"You see him?" "His name's Dimitri." "Dimitri is always alone." "Why is he always alone?" "I don't know." "Maybe because he's a bit special." "He's an orphan." "I know that's no reason but it plays a part." "It seems that when he was young, he lost all his family." "His parents and his sister all died at once." "But I don't know how." "Anyway, something happened." " How do you know?" " He's our neighbour." "He lives just above us." "When we arrived, he was already living there." "I often see him in the hall." "Or in front of the building." "We say hello." "Sometimes we talk a bit." "But that's all." "I like to watch him." "I feel he's hiding something terrible within." "I'd like to bring it up, just once, but..." "I daren't." "It's silly." "I know." "Dimitri." "I don't care." "I'll use the pregnancy to slim." " How?" " Babies eat till they're full." "You eat a lot, but babies eat what they need." "If you eat no more than usual, you slim instead of getting fat." "The baby eats your extra kilos." "You use pregnancy to slim." "It's like cellulite." "You know the big one's pregnant?" " Oh?" " Yes." "I know it doesn't show, but... as soon as girls know they're pregnant, they arch their back." "Like that." "Look." "I love watching pregnant women." "It's lovely." "I can guess the shape of their tits." "A pregnant woman's tits are lovely." "A mate and I would guess how many months gone they were just from the shape of their tits..." "Catherine knows I like that." "For the last 6 months, she wouldn't show her breasts." "Nothing at all." " Maybe it was to annoy me." " Shall we go?" "I've no time to waste." "There's work to be done." "Oh, gosh!" " Well, then?" " Hang on a second." "Excuse me." "Are you going to Namur?" "What?" " You're going to Namur?" " Yes, we are." "But we don't take hitchers." "It's a company car." "I've just had a little accident further on." "My airbag went off." "I lost control of the car." "I have to get to Namur." "OK, get in." "No." "We can't take non-company personnel." "In this weather?" "It's a matter of insurance, not weather." "The car's my responsibility, entrusted to me, Philippe Burton." "Before witnesses, I am personally responsible." " Personally?" " Yes." "It's your look-out!" "What's this business about airbags going off?" "Yes?" "Yes, well... on their own?" "Just like that." "I was driving along, and bang!" "Luckily I wasn't going too fast." "But they can't go off on their own." "You must have gone over a bump or hit something." "No, nothing." "A flat road, dead straight, and bang." "It's odd, though." "A manufacturing defect?" "No." "It's not a manufacturing defect." " What is it, then?" " It's a sign." "Telling me I was taking the wrong road in life." "Have you never had a sign?" "Something odd that tells you you were in the wrong?" "Because an airbag that goes off on its own, that's news to me." "It's not a manufacturing defect." "It's a sign." "Weird." "Really." "Go and see your dealer and try to get the insurance." " Yes." " Yes." " Are you in insurance?" " No." "We sell houses." "That's a fine job." "Houses." "All right?" " It's a bit cold." " Shall we go back now?" "No." "It's good to be outdoors." "Anyway, I hear when you die of cold, you don't feel anything." "It's like going to sleep." "Are you still hungry?" " Are you coming round tomorrow?" " What for?" "It's our support afternoon." "I've cooked." "There'll be loads of people." "A support afternoon for the Indians." "I told you." "Yeah, I'll be there." "They're throwing out plants." " Yeah." " Crazy." "There are loads of them." " They're all broken." " Yes, they're dying." "I'll try to find one for my mother." " This one's not bad." " Yeah." "I'm just taking a plant." " No." "Leave it there." " Why?" " We're throwing them out." " Why?" " Because." " Go on, just one plant." " No." " There are loads." "Just one." " No." " Come on, please." " No." " Come on, be nice." "Nice or not, we're throwing them out." " But why?" " Because." "That's the way it is." " I'll take one and go." " No." " Just a small one." " You can't." "Put it down." "Please." " One plant." " Leave it there." "It's broken." "Happy now?" "But that's silly." "They're just plants." "Yes, it's silly, they're plants." "I know, but... that's how it