"Françoise Castejac." "My husband is sorry but he was delayed at the plant." "You see." "It's not going so well." "Everything is going to be allright." "I've seen you Michaud!" "But it's not me!" "Get down!" "I've seen you!" "I tell you it's not me!" "Do you want me to go up?" "15." "00:03:09,840 -- 00:03:11,046 What are you laughing at, Martin?" "Come here." "You could not see me." "I was behind your back." "And I did not throw that." "Come here!" "I have done nothing." "It's not right." "I will hold the dry cleaner's bill on your wages." "Understood?" "Get the hell out of here!" "The show is over!" "Everyone at work." "Go on!" "And I don't want to see any face at the window or I kick your ass." "Understood?" "Dupuis." "That's not a good start" "What ?" "This young man coming from Paris, tidy and all, and splash!" "They have balls." "You take only one tie ?" "Maybe it was not Michaud." "Someone had to take the blame." "Poor Michaud." "Then not." "He's a scoundrel, Michaud." "He could have done it." "Damned Michaux." "The face of that guy..." "What's his name already?" "Delorme?" "Can't you help me?" "I couldn't look up to him." "He was talking very seriously and he had that big stain here." "They really are kids." "One of them told his wife this morning :" ""The Fielding engineer is coming from Paris." "Give me some ripe tomato."" "I can't find your cuff links." "No big deal." "They surely have some, there, with a big F like Fielding." "And Fielding key rings and gizmos." "The americans love that." "And tomorrow I'll come back with a jacket stamped Fielding in big red letters, and underpants stamped Fielding." "And five years from now we won't play rugby but base-ball in Toulouse." "Shit!" "They know the germans made an offer to me." "It gives me the upper hand." "Of course." "I don't care about the Fielding." "I've lived without the americans." "I can keep on without them." "There it ends:" "the Fielding  Byrd Corporation in Toulouse." "He also created a rugby team at the plant." "And every sunday he trains his workers." "He's really perfect." "Messrs..." "Mr. Castejac is coming this afternoon in Paris." "Castejac." "Send a basket from Fauchon to his hotel, a spectacular one, with greetings from the Fielding." "Of course, Mr President." "Jacques has received a tomato in Toulouse," "Mr Castejac will receive a fruits basket in Paris." "We don't offer fruits the same way." "You have received a... ?" "Yes." "Maurice, you'll have to be very kind with this gentleman." "Of course, Mr." "There is a german company in course." "We'll begin by the reservation of a nice appartement at George V's, and then a nice basket fruits and then all the rest, you know." "You did not leave yet ?" "No, my plane is at four." "We have time for a drink." "It's a record I had at home." "I like it." "So I brought it here." "Shit." "Forgot the sugar." "Let me go." "How much ?" "Two." "I'm asking you for something, Bastide." "I don't speak to the union representative but to the friend." "You don't move while I'm in Paris." "Allright? Be careful." "I'm having dinner with them and I see what they're up to." "Don't worry." "What am I chancing ?" "A distinguished person preferably." "It's for a business dinner." "Above all : not the whore type." "Christine would be the perfect choice." "Very beautiful, an amazing style." "Exactly what you're looking for." "A real society lady." "I hope it's fresh enough." "Old scum, dirty man." "Scumbag." "Filthy pig." "Do you like it?" "It's superb." "I give you a lift ?" "Thanks but I'm going to walk." "I've had a wonderful time." "I'll be back in Paris in two weeks." "I would prefer to be back earlier. Good-bye, Christine." "Thank you." "Your watch loses much value in three minutes." "Nobody forced you to sell it back, Miss." "Give me number 447720 in Toulouse, please." "Françoise ?" "Yes, Benoît." "I'm arriving at once." "How was the reception?" "Was it allright?" "Perfect." "The driver was waiting for me at the airport, I have a superb appartement, and a gigantic fruits basket." "They know how to welcome." "It's too much." "They try to impress me." "You think so?" "But you know, for me to get impressed..." "Christine was afraid of wearing clothes too formal." "I told her that a pretty woman is always wearing too much clothes." "Mr Devêgue, someone is asking for you on the phone." "If you would excuse me." "The benefit with Levêgue is that he always tell the ending dinner