"Juliette..." "Yeah, coming..." "I must go back to Paris, can you take me?" "They're even flakier and meaner here." "I'm becoming racist against this city..." "Soon I won't even put up with the immigrants!" " Will you take me?" " Why?" "Because I've the world's fastest convertible?" "I work tomorrow." "You'll be back this evening." "I can't wait, I must go back." "It's like wanting to throw up." "Like when I was a kid, at Epiphany..." "I got the bean in the cake." "I wanted to be queen, but I swallowed it so no one would know." "Of course, it stuck." "I was embarrassed." "Now, I have the same feeling..." "As if I was being watched..." "I don't know what sort of bean it is..." "It's been there too long, it's coming up." "Have a drink, it'll go away..." "For a year I've been having drinks..." "I even tried to have fun, but here!" "I must go..." "I woke up with a word on my mind, like silly music blocking the brain..." "Cucurbita!" "That in your head when you wake means you're hopeless!" "After a while it got on my nerves, I'd forgotten the meaning..." "So I called François, woke him up he said straight off:" ""Cucumber, squash" ""melon, pumpkin!" and hung up..." "I guess he took it as an insult!" "As I'd thought:" "Vegetable, squash... depressing..." "How could I carry around such dumb words..." "They're of no interest..." "Then I decoded:" "Cucurbitas!" "Cul - bite - basta!" "Cul = butt, bite = penis, basta!" "Not much of a discovery!" "A penny for your thoughts?" "A shoulder..." "A strong shoulder." "You can lean against it, even if you push it holds up." "The shoulder decides, you, you just complain the shoulder doesn't move..." "I better find the guy to fit it..." "If all you see in shoulders are guys to seduce, it's no good." "We agreed:" "You need a nice guy, comforting, nice to sleep with after." "You'll look for that in the city, huh?" "I don't know why I'm going..." "The guy with the shoulder's waiting?" "Bitch!" "You've an appointment for sure!" "No appointment..." "Been here before?" "Two years ago." "But the guy wasn't the shoulder type." "He had a weary first name, André." "But he was a good guy." "The hotel for real secrets..." "You never mentioned this..." "Don't worry Juliette, it's OK." "Wait!" "I saw Pygmies do that on TV." "It's for reassurance or protection." "At least I think so." "Thanks, see you soon!" "Morning, does Mr Troussotzky still stay in the hotel?" "No, we haven't seen him for a long time..." "Never mind, thank you." "Recognize me?" "Yes..." "How come you're here?" "I just arrived." "What time is it?" "2 o'clock." "If you like I'll come tomorrow." "It's funny two minutes ago I heard you knock." "It must have been you." "I didn't knock." "I know..." "How come you're here?" "An hour ago I didn't know I'd see you again..." "And here I am!" "And I just came." "It's not so strange, if people have a correspondence." "If you knew how I've dreamt of this What correspondence?" "No, I don't say it's very normal or ordinary." "I'm surprised I came to see you, at this time!" "But I recalled what happened to us..." "André and you and me." "And I was drawn here, as to a trap." "Absolutely..." "Drawn by you." "Of course I went where you were." "I couldn't miss you..." "It's funny..." "Me too in my dream someone sucked at my heart." "Like a pump sucking me in..." "It got me out of bed, that's why I woke up." "You were the pump." "Just to think of it gives me goose pimples... what are you doing now?" "Still teaching, French, but in Berlin." "I couldn't talk to anyone..." "I decided to return to Paris for a few days to learn to talk again." "You see, it works!" "I drove from the airport to André's apartment then I wandered in the streets..." "Not knowing why." "I took a taxi to see a friend..." "Suddenly I gave the driver this address, without a word like a foreigner." "I erred around the hotel..." "Then I came in and went to the desk and without thinking asked for you... you were here!" "It's better than the imagination!" "They just let you come up?" "André worked here, he was a regular..." "Especially at the bar." "So they knew me..." "You too, certainly." "Yes, certainly..." "Yes, certainly." "They'd seen us together." "You know..." "I liked you, of course..." "But I didn't even have your address..." "I'd heard nothing of you for so long..." "Men are lucky..." "You're even more lovely!" "What brought you here?" "You don't understand?" "...He's dead..." "I didn't know where to find you..." "I needed you!" "Let me be... why didn't you keep me with you?" "You're not mine anymore..." "You're not hers either..." "You didn't expect to find me!" "You're leaving?" "Yes." "I'm useless!" "You came for help and I make a show of myself." "I fall about, not even into your arms..." "No, it's I who came at night with no warning." "It's my fault..." "I know I'm brutal..." "But in your room, it all came back." "As if with you I found myself..." "And seeing you, I also found him." "Before I didn't see him, I should thank you..." "Oh, don't bother." "You were there and I couldn't see you." "I'm useless..." "I had to come, I was so glad to find you!" "I'd forgotten that what I had to say was so painful." "I didn't know how to talk to you." "Between me and those I love there's always a glass wall." "I'd like to throw myself into your arms." "No, don't go..." "I couldn't share with anyone not even you." "I wanted to keep his death for myself." "It was unfair to you..." "And maybe to him..." "That's why I had to find you tonight..." "Because I could no longer stand the unfairness." "I was in such a state of unconsciousness." "I feel I've woken at last, not knowing the meaning." "I came here as if to meet him, I'm sure of it." "The egoist is me, it's not you..." "After a nightmare year we finally meet..." "André died last year?" "Yes." "23 July... what d'you want?" "You talk of friendship!" "What did you come for?" "Help?" "A year late!" "I don't believe in friendship..." "Not between us." "I don't find you friendly to me and I don't feel friendly to you!" "That's a year not knowing..." "It's a year of lying!" "You've changed somehow." "Surprised I've changed?" "You shouldn't have come..." "You'd have liked not to know and not to have seen me." "It's too late!" "Earlier you touched me..." "now it's over!" "Don't think I'm watching you or running after you!" "You can go!" "Why should I?" "I don't care what you think." " You got home?" " Yeah, yeah... want me to come back?" "Don't bother to pick me up, I'll manage... what's going on?" "His wife turned up..." "I don't care about her" "I knew her well." "Someone you've lied to so much you know quite well..." "I'll go to see her, tell her everything." "She'll hear it, she wants to