is." "Come along..." "Off with you." "Run along now." " You're wasting my time." " What a jerk." "Excuse me." " Were you at Jeanne's?" " Yes." " There's still people there?" " Yes." "I've been here half an hour." "I keep calling but nobody answers." "They can't hear because of the music." "I can open the door if you like." "I live upstairs." "Are you Dimitri?" "Yes." "I'm a friend of Jeanne's." " Hello." " Hello." "I don't want to intrude... but my dog's gone." "She ran away and..." "A big black dog, so high." "You haven't seen her?" "No." "A big black dog." "Wearing a leather collar." "It's a rottweiler cross, more like a spaniel." "You've not seen her?" "Right." "Never mind." "Could you give me a hand?" "I've a sore throat." "I can't make a sound..." "If I don't shout, she'll never come back." "Could you give me a hand?" "We always come walking here." "She has to be here." "Or else... she's scared." "When she's scared, she won't come." "Could you have a go?" " What's her name?" " Alice." " Alice?" " Yes." "I like that name." "Have a go." "Alice!" "Funny chap." "So what do you do?" "I work for Sweet Home." "I sell houses." "Good business?" "I think so." "I don't know." "I'm in sales." "It's not my company." " And you?" " I package furniture." " What's your name?" " Cathy." " Shall I open the door?" " Yes, please." " Are you going back up?" " No, I don't think so." "You don't like djembe?" "No." "It's not that." "I'll go, then, or they'll wonder where I got to." " Goodbye." " Bye." " Where are you going?" " I'm going around." "There's always a guy at the light begging." " I go round." " You don't have to give every time." "I don't." "I never do." " But he could scratch the car." " Why would he?" "If you give him nothing, he might go mad and carve up the door." "You can't go back." "What do you do?" "Sit there looking stupid." "You'll have to pay for the bodywork." "They're insolvent." "No way." "I just don't like him being there!" "I've a right to go where I want." "So I go round." "Heart line, fate line, head line, number of children." "Which one is the life line?" "The one that starts there and goes down there." "Show me yours." "Yours is loads longer than mine." "That means nothing." "One hand alone means nothing." "You have to compare it to the other one." "It's like a book." "Your left hand is what you have." "It's your memory since birth." "And your right hand is how you influence it, what you'll do with it." "The Indians even tattoo lines on the right hand to influence things on the left." "Your right hand is what you'll do with your left hand." "Your life so far is written on your left hand." "Give me your left hand." "What age were you adopted?" "Four." "You see, at the start of your life, the line splits in two." "One stops and the other carries on." "That's your memory." "Your left hand." "What?" "That was when I was adopted?" "Yes." "But it's important to know you can still influence things with your right hand." "That one can change everything." "That's smart." "That's good." "Right, then..." "You can share the two houses behind." "Right." "Next..." "In front is the entry roundabout." "Two roads leading off." "The road to the left will have three small buildings:" "Les Bruyères." "Four flats per building." "Then, to the right, the terraced houses in groups of four." "Three times four." "I don't get it." "Where's the entrance?" "In front of you." "Look up." "Fuck." "I don't believe it." "Who the..." "The little bastards." "Yes." "The little bastards are back." "Oh, the little bastards!" " I do not believe it..." " We need the surveyor." "That's three times!" "I can't bring in a surveyor every time!" "Don't worry." "I'll put them back on my own." "I'll put the posts back." "We can't help, we've no boots." "That's good." "That's very funny." "Look at that." "Fuck me." "What do I do?" "What can I do with this mess?" "What am I doing here?" "Bunch of shitty little bastards!" "I don't believe it!" "Shit!" "Take that!" "And that!" "Hey, there's a shop." "Do you want a drink?" "No." "Let's get a coffee." "You play an instrument?" " A musical instrument." " No." "I used to play guitar." "Electric." "Don't you play now?" "No time." "But I'd like to put the group back together." " You played in a