cracks at the drink." "OK, my dear." "Too bad." "What can I say ?" "Allright." "See you later." "It was my wife." "She couldn't come here with us." "The baby-sitter is ill." "Not too seriously I hope." "No." "But it's annoying for..." "I asked her to come for us not to be..." "A girl alone, like that, and the three of us, it's not possible." "Yes." "It's true, Mr President." "He will be on his guard." "We would write "greetings from Fielding", with a felt pen on her butt, it would be the same." "What do we do, then?" "We dismiss her?" "Of course, you will be paid." "Mr Castejac, I introduce you Mr Morrison, our president." "Very pleased." "Good evening." "Mr Levêgue, our public relations manager." "Good evening and good-bye." "I have to go." "My niece is passing by in Paris." "I have to take care of her." "I'm really sorry." "This dinner is a friendly first meeting." "Invite your niece, Levêgue." "Unless it annoys Mr Castejac." "It's a medium company." "Although it's the fifteenth in the district." "250 workers." "It's wonderful." "What are you producing?" "Pastry cutters." "What is that?" "Tools in alloy steel for the copper industries." "Is the plant located in Toulouse center?" "Non." "Ten kilometers from the center." "All the workmen are from the area, and there is a good spirit." "We get on well." "It's wonderful." "And how one become a pastry cutters manufacturer?" "My father had started as a wrought-iron worker." "He was a member of the trade guild." "At the start, the plant was not that much... three workers." "He died too soon." "He did not see the business spreading out, growing up." "It's ghastly but I'm almost happy that he's dead." "He wouldn't understand what's happening." "That a serious business like ours can get in so much troubles," "he wouldn' t understand that." "I'm sorry." "Go to the kitchen to do it." "You can get out of the shelters." "You said your father wouldn't understand?" "Small and middle companies are sentenced to death." "If we can have a few drops of Champagne, Mr Casteljac," "I am proposing a toast to our futur association." "To the Texas-Toulouse wedding." "And how one becomes a pastry cutters manufacturer?" "It's my father." "He was a wrought-iron worker." "Holy god !" "What a jerk." "The most extraordinary is that she seemed genuinely interested." ""Interested", surely." "150 notes for one night." "In any case, he's the one having the best position at the time." "They are probably arriving now." "She's parking her car in front of the hotel, he is thanking her, she is saying : "Not at all, it was on my way."" "And he is asking her for a last drink." "And if she fucks as well as she listens, the dummy won't be bothering." "Here we are." "Thank you for driving me." "Not at all." "It was on my way." "Want a drink?" "No?" "No." "You don't want a last drink?" "Not tonight." "But still, why not?" "You wanted me to look like a society lady, didn't you ?" "Some society ladies sleep at first night." "Not your niece." "What?" "I say that in your family women don't sleep at first night." "What are you trying to say?" "He invited me to dinner tonight." "Go then." "We paid you 1500 francs." "We are even." "Allo?" "You're not trying to ask me 1500 francs again?" "I have to give him an answer this morning." "He said he would not move and would anxiously wait for my call." "Stay on line, please." "Yes." "When is he coming for the protocol agreement?" "Castejac?" "End of the morning." "Why?" "It's agreed upon, you're having dinner with him tonight." "I'll forward the extra to you." "Allo?" "Benoît, it's me." "Good morning, my darling." "I'm calling you because Bastide has brought in a strike warning." "The bastard." "It was predictable." "I will see that when I return." "How was your dinner?" "No hassle." "They are rather friendly." "It's better that way." "I will probably be unable to be back today." "It may last longer." "You will tell to this Bastide jerk that I don't give a damn about his warning strike." "I knew he would try to draw attention" "Try to get back as soon as possible." "I tell you that I'll be back by tomorrow morning." "There are harsh transactions." "Mind you, I don't have fun here." "Well now, I have to run to see Morrison." "See you tomorrow." "I kiss you." "This bastard of Bastide." "Oh, the bastard." "Allo!" "I managed to free myself, Benoît." "We can see each other tonight." "It's just a protocol agreement." "You commit yourself to give