spend my time here." "And so your first thought is that I have something to hide." "But there's nothing to hide." "I come here because it's peaceful." "It helps clearing my thoughts." "Also, I started writing again." "When?" "I've been thinking about it since a long while." "Something unique, important At least for me." "I'm done working on a deadline, for the newspapers and all the rest." " So, what's it all about?" " Something of my own." "Do you want me to do a recap?" "I don't really want to talk to anyone right now." "I'm perfectly good on my own." "You know, I saw her a couple of days ago." "Elena." "And that's how you tell me?" "Were you expecting me to break down and cry?" "Sorry, I meant no harm." "You're all still thinking about the rapoon." "You keep asking Why I did it." "Do you think I did it on purpose?" "Come on, say it!" "No, it was an accident." "Sure it was Just an accident." "So?" "It could have happened to anyone." "What do you want with that?" "I really don't understand why you came." "I need no help." "Nor friendship." "I've always been enough to myself." "And here I am, integer." "Thank you." "You might be doing this to help me, but please stop it, now." "Leave me alone." "Enough with that." "Go away." "Go away!" "It's just a moment." "A moment." "Nothing really happened." "I'm sitting at the table." "I'm working." "I must work." "I must control myself." "How could it have happened?" "When did it begin?" "When did it begin?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "Elena." "Elena." "I love you." "I love you." "Who are you?" "I know nothing about you." "What are you hiding from me?" "A secret?" "A secret." "Hello?" "Hello Michele?" "This is Ugo speaking." "I know you're not gonna answer." "Please don't hang up." "I just wanted to say..." "I'm at the seaside In Elena's house." "Why don't you come over?" "Hello?" "We couldn't always live like this." "Apart from the rest of the world." "We couldn't always live like this." "I love him, sure But not in the way you think." "Not in the way you think." "He's ruining everything On a matter of no importance." "You're uncapable of love." "You ruined everything On a matter of no importance." "But why?" "Why?" "Why did you do it?" "I am scared." "It's over." "Excuse me a sec." "I'm gonna wash my hands." "I didn't know you were friends." "I come here just to run small errands." "Trying to be helpful, ain't you?" "Who sleeps here?" "I do." "From time to time." "You know Elena." "She'll let everything turn into ruins." " And so..." " You're the one taking care." "I do this just to help her." "Why are you making so many excuses?" "You know It wasn't easy for her, too" "Can't you smell the mold?" "She was here." "She asked me about you." "And now, now she's gone." "You have a talent for telling the right things at the right moment." "Have a drink." "So, my best wishes." "What are you thinking?" "One can't help but thinking about everything, can one?" "You never met a woman like her." "You're not serious, ain't you?" "Her hands were cold." "She wanted you to warm them." "Gazing at each other You fell for it." "You poor thing." "But It's good for you to keep playing these games." "Acting like you don't know anything Trying to be helpful Posting her letters Then, every once in a while You earn a caress." "A sugar cube." "You know, like circus horses." "I almost believe it myself." "That's why you were so interested in me." "Now you're overdoing it." "What's happening to you?" "I don't know." "Can't we talk about it?" "We're friends." "I can't." "You can't go on like this." "It's like a poison, don't you understand?" "I do not exist." "I feel like I'm dreaming." "I look at the other people Young, happy How does it feel to be like that?" "What do they feel?" "I don't know." "I never felt it." "The important thing... is to know." "I'm trying, really trying to To understand With all my will All my strength But it's useless." "I can't." "I've never been like the other people." "I've never been young." "I've never been anything." "I have never lived." "I've tried mending for it Tried to justify." "Fine with me." "So talented a writer, all of his life shining in front of him The book he's writing It doesn't exist, I didn't write anything." "Yesterday, in the park I got beaten as if i was a voyeur." "I deserved it." "I had no excuse." "None at all." "Maybe they were just lowlifers." "They must have believed you were someone else." "It might happen." "Only the things I deserve What I deserve..." "Crying is a good thing, isn't it?" "It washes everything away." "I know how it's going to end." "I think that..." "I didn't say this to anyone." "Is it true that I am becoming mad?" "What are you talking about?" "You... you know me." "Do you think that..." "I'm becoming mad?" "Don't say stupid things." "You're just a bit tired." "I might go for intensive care, over the mountains..." "Now, please, don't start over again." "You'll see, we'll find a solution." "Give me a chance." "We'll try together." "If you wish." "I wanted to tell you about it yesterday." "I know a doctor, a friend of mine, he can be trusted We'll go there together." "Ok?" "Promised?" "At least he will tranquilize me." "Yes." "Now rest a bit." "You really need it." "How long since you last slept?" "But why?