"EPISODE 1" "FROM LILI TO THOMAS 13 APRIL 1970" "Tell me, Mr. Etecole!" "That, I think, is the army scout, and there is the king himself, son of Oedipus..." "Yes, we'll do that, that's great." " That's what we'll do." " Do what?" " The entrance!" " Eteocles, the messenger?" "The breathe, the flute..." " Ready?" " Okay, let's do it." "That, I think, is the army scout, and... there is the king..." "Oedipus..." "Not like that!" "You've got to do it, it was your idea too, the way you did it just now, when you were messing about." "What you did then was fantastic." "Something like that, anyway it was fantastic." " You really think so?" " Yes!" "Yes, do it again." "Marie, repeat your cue." "You want me shout?" "The shout..." "Say your cue normally, but say it well." " Stop knitting." " With the shout?" "Of course, everything you do." "We'll see what it's like." "Let's start." "That, I think, is the army scout, and..." "You're dangerous, mate." "Say sorry then!" " Come here, I need pampering." " No, listen to me." "You've got to do the thing you did just now when you were messing around." " You got into it, almost by chance." " Look, I start from over there." "Think about it!" "There's fifteen metres to cover." "Control yourself and you'll see." "You'd do better to say your words instead of..." "Right, let's go, off you go!" "I can do it now." "Control yourselves, stop properly." "Go ahead, get rid of this thread!" " But they'll run into each other again." " You think a string will stop them?" "That, I think, is the army scout and there is the king himself, son of Oedipus..." "Strong, serious, slow!" " Faster!" " Valliant king..." " Decrescendo!" " ...of the Cadmeans, I have come..." " Loud!" " ...from there, and I bring you certain news, for I have seen these things with my own eyes:" "Seven spirited captains killed a bull on the black shield..." " Slow down!" " ...and dipping their hands in the blood  of the victims" "You need to find an arrival position, and work on your voice at the same time." "In other words, Quentin must..." " What is your arrival position?" " Wait, we did it in two stages." "Go on then." "You need to be higher, see?" "That way you come down very, very slowly while you're speaking your lines..." "You need to be more precise" "You need to be higher." "Nose to nose." " But I'm not as tall as him." " What about me?" "Stay as you are, you're wonderful." "Then you slowly, slowly bend down..." " Speed up." " And without being influenced by the fact that you're speeding up with the words, OK?" " But I've got my hand on his shoulder." " Yes, but change anything." " Faster." " ...valliant king of the Cadmeans..." " Slow down - ..." "I bring you certain news" " Faster - ..." "I bring you certain news for I have seen these things with my own eyes:" " Higher." " seven spirited captains..." " Fast, fast." " ... killed a bull" " Faster - ... dipping their hands in the blood..." "I forgot my lines" "That's it, otherwise there's no power in it!" " That's it exactly!" " It's fast, fast..." "It's not loud enough, it's normal." "Be careful when you get loud suddenly, don't change the note." "You're serious, piano, you mustn't change the note just because I say 'loud!" "'" "I can't think about everything at once!" "Let's take a break" "Where are you going, Lili?" "More intense, like that!" "You're going too fast, Quentin." " Elaine, my Elaine!" "... Max is going to pick me up at the theatre tonight" "I left them a message." "We need to work fast, we're invited to Julien's later." " Ah, to Julien's!" " I'll go too, becuase..." " Have to go and see Max first." " Wait then we'll start again in a minute, but..." "Marie will be the messenger." " The messenger?" " Show her" " I'm not doing the same thing?" " No." "Show here the position." "We said face to face." "Obviously, you're shorter." " Almost nose to nose we said." " Not too close Arsenal..." " Otherwise I can't see you" "No, sink down." "Sink down." "Sink down!" " That doesn't look very good!" " Sink down!" "That's crazy." "She's Greek." "I prefer Lili, on tiptoes." "It certainly looks more Greek... but it's not what I want." " Like this?" " That's it!" "Quentin, the text." "Stay down." " Are we sure she's not Greek?" " Speed up." "Yes, that's good!" "Perhaps you should get a bit carried away." "With your hair flying out like that..." " She's serious." " Marie!" "Marie." "You have to understand... alright." "We could make the background noise." "I'M DEAF AND DUMB." "I GIVE YOU A 'MESSAGE FROM DESTINY'." "THANK YOU." "Don't think..." "Don't think..." "Don't think that..." "Don't think that I am silent  out of pride or stubbornness." "Don't think that..." "Don't think that I am silent..." "Don't think  that I am silent..." "Don't think... don't think..." "don't think... don't think  that I am silent..." "that I am silent..." "Don't think that I am silent out of pride or stubbornness!" "Fire... fire... fire..." "Fire... it's hot!" "Alright?" "You're going to drown." "I'm crying a little too, but..." "Do you want to say something?" "I think it's over there..." "I don't know." "Right, let's start." " Are you lot coming?" " Yes, yes, here we are." "Would you like a cigarette." " With or without a filter?" " I'd like one without a filter." "Who'd like to say something?" "How was it for you?" "I found it very hard to get into it, for a long time." "Me too, I found it hard." "I felt we started much too soon." "I don't mean the mirror  I was surprised at how... quickly we started too." "That didn't bother me." "I found that starting with the mirror, ...it was really good because we got back in touch with each other." "The breathing we got from the murmuring gave us some preparation." "And then I moved easily from one phase to the next." " The mirror was a good thing." " What were you to start with?" "In the beginning, I found it hard  to know which part of my body was disabled." "Then it started with the breathing..." "I felt I needed to cough, really." "So I said to myself that's it, that could be an illness... someone who coughs like that for their whole life..." "Then I started to cough." "And then, wait..." "I haven't finished." "I'd lost an arm and I was walking on my knees..." " And they coughed." " And I coughed" " What about you?" " Well in the beginning I had no idea at all it started with a kind of wriggling." "Me too, I felt we were like that, wriggling around on the ground..." "And then suddenly I had this movement in my arm  and then it was over." "I kept it, a kind of convulsive movement, yes, like that" "And then the voice came at the same time, a sort of yell  that went with it." "It spread to my whole body and then it was just in my arm..." "That's right, at one point you were kind of groaning rhythmic, in a way that cut across mine so we started to fight." "What about you, Rose?" "I felt relaxed after the mirror  and I felt it all started horribly fast, I wasn't ready at all..." "And then someone bit my foot..." "I felt horribly aggressed and  so then that foot was cut off." "I had my leg down to the ankle, but no foot." "Because my foot had been bitten, I closed my eyes," "I stayed blind  and of course a bit simple  Stupid." "And during the improvisation  Bergamotte restored my sight  by breathing on my eyes." "I was a rather silly child as well and..." "So it was you who bit me?" "I bit quite a few people." "I had two bad feet, two bad legs." "I couldn't catch up with the others." "I couldn't move I couldn't get any food, so suddenly I was hungry." "I fell on anything I could find, on..." "I started devouring someone..." "It was Bergamotte." "She tasted good..." "Then you threw me..." "I pinched the pan of soup off you and started gulping down soup..." "And I was hungry, hungry, hungry and then I just ate anything I could find." "What about you?" "I had a lot of trouble getting started because..." "Someone next to me started much sooner." " That was probably me." " I don't know." "And I wasn't ready." "But I think it was you." "And that fact that you kicked off  really loud, really violently, kind of forced  me into it." "So then I closed one eye and then I was one-eyed..." "I had no vocal chords." "To start with, because I didn't keep it up later because I stood up during the construction, my legs were paralyzed..." " ... and I was walking on my knees." " Like me" "and they weren't cut off, they were dragging behind and I couldn't use them, there was no way I could stand up." "That was mainly it for the sick person." "For me, very quickly I had a child with no hands  just little stumps, and I was desperately trying to catch something." "I was trying, rowing, scratching..." "It was impossible." "I did all that with my stumps  without arms, they hadn't grown." "What else?" "I was fascinated by what you can do with objects  finding a hat that made a noise  and it became everyone with  the only thing I could talk to." "And it was you that bit me, wasn't it?" "I think so." "I bit a white ankle at one point, very soft..." "Aggression?" "Yes?" "Well, someone wanted to take your ball away..." "I really liked your thing." "And for me it wasn't a ball..." " ... it was a belly." "It was my soup dish." ".... moving on into the story of the play." "What bothered me afterwards, was.... moving on into the story of the play." "Every time we come up against that  we always find it's an artificial departure..." "Because we needed first to go into  more or less inarticulate words... and it really is very, very difficult to get there..." "Yes, because we're not in a "verbal" state." "You feel like inventing words and every time you think..." ""I've got to say lines" there's a kind of..." "for me anyway..." "Recall to a kind of reality where I say to myself, "What's this?"" "We didn't say the words would come from Prometheus  from the mannequin, and we'd try to get them out." "Yes, that's theatre..." "For me anyway  it's because of what we've got in our heads somewhere  that at some point you have to say something." "It's really hard to forget it but everything you've got in your head... particularly this monument that's waiting for us around a corner somewhere." "Before that, everything obscure that we try out with improvisation  will be smoothed out." "It's always words that we find difficult." "To me any invented speech is real... and as soon as we're back to the play it becomes a duty." "Besides I can only do it if..." "I surround it with words that have fuck all to do with..." "Or I announced the word "hope" to you  without giving it any meaning, for example  and gradually it came, but I said the word  as if it didn't belong to me, as though it had come from an external voice  as though I was repeating it meaninglessly." "And gradually I was trying to give it meaning  by saying it to the others." "And then I realized that you were all simply saying  letters of the alphabet." "I was trying to educate a bit, to understand the alphabet and numbers... but then when it came to saying the thing I couldn't do it." "Even when we start with a word, with the alphabet  you can't move immediately to the play." "Even if we learn to speak through improvisation, to say a word, two words  or even ten, that doesn't mean you can speak the lines of Prometheus." "No, it's such a long way away, what we're doing  if we could, really, we could invent exercises around it..." "Invent the possibility of getting  out of the exercise." "Shouldn't we try to make our own play, something that would work, we should try..." "It should be really spontaneous, it should come out of a need  that's very French... personally I can't stand Aeschylus's thing any more." "I think if it was said in the same context as today  it would come out just as artificial." "Yes, but we don't need to create a definitive text  we should decide to improvise certain themes, words  but it has to be spoken." "We'll record the words we make up and see if it works..." "And we'll try and keep anything I think is good." "Write it down and then say it again to see if, coming from us  if when we say our own words it means something  or if it's..." "like Aeschylus." "We need a system." " We can do it tomorrow." " OK, let's put everything up." "Are we stopping then?" " Put them in the ..." " Put them in the basket." "Hats over there." " Arrange them like we did yesterday." " Hats over there." " This too?" " No, this here and that there." " Here's the feathers." " Hold on, this goes over there." "We'll take care of the floor tomorrow." "Do you want something?" " Do you want something?" " Pardon?" "Do you want something?" "Don't look at me like that!" "I'm not what you think!" "It's true, my mother was a white woman..." "From Havana." "She often used to say, "Never sell yourself, my girl"." "I haven't." "I do drawings." " So?" " But it's not my mother I'm looking for..." " ... it's my brother" " Do you know him?" "My brother  is a bit... a bit like you." "That's why I'm looking at you, that's why I'm drawing you." " Funny, don't you think?" " I'm an only child." "Single." "That's odd." "Show me your hands." " It's not true, you've got a wedding ring." " So?" "I don't believe you." "I hadn't seen your eyes." "Are you interested in my eyes for your drawing?" "I don't believe you." "You're not really drawing!" "What do you really do?" "What are you really interested in?" "You don't believe me?" "I nearly went to art school." "But I didn't, I was looking for my brother." "Don't think I'm bad at drawing." "Not bad, but it's not real drawing." "It's somewhere between you and my brother." "Anyway why are you asking these questions?" "What are you thinking?" "You don't look well." "You look like an ostrich." "That's not true!" "Don't call me an ostrich!" "Anyway I don't like ostriches, they run away from danger." "I'm the opposite." " I don't know what you're getting at." " What are you really after?" "Money!" "No, that's not true, I want cigarettes, I've run out." "Look, there's my lighter." "Here  go and buy some." "You can give me the change" "You're not looking at me!" "You're not looking at me!" "I can see you." "The first shout isn't working." "Right, the shout has to be longer and you have to wait to do the note." "You do the note before..." "That's it, you're doing it well, but you're not all together." "Even longer with the shout." "Doesn't it follow?" "You don't understand?" "When you do that it's..." "The way it goes up there, I can't get it." "Do it for me!" "When it goes up it shouldn't be sung so much." "When it goes down, what you just did...?" "It isn't just the way it's written, because I'm conducting you." " Shall we start from the shout or from the note?" " From the shout." "Make it scrape" "It has to sound terrible" " The shout was good?" " No, it mustn't be tuneful." " We're singing too much?" " It has to sound horrible." "Something like that." "You sing every time." " Okay, what do we want to do?" " The shout." "You need to shout more." "For longer." "That was good then!" " Did it sound horrible?" " No, it wasn't long enough." "It should be a bit more hoarse." "And when you go up it must scrape." "You do it, Marie." "You're singing again!" "It needs to be tighter." " We need to do more work on the voices." " It wasn't bad this time." "Lili's daily telephone call." "Do you think she's got a boyfriend?" "Were there a lot of people yesterday?" "It wasn't bad, almost full." "Elaine, look, I've got a surprise for you." "I thought of you Elaine, I need some mending, for Max..." " Now?" " She's got big feet, Max." "... look." " I'll do it for you Quentin." " That's nice of you, but I'd rather Elaine  did it." "Okay?" "Have you got an egg?" "I've got lots of stuff ..." "I have this." "I have..." "Wait, I have lots of things for you." "I have these needles." " Here." " What's that?" " ... wool, cotton..." " Is that for mending?" "Use the yellow." "One, two, three... excuse me, girls." "Hey, my music!" "He likes to make things difficult." "Why don't you go round?" "Crazy, that's what's so amazing, walking normally like that..." " How many have you got?" " Six." "What for?" "Tell me, that M. Fursenberg, do you often see him when you go to the bookshop?" " Fursenberg?" " Yes." " You know him?" " Wait  is he the one with the thirteen volumes of Wagner's prose works..." "A fat little man with glasses, isn't he?" " Small and fat?" " I always looked only at the books." "Mein Liebchen Lili!" " What are we doing now?" " Trembling heart?" "Yes, that's it." "My text." "Which page is it?" "So Théo, haven't you finished yet?" " Théo!" " Arsenal!" "Hey, it's time to work" "To work." " Which page?" " 89" " Where's my script?" " No, 87." "Are you sure?" "The trembling chorus." "The trembling chorus." "Let's start without him." " Page 90." " No, 87." "No, 72." "EPISODE 2" "FROM THOMAS TO FRÉDÉRIQUE" "What have you brought?" "Bergamotte has brought the two faces of Prometheus." "What's that?" "A Chinese Prometheus?" "It's a statue in Japan  and that's a Japanese mask." "They're the two extremes of Prometheus." "That's wonderful!" "Anger and perfect serenity." " Right." "Go on with your piece." "It was..." " Tell me the French translation." "Do you mean Goethe?" "I don't know, I found several passages..." "I don't know where he states his position in relation to the gods." "Where he said, "their will against mine"." " What's that?" "German?" " Yes." "Read a bit." "Have you got the piece?" " I've got it in German." "" " Let's hear it!" ""To be their vassal and defend their sky", is that it?" "He's offered a compromise and he refuses..." "That's another of his conditions." "He's always vituperating against..." "Read it in German and I'll read you some Shelley." "So there's this, the gods, I'm not a god, etc." "'To be their vassal and defend their sky'." " I can't understand a word, but it's beautiful!" " Could you translate for us?" "Yes, it's got the translation here." "You'll have to do it again." "I had the tape the wrong way round." "And the end is beautiful too." ""Here I am, I describe men in my own image, a race like me  to suffer, weep, enjoy and taste pleasure  and to despise you' - in brackets - 'like me'" "He says to them, "You can keep heaven, I'll keep earth"." "At no point does he complain, he just despises them:" ""Anyway, they're gods but so what?" "Men are worth far more than gods, who do nothing with their time and...."" "The theme is much clearer." "I've got Shelley  which I'm very interested in." "It's beautiful in English, in French it's hideous." "It's the same with Goethe, it's much more powerful in German." "Because the words are harder  'despise' is harder  more angry." "And this is a softness, not in the sense of soft, but a goodness  a kindness towards existence, which is wonderful." " Any contemporary pieces?" " I haven't got any contemporary pieces." " I've got one." " Me too." " What have you got?" " January 70..." "In the exceptional price that naïve humanity attaches to fire  the best and highest thing that humanity  can know, was won by sacrilege." "Louder, it's not working." "The interference between two worlds  for example a human world and a divine world;" "in the individual's heroic movement towards the universal in his effort to escape individuation and become a universal being... he comes up against the contradiction hidden in things." "He commits the crime and is punished with suffering." "Apollo wants to bring peace to individuals by drawing borders between them." "But the impetuous dionysiac blade raises  little waves that form individuals  in the way that Prometheus' brother Atlas raises the world." "I wanted to read a little passage... that's very short, but  well, I won't tell you what it is." ""Yes." "Bizarre, black, the ideal... and the blacker it is, the worse it is right down to black black... and everything is fine as long as it lasts." "But it will come, the time will come... the thing is there, you'll see it... you won't let me go for good, everything will be black... silent, in revolt, obliterated." "Yes." "We were counting on peace, it's all one... all the pain, as if it had never been, it will come"" "there's an OK there - "to extinguish this madness." "I know, but we were counting on peace... not only has it gone but it's as if it had never been." "None of that had ever been!" "All the misery,"" "It's a thing by Beckett." "I think it would have been good if we could try to..." "A bit as though we..." "Yes, because I don't know, all this seems so much more alive to me  and it would be good if we could take any part..." "The story of... when Prometheus is all alone, "Divine Ether... quick-winged winds, sources of rivers... countless smiles of the seas... earth, mother of all beings, and you, sun... all-seeing eye, I call on you."" "I'd like to say..." ""Firmaments, I call on you, galaxies, I call on you... earth, I call on you... suffering human beings, I call on you..." "Oh people in chains, tortured..." "Oh people imprisoned..." "I don't know, something like that." "Turning it into a kind of litany." "Bringing in things  that are there." "I found a piece... where they talk about a little village in Mexico... where there's an eye disease... and all the children will all get it sooner or later." "So they get a double education.... at school they learn to read and then, like in this photo... they blindfold them and teach them to work the fields  for when they've gone blind." "M. Maillard, how are you?" "Listen, don't forget to give me the key." "You never give it to me." "I need it to clean your room." "You have to leave it for me." "Will you remember?" "Yesterday I put some brochures under your door." "Did you find them interesting?" "Yes, I think so." "So, you won't forget to give me the key." "Oh no, please, not me!" "Myself?" "If I was Prometheus?" "I'm taking that passage because it touches on everything..." " but you can choose something else..." " I think it would be..." "I think I wouldn't understand why... knowing the gods and their omnipotence... there could be... this eternal injustice... and I could only be a Prometheus full of anger... but maybe silent anger..." "Yes, but what would be interesting, is to know what you'd like to say," "I don't know, Bergamotte, if you had..." "Could you just say, without thinking... what you'd like to say if you were Prometheus?" "I think I'd call on..." "like that, now..." "I'd call on first... my father, my mother... the friends who are dear to me... and who burned up their lives... lives very very quickly... who burned their lives when they lived." "Could speak in the name of Prometheus." "Through their mouths." "What do you mean?" "If you were Prometheus... how would you call on them?" "How would I call on them?" "I don't know what you mean." "It's to try to get you into a language of today... what Prometheus would say at this moment" "I see what you mean." "Without thinking..." " You're Prometheus, what would you say?" " And I'm in pain?" "Yes, well, he's always in pain... but for example the passage "Don't think that I am silent out of pride"" "How would you say that in modern language?" "It's hard..." "Go on, even if it isn't..." "Just talk." "You mustn't think about it." "Silence, silence... loneliness..." "I'm completely alone." "I saved men... but men can't help me." "Cold." "Winds." "Earth." "Where is the sun?" "Yes, the sun, where is the sun?" "Where is fire?" "There's no fire because I'm cold." "I'm in pain." "I'm in pain because I'm alone, because I'm cold, I'm in pain because... everyone around me is in pain, even if I can't see them." "Try to move into Aeschylus, if you can..." "If I'm going to speak to someone..." "I call on people... where we don't know what's become of them... who have done things that seem to have been totally wasted." "Who are still doing things that are totally wasted." "In other words all those who seem to be wasting themselves..." "Who wants to take over?" "I'm a bit embarrassed because I find all this rather artificial." "Or else we  improvise and get into the right positions to call on people." "But here, all round..." "It's just a beginning, it's to start off... to do it without thinking." "I think first of all it would be a feeling of..." "If I was in Prometheus' place... a feeling of ingratitude, particularly towards men." " Yes, but try to speak in his name." " Try to clarify." "I can't." " OK, never mind." " Me, if I was Prometheus..." "I'd do something very violent." "I don't want to know what you'd do, I want to know what you'd say." "What I'd say?" "I wouldn't say anything!" "That's a start." "And I'd smash man to pieces, or send him back to the clay." " Yes, but speak in Prometheus' name." " OK, "I'll send man back to the clay..."" "I set up a big job this time." "I got all three of them." "20th time in order, the law's against it." "You can't pay in those circumstances." "So you have to find a lawyer... and you get the cash and you get out." " So get on with it." " You planning to stay long?" "I'll tell you, let me talk." "I'm nervous, that's how I am, listen  and then you can give me your answer." "I'd like to speak for those people, to say I can't accept a world like this... where racism exists on every level... in terms of colour, economics, culture..." "OK, but try to speak in the name of Prometheus." "Yes, that's always hard." "I'd say, "I can't accept...'" "Who would I take as my witness?" "I don't know what he says... for example..." "When he says, "Listen instead to the sorrows of mortals and see how... from the child that they were before..." "I have made creatures of reason and thought"" "He's starting from the idea of people who were suffering  and what he's made of them." "How do I say it?" "I've got a fake address, I live with this girl." "You've got to rip off, first the state." "Where are you going?" " Africa." " That might be good, but I can't do that." "Why not?" "Problems... and I've got a little girl." " A little girl?" " These things happen." "At your age?" "I've done my job, I did it well." "What I'm asking you is to get hold of it." "You need a bit of cash to set up, rip them off over there too." "I need you to launch me... so that we can really make it work." "Clean Up." " In Africa?" " Yes, there's plenty of cash... we don't want to leave it to others." "We could take you along too in those circumstances." "You can also bring your kid." "I can't, for right now" "Put yourself in my place." "Come to Africa." "This place is shit." "Let him go, since we three are going to Africa." " Just give us time to get our business sorted." " We're going!" "We're going!" "I've already got the money, they gave it to me." "The lottery." "The thing invented by the state to pinch other people's money." " You do the lottery?" " Yes." "Will you teach me how?" " I won yesterday." "I don't want to play any more." "I want us to take it to Africa." "There's sun over there, there'll be time to rip people off." "There'll be shops and we'll be happy." "But if you don't like that we can live in the countryside..." "I could get them out through improvisation and I got to the point of speaking..." "not now..." "I can't like this." "If we're making theatre out of things that directly affect us... we should abandon the idea of Prometheus  do a new show." "If someone was writing Prometheus today  it would be something else." "He might not even be mentioned in it, no ne would know  it was about Prometheus, which doesn't matter either, ut you have to realise that." "Yes, try to write a piece maybe... and see what we can do." "I'm willing to go... but something's just happened..." "I had a house and then..." "I lost all my money." "We'll get your money back." "We can get your house back." "We'll get the bit of money we have and we'll take your daughter a bit later, with you... and we will go, with the kid." "We have to get it sorted first." " The business with the daughter?" " Yes." " How old is she?" " Two." " A lady's looking after her." " What about her father?" " She hasn't got a father." " There isn't a child a that hasn't got a father." " Let's see her father." " He's her father." "Now we're beginning to understand." "You can't split just like that." "I want to see you again this evening." "We've got to talk about this again, it's not clear..." " Africa isn't Nepal." " When are you leaving?" "Tomorrow." " Oh." "Shame." " We've got to go." " Are you going?" " We've got to see someone." "I haven't got much on me..." " Here" " Africa, OK..." " For the