us your share on the fifteen of next month, and until then we'll make preparations for the final contract." "If you want to read." "If I insist upon you staying at the head of the plant, my dear Benoît, it's because of your dedication to it." "You are the heart, the soul..." "Without you at the head, I'm not interested in Castejac  Co." "Thank you, Mr President." "Take this." "I have filled it earlier." "You feel well?" "Very." "It's a funny thing, physical strength." "It's true." "Tonight, I was completely emptied." "All the talking at Fielding's, all the..." "Then I saw you, and I woke up." "Indeed." "If we had met ten years ago... then I was something else." "I was in good shape." "I'm still good but..." "You are wonderful." "No I'm not..." "Saying so, I'm not feeling old at all." "But a few years ago..." "For example, I remember," "I traveled to Sweden with a friend when I was 20." "You can't imagine how successfull I was." "Is that so?" "Maybe it was because I'm french." "But I was very good at that time." "Once in Stockholm," "I slept with two girl in the same day." "No?" "Yes, two." "Beautiful girls, at that." "Swedish type, you know." "You add to keep your promise when flirting with me then" "You didn't change." "You are the wonderful one." "You are the only good thing happening to me since a very long time." "I'm leaving tomorrow." "You will give me your telephone number." "I'm going back to Orleans, you know." "Give me your number there." "I can't be called at home." "Why?" "Because it's forbidden." "How do I reach you, then?" "By my uncle." "Mr Levêgue wish to speak to you, Mr President." "Yes." "How long do you think you'll stay in Toulouse?" "One week, ten days max." "I have Christine on the phone, Mr." "Christine?" "The girl from Claude's." "Castejac invited her for lunch and she doesn't know what to do." "What do I care?" "750 francs." "I see." "He's waiting at the restaurant." "He takes his plane in 2 hours and he wanted to see her before leaving." "She didn't know how to get rid of him." "So, she said yes." "No way." "He signed the agreement protocol." "We don't need her anymore." "She stands him up, then?" "Yes." "I already paid 3000 francs." "It would be better if this gentleman's sex life did not cost me more than his plant." "Of course." "I'm leaving with him." "Tell her to cancel him with respect." "You'll see the faces of the men when she comes in" "That much?" "I tell you." "When she opens the door look at them." "I bet you they'll forget their dishes." "And it's not that easy with your kind of food." "You know that I could call on your wife." "You're going to see, Michel." "She's really superb." "Distinguished, elegant." "The real Parisienne." "You know me." "I'm not the skirt chaser type, but this one, I couldn't let her go." "Is it serious?" "I think she is really hooked on me." "We get along well." "Very well in fact." "I know a little about women." "She's not the type to go with any man." "It was very, very tasteful." "Very well then." "See you soon." "Next time call me up." "Good-bye Mrs." "She likes to be waited for." "It's her?" "She will come." "It was delicious." "I need a three weeks diet now." "Cassoulet goes along very fast." "Good-bye." "I don't want to worry you but you're going to miss your plane." "Give me a telephone chip." "You can call from the bar." "Allo?" "Who's asking?" "Mr Castejac?" "Mr Levêgue is out, Mr. He's having lunch." "His niece's telephone number?" "But I don't know." "I'm sorry." "Good-bye, Mr." "So, I bring you something to eat?" "No time." "I'll take some sandwich at the airport." "You won't tell to our buddies that you came in my restaurant and had a sandwich at the airport." "She is married, you understand." "She probably had troubles with her husband." "Yes." "No doubt." "So long, Benoît." "It's about time" "I'm only ten minutes late.There's no hurry." "It's utterly unacceptable." "I could never make them swallow this." "25% dismissal." "A quarter of the manpower." "It's the agreement protocol that you read and signed yesterday." "What is this?" "I had to bring it in the garage." "Why?" "Because of the writings on the doors." "What writings?" "Rubbish." "What writings?" "Do not shout at me." "Answer to me then!" "Here it was written :" ""Castejac is a sell-out"." "And there : "Yankees go to the bog"." "Are you happy now?" "I'm going to tell two words to this Bastide jerk." "Bastide!" "Your smock, Dupuis!" "What?" "Close