know." "She came to say:" "He's not your corpse... but she must know I meant something." "If not she wouldn't have come..." "André is in my mind and now I can keep him without shame..." "He's the only man who meant anything, d'you see?" "I'm telling you this, but I should tell her." "It's more sense to talk about him with her... d'you see?" "He died because he stopped loving me." "That's why they all die..." "My love to you..." "Mine to you." "Take care!" "Looking for someone?" "What d'you think?" "No use leaving a note." "No one's been there for a year." "That's OK!" "Morning, room 207 please." " Any messages?" " No..." "Is Mrs Troussotzky staying here?" "Yes, room 201." "I was expecting you." "I knew you'd come." "I was sure you'd find me." "I might have missed you." "It's no game, I'm not here for that." "It's I who came..." "I came and I was right..." "I predicted you." "Not at all imagined, but predicted." "There's deep correspondence between some people." "With you, it always answers." "All this fuss about me isn't funny..." "I'm in no mood to be amused." "You predicted me..." "you were right..." "Is that it?" "Right about what?" "Tell me!" "Last night if you hadn't opened the door, I might never have knocked." "Today you knock at mine, that's the fuss about you!" "Why reject the obvious?" "You recalled the past, you opened your door." "And now you knock at mine." "What bothers you?" "Why refuse this friendship?" "Friendship, not a great word, but I know what I saw." "You can't take that away." "I saw, I still see..." "You, last night..." "I see the pain..." "Yours..." "That of a real person..." "And this real person cannot hide who she is..." "I regretted all night I had lacked the strength and hadn't come to see you sooner." "There were such frightful times..." "Only you could have helped me..." "I'd have been useless..." "My nerves are all to pieces... and what's inside is empty." "Collapsing into the carpet, like last night..." "It means nothing." "It means nothing anymore." "I'm not more sensitive I'm more emotional." "Not about André!" "I don't believe you." "Is it a question?" "Should I answer?" "I know I've no right to demand..." "The year you spent with us was the best of our lives..." "You saw us totally happy." "Me... happy..." "Yes..." "You came, you were a child to us..." "You seemed truer than us, one often thinks that of others." "You were freer, had more grace..." "We clung to you as to a dream figure." "Your insolence gave him such pleasure." "He was delighted by you..." "You were rather like he'd been at your age..." "More of the animal in you." "You were proof he'd turned out badly." "Above all, although we knew you were passing by, you became essential." "When you went, he collapsed." "He looked for you as for a thing... like a lost object." "He knew you wouldn't come back." "He woke in the night in tears." "I couldn't do anything for him." "We knew your life no longer needed ours." "I don't want reproaches." "That's why I never stay anywhere..." "And why I never return." "I don't want your reproaches." "I know why I left..." "Yes, you'll tell me." "André and I thought we were OK, we knew it wasn't working." "He said you'd put off his downfall." "Maybe it wasn't so great before you came." "We hoped for a letter, even a card... we soon knew you'd not write." "I wasn't there in my mind, where you'd known me..." "It was no use to go on... with anyone... and you say nothing in writing even less on the phone." "You must see to talk." "And people who write fine letters, I never trusted..." "Yesterday I didn't know you were here." "I went to the apartment looking for you..." "It was silly..." "I left, I couldn't stay after the accident." "I didn't tell you, you were so upset!" "His car crashed into a tree..." "It happened near you, on the road to your place." "Maybe he'd thought of seeing you." "It's likely he said:" "I'll go see Suzi." "I wasn't there!" "I've not been back in 2 years." "Take me there." "I want to see where he died." "What for?" "I couldn't go there." "I'm a coward and I don't like it." "With you I know I can do it." "Now?" "Right now, someone lent me a car." "If I'm with you I'll not be afraid..." "On the contrary!" "Having found you gives me strength." "Go to your room, I'll meet you in 2 minutes, the car's nearby." "Don't think you scare me!" "I like you!" "I know it all by heart, but I can't look it in the face." "You get me, look it in the face?" "Open the glove compartment, there's an envelope." "Photos of the accident... open it!" "I had to do it!" "I don't want to." "Just photos of the car, taken after the accident." "I don't want to see!" "If you don't look, we'll never find the place, I can stop..." "I thought you knew it by heart!" "He didn't have a chance..." "It's silly, but I don't recognize it." "I don't see the tire marks on the road..." "You didn't look!" "You brake if you see a tree coming at you!" "Tire marks a year later, you dreaming!" "It's in the police report, so he braked." "No tree, no traces..." "Maybe André's alive, waiting at home... why not?" "You're not funny, it's no place to joke..." "This is it, we arrive and you want to go." "You're not up to much, it must be here." "Go on laughing like a fool, I'll split!" "Of course I laugh... why don't I feel anything?" "Why no pain?" "Why nothing?" "You think too much..." "It affects me to be here, I don't like it..." "I need to understand." "I must know against what or whom my husband came to die." "What's at the end of 17 yds of braking?" "D'you know?" "No!" "He was worn out, fell asleep, it's that dumb!" "We weren't there." "Easy!" "Suits everyone!" "André lost in his sleep, couldn't find the way out and!" "No more André... 