kid..." " I like you..." "But you will come and get me later?" "We've got to get things sorted." " Thank you." " We all do what we can." "Why are you giving her money?" "Goodbye, M. Ragman, goodbye." " Why did they give you money?" " For my child..." "I want to say something to you." " You're in a hurry?" " I'm in a big hurry." "Hey!" "Moon!" "Frédérique, how are you?" "I've just done a brilliant job!" "What's up?" "I'm fine." " I know you." "What's the matter?" " Same old story..." "You're in love?" " Who with?" " This boy..." "I see him every day." " I daren't even speak to him." " You're in love with him?" "He's so beautiful." "A Cocteau drawing." "But I don't know how to approach him..." "You know you're lucky..." "It'll work." "With boys I fancy it never works!" " You're silly." " Yes, that's how it is." " Can I do anything?" " Would you like a drink?" "Cognac please." "I got all this money from some guys, you won't believe it!" " Still in the same game?" " Yes, all the time." "The other day it didn't work... and I was scared because I had the cops behind me..." "You make me feel sad." "Who gave you that?" " A friend" " A friend?" "Pretty isn't it." "It's from Algeria." "Really, an Algerian?" "Have you seen Sweetie?" "It's a good thing I've got him..." "Is Sweetie male or female?" "Male." "Just testing!" "Little Doggie!" "He's got fatter." "What's he been doing?" " He drinks a lot of milk." " Grenadine milk?" " Plain milk!" " What have you done to him?" "I'm pleased to see you because you're the only person I really like." "I like you too, Fred." "Don't be jealous that I've got him." "He'd never let another girl touch him anyway." "I don't like it when you're sad." "I'm too sentimental." "What can I do?" "I can give you some money." " Want to see?" " I don't need money!" "Here's a tiny bit of it." "To bring up my daughter." " Can you believe that?" " They thought I had a daughter!" " So you're still in the same business?" " Yeah, it never stops." " Going well?" " I think I'll keep going  forever." "We'll see." "What do you want?" " Take this." "Wait!" " No, not now." "I've got an appointment." "You know the guy who wanted to give you a ring, and then pissed off." "You remember?" "I'm not saying this to make you sad!" " You can buy it with this." " You need it more than I do." "But you know they gave me loads of cash." " I've got money..." " It's a present!" "I don't want it." "You're very kind..." " I'll pay you back." " If you like, once you've got the ring." "A cognac?" "I haven't got time." "But we might see each other later." "I'm not budging from here." "You should go to the cinema." "I haven't got time for that either." "Let me give you back your dog." "Bye, Honey Moon!" "Good luck." "Shit!" "I've lost it!" "Sorry I'm late." "Better late than never." "We went on working late, I'm really sorry." "Can we spend some time together now?" " Not today." " Right." "No, but I'd like us to have a bit longer." "I'm free." "I've cut quite a few ties so..." "The day after tomorrow is fine for me." "Tomorrow, the day after, it doesn't matter to me." "Here, at the same time." "We'll have time to talk." "So I haven't been able to keep you today..." " ... but I'll be the weed." " What?" "It's a Malagasy proverb." ""I'm the weed by the roadside... not to trip you up but to hold you back so we can talk"." "Nice proverb!" "I'll see you the day after tomorrow." " I hope you're not too cross." " Not at all." "I'll be delighted." "Harlequin has his shop" "On the palace steps" "He teaches his policies" "To all his little subjects" "Mr Pun, Mr Chin, Mr El, Mr Oh," "Mr Punchinello." "It's odd..." "I feel like the chestnut trees are flowering for the second time this year..." "It must be because I can't get rid of the memory of last spring." "Elaine, I'm very worried..." "because of Georges..." "I went home three times this week... three times he was on the phone and when I came in he hung up." "Not because the conversation was over, because of me." "He's dealing with a child abduction... there are people who mustn't be compromised." "I don't think it's anything to do with you." "I don't know." "There's a chance I'm wrong... but this is what I'd like you to do." "I give you a list of names... and if these people phone up... you've got to listen and take notes." "I'd rather not." "But Georges is very odd." "I mean it's very odd of him in relation to me..." "You know when Igor was around, I gave him these names, I told him about them." " Yes I know..." " In reality" "In fact he asked me." "Who are these people?" "The other twelve..." " Be careful!" " I'll learn them by heart." "That would be good." "Be careful." "I'm sure I'm right." "Georges wouldn't do anything against you  without telling you." "What makes you think that?" "You're always imagining things." "Shall we go?" "Gathered, like conspirators who concealed nothing from each other, enjoying a fortune similar to that of the old man on the mountain, with a foot in every salon, a hand in every chest... elbows in the street, their head on every pillow, and with no scruples." "The reader, for four volumes, from one underground passage to the next, showing him a dried-out corpse and telling him, as a conclusion, that he constantly frightened him with some door hidden in the wallpaper.." "or a dead man carelessly left behind." "Well?" "The end was great because you were trembling." "Before! "I'm afraid of the goddess..." etc., "When everything trembles like that"," "Because there you see the chorus trembling." "Let's do the beginning again." "I prefer the end." "I remember it better." "Because the end..." "But we hardly did anything at the end." "So let's start from the beginning." " But I was telling you about the end!" " But the beginning!" "Wait!" "Anyway it's not frightening enough." "The chorus is too nice, the beginning  is too tuneful." "Elaine sings too much." "She's a good singer, but..." " I think the chorus, if it can scare itself..." " But it's not that frightened at that point." "I think so." "No, but it's good work because..." "Psychosis!" "Is Eteocles frightened, or is he frightening?" "He should frighten himself." "Tell us exactly what was good and what wasn't" " in terms of the work." "In terms of the work, I think it was good... but in terms of voices and all that... they were good, but in terms of the Greeks...." "But the end was good, Lili was trembling  the chorus should tremble." "And when you're both like that you're a bit too  a bit to comfortable" "Yes, the chorus is too comfortable." " It's not frightened enough!" " When?" "The whole time!" "In the beginning." " They're not frightened then!" " No, but the chorus is always frightened." "Throughout the whole play." "And then the body..." "I agree with you..." "Perhaps we could find it like that..." "Columns!" "They mean something." "We'll become columns to make Marie happy." "That's it!" "Eteocles is a column!" "That's for the warriors, but you see the columns..." "The horse factor..." "Very Greek!" "But you see the columns... they can move  columns can move." "We don't have to make them immobile." " They can move..." " With the wind?" "Lili, I really liked it at one point because it was raucous." "But she was frightened." " The chorus frightens Eteocles." " It should frighten itself." "So does the chorus not move?" "The chorus should move as a block..." "And they're frightened." "I didn't see." "She just watched, I confined myself to listening." "I deliberately didn't watch..." "The beginning sounded very beautiful to me." "The sounds all harmonised very good... you went from one to the next but... we have to redo the beginning in the sense that there..." "I thought there were things in people's work... that contradicted each other." " What do we keep?" " For example..." "Wait, wait, wait..." "At this point the chorus..." "That was good." "Shit, you weren't watching." "Did you see when the chorus imprisons Eteocles that was good." " The chorus has to surround him." " Like columns!" "It surrounds the column, and Eteocles is a column..." "It has to encircle him so that..." "There!" "The column is Eteocles." "No, the chorus is the columns." "That's enough columns!" "But the columns are good." "What were you going to say, Théo?" "The beginning..." "I only listened, so the beginning..." "Was good!" "It's true that I was hooked because the voices all converged... although Quentin... didn't sound in harmony..." "Perhaps we should exploit that?" "I wanted to talk about the rhythm between the coryphaeus and Eteocles." "There's a rhythm and it's right, but we have to improve it technically." "And not lose the bit where..." "Eteocles is caught between the two..." "Yes, but I didn't see that." "But definitely that's best, the coryphaeus..." "We can work on it now." "We'll do it a bit more Greek, for you, Marie." "Think of a column, Quentin." "Now listen carefully!" ""Listen to the women..." ""Listen to the women, although you do not carry them in your heart..."" ""Advise me of things..." "He tone of the voice is good?" "You're going back to the idea of rhythm, but it's not completely different..." "Listen to the women, although you do not carry them in your heart..."" ""Advise me of things that I can accomplish and..."" ""Advise me of things that I can accomplish and it make it brief"" ""Do not take this path..."" "You redid "Advise me..."" "The strength of the voice is too similar... because it's too even like that." "Shall we do it again?" " Lili!" " Where's she going?" "I think papa felt the need to go and get some food." "That's a bit much!" "Did Arsenal say anything to you?" "No, I think he..." " Didn't he go?" " Yes, but he's coming back." "No, let's work." "No we can't without Lili." "Shall we do voices?" " Papa?" " Has he bought a car?" "No" "He hasn't had an accident?" " He's with a girl." " That's right!" "Just think." "No, it's impossible, believe me." "Which one is it?" "Have you seen Theo's friend?" "Come on, back to work." " We can't without Théo." " We'll talk about it afterwards" " Let's start." " Same thing?" "Hurry up and finish it, Marie!" ""Two paths lie open before you." "Thirteen to hunt the Snark better" "Place me as I should be." "They won't have met the Boo" "Holy was our ambition Juni who saw them faint" "At the harbour where you must start Spend the time that will erase them" "A hand will guide your own" "Other thirteens have formed a strange crew"" " It's funny though." " Don't you even know his name?" "I've never spoken to him." "I see him in the same café every morning  around 10, 10.30." "He's there every morning, for breakfast." "It's funny  he eats I don't know how many croissants." "He doesn't get fat, he's as thin as a rake." "I sit in a corner, I watch him." "I drink too much grenadine milk." " What about your weight?" " I'm getting fat!" "And he doesn't get fat." "He never looks at me." "He reads all the morning papers." "It's strange, he only reads the short news items." "Only the short ones." "Why those?" "I don't know." "He's completely allergic  to politics, entertainment." "He goes straight to the short news." "I smoke too much." "Take this for your dog." "He's asleep." "I took him back home, he was starting to get tired." " Good-looking, isn't he?" " He's lovely." "So, you lost your money?" "Stupid things, that's all I'll ever do." "What are you going to do?" "I don't know" "Same as usual." "I don't want to." "You should try those two guys at the back." "Where?" "Those two?" "Those guys sell..." "They sell porn under the table." "They're supposed to be selling religious stuff... but it's all dirty..." "You could easily get money out of them" " I can't stand them." " Have they bothered you?" " They're just sad and stupid." "They certainly aren't very pretty." "Do you think it would work?" "Do you think it would work?" "Do you know them?" "It might cause you problems." "I don't give a shit!" "What shall I say to them?" "They're called Christos and Cotrenos." "Oh why not?" " Shall I do it?" " If you want to." "I'll do it." "They look so horrible." "Let's go." " Excuse me." " We're expecting someone." "I won't keep you a moment" "Sorry, but we're expecting someone." "I wanted to talk to you about religious magazines..." "I was told to speak to you." "You know, because I work with... young children, with the elderly." "I'm in charge..." "And we haven't got enough papers..." "Anyway I was told that you sold them..." " The Cross..." " We don't sell anything." "That's it..." "Oh!" "Oh dear." "Wait a minute, that's not The Cross, this." "It's more like The Cunt." " That's interesting." " That's enough!" "You know it's totally illegal?" "It's completely illegal to sell... the things you've got there." "There was an article about it in France-Soir." " She reads France-Soir..." " I'm not joking." "Let's talk seriously." "You know this is going to be very expensive..." "It may be, but you can get your money elsewhere." "I'm not going anywhere." "Because I can talk very loudly, I can even call the waiter." "Then call him." "Leave me alone!" "You've no right to throw me out!" "I've paid, I want my things!" "Stop!" "You won't get away with this!" " I don't want to see you again." " I'll be back with a few friends... and you won't look so happy then!" "Hello girls!" "I'll be with you in a minute." "Miss Blandish." "We all agreed we wouldn't bring anyone else to the sessions." "Would you like to go to the cinema?" "Wouldn't you rather watch us rehearse?" " I haven't got any money." " I have!" "Give me some cash." "Have you seen Once Upon a Time in the West?" "No." "Quentin, you owe me some money!" " From the other time." " It's possible." " Come on." " Seeing that you owe me five." " So you'll pay me back?" " I don't understand." " You owe me five..." " Lili I owe you three..." "So if he owes me five francs and I owe you five that means... he has to give them to me." "Have you known her long, that girl?" "I don't know her." "You're mean, Lili!" "You're not nice." "Anyway, he doesn't like theatre." " He could have stayed though." " He has to be entertained." "I've forgotten the play!" "The main thing is to keep calm, all the time... to keep breathing  to your own personal rhythm." "Breathing from your belly and... to prove to myself that I was still alive..." "I did little breaths... when I breathed out I made a sound." "That way I was sure..." "I was still me." "I didn't find it horrible at all." "For the sounds, the noises that sounded really loud..." "I tried to leave my body." "I mean I felt as though my body wasn't mine any more... that I was above my body..." "I felt like I was watching you all... moving about over my body..." "In fact... you were the ones making yourselves ridiculous." "And what helped me too was smiling..." "I tried to keep smiling." "I wasn't scared ever... probably because I really trusted you..." "I think it was because I didn't..." "I was trying not to be in my body." "Anyway I'd got used to the idea... that my body... was dust." "The things you said to me..." "Well, they came from you, I trusted you... so I didn't take them seriously... and when someone talked to me about death and all that..." "I did take that seriously, I said to myself, it's true." "For Prometheus, I thought he was in every part of his body... he must really inhabit... every part of his body, be just under his skin... everything must have really hurt him, must have really got to him." "Above all he must have been a man, rather than a god..." "He must have been a man... who felt things very strongly." "It's funny how ... the main things are the same with her, you and me." "First the idea of breathing that lets you..." "It's a safeguard." "And then with me, thinking about it now  smiling." "And the more noise people make... the more they hurt you, the more you want..." " ...to laugh or smile." " You say smile... but we thought it was much the same, but more haughty." "But I felt the need to have a smile on my face." "I felt that..." "You had to express it." "By expressing it you can paralyse everyone around you, if you express it..." "But it's for yourself." "From our point of view... there wasn't much to be scared of, really." "Ultimately I didn't really find the potential... any real aggression, not for a second." "Because we worked too much before." "I think it's because of the props as well." "You think?" "You have to do it first thing in the day... not after you've worked on other things." "I think it mobilises fresh energy... do it first thing in the afternoon." "But after hours work..." "The aggression..." "You tell yourself you'll get there more easily being tired, but it's not true." "I was very well rested after the exercise." "Me too, the first time, as a victim," "I felt very well rested." " Me too." " We should let them go to sleep." "My problem is aggression... and violence..." "I can't act aggression and violence." "Or else I do it for real." "No, you have to take it from further away, ... maybe that's work you need to do." "We've already done a lot of that." "You joined us recently, it's too new for you." "Maybe we should always have a kind of rotation" "I didn't find a way of transposing my violence because..." "I had it, but I didn't find a way to let it out." "We have a similar problem..." "I'm not sure this exercise is very effective, ... in terms of aggression" "The thing that makes me think it works is precisely the point where you stop..." " Maybe..." " I'm also afraid of... afraid of getting to violence that's no longer controllable and..." "I'm afraid there'll be an incident." "I don't want to smash her head on the floor." "We go a lot further than a rehearsal..." "But we've always said that violence must be controlled." "But if we don't accept some risks we'll never get past discussion." "I don't want to take the risk of smashing her head." "Violence either comes out or it doesn't, there's no middle way." "For me that aggression has to be translated into an action, uncontrollable violence." " That's not aggression." " You were violent when we were doing" " ... stuff on Prometheus." "I can't do it." "I imagine someone on the ground, me standing up." "I think this exercise is richer for the person it's done to than those who do it..." "She feels she's come out of it a bigger person..." "You can't be  a happy aggressor." "No, there were lots of things happening." "We can't do it after three hours' work... we have to start the day with it." "You have to be very relaxed to be aggressive." "I remember getting angry... after feeling very calm and..." "Once with Lili we did this..." "I don't know, she didn't like it" "It really upset her, she was the victim." " She was the victim?" " She almost cracked up, it was..." " Because the people round her were too..." " At one point, yes, it really went far." " I wasn't there that time." " They were aggressive?" "I was frightened for her at one point." "She was crying... it was just..." "We stopped because... she hadn't found  that kind of peace." "She held on a long long time..." "Towards the end she lost track of where she was." "She suddenly started to panic." "I almost shouted, then..." "Perhaps she didn't have that trust Beatrice was talking about..." "It's trust that stops you being frightened..." "Yes, undoubtedly." "It was just before we split up." "But with me, it wasn't just that you could hurt me, it was..." "I was very afraid that bad feelings that one of you might have hidden..." "I personally felt touched by the exercise  that might come out during the exercise." "I personally felt touched by the exercise..." "Not the subject that I was, a passive subject, but that I would be touched  by one of you." "Bye, Théo!" "Bye Arsenal!" "See you soon!" "Forty-fifteen forty-fourteen..." " It's great to see you." " You too" " How are you?" " Very well." " It's been a long time." " Yes, why?" " Because you never phone me." " That's true." "Why not?" "It doesn't matter." "I get news of you through Georges." "How's your group?" "One day I'll come see you." " Why don't you call me?" " I don't know." "You know after a while you don't see people any more." "It's odd." " Are you working hard?" " Yes, very hard." "I'm working every afternoon." " You enjoy it?" " That's nice of you." "About Georges..." "I've got a weird story." "The other day I came to pick him up here from the metro." "He came out and I saw him with another guy..." "Igor." "Why Igor?" " It looked like him." " There's no reason why Igor should reappear  without us hearing about it." "If Igor was back I'd know about it." "You wouldn't see him with Georges." " You saw him here at court?" " Yes, I saw him with Georges." "And you're sure it was Igor?" "I could be wrong but it looked like him to me." "No, it's not possible..." "Impossible." "I really can't see Igor surfacing without letting us know." "I don't know why he would be with Georges, he doesn't know him." "Igor came round one evening, didn't he?" " Yes, you're right." " It's impossible... he wouldn't see Georges without seeing me." "I'd know before anyone else." "I'm sure you're right." "Anyway, thanks to Igor we get to see each other." "The theatre's very good." " How's things with Georges?" " You don't like him." "You never did." "It's not that I don't like him, I just don't have much to say to him." "I just see him now and then in court." "It's you I'm interested in." "At your dinner he wasn't so great." "It's strange." "He knows we're friends..." "I don't know why he has to give me a nasty surprise like that." "You can go out without him." "Yes, of course." "Well, tell me about your work." "It's very good." "With very good people." "You must bring me with you one day." "Can I see it?" "Here, we're working on this." "It's ambitious." "Yes, it's ambitious." " You're happy?" " Very happy." " You're pleased to be doing this?" " Very pleased." "So this makes you happy and the rest...." "Oh, the rest doesn't matter." " It bores me, it's a little sad." " You don't change." "What about you?" " I'm OK." " You're seeing people?" "I see a lot of Pierre, Warok sometimes, and Thomas everyday." " You're engaged to Thomas?" " No, I don't think so." "I'll pick you up one day, you can come and watch." "I'll say you're a friend." "I'll just sit in a corner, I won't say anything, just watch." "I'll give you my address." "It's odd how you leave people behind like that." "It's your fault." "We'd like to see you." "We should all get together don't you think?" "Pierre talks about it now and then." "I'm not very..." "It's over." "Are you sure?" "Fine, second floor..." "What shall we do?" "EPISODE 3" "FROM FRÉDÉRIQUE TO SARAH" " Are you okay?" " I think I might not go home." "Pierre talks to me about it from time to time." "I'm not very..." "It's over." "Are you sure?" "Fine, second floor..." "What shall we do?" "Dear Professor, Permit an unlucky young man, who can neither speak nor hear, to beg the privilege of reading the answers to some questions from your lips." "Right, sit down..." "I received your letter." "You ask me some awkward questions." "If you would like to be more precise  to write your questions down." "I've got some paper here." "You're a student?" "You ask me who are the Thirteen, in Balzac's work." "You have read The History of the Thirteen?" "So you know that the Thirteen are the heroes of three... narratives - they aren't exactly novels, they're shorter - three short stories by Balzac:" ""Ferragus", "The Duchess of Langeais" and "The Girl with Golden Eyes"." "These thirteen appear very seldom throughout his work." "In my view the interest of these stories has little to do with the Thirteen..." "I very much like the conspiracies in Balzac:" "... plots, secret, occult societies," "For me that is the heart of Balzac's oeuvre..." "It's the thing I like best... this aspect of conspiracy and organizations." "paradoxically lacking in The History of the Thirteen." "You find only furtive, passing acts." "At least in my opinion." "Yes, what is their role?" "Well, their role is rather..." ""The Girl with the Golden Eyes", a little less - or more in "The Duchess of Langeais", even more in "Ferragus"... the role of the "deus ex machina"... they intervene to tie up the plot, to bring about a conclusion." "But the organisation as such is described only in the preface to the works..." "It's in the preface which Balzac grouped as..." "The History of the Thirteen." "Their effect on the whole of the Human Comedy... then becomes interesting." "Ultimately the answer is negative." "Balzac abandoned the Thirteen." "Members of the Thirteen reappear... but there are no further allusions to their membership." "For example one of Balzac's heroes... is De Larcey." "De Larcey, as you know, becomes Prime Minister." "And moreover he dies - a rare thing in Balzac's oeuvre - during the course of The Human Comedy." "The History of the Thirteen is located at the end of the Empire... and the beginning of the Restoration." "...after forming a ministry." "He became Prime Minister." "One of his ministers was..." "Rastignac." "And De Larcey's death occurs... in one of his most interesting political works... and occurs in the scenes from the political life of De Larcey." "Have you read "Larcey MP"?" "You've read Balzac's entire oeuvre!" "I don't see how I can help you..." "All that we know of Balzac's work... is provided, first and foremost, by Balzac." "Your second question is more difficult... there I think we don't really know." "What real events might have led Balzac to invent this secret society." "These things exist, they exist in Balzac," "Because secret societies were around in the time of Balzac" "They exist now, they also have." "It's certain that it was inspired by reality." "Like all of Balzac." "He often alludes to certain societies..." ""Le Carbonari", "Asylum Song", which is a philanthropic society... assisting political refugees in the United States." "But did there ever exist an occult society... like the Thirteen... one designed to serve individual interests... and not some general interest." "A society that lacked... to put it in modern terms... an ideological basis... which, ultimately, existed purely for the selfish advantage of the Thirteen?" "Are there any such examples in history?" "Because even criminal associations... have some idea behind them or a necessity." "There is a passage I wanted to read..." "Have you read The Other Side of Contemporary History." "You haven't?" "It fails to live up to its title... it does not have much to say about contemporary history." "It is interesting for other reasons." "It is far more interesting in relation to the question you have asked me." "Not that it is a continuation of The History of the Thirteen." "To use an expression of Balzac's... it is an association of a completely opposite kind." "Whereas the Thirteen is designed for wrongdoing, and for the satisfaction of the personal interests of its members... the association is... to use Balzac's precise description..." ""The aim of the characters is to replace... the permanent conspiracy for evil... with a kind of conspiracy for good."" "And to do good, the characters employ... conspiratorial tactics not dissimilar to those of the Thirteen." "The way that the Thirteen act is... easier to understand from this story... where it is described in minute detail, than in Balzac's Thirteen." "But I wanted to read you a passage where Balzac says... how greatly he values associations." ""The association", reads the words of Balzac..." ""The association, one of the greatest social forces... is based on feelings which... since 1792, no longer exist in France... where the individual has triumphed over the state."" "Alliances, associations and unions  were very dear to Balzac's heart." "Was he influenced by his father... a member of the Freemasons?" "Was he influenced by the climate of conspiracy... that existed in France and throughout the world in the late Empire and early Restoration periods... notably through the Carbonari, of the Compagnonnage which drifted from labor assocations and therefore Freemasonry" "So, you're question..." "I can answer your question as follows:" "In The History of the Thirteen we have an association that is still a little too similar to the bandit gangs present in fashionable novels and in the early novels of Balzac." "Whereas gradually, as his oeuvre develops... we find associations... which are not designed to serve individuals, but general interests." "And which correspond to existing associations." "For ultimately history shows that there are a great many associations of that kind." "We've moved a long way from the story of the Thirteen..." "I think I have answered your questions," "If you want to ask me another question you can write it down..." "Oh, that question!" "How do you expect me to answer such a question?" ""Are you aware of another association of the Thirteen... in the present day?" 