"6 weeks" "6 people 6 aspects of reality" "Per Fly's PERFORMANCES" "Some people might call you a charlatan?" "I don't see myself that way at all." " Hi." " Hi." "Camilla?" "Spit it out." "I want out." "I can't cope." "You were meant to have a script ready." "I haven't got an ending." "I write and write, but nothing ..." "We've sold out." "20 000 seats." "Eva's coming from Stockholm tomorrow." "A huge team is waiting for you." " You've got to take me seriously." " I asked you before the summer." ""Are you quite sure, Marko?" "Yes", you said." " "Venus and Adonis is it!"" " I don't see why we're meeting now." "For you to submit the script." "I'll call you." "I lack method." "I am trying to strip away as much as possible." "I'm searching for purity." "Truth." "And it's rather difficult." "Why did you hire your ex wife and your present partner?" "It's a personal production." "It is about me." "I am realizing that more and more." "That's why I am so scared of it." "Hi." "What are you doing?" "Moving out." "I've found a flat." "I'm moving out." "Stop it." "Not now, Tanja." "I have had enough." "I can't even be bothered to argue any more." "My life is so chaotic right now." "This production is draining all the energy out of me." "There is always a production squeezing the life out of you." " Is this about Eva?" " It has nothing to do with Eva." "I am not going to discuss Eva." "I want a life." "I want a baby." "I've got to get away from here." "Stop it." "I love you more than anything." "I love you." "It's hard right now." "I see that." "I know I am not there for you." "But it'll come." "I just have to finish this show first." "I love you." "Do you understand?" "Do you love Tanja?" "I think so." "But I'm not sure." "I've heard you tell her you love her." "That could be for lots of reasons." "I would like to have the courage to abandon myself to love." "I can feel I need to." "I haven't always been good at it." "Hello?" "Marko here." "Have you got a moment?" "I want to know if you intend to work out your contract." "Are you in the show or not?" " Is that a question or ..." " No, I'm just confused." "I'll appear in it on one condition." "That you treat me like the others." " Do you promise?" " I promise." " Is that all?" " That's all." "OK." " Jens." " I'm at the airport." "Tanja has left me." "It's not going to work." "I don't know what we've got ourselves into." "No, she's not coming back." "This time it's final." " Jens, I can't take any more." " Marko!" "I've been waiting for half an hour." "You're looking great." "I didn't know Tanja was in the cast." "No, she wasn't going to be." "But she wanted to do it and she's just right for the part." "When we split up   you said you'd never mix business and pleasure again." "Well ..." "We aren't together any more." " She's moved out." " Poor Marko." "You can't keep your women." "No." " But she's still in the show?" " Eva, I know what I'm doing." "No." "Tell you what ..." "I am really pleased to have you here." "Are you sure?" "Yes." "I am." "VENUS Love conquers all." "The curtain falls." "Love conquers all ..." " Do you believe that?" " Yes, as a matter of fact I do." "You can't love anyone." "You have no idea what it means." "It must be hard for you." "You've got to tell me the ending." " You know already." " We have an ending." "You die." " Lonely." " Lonely." "And deserted." "Love is not for you." "It can't end like that." " No." " There has to be hope." "There is no hope for you." "You cannot love." "You will die lonely and deserted by all." "OK ... if you've finished all your kissing ..." "Venus and Adonis, the world premier of a piece by Shakespeare." "A poem." "Nobody's been mad enough to put it on before." "I can't wait!" "Marko?" "Marko!" "Venus and Adonis is about a woman who wants to love   and a man who does not and dares not." "A modern conflict." "We don't believe in love." "We reject it." "It's a tragedy." "I have a question." "I think I've been given the wrong script; there are some pages missing." "You have all been given the same script." "I haven't finished writing the ending." "For now we'll use this as a basis and improvise." "We'll see where it leads us." "Have you done any writing today?" "Today?" "No." "... A bit." " What's its theme?" " The theme is love." "Why do you want to work on love?" "I want to investigate whether love exists." "I sometimes doubt whether   it exists." "Whether it's still to be found." "Fondling" "Since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale" "I'll be a