1 mile from you..." "Enough of your allusions!" "You know he'll never return." "The first time I cried since he died..." "It had to be with you..." "I was right to come, it meant something." "Forgive me..." "It wasn't against you..." "I've a meeting, I'm late..." "I can't cancel it..." "Tomorrow I'm off to Berlin." "I'm late..." "You ordered a meal in my honor!" "I was watching TV..." "I'm tired, I should go to bed..." "A girl, you don't know her..." "Fanny..." "A nice name she doesn't deserve!" "She used to sleep with André, behind my back..." "It was her I had to meet." "Now she refuses to see me." "She enjoyed the flesh but the corpse scares her, she's hiding." "She's afraid of infection." "Women have sharper noses than men." "She may have sniffed death, if she's smart." "But I'll get her!" "I'll look her in the eye and see fear, it'll suffice..." "You came to seek revenge!" "No, it's silly to seek revenge." "Despite the urge..." "Just let things happen, be there at the right time when punishment falls... whatever it may be... illness, any sort of bad streak to punish bad manners." "And as you do nothing, you are innocent you can look the other bitch straight in the eye..." "Her dirty deeds can never be undone." "True resentment accepts no payment, it should last forever..." "May I have a drink?" "Any proof?" "No lack of it." "She didn't come to our meeting." "I waited outside until now, she didn't come home she's afraid to meet me, proof, no?" "This doesn't suit you." "Me, so kind, so gentle!" "You kidding!" "She's afraid of you..." "If she's nothing to blame herself for?" "I don't know..." "If she loved André, it was hard to split it must upset her to see you..." "Your name makes her tremble." "It's understandable." "Maybe she's jealous of you." "Had you known for long?" "You think I'm dumb?" "You see me giving my blessing!" "I don't care how you found out!" "Forgive me..." "I found letters, after André died..." "Letters scattered in books..." "Or rather I should say:" "Abandoned." "Pitiful letters I tried not to tear up." "And she refuses to see me... why be afraid?" "I won't seek revenge or hurt her she's punishing herself, better than I could." "Anyway she doesn't exist, never did." "When André loved, I knew it at once." "No, she soon bored him." "In 3 weeks she was through, worn to a shred..." "Just read the letters!" "Endless reproaches, reproaches and complaints." "And he kept all those weepy letters." "You know why?" "Because he didn't care." "Maybe he wanted me to find them." "Why seek revenge?" "If he'd read them, you'd have laughed." "No, sung them, playing the piano." "He'd have sung the most piteous parts to a score he was studying..." "He sang too?" "After you left he sang to me." "Tears in his eyes, but he sang." "Something almost cheerful..." "It was awful!" "He'd have sung for her if she'd counted at all." "She did not..." "The worst is she doesn't know, who did he cheat of us two?" "You seem happy to know, you can't know enough." "I cling to what kept André alive." "If he didn't love her, it doesn't count!" "Someone must remember." "You need her for that, she has to talk, confess?" "Like you!" "I need her, like you." "But she doesn't matter..." "Feelings can change." "I had an idea about her then another after reading her letters." "I wonder if I want to see her." "Tonight I feel she's a bitch, it could change..." "Above all if I thought she meant nothing to him which I do..." "I'd just say:" "I know about it." "I can't keep your letters, I return them." "I don't tell her André's dead, I dismiss her." "But if I see her love is still there she could move me." "If she can express it at the right time without hurrying" "not to be rid of it..." "She could move me..." "And if she says it all at once, awkwardly?" "You think she could?" "Anyway it's the wrong time." "I don't know what you say to a drunk..." "I shouldn't have drunk before coming here." "So you didn't come to see me?" "Does it matter?" "Everything matters." "All the trip I thought of you..." "I'll stay with you tomorrow, I won't let you go." "You're not leaving?" "Not right away." "Don't worry I won't burden you with old resentments..." "That's kids' stuff..." "I can't go in now... we're in no hurry..." "Not worth going if no one expects you." "If you like I'll go first that way someone will expect you." "I'll wave from the window..." "You know, I'm afraid he came back..." "The dead are awful you don't accept their going away but you can't face to see them again... we'll see if you can sleep there..." "I won't sleep..." "But let's go, OK!" "He's not here, I'm not afraid anymore." "This was your room, you never slept here..." "I did..." "Once when André went to Budapest." "If not, I preferred going out partying..." "You came to dinner that night." "When he called, he was pleased you'd stayed." "I dared not say we'd drunk a bit and you'd gone to bed..." "I don't recall!" "I woke you up in the little room." "You were drunk but you'd taken his pajama." "On the phone you said:" "I said a prayer for you, to protect you and also for Cécile..." "You sent love and asked:" "Is Budapest far?" "Drunk maybe, but pajamas, I never could wear them!" "I remember." "A blue flannel pajama." "You were pretty, it was too big!" "It should be there." "I'll give it to you if you like..." "No, I don't want it." "He knew we'd drunk a bit, he was cool with me." "But the pajama, I heard he liked that." "Really, I don't remember..." "A pity, it's funny..." "I believe you." "He kept a bunch of small pink roses in the room, it's still there." "I was rather jealous of his admiration for you." "After you'd gone he usually left the light on..." "I remember the first day." "As I came in I heard laughter..." "I found you here." "You'd come to sell a dictionary" "André had made you coffee." "You made him laugh, you refused to sell anything, so he wouldn't sign a contract..." "The dictionary was a pretext to sell the encyclopedia." "On the encyclopedia I had 40°%, on the other nothing." "Not a good deal for us or the client!" "We three had a drink." "I liked you at once." "You called your friend..." "Laurent..." "Yeah, he was a friend..." "We weren't really together... well, a bit..." "He didn't fill up my life..." "Then we met almost every day." "You took us your clubs, we liked it." "We didn't introduce you to our friends, we had fun with you." "No one asked how long it would last." "Then I don't recall except you went off, you and I never talked again..." "We weren't that close..." "The time wasn't right and he was there..." "You and I used the same mirror." "Intact, he said you were virginal..." "He didn't seem surprised when you left." "Perhaps you couldn't remain new for long with us..." "Just because we're here why use the imperfect tense?" "Your read Proust?" "No." "He says a novelist uses the imperfect to cause pain." "His example is a woman's waist..." ""She was a woman" ""whose waist, thickened by her weight, had lost...", etc..." "No sooner do souvenirs reappear than... the imperfect settles the matter." "I mustn't say:" "He said you were happy, he said you were intact..." "The imperfect is a criminal tense..." "André is in you." "You talk like he did." "Now I see him better." "Before you were quiet." "You tried not to be abrupt." "Now you don't try." "You don't try to please." "You don't wonder what I think of you." "At least you don't seem to..." "It bothers me since you came back." "Usually I like it." "I'm always like that." "I only like that in me..." "I think I'll sell this..." "Thinking I'll sell will help me sleep." "Your little roses have wilted..." "So we can sell!" "It's not my room!" "I'll go to the hotel to pick up my stuff." "See you