" You don't want to see me again?" " I do." " You don't fancy me?" " That's not it." " Tomorrow, then?" " I can't, I'm working." " Day after tomorrow?" " Maybe." "I'II wait." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." "Georgette?" "Pass me Mr. Raymond." "Find him." "I'II wait." "Is that him?" "Put him on." "What a racket!" "Business is brisk." "Good for you." "Raymond?" "Yes, it's me." "Is EmiIe upstairs?" "You saw him earlier?" "What time was that?" "Was he alone?" "I see." "Any idea where he was going?" "He didn't say?" "He was drunk?" "I'm not worried." "I have urgent news and can't find him." "How's business?" "Great." "Me?" "After my concert I come straight home, exhausted." "Better, improving." "A doctor?" "I can't afford to see a doctor." "I Iook after myself." "I come home early and sleep." "EmiIe?" "EmiIe is an angel." "Perfect for me." "He'II be home soon, he never abandons me." "He must've had business." "Everything's fine." "Have a good night." "Goodbye, Raymond." "Goodbye." "Good luck." "Oh, it's you." "Your brother?" "Of course he's here." "He's in the bathroom." "I'II call him." "What?" "You can't come?" "Charming." "He's so rude." "He says it's not proper to talk on the phone naked." "Of course I'm sure he's here." "Don't be ridiculous, Simone." "It's not my fault he can't be bothered to come." "Your sister says you could make an effort." "He's got a way with words." "He's in the bath and wants to stay there." "I'II talk to you later." "Bitch." "It's not hard to make a phone call." "simply pick up a phone." "Your sister phoned." "I told her you were having a bath." "She didn't need to know you were out, god knows where." "She'd have loved that." "That's why she phoned, frankly." "She kept saying, "You're sure he's there?"" "miserable bitch." "Where were you?" "I phoned Raymond's." "They'd seen you earlier." "Time flies." "I was reading." "I felt like I'd just come home." "I Iooked at the clock and saw how late it was." "Where were you?" "Fine." "You don't want to answer, as usual." "So don't." "I won't interrogate you." "I'm not one of those women who nag and harangue." "Have no fear." "I asked where you were, you refused to answer." "Fair enough." "But from now on I'II do as I please." "while Monsieur is out I'II go wherever I Iike." "Why shouldn't I?" "Monsieur is free as a bird, Madame is locked in the hotel." "I didn't get it, but now I do." "I was foolish, wearing myself out singing in that smoky club, then waiting for Monsieur like a good girl." "But Monsieur doesn't come home." "Monsieur has it easy." "Monsieur knows Madame is at the hotel." "So Monsieur is out gallivanting." "Those days are over." "Now I'II accept dates from men who send me flowers." "Champagne, jazz... the whole works." "Monsieur will see how it feels." "Read your paper, go on." "Or pretend to read it." "I know you're listening, you're just playing deaf." "Newspapers are practical for hiding behind." "But I can picture your cruel face, listening." "That's right dear, listening." "I'II talk." "I'II give you all the gory details." "Nothing can stop me." "Making people wait." "You've got it down to an art." "A form of Chinese torture." "You know all the tricks." "AII the terrible ways to make people suffer." "How I've waited!" "I count to a thousand, 10 thousand, 1 00 thousand." "I count my steps from the door to the window." "I calculate, so my steps count double." "I put on a record." "I start a book." "I listen." "I listen with my skin, Iike an animal." "Sometimes I break down and phone." "I phone one of those awful dives where you surely torture other women." "They always say you just left." "They never know where you've gone." "The barmaid coos like a mother hen, expressing sympathy." "I couId kill her!" "actually I might kill you." "Women have killed their lovers for less." "It's enough to drive any woman mad." "Mad women are capable of murder." "Afterwards I'II kill myself." "I couldn't live without you, of that I'm certain." "But what can I do?" "It's a reflex." "Who could resist?" "I wonder." "Look, I talk and talk." "Another man would've thrown the paper aside and answered me, or slapped me." "Not you." "You read your paper." "Or pretend