'Present' is spelt with two 'e's." "Your poor grasp of reality is... matched only by your poor spelling." "I'm sorry." "Well, in the present..." "I don't know." "Not to my knowledge, anyway." "Associations certainly do exist... from sporting associations... to charitable associations." "And then you've also got the political parties..." "Ultimately they are perhaps the mostimportant... or the emanation of the government and its police..." "So that's all I can tell you... but an association like that of the Thirteen..." "I think it would be a very odd thing for something like that to exist." "Perhaps you have got wind of something of that kind?" "Why have you asked me this question?" "Write it down!" "I don't know that I can read your writing." ""Several mysterious messages... have set me on this path"." "I think it's time for us to part our ways." "Read Balzac, that's the best thing you can do." "I propose Rue Coquillère..." "Rue Coquillère, there's a wonderful passage in "Ferragus"." "The story of some people standing under a porch... really marvellous..." "I'm going to go there..." "I'd like a large glass of cold milk." "No." "A little scotch for the young lady." " I'd like a large glass of cold milk, please." " And a little scotch with that..." " and a large one for me." " Fine." " So two scotchs and a milk" " Do as the gentleman says." "So you drink milk, do you?" "Yes, milk is very good." "Better than whisky at nine o'clock in the morning." " Nine o'clock?" " Yes, at nine o'clock." " There are no set times for drinking." " Depends who you're talking to." "So, we're out walking alone, are we?" "We aren't out walking, we're in a café." "You know what I mean..." "You look like a little gypsy girl." "Why do you say that?" " Your hair, your bag, all of it..." " Maybe I am." "That's interesting." " Why don't you have your drink at my table?" " No, I don't want to." " That's not very nice." " Yes it is." "Come on, give it a try." "I'll drink the drink you've given me... we'll drink at our own table and tell each other what we think of it." "That's no fun." "Will you read my palm?" "A palm reading, sometime maybe  I've forgotten how." "A little scotch and you can perform wonders." "Scotch and milk is enough to make you forget everything." "Let's see." "Come on, try." "Why not?" " Show me." " My whole life is here." " This isn't the hand of a working man." " No, I have to say..." "You live in a very, very big house..." "with lots of people around you." "Yes." "There are lots of famous people around you?" "This is interesting." "Do you ride horses?" "I sometimes put money on a horse...." "Your heart..." "What's the matter with my heart?" "I'd rather not say." "I could be wrong." " Bloody miserable thing to say." " I don't know if it's already happened." "There's something pretty horrible." "You've got the gift, haven't you." " Sorry." " That's OK." "She was a bitch!" "She dumped me yesterday." " How disgusting!" "Why?" " There was another guy she fancied more... that was it." "That's life." " So that's why...." " I like a drink anyway." " Really?" " But a bit more just now." " I'm going to make you a proposition." " To me?" "Why?" "Yes, to do with her." "Because I'd like a bit of revenge." " Quite right too." " Nothing too cruel  a little lesson." "There's a party this evening..." "Yes, we were supposed to be going together." "She'll be with someone else, so I have to go with someone too." " To compensate." " Sure." "And that someone is..." "It could be you." "That might be fun, but..." "There's a problem... we move in the same kind of circles..." "I left home a month ago and my father absolutely mustn't find me..." "I've got nothing to wear." "That's not a problem." "Perhaps you could give me a bit of money so..." "Of course." "We can go and buy you a little dress." "I'll take you." " What do you say?" " Yes." "We'd better pay, if we're leaving." " You can call the..." " I'll just finish my milk." "Alright." "We can go after that." "Give me a cigarette." "Don't strain yourself!" " I'm so pissed off!" " You're not the only one, sweetheart." "Shit!" "This has been going on such a long time!" "I'm sick of it!" "Three thousand bloody years!" " Shit!" " You're not the only one." "Then do something you silly cow, entertain me." "Not if you're going to be like that." " Dance." " Don't wear yourself out." "You dance, my little doll, you're the only one that's nice to me..." " In this heat?" " Anyway I'm sick of all that..." "I'm so fucking bored!" "..." "I'm sick of it all..." "I'd like to see all of you in my place." "Well, in a way I am." " Do you think I'm doing this for fun?" " Obviously not." "You'd be incapable of doing anything for fun..." "And why are you here then, sweetheart?" " To piss you off." " You're doing a good job." "Go on, dance a bit, Mimi..." "Dance, Mimi, dance." "I'm so fucking bored." "Very nice, very seductive." "But this is no time to get yourself worked up." "You're a killjoy, you are." "Go and wait for them, will you?" "Dance a bit more, Mimi." "You should make him look decent." " They'll be here soon." " Who?" " The pope!" " Not again!" "Shit!" "I don't want to see anyone today." "I'm sick of all these people coming to wind me up..." "I hope there'll be a good-looking one today..." "That would make a nice change." "There, what did I tell you?" "Come on, hurry up!" "Quick!" "Take your drug." "Give me the cigarette!" "Right, are you ready?" "Wait." "Sir, Madam... you may come in now." "He's extremely tired, I would ask you to speak very quietly." "You may each ask five questions, because..." "After what he did to me..." "Five questions, he's very tired." "Who would like to ask first?" " Mum, is that my dad?" " Yes." "Please... you may speak freely." "That's not the problem." "Who would like to ask the first question?" "Achille, let's not disappoint her." "What's that he's got?" "It's a wound." "He's been badly tortured, badly damaged." "Earthly divinity!" "When I was light!" "Sources of rivers!" "He's sitting on my ball!" "Sir, please, this is unacceptable." "What's unacceptable, my girl?" "Sit down!" "Oh Earth!" "Mother of all creatures..." "See the tortures I have suffered... for millions of years..."" "Listen to him." "Mum, I want to go." "Stay where you are!" "You wanted to see him." "But Mum, I'm scared." "Stay where you are." "Have a good look at him." "You won't be asking to see him again." " Really, please, sir, please!" " Don't touch me!" " Stay back." " Don't touch me!" " You're crazy, my girl!" " Calm down, sir." "Don't touche me!" "Calm down, sir." "Madam, can we see his face for a bit?" "I don't want my little girl to come all this way for nothing." " I'm only asking you stay calm." " He is my dad." "We are calm." "Pay attention." " Not too close." " Don't don't touch me." " Not so close, please!" " Mad." "Hysterical." " Piss off!" " He hasn't changed." " You'll have to force us to leave." " You'll have to shut up." " Do you want to go closer?" " Go closer, go and touch him." " I'm scared." " No you can touch him." "Go touch him." "Do you want to ask the master a question, Madam?" "I asked him everything when he was around." " Is he my dad?" " Yes..." " Yes, he's the father of us all, my dear." " But particularly you." "He doesn't look good." "What do you want?" "I don't understand." "Chewing gum" "He's in pain." "He's on the verge..." "He's on the verge of ecstasy." "I feel him coming." "I'm sure." "I'm absolutely sure." "Would you please ask some questions." "He cannot tolerate your visit for much longer." "Hurry up." "He's reaching the limits..." " Don't exaggerate, Madam!" " Why is he sick?" "He's a titan, Madam." " You must leave." " Why is my dad sick?" " Do you want to make a scene, sir?" " I don't believe it, I don't believe it." " Stop, please." " Stop what?" "My attitude is profoundly similar to that of the man lying there!" "Do you want to touch him?" "Go on." " Want a candy from promesthus?" " Why is he sick?" " Take the candy." " Why is he sick?" "I'll explain at home." "Come on, what do you want?" "Madam, but this is not what you're here for." "The master is ready to answer you..." ""The master"." "Don't give me that crap." "I knew him long before you did." "Keep your distance, sir!" "For the last time, don't touch me!" " She made a drawing for her father." " My drawing!" "Let her show him her drawing..." "Show it to him" "It's my drawing!" "It's my drawing!" ""... blind hopes"." " I said..." " Blind hope." "Let her show him her drawing..." "He is her father after all." " Madam, please!" " He's not going to die,we all know that." "Go on, show him your drawing." " Here!" "..." "Here!" " Don't tear it." " I'm not going to tear it." " It's for him." "Let him see it." "Go and sit down, please!" "Back then he used to rape us." "Now we can't even touch him." "Calm down, madam." "It's been a very long time since he raped anyone." " Yes, I see." " Then calm down." " Give me the drawing!" " This is for you." " It's my ball." " Thank you." " He's my father!" "Dad, it's my ball." "Please sir, don't go so close." "That's enough now!" " Madam, it's unheard of." "Please go!" " What is it?" " He's mad!" "He's mad!" "Don't touch my dad!" "I've never seen such a scene!" "Calm down, darling!" ""Peace... peace among men..."" "When I tell you... when I tell you." "When you say, "Heaven, father..."" "When you say, "Heaven, father..." and all that..." "We can ask him questions, can't we?" "My daughter wants to ask him a question." "Not in this chaos!" " How does it feel at this moment?" " Don't touch him." "Don't touch him!" "I want to go." "I've had enough." "I feel sick." "Calm down." " This is a scandal!" " My little Prometheus..." " I've never seen such a thing." "I see approach the enemy of my father!" "I honor my father and I love you." "I love you." "Prometheus, I love you." "I knew him long before you did." "Don't touch him." "Why did you say you made men fall, Dad?" " Stop it." " Move away from him." "Enough!" "Come, little one." " By god!" " I've never seen such a thing." "Don't touch me." " Leave the girl alone." " I want my dad!" "Yes... your dad will be back later..." "he's tired." " Because he's sick." " I'm tired." "You're father is tired" " I want to take him with me." " You can't, he's too tired." "Come on, let's play ball." "Yes, guardian, go and play ball." "Let's stop there." " We'll take it tomorrow." " It's like a judo class!" "Shall we do another one..." " ...or shall we analyse this one?" "You always have to keep yourself under control in an exercise like that." " Here's the problem with violence." " It's all out war!" "She was jumping on you!" "We shouldn't start again, I'll forget everything." "Shall we go on now, or shall we analyse it?" "There's plenty to analyse!" "I think... some things just weren't respected." "We'd said each one would ask questions... afterwards." "I was afraid it would all sink into... everyone talking at once, very fast..." "You can't follow and there are five or six things going on at once..." "It would be more interesting if everyone focused... there was a coherent order." "I can't judge from the outside, but I think it was pretty muddled." "They were all challenging Prometheus." "He came in... with his own kind of challenge..." "I hadn't realised that I wasn't allowed to go near him." "I thought we could..." "I thought we could..." "We can't start a war straight away..." "We originally said we'd be very respectful... you'd travelled a very long way  and it lead to this thing." " We didn't follow enough." "The initial idea was transformed... it turned into something completely different." "Perhaps Beatrice should have told us to start with..." " We didn't understand it." " You we're too quick to retaliate." "You accused him suddenly." "I said ask you're question, that he was tired... that you shouldn't retaliate, but you were like furies." "You always have to take account of what the other person gives you." "I was very defensive..." "I had to protect him, and I..." "There's the initial situation, which you broke down a bit quickly." "In other words I felt straight away as far as I could tell... that everything got very confused very quickly." "The guardian should have been a link... between the visitors and Prometheus." "But if no one respects what the guardian says..." "If someone says something, always take it into consideration." "When the guardian says "Don't go near him!"," "you've come to see something said to be worthy of respect and veneration." "I was angry with Prometheus..." "And I was in despair, angry, and that... comedian stuck there in the middle..." "I couldn't touch him when I wanted to hear him talk..." "You just weren't supposed to go near him." "...but I'd come precisely to touch him." "You mustn't go beyond what the other person says." "Maybe I should have responded to his character too..." "I introduced you, I told you to protect him." "Someone was trying to touch him." "I said not to do it." "Yes, but maybe that changed things for you?" "Because in the confusion someone touched him, that was sacrilege." "Once that's happened a new situation can perhaps be grafted on..." "I terrible, bourgeois god." "At one point I thought about ... doing something with what you were bringing in, but there was so much piling up on top of him my role was still to..." "If there's only been one it might have been possible, but three!" "Yes, that's it." "There are times when you have to sacrifice yourself... get into what they're doing... but there has to be a kind of connivance between us not to mess things up..." "It's much better... when a situation gets set up and everyone respects it..." " even if it gets modified." " It's not a question of modifying..." "We don't need to create confusion." ""Frédérique... in her little shop... match seller... in her little barrow... goes into town... like a fool - her hat twisted - like a fish-tail - hands in her pockets - like a Spaniard..."" "You win... you lose..." "Wait, I'll show you." "Then put your arms like this..." "THE CORNER OF CHANCE" "Cigarette." "Take your places, please." "Don't be afraid, come in." "Ladies and gentlemen, you have the great honour to see the goddess Prometheus... who will do you the great honour of receiving you." "You should regard yourselves as blessed... that she is willing to receive people." "You may ask three questions... none lasting longer than a minute, answer included." "You must observe extreme moderation... showing all due consideration." "The great goddess is sensitive... and cannot tolerate the slightest upset." "Before your first question... spend around half a minute composing yourselves..." "I would like to know..." "Half a minute's silence, please." "Oh goddess, look favourably on our requests... and answer to all that... our humble visitors will ask..." "First question, please." "I would like to have a private conversation with Prometheus." "What about?" "Serious personal problems..." "Sadly, madam... today is not a day for private conversations." "For that it is necessary to put in a special request at least two months in advance." " It can't wait." " I'm sorry but... for now, this is a public audience..." "Unless the goddess gives an exceptional response... to your request." "Yes." "The goddess agrees to hear your question." "Please express it clearly." " In front of these people?" " That is the rule." " I'd like to know..." " I must ask you to speak a little louder, the goddess has a slight hearing difficulty." "I should like to know... what political thinking underpinned your action?" "No politics!" "The goddess seems to look down on your question... regarding it as... how can I put it... rather basic." "Do you have anything else to ask?" "I'm surprised at your response." "Are you in favour of violence?" "Oh yes." "Violence is a political act." "No politics here." "The goddess says no politics, madam." "You are confined to two questions." "But all that you did..." "Don't excite yourself." "We are in a highly mystical presence... and we cannot tolerate..." "aggression." "Who would you see as your spiritual successor?" "Prometheus, obviously." "I see I have been deceived." "The door is behind you, madam." "Forgive me if I don't accompany you." "What a masquerade!" "And you spoke of freedom, you spoke of bringing fire to mankind, in other words knowledge, and you're telling me no politics..." "It's terrible!" "It's a masquerade!" "Bastards!" "Imperialists!" "Have pity on this lost soul who has little idea what she is talking about." "Madam, please." "I shall ask you to compose yourself for a moment before asking your question." "It's very simple." "I've walked many kilometres..." "I set off from my country home two days ago." "Yes, madam, she's listening." "They told me the goddess had done a great deal... for mankind, saved many men." "Where I live there's a drought and... all my cows, all my pigs have nothing to drink... so I would like the goddess to make water..." " ... come back to my land." " The rain is already falling." "I've brought you a small image... so you could kiss it." "I shall transfer it to the goddess." " She is too kind." " Will you accept this image?" "Are you willing to kiss it?" "Thank you, goddess." "So can I have water back home?" "I said the rain is already falling." "It means, that it's raining." "Do you have another question?" "In that case madam, I would ask you either to withdraw... or if there is anything else you would like to express, since you have been good..." "I'm very touched." "I think the goddess is very beautiful." "As you see, the goddess is not insensible to compliments." "I would ask you to withdraw." "I shall not accompany you, please forgive me." "It's your turn, madam." "Come closer, as the goddess is a little deaf in one ear." "I haven't come for me, it's for a friend." "Cigarette!" "I've brought you some, they're butts but they've got filters..." "Is the goddess prepared to accept madam's cigarette butt?" "Please try to concentrate and... to answer, please, O goddess!" "The goddess seems well disposed." "Here is the offering" "Is there anything else?" "Please address the goddess." "I've come on behalf of a friend... not a friend..." "I just met him in the street..." "Please speak a little louder, madam..." "He's doing his military service." "He's got to go he's on leave at the moment... and he asked me what he should do so he didn't have to go back so I said..." ""You have to speak to Prometheus, you have to speak to the beautiful lady."" "So I said to him, "I don't mind doing that for you."" "We're very touched by your request, but please address her with something precise." "I could address this to her..." "Yes, I think the goddess will be pleased." "Will you accept this bunch of flowers?" "Yes, the goddess seems to accept it." "Do you have another question?" "That's the only one." "Then the goddess may perhaps deign to reply to you." "Can she help this young woman?" " To do what?" " She asks "To do what?"" "Young men must go to war." "You have the goddess's answer, madam:" ""Young men must go to war."" "I was hoping for better than that." "The ways of the goddess are impenetrable, madam." "What can I say to my friend?" "What can this lady say to her friend?" "Let him come himself." ""Let him come himself." Are you satisfied?" " I'll try." " You are reasonable, and follow the right path." "I shall ask you to withdraw, the goddess is showing signs of tiredness." "Thank you, beautiful lady." "I shall see you out." "Down with the goddess!" "Bitch!" "Scum!" "You'll all die like dogs!" "Money for the rich, wretchedness for the poor!" "That was really sweet." "Better, wasn't it?" "This butt is disgusting." "We all listened to each other." "How did it seem to you?" "I'd really like to be Louis XIV!" " To be who?" " Louis XIV." "I said to myself... we should get the answer from the international organisation in a fortnight." "They don't know how to disperse tear-gas... so they use fog machines used in films... or agricultural machines, and put different chemicals in them... or other products." "They said it's not difficult to do." " Have you got far enough with it now?" " Yes... but I really have to go back to Rennes." "It's got to be done, to show that... behind the government's satisfaction, there are still people who won't swallow the crap they're being fed..." "I think it should be more orientated round the critical state these people are in... and what they can do, not just in terms of organisation but in terms of life in general." "When you read the article... in the interviews, they deal with that problem and..." "I'm wondering whether it's not more important to see... whether we've got enough money to get the first edition out." "We need enough to get a second edition... out in case the first one goes wrong..." " We've got money..." " No, we've got one million" " And then?" " It isn't enough!" " And we've hardly got any subscriptions." " We have got some." "Not enough for two editions." "Yes, but Leonard has found... a printer who will give good credit terms..." "But what will we do if we've got no money?" "They'll close the shop." "Anyway we can always do one edition." "You can't do anything without taking a risk... and if we believe in it, it will work." " Obviously." " I'm going to leave you to it because..." "You haven't got another grandmother who could slip you another million?" " Really?" " Yes, but where is she?" " In good health?" " Yes." "If they're in good health I don't see how we can get it." "We've got to be practical." "Precisely." "Our articles should be practical  educational and... technical." "A newspaper must be for the public good." "Fine, but first you've got to do the accounts." "We've got enough, no one's being paid..." "I don't know enough." "I know enough." "It's true that there are a lot of expenses." "There's the paper and the photos..." "We'll probably blow the million on the first edition" "It'll bring money in..." "I'm not interested in doing one edition, so we need to plan for..." "We need to plan a good first edition, that's all." "We have to plan a good first edition, and a second edition..." "That's obvious." "The material, but not the money, so..." "If we don't take any risks we'll never do anything." "I'm going to ask Leonard..." "You're never there when we're talking, it's unbelievable..." "They've been talking for two hours." " They can never agree." " But now we have to make a decision." " A decision about what?" " Whether we're going to do this paper or not." "But we already know that." ""Do you know the Thirteen?"" "What's going on here?" " We need to restart the discussion." " Where's Leonard?" "Hi, Marlon!" "Coming in for a drink?" "So you're out of prison?" "Must have been all right in there!" "Oh, sir is a regular..." "So business must be good for you..." "Nice machine!" "Will you take me for a ride?" "With the redskin too!" "Is he yours?" "Mister courageous!" "Listen." "This is serious..." "No more messing around..." " I need money, fast." " You need cash?" "But there's money everywhere!" " I know there's money everywhere..." " So take it." " A quick scam." " I can find one." "Want some money?" "Want me to show you?" "You find a taxi driver... you say, can you take me there, there, there  look there!" "What do you find?" "A till!" "Or you find a little old lady... coming back from the market, you help her up the stairs and wham!" "You get it?" "It's not hard!" "I do it all day long." "OK, but then?" "You're very jumpy, Marlon." "Wait, I've got something..." "You understand?" "I'm not playing around this time." "It's crawling with sluts like you round here." "You're not the first." "Who do you think you are?" "You want to get busted up if I understand." "Waiter." "A scotch." "That guy's crazy." "Hello?" "Hello, is that Mum?" "I'm fine...." "No, no really, I don't need..." "Everything's fine." "I just wanted to talk to Dad, please." "Can you put him on?" "Fine, listen... yes, love you, Mum..." "Put Dad on please..." "I love you, everything's fine." "Put Dad on..." "Hello Dad?" "I need you to do me a favour." "I need a press card - do you still someone at Paris-Jour?" "Can you tell him to give me a press card?" "You can?" "I'll go round there tomorrow and ask him for the press card..." "You'll do that for me?" "Thanks..." "Goodbye Dad." "With all the force that implies... and the resonance I feel more strongly every time..." "It's got to a point where... it wouldn't take much..." " ... for everything to explode..." " Fall apart, I was going to say..." "I think, a bit like you, we've already talked about it quite a lot... with the group too." "I think they also feel that need..." "I think my idea... of seeing Sarah, or Pierre or Étienne, or anyone..." "an outside eye..." "We have to think about that because..." "I think the choice of someone like that... coming into the group... which is pretty solid now..." "It's important to think about how the group... might react to someone from outside." "Don't you thing?" "Don't you like the idea of Sarah?" "Not much, no..." "No, Sarah, Pierre, I think we need to think about it..." "Pierre maybe..." "Pierre might be better, he'd be more... objective..." "He'd have to have a bit of time spare to give us..." "I think we need to think about it..." "Every time he's been very constructive." "it's always been... everything has always been  very intelligent." "You're right." "But I still think it's important... to give it plenty of thought, so that..." "It would be a problem if we got it wrong..." "We're at the point where..." "I think it's all..." "not fragile, but it's important..." " Right, I'm going home, I'm tired." " So soon?" "I'm a bit tired... we're doing some exhausting days at the moment..." " Want me to walk with you?" " Definitely not." " You won't stay a bit longer?" " No, I'm going home..." "We can talk about this again tomorrow, OK?" "See you tomorrow?" "Sleep well." "Goodnight." " Will I see you tomorrow?" " No, I've got loads of stuff to do..." "I'll give you a ring tomorrow evening..." "I should be in." "Hello?" "I'd like to speak to Sarah please..." "Oh, it's you!" "It's Thomas..." "How's it going?" "Listen Sarah..." "I'd like to talk to you, have you got a moment?" "I'm putting on Aeschylus's Prometheus..." "I started working on it two months ago..." "It's an old project." "We've got to a point where I don't really know what to think." "I'd really like to talk to you a bit..." "Would you mind that?" "No, listen, I..." "Are you alone in Obade?" "No, I'd rather I came to you..." "would you mind?" "We could have a good talk..." "I can come tomorrow, yes, I've got a day free..." "No, I'd like to." "Yes, how are you?" "Fine, great, so I'll be there tomorrow..." "That's not a problem..." "I'm looking forward to seeing you..." "Goodbye, see you tomorrow." "All the street in my little room" "My little room is all the world" "I do my housework" "I sit at my piano" "Do re mi fa so la ti do" "Good journey?" "Your problem with the second book stems from the fact... that the first one is autobiographical." "You need to wait ten years before writing the second one." "You're right." "You can't always do things to order." "When you split up with someone..." "Pierre..." " Don't you think?" " When I read it I could feel it... underneath all the time, it was him." "I feel emptied." "I tried..." "but I can't do it." "Pure fiction..." " It's fantasy." " Have you started on the second one?" "I've started twenty times but I never get past the middle." "I get such weird ideas..." "But the sad thing is that you wrote it at the very end with Pierre." "Have you seen him?" "No, not really." "Do you think about him?" "I'm getting into a rhythm now..." "I live like an old granny." "I don't see anyone..." "I have everything delivered." "It's been six months since I saw anyone." "But I'm fine." "How about you?" "I'd like you to come to Paris." "It would get you away from here for a bit." " You want me to go to Paris?" " That's right." "I find that a