later..." "I'll be fine." "I'll try to stay alone here." "Please..." "a coffee and a croissant." "You got my message?" "I was afraid you'd not come." "We've a guest..." "Come in!" "Stefan, I invited Suzi to meet you." "Careful, she'll unmask your faults and bad thoughts very fast!" "I'll only believe her." "A tough day for you..." "If you say nothing it'll be hard to unmask you." "I could easily talk nonsense about myself." "Don't bother..." "It's embarrassing to talk of oneself" "I'd rather badmouth Cécile..." "You!" "Talk honestly about yourself if possible!" "I'll be back..." "I don't want to trap you." "Tell me some visiting card stuff, then change the topic..." "Safe stuff, work..." "Even if I'm not a specialist." "I like what I do." "What d'you do?" "I work in a center for people who've been tortured." "Men and women who usually come from Latin America." "Fight to get them work, a home but the hardest is to cure their guilt." "Deep down they feel their torturers were right." "Help them find their hatred." "It may seem strange but they can't always do it." "A little charm, that's a heavy introduction..." "I answer questions politely." "I talk about me!" "He's lucky to do what he likes." "As a kid I wanted to be a goalkeeper, never made it!" "Call a taxi..." "I hoped he'd say what I mean to him, it's too soon..." "Stefan is like something strong approaching..." "If I can't grab it..." "I'll lose it..." "That's why I want to know what you think." "He has a joy of life André would have envied." "I dream of a honeymoon!" "It's nonsense." "A couple with me as part of it, on honeymoon." "If I was married..." "Last time you wore black now I see you in white, I prefer that." "It doesn't sound like it..." "Compared to you, I'm slow." "The change in clothes is rather fast, but the color's right." "I don't know." "I hardly know him." "Me even less!" "I don't want to discuss him it's silly!" "He seems very nice." "You don't need me." "Yes, don't let me down." "I need my own life, wander around..." "By myself." "Even walking in a forest with someone bores me." "Someone calls your name, when you don't want to answer..." "When I called you, you turned..." "I need you more now, you don't realize." "He doesn't count, yet." "That's not true!" "Why say that?" "Stay with us, just tonight." "Taxi's coming..." "It's better than being alone in the hotel." "Caramel sundae..." "The straws..." "Perhaps it's a day to see a play... a comedy of manners, fine character study..." "Marivaux, Molière?" "Suzi, what d'you say?" "No theatre, no way!" "The last play I blocked my ears to shut out the braying!" "I prefer real people." "She's difficult!" "What would you like?" "Nothing, I'm fine for the moment..." "I'd like to sleep in the open air." "Not here." "On a mountain." "We'd climb all day..." "Singing Tyrolean songs?" "Suzi can you yodel?" "Can we take her to the world's Rooftop with such a yodel?" "If someone heard us..." "I could stay in the hotel, in the car..." "In the morning there'd be 2 guys on horseback in fine red uniforms..." "They'd wake us:" ""Hi guys, hi ladies!" ""Have a good day!"." "In order to wake you, you'd sleep in your sleeping bag..." "She is difficult." "Shall I ask you an African riddle?" "A man goes to market with his wife, mother and mother-in-law." "The rainy season, they cross the river in a pirogue." "In the middle of the river a crocodile stops them." "He gets in the pirogue." "Panic aboard..." "The crocodile says:" ""I'll let you go" ""but give me one of your women."" "So..." "The riddle:" "If you're the husband who do you give up?" "I don't want the mother-in-law, she's a turn-off." "Must I take a woman, not the husband?" "The husband's safe, the crocodile wants A Woman!" "With 3 women he's not safe." "It's forbidden, so..." "Suzi, you choose." "I don't want to be eaten..." "the wife." "I take the mother... well, I take the mother-in-law." "But if the husband gives the mother-in-law his wife leaves him." "She doesn't care as she loves him forever." "So the man asks his mother:" ""Who do I give?"." ""Your wife, she's not worth a penny"." "No, I negotiate:" ""Why eat one, take three."" "I tip up the boat and swim ashore." "The crocodile's on a diet, one woman a day." "He laughs, swallows the wife because she's tender." "You're eaten!" "Who says he's hungry, maybe he wants a friend." "I live with him and end up with lots of super shoes..." "I want to throw up." "Don't worry I'm not pregnant." "If so, it's very recent." "Suzi can hear it all she has that gift." "No reason to keep secrets from her." "She was always one of the family." "She can bear vulgarity." "If I listen to your meanness, I'll fall ill, so someone cares for me." "He'll care for both of us." "We may not want to get better." "Stefan, could you start with tea?" "Take him, you can't stay here." "You can't stay here alone." "Why try to fall ill?" "You'd do better to hang on to Stefan." "You weren't so keen!" "At first I didn't like it but he's nice." "You like him?" "Yes." "Then take him." "I like him too, a lot but I'd rather not see boys for the moment." "You noticed Suzi likes you" "I hope you're flattered." "So take a walk for an hour, enjoy yourselves." "I didn't say that!" "I'd rather go alone." "Tell me what use I am here?" "Yes." "Without you he'd have left." "Certainly not!" "If you go, he'll go, I'm sure." "Without you I'm not sure he'll be back." "Go on..." "Don't lose him." "Do the shopping for tonight." "See you!" "I'm fine, don't worry, I'm fine..." "I'm afraid she'll wake up and blame us for her sorrow." "It almost happened..." "I'd understand..." "It's not easy to be rid of someone so fast." "Someone like André." "That's not it..." "I met Cécile a few weeks ago." "She had fun thanks to you." "Thanks to me" "I wonder how..." "You reassure her, and me too perhaps." "Believe her if she says she's OK, she doesn't pretend." "I'm afraid she'll crack up..." "It's funny, she's unlike any other girl I fell in love with..." "You're right about Cécile, I'm the crazy one." "I know nothing about you, tell me... what d'you like about yourself?" "It's disgusting to talk about yourself, nothing turns me on..." "Yes, one thing the smell of my armpits..." "Apart from that, no comment." "Alone, you're nothing..." "You're like an atom..." "Ready to attack." "I'm a little atomic..." "If not what use are we?" "Hurry up, or she'll start wondering..." "She'll ask what you think of me." "Don't worry, I'll say nothing bad!" "I can't do anything." "I don't feel at ease with you." "A sort of invading discouragement." "It starts with me and touches everyone." "This afternoon I was happy, now it began again." "You'd be better at the hotel with him, take my room." "Cool