group?" " Yes. "Black Slide"." "We didn't half have a laugh." "Do you still see the others?" "No." " Aren't you married?" " No." "You're right." "Will he ever stop?" "I'll get him a coffee or he'll croak on-site and I'll feel guilty." "For that, we'd need to find 10,000 euros." "That's not easy." "10,000 euros is hard to find." "And Marco's stopped giving lessons." " Lessons in what?" " Educational psychology." " And he's stopped?" " Yes." "He was disgusted by what happens in teaching." "He'd sooner not bother." "If he's lost his family too..." "That's not Marco." "It's Dimitri who lost his family." "The upstairs neighbour." "Yes." "He was twelve." "They all died at once." "Except him." "I don't know what happened." "I'd like to talk about it but I daren't." "When you know something awful's happened in someone's life, you can understand their sorrow." "When you understand someone's sorrow, you can understand your own sorrow." "He looks nice, though." "He is nice." "How do you know?" "Have you spoken to him?" "Yeah." "When?" "At our afternoon?" " I didn't see you together." " We were outside." "Outside?" " Isn't Jeanne coming today?" " I don't know." "Hello." "Sweet Home." "Hello." "Could I speak to Dimitri, please?" "Everybody's out." "Is it for an appointment?" "Well... yes." "My 6th is a bitch." "Afterwards." "I'll explain later." "Jean-Claude?" "Jean-Claude, can we start?" "Everyone's here now." "Right..." "We spend practically all our time on the road." "So we're potentially in danger practically all the time." "That's why the boss and I have decided to bring you here to hold a... an advanced driving course." "Your instructors and myself, as I've often done this course..." "You'll have a chance to familiarise yourself with all the little traps on the road that can lead to a skid." "What's a skid?" "When you lose control of your vehicle and it no longer does what you ask..." "And in general, the skid is accompanied... by emotions running high." "It's usually high-running emotions... that cause us to lose most of our faculties." "So in order to master those emotions we do this course." "I can't hang about." "I've only half an hour." "Can I have your mobile number?" "Yes." " Go on." " 0 400 94 55 72 03." ""Dimitri"." "Right." "I'll be going." " You want a lift?" " No, it's not far." "Anyway, I'll call you." "I heard that people who squint don't cry." "It's all to do with the ducts." "The tears can't find a way out and stay there." "Her tears can't find a way out, either." "They can't get out." "They stay in." "That's why she looks miserable." " It doesn't hold water." " Why?" "Because I never cry, and I don't squint." " You never cry?" " No." "Have you ever seen me cry?" "No." " Honestly?" "Never?" " Never." "It doesn't mean I hold my sorrow within." "It does." "You hold your sorrow within." " No." " Yes." "Honest." "I mean it." "All the sorrow linked to your past." " You won't let it out." " Stop it." "You have to cry." "Because if you don't cry..." "Stop it!" "I cried enough when I was young." "I don't want to." "That's a school photo." "On an excursion." "Cathy had cut her hair." "By herself." "It took weeks to grow back." "Christmas." "We had a big tree." "She'd made some paper streamers." "She wanted to put them on the tree." "There was no more room for the lights." "It was the year she broke a Wise Man." "She wanted to sleep in her tent that year." "She was back within 15 minutes." "That's the school fete." "Cathy stands out." "We celebrated till late, that night." "That's by the sea again." "The year it was so hot." "You can't tell, because it's raining." "But it was an important day, so we took photos." "That's at school." "We made them all up." "One of my husband's cars." "We didn't have it long." "My chemist's, when I started." "That's Cathy." "The only photo from the orphanage." "Just before she got here." "You can tell it's her." "Orphanage?" "Yes." "She was adopted." "Didn't you know?" "Oh?" "We've not talked about it." "We never talk about it." "She doesn't want us to." "It annoys her." "She looks sad." "Poor poppet." "She arrived there as a baby." "And stayed four years." "When she came here, she couldn't talk." "We thought she never would." "She likes you, you know." " You think so?" " Yes." "I