to read it." "I'd give anything to see the look on your face." "Your devilish face." "I Iove that face, but I'd take a gun and blow it away." "Listen EmiIe," "I've thought it over." "Tonight I've decided to tell you everything." "You're accustomed to me suffering in silence." "But I've had all I can take." "My little scene annoys you." "You weren't expecting it." "You see me as the eternal victim." "But I'm not." "I refuse to be a victim, slowly disintegrating." "I will live on," "I will fight," "I will be proven right." "I Iove you." "It's true, I Iove you." "It gives you the advantage." "You claim to love me, but you don't." "If you did you wouldn't make me wait." "You wouldn't torment me so, roaming the clubs and making me wait for you." "I worry myself sick." "I'm a shadow of my former self." "A ghost." "A veritable ghost," "Iaden down with chains." "Chains you've hung on me." "A ghost banished to a dungeon." "I know what you want." "I know." "You want to come and go, do whatever you please," "sleep with all the women in the world, secure in the knowledge that the one you supposedly love is locked in a safe and you've got the key in your pocket." "To be free as a bird." "How vile." "vile." "Your selfishness knows no bounds." "You're grotesque." "That's what you are." "Grotesque." "Monsieur is calm." "Monsieur wants to prove how calm he is." "Fine." "How about me?" "Aren't I calm?" "You bet I am." "I'm calm personified." "The definition of calm." "Another woman would've snatched the paper and demanded an explanation." "Not me." "I've chosen to remain calm, and I will remain calm." "You're the one who's not calm." "I'm not blind." "Your leg trembIes and your knuckles are white." "You're burning with rage because you know you're to blame." "Where were you?" "I phoned Raymond's." "You'd just left." "With some floozy, no doubt." "probably that horrid fIoozy you sleep with when you say you're working in marseille." "Shut up." "I know you and I know her." "I'm sure of it." "A woman twice your age who buys her clothes at the flea market." "people turn and stare." "That's the floozy Monsieur has chosen." "That's the floozy he cheats on me with." "honestly, if I Iearned you were cheating with a sweet young thing, an innocent girl who'd gotten under your skin..." "I'm not saying I'd be happy, but I'd understand the reasons." "But her!" "An old woman, not even rich, who quarrels with you..." "What do you see in her?" "What?" "I'm asking you." "Anyway..." "Men are crazy." "Crazy and depraved." "And lethal." "You're lethal." "That's the word I was looking for." "You're lethal." "What about my health?" "Have you considered that?" "You don't care if I die." "You'd be relieved." "You think it's good for me to be pacing from the window to the door and back again?" "There was no phone in this wretched hotel." "I had it installed." "Why?" "So Monsieur could phone home and reassure me." "So he'd say, "I've got business to attend to." ""Don't worry, my love." "I'II be right home."" "A waste of money." "Your sister is the only one who phones." "The phone is just another torture instrument." "along with the elevator, the downstairs doorbell, the keys in the door..." "Now there's the telephone." "This telephone I gaze at, stare at obsessiveIy." "And the silence." "Monsieur never stops and thinks - wherever he is, and I prefer not to know " ""She's dying, all alone at the hotel." ""I'II just give her a quick call."" "No." "That's too much trouble." "You'd have to reach out your arm." "Show the woman you're with there's another one at home." "Give up your secrecy and break your silence." "You've dug in your heels." "You're clinging to that paper." "Fine." "I'II keep talking." "Since you're listening." "I know you're listening and you're upset." "The die is cast." "I'II release what's been pent up inside for months." "I'II pour out my heart to you." "My heart is so heavy, it's gorged with sorrow." "I've got so much sorrow in my heart." "It has to come out." "I'II choke on it." "AII your lies." "What a liar you are." "You lie with every breath you take." "You lie, Iie, Iie." "About everything, continuously." "You say you're going to buy matches, but it's a lie." "You're