park" "And thou shalt be my deer" "Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry" "Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie." "Within this limit is relief enough" "Sweet bottom-grass ..." ""Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."" "She's talking about her pussy." "It's a very sensual scene." "You're too stiff." "Take your hands out of your pockets." " I'd like it to be more physical." " OK." "He's nervous enough as it is." "He is." "You must take the initiative." "Within this limit is relief enough" "Sweet bottom-grass and high delightful plain" "Round rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough" "To shelter thee from tempest and from rain" "Then be my deer, since I am such a park;" "No dog shall rouse thee, though a thousand bark." "Marko, stop it." " What?" " You can't do that." "We agreed   we'd be professional about it." " We're rehearsing." " I am going;" "I'm through for today." "I can't rehearse any more today." "You are despicable." "What are you doing here all alone?" "I got carried away." "Maybe it did get a bit personal." "The director is always afraid   whether the cast will get to where he wants them." "It's two-way communication." "I need inspiration too   in order to direct." "But nothing came to me." "I've got practically nothing on." "You mean use my whole body?" "With nothing underneath?" "I'd like as much body to be visible as possible." "That will work well." " I hate wearing a bra." " We said 11 o'clock." "We've almost finished." "Don't worry about the hem ..." "Isn't it the same material we used in The Summer Visitor?" "That's right." "You remembered ..." "See you tomorrow." "It'll be great." "I knew it would work." "It's good." "And the verses work too." "For Tanja it's difficult with ..." "Tanja." "It's not that she is a great actress." "There is tension that I find incredibly exciting." "I am just so pleased to have you back." "I have missed you so much." "It's something   that really makes me happy." "I have missed you, too." "The thing is ..." "Eva and I have a very special relationship." "And ..." "I love her so much." "I always have." "Hi." "Hi." " What are you up to?" " Working on the script." " How was your exhibition?" " Fine." "I'm sorry I didn't make it." "I simply couldn't get my head round it." "This is the closest we've got to a local ... restaurant." "Marko and Eva and Tine and I came here   when we started the theatre." "Here's to Marko and all his crazy ideas." "To the show, Venus and Adonis, and to love." "To love." "Cheers." "I was thinking: tomorrow's scene with Tanja and I ..." "Hey?" "That's very authentic." "Profoundly so." " Yes." " We fucked at drama college." " What had you expected?" " How clever to put her in the cast!" "I can't stand the sight of it." "You both think I'd want this?" "Is that it?" "Tell me!" "Is this what I want?" "Do you believe things just happen?" "That you have no part in them?" "Do you believe things happen quite beyond your control?" "It's been a lovely evening." " Do you want a taxi?" " I'll walk." "See you tomorrow." "For where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy" "Doth call himself Affection's sentinel;" "Suggesteth mutiny, And in a peaceful hour doth cry" ""Kill, kill!"" "Distempering gentle Love in his desire," "As air and water do abate the fire" "This sour informer, this bate-breeding spy," "This canker that eats up Love's tender spring ..." "Life-poisoning pestilence," "This carry-tale, dissentious Jealousy," "That sometime true news," "Sometime false doth bring," "Knocks at my heart" "And whispers in mine ear" "That if I love thee, I thy death should fear:" "Thank you." "That's all for today." "Adonis is lying over there." "Venus finds him ..." "I imagine she sees him dead from here." "I see blood, lots of blood." "As a symbolic ending." "Now there is hatred and sorrow in the world." "Love is dead." " And misfortune rains down." " It looks great." "What do you think, Marko?" "Happy?" "I think it looks great." "But ..." " It isn't an ending." " It's a great ending." "Adonis dies and Venus loses her great love." "If it was good enough for Shakespeare surely it's good enough for us?" "Why don't you like it?" "Because ... there is no hope." "There has to be hope." "Right?" "I mean ..." "I am trying to make sure there is hope." "By this, the boy that by her side lay kill'd" "Was melted like a vapour from her sight," "That bed must go." " And in his blood ..." " She is really hamming it up." "It's terrible." "Can't