rather alarming idea." "Why?" " I don't know..." " You should leave here... come to Paris." "You can tell me what you think." "You'll see the work..." "I need a fresh eye." "I've got to the point where..." "I need a critical view." "... even if you don't like it." "Let me get my thoughts straight." "You're coming to Paris with me." "But there's so much noise..." "Here there's a different kind of noise - silence." "I like that." "Just come for a little while." "If you don't like it you can come back." "There's a risk... with my rhythm so slow now..." "I'd be frighten by it." "I need you to see it, here it, so you can tell me." "Really?" " Is it a big group?" " No, six." "I wanted you to help with the work because I couldn't do it with Lili." "What's she doing now?" "She's doing Seven Agaisnt Thebes, I think." " I got a card from her..." " Really?" "I've got to go to the dentist." "I've got a tooth ache." "I'm just telling you." "Then we'll take you to the dentist." "I'm sure you'll be..." " I'll be scared, with all those people." " No you won't!" "I feel a little lost, a little isolated, like an old maid." "Let's leave all this, it's over..." "You're coming to Paris." "Listen, I..." " I'm not ready" " You're going to do Madame Prometheus." "You're going to do Madame Prometheus." "I'm completely overwhelmed." "You've short-circuited me with this..." "Can you still hear noises upstairs?" "Sometimes he wanders around..." "So it's a he?" "You know that." "I saw him once..." " A he looking for a she." "I saw him in the mirror once." "Then I didn't see him anymore." "Once I put my hand out to the mirror... and I saw two hands instead of one." "I've felt pulling at my arm sometimes, when there's a storm." "I don't think he manifests for nothing..." "I think he's looking for something..." "Come to Paris." "All right, I will." "But you've got to look after me." "Totally." "You've got plenty of hidden resources." "Let's take a walk." "I'll leave the cigarettes, we need some air." "EPISODE 4" "FROM SARAH TO COLIN" "Come to Paris." "All right, I will." "But you've got to look after me." "Totally." "You've got plenty of hidden resources." "Let's take a walk." "I'll leave the cigarettes, we need some air." "First part, Eteocles, the messenger." "So, we'll keep working on that." "Good." "Second part." "The movers and ..." "Eteocles, which changes the style..." "Hey Max." "Thanks, that's sweet." " My little treasure isn't here?" " No, he left." "He had to be somewhere..." " Really?" " OK, second part." "The movers, Eteocles, change of style." "Good." "Third part, Coryphaeus, fast rhythm continues." "Fourth- wait..." "Fourth part, seventh gate..." "The messenger, Eteocles..." " The title's beautiful, isn't it?" " Yes." "Fifth part..." " Then the ending?" " Yes, then we get to the ending... the different styles..." "Lili, do you think the beginning, we could do it with just the messenger and Eteocles ... with the same characters, see, the whole time?" "Instead of changing, you know, get the boys... to really work together?" "But Marie, you and me, we have to work too, go on stage!" "Don't you think the costumes at the end are beautiful?" "They never get on stage." "I know but..." "One day I went to see it at the Comédie Française." ""Iphigeneia"." "It was beautiful, even if I didn't have good seats." "In fact, they were always like this." "They spoke loudly, they didn't yell..." "Like me." " You should go to the conservatory." " I don't have my diploma." "I am sure that Lili has never been to the Comédie Française" "We should ask her." "Look at the ending..." " Did you give me a piece of paper?" " Not me." " Do you have a sister?" " Why wouldn't I?" "Shall we go?" "Are you coming, Max?" "I've lost the keys." "Again?" " Lili, was it you who closed up yesterday?" " Yes, I closed." "Here they are!" "Beautiful day, isn't it?" "It's nice, huh?" " It's nice." "Are you coming then?" " Where?" " To Paris." "Can't we walk a while?" "Or do you want to leave right away?" "We'll go now without thinking about it." "You know it's not nice to make me beg." "Come along, little lady." "I love walking by the sea." "You're an odd one, you are." "Why?" "Because I suspect there are things in your little head..." "Listen, Thomas, since we're on the subject..." "I suspect you too." " Me?" "What do you suspect me of?" " Of being  of not travelling alone." "Of being many." "What?" "What on earth do you mean?" " Not travelling alone?" "Why?" " Don't you know that expression?" "Not travelling alone, you must have heard that." "You mean I always travel with twelve or thirteen..." "You see what I mean!" "That's what I meant." "So, Madame Thirteen..." "How come you're Madame Thirteen?" "I'm Thirteen...." "You don't really know." "You don't know why you're thirteen, and neither do I." "But that doesn't need to be said." "Let's walk a bit more." "Yes, but I want you to decide." "If you come you will not be disappointed." "Listen, Thomas, I'll come because now is the start of the season." "Yes, that's it, come and have your season in Paris." "If I've got to be surrounded by people, might as well be you." "And it'll be nice, what you do with Aeschylus... you can do your modern Aeschylus... and you'll find a meaning for a new type of writing..." "You know I love the sea very much." "Remind me, I've forgotten, Prometheus..." "It's not about the sea is it?" "Prometheus, he must be drowned, Prometheus..." " So together you're going to drown Prometheus." " Yes, we're going to execute Prometheus." "And then we'll chuck him at the wall." "Yes, we'll throw him out." " OK?" " OK." "Then I am the happiest of men." "Are you going to drive like a madman?" " Do I look like I would?" " But people go funny in cars." "You needn't be afraid with me." "I shall introduce you to city life." "Look." "All our destinies." "Over there." "That way?" "All the stories that the grass, and the Alps have told you..." "I'm starting to feel a shiver." "You're making up stories so I won't fall asleep in the car, right?" "Look over there." "Our house is lovely, isn't it?" "It makes a pretty picture." " Keep your hat on." " Make me feel good." " When I hold you, everything is better." " Yes, but this has me all mixed up." "It will be fine." "You think?" "The theatre is great, you'll see." "It's a place where you get to know yourself, to know other people..." " But you know I'm a savage." " Yes, exactly." "What about Pierre?" "Leave him alone." "Pierre is the past." "Pierre is dead, long live Thomas." "We could fantasize a little." "I could never replace Pierre." "You won't keep your hair like this in Paris." " Why?" " You should fix it up." "You don't like it all frizzy?" "I liked it when you had long hair." " You want me to put it in a bun?" " That would be nice." "Right, have you looked enough now?" "It's beautiful?" " Is it over?" " No, I'll be back." " You'll be back, but we'll erase it for now." " Yes." " Good." " Let's go on a trip." "The light." "It's really nice here." "Don't you think?" "Bathroom." "It's got everything " "Bathtub, bidet, sink." "And it works." "Is everything OK?" "Sit down." "What's the matter?" "Come sit down." "I'm going to show you my hat..." "If I can find it..." "Say, did you really lose the match?" " If I say we lost it, we lost it." " Your hat is funny." "I'd like to try it on." "It doesn't look half bad." "But anyway, it's the guard who gets to wear the hat." "You were lucky I even let you try it on." "What's the matter?" "You seemed so happy earlier on." "Don't you like it here?" "It's fine." "What are your friends doing now?" "My friends?" "Why do you care about what they're doing?" " I don't know." " They went out for a drink..." "I don't give a shit about my friends." "Listen, I don't know what they're going to think of me." "What they're going to think of you?" " What do you want them to think?" " I don't know." "Haven't you ever been to a hotel with a bloke?" "Really?" " It's not funny." "Don't laugh." " I'm not laughing." "I'm just talking." "Just now you were in the street, we We're talking, you say, let's go to a hotel... we go to a hotel." "You make me laugh..." "Shit." "So, is your job really being a champion?" "A champion... ?" " I'm not a champion yet." " But maybe you will be." "I know Lechevau." " Do you know Lechevau?" " No, who's that?" "He holds the OL." "A great bloke." " Does that hurt?" " No, that's life." " Do you want a cigarette?" " Yes, but do you smoke?" "Only on special occasions." "And this is a special occasion." "Tell me, champion..." "When are you leaving?" "When do I leave?" "Tomorrow morning." "What about me?" " What do I do?" " It depends." "Bourgoin isn't so far." "My parents work in the café..." "I work with them." "If I come back to Paris for a couple of days we can talk about it." "Do you want me to come back?" "It's funny, you shake your head and say yes." "What do you do?" "I'm in school." "You're in school?" "I'd never guess you were still in school." "Why?" "I stopped going for a while because I was sick." "My father didn't agree so I decided to continue..." " What are you studying?" " I'm in my first year of  philosophy." "I only graduated from high school." "It's quite funny really." "I laugh every time I talk about it." "Do you mind if I take a shower?" "There's no shower here, if I have a bath." " Are you going to be long?" " While I brush my teeth..." "I'll run a bath." "Excuse me..." "You're funny." "I'll only be a minute." " Do you want me to run you a bath?" " No, I'll go second." " Second?" " I'll have to change the water." "Change the water?" "There's no need to change the water..." "It works!" "It works!" "Warm!" "Warm!" "Run some warm water." " I didn't hear a word you said." " Run some warm water!" "You look funny like that with your cap." "When I come back I'll be a champion." "It'll be great" "Oh yes?" "I said, oh yes?" " I'll fight for your honor." "Three years ago we lost in the quarter finals." "It was Big Willy's fault." "That dickhead." "You want to come see a match one of these days?" "OK, that's good but it still needs some work." "Pay attention." "Listen to the note." "That was good." "Lower, lower." "Not so fast." "OK, Shall we try it one more time?" "Right, what I think she should do is work on the chord separately." "Ok, good." "I'm going to work with the girls now." "You're too low." "You have to listen to the difference and the progression of the note." "Listen." "Work with Marie, I'm going to make a call." "We do tacto-physical stuff." "And then we're working on a text - Seven against Thebes  there's music." "We do our exercises based on the text.." " You're the director?" " No." "Wait and see." "You'll be excited." "We haven't performed it." "It still needs to be worked on." "Can you help me with the accounts?" " You sold your share?" " Yes, but I have a problem..." "What month were you born?" " April." " April." "One, two, three, four." "Here, take a look." "Want to take a look?" "Marie, Renaud..." "And Hélène..." "This doesn't interest us." "It's on Auber Street..." "No, but it's the only one open at that time." "So, nine o'clock..." "See you this evening." "What's the matter?" " Are you going to the office tomorrow?" " Yes, of course" "Will Georges be there?" "No, he's at court." " But you'll see him at lunch, right?" " Yes." "I'm not going home tonight." "Can you tell him I slept at your place?" " You could phone him." " No, I can't." "This doesn't remind you of anything?" "I want you to see it because I'm going to try it this evening." "Tell me if it's good." " Who's that guy?" " His name is Renaud." "OK, I'm watching..." "You are going to be the most beautiful one there with your beautiful shoes and beautiful dress..." "No, I'm wearing pants." " Everything OK, Renaud?" " Yes." "I won't ask him what he thinks, he doesn't have good taste." "I'd like him to see the type of work we're doing." "Let's do the chorus." "I guess I am going to have to practice lines with him then?" "Page 89." "Four illustrious persons in the aristocratic sphere... of Gotha's Almanac, full of erudition and literary pretensions, wherefore without some slight sketch this social picture would be incomplete." "To the left! Paris needs... and so for a few days becomes infatuated... with the aim of satisfying certain false, artificial passions... which periodically take it over." "To the right!" "I think we can decide now that we've got all the formats." "I think there are two possibilities." "There's the first one, which I think is very good... and the second choice, as we've discussed, would be difficult, too expensive." "I like this format... and it will be inexpensive." "The other one would be too expensive for the clientele." "And there will also be a provision for advertising in your formula..." "I think it's important not to have advertising." "We can put whatever we want in the newspaper..." "Are you part of this discussion, Pauline?" " Are you listening?" " No." " What's happening?" " We're deciding on the format..." "It's important." "We're selling a newspaper..." "We've agreed on this one." " Good." " I don't agree." " I like this one." " It's the same format..." "Is it the content or the format?" "All of it." "I think he's raising a problem of content." "Sasha prefers pulp." "But this is better, the paper..." "You want us to do a paper like that?" "Yes." "But this already exists." "We can do better." "I don't think we're... on quite the same wavelength..." "Oh, you don't care?" "Well, that's OK then." "You don't care?" " What do you think, Pauline?" " I've had enough." "Do you agree, or are you sticking to your idea?" "Journalist with Paris-Jour." "I specialize particularly in bloody crimes of passion... appalling murders... and mysterious major trials." "So I was thinking I might... be of use to your little journal." "Are you talking right now?" "If you can hear me it is because I am talking." "Who is this guy anyway?" "He has his harmonica." "Play something." "Why do you want to leave Paris-Jour?" "I'm planning to leave Paris-Jour... if your publication grows to a substantial size." "You know we can't pay you, right?" "Yeah, we can't afford to pay anyone right now." "What's your name?" "My name is Colin." "Journalist." "I think he's very reliable." " Do you know him?" " Yes." " How do you know him?" " I just met him..." "Listen, I want to know, do you agree with the format?" "Personally, I don't care..." " You don't care..." " I'm going to make some tea." "We can keep discussing the newspaper..." " So we agree then?" " You have my support." "We're counting on you." "Let's go for a smoke." "Do you like music?" "Yes." "You play harmonica?" "A little." " What brought you here?" " What brought me here... ?" "... I was walking down the street by chance." "My name is Pauline." "I'm Colin." " Would you like some tea?" " Yes, I'd love some." " Shall I wait here?" " No, come this way." "I think it's supposed to be rather insulting..." "Yes..." "Because guys like you..." "You have to be stopped too because you are too weak... because you are too sympathetic to the prisoner..." "Hurry up, hurt him as much as you can..." "He's an executioner who can't go on... he wants the other person to suffer as much as possible because he has disobeyed... the supreme law." "So he absolutely has to suffer, he must be punished." "He's committed a crime - there must be punishment, and it must be as serious as possible." "and even the other one, who's a bit more ambivalent... because he has pity for him." "They tell him:" ""you too will succumb to the law." "We're going to hurt you, you're too weak... you're not enough of an executioner."" "Yes." "Hephaistos could be..." "I don't know..." "Yes, he could be a sympathizer." "He's a sympathizer..." "But he doesn't refuse to do this work." "He must obey the orders." "Hephaistos is sympathetic to me... he doesn't want to disobey, he's afraid... he's a character who's always afraid and a little disagreable." " But in the end, he carries out the order." " He carries it out." "Even though he has much more sympathy for the criminal... than for the one who gives the order to punish." "He does wrong because he's afraid." "He'd rather hurt a friend than disobey  those above him." "Afterwards Prometheus goes to hell... which is the contemporary equivalent of a... completely fixed, static, imprisoned state." "You can imagine it as being imprisoned by light." "So, much later, when he's alone..." "No, he's with the Coryphaeus, he says:" ""Listen instead to the miseries of mortals..." "I have made creatures with the gifts of reason and reflection." "Before human beings saw without seeing listened without hearing and... like the shapes of dreams, muddled everything up throughout their lives."" "Which is not very French..." ""And they didn't know houses of sun-drenched brick, they didn't know how to work wood... they fled into the ground like ants fleeing the sun..."" "OK, I have just a couple of comments to make." "It was too much of the same rhythm... and there weren't enough moments of stillness." "That's all, just those two things." "I think that they need to know the music better because you were hearing something... on the tape and then moving afterwards." "But you need to do it at the same time." "It's a shame because it's like you've missed something." "Another thing I think is that based on the music, it should have been much more violent." "There should be less movement... and each gesture should be more dramatic." "More dramatic?" "I agree." "It's clear that you didn't listen to the music at all." "You say that they don't know the music well." " They don't know it at all..." " Yes, we know the music." "No, you don't." "Be quiet." "You didn't listen to the music, didn't work well together." "You didn't listen to the music or to each other..." "And your movements were..." "That's how we wanted to do it..." "No, Marie there were moments when it was perfectly synchronized with the music... and others where it was really clumsy." "As though you'd thought, 'oh that's what I should have done', and you did it then." "Listen to the breaks in the music..." "Listen to the breaks." "There's something we can do here." "I think we can go further, here and now." "The thing is to have a dialogue." "No!" "A kind of gymnastic thing.... we need to find a real dialogue... but with something unknown, we'll improvise." "We'll change what we've done so far and we'll improvise." " We'll replace the music?" " But with singing, with voices." "One make a voice." "Listen, one make a voice." "Propose your exercise." " Let's try, OK?" " Really?" "With your voice you can do whatever you want, tell whatever story you want to tell." "Do whatever you like with your voice." "I'm going to try - and so will you - to do something that's a communion between the voice and the body." "Don't move, just try it and don't go too quickly ..." "Who will be the body?" "Here, you be the body..." " Are you too tired to do it?" " No..." " I don't move?" " You don't move." "You live only through your mouth." "Wait, is it really that hard?" "So you say anything you like, you're the voice and you're the body." "You don't know what to say..." "You need someone with you." "We'll use two people." "No, but she is your body." "I am your body." "Wait." "You'll be the voice." "You... you'll be one voice with one body." "But wait, first the voices, then the bodies come after." "So you are one and two." "You are the voice." "The voice of Renaud I am Lili's body." "I'm the body of..." "Wait, we'll see afterwards." "So let's start." "OK, but I want you to wait... to make contact with the bodies." " We'll make contact, Elaine." " We can't move?" "No, but... come here." " Give yourselves some room to work..." " But we're far from our bodies..." " Hold on...hold on." " What, we're not starting yet?" "I want it done under better conditions." "It will be fantastic!" " Let Quentin do it." " I'm sure it will be great." "Let's start." "We'll do it now." "Let's do it, then we'll see." "Are we starting or not?" "Lili, start." "You're the bodies." "You have the pulsion try to transmit it." "The voices have to find the bodies, there has to be a dialogue." " Between the bodies." " You have space for this." " And us?" " You... there's a dialogue." "Our bodies correspond?" "It's aberrant because..." " No, because..." " We need to separate the voice for the body." "Just give me a minute, we're getting there." "We need to exchange body and voice." "Do you understand?" "There are two of you, voices, bodies." "One voice, one body." "Now I want you to do it how you want to." "You, body one, you approach voice one and touch it." "You can't refuse..." "You aren't allowed to." " I thought you were..." " I'm the body!" "Listen, you can't refuse." "Once I touch you that means..." "And you become the voice." "You're number one's voice." "We agree, we exchange touches." "One last thing." "So we exchange touches." "Voice one, body one." "Voice two, body two." "Now I'd like that the twos..." "Because you can describe..." " He is the two?" "_ The two voices, the two bodies." "It's easy." "Voice two, body two." "You can describe whatever you want." "I want you to cross your words and become several things." "You're right but you're not being clear..." "Put yourself here, you're the voice." "Put yourself behind..." "No, I prefer to dance." "Put yourself here." "You are the body." "So voice one, body one." "Voice two, body two." "Put yourself here." "You start to do the voices." "You must not turn or move." "We will accompany them by learning to separate the movements from the music." "How will they be able to make contact like this?" "When you see a movement you make the change" "You don't really know what you're talking about, it's not possible." "They have to be facing each other..." "You don't explain things well, it's very simple." "You think you know..." "please just let me handle it this once." "It's a question of contact." "How can you have them facing the other way?" "There's an exchange of roles." "it's simple." "Listen, Quentin..." "It's a little different but I think it's great." "But I don't understand it." "One voice, one body." "I don't know what's so complicated..." "We've done more difficult things." "Hey, Lili..." "We're taking pictures?" " Hold on, I'll put on more makeup." " No, don't worry about it." "Are they color?" "Quentin I can see you." "Let me see your profile." "Look up." "No, lower your head." "No smiling!" "No smiling and look forward." "That's good?" "Drink your tea, it's getting cold." "So, about the paper..." "Are you still talking about the publication?" "I'm tired of it." "Fine, we won't talk about it." "If we're not talking about it I'm going." "Pauline, does it bother you if I ask you some questions?" "No, it depends on the questions." "Anyway, it really depends on what you ask." "OK, you can ask five questions." "No, not even three questions." "What's the first?" "Am I one of the Thirteen?" "I think you're more like eleven." "As in 1 + 10 ?" "More like the unknown one." "And now, the second question at hand?" "Are you one of the Thirteen?" "The thirteenth comes back." "It's still the first and always the only one." "Third question?" "I have to think." "I'll ask you the third question at the right time." "Hurry up." "I've been waiting for half an hour." "I'd prefer to keep the third question." "Try to find... the silence through breathing... feel the contact... of skin... very calmly..." "It's not about blood for the moment..." "It's a matter of weight... only weight... full on the floor... skin... skin on another skin..." "From here... a circulation is established... which may be of blood... may be of fire... or any other substance... it's all about weight..." "This substance..." "You let it flow in... from wherever it may come..." "And when it begins... to penetrate..." "I give it a sound... a word, perhaps... or a phrase... whether it's air that I feel... or water... or fire..." "I let it... pass through my skin." "Gradually..." "I start to articulate it." "Burn... burn..." "I don't want to  burn." "It's hot..." "Do you play chess?" "No, not at all." "It's just I've never seen anyone playing on their own like that." "Well, there are two of us now." " Now, yes." "But how do you know I want to play?" " Do you want to play?" "You'll have to teach me..." "I don't know how." "Were you out for a walk?" "I was out walking and I saw there was a house." " What do you mean?" " I've never seen a house here and I live nearby." "This is not a public park here" "How do you mean?" "I pass by here all the time" "That's my garden." "I've often come past here but I didn't realise that." " This is the first time I saw a house here." "Because from over there you can't see the house?" "Maybe." " You live in the neighbourhood?" " A couple of minutes from here..." " And this is the first time you've seen this house?" " I often come this way... but I've never ever noticed this house before and..." "I've never ever seen anyone playing chess on their own." " Then you've not seen much." " No." "It's funny though... because only I do things like that..." " So what do you do then?" " Not much." "You wander about in the streets, in front of the houses?" " That's none of your business." " Well, it is because you've come into my house!" " You opened your window to me." " Yes, but now..." " What do you do in life?" " I'm not going to tell you." " You're not a Police Inspector are you?" " No, I'm not." "Can you play chess on your own?" "You can play chess on your own perfectly well" "Is that true?" "It's perfectly normal to play chess on your own." "First you play for one side, then the other." "I don't know." "I've never been able to learn games with lots of rules." " I don't like that." " You play games?" " Yes, but I play by myself." " Which ones?" "All sorts" "Tell me what you play." "When I'm bored I imagine there's someone there who's playing with me." " That's exactly what I'm doing." " That's why I liked it." "Chess seems scary, it looks really mathematical to me." "Yes, it is very mathematical." "Is math interesting?" "Isn't it a bit tiring?" "It can be tiring." "Depends on what you're doing." "Let's have a game of chess." "I'll teach you the rules." "I thought it was just doctors who played chess." "They look like the kind of people who would play it." "They have the minds for math." "So what do you do..." "besides this, what do you do in life?" "I try to live life..." " .... that's all." " That's not much." " You make due with what you have." " And what do you have?" "Not much." "It varies from day to day ... depending on where I am." " I'll tell you what you do." " What's that?" " You're a student?" " Maybe." "You're close... but that's not quite it." "You're at school." "You've had to repeat a year." " I've never had to repeat a year." " Never?" "I don't allow myself to fail." " What does 'check-mate' mean in chess?" " Well, Miss... no one really knows what it means." "'Mate' is probably a Turkish word... linked to the word for death... so it's the king who's going to die when it's check-mate." "It's funny, the French can't speak French..." " Speak Turkish?" "Speak French?" " Speak French." "I thought that 'mate' would mean you'd won." "But in check-mate the king..." " ... is going to die." " Is that the king?" "That one?" "Yes." " And that king is..." " White." "And that's the black king." " Would you like me to teach you?" " No, it's all very interesting...." " Maybe afterwards." " There are laws?" "I'm scared of laws." "Would you like a drink?" "And afterwards I'll teach you." " What would you like to drink?" " Depends what you've got." " Anything you like." " Then I'd like a cocktail." "Have you got any children?" "Yes, I've got children, but they're not here." "Children like grenadine." "So grenadine at the bottom." "Then I'd like some whisky..." " Can you do that?" " I've got grenadine, I've got whisky." " Then that Russian stuff...." " Vodka." "Yes, vodka!" "A bit of vodka." "And that's it!" "I'll get it for you I don't know if you can learn chess after that." " We'll see." " We'll see..." "Wow..." "look at the colors." " Is that what I asked for?" " Precisely." " Are you sure?" " Absolutely." " Try it." " I'm sure that it is really gross." " It is, absolutely." " Not bad." "It's not?" "So, do you want to learn how to play chess now?" "They're all check mates..." " What do you mean they're all check mates?" " They're all dead I don't understand any of it." "But, you have to learn the rules first." "Can the rules be taught?" " Yes." " No it's not possible." "I don't have the time." "I wanted to ask you some things..." "What sort of things?" "What do you do in life?" "For real?" "I don't do anything for fake." "You mean... what's my job, right?" " You said you weren't a doctor." " No I'm not a doctor." "There are other careers." "For example, I make deals." " I buy and sell." " What are deals?" "I buy things abroad and I sell them here and I make a profit on the sales." " Isn't that trafficking?" " No, it's trade." "It's honest and legal." "Do you make a lot of money?" "It pays well, yes." " Are you cunning?" " In business, yes." "What about in chess?" "I'm a pretty good chess-player." "That's great." " Will you teach me one day?" " I'll teach you now." "No." "I can't do it now." "I've got business to attend to." "Personal business." "Urgent?" "Not urgent, but..." " Pressing." " Pressing, that's right." " Then you'd better go about your business." " But I'd like to..." " because you fascinate me." " Then that's another thing." "I was wondering something." "If I called you would you remember me?" " Call me what?" " Phone you." "Oh, phone me!" "I don't see why not." "You're a neighbor." "I pass by here all the time." "I'd like to play a game of chess." "That's an excellent idea." " So you're going to call me?" " I'll call you on the telephone." " What number?" " You haven't told me." " Do you want to write it down?" " No, I've got a good memory." "Right." "Mirabeau... 