it, we won't leave you..." "Not him, if he goes, I stay." "I don't need anyone!" "While you were out I woke up shouting." "I dreamt you were making love." "Then I knew that if you were I wouldn't be unhappier." "It wouldn't bother me..." "It'd bother me!" "See how my love looks at me see how he hates me!" "Look, I never saw that before..." "Don't forget to warn us, when we can use your permission!" "I give you back your freedom..." "I'll see you home." "That's it, say goodbye..." "You'll look after my love." "Stefan stay there!" "You stop it!" "Say goodnight." "Come and kiss me..." "Then you can kiss him if you like." "And this one I wanted..." "I really wanted him, you..." "Help me instead of judging me." "Things were going OK why make a scene?" "To frighten us or to turn us against you?" "What's wrong?" "She threw me out." "She calmed down." "Impossible to talk to her, a wall." "A note for her..." "I told her to take care of you and of herself..." "You can't complain, I was cheerful all evening." "You lectured me enough." "She's not well." "What can I do for her?" "It's quite simple." "She slept with you she can't take it." "You forgot the guy you didn't know." "Isn't that it?" "She may be tired, but he's tougher dead than you alive..." "I'm not arguing..." "Cécile, I may have seen her more simply." "I don't like your attitude." "Neither do I." "But it's not your fault." "The dead are gangrene, they devour us..." "André lives in memory..." "You seem to like that." "Unless I simplified that too..." "You couldn't screw in Berlin, I had to be there." "Problems in people's minds are not my job..." "I'm neither priest nor sorcerer, it's not my job." "You should see Cécile tomorrow." "A relay like in hospital..." "Cécile has an angry mind." "We'd never be too many to calm her." "She's involving us in a story that's not hers and no longer mine." "I don't count because I didn't know the dead man!" "When you're through with the cadaver let me know." "What's great is she makes us fight!" "That amuses her." "Why?" "I should find you seductive and only think of you?" "I'm not mad at you..." "Doesn't sound like it." "Don't you find me seductive?" "Yes..." "Very..." "Seductive and almost panicked by it." "As if you'd lost the habit." "She deserves me to seduce you." "Go away..." "We don't have a chance..." "Don't regret it, we hadn't a hope." "We both figure large in her mind." "She excites herself in the bathroom thinking of us." "It turns her on." "Piss off!" "It's so disgusting." "Is she in love with you?" "She may be." "What matters to her is to trap me..." "And the trap is you." "Anyone else, I'd have slept with" "I'm not mean about that so it's just what we're not going to do." "Trap or not I'm in love with her!" "I'll help you retrieve Stefan." "You're both so dumb!" "Don't mention Stefan to me!" "It's not against him, but I can only think of André." "May I come in?" "Yes, of course." "Not for long, please." "Why did you throw him out last night?" "We were in bed, Stefan asleep." "I couldn't sleep, I felt André calling me..." "From the little room." "So I quickly got rid of Stefan and went in..." "I knew at once he was there..." "I don't like your story!" "It was so familiar I wasn't afraid..." "I had to get in the bed to sleep safely." "Because he was there." "So I went to bed and I fell asleep." "You don't believe me, but it's true." "Later in the night I woke, I was cold." "I needed someone to warm me, to hug me and I felt someone next to me!" "You mean Stefan..." "No." "Stefan had been gone for a while." "I turned and André was in the bed talking to me" "saying I should be closer to you." "Not hesitant like the first night when I couldn't tell you he was dead because I was afraid to lose you." "I thought it was on purpose." "You told me bit by bit so I suffered as much as you." "I felt that." "I didn't like it." "That's what he said..." "I shouldn't approach you like that." "I should trust you." "He should have told me that sooner." "Could you hug him?" "I couldn't..." "I had become him..." "My mouth was no longer mine, my eyes were his..." "And I knew what he felt." "He'd sent me to you he was at peace." "I wanted you to share it with me." "I'm jealous, but it's hard to believe... what about Stefan?" "André knows me, I shouldn't live alone." "So he didn't reproach me for that." "But I still can't... completely... with Stefan I still don't feel the right." "There's more important to be done first." "Stefan's unhappy, that's important!" "I know." "Stay with him." "Stop it!" "Nothing happened." "A mistake." "He'd be less sad." "Suppose he didn't want to?" "Can't you see he wants you?" "That's too easy." "I only ask to be left in peace, see no one." "Now, leave me..." "I think you're mad." "I'll be at your door, if you need me open it, I'll be there." "Afraid to meet Stefan at the hotel?" "I don't like your look." "When it works out with Stefan you won't look at me, I'll leave... why come for me if you didn't want me to meddle?" "Do as you like." "She called me." "She hates you being here." "She's mad, we can't leave her alone." "What's she plotting now?" "She's expecting a visit from André." "She believes he'll come back." "You weren't invited, you bother her." "It wasn't so simple." "I simplify her because you dramatize her, you worry me." "I had a friend like you... always worried about me." "He broke down my door 3 times, woke me up too!" "One day, he hanged himself..." "I believe in Cécile" "I see her illness as hope to change her life." "That's how it is..." "It's normal she'd fall ill." "Doctors are great, the iller we are the happier you are!" "And you're in love!" "André wouldn't like to see this." "All along I thought you wanted to hurt me." "So did I, but it's not true." "It doesn't matter to me." "But it does to Stefan." "What did you do, I didn't hear you?" "I thought of André, I was happy." "Perhaps because you watched over me behind the door." "I'd not have wanted you to leave." "You didn't say that to Stefan..." "But I was OK on the mat." "I knew I wouldn't desert you." "But there were times I hated you." "It changed constantly." "I liked you, I hated you, then I liked you again." "Each time there were valid reasons." "It's catching, I'll end up like you." "Luckily, when you opened I liked you!" "Feel better?" "Fine!" "I want to ask a question..." "Answer me honestly." "I'll try." "Have you slept with many men?" "Too many..." "Or not enough, I don't know." "Sorry..." "It wasn't the way I wanted to ask you." "Is it so hard to ask?" "For me, yes..." "André..." "I recall everything about him his ways, his gestures, his voice but I don't recall love with him." "Intimate details, what it was like, I don't