you see that?" " Shut the hell up." " It's so false!" "Eva?" "Birgit, get Jens." "Eva, my darling ..." "Somebody fetch some water!" "Call an ambulance!" "Call an ambulance now!" "Since thou art dead," "Lo, here I prophesy:" "Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend:" "It shall be waited on with jealousy," "Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end," "Ne'er settled equally, but high or low," "Stop it!" "That all love's pleasure shall not match his woe." "Jens!" "Jens!" "Jens!" " She's collapsed." " The ambulance is on its way." "It was just to inspire you." "We thought it lacked drama." "You're the one to die." "You are Adonis." "Such things have consequences." "Don't you understand?" "He thinks it's a game." "There are no limits." " Far, far too real." " Far, far, far too real." " Fuck, whore, hate ..." " It all has to be real." "Love and pain." " Damned artist." " Cannibal." " Marko?" " That's me." "I'm the consultant." "Eva has regained consciousness." "She took too much of her medicine." "It can be hard to get right." " Medicine?" "What's wrong with her?" " Don't you know?" "Not a thing." "She has cancer   of the stomach." "She's been ill for over a year." " They're waiting for you." " I'll just finish off here." "There isn't very much we can do." " Is she going to die?" " Sooner or later, yes." "Depends how quickly it's spreading." "I'm sorry, but I have another patient to see ..." "But ..." "I know I am dying." "I've known for ages." "I didn't want to lie there waiting for it." "I wanted to be here." "On stage." "At the theatre." "This is where I live." "This is where we belong." "Don't cry." "Our lives are a quest for the transformation that will release us." "The final transformation is death." "I don't understand." "I don't understand what she's telling me." "You will." "We must not fear death." "It is but a bridge, a crossing point." "How is she?" "She's OK." "She fainted." "It's OK now." "At 12 o'clock " " I'll tell the cast we're pulling the show." "No, you will not!" "We're not pulling the show." "Eva says she can cope and the doctors say it's all right." "It is what she wants." "I can't refuse her." "You can't use that as an excuse." "We're not talking about a show;" "we're talking about real life." " Of course it's about the show." " At 12 you pull the production." "Sit down!" "Marko!" " Did you think you could run away?" " And pull the production?" "Naive." "Hopelessly naive." "What do you want of me?" "In a word: honesty." "Yes." "Or truth." "Since you ask." " Truth." " Truth." " Truth or death ..." " Truth or death ..." "Are you OK?" "No, I am not." "Shall we get together?" "For a talk?" "You'll do that?" "Yes." "Tonight." "You look lovely." "Thank you." "I've ..." "I've been thinking." "I've made up my mind." "I am quitting the stage." "This will be my last production." "What will you do instead?" "Maybe we can start a family." "You'd like that, right?" "If you still want to, I'd like to." "This is for real." "I love you so much that I could die of it." "Liar ..." " Liar ..." " Liar ..." "It's lovely to be back." "Almost like coming home." "Lovely!" "Come and lie next to me." "Yes ..." "Look who's here!" "Thank you for the flowers." " Thank you for the book." " Did you manage to read any of it?" "No." "No more fainting fits." "We were about to rehearse Jacob's monologue." "You can watch from the auditorium today." "No!" "I'm fine!" "I'd like to work if that's OK." "I promise I am fine." "If it's OK?" " In that case ..." " Will it cause problems?" "Not at all." "We'll do the jealousy scene." "Ten minutes, all right?" "Hi!" "Should I have my hair up or down?" "Jette, can we have a moment?" "What's the matter?" "I am back with Tanja." "She'll probably be moving back into my flat." "When did this all happen?" "In the last couple of days?" "We'd been together for five years." "I am confused now." "What will it mean for you and me?" "Eva, you and I once loved each other." "I still do somewhere in my ..." "Do you know what that is?" "Do you?" "It is one great big lie." "The biggest lie of all   is that you and I can love anybody at all." "You suck people dry." "You exploit people." "You are a cannibal." "I'm leaving." "I can't go on living here." " You what?" " I'm going to live with Thomas." "What do you mean, you can't live here?" "Of course you can live here." "This is where you live." "Katrin?" "What's wrong?" "You can do whatever you like here." "Nobody tells you what to do." "Not you, darling." "Katrin, you