92... like the Revolution," "46..." "I got it, 3 years before I was born." "So you're leaving." " You'll play with me?" " Yes, I'll play with you..." "What's your name?" "Frédérique." " Goodbye, Frédérique." " Goodbye, Sir." "Strange girl." "Completely crazy." "He has a cold!" "Hello." "My stomach is growling." "His stomach is growling." "He always repeats the same thing?" "Pull harder..." "He's very chatty." "What's his name?" "It's a bear..." "He's hungry, you need to give him something to eat." "Someone's at the door." "Who's here at the hour." "I was just thinking about you this afternoon..." "Hello." "How are you girls doing?" " You two know each other, right?" " Yes." " I brought a little surprise for you." " What is it?" " Here." " What a great idea." "It's wonderful!" "It's really wonderful!" "Did you know tortoises bring happiness?" "Have you ever seen one before?" "Look, it walks." "They're surprised, really surprised." "Do you like it?" "We have to celebrate this." "I have some Champagne in the refrigerator..." "Play with the tortoise." "Here, hold it like this." "Have you ever seen a tortoise before?" ""Etienne, if you have time... come to W's tomorrow evening at ten o'clock." "It's important." "We'll try to work out a plan of action." "I feel as though I'm going round in circles." "Bring Pierre." "Lucie."" " You'll have to open the bottle." " Here, play with this." " Make the tortoise walk over there." " You have to be careful with the tortoise... or it'll get a sore tummy." "Would you like some?" "We have to celebrate the arrival of the tortoise." "But where's the tortoise?" "Where is that tortoise?" "We'll christen it." " What shall we call it?" " I don't know..." "What do you think?" "We'll call it Zephirine." "Yes, that'll do." "I christen you Zephirine." "That's very nice of you." "Did you know that our parrot flew out of the window?" " I didn't know." " Put it on the ground." "No, the ground is cold." "Could you go get the cookies, the chocolate ones?" "I saw Pierre, he asked after you..." "Where's the tortoise?" "What did you say?" "Pierre wanted to know how you were... whether you'd had any news." "Pierre?" "I never see him." "I don't really think he's a good guy." " Why?" " I don't know." " Just an intuition." " He was worried... because things have deteriorated a bit in Mexico." "Leave the tortoise there." "Play with the tortoise." " What were you saying?" " Things have deteriorated in Mexico..." "Do you want a cookie?" "...our friends..." " Eat." " What is it." "A cookie." "he wanted to know if you'd had a letter, if you'd heard anything..." "I've had no news at all." "I've lost hope of hearing anything." "Dear Etienne," "I can't join Pierre for what we agreed." "Things are still the same but I don't think it really matters just now." "I received a vague telegram..." "I'm scared." "Never mind." "He's awake, he'll understand." "Tomorrow at the same address." "How long has it been now?" "Six months." "I've lost all hope." "You mustn't lose hope... not until you've heard officially or received a notice." "I wouldn't hear anything official, because Igor didn't go in an official way." "But he's often been away for several months with no news." "Yes but he's always found a way... to send some word to me." "He could have at least..." "He could have at least asked after the children." " Have you got a cigarette?" " Yes." " What do you smoke?" " Anything" " American tobacco." "How is everything, Iris?" " Everything is going well." " Any news from Igor?" " None yet." " But you are OK?" "I'm not feeling great at the moment." " Luckily I've got the shop." " Is it going well?" "It's always full of people... they're not there to buy though." "It distracts me at least." "Do you miss your Dad?" "Do you think about him?" "Where is he?" "Where is your Dad?" " They look like their dad, no?" " He's there?" "Where is he?" " He's gone away." " He's gone away?" "Where's he gone?" " They're looking like their dad, more and more." " Yes, that's what I was saying before." "He's gone away." "He's gone away." "And what about you, do you miss your dad?" "He's gone away." "Please talk about something else." " Where is the Tortoise?" " The Tortoise..." "Where is the Tortoise?" "Have you seen Etienne?" "No, I don't see anyone." "Too busy." "Here, give the Tortoise a kiss." "Very good!" "I think you will be great friends." "You see, they have the same knees as their father." "They're playing with these horrible American toys..." "Do you see that?" "That's death." " Couldn't you play another game?" " I play with whatever I find." "Don't you think that it's completely hopeless..." "Never lose hope." "Look, that's Santa Claus..." "That's a little Mexican doll." "You don't find it unbelievable that we've had no news?" "No, that's not Madame, it's Monsieur..." "You don't think it's a Monsieur?" " Yes, it's a Monsieur." " It's a real zoo here... tortoise, dogs..." "We have to buy some lettuce." " Are you doing well?" " Yes." " But you can't leave so soon?" " I've got to see someone." " Have a little more Champagne." " OK, just a little bit." "You haven't told me anything about your life." "I don't have much to tell." "You want to give it some lettuce?" "No, it doesn't need lettuce." "What did you say?" "It doesn't need lettuce?" "That's all it eats..." "Grass and lettuce..." "But since we don't have grass here we'll give it lettuce." "What's the matter?" "He's not happy..." " What do you want?" " He wants a cookie." "He would be good for the role of Prometheus!" "You know, I thought it would be good to have Pierre play Prometheus." "Are you and Pierre good friends?" " He's one of my most important friends." " It's strange..." "I don't get him at all." "Not at all." "He's rather shy but he's a good person." "Architects are a bit strange, you know." " What?" " All architects are strange." "I look into the books we talk about  the companions of duty"" ""Of the same family... and maybe I too... belong to it..." "Another letter..." "Normandy Hotel, that's old..." ""I'm obliged to leave again immediately for the reason that you know." "Saw Pierre yesterday at Warok's." "He can't break with the Thirteen - late and rather confused discussion." "W agrees with both of us as usual." "Don't call or write to my address, at the moment it's better to use the Corner of Chance." "Fraternal greetings, Igor."" ""Most touched by your message, which I have just found as I got in." "But I feel removed from all of this..." "It's like a distant memory..." "I think Pierre is a little annoyed with me, as though I'd broken the pact." "How can I make him understand that it's this that gives you your charm and strength." "Millie sends her love" "Fraternal greetings, Igor."" "Lucie de Grave." "13, Saint Louis Street." ""Louis Meyer, Plans for the future city"" "I don't get it." ""Say that it's not easy and that they will all find each other..."" "Not interesting." "Place me as I should be." "Holy was our ambition." "At the harbour where you must start." "A hand will guide your own." "Two paths lie open before me." "Place me as I should be." "Holy was our ambition." "At the harbour where you must start." "A hand will guide your own." "EPISODE 5" "FROM COLIN TO PAULINE" "Two paths lie open before me." "Place me as I should be." "Holy was our ambition" "At the harbour where you must start a hand will guide your own" "Two paths lie open before me." "Place me as I should be." "Holy was our ambition" "At the harbour where you must start a hand will guide your own" "Is that Mr 92..." "Mirabeau 92 48?" " Who do you want to speak to?" " Monsieur "Mirabeau, 92-46"." "It's the lady you saw yesterday outside your window." " That lady?" " Yes." " Do you remember?" " I remember." "Frédérique?" "That's it, Frédérique." "Tell me, who won the chess game?" " Who won the chess game?" " Was it you or me?" " You, dear girl." " Really?" "I knew it." "I don't know why..." " Congratulations!" " Are you cross?" "Why would I be cross?" "And if I tell you something that's not very good, you won't be cross then?" "Such as?" "You know, in your house, there's  what's it called?" "A cupboard..." " ...you've got a cupboard in your house." " A cupboard?" "I don't see the connection..." "In the room I was in  there was a writing-desk." "Is that what it's called?" " That's what it's called, yes." " You've got one?" "I have one, yes." "Do you like it?" "I don't know much about the different periods..." " Does it date from the Revolution?" " From Mirabeau, more or less." "That's the one." "I'm a bit embarrassed because, while you were making my cocktail..." " ... remember?" "I asked for a coktail." " Yes, I remember." "It wasn't very nice!" " Anyway, I went into the writing-desk..." " In writing-desk?" "Yes, and I opened it... and I went through your Mirabeau..." " That's not very nice, is it?" " You aren't cross?" " Why did you go through it?" " I was looking for money." "I guess you were disappointed." "I don't think I had any money in that writing desk." "No, there wasn't any." "I opened all the drawers..." "I mean all the drawers with buttons." "I found nothing." "Then I saw a drawer without a button." "It attracted me because I'm always attracted to things that are different." "You opend that drawer?" "Are you cross?" "There were some letters in the drawer." "Ah, letters..." "letters?" "Yes, in the drawer where there was no button, I took some letters... and I read all your letters..." "I'm a bit embarrassed because I liked you..." "I can't explain because it's too complicated..." "Freudian, even." "And what was in these letters?" "They were about a group." "and I would like to know more." "They were about people who were companions in a duty..." "I don't understand it, but it seems very odd to me." "You could tell me about it." " I think you've got a lot of imagination." " No, I haven't." "So I thought you'd like them back." "I'm assuming you will bring them back nicely." "I'll bring them back on condition that you buy them off me." " You want money?" " Exactly." "You won't get any money." "Those letters are worthless to me." "But it's business..." "It's got nothing to do with business..." "It's very simple:" "Either you give me back the letters and we forget all about it... or you keep them... but if I ever come across you I'll give you a good smacking." "Goodbye, Mademoiselle." "Hand me the buscuits." "You might leave some jam and some biscuits." " Didn't you have any lunch?" " No." "That's the problem." "Pass me the jam." " Have you had this shop a long time?" " No, a very short time..." "I bought it because one day I was going past... and I saw "Lease to sell", it was an old baker's." "Since we didn't have anywhere to meet... to have tea..." "I think it's better than going to a café..." "You see I had a parrot, and... next door there's a seed merchant and I used to go and buy its seed, and then walking past..." "A parrot!" "That makes me laugh!" "It's not funny!" "There was a seed merchant, so I went by and..." "This usually doesn't happen to me..." "I lost my place..." " You had a parrot and..." " Oh yes!" "There was a seed merchant, and I was always going past this old bakery... and I noticed it because the door..." "Would you like some jam?" "You've done it proud, that jam." "Good, isn't it?" "I had a grandmother who always made rhubarb jam." " Rhubarb jam is good." " Yes, it's delicious." "I make lovely rhubarb tarts." "I must make you one, one day.." "What we need here is an oven." "There's one in the basement  but it doesn't work." "There's no jam..." "Oh yes, rhubarb tart." "You need..." "I thought that..." "I was talking about rhubarb tart." "That's all." "For that you need..." "Lucie too, there's an address..." "Lucie de Graff, 13 Rue St Louis en l'Île." "I'll call her." "I don't understand..." "Jam?" "You know the story of greedy Charlotte who fell in the jam pots?" "I'll tell you another day, it's too long..." "I'm tired." "He's tired because he's been painting all day." "He's asleep." "Martin... that bear Martin..." " Blackberry tart is very good." " What's that?" "It's a komboloi." "Old Greek men are always..." "They get bored... or nervous, maybe  always playing with their kombolois." "Do you want it?" "It's all tangled up." "There was a tiny little komboloi, remember?" "Brown..." "So you can make blackberry tarts?" "Yes, and rhubarb tarts..." "They've all gone to sleep" "I had a parrot that was green with red eyes... a bit like this room actually." "Well, not really..." "It used to talk all the time." "It knew secrets." "Secrets?" "It's just as well it flew away." "It used to listen at doors, you had to be careful." "Of the parrot?" "Do you think you're going to untangle that?" "Did you hurt yourself?" "Yes, I scraped myself." "With Chaussette you just have to buy biscuits and you get a million francs." "Handy!" "Amazing isn't it?" " It drives you crazy." " Really?" "No..." "It's to calm you down." "The Greeks put their hands behind their backs and... they're always slipping it through their fingers like that." "You've got a hole, there." "I could sew it up for you..." "I'd have to buy some navy-blue wool..." "then you get an egg..." " Why an egg?" " Yes, you sew it up with an egg..." " those big wooden eggs..." " Oh, an egg." ""St Louis en l'Île..." "Thirteen." "De Graff, lawyer..."" "Hello, I'd like to speak to..." "Lucie de Graff" "We have in our possession certain letters that concern you... letters you wrote... yes?" "I can't tell you that." "No, I'm anonymous..." "No, but it could be dangerous for you because..." "I would be better if you had them back." "Listen, here's what I propose..." "I suggest you go at four this afternoon..." "OK, six... to the terrace below the Moulin Rouge..." "No, there'll be no one there, but you must come alone." "Goodbye." "We have to think about the noises off" " go and get the boxes and tubes..." " To make the noises?" "Yes, we need to make noises." "For lighting we can put something up here." "For the choruses for example." "We can hit them..." "We can hit them to make the chorus or open them and make cymbals, see?" "..." "There are a thousand possibilties." "Eteocles and the chorus always stay around the edge..." "Come and see, Elaine!" "I started with the idea that we have a fantastic setting, we must use it..." "Remember we can't walk on it." "It doesn't matter." "We can go round it." "It's Thebes, and Polynices comes from outside," "Eteocles and the chorus always stay around the edge..." " Where's the chorus?" " Either side of Eteocles... either behind the little wall..." "Have you worked on the chorus?" "Yes, of course..." "With the outside noise you can make trumpets... hitting the boxes, or cymbals..." "Let's show this to Lili!" "We can have projectors..." " here at the top of the columns..." " Are you going, Lili?" "Why?" "You don't like what we're doing..." "I'm sure it'll be great." "It's all going to come to life... projectors, all that, all the work..." "It's going to be something." "We can place the audience all around..." "A round theatre with audience around it." " They could run too, at the same time..." " Of course" "So Polynices could move like this... parallel to Eteocles..." "and the chorus too..." "We'll have a Polynices?" " You never see Polynices in the play..." " Yes, it's his arrival...." "Yes, but normally you don't see him..." "Try to imagine... it will all take shape..." "Try to imagine, just a little..." "But it's not the same kind of work, Quentin..." "But it's a goal." "It gives us a bit of air..." "Here we were, all five of us, going round in circles..." "I can't get on with Renaud..." "It'll all sort itself out with a nice evening together..." " Monsieur?" " Sorry to disturb you..." "We can have the chorus behind the wall... well have to see..." "The way you did there?" "I'll be back in a second." " Are you going?" " No, I'm watching." " How's he going to light it?" " Why are you taking it off, Elaine?" " It's not worth the trouble." " No, I can't see it." "We'll put it lower down, we've already done it..." " I'll sort it out." " See to it." "Excuse me, are you Lucie de Graff?" "Yes, that's me." " It was me that asked you to come here." " I thought so." "Are you scared?" " Do I look scared?" "Scared of what?" " I don't know..." "You should be scared." "It's not normal to be asked to meet someone like that, in a place like this." "In a place like this maybe not, but people ask me to meet all the time." "So?" "So?" "I called you about... some letters..." "some certain letters." "Certain letters?" "that concern you and some rather peculiar people like you." "What do you mean?" "I don't know..." "I don't know..." "Pierre, does that mean anything to you?" "Maybe Warok means a bit more?" "Is that all?" "I don't know, I think it's already quite a lot...." "Yes, Warok, very important." "But... is that all you've got to say to me?" "I've written a lot of letters you know..." "But these are unusual letters... in which people are mentioned..." "It's like... a sect." " Do you see what I mean?" " Not at all." "And do you see what you mean?" "Very well..." "So?" "What do you want exactly?" "Are you trying to blackmail me?" " Not at all." " So are you trying to impress me?" "You know better than I do whether or not you're impressed." "Look, do I look impressed?" "I'm not alone in this business... there are other people behind me..." "My girl, you're going down the wrong road." "You should try another job." " But you don't know who I am..." " I don't want to know." "It doesn't interest me." "I was curious to meet you... because it was a funny phone call..." " I've been sent on a special mission." " I haven't got time to waste..." " so tell me what you want..." " Madam..." "We're not in court now, but I know I've got these letters, and your name could be in France-Soir..." " it could cause a scandal..." " I'm not afraid of scandal..." "Listen, I'm going to tell you something." "Whatever you say, your word would never carry any weight against mine." "I've got some very influential people behind me, as well known as you are..." "They've sent you?" "Your name could be in France-Soir, "Lucie de Graff has..."" "These people might be killers..." "Maybe they've even killed people already..." "Besides, this Pierre, there's a lot about him in your letter..." "That doesn't worry you?" "But if you came it was for a particular reason, wasn't it?" "To find out what's on your mind." " What you're playing at?" " Me?" "I'm not playing." "What you're doing could cost you dear." "We can come to an arrangement..." "If you buy the letters I won't say anything." "I'm not playing that game." "You can keep the letters..." "We've photocopied them and everything." "We've got a whole file...." "You think your story impresses me?" "You know..." "You know there are two kinds of people in life, the cheats... and the cheated on." "You'll always be cheated on." "You say that because you're a lawyer." "You'll always be cheated on, because just look at the way you're dressed..." " You're laughing at me." " Do you have anything else to say to me?" "I give you the letters, you give me some money.." " What's in these letters?" " Pierre's in them..." "Do you know Pierre?" "I know lots of Pierres." " What about them?" " Not those ones..." " ... can we talk about the sect?" " I don't know, I..." "They're people who want to blow up the world!" "Very dangerous people." "It's completely ridiculous." " Why?" " Because you're very pretty... you're very sweet, but you're a bit stupid." "Sorry?" "Just because you're a lawyer there's no reason to talk to people like that." "You know what is dangerous?" "What you're doing." "It could have very far-reaching consequences." "I know you're good at talking and I'm not, but..." "We should come to an agreement..." " I can't talk to you about it like this." " But that's what we're here for!" "There might be some guys spying on us." "I'm not a spy." "You're playing at spies..." " I'm not playing!" " You're a silly little girl." "Give me the letters, or do what you like with them," "But tell me one thing." "Perhaps you're going to need me one day..." "I wouldn't like that." " Do you smoke?" " Please don't cry." " What do you take me for?" "Do you smoke?" " No thanks." "You don't smoke Gauloises..." "You broke?" "None of your business." "If you gave me some I might accept..." "This, you think this is worth money?" "If you need me give me a call." "Don't get upset!" "That's another fragment..." " You like those don't you?" " Very much." " What is it then?" " It's..." ""Destiny is a chameleon at the top of a tree." "A child only has to whistle and it changes colour"." "I must have acted like the child, because everything changed." "Don't you think you're still acting a bit like the child?" "Yes, because it has to go on happening..." "You're always talking about change, but what for?" "What you think is good mightn't seem so to me." " I didn't say it was good for you..." " No, you said it..." " ... you decide for yourself." " You've suggested it  every time we've met." "Everyone absorbs the words he hears, what he thinks he should absorb." "When you say you must know why..." "I've tried to know." "I haven't done it at random... just to see the results." "If you just take the facts... the ethnologist, I'm not the only one, discovers that he is engaged in a monologue about other people, instead of a dialogue with them... instead of teaching people to think about themselves... and, ultimately, about the ethnologist." "And it's this closed world that..." "The ethnologist's advantage is that he realises... that even he is in a closed world." "That's true of lots of people, groups and professions." "I'm in a closed world too." "That's possible." "But I think it's necessary to succeed at what I want to do." "Well, here we're..." "Let's start with the facts." "Madagascar is an island and it's a triply closed world... where there are questions such as... how can I manage to research a subject... let's say initiation rites, without challenging religion... since the catholic and protestant missionaries run the whole island... and pagan rites have become mixed in." "If you challenge them you get repercussions because the government is unhappy... and in France where the guy involved - me - gets his funding cut..." "That's a precise process." "I understand you very well, but the closed world you're talking about... isn't necessarily mine." "I never said that, because I don't know your world... you always say, it's not mine, it's not mine..." "Stop saying that, Beatrice." "I'll end up believing it really is yours." " I'm not allowed allusions." " No, you're playing with words... because the very first time we met... you said to me, "I'm free"." "Are you interested in that?" "Do you recognise me?" "I'd like to know if you know Renaud." "Yes, I know him... a little." "He brings me things to sell." " How about you?" " I don't know him..." " ...very well." " So neither of us really knows him?" "Is he a good worker?" "Yes... at least, until yesterday evening." " Why?" " He didn't turn up." "Was that important?" "No." "Thanks." "Goodbye." "Perhaps we need some kind of protection... working within something we know." "To start with something very precise..." "I tried to use the closed world of Madagasca - the whites in Madagascar." "This is the closed world of... the descendants of the former colonists." "I wanted to make a film about them." "So I came out of my own enclosure... by wanting to research Europeans... then the Europeans didn't want to come out of their enclosure." "The result was that... in short, my funding was cut." "And from that little idea..." "I moved on to another..." "one thing leads to another." "So I moved to the idea of Europeans in Europe... and then to the French in France." "Research in France." "So I returned and that's what I did." "And I thought of the example of an ethnologist who is in the process of... successfully breaking down a closed world... to return to our favorite expression." "He had studied societies of fishermen in Niger... and now studies fishermen in Brittany." "With a colleague from Niger... who had worked with him." "Both of them... did this work in Brittany." "And that led me to the idea that I should do the equivalent in France..." "Maybe not in Brittany because there are already examples." "I thought of the Occitans, Provencals as they're called... and then..." "I hesitated..." "There are also the Basques." "But all of those are the Malagasy peoples... people who have lost the right to speak." "There's also Paris..." "Now it's finished, I'm not doing anything in Paris..." "My starting point had been, "A study of initiation rites in France"" "and I had proposed, "On the Sorbonne", as an initiation rite." "It was taken as a very bad joke, though I hadn't intended it as such..." "Still I knew it would lead to a break like this." "Hello Pauline" "I must speak to you." "I see you everywhere." "Your image... is fixed within me" "and I see you constantly..." "in each instant, every night... you run through my dreams and..." "I see you rising... naked form the sea." "I see your hair, I see your eyes, your face..." "I see your neck, your arms..." "I see your chest, your belly, your thighs, your legs..." "And often I also feel..." "I feel your body, I feel your blood..." "flowing in your veins... and then you take me, you devour me... all the time I'm calling to you..." "I need you to be there, I need you... and then I seem to hear a voice telling me... that you are desire... my desire..." "Pauline..." "I love you." "Oh, Colin, how are you?" "You're up early this morning." "I came to the shop to do the accounts, it's not much fun..." "I've had a really bad term..." "And I've got a terrible café bill..." "the boys don't realise... but it's unbelievable how much they eat." "Sandwiches, cold meat..." "Are you OK?" "Did you sleep well?" "Eleven and two, fourteen... and five... fourteen and five... nineteen, nineteen and five..." "It's a nice day, isn't it?" "About time too..." "I've got no idea how I'm going to pay my rent..." "Can I help you?" "Are you interested in Igor?" " Is he here in Paris?" " I don't know..." " I've got some letters from Igor..." " For me?" "I don't know." " Where are these letters?" " I haven't got them on me." "Could you go and get them?" " I'll be in a café, this evening." " At what time?" " Seven." "Can you bring them to me at home?" " OK." " Wait, I'll give you the address..." "Bye, Pauline...." " Couldn't you come before seven?" " No." "This evening at seven." " Come to the café this afternoon!" " No, this evening at seven!" "Yes, later this afternoon!" "No, this evening!" "Eteocles, you're marching slowly... on the edge of the ramparts... and you beat a rhythm with your boxes..." "Marie and Elaine, you go behind the pillars, you do the chorus." "So an insistent, dull