recall." "You think it'll return, or is this way better?" "I can't answer." "Screwing is important at the time..." "It doesn't keep, it ages badly..." "I wondered if it was normal to forget it." "You think we loved enough?" "You think we're afraid?" "Of what?" "Loving... why didn't Stefan return?" "He wasn't at the hotel." "Maybe he's fed up with us." " He's having fun elsewere." " Yes... we could wait together." "He didn't return because he's fed up we don't like each other." "It bothers him." "Sentimentally he's not dead." "He's disappointed in me." "Sentimentally, are you alive?" "I don't know." "I never asked the question that way." "How do you ask it?" "At times you can be open... when it happens you feel less soiled in the mind." "I know I open up easily." "But since you came, I've closed up." "I wasn't nice." "This evening, it's OK." "I'm here, it took time but I'm here..." "I'm not afraid." "No more jealousy." "I'm quite new as you once said..." "I thought I was dead" "I met Stefan, and now André's come back too..." "They'll end up meeting here, I'm a brothel." "I'll introduce them." "It's a good sign." "They think I'm waking up." "We'll wait for them." "The bed's large, why not stay with me?" "There are 2 guys already, it's a bit crowded!" "I sleep like a hog, I might crush you without knowing." "A rough night..." "I'll take care." "I must watch the others too." "I'll watch you while I wait." "I'd like it." "It frightens me." "I never slept with a girl." "No hassle, I'm not after you, it's not sexual." "And it's not true" "I'm sure you slept with a friend." "Yes..." "It's not the same try as you may, you're not my friend." "I feel better." "You think Stefan's at the hotel?" "I threw him out too fast." "Call..." "Thanks for last night." "If Stefan returns I'll call you." "As you like." "I hope this guy won't keep me waiting." "To answer your question, you're right." "We didn't love enough, not through fear rather laziness..." "So many reasons to shirk." "Are you lazy?" "Yes... but not with people." "That's what I like, people... and I've not often been disappointed." "It's Cécile..." " You OK?" " Yes." "Did you see Stefan?" "No I didn't." "You know where he is?" "Shall I knock?" "No..." "As you like." "See you later." " Let me know." " Yes, bye..." "One of the saddest things is loneliness at night that's why doctors exist." "I didn't call one." "I know." "I'm Stefan's friend, he sent me, my car's downstairs." "I'm not sure I want to go with you." "Cécile's there, you're in no danger." "Everyone's there!" "I was called, I came." "She doesn't give a damn about you, let's dance." "She thinks something went on between us." "When I came she didn't say a word." "She wants fun." "To dance without me." "Let's dance." "Cut the bullshit!" "Dancing is not bullshit, isn't it what she expects?" "Where did she find them?" "In a club, she wanted to bring them here." "Suzi!" "It's awful if you don't dance!" " I don't dance." " Have a drink in the kitchen." "I like my friends!" " Tell them to go." " I want to see the end." "It won't get you far, in the state she'll be in soon." "It was only after André died she knew." "At least I think so, that we'd had an affair." "I guessed so a while back." "Seeing you and me, she sees me and André." "I thought she'd stop if she saw we knew." "But she's determined." "She wants to see us together." "Your affair with the husband, she may know nothing or not care." "She's jealous of you." "She doesn't care about me, you interest her more." "How dumb!" "When she descends from her cloud she'll go for you." "You came for a fight, she's already manipulating you." "Throw them out!" "Throw these jerks out!" "Go to bed there's nothing to drink." "OK, if you sleep here." "I'm not so drunk." "It was a fun evening!" "I'll dream about my gangster boys..." "It's nice to please..." "Maybe I understand you better..." "Sleep in my room." "I want to be a guest." "I love her." "Perhaps I love you." "How can I know?" "Say it's not me you love." "Say it or I'll leave!" "Impossible, I can't lie." "You can go if you like." "You're pissed off by André!" "You can't fight him anymore." "He'd have taken me in his arms..." "I trusted him." "I loved him." "I should never have left him with her." "Can I trust you, huh?" "We won't wait for her to wake and find us..." "I feel I took everything from André and gave him nothing." "Anyway I was happier then." "Go away..." "Go to the hotel, take the first plane to Berlin." "Wait for her there." "This is not your bed, or mine." "I don't care what you think." "If you love it's easy at first to split..." "Almost a pleasure..." "When you love and hate then it's difficult." "We're not there..." "I haven't known her long." "I don't know..." "Not anymore." "She means more to you." "She suits you." "Go on, get out!" "When it became too difficult with André, I left." "Maybe I left too quickly, don't do as I did." "Wait for her, there." "It's mined here!" "He slept here!" "Yes." "With me." "To get rid of me." "Isn't that what you wanted?" "No." "I didn't want him to sleep with you." "Even if I said I did." "I was afraid, it seemed inevitable." "He had no hope of resisting?" "I hoped so, because of you and me." "Now I no longer exist." "Last night it was all taken, I've nothing." "I mean nothing to him." "Wherever he is, I don't care!" "I'll never see him again." "He's not waiting for me." "We didn't screw in the sheets!" "Don't make a scene." "As I talk thousands of whorish women sleep for the 1st time with their best friend's husband." "In principle it's not for me to console you..." "It's not my fault if seduction is almost an illness for you." "At first, you barely kissed him." "No commitment!" "You thought of nothing." "No evil ideas, nothing against me of course!" "You stopped there, desire came slowly, so why resist?" "You threw him at me, you forget... women like me throw their men at you." "They itch to do it, they can't help it!" "Next time find a lover of your own!" "One who prevents no one from sleeping your dirty dealing doesn't even do you any good." "I'll find Stefan, he's mine, I didn't give him to you!" "He's waiting at the hotel?" "If he didn't go to Berlin..." "Berlin!" "?" "Original idea!" "Leaves you free to go where you want, I won't let you." "You know it all, I swear!" "Call, see if he left." "No." "You stay here!" "The water department." "They said it had a nasty taste." "We've come to taste." "We like water..." "Stefan's not here!" "That's no problem!" "We're ending the night wanted to check no one had regrets." "Cécile sent you?" "We'll wait for her..." "She seemed the most... cooperative." "Sure she's not here?" "She'll be back." "Wait for her with us!" "I