are the only reality in my entire life." "You really are." "And if you disappear ..." "Wasn't that what we said?" "Lonely and deserted by all?" "Wasn't that what we said?" "Lonely and deserted by all?" "Marko, I've got a new job." "Artistic director of the National Theatre." "And there's another thing you haven't heard, either." "They are going to close the Sortedam Theatre." "It's a political decision." "Artistic director of the National?" "I didn't know they'd close the theatre." "That wasn't why I applied." "It was the way we've been talking." "I didn't want to talk about it in case I didn't get it   and I thought we had enough trouble as it was." "It wasn't relevant until now, and now I am telling you." "Come with me." "Come in." "You'll be able to do the big shows we always talked about." " Marko." "Come with me." " Fuck you, Jens, OK?" "Maybe I am impossible sometimes." "But one thing I've always been is loyal, especially to you." "As a friend and as the manager." "And loyal to the stage." "I still have the same dreams you and I have always had." "All I do is clear up after you." "I don't run away with my tail between my legs." "And congratulations." ""Kill, kill!"" "Distempering gentle Love in his desire ..." "I love her." "We share something you will never understand." " It's no good." " I've tried to learn it but ..." "You are jealous because I've been married to Marko." "You're jealous of me and Katrin." "I tried to build up a relationship with my daughter." "You exploit people." "I despise you, Marko." "Shall we get on with it?" "You can't help me." "I can't stay here because I'll never be happy and never move on." "It's impossible." "Shut up, damn you!" "Of course it's possible!" "Use your imaginations, damn it!" "Get out!" "Get out of here!" "Now!" " What do you mean?" " Get out of here." "Pack your stuff and get out." "Now!" "Get out, damn you!" "Get out the lot of you!" "Is this the best you can do?" "Fuck everything!" "I don't want any more to do with you." "You make mistake after mistake after mistake ..." "And it will get worse and worse and worse; it hasn't even started yet." "By this, the boy that by her side lay kill'd" "Was melted like a vapour from her sight," "And in his blood that on the ground lay spill'd," "A purple flower sprung up, chequer'd with white" "Go away!" "Leave me alone!" "I am not Adonis." " Yes, you are." "Now you are." " I am not going to die." "You should've thought of that before you started." "Adonis dies." "Let's get it over with." " This is the ending." " It's over now." " It's a lousy ending." " Full of sorrow and death." "And pain." "He melted like a vapour from her sight," "And in his blood that on the ground lay spill'd," "A purple flower sprung up, chequer'd with white" "I am not going to cry." "There is no sorrow here." "We must not fear death." "It is but a bridge, a crossing point." "We are already on the other side." "All the time restlessly seeking   for new doors that open." "Every new door that opens   is an act of salvation." "Our lives are a quest for the transformation that will release us." "The final transformation is death." "At first all is chaos and confusion." "Later, when everything has fallen into place, comes redemption:" "On stage this evening just as in life and death." "It is the purest love." "It is a gift that we can feel it." "You can sit down again now!" "Thank you, everybody." "I have spent fifteen fantastic years at this theatre." "It has been my entire life." "I fell in love here." "I got divorced here." "Such is life." "Recently I have felt that life has been passing by   as I sat down there directing my shows." "I'd like to thank you for all these wonderful years." "This was the last performance I'll ever direct." "Thank you all." "SIX MONTHS LATER" "Venus and Adonis was my greatest success ever." "We could have played to packed houses for a year." "Last week the RSC inquired about buying the rights to the production." "So ..." "I am living on my own." "Not with Tanja any more." "We wore each other down." "I have decided to stay single for a while." "It'll be good for me and for Tanja." "I see quite a bit of Katrin." "She's living in Stockholm." "I have started writing again." "The ideas are beginning to come back." "More political, less soul-searching." " Do you still believe in love?" " Yes, I do." " Love conquers all?" " Love conquers all." "It'll come." "I'm in no hurry." "But you have to believe in it or it'll never come." "English Subtitles:" "Jonathan Sydenham"