kind of rhythm, OK?" "I'll do Polynices' slow march..." "Quentin's not here, we can't start." " We can do it without him." " Let's do it, that way we can show them." "Go on, Nicolas!" "Chorus, keep up an rhythm..." "Slowly!" "Softly, violent gestures!" "Keep going!" "Shouts, lamentations..." "Go on!" "Don't gesticulate too much!" "Follow the chorus!" "No, it's no good..." "It looks awful, that chorus limping along like that..." "You're gesticulating too much... you're not following the rhythm..." "It doesn't look good..." "It has to move slow... like Polynices!" "Aggressive, but contained... keep the rhythm to contrast with the chorus..." "A chorus limping like that..." "It's not beautiful." "It really should be." "Don't you think?" "Lili, come quick!" "It's great!" " You don't like it?" " Here I am!" "Lili, give me a kiss." "You're late, Quentin!" "We've found something really great!" " Wait a second!" " What's that?" "A little present for Elaine, my love...." "Will you grant me a moment's silence?" " I've won a million francs." " What?" "You won a million?" " It can't be true." " You all know how to count?" "Have a look..." "It's true!" "A hundred thousand!" "I bought this for a drink." "Lili, come drink with us!" "Lili, this is for you." " How did you do it?" " I bet on the races." " You bet on the races?" " I bet on three and won!" "The theatre's closed tomorrow, we'll have a party." " But how?" " "Numbers and their mystery"" "Let me explain." "The bench there, it's six steps long." "Then I worked out the average of our birth months, everyone born... everyone born in April, May..." "I got to five." "I wanted to get back to six, because there are six of us..." "So the sum of my five numbers is fifteen... one and five is six, back to the bench..." "We'll be able to stage the play!" "We'll be able to hire the other place, Renaud!" "Quentin, did you know Renaud before?" " What about you, Nicolas?" " I'd just seen him at the bookshop." "He'll be back." "Maybe we should stick a note on the door?" " How are you?" " Hello." "I haven't seen you for ages!" " I'm really pleased to see you!" " I'm pleased too..." "I didn't recognise you in those glasses..." " How are you?" " I'm OK." "Do you work round here?" "Yes, not far, nearby..." " Perhaps we could meet up, or..." " Why don't you give me a call?" "OK, I'm away next week, but..." " I can call you..." " I would really like that!" "I'd like that too." "See you soon!" " Give me some too." " Want some, Max?" " Just a pick-me-up." " A pick-me-up?" "Will you get that, Max?" " I've come with François." " Who's that?" "The tall, thin guy, he works with you." "You mean Solex?" "Yoghurt?" "He's not here yet." "Come in!" "Do you like spaghetti?" "She's a friend of Papa's..." "I don't understand... sometimes I believe it, sometimes I don't..." "That guy..." "What's really stupid is his staging..." " It's impossible..." " Stop it, dad, please." "We should all go to Majorca." "You're looking gorgeous this evening!" "I met Father Christmas." "This is a friend of Nicolas's..." "It's not spumante." " I get another plate." " That would be nice." " That's nice, that's really nice." " What were you eating?" " What were you eating?" " Spaghetti." "Someone for you." " Open the champagne." " Are you going to cut it up?" "Not the champagne, the chicken!" "That's Majorca, Max." "No, the chicken..." "No, the pineapple first." " The chicken first." " OK." "I'm not very good at this." "I wanted to see the lady." " What lady?" " The lady who lives here." "The lady who has a shop..." "that's called Chance Corner." " It's a young girl." " Yes, I know." "You're late." "Have you got the letters?" "Can I talk to you alone?" "So, the letters?" " I've got them." " Can I see the writing?" "What do I have to do to get these letters?" " Oh, you know Étienne, so..." " No, not at all..." "I can just call him to find out..." "If you want them... you have to give me some information," " About what?" " About Igor, and the group." "If I could I wouldn't want the letters." "Something that might help me?" "Nothing at all." "I'll be back in a second." " Can I take it?" " Of course." "We're off." "See you tomorrow." "Goodbye, Thomas." "Are you coming?" "Goodnight." " Sarah?" " Yes?" " Are you staying with us?" " All right." "It was good, wasn't it?" " The mirror thing was brilliant." " It worked well." "There was something between you two, something..." "Think so?" "It's true, you two have..." "You have something in common..." "I don't know." "We need to move forward." "It's a difficult exercise." "All I can give you is money." " You can't tell me anything?" " Absolutely nothing." "So give me the letters." "These are old letters..." " Are there any teaspoons?" " Over there." "Move or you'll get scalded." "I've made some coffee." "Can you pass them round?" "What are we going to do?" "We can't split up." " I don't feel like working any more." " Me either" "We'll go and find Renaud." " We don't know where he lives." " Precisely." " That'll be more fun than your Thebes." " "Seven against Thebes"" "He used to take the metro..." "Porte something..." "Pass my bag..." "When I was taking photos of Marie the other day I took one of him." "Start with that then!" "You go to the ends of the metro lines, you each take a photo, you show them to the paper sellers, outside every metro station..." "Brilliant!" " That's Renaud?" " Good-looking, isn't he?" ""Festival of moderate avant garde arts." "Gascony Encounters festival is supported by the Commission for Youth and Sport... and the president of the Commission for You and Sport of Cratignac." "It will be from June 21 to July 2, 1970." "Our aim is to provide theatre groups with an opportunity... to perform in a unique setting, with exceptional technical facilities." "The event is not for profit." "Theatre groups will be paid from box office receipts for their performance." "To avoid disappointment we advise you to send the completed form by return of post." "We offer you our regards."" "There's a PS." ""Travel and subsistence costs must be borne by the participants"" " I got it two days ago." " Sport and culture..." "Everyone seen it?" "I love you, I love you not..." "To pieces." "There's a lot of stations." " We'll have to divide up Paris." " There are seven..." "Max will help us." "Did you see that man this morning?" "No, it's been too busy this morning." " He's a man with a..." " I understand, monsieur, but..." "What are you doing here?" "I slept here all night." "I like people to tell me if they're going to sleep here." "And the curtain opens to the other stage." "Shall we do a little waltz?" "This is really not the time, nor the place." "And down comes the curtain." "Sarah!" "It was nice of you to come." "Where is everybody?" "I wanted to ask you something." " Do you know this young man?" " No." " You've never seen him?" " I think he lives round here, but I don't know where." " Have you ever seen him buy a paper?" " No." "Why are you asking me?" "I want to find him." "You don't know who I can ask?" " Would they know something at that cafe?" " You could ask." " Excuse me" " I'm in a hurry." "Have you seen this man?" "He passes through here every morning." "You haven't seen him?" "EPISODE 6" "FROM PAULINE TO EMILIE" "Have you seen this man?" "He wears a big coat." "Have you seen him?" "Thanks, anyway." "I was wondering if you knew this man?" "No, I don't know him." "Could you help me please?" "Do you recognise this man?" " No, I don't know him." " You've never seen him... thanks." "Excuse me, I'd like to ask you a question." "Do you recognise this man?" " No?" "You've never seen him?" " Never." "In the morning in the metro..." "He was wearing a big jacket..." " There was a man like that, but I'm not sure." " What did he look like?" "Do you remember?" "No?" "Thanks." "Oh well..." "You didn't see a young man, with quite a big head?" "Excuse me, I'd like to ask you... if you've seen this man on the metro?" " You've haven't seen him?" " No." "Did you want to speak to someone?" "I wanted to see the person in charge..." "I'm a journalist from Paris-Jour and I'd like some information about your work..." " Oh, Paris-Jour..." " Are you in charge?" "Yes, that's me, Thomas Otlay..." "Is Paris-Jour taking an interest in the theatre now?" "Not exactly, but I would like to know what play you're putting on?" " Aeschylus." " Which play exactly?" "Prometheus." "Do you know it?" "Vaguely - he was the guy who gave men fire..." "That's right." "Sit down." " What do you want me to tell you?" " Why Prometheus?" "Why Prometheus?" "Oh my God..." "That's rather a long story to tell in a few words..." "Why not?" "Why not Prometheus?" "Prometheus is a vast and ancient myth... it's been a long time since it was last performed..." "I think we can bring something of today into it..." "What I mean is... behind Prometheus, are there any meanings..." "Yes, there's a great deal of meaning..." "I can't tell you all that quickly..." "Through these movements, these words... are you trying to express... something different?" "You're everywhere, aren't you?" "Do you know each other?" "For you is Prometheus not the... the starting point for something you want to express that's more... a different message, or something like that..." "No, overall Prometheus is a fairly coded work... it's something extremely complex... and I'm trying to shed light on it through the things I know..." ""There met thirteen men marked by the same feeling, endowed with enough energy to remain faithful to the same thought... sufficiently honest not to betray each other... sufficiently honest not to betray each other, profoundly political... enough to hide the sacred ties that bound them together... sufficiently strong to place themselves above any law... and lucky enough to have succeeded almost always in their designs... who had run the greatest risks, but kept their defeats silent." "Fear could not touch them, not before the prince... not before the gallows, not before the innocent." "They had accepted themselves as they were, irrespective of social prejudice, criminals no doubt, but remarkable for... some of the qualities that make great men... and recruited only among the elite of men..."" "Why are you reading me that?" "It's Balzac's The History of the Thirteen..." "I know it." "Why?" "What makes you interested in it?" "I find the ties that bind these men... who decided to hold the whole of society in their hands..." " ...absolutely remarkable..." " Interesting, but it's nothing to do with Prometheus..." "I mean..." "Prometheus..." " The History of the Thirteen..." " I don't see the connection..." "It amuses me because it's something..." "I read when I was very young, and it led me to discover ... a game called the Thirteens game... it's a card game...." "a game of patience." "A game of patience?" "You can play in one hand." "What is it exactly?" "It's very simple..." "You take the cards, you count them..." " Don't you know?" " I'd like to see ..." "You want me to show you the Thirteens game?" "I'd like that." "Here are the cards..." "You count one, two... thirteen, it's the king..." "The number you say must never be the card you turn up." " Have you ever won?" " No, not completely." "It's quite hard to play because you haven't much hope of winning..." "Can I try?" "Wait, no, that's not what I want, it's that one, look..." ""I think Pierre is a bit cross with me, as though I'd broken the pact..."" " That's pretty serious." " That's what gives him his charm..." "Pierre's charm..." " What?" " His force." " Do you know Pierre well?" " Yes I know him well." "What's he like?" " He's... a charmer!" " Not with everyone.," " He's never had much effect on me..." " You haven't seen very much of him... you've just seen him in passing." "I've met him two or three times..." "He's an extraordinary person... someone who takes you like that... who gets right inside you and then... you realise you've been totally manipulated... it can go very deep, it can kill you..." "He's a little boy too... that's why he's capable of anything." "If Igor had really gone to Mexico... and even if something had happened to him..." "I'd have heard after six months." " Not necessarily." " I think... if Pierre and Igor had fallen out..." "I suspect Pierre..." "You suspect Pierre of being behind Igor's disappearance?" "In reality, yes." " That's serious!" " Have you seen him recently?" "No, not very recently..." "In fact I don't see him any more..." "But you understand?" ""Broken the pact"..." "If Pierre really believes that Igor has broken the pact?" "I don't really know what that means, but it's very serious anyway..." "What's in the other one?" " I don't find it very interesting..." " Yes, the Thirteen..." "Pierre is capable of anything... of crushing his father, mother, son, anything..." "It's more complicated than that...." "What would it matter to him, to make someone disappear?" "Perhaps I'm going a bit too far..." "You are, but at the same time, why not?" "It's late for these children?" "Do you think they understand this conversation?" "You know children are so receptive..." "No, they don't understand." "I'm sure that Pierre is a bastard." " No, he isn't." " I'm sure of it." "It's too easy to say that." "Maybe he is a bastard..." "Igor also talks about Pierre's charm that gives him his strength... you haven't seen enough of him... or you didn't let yourself be spellbound..." "So he's Mephisto?" "You two were very close." "Very." "What do you think of Thomas?" "Thomas is my third baby!" "I think Thomas is also a bit..." "he can be just as "Mephisto"..." "You know he brought the children a tortoise?" "You should examine it." "It might be bugged..." "Bugged!" "You know, the boy who was in the shop..." " Yes." " He followed me... and he spent a long time talking to Thomas." " He's a weird guy." " You told me he was deaf and dumb?" "He talks perfectly well and..." "I know he speaks..." "Perhaps he's sent by Pierre?" " I could imagine something like that." " Anything's possible." "It's possible that's he a little deaf..." " Or maybe he's just a little madman..." " We don't know." "Excuse me, Monsieur." "Aren't you a famous mathematician?" "No, a physicist?" " No." " No, a champion, right?" "No." "A singer?" "Is that it?" "But I do know you, wait..." "You're an artist?" "You wouldn't be Mr. Warok by any chance?" "What if I was Mr Warok?" "Who are you?" "Let's pretend you are Mr Warok... then pretend I'm student Frédérique." "And if you were a student, you'd be a student..." "Well, listen..." "I'd like to ask you something." " May I?" " Of course." " Can I sit down?" " Of course." "Do you think that today we can still do dialectical art?" "That's a big question." " What do you think?" " What do I think?" "I've got an idea about it, but I'm more interested in yours." "I don't know." "If you say dialectical... what would you say about it?" "What definition, what..." "Mine's a bit marxist." "Sure..." "I wanted to ask you... dialectics, the other... what might its role be... in a sect, for example?" " A sect?" " Yes." "A sect or a group of people who live and work together..." "But why a group of people who live and work together..." " ... for what goal?" " That depends... there are lots of sects" "Perhaps you know of one?" "Certainly..." "We know they exist..." " Do you belong to a..." " No!" " Would you like to belong to a..." " That's different..." "I might, yes, just to see." "To do what, exactly?" "Maybe there are some that want to... who've had enough of being ordered about and say... it's our turn and go for it." "So they become conspirators and work together." "Do you know people who belong to a sect?" "Or are friends of yours, planning to..." "Not exactly..." "I think I've got a friend who's in one." "I've seen some letters..." "Letters to him, with names and there's like a code, you don't understand... and they talk about things..." "it's really secret..." "Does your friend belong to an organisation you would regard as secret?" "But he leaves papers lying around..." "They're not lying around." "They were hidden..." "I went through a few things..." "Are you just curious, or do you feel drawn to this..." "I bit of both." "It's something I keep thinking about... making suppositions on this and that." "I suspect everyone." "Perhaps I'm part of a secret society, perhaps you are?" "I'm not yet, I'd like to be..." "I'd have to be introduced, I expect you need... a card or something." "Do you think there's an entrance exam?" "An exam, no, but" "They don't take just anyone." " Would you be ready?" " I'm sure." "I think that if the aim is so there's no one above to tell us what to do..." "Shit!" "I'd like to go and be free, I could do whatever I liked." "Being on top rather than underneath?" "Right." "But then other people would create secret societies with the aim of..." "In that case it's not good at all..." "Then we have to fight." "I'm a little skinny but I know judo." "You're naughty, you talk about dialectics we settle that... and then we're talking about secret societies." "Aren't you interested in them?" "I find them mildly amusing..." "I'm astonished at the things you're saying." "What do people usually talk to you about?" "I've got a suggestion for you, I belong to a secret society..." " Do you think I'm being serious?" " You never know..." "It might be true... but I don't believe you." "Let's imagine that we form a secret society..." "How?" "Who with?" "We'll get some paper... and make a list of fifteen people... who could be in the society..." " And then?" " We can't accept just anyone." "We take people in different areas... who understand each other, who are a bit hard... and then off we go." "Then we go and see each of the fifteen people and we say..." "I don't know..." "We say, "You can do this, you can do that"" "and then we meet up... everyone has their own tasks..." "That's how it is in politics." " What will we do?" " That depends..." "That depends on the group, what kind of group we set up." "Then let's choose a group." "There's you, there's me..." "What do we want?" "We want power or we want money." "And then..." "If you had to choose, power or money?" "Maybe both, but in reality I'd rather have money... because money gives you power." "And with power..." "With power you get money." "That's dialectics, isn't it?" "We'll get there in the end..." "Excure me!" "I'm looking for this man, have you seen his face?" "No, are you doing an investigation?" " Why?" " It's a game." "Look carefully at this face." "I'm studying it from three different angles, reflection... imagination, and then this face..." "You can look at three parts in a face... the forehead is imagination... the chin is reflection..." "Don't talk to Georges about it." "What most interests me in Thomas's work is... the hidden meaning... what he's trying to express behind the words... behind the gestures... the secondary meaning." "It's the language of birds   ...you see what I mean?" " No, not really." "The language of birds... is a language of rebuses, of hieroglyphs... which enables... one who is initiated, a companion, a sage, to be addressed... directly... in a kind of universal language... that speaks directly from one unconscious to another... hides its meaning and never enables the uninitiated to grasp it... even if it appears right before their eyes." " Do you see what I mean?" " Yes... but I don't think it corresponds to what Thomas is really about." "Certainly, Thomas is.." "He has an element of mystery, but... as in anyone there are shadowy areas..." "Where we're dealing with the great mystery... a search for the absolute." "What I like about him is... is his respect... for the freedom of others... and his personal search... which remains, whatever relationships we have." "I have a fairly personal relationship with him that remains secret... he's a man... he's someone who... through his work... beyond the actor... really tries to attain the human being." "It has been very important for me, meeting him." "I'm gald... each of us have been able to preserve... our own part of ourselves, which I call shadow zones." "We have nothing more to say to each other." "Do you know him?" "Do you know this man?" "Do you know this man?" "Does he live around here?" "You don't know him then." "He realises he is all powerful, and starts to sing." "It's a spell." "Do you know the Thirteens game?" "It's a long game of patience." "That doesn't mean I've won..." "I've got another deck here..." "These photos are no use anyway." "We don't know what time he takes the metro... we don't know where he lives, we don't know anything!" "This undertaking... is crazy." "We should go to the police..." "Maybe Max has found something..." "She's gone to Porte de Vanves." " I remember, he changed twice." " That rules out plenty of lines!" "We're there..." " We can rule out loads..." " It can only be the south..." "Those exercises totally wear me out." "I don't know if it was the same for you in the beginning." " Tiring, when you're not used to it." " Even when you are!" "But you feel good afterwards..." "Yes, it cleans you out, which is good..." "I don't know if you've noticed... but Prometheus has gradually disappeared..." " It was already happening." " I've been thinking... we haven't mentioned him for three days." "We asked Sarah to come to talk about Prometheus... and she's got rid of him altogether." "But he's still there in a way." " I don't feel him any more." " He's vaporised." "Would you believe it?" " You seem to be pleased about it." " No, but in the end maybe he wasn't..." " He was too much!" " Maybe he wasn't completely indispensable." "The important thing is the resonance it has within you..." " Pour me a little..." " You want some wine?" "Have you got any spirits?" " What would you like?" " I'd like a drop of vodka..." " It's in the fridge..." " I'll get it." "No matches!" " Look in my purse." " No Prometheus... no fire, no matches..." "Perhaps it's a disaster then?" "The more I think about the boy who came as a journalist, it bothers me..." "The way he approached me... it was a kind of provocation..." " I'd like to talk to Pierre about it." " Really?" "It's not natural... there's something in it that worries me..." "Getting the Thirteen book out and showing it to me like that..." "That young man is a visionary." " Want a little?" " No thanks, I'm fine." " Are you all right like that?" " I'm fine, yes." "Is this a game?" "It's lots of things." "First of all it's this..." "And then this..." "Perhaps... this with... something like this... that comes back... goes here... and then... between the two... like this." "Do you see..." "That really is the end of the line." "Stay cool, Lili!" "I'm petrified..." "What's up?" "The shop's blown, for us." " Not definitely..." " Yes, I got a call this morning." "I've had two or three very suspicious calls... and then there have been people dropping by in the last few days..." "Why didn't you tell me?" "I haven't seen you." "I've got to talk to you..." "I was expecting a guy today... but apparently he's been intercepted." "You've got to help me..." " What do I need to do?" " You know what I mean." "I'm really sorry, but it's the only possible way..." "But supposing another guy comes to collect his passport?" "It won't be the right one!" "Anyway, he comes in, I see him." "So..." "I bring him in here, I get him to sit down." "You get him to sit down if he's not the right guy?" "I've got things to do today..." "I've got to do the inventory, so I need quiet..." "Tomorrow morning, OK?" "Whenever you like..." "Anyway, there's no one here." " Lorenzo sent me..." "This way!" " Sit down." " Hello." "No, sit here." "I've come for the papers." "I've got a bit of a problem..." "the guy hasn't turned up..." "I'll wait." " Will he be long?" " I don't think so... Go and get his suitcase." "I'm coming!" "They'll take everything away... they'll come for him too..." " What time?" " This evening..." "Good!" "The papers..." " Can I walk you home, Pauline?" " Not today." "I won't let you go if I can't walk you home!" "Let go of me!" " I won't let go!" " All right..." "No further than this!" "Bye, see you in a bit." " Are you going?" " I'm going to the cinema." "I'll make some coffee." "I keep calling Lili." "Have you got any news?" "She rang me this morning." " She's had to leave Paris." " Why?" " I don't know..." " I don't believe it!" "Then we'll stop." " How are you?" " Good." "You wanted to meet me here..." "Because I'm just over there..." "But they'll see you through the windows." "Don't worry about that." "I wanted to see you because..." "I've been thinking..." "First I wanted to know what you thought about the group." "Do you regard it as completely over... or are we still keeping it alive?" "You know the way I see it... it's dormant." "It exists as a memory." "I'm asking you because..." "it's taken on a new reality... which I had no idea of to start with." "I've realised that it's more important than I thought..." "The other day I was even visited by a guy... while I was rehearsing... and got out Balzac's book... and asked: "What are the connections between The History of the Thirteen and Prometheus?"" "I was stunned..." "I thought it was a joke." "Did one of you send him, or what?" "I acted dumb..." "I told him, I don't know... the only connection for me is a card game!" " What sort of guy?" " A regular guy." "I've no idea who he is, he told me he was a journalist with Paris-Jour..." "I had no idea what to do." "I even took out a deck of cards... to explain that Thirteen was a card game I played..." "But I was intrigued..." "I don't understand, this guy was making an investigation." "I don't see the connection, it might be a coincidence..." "If it's a coincidence it's pretty odd... so I'd like to know if you talked about it to other people..." "No... not really..." "Honey Moon!" "Did you recognise me?" "What have you done?" "Cut your hair?" "Dyed it?" "No, I've changed my head..." " Do you like it?" " You look like a boy..." "Don't say that, I'll go all red!" "Where's your little dog?" "Don't talk about him!" "He's unbearable at the moment." "Look, he bit me this morning." " Bad dog!" " I've grounded him." " What is it?" " Look..." "The young man I told you about..." "He's over there." "He'd been out of circulation for a few days..." "He's come back..." "He's come back... he's all tanned...." "Must have been off with the Greeks...." "Yes, he's back to his old habits..." "There's plenty to read with that Suzie business..." "I can chat him up for you." " Bet you can't!" " You'll see." "Eat my croissants, I won't say a word." "You're not going to eat them all by yourself?" "You've got a lot of papers there." "Old slag!" ""Former lady of the night, lived like a pauper and died, aged 73, on a heap of gold." Some people have all the luck!" "I'd like a heap of gold, wouldn't you?" "You know that's all rubbish." "What do you know?" "I know!" "There are more important things in the pipeline..." "Really?" "Things in the pipeline..." "My croissants, my fags..." "That's how the big jobs start..." "You know?" "If you want to succeed in life... you've got to know how to get organised... know how to take risks, not be scared." "Then at the end..." "there's a pile of money waiting..." "Just keep talking." "I'm seeing the others this evening." "If you're interested..." "I could slip you a few tips..." "See you here at the same time tomorrow?" "Sure, off you go." "Like a memory." "What about Lucie?" "Has she said anything?" "My relationship with Lucie is mainly professional:" "she's the legal consultant to my group... so we do talk... but for the last two years... there hasn't really been anything to suggest... that there's an active group somewhere... or something organic..." "I could be completely wrong, but..." "Have you talked to Pierre about it?" "Pierre, no" "I haven't seen him for a while and..." "In fact, I haven't seen him in a long time..." "I haven't had a real conversation about it with him." "For me, it's a link that exists but isn't exploited..." "We'd need a sort of anchor for it to turn into reality... and I don't think it's got one..." "I think that's a shame... we said we'd leave it for two years... we'd let it mature, we'd wait and see if it..." "And for me, I think about it all the time." "I realise it's taken on a kind of... it's become something very..." "But don't you think it's a rather literary conception of things?" " Absolutely