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" "I have returned here." "They are spying on me." "What do they want from me?" "What have I done?" "How do you feel?" "Do you recognize me?" "It's me." "I came here immediately." "As soon as I knew." "How do you feel?" "How.. do.." "I feel." "I'm Ugo." "Don't you recognize me?" "Sure." "Sure." "I do recognize you." "Everything is fine, you know." "I spoke with the doctors." "It's nothing serious." "Don't you think.." "I figured out what... they're doing to me?" "The life of a man can't be administered this way." "Try to rest, now." "I must... go." "Return." "Realize." "I must go." "I must go." "I've never returned." "I've always been unable to." "My house." "I've always lived here." "I was sixteen at that time." "My mother." "The war." "My brother." "The air raids." "Our guests." "The children." "I was just sixteen." "Marina." "(counting up to fifty)" "Do you know what they say?" "That we got engaged." "Is it a lie?" "Look at them." "They act like lovers." "She's vain and stupid." "Should we play hide and seek, just for a change?" "The only thing I do is thinking about you." "And then what?" "I'm jealous." "Envious Of the things you touch." "Of the air you breathe." "Listen to that." "You're a poet." "And then what?" "The other day... you were giving a sugarcube to a pony" "I would have wanted to..." "You're my pony." "Do you want a sugarcube?" "You're mocking me." "I'm tired of these silly games." "When will this war be over?" "I would like to kiss you." "It can be arranged." "Come on, do it." "Let's go." "They're looking for us." "Let's stay here." "I love you." "I know." "Let's go." "So why do you let me kiss you?" "I didn't kiss you." "So, why?" "Why, why, why." "I'm the one deciding." "If you wish, we won't kiss anymore, ok?" "No." "(unintelligible German dialogue)" "Ah!" "You're still here." "Do you have something to tell?" "Something gentle, maybe?" "Something funny?" "Something exciting?" "Look at him." "He's on a led, like a puppy." "Nothing." "If he goes on like this, he'll end up looking like a stupid, an idiot and a fool." "It's not like I care." "I'm just concerned about how he's going to look." "Since you're my loyal knight..." "Simonetta!" "Lisa!" "(unintelligible German dialogue)" "What a bore!" "Simonetta is in love with you." "She's twelve." "But she's very pretty." "Can you push me too?" "So that that posh lady is going to learn." "And also I'm thirteen, not twelve." "Do you want to have a look at my passport?" "Yellow like a lemon..." "It's only because I had jaundice." "Do you know that I was almost dying because of it?" "A little bit fat..." "Before getting sick, I was almost too skinny." "I was that thin." "How come you didn't go with the others?" "Do you know that we are alone?" "All on our own?" "What are you thinking about?" "Amidst the walls of an old convent..." "It's not that proper..." "Is this your mother's room?" "You wouldn't have stepped in here on your own." "Even if she left." "Who is this man?" "Your brother?" "Everybody talk about him." "I don't like him." "He's not really my type." "I mean it." "Jealous of a photograph, ain't you?" "Here." "I won't look at it anymore." "I'm going in my room." "Will you come and visit me?" "Don't feel obliged to follow me." "Do you like my little room?" "Do you like it?" "Can you wait a bit?" "Don't be silly." "Don't look." "Face the corner." "Face it." "Give me the blouse." "Give it to me." "I'm still naked." "Don't look." "Tell me something." "I would like to be the things closest to you." "Your comb." "Your clock." "Your clothes." "The places where you've been." "Where you'll be." "The people you've met." "The ones you smiled to." "You really know how to say pretty things when you want to." "I'm close to you." "I only think about you." "Are you afraid?" "I won't break if you touch me." "Can you smell the smoke in my breath?" "When we play hide and seek I always stick to you." "I wouldn't want to." "I'm sorry." "I'm ashamed." "Now try and tell me that you don't like it." "Tell me, if you're brave enough." "Hypocrite." "I would like you... to be perfect." "As I imagine you to be." "If I think about the other ones I would have loved it if you never met anyone else." "Never spoke with, Before