in your smock." "It's dangerous here." "You're going to the training today?" "Yes." "See you later then." "Good afternoon, Mr Benoît." "Good afternoon, Lartigue." "Give me the books 73, 74 and 75, if you please." "Did you talk to Bastide?" "No" "Why not?" "Because it was not the right time." "Mind you, I know when it will be." "Forward your pass, Michaud." "Shit!" "Come on, all of you back in the scrum." "Are you hurt?" "Not at all." "I have two words to say to you, Bastide." "Now?" "Yes." "Now." "Work on your pass there." "Come on!" "You should explain to them it's useless to dirt my car or to throw away tomatoes." "It's like this strike of yours." "It's useless either." "Don't leave!" "Stay there." "Shit!" "I'm going to study the problem with their counsel engineer." "We're going to limit the damages." "There's no need to panic." "It's with us you have to study the problem." "We don't know your americans." "And we don't want to know them." "Try to help me a little." "Don't you want?" "I cannot decide alone." "I have to talk to the others." "Coffee?" "Yes." "If you please." "Another one." "Here." "It's a month's pay for a debutante engineer." "You have been wonderful." "My congratulations." "Thank you." "I have good news for you." "I' m going to give you a lot of work." "I manage everything when we receive a client." "I can choose any girl I want." "Thank you." "No." "You have to thank me much more kindly." "You're going to earn a lot of money thanks to me." "Sometimes I have a free hour, after lunch." "I think it's stupid to hang in bars." "You won't be sorry, my lovely." "The Fielding can be a gold mine for you." "I can tell you a funny story about your president." "He likes to be sprinkled with talc." "Sorry?" "Yes." "He lies down on a small table and he asks for me to spkinkle him, like a baby, and after that, I wrap him." "He loves it." "Morrison?" "Yes." "It's lovely, isn'it?" "Why are you telling me this?" "Because I see him next thursday." "I' ll tell him that you tried to fuck me at the expense of the Fielding." "It will give him many laughs." "Bravo." "I'm going to see a movie then." "See you soon." "Good-bye." "Say..." "This story, Morrison, the talc, it's not true?" "Ask him." "I see." "So." "Good-bye." "How are you, René?" "I'm allright." "And you?" "You completely bruised my muscle yesterday, you dummy." "Follow me." "I'll give you a massage." "I have liniment in my cupboard." "No, thanks." "It's nice of you but it's not that bad." "You spoke to the others?" "Yes." "Then?" "Their answer is : the workers are not responsible for bad management." "We're against the merging and we maintain the warning strike." "My cigarettes?" "Suzanne went to buy some." "I have these Marlboros." "If you want." "You really want to screw everything up!" "I beg your pardon?" "Benoît..." "Indeed." "He's screwing eveything up!" "With a few more days, I could have made them quiet." "But no." "You had to barge in now, in the heat." "You are in a terrible mood since we left Paris, Mr Castejac." "I don't know why, and above all, I'm not being paid to support it." "If I barged in here, as you say, it's for studying the best ways to put back your society in order." "Now, I can go back to Paris, if you wish." "Yes." "No more Gitanes." "Why?" "I don't know." "There are only Gauloises left." "No more Gitanes." "Good morning, Mr Benoît." "Good morning, Georgette." "It really wasn't worth all the trouble." "How?" "No, nothing." "Go take a walk." "Get out for a moment." "I wish to be alone for five minutes." "Allo?" "Allo?" "Allo?" "How is it going?" "Very well." "Thank you." "It was a nice restaurant." "I beg your pardon?" "Where we had dinner with your president and Levêgue." "Very good cooking." "I think it's one of the best restaurant in Paris." "Great." "We all had a slap-up meal:" "the President," "Mr. Levêgue, his niece." "It's true, it was good." "I have found Mr Levêgue's niece a very sympathetic person." "And pretty, too." "A beautiful woman." "We agreed upon seeing each other again with her husband." "I wanted to call her in Orleans." "I've lost their number." "You don't have their number, do you?" "How?" "Her number?" "No, no." "It's not important." "I will ask Levêgue." "Yes." "Yes, it was a very good restaurant." "Their three stars are not stolen." "Excuse me." "I forgot some papers on your desk." "See you at once." "I tell you that he's bloody stupid and I don't want him here." "Everybody