not!" " I haven't got much time  for daydreaming." "You know my line of work, but..." "But I sense a kind of nostalgia in you..." "I realise that for me it's a means of action." "We can't let our lives... go by without channelling things we really want to do, and... and with that anything is possible." "It can take on extraordinary proportions and... the energies in us, we can't just abandon them like that..." "It absolutely must become reality." "Yes, of course." "But it can't be just words like that." "Any group needs... rules... proximity... it needs to meet..." "We can't say that what we thought of is embodied in anything precise... I mean the link is kind of hanging, we might be able to activate it..." "Do you have something in mind?" "What I have in mind is..." "Once we decided it was going to exist... it did correspond to something very important..." "It didn't happen by itself!" "Why did we get together?" "It might be one way to bring about far-reaching solutions to our problems... and to give meaning to our lives... which would be completely committed to it and..." "We laid down the principles... but we never got any further!" "But the principles, you and Pierre formulated them in the most depth..." "But it happens, that the people who start something... aren't the ones that carry it through..." "I understand that you've lost the initial vision, but... but we'll help you get it back, but..." "Because, there's Pierre..." "You were the dreamers..." "Do you think there's anyone else in the group who has this... desire to put it into practice?" "I've felt the last time I saw Sarah, I felt it strongly in her..." "Lili, well that's a bit complicated... but I can feel it in Lucie..." "I feel is very strongly in Lucie." "Before Igor disappeared... he definitely had it too..." "Igor, he hasn't disappeared." "You know how he operates." "He's off doing something..." " I'm not worried about Igor..." " Nor am I." "Anyway we should all get together..." "We should look at it again..." "I'm not against it... but Lucie plays her cards close to her chest... she doesn't seem like someone... who wanted to be involved in some action." "Maybe you're right." "I've not had a lot of time to think about all that..." "But I'm not against it." "And apart from that, anything else?" "You know I started Prometheus... it was Prometheus that made me..." "I realised that I can't find Prometheus... and I wonder if I haven't made some kind of link... between The History of the Thirteen and Prometheus." "And the real Thirteen, for me, it's Prometheus in a way..." " He's a symbol of the Thirteen." " You have to spell that out!" "Why is Prometheus symbolic of the Thirteen?" "He's a symbol because..." "It's the way for us to commit without knowing the ultimate end or goal... but what matters in my work, is first of all to do something." "And then, through that work, you find out what the goal is..." "I'm discovering it through talking about it..." "I realise, between Prometheus and the Thirteen..." "I have the feeling that we..." "to put it bluntly..." "We can change is something... that's nailed down, that's Prometheus, that makes a link... and we can open things up and show people..." "Things grow out of a decision made by some group... that's how things start to move." "I'm looking for the connection..." "To me Prometheus symbolises... what is prevented... and with the group, we can find enough energy... to change things." "Don't you feel... that this group, it exists in suspended animation... without having found its point of impact... and that the young man's visit... set you back on the path to something." "The fact of being a suspect  creates the crime." "Suddenly it appeared as something that really existed, whereas..." " We can't say it really exists." " Not yet." "But once it's been thought of, it exists..." "I'm at your disposal." "What we need to do is see the others." "Oh, the grant..." "Have you had any news?" " Your grant?" "You've got it..." " No, only part of it..." "How many parts was it going to be divided into?" "Two..." "They've given me the first half..." " It's a matter of scheduling." " I don't know." "But I can have a word with..." "Is it a matter of a late payment?" " Should you have had it by now?" " I should have had it, yes." "Right, I'll have a word..." ""Jum who saw them faint..." "Jum who saw them faint, passes the time that erased them... other thirteens have formed a strange crew..." "Thirteen to hunt the Snark... they encountered only the Boo Jum... who saw them faint, passes the time that erased them... other thirteens have formed a strange crew..." " Hi, how are you?" " Fine." "You?" " What about work?" " OK, middling..." "And Lili?" "Lili's gone." " Where?" " I don't know where." "And the group?" "Gone too." "At least, I don't know..." "It's over." "Let's see." ""Two paths lie open before you..." "Thirteen the better to hunt the Snark..." "Place me where I should be... they only encounter the Boo..." "Holy was our ambition..." "Jum who saw them faint... at the harbour where you must leave... passes the time that erased them... a hand will guide your own... other Thirteens have formed a strange crew..."" "Snark, Boo, Jum!" "EPISODE 7" "FROM EMILIE TO LUCIE" "I see little Polo's getting a taste for croissants." "Set in your ways." "The only real truth in life..." "it's all in a croissant." "Makes life simple." "I prefer almond croissants." "No, these are the best." "I'll have one of your cigarettes." "Share and share alike!" "Well you deserve it." "Eat." " So?" " What?" "Did you see the others?" "Yes, last night." " And?" " And what?" " What you told me yesterday..." " I can't tell you any more." " Why?" " Because..." " they don't know you, they've never seen you." " It's easy." "I'm here in this café every day." "Are you crazy?" "Cafés are full of cameras and bugs." "Where then?" " Tomorrow, Montsouris." " Montsouris Park?" " Where?" "It's a big park." " Don't worry." "You'll be found." " I come on behalf of the Thirteen." " On behalf of the Thirteen?" " I've got a message for you." " In that case, come in!" "Sit down." "So..." "you're one of the..." "Thirteen?" "That's what I'm wondering." "You said something about a message..." "Thirteen the better to hunt the Snark!" "They met.. they did not meet the Boo Jum!" "Which saw them faint... the time passes that erased them... other Thirteens..." "have formed a strange crew..." "I think you said the Boo Jum." "Does it mean anything to you?" "Are you the author of this amusing message?" "I'm the messenger." "The messenger." "You see..." "I think this is a joke... of which you may be the author and I the victim... or it may a joke that has nothing to do with me... but of which you may be the victim." "A joke..." "A joke?" "But in that case... the entire magical, mysterious world I'm moving in... would be shattered in a moment." "And that's impossible!" "Supposing I suggested you should pass on... a few messages - let's say four or five thousand to keep it simple - would that seem like serious work to you?" "Without knowing from whom, for whom, how or why?" "Then it has all been deliberately... systematically designed, to cast the uninitiated... into an inextricable mental confusion!" "Yes, maybe..." "No doubt you will have other messages to convey to me..." "Goodbye." "You really are everywhere!" "Was that little guy at your place?" " Who do you mean?" " The journalist." "Didn't see him." "I told you so!" "Don't forget that when someone is named, everyone freezes." "That's very important, it's over... you're an object caught in space and you don't move!" "Let's start." "Bergamotte..." "Achille." "I don't know what kind of costume we can put on him..." " When's the performance?" " Wait, let's do this up." "Let me see how he looks from further away." "Careful, he's very heavy." "It looks violet in the light." "We'll have to change that." "I don't want to get married!" "Just for a second, to see if you can do it." " I thought it was a joke." " You mustn't be sad." "Don't leave me!" "Leave her!" "Don't scream" "Why are there people outside?" "Why are some people outside?" "How did you manage to get out?" "How did you get out?" "Let's go down." "Why?" "There are some lovely things down there." "There's a burning smell." " Do you know this place?" " Let's go see." " Pay attention." " It's completely dark." "I can't see anything." "Hold hands!" "Because you can't see a thing!" "I feel dizzy!" "Everyone come here." "Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't..." "I know you!" "I know you." "Doctor, wait, I'd like a word." "Do you remember?" "Me, my nose, the way I am, my way of life, of talking, nice." "Never seen you before." "Try to remember!" "You, me, her." "Me, two legs, walk!" "Joyful!" "Happy!" "Friend!" "Hello!" "Love!" "Me!" "I think you'd better come along with me." "We'll go and have a shower together... and then you'll feel much better." "Come along with me." " Are you coming?" " Yes." "Feeling better now?" "You were pleased to see your old friends." "Don't go, darling..." " Why?" "In the name of who?" " Enough now." "Enough now, let's put a stop to this." " I didn't do anything." " Be quiet!" "We came this way by chance." "I'm not going!" "Don't wind me up!" "Don't wind me up..." " I'm not going!" " Calm yourself." "Don't be foolish." "I'm warning you, I'm on edge!" " Be careful!" " Calm yourself." "Everyone sit down." "Sit down." "Don't wind him up." "Good." "I'm a bit worried because I'm pretty sure we're lost." " Because you see we're here..." " Told you so!" " Yes, but I think..." " You must know the street." "Sure, I know it." "We are here." "We're in Marseille." "There, this street..." " We passed by here." " I told you so!" "Calm down." " What are we going to do?" " There was a hat store." " I don't know..." " There was a hat store." "Every day we get lost!" "Why didn't you say anything to Georges?" "You work with him, don't you?" "Why didn't she speak to me?" "Where is Lili?" "Lili is gone." "Where did she go?" " I don't know." " How is that possible." " You work in the same group." " We stopped work a week ago." "It was very good at the end..." "There were some great moments." "The singing!" "That was the first time you were completely engaged... when you were the conductor." " Did you feel that?" " I didn't know what I was going to do..." "I felt violent." "And all of a sudden I wanted to do a symphony..." "But you did it... without having to think about it." " Spontaneously..." " The Russian thing was good too..." "You don't know how to work with what comes." "She instantly tried... to see who was... married..." "Because we didn't look enough..." "I saw immersed in prayer, like this..." "In fact I didn't look at all." " So now you're..." " She's disappeared!" "She's gone, and you haven't heard anything." "You're asking me where she is?" "How should I know?" "If I knew, I'd tell you." "Why did you wait ten days to tell me?" "I just wanted to know..." "To know what?" "If I knew where Lili was?" "You've got no idea where she might..." "What's really hard is really watching what the others are doing." "When you came, as a nurse, there was a whole part on one theme..." "and suddenly you brought in another." " Did it make you think of a nurse?" " Yes." "At what point?" " We had to put a belt on you..." " It was bang in the middle of something..." "Yes, but a thing can be annoying..." "You have to put your annoyance to one side in some exercises." "When Quentin started the business with the puppet." "He was like that.." "and then you moved into another theme, a tailor..." "You should have thought more about him being a puppet" "But he'd started talking at that point." "Right at the beginning?" "It was a bit on the theme of..." "it veered off, it..." "I think we were more awkward at the beginning." "Later we melted into each other, we listened... we were a bit more freely inventive..." "What was good was the last story..." "Until the argument between Quentin and Rose." "It was a bit... "self-conscious"" "But there was a change in the action there too." "She wanted it to be a general panic." "I didn't want a wedding, I wanted..." "Seeing him in this position made me very scared." "I wanted to, er..." ""infect" a general panic." "It settled into that, didn't it?" "I was afraid... the way you watch scenes in the street..." " I believed in it." " The party was fun." "You could have with the Marseille thing..." "When Bergamotte said "we're in Marseille" you could have split up." "there could have been passers-by and you could have gone off with Marseille..." "You were always in the same group, doing everything in sympathy..." "Don't you think at some point it must happen... that suddenly, like people who want to... whereas there perhaps you have to shout at them... but suddenly you want to..." "Is it a good thing?" "should we hold ourselves back or should we let ourselves go?" "There are points when you really want to..." "You should be able to completely stop everything..." "It's a readiness exercise where you really have to immediately..." "What were you asking?" "Whether there was an aim of this exercise..." "When you were saying the mother... we should have gone and had a wedding." "Is the aim to make scene, which works.." "or is it a kind of relationship... in which case the business of annoyance, that you were telling me off for..." "I wasn't telling you off at all." "I was saying it messed up... the exercise." "All right, but why?" "What's the aim of exercise?" "Is it a performance, all polished and finished, or what?" "It's to make people work in relation to each other... moving in the same direction... and not to violate a situation that's in the process of evolving... with a subjective phenomenon which has fuck all to do with the theme." "No one said that..." "Yes, it's part of the rules..." "You can't bring in your nervous system." "You've got to leave that at the door." "But a nervous system that might have been manufactured..." "So it was intended?" "But it's not what I felt." " So you thought it was personal?" " Absolutely." "But it's the same thing, darling." "But you have to use anything you can..." "But it acted as a block." " If it wasn't annoyance with you..." " Don't tell me it was directed." "You brought something from the real world... into a fictional world which overturned..." " I didn't see that happen..." " I still don't see why not." "So she left a group that she was responsible for..." "Completely?" " You don't know what's happened to her?" " No." "She must have said something before she left?" "She told me she was leaving Paris." "I didn't ask her more." " You've had no news for ten days?" " No." "Perhaps you know where she is?" " How should I know?" " Since you were talking about her..." "It was you who spoke to me about it." "You came to ask my advice about something to do with Lili... her group, someone who stole a million francs..." " you don't want to tell Georges..." " She must have gone without telling me anything..." "One day she rang me and said she was leaving Paris." "That's all!" " That's all?" " Yes." "And you don't know about..." "She could be involved in other things besides your group." " She didn't say anything to you?" " Is that what you think?" "I don't think anything!" "Once you're a participant in the exercise..." "You have to be right in it, or not at all." "That's really to do with the craft, the work..." "Technique, more like." "At a certain moment..." "When Rose started the story of the hand." "It's very funny..." "We were in a kind of snake." "I thought of using the snake." "and I put hands on each of us - I wanted to make a shield... with a God above." "And then you blew up my world because you lay on the ground... and started wriggling." "I didn't even consider it..." "No, you didn't take it into consideration." "Because my role is to go with what you... with your refusal." "So I can't leave you aside and just keep on with my own thing..." "But couldn't you have given me three kicks..." "It's possible." "You have to enter into the idea of a game." "It's a game as if you were playing cards..." "It's a childlike state... of readiness and a desire to have fun." "That's almost more important than anything else." "First of all... it works." "It's not an exercise with a precise goal." "It's a state of readiness..." "like children who suddenly start playing... and they make this a plane." "But there might be a child who does something else." "But then they don't stay together." "When a child feels they don't fit into a group they go off... it happens at once." "A child doesn't say, "Why are you saying that's a plane?"" "They play at cops and robbers." "You don't ask yourself too many questions... just go along with things, be ready and..." "What did you ask me just now?" "I don't know where Lili is..." "Perhaps she's run off somewhere, it doesn't matter." "She might have fallen in love." "Good for her." "What if she met someone recently..." "without Georges knowing?" "I've no idea." " A young man..." " I don't know." "You don't know?" "You know nothing?" "How can I help you then?" " You don't know anything either?" " You told me all I know." "You suspect something." "I'm asking questions because you've just outlined a problem that I don't understand." "I'm forced to ask the questions!" "Don't you want to ask me anything?" "Yes..." "I wanted to ask you..." "If you don't want to tell me it doesn't matter..." "There's not much I can do anyway." "We have to wait for Lili to contact us." "Let's just wait..." "Are all the envelopes ready?" " How many are there?" " Five." "Five..." "We were going to do eight." "These are the five main papers, that's enough." "Is Emilie in?" "Hi Sarah... you should phone before you come round..." " How are you?" " Good." " What are you doing?" " I'm going." "I'm going because I'm very tired." "You're just going off?" "Leaving everything?" "It does you good sometimes..." "Are you writing to the newspapers now?" "For your shop?" "No... not for my shop..." "There's a funny atmosphere here... rather mysterious..." " Not at all!" " I'm intrigued by these letters." "It's none of your business." "And Mlle Iris clutching the letters as if they were..." "They're just letters!" "Why is it none of my business, Emilie, you've got me worried..." "Normally you ring before you come." "I prefer people to ring..." "Beatrice, you know that proposition I made?" "I've got to go now, because the thing has to be done now..." "Because there are very serious things going on in the Basque country." "In the Spanish part, also in the French." "So I've decided to leave the day after tomorrow." " It's up to you to decide." " Listen, I..." "I can't..." "I have to finish what I've started." "I can't." "I don't think I'm indiscreet, because three days ago you came and asked me... to talk about that business with Pierre, so I wanted to know what all this is about." " It's none of your business." " Have these letters got something to do with Pierre?" "Yes..." " Are you blackmailing him?" " No." "they're photocopies of a few documents that are compromising for Pierre..." "And you're sending them to the papers?" "This must be some kind of pathetic joke." "Mlle Iris would do better to think about the baby she's about to have..." "Right." "We must go our separate ways" "We'll have to part..." "That's all there is to it." "You seem in a very weird state to me..." "Three times you came to me, crying..." " to talk about Pierre..." " So?" "Our conversations went quite far and I feel responsible... for this... bad joke..." "But you're not responsible..." "I'm not leaving before..." "I tear up those papers!" "You've told me enough dreadful things about Pierre it won't do anything at all." "Between talking about someone and saying he's capable of anything, and trying to ruin him, you can't do that." "Everyone fiddles taxes and documents." " But what's it to you, Sarah?" " I won't let you do it." " It doesn't concern you." " Stop saying that!" " I forbid you to do this." " You said he's capable of anything." "You can't just go off and leave your children because of this." "All this is my problem... it's my little act of personal revenge." "There's no revenge... it's disgusting and I won't let you do it." "You're in love with Pierre." "I forbid you and you're not going to do it." "I hate people making scenes in front of the children." "I'm going, and I'm going to warn Pierre straight away." "Go warn Pierre." "In front of the children." "Don't worry." "Just think about the baby you're going to have, and these children." "Goodbye, darling!" " Did she hit her?" " No, it's nothing, everything's fine." "Goodbye!" "You know where to contact me, don't you?" "Aren't there any pigeons in this place?" "What are you feeding them?" "Pain au chocolat." "I'm not surprised." "They don't like chocolate." "Then they can go and eat worms." "Perhaps  you would like a pain au chocolat?" "No, I prefer croissants." "I should have one here..." "I've got a croissant." "Thanks" "Gosh, you were hungry." "Do you know the time?" "I know this place pretty well." "It must be... when the sun is at the end of my right finger... it must be almost midday." "They're not coming then." "I've been stood up." "Me too." " Really?" " Yes." "Maybe it was you I was waiting for." "It might have been." "Let's start again!" "All right." "Hello." "What's your name?" "Renaud." "What's yours?" "My name is Clara." "How strange, it's like being in a cloak and dagger story." " Where's Pauline?" " Pauline?" "The young blonde woman." "Where's Pauline?" "Who's Pauline?" "There's never anybody here." "But all the people who were here?" "There's never anybody here." " Thomas?" " Here already?" "Will you sit down for a minute?" "What's the matter" "I wanted to tell you I have to go away." "Go away?" "For how long?" "I don't know." "But I have to." "I understand, if it's... serious." "But you're not going to just dump me are you?" "No, but..." "I need to for the moment." " All right?" " Well yes, but I'm not very pleased." "Me neither, but I have to..." " can you understand that?" " Yes I understand." "Listen to this..." ""Up here, in the North, there are two identical pools." "If I throw a stone in the South pool, the North pool is sad." "If I throw a stone in the North pool, the South pool is sad."" "But you shouldn't be sad for no reason..." "OK?" "I'll leave this." "Will you come back?" ""Maid, maid, maid, I'm not made to be a maid..."" "Meanwhile my shop is shut..." "Because of me?" "No... anyway it doesn't matter." "What did you do with the robes and all the other stuff?" "I'm going to distribute it to my friends." "See how lovely it is over there?" "But what are you going to do with your papers, all the guys that are involved?" "I'm here and all's well." "Just look at the sea!" " You don't look very happy." " I'm fine." "I feel empty." "I'm nothing." ""I'm not made to be a maid..."" "Tell me why you keep saying that." "Tell me why you keep saying" "It's a memory." "But you shouldn't live in the past, darling." "That's not at all good." " You're saying that to me?" " Look what's going on..." "Ultimately I'd like to have someone like that to pull around on a little cart." " Wouldn't you?" " No." "Possession, how awful!" "Lili, why... why didn't Igor want me to come here?" "I never understood it." "I'm going to confide something..." "I've always thought that Igor hid in Obade... for six months, in some flat." " That's crazy!" " Why not?" "What would he have done?" "Instead of going a long way away, he would just have come to Obade." " Is that what you think?" " Why not?" "I've always thought that, that's why I'm here." "That's why I've always felt drawn to Obade..." " Of course it's mad..." " You think he's in there?" "Why not?" "You haven't been in all the rooms have you?" "You don't know." " You're scaring me!" " Why?" "I've always thought that if Igor was in Obade that would be a solution..." " It's a hypothesis..." " You hid that from me..." " You came because of that." " I didn't come because of that, but..." "Why not?" "That opens up new perspectives." "I mean it doesn't make sense." "What could he do?" "Sarah said the other day that I shouldn't trust Thomas." "Why did she say that?" "She said, "If I were you, I wouldn't trust Thomas..." " you never know what he hides"." " Have you seen much of him?" "I see him from time to time, yes." "Thomas!" "He's got other fish to fry." "He's got his group, his theatre work." " He's got anything to do with any of that..." " That's what I've always thought too..." "That Sarah's a weird one." "She might have said that just to scare you." "What about Lucie?" "Did she come here much?" "Lucie de Graff" "I don't know." "But why did you think that about Igor, in a room?" "I'm intrigued." "Someone could be locked up in a house for six months, a year..." "No one would know!" "In a cellar, or an attic, in a room." "It's just a dream." "I've often dreamed that Igor came back at night... came in through the window... leaned over the children's cradle... came to me... over to the bed, and strangled me..." "I keep having the same dream." "Igor comes in through the window, goes over to the children... then he comes into my bedroom and strangles me..." " Because you feel guilty." " No..." "But I keep having the same dream..." "It's an anxiety dream..." "He strangles you!" "If he strangles you, you must feel guilty." "I do not have an explanation." "Every day I see that old gentleman going by in his white cap..." " Strange, no?" " Perhaps it's Igor!" "He could have aged, changed..." "Every day at the same time..." "Perhaps he's in love with you." "What you said about Igor scares me..." "Let's go and look for him now." " No?" " Why?" " Because..." " It might be true!" " Just for fun!" " You don't know if Thomas is coming here?" "I don't know, I don't know..." "I'd like to see him again though..." "So what do you think about all this?" " I don't know." " You must have an idea though." "I got the phone call." "It all seems a bit crazy..." " I'm on my guard a bit, with him..." " What did he tell you exactly?" "He had some dossiers and he wanted to talk to us..." " Dossiers?" " He told me letters." "He told me dossiers." "Let's wait and see." "Here are yours, by the way." " What are they?" " Don't you remember?" "You've got no idea?" "You recovered them..." "I recovered them somewhat on the sly..." "But what did that girl want with these letters?" "I don't know!" "She was interested in them apparently, but that doesn't mean anything..." "There wasn't anything very compromising in them." "No, don't worry..." " Look, there he is!" " Here's the young man." "I'm pleased to see you two..." "I just saw Iris." "It's more serious than I thought..." "She's given me some letters that Emilie wants to send to the papers... telling them some things about Pierre - stuff about budgets for apartment blocks, that kind of thing..." " Where are they?" " I burnt them." " You burnt them?" " Yes." "I don't want to walk around with things like that!" "So why are you getting us to meet you if you haven't got the stuff?" "It's not the content of the letters that matters... it's that she wants to send them, so I think it's pretty serious for Pierre..." " Did you read the letters?" " I read them... but they were all about budgets..." "anyway you know Pierre always faked documentation..." "But you don't know anything about budgets." "Why did you burn the letters... and then tell us about them when we need them?" "It's not the content of the letter that matters, but that she wants..." "She wanted to send letters to the papers to compromise Pierre?" "Exactly." "She's convinced that it's him that's made Igor disappear..." "I tried to persuade her otherwise..." "That's absurd!" " So what shall we do?" " I'd like to know something." " These letters, you burnt them..." " Yes." " Do you know if there are any more in circulation?" " They were photocopies..." "If they were photocopies then the originals are somewhere." "I don't know how Emilie got hold of them..." "I don't know if Iris is carrying them." "I don't know anything." "But the main thing is she will try again." "We absolutely have to stop her." " Which papers was she writing to?" " Several..." "France-Soir, L'Aurore, Combat..." " We need to warn..." " Is that necessary?" "I will have to see everyone I know at the papers and warn them... that someone will try