going for a beer." "And vice-versa." "You lie out of habit." "You lie for fun." "The other day you said you were going to the dentist." "I suspect you of lying." "I stake out your old broad's hotel and spy you coming out." "Don't deny it." "Don't swear on your mother's life." "I saw you." "There was no need to mention the dentist." "Though the old broad is probably about as fun as a dentist." "But that's your business." "Do what you Iike." "Back in the beginning," "I was jealous when you slept." "I'd wonder, "Where does he go when he sleeps?" ""Who does he see?"" "You'd smile, and relax, and I began to hate the characters in your dreams." "I woke you often, so you'd leave them." "But you loved to dream." "You were furious when I'd wake you." "But I couldn't stand your blissful expression." "Now when you sleep," "I think, "finally I'm at peace." "He's here." ""I can pamper him," ""caress him," ""gaze at him."" "I don't sleep well." "I almost never sleep." "I tell myself," ""He's asleep." ""He's not out running around." ""I have him." ""I'II keep him."" "I swear you'II drive us to commit a crime!" "Or destroy everything." "You'II commit the crime, pull the trigger, go to jail!" "Can you see yourself in jail?" "I've maintained my composure." "I've spoken patiently." "But my patience is wearing thin." "I'm warning you, if you don't..." "I'II count to thirty." "When I'm done, if you're still reading that paper," "I'II do something we'II both regret." "One..." "Two..." "Three..." "Saved by the bell." "Who's calling?" "No, this isn't Monsieur EmiIe." "He's reading his paper." "It's you." "Yes." "certainly, hold on." "will you deign to take the call?" "It's your old broad." "Asking for you." "No, Madam." "I told him it's you, but he can't be bothered." "I told you, he's reading his paper." "will you take the call or not?" "No, he says no." "There's nothing I can do, Madam." "really?" "really?" "How very charming." "He won't be bothered, what can I do?" "TroIIop!" "Thank you, EmiIe." "That was decent of you." "I didn't know you could be so decent." "I'd have died of shame if you'd spoken to that woman." "I'm a real nuisance, aren't I?" "Forgive me and kiss me." "You're asleep!" "And here I was going soft, believing..." "You're asleep." "Wake up!" "I was talking to you." "Your old broad called." "I thought you couldn't be bothered to speak to her." "If you go out, be warned!" "I'II jump out the window!" "Where'd you go, EmiIe?" "What a relief!" "I didn't see you, I thought you'd left." "What are you doing?" "What's the matter?" "You're getting dressed?" "Going out?" "It can't be." "What did I say?" "EmiIe, answer me." "Say something." "You're too mean, too cruel." "You owe me an explanation." "I wait and wait." "I wait so long it kills me." "finally you show up." "I need to talk to you, but you bury your nose in your paper, and fall asleep." "I suppose you didn't hear what I had to say?" "How could you?" "Why do you punish me so?" "I admit I was harsh." "I know you hate hearing the truth." "Certain truths, anyway." "Say something, speak, open your mouth!" "Don't stand there like a statue." "You're putting on your jacket?" "No, you're not going anywhere!" "I've suffered too much, I won't let you." "Have pity on me, EmiIe." "Have a heart." "Do you have a heart?" "Do you love me?" "If you didn't, you wouldn't come back at all." "You come late, but you come." "You must care." "So it's not over." "Swear to me it's not over." "EmiIe, you have no right!" "Think of all I've done for you." "No!" "That's not what I meant." "I meant, think of our sweet love." "I know I've done nothing for you." "Any small thing I might have done came naturally." "I'm sorry." "I'II be good from now on." "I'II stop complaining." "I'II keep quiet." "I'II tuck you into bed and let you sleep." "I'II watch you sleep." "In your dreams you can go wherever you please." "sleep with anyone you Iike." "Just stay... stay..." "I'II die if I have to wait for you tomorrow and beyond." "It's too painful, EmiIe." "I'm begging you to stay!" "Look at me." "I accept." "You can lie..." "Iie..." "And make me wait." "I'II wait. as long as you Iike." "subtitles:" "Sionann O'NeiII" "subtitles:" "TITRA FILM Paris"