can't, I'll go find her..." "No, stay here..." "That's what you need her only thought is to seduce her girlfriends' guys..." "Thanks, get my bill ready." "Could you tell me if Mrs Troussotzky came this morning?" "She came by, left a while ago." "OK, thanks." "They hurt me." "Hurt or not, I'm here..." "I said I'd do anything if they stopped hurting me..." "We need a doctor." "Don't bother, it's no use anyway..." "You need care... why d'you come?" "I don't know." "You need care." "You let them in..." "You told them to wait?" "What else did you tell them?" "Whatever came to mind." "I couldn't stay... why did you come back?" "Don't say you felt remorse?" "What did you hope for?" "Return your keys..." "Just that?" "The keys?" "What d'you think?" "You turn those guys on, they screw you, don't blame me." "That's too easy!" "You have me date your guy and act as if it's my fault!" "Then you have guys beat you and claim I did it." "What's your plan?" "That I'm guilty of everything, always?" "I didn't have a chance..." "Guilt isn't your line." "It should be, it's not the first time." "You should take it easy..." "A waste of time, no one cares no one needs me anymore." "When no one loves you it's better to go... what did you want?" "D'you know?" "I wanted you to stop." "To stop playing with me, let me talk now." "Face to face?" "Lovely to see... face to face..." "Stop it!" "It's over!" "Enough!" "I'll make coffee..." "You needed it more than I did." "I dislike violence." "You dislike seeing it obviously..." "I'm not made to be persecuted." "You already have blood on your hands." "Aren't you tired of being alone?" "Are you used to it, you blame the-unlucky-ones?" "You're bad luck to those who love you." "You don't love that much." "Me today, Stefan before, André well before..." "Don't talk that way." "We'll talk, we must before you kill us all." "Don't say that!" "You want to talk or what?" "Send more guys to beat me up?" "Now there's no way to stop me." "You want the truth?" "You'll have it." "I loved André... and he loved me." "At first we did nothing." "It gave us pleasure to resist." "It proved it was important." "We finally met in secret, anywhere even in the small room" "that explains the roses, if you want to know." "Then the hotel." "A room next to where he worked." "He saw me every afternoon and I went out every night he woke me up." "It was as good as at first." "I'd never been loved like that." "I gave him strength and I felt important." "He was glad to be alive, it was obvious." "I saw that." "I thought he loved you but that nothing had happened." "You visited us with Laurent" "I thought you wouldn't dare if it had..." "I didn't know you then." "It was over with Laurent we'd become friends." "We loved each other André and I." "I know it's horrible for you." "But I didn't think, it was no use." "I don't want it to be horrible." "He thought he loved you but you only amused him!" "Yes, I amused him that's why he loved me." "I was just the sort of girl he needed." "I wanted to be his pinup." "He loved my dunce side..." "He could tell me his wise little tales." "I liked him that way intelligent funny and sad." "I was stupid, he didn't care." "He loved what I did, what I thought." "He didn't love you, not yet after you split he began to love you." "I didn't split, it's not true." "Didn't you leave?" "Dare admit it." "But I wanted to return be with him alone." "To split with you he had to do it without me." "You didn't return..." "I'm not a girl you love for long." "And I was afraid he'd returned to you." "I didn't think he'd leave you for me." "I never thought I'd keep him for long." "At first you impressed me." "I couldn't say tu you frightened me." "I forbade him to mention you." "So I was out all night dancing." "When he spoke of leaving you, I knew we were finished..." "If he was ready for it he had to do it and not talk..." "The previous ones should be shot." "They live on in loved ones' minds but we never know when." "They screw it all up." "That's what I feared." "I should have used one of those jerks to finish you off easily." "You made up for it." "After he died I found this letter." "I guessed it was for you but I wasn't sure." "Now I know..." "For 2 hours I've thought of you." "I look at myself, I'm alone." "Happily I kept some scenes with you and I live quite well with them..." "I admit they are good ones and usually you are beautiful." "I know you have nothing more to live with me," "I hope for nothing." "Life without you, simply life" "I've no taste for it." "I take my revenge on Cécile for your absence." "But she doesn't really consider leaving me." "It's a pity it might for a while give me vague confidence in myself certainly not the strength to follow you." "I'd like you to be forgetful of me like almost everyone else..." "I doubt it..." "Despite your joyful air you come, sadly, from the same family as I do..." "It was unfinished..." "My great stupidity was not to trust myself." "I shouldn't have left!" "It seems he loved me too." "Without the letter I wouldn't have known how you finished André." "I didn't finish him, I loved him!" "You killed him as surely as if you put a bullet in his brain." "You started with Stefan... what's Stefan to do with it?" "He came because you drove him mad!" "I don't care a damn for him!" "True, but you played with him." "You wonder what state he's in?" "What d'you expect?" "That he looks for a tree near your place?" "If you've no one else you try women, you don't like them much yet you tried to seduce me." "One night you danced with me..." " I danced with you?" " You said..." "André asked you, but it was your idea." "You had to possess me too!" "I liked you more than you think." "Maybe you attracted me to him." "I don't believe you." "No, I don't." "You needed to ruin someone, you succeeded." "Why did you do it?" "Revenge for such a dry heart?" "It's not my fault he's dead..." "The accident... 