know her." "Do it again." "I'll show you." "You go..." ""If mum knew!" And spit out the smoke." "My mother thinks that Gérard was killed by the neighbour and eaten." "Gérard." " You get it?" " No." " But Gérard..." " Who is he?" "Gérard?" "Gérard's my mother's cat." "Didn't you know?" "You didn't know Gérard was my mother's cat?" "Excellent." "Yes." "Gérard is my mother's cat." "So Gérard, her cat, my mother's, she thinks he was..." "Oh, fuck..." "I'm totally stoned." "If you're knackered you can come up and sleep." "I'm going up." "That's my room." "I sleep on the right." "On this side." "Make yourself at home." "Shall we go?" "Did you see Verbrugghe's wife?" "She wasn't even crying." "She looked bored." "She didn't give a shit." "He wasn't happy." "Verbrugghe is dead." "Yesterday I was teasing him." "Today he's gone." "Weird." "Did I tell you the big one's pregnant?" "It's lovely to see." "Pregnant women are lovely." "You reckon her breasts have changed already?" "That's life, mate." "That's what life's about." "It wasn't suicide." "It was an overdose of lousy life." "I don't want to go like that." "You saw how his wife didn't give a shit?" "Whore." "I'll be going." "No, it's on me." "Sure?" "Yeah." "See you tomorrow." "OK?" "What have you done?" "Want to see?" "Fuck, what happened?" " I changed my life line." " What?" "I changed my life line." "Like the Indians." "Why'd you do that?" "I'm sick of being here." "Now I'm sure my life will change." "What do you want to do?" "Marco and I will try and earn some money." "We're off to Italy in a month." "Picking peas." "You're leaving..." "It's lucky we come to town shopping to see you." "Mum?" "What are you doing here?" "You could answer when we phone." " I'm never at home." " And your mobile?" "The mobile's for work." "When can we come and see your place?" "I'm working a lot right now." "I know you work." "What about the rest?" "You're all right?" "Yes." "No girlfriend?" "Mum..." "Do you need anything?" "You've got enough cushions?" " Yes." " We've new ones in the lounge." "I kept the old ones, you can have them." "I've everything I need." "Your brother had another accident in his new car." "He's got a new car?" "Dark green." "You might not have seen it." "A... what is it now?" " A Chrysler." " A Chrysler." "He backed into those big stones again, you know, in the parking lot where he works." "The third time." "It'll cost 60,000 francs in bodywork." "I mean..." "More than 1000 euros, isn't it?" "Anyway..." "What can you do?" " Is your car all right?" " Yes, no problem." "I saw the house where we were in Velroux." "Velroux." "That's a while back." "Abandoned." "They're going to pull it down." "Oh?" "When did we live there?" "Hang on a minute..." "It was before your communion." "You did your communion at La Calamine." "So..." " Until you were 10?" " Yes." "Something like that." " Shall we go, then?" " Yes." "Dad doesn't like driving in the dark." "I'm not young any more." " Shall we go?" " Yes." "We're parked over there." "I'm over there." "Will you find your way?" "Yes..." "I've my own way of going." "Give us a call now and then." "Your brother too." "I don't want to bother you." "Do what you have to do." " Fuck, life is beautiful." " Sorry?" "I was saying:" ""Life is beautiful."" "Real life." " Are you all right?" " Yes, OK." " Is it going well?" " Yes." "Good." "So when's it due?" "Sorry?" " When's it due?" " When's what due?" "Well..." "I'm not pregnant." "Please..." " You're really not pregnant?" " No." "I'm not pregnant." "Do you feel dizzy?" "No." "Me neither." "Oh, yes." "Hang on..." "Look." " What is it?" " A wallet." "Ugly, isn't it?" "I couldn't help buying it." "It's horrible!" "I'm glad I met you." "You're not like the others." "The others fall in love, or else... they want to shag me." "It's a pain." "It's not the same with you." "We can chat, have a laugh." "In fact..." "You're a bit like my brother." "Shall we go?" "Coming?" "It's true." "When you're dying of cold, you don't feel a thing." "It doesn't hurt." "You feel tired, you lie down, you look at the sky peacefully, and then you go, without realising it." "A bit like falling asleep." "You never remember the moment you fall asleep." "It's all vague." "Subtitles" " Henry Moon for TELETOTA"