me." "Who gave it to you?" "A man." "Do you want me to throw it away?" "Don't you want me to talk about the other ones?" "No." "Two, five, ten, fifty I really can't remember about all of them." "What a bore!" "I'm tired of your delicacies." "Of your jealousy." "Of your false prissyness." "You're dying to come to bed with me." "But you're afraid." "And so you want to make it all pure." "Perfect." "You're weak." "False." "Vile." "And now, go away." "What are you doing there, sitting on my bed?" "I told you to go away." "I want to sleep." "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "I was thinking: what if now your mother comes in We didn't do anything." "I see you two are having fun." "What are you doing in this room?" "If I'm not being too tactless." "You have nothing to say?" "No?" "Down on your knees!" "An animal!" "That's what you are!" "An animal!" "On your knees!" "You never, ever, ever understand." "Bend down!" "If you wish... to turn my house into a brothel..." "So much pain." "So many efforts to give you an education." "A morality." "These are the fruits I'm harvesting." "When I got in It seemed like I was looking at the same dirty libido your father had." "Two water drops." "There's no use looking at me that way." "I'm not going to fell pitiful, my dear." "Let's go." "Stand up." "It's not over yet." "What happened?" "You got naked." "You lied together." "You already should know that troubles might arise even if..." "Do you understand what I mean?" "If, let's say so, you had problems of a sentimental nature You could have asked me" "Surely I wouldn't have turned you down by refusing an advice." "Our country is going through tragic times." "Your brother's life is on the line every given day to try and save our honour." "What about you?" "Only thing you can do is following that cheap girl." "You feel no urge to tell me anything at all." "Very well." "You're grounded in your room until I say otherwise." "You'll have time to think Meditate." "A mother's heart is always ready to forgive." "You." "Sit here." "Stop it!" "(unintelligible German dialogue)" "Hello." "It's been three days since you last ate." "Now, please, grab something." "Wait a sec." "How yummy, eh?" "And look at the sugarcubes." "Please, take one." "What about an egg?" "It's just a bite." "Bite and swallow, as if it was a medicine." "You need to eat something." "It's an order." "Here!" "You're worst than a baby." "Come on, eat something." "Good." "Very good." "Eat some more." "Simonetta, quick." "Someone's coming." "Here, Michele, eat everything before i come back." "Hide it or they'll find them, ok?" "Hey!" "Is no one in?" "(unintelligible German dialogue)" "I'll die with my heart broken because of you." "All this time without having any news." "At least you could have forewarned me." " Did you get wounded?" " My heart did." "Don't be stupid." "What happened?" "I behaved nicely... and they sent me to my mommy." "Really?" "I even got a medal." "Another one?" " Really?" " I'll show you later." "Don't you say hello to your brother?" "What are you waiting for?" "She's our guest here Because of the bombings." " Hello." " Hello." "Don't think I'm too keen on forgetting That shameful episode Of which you were responsible." "Your brother interceded on your behalf." "It's him you gotta thank." "Why don't you take him as an example?" "Kind, happy, enthusiast." "Always full of cares." "At times I look at you both and I ask myself..." "How could I give birth to such an uneven pair?" "You're like your father." "The same pride." "The same selfishness." "He said he loved you." "He preferred you." "He went away." "That's how deep he loved you." "He left me alone." "When I first came here, I was still beautiful." "Young, desirable." "I renounced everything for you." "I sacrificed myself." "And what did I get in return?" "If it wasn't for your brother What would there be left for me in this world?" "I hated him." "He was The favourite one." "Always so." "Why not me?" "I hated everything of him." "His motorbike..." "I would have wanted to Stop him." "I felt no pain at all." "No compassion." "Just regret." "As if it was me Who killed him." "My brother." "They left the place." "All of them." "Even my mother Died." "Memories, though, Were still alive in me." "Against me." "Up until Desperation arose." "The time to verify." "To clarify." "Remembering wasn't enough." "I had to re-live it all." "Suffer it all again What I suffered in the past To try and return to life." "Once again." ""What used to give birth to fierce conflicts and scary emotional storms," "Now appears as a tempest, watched from above a mountain peak." "This won't make the tempest less real - yet one's above it, and not into it anymore. " C.G. JUNG" "Translated and Subtitled in English by poenir"