to circulate some letters... and let me know straight away." "Yes, and then we have to deal with Emilie." "We have to do something." "It's a difficult situation." "But can't we just get hold of Emilie and ask her why she's doing this?" "You know I've never known exactly what Emilie..." "There are very few things you can know exactly." "Anyway, you know my relationship with her is rather..." "I know she likes me, but that's all." "She doesn't really understand, she knows that something's going on...." "Firstly, we must have a list of the newspapers, make contact..." "You know them and so do I." "We can stop things... at the level of the managing editors, not too hard..." "The problem is that now she's started she'll go on with it..." "We have to muzzle her at all costs and..." "We have to tell her more than she already knows... or we have to lead her away from it." "Fine, I'll deal with it." "I'll do it." " That's all." " For the moment." "You do such extraordinary things, like burning letters and not telling us and..." "My dear, I burned them because..." "So tell me your plans for muzzling Lili..." "But that's why I wanted to see you." "I've got no idea." " Where is she?" " She's gone to Obade." " Is she on her own there?" " No, I think she's with Lili." " Have you heard from Igor?" " Of Igor, no." "I know he's fine, I heard that indirectly." "But Emilie, she doesn't know where he is?" " Definitely not!" "She mustn't..." " We'd be in a right pickle!" "She talks too much, Emilie." "But for Pierre she certainly wasn't a..." "First for Pierre, then for Igor!" "For him the presence of Emilie is a real catastrophe." "At an unconscious level - she doesn't realise - she'd rather..." "Igor wasn't there." "It's true, I assure you." "So you think that she's cultivating that?" "She's more than cultivating it, that's what she wants!" "She wants it." "He told me that even if something happened to him... we'd automatically be told..." " And he hasn't given any word to Emilie?" " He can't." " How long has it been?" " Six months." "I've got a vague idea where he is, but..." "well you have too." "We can't trust her." "Assuming she's not hiding anything..." "Because there could be more trouble." "She's on the verge of cracking up." "She's at the point where she's really starting to be obsessed..." "It seems like she unconsciously desires..." "The only problem is that if she does this one day... there's no reason why it should stop." "At least not with us." "And... does Pierre know?" "Pierre,?" "No." "We should tell him, perhaps." "Perhaps we should first stop the thing with the papers... and then tell him." " Shall I deal with that?" " I'd like that..." "I can do something at one level, if I see her in Obade I can..." "I can orientate her thinking, but..." "Anyway I'll tell Pierre..." "I don't think it will upset him too much." "At the legal level you're the one to act." "I know some managing editors..." "we'll deal with it together..." "We'll think about it together." "Here are some letters that sir left lying around and were pinched from his house..." "They aren't very compromising." "To me it's unacceptable that you leave letters from me lying around." "I didn't leave them lying around!" "They had them stolen in an entirely unexpected way." " I'd like to know how." " I'll tell you..." "It's really something." "That's it, we're married." " The blood of the red queen..." " With the blood of the white king." "The tower of the red queen." "The red queen who wanted to go to the white king's castle." " There is no white king's castle." " Oh well." "I'll go off round the world on the king's horse." "It's nice at your place." "Difficult to get to..." "That's true." "Only the white king can come here." "It's strange..." "I feel it in my veins already, like someone else's blood." "For life, for death!" "Are you all right?" "I'm sleepy." "Would you like me to tell you a story?" "Yes." "Are you listening?" "Long ago there was a great city... surrounded by a high wall..." "This wall had seven gates." "Here's the gate." "Here's the master of the city..." "This city had a secret... at each gate there was a strong warrior... guarding a treasure." "One night a stranger came." "He killed the seven warriors one by one." "And he fought the master of the city..." "in a terrible fight." "And then?" "He carried off the treasure." "And then?" "And then?" "And then the white king met the red queen..." "You know... the story of the stranger... is my story." "Really?" "Yes, really." "Gosh... then you've got loads of money, if you nicked the treasure." "Yes, but I didn't keep it, it wasn't for me." "Who was it for then?" " For the Companions of Duty." " What's that?" " I can't tell you." " Why not?" "Because..." "I've made a vow!" "But you've made a vow with me too!" "Yes, I know." "I can't tell you." " Are these people good or bad?" " They are sages" "What's the point of them?" "I can't tell you." "It's impossible." "Listen..." "You really won't tell me?" "You really won't tell me?" "You have to be initiated." "I'm not very important...." "I've only just started..." " You're a shiny new pawn?" " Yes." "Perhaps I could be initiated then?" " It's hard." " Why?" "Because it's hard." "Will you take me with you?" "Maybe." "Tell me, do you know someone called Rosemochronos...?" " Is that your red hat?" " Yes, it's mine." "It's one of the red queen's hats." "It's red because it's mad." "It's red because it's mad?" "Because the queen is mad, barking mad." "I've told you some things..." "Yes, but I haven't told you anything." "What are you doing here?" "I don't feel very well." "You don't look very well." "I didn't think you'd come here..." "I didn't think so..." "Yes, this is Emilie..." " What's happening?" " I'm not well..." "I need to lie down." "I'll prepare a room." "I'm going to sit down for a moment..." " You look really, really tired." " I'm a pretty depressed..." "Where am I going to sleep?" "Where are you?" " Upstairs with Lili." " Lili's here?" "Yes, she's here, she's gone for a walk, I think she'll be back in a minute." " Is this one free?" " Yes, I think that one's free." " Is that one locked?" " Yes, that one's locked." "There's no key." "Has it been shut since you got here?" "I'll get your room ready, because I think you'd like to go to bed." "Shall I put you overlooking the sea?" "I'm going to lie down." "This blue room is pretty, isn't it?" "Have you seen the whole house?" "Well, almost." "How did you come here?" "Who told you about it?" "It was Lili who told me where she was..." "She told me in case there was an incident..." " So Igor didn't tell you?" " Yes, but he never told me where it was." "Hasn't anyone brought the papers from Paris?" "In his present state it isn't a very good idea..." "There's too much in the papers at the moment." "So do you work with Thomas?" " Prometheus?" " Yes." "Is it going well?" "It was going well." "Is it finished?" " More or less." "What happened?" "Sarah left." "She decided to leave because..." "There was an incompatibility between her and Thomas, between her and the group... and then someone else left as well." "Like always when things aren't going well,..." "Thomas has come to Obade..." " I think we'd better leave him to sleep." " Just for a little while." "He looks very, very tired." "I'll go and get the sheets." "That would be good." "Pauline." "How long have you known Pauline?" "And you, what are you doing?" "A prince." "You know that's dangerous?" "vHow long have you known Pauline?" "And you?" "I met her... not very long ago." "What are you looking for exactly?" "It's very hard, I know her." "A princess?" "How?" "She's dangerous" "Do you know her well?" "We should talk about you now." "What are you doing with all these things?" "These are things that  that come." "How is she a princess?" "Very fragile... because you're very strong." "I do pirouettes." "I'd like to help, but..." "The pendulum changes." "Positive, negative..." "You can have it." "I think I'm cracking up..." "Tell me about her." "Perhaps you can help Pauline." "How?" "And this princess... where does she come from?" "Who is she?" "But you've seen the princess." "She can't be caught, tell me about the princess." "She can be helped if you're..." "I'm telling you about her because you must see her... because this princess will not be the real princess, she will be the fake one..." "She is the princess... but, I know what attracts you to Pauline, it's..." "Yes, it's..." "Before I didn't speak." "You think so?" "Yes" "It's most often possible." "It's most often possible." "You must play..." " Have you already played for her?" " No, never." "Do you think that..." "Yours, perhaps." "Listen... go now." "Think about these things." "EPISODE 8" "FROM LUCIE TO MARIE" "Listen, go now!" "Think about these things..." "Give him a little..." "Give Prometheus a little hot wine!" " It's hard to pour." " Give your Prometheus a little hot wine!" " It's going to leave stains..." " Prometheus..." "Lolo... hot wine..." " Want me to help you?" " Yes, help me." "It's already got sugar in it." "One cube." "No, it's already sweetened." " So, your little song..." " I don't want to sing..." "Go on, sing a little song!" "I sang so much at the circus, I'm not singing now..." "I can sing too, but I don't want to right now." "Go on, sing for Prometheus!" " You sing then." " No, I'd rather tell a story." "Would you like him to tell a story?" " I'm busy right now." " Let me tell you a story." "It's a story set in Mongolia." " Where?" " Mongolia." "In Mongolia?" "You're really ill, aren't you." " I'm in pain..." "Where?" " In Outer Mongolia." "There was a really, horribly ugly man..." "He was very horrible." " Why?" " I don't know why he was ugly... but he was the ugliest man in Mongolia..." "And he found a wife who was even uglier than him." "Can you picture it?" "They had a baby..." "They had to throw it away." "I've heard that one." " Throw it where?" " They threw it..." " ...to the Mongols..." " That story's not funny." "You hate funny stories..." "I think it's a very funny story!" "Especially because it's a fiasco." "Usually he loves terrible stories." "Why are we in this draught." "Can't you shut the door?" "You wanted us to sit here, mate." " Lili darling, shut the door." " She's in bed." " Asleep?" " Lili is in bed." "Then we'll ask Sarah." "Sarah, shut the door!" " Sarah's asleep too." " Sarah's not here." " It's true, Sarah's not here." " Who told you Sarah was here?" " Who told you Sarah wasn't here?" " What makes you think Sarah's not here?" " What makes you think Sarah's not here?" " You can't hear her walking?" " What makes you think Sarah's not here?" " I don't know." " I haven't seen her for a few days." " Then how can you say Sarah's not here?" "We'll ask Lucie..." "Lucie!" "Shut the door!" "Haven't you heard noises at night?" " You'll scare her." " No, but it's a big house..." "But don't you hear her walking sometimes?" " Haven't you heard...?" " I've never heard a sound like that..." "Don't move." "Can you hear?" "Don't talk to much, you'll be ill..." "There are things happening in this house." " Weird..." " Pierre, shut the door!" " Oh, he's not here either." "No one's here then." " Pierre's in the cellar." " In the cellar?" " In Mongolia." " You make him strangle himself..." " I didn't mean to." "Give me another drink." "You're really impossible." " So who shall we ask?" " What do you think, Emilie?" "Go ahead, call it." " Help us." " Call the ghost..." "The ghost of the second floor." "So, what about that little song?" " Who will sing this song?" " Emilie." " Emilie... sing the little song!" " Do you know how to sing?" "The little song of despair, Emilie." " The song of the stranger." " Hold on, be quiet." "Did you hear?" "Yes, something's moving." " You're not afraid?" " Shut up and listen..." "They're back." " Weren't they there when we arrived?" " They're very discreet..." "I noticed there was always a... weird noise..." " Why weird?" " I don't know." " Where did it come from?" " Listen." "Didn't work." "Sing a little song." "You sing it beautifully." "Keep it down." "Lili's asleep!" " What's that?" " That's Igor's scarf!" "Igor's scarf..." "No, it's Achille's scarf." "No, it's Thomas's scarf." "I never wear scarves like that..." " It's not your scarf?" " No, it's Igor's scarf..." " You see Igor everywhere..." " I recognise the smell..." "You know everyone's wearing Indian scarves at the moment, Emilie..." "Yes, they're in fashion." "Goodnight, Emilie." "Sleep well." "Hello Sarah..." "I knew you would come." "How are you?" "Good." "I'm really sorry about the other day, you know..." "It was ridiculous!" "I got carried away." "The subject is too painful for me." "Yes, but anyway you were right, I shouldn't have sent those letters..." "What are you going to do now?" "I don't know." "I don't know, because..." "I feel like I've had enough..." " What about the shop?" " The shop is..." "The shop is closed." "I turned everyone out and..." "I was..." "I was..." "You were right, that business with Pierre is... it wasn't a good way..." "It's not right to do something like that." "It's all been sorted out." "I should have gone about it a different way." "It wasn't right!" " It's all been sorted out." " What do you mean?" "I rang Pierre." "It's not serious." "It wasn't right!" "It's like that business with Colin." "Do you know Colin?" "I saw him at your place." "You said he followed you to the theatre." "I've hurt Colin a lot too." "I'd like to see him again..." "I don't know what to do." "Do you know?" " The shop?" " I don't care about the shop..." "And you kids?" "I'd like to see Colin again though..." "I really like him you know..." "Why are you looking at me like that?" "I'm looking at you normally." "What about your children?" "My children, I don't know..." "The children are at home." "You think about Colin a lot." "Yes, because..." "He was always there and now he isn't, so I think about him." "But why did you come here?" "Because with the shop shut, the letters..." "I had to get away..." "But this is Igor's house!" "It was Igor you came looking for here, not Colin." "I don't know." "I think you should lie down and sleep." "I'd have liked..." "I'd have liked..." "You won't find Colin in Obade!" "I haven't come to look for Colin." "Lie down..." "Lie down..." "Lie down... sleep." "What do you want to talk about?" "What do you want to talk about?" "I'd like to talk to you about..." "Colin." " Go on then!" " At the same time..." "At the same time..." "I can't because of Igor..." "But Igor's not here!" "Yes, but..." "I think you should sleep..." "The right thing is for me to leave." "To go where?" "I don't know..." "I really like Colin..." "Why are you crying, Emilie?" "I've told you why!" "There's no point saying the same thing ten times over..." "Stop looking at me like that!" "But I'm looking at you normally..." "Because I've got to go." "But who do you want to find, Igor or Colin?" "Stop asking questions!" "I'm not asking you anything." "Lie down and sleep!" "Take your clothes off, lie down and sleep!" "Why are you looking at me like that?" "I'm looking at you normally." "Why are you looking at me like that?" "You should lie down now..." "I don't want to lie down!" "Do you want to talk?" "About Colin?" "Why are you looking at me like that?" "You're angry with me because of Pierre!" "I'm looking at you normally..." "Why did you come here to Obade?" "Because you always ask the same questions!" "Because I want to know who you came to find in Obade." "Lie down." "Do you want to talk?" "Go on then, talk!" "Talk," "I really like Colin..." "Did you send him away?" "Did you send him away because of Igor?" "You love them both?" "Yes." "And your children?" "What about my children." "Stop looking at me like that!" "I'm looking at you normally..." "You should lie down now..." "You should lie down and sleep." "Lie down." "What are you going to do now?" "I'd like to leave..." "Do you want to find Colin?" "Do you want to find Igor?" " Do you want to find Igor?" " No." ""If you want to know the secret of the Companions of Duty, be at Impasse Veiron tomorrow morning at six o'clock." "Renaud."" "The Companions of Duty..." "The Devourers..." "The Companions..." "The Devourers..." "The Devourers..." "What's that?" "That's..." " ...the bone of a..." " You don't know?" "Yes, it's the skeleton of a..." "I don't know." "Here, you can have it." "Thank you, Thomas." "Let's see your eyes." "You look tired." " You too." " I know." "Very." " What's the matter, poor old Thomas?" " Great sorrows..." "I've reached a point where..." "I don't really know what to do." "I did Prometheus, I did it... partly in reaction to you." "I didn't want to let Aeschylus go, and then I couldn't do Thebes because of you..." "But in a way you hadn't left me." "I realised that..." "You're too kind, Thomas!" "Something in me was gone... half dead..." "Every time I said to myself, "Shit, if Lili was here... something else would happen."" "I don't think so." "Yes, it would." "I think that... some things are ours." "After six years working together, we can't just split up like this..." " I had the habit of..." "" "If we've split up it's because we had to split up." "My whole working system was built... in opposition to what you thought." "So I'd say one thing, you'd send it back to me and it all existed because of that." "Yes." "I don't know." "I haven't missed you that much anyway." "I said I haven't missed you!" "Fine, it doesn't matter, maybe it's my fault." "But you're ready to understand even my acting  aren't you?" "I've made my decision." "I don't want to act with you any more, that's it." "So what else do you want to do?" "You seem less depressed than you did before... coincidentally it's passed?" "I exaggerate my depression a bit to have some peace, because..." "Emilie, I don't want..." "I want to be left in peace, I don't want to be affected just now." "Except those who want to, like you." " What if I don't want to?" " But you do want to!" "I've made you smile." "You're feeling better." "You got me..." "I wanted... the two of us to burn." "We're made of the same wood." "I was thinking of making a big fire..." " On the beach?" " Yes." "Yes, and we'd both throw ourselves into the fire." " You're mad!" " No." "It's Prometheus chasing you." "I don't want to die." "I don't want to burn." " Why don't you want to burn?" " It's death." "I don't want to." "I'm water." " I'm water" " Wait, turn towards the sun." "Why did you come here?" "For all kinds of reasons..." "Did you know I was coming?" "No, it was a brilliant idea to send Emilie here." "What did she tell you?" "Nothing." "But she's really got it in for Pierre." "But that's not what I want to talk to you about." "I don't want to talk about what you want to talk about!" " Why not?" " It's not the moment." "Do you think you'll be able to work again, without me?" "I don't intend to work again." "What are you going to do then?" "I'm going into politics..." "No, I don't know..." "I truly don't know." "If we worked together, what could we do?" "We could do a kind of mixture..." "Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus..." "we'd make soup..." " Aeschylus soup..." " I don't want to then!" "You're laughing." "That's what annoys me." "You don't want to make soup out of Aeschylus." "Listen!" "What do you want to make it with?" "Unless we do something ourselves." "And we write it." "And we make it up." "I'd like to do that!" "Then we'd have to really get down to it." "I asked Sarah to help us a bit, but..." "Sarah?" " It didn't really work..." " Why?" "Because she did stuff..." "What did she do?" "Thomas comes to see me with this story of papers... to be sent to the newspapers." "Of course I dealt with it, nothing at all will happen... but... she's becoming a nuisance!" "I understand..." "It's not really surprising coming from Pierre though..." "I mean, it's part of business..." "What you didn't say just now... when we were talking about Igor..." "Do you know anything?" "Have you heard anything, sensed anything?" " Are you interested?" " Not at all..." " I was just asking..." " Out of pure curiosity?" "More like silliness..." "Are you trying to catch me out?" "I just wanted to know..." "You always talk to me about Pierre... on a strictly professional level." "No, not strictly professional, we talked a lot about him two years ago." "Two years ago is ancient history." "You know he hasn't changed." "You see him, do you know?" "Yes, a bit." "Have you changed?" "You know me..." "I'm busy with so many things." "I try to arrange the group's actions." "Thomas is off with his Prometheus." "He burned all the papers, without knowing what they involved..." "It makes you sad for sentimental reasons..." "the group..." " But you know how much I love them." " Me too." " You know how much it matters to me..." " Obviously... those are friendships that matter... but the group?" "There are groups everywhere, why shouldn't ours exist?" "It's worthwhile enough, don't you think?" "Well..." "Well..." "Have you brought a message, perhaps?" "I've brought you a message of happiness." "Of happiness because I'm very well." "I've been very well since I realised... that your story of the Thirteen... that your story of the Thirteen..." "and the men who wanted to hold a whole society in their hands... that that story of the Thirteen was purely an adolescent fantasy... a hoax... and I'd even say an ideologically false fantasy!" "Nevertheless that fantasy led me deep... into an appalling nightmare..." "bordering on madness... bordering on death." "In it I met the Sphinx.., and I didn't find love... because..." "I was asking the Sphinx a question." "Which was a badly-framed question." "The question of the thirteen was badly... framed and stopped me finding reality." "Now I'm out of it, and I'm well..." "I'm very, very well... and I leave you to your worldly conversations." " One of your students?" " No, one of Pierre's disciples... if you see what I mean." "What do you mean?" "That young man came to see me five or six days ago... introducing himself as a messenger from the Thirteen." "He read me..." "He read me a message... whose style and content meant that without any doubt it was written by Pierre..." " He wrote it!" " Yes, there's no doubt." "I rang Pierre." "Pierre told me that he was ... endlessly interested in that young man... that he placed his greatest hopes in him... that he could not possibly be mistaken in his choice." "And when I asked him why, he replied in a manner... that you can judge for yourself." "He said, "Well, I think I sensed... his name while reading the stars"" "with that mishmash of a tone that always makes you want to slap him." "That doesn't surprise me!" "You must have felt terrible..." "Did you start to wonder?" "I wondered if... if his little game... it goes back more than two years now..." "I wondered whether his game was going to provide me with many visits... of this kind... and whether he wasn't on the hunt for all those people..." "Did he speak to you about this young man?" "More or less." "He must have had some idea behind it?" "His idea seems pretty clear to me." "He misses... the group." "and since he daren't talk about it himself... it's pretty clever to find a messenger like that... who comes knocking on doors, bringing messages... that you know... from their content and form can only be from Pierre..." " There's no doubt." " It's quite touching though." "It shows he needs us." " There might be a simpler way..." " He's always believed in his ideal city." "He's always believed in it." "He's always wanted it." "I wonder if he's right!" "Sometimes I wonder whether he's the one that's right." "Instead of irritating his circle of friends..." "I think he's doing something very interesting... that he's got a lot of talent." "I'm not disputing either his talent or his professional skill..." "There's a part of him for which I have a great deal of sympathy." "He has an overflowing imagination..." "He fascinates us... And he fascinates us." "You're in the mood for confidences today." "He's succeeded, he's got back into contact with you." "After a long time." "He's wonderful, you know." "He follows his idea through right to the end." "We're not finished with him!" "It's very, very serious for him." "He's not thinking about it seriously." "He doesn't think seriously about serious things." "I think he does." "It's you that's not serious!" "By not believing in anything." "It's very easy to be sceptical, to talk about everything..." "It's creating things that's hard." "He's trying to create..." "He's upset because we don't know how to follow him..." "He's brilliant and we are incapable of following him..." "We're incapable of creating anything because our activities take us in other directions... we get on with our little lives..." "Aren't you the generous one..." "Why did Pierre tell this young man about the Thirteen?" "That intrigues me." "With us losing momentum a bit... he's looking for new victims." "Fresh blood!" "Fresh blood..." "No, I think he misses the old days, his friends" " You talk as though he were mentally deficient!" " No I don't think he's mentally deficient, but..." " On that level he is, a bit." " I don't agree with you..." "I'm not trying to persuade you." "You don't take him seriously." "I take him as a whole... but the consequences of his behaviour annoy me sometimes..." "There might be something more useful..." "But we can do something useful..." "That's what he's trying to create." "By bringing us back together like that by means that are... a bit bizarre, romantic..." "The thing is a big joke, this... this... fondness for plots, bizarre connections..." "But you were part of it, you thought it was great!" "It's fun for five minutes, but..." "Then why did you draw us all into it?" "It was great when it was all going on!" "I think we should make things concrete and do something..." "I don't know how to explain it, but it should be worthwhile." "Get together as a group, OK." "You're all dreamers not capable of doing anything." "It's very nice writing books, writing newspaper articles..." "It's very nice talking in cafés." "We all sit there and nothing changes!" "Let's plan, to form a group, a team... for a specific action..." "Pierre's ambitions... it was fun... it was enjoyable, but really..." "You've given me a contradiction to find out exactly what I think of it all." "I could say the same of you." "We know each other so well." "We could do something!" "I'd like to speak to Lucie de Graff, quickly please..." "I'm the one you saw the other day dressed like a boy, the girl..." "It's serious this time..." "I've got a friend... who thinks he's one of the Companions of Duty..." "I'm not joking" "And I think in fact it's the Devourers..." "The Devourers, yes!" "Please don't laugh!" "What?" "I don't believe it!" "Are you serious?" "Igor?" "Are you all right?" "You're in Paris?" "It's so wonderful to hear your voice, unbelievable." "You could have written to me, though..." "You can't talk long?" "Yes, I'm really sorry about that, desperately sorry..." "I'm so pleased to hear your voice..." "No, no!" "I can hear you." "Right, I'll get in the car and I'll meet you at Warok's" "Lots and lots of love..." "Of course!" "Bye!" "Turn round!" " Emilie..." "Are you going?" " Yes." "Yes... have you heard the news?" "Guess who just rang." " No, I was going to ask." " Igor!" "He called me from Paris.." " Are you sure it was him?" " Absolutely, yes." " You know his voice?" " Yes, I'm going to meet him at Warok's." " But that's impossible!" " I assure you it's true!" "" " Wonderful, isn't it?" " Where did he call you from?" "He was calling from Warok's, I'm going to meet him there now..." "We talked for ten minutes!" "Did you hear?" "I'm going, I'm in a real hurry ..." " Can I come with you?" " All right." "I'll see you down there." "I'll wait for you." "Goodbye, Thomas!" " Goodbye, Thomas." " It's impossible!" " No, it's true." " You think so?" " You look desperate..." " I'm not... but I've got good reasons..." "Listen, don't leave her." "Stay with her and call me when you get there." " OK?" " Yes, Thomas." "Goodbye, dear." " I'll give you a call, Thomas..." " Don't forget!" "I don't want to!" "What?" " I don't want to!" " Is something the matter?" " I don't want to!" "Leave me alone!" "Leave me alone!" "What a prat!" "Pig!" "You really scared us." "You're such a prat!" "Hey, Thomas!" "No, Thomas..."