17 yards braking at that speed is nothing." "The tree's meant for that, chosen for it and the road goes to your place!" "André stood up to our love but he couldn't stand yours" "perhaps because it was too strong." "It's your fault..." "There's no way out." "You can't even say it." "It's on your tongue but you resist." "This silence could last hours." "What?" "Forgive me." "You said it, at last!" "And I refuse!" "If I forgive you what will remain?" "How could you do it to me, to André... and everything else..." "I don't know..." "I didn't want to hurt..." "It means nothing..." "You destroyed everything!" "What d'you leave me?" "To forgive!" "Ask if I seek revenge..." "I don't know what I could find to make you suffer as I have..." "Go on, what d'you want?" "That I lick your feet, kiss your ass?" "You're not really ashamed, you're strong, still harmful." "You'd like to be forgiven so you can escape." "You don't want to feel guilty, it'll come." "You can't be that dumb and insensitive." "Look at you!" "You revolt me!" "Who could love you or who could you love?" "Why are you so cold?" "When does a woman like you become worse than a man?" "I don't know." "You can't love." "You take the best, leave them empty!" "They give you their all you give them strength and a taste for life!" "After you they're useless, like you, empty shells." "If to love is to kill those you love, you're a great lover!" "You thought you'd manage that you were smart enough to go on pretending?" "I'm not smart..." "You also mock intelligence." "You don't like learning!" "Your great heart knows it all!" "You make me puke!" "But you'd think you'd been punished and start again." "You want to kill all of us!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "Will you calm down..." "Let me go!" "Still here?" "Perhaps I didn't know how to love anymore." "Perhaps I couldn't love..." "I won't leave until you forgive me." "It's not for me to forgive." "The living have no right to forgive for the dead." "You think I don't know it's too late?" "It's not too late." "He must forgive you if he wants to..." "I never could cry for André." "Something always stopped me." "I felt awful." "I couldn't accept this indifference." "With you I could cry..." "I could see death... it had your eyes." "And I could approach another man, in Berlin I couldn't..." "So I came to you..." "You had to give me permission, authorize me in his name..." "Thanks to you I slowly understood why" "I'd fooled around since you left." "Why I couldn't cry for him..." "I only thought of death, I was dumb!" "Before people were less dumb..." "They knew the dead remain alive." "Perhaps André wanted us to meet." "He found you, brought you to this hotel where he called me..." "And it's proof that he's alive." "Thanks to you I found André..." "But I'm no longer his wife" "I couldn't keep him." "But I tried it all..." "Jealousy, revenge..." "Even looking at you as he did..." "Even loving you as he did..." "It doesn't work." "It's not André's body I'm giving back it's him." "He's yours, take him!" "I give him to you." "Here these images enabled him not to be unhappy without you." "You'll call him, he'll come." "Some days he'll look at you from too far..." "So you'll have to wait... to forgive him... and to call him louder." "You know he'll come the other night he came..." "I don't believe your ghost stories." "You killed André..." "It's disgusting to keep someone who doesn't want you." "You knew he'd had enough you waited for his death to tell me..." "You open his tomb, talk nonsense so I can join him." "You try to make me despise him." "But if we came in, there's an exit, it's not a nightmare." "You folded the letter, put it in your jeans." "You're dumb because if you'd put it next to me with a gun" "I might have shot myself." "You were afraid..." "Because I might have shot you." "Just one more death for you." "I thought of killing you." "Returning from where he was killed" "I went to a bar in Pigalle" "3,000 francs you pull back the safety latch" "you take aim" "and you fire..." "Not only mad, above all bad." "You ruin everyone you touch... what have you done in 3 years?" "Nothing..." "In a year I met Stefan, you're still alone." "You can't love anyone else." "You won't be happy again." "I'm ready again for the living." "You're right about Stefan." "He left a note, he's waiting in Berlin." "Only André's strength can help you." "The dead have great strength if you can welcome them." "I don't understand your ranting!" "You didn't steal André's strength it's his pain, his weariness his taste for death you stole." "You have that in you too." "I don't have enough emptiness for him." "When you smell death on loved ones it's frightening." "But that's what you keep of them... the broken voice" "the stuttering gestures that show weakness..." "You're absolutely wrong." "If I snitched things it's because I loved him." "But to smell death is not me, you talk nonsense!" "No!" "Don't you understand!" "When they're dead you resemble them by those very gestures." "You see yourself making a gesture saying a word in a certain way..." "Recalling a feeling they had, feeling it yourself..." "Their death is in you when you in turn die" "someone else inherits your pieces and so it never ends." "That's why death never dies..." "André took refuge with you." "I've nothing of him except ordinary images images of life, everyone's images." "Memories, that's all..." "Now he's dead, you can no longer hurt him." "You'll stay with him... in his home." "No I won't!" "Go where you like, he'll be with you, he won't leave you." "He'll have strength I don't have." "I'll wait here until you're better." "If you need anything you can find me." "I'll take this, I don't want to be blamed for your death." "You did it!" "You did!" "I knew it!" "I was waiting for this!" "No I didn't." "I didn't succeed, it's all the same..." "Criminal!" "I tried to kill a roach..." "I'm off, I'll forget you forever!" "You can't, you started to finish us off, do it!" "You're bored, but I'll make you" "I'll force you to end it!" "Use the revolver, maybe that's why I got it." "Why would I?" "Get 20 years!" "No way!" "You're nothing empty, insignificant." "You need others' lives, you can't bear their love." "You saw André and me, split us like a jealous dog then licked him over my shoulder." "Jealous of you?" "You're mistaken!" "To live with resentment and revenge like you, no way!" "Realizing the letter was for you, I thought:" ""If she asks, could I forgive?"" "I readied myself, afraid not to be generous..." "I soon knew you were only sorry to have been caught out you didn't ask on your own." "I did from the first day, I tried, you did everything to stop me." "You went on lying and you began again with Stefan, that's you!" "Worth nothing!" "Get it!" "?" "You're shit Suzi, nicely wrapped but foul shit..." "Stop it..." "You want to hit me?" "I only ever loved André!" "You're worthless!" "It did him no good." " Shut up." " Make me shut up!" "Go on, make an effort." "You'd rather not do it to my face, but be far away." "It's no joke!" "Go on!" "Coward!" "Piece of shit!" "If you don't I'll be there, you're shit!" "I'll scream until you give up!" "You'll never be rid of me!" "You're nothing!" "Once your game is uncovered you give up." "I gave you a chance to make good." "I'd be crazy to die because of you!" "You're not worth it." "I'm waiting for you..." "I'm not shit..." "She's the mean one... why didn't you come?" "Subtitles:" "Anne Head" "Processed by C.M.C."