has the same feeling at the plant." "He already received a tomato." "If we keep him, he will soon receive bolts in his mug." "And I'm still the boss here." "Shit!" "Excuse me, my darling, I'm nervous." "But it's true, it's not possible, a cold fish like him." "I'm going to see Morrison, in the quiet, in his office." "We'll have a drink, relax, like friends." "Morrison is a nice person." "I can reach an arrangement with him." "Perrier or stale water?" "Dry." "Thank you." "Cheers." "Cheers." "Delorme is a perfectly able man and we're not going to replace him, Mr Castejac." "I don't even want to discuss about it." "He's a cold fish, Mr President." "In my country..." "He didn't go in your country to stand for parliament." "I'm sorry if you don't find him sympathetic." "You will have to make an effort." "I have no reason to make an effort." "And us to be philantropists." "I perfectly understand that firing sixty workers make you unconfortable." "But our company isn't responsible for the situation." "As the head manager of the plant..." "You have to consult head office, and head office says no." "You must not be capricious." "The times are difficult." "I have no more authority?" "You have all the authority you want." "As long as you get along well with Delorme." "Thank you for having me here, Mr President." "You stay a while in Paris?" "I don't know." "If you want theatre tickets, you can see with Levêgue." "He will make the reservations." "There is a very funny play at the moment..." "Thank you, Mr President." "How are you, Mr Levêgue?" "Mr Castejac..." "Time for a drink?" "Another time." "I promised my wife..." "Come on." "A quick one." "No, you're very kind but I'm in a hurry tonight." "By the way, I have lost your niece's number." "What is it already?" "How?" "Your niece's telephone number." "It's not easy to reach her." "She is seldom in Paris." "The easiest way would be for me to do the commission." "She has a phone number in Orleans, hasn't she?" "She asked me to not communicate it to anyone." "I'm sorry but the decision is all hers." "I understand." "If you want me to give a message, you just have to ask." "I have to go." "See you soon." "Mr Levêgue?" "Yes." "I really have to talk to you." "I have something very important to tell you." "It's very urgent." "I'm sorry to keep you so late." "I'm listening." "I'm asking you to keep your tongue on what I will tell you." "I insist." "Total discretion." "Here it is..." "I slept with your niece." "You must be astonished by my confession but I find you very sympathetic." "I thought you were the kind of man that could understand the situation." "As a matter of fact, it is a very simple one :" "Christine is married." "So am I." "There is something wrong." "We really have to make a decision." ""A decision"?" "Yes, I..." "I think we are seriously fond of each other, the two of us." "You have a wonderful niece, Mr Levêgue." "She didn't want to give her phone number because of her husband." "I have searched in the Loiret directory for the name Clement." "There are hundreds of Clément, and almost as many architects." ""Clément"?" "She told me her husband was an architect." "So, I looked in the profession section." "Excuse me." "I have to call my wife and tell her I'll be late." "Please do." "I'm really sorry." "What will you drink?" "Anything you want." "A quart Vichy." "Mrs Levêgue is not too angry?" "I'm really sorry, you know." "I thought you were in on it." "It's too stupid." ""In on it" of what?" "These practices are really frequent, in our times." "I'm sorry but I don't follow you at all." "Of course, Christine is not my niece." "She works at Claude's." "She's a call-girl." "A whore, you know." "I couldn't let you die like a fool." "You must not take it wrong." "I repeat that it's very frequent in business circles." "Yesterday, I had a dinner with three Japanese..." "She's a whore?" "Yes." "But she does a fantastic job." "With class." "I'm sorry that she swindled you so bad." "The Japanese were in the know at once." "They know the tune." "A whore." "You had me really worried earlier." "I didn't know what we were talking about." "Then, no grief?" "Of course." "Why should I have grief against you?" "In the end, I've had a very good night thanks to you." "Ah." "I'm more pleased now." "You chosed her well, your niece." "She's a nice piece." "And bitchy, oh la la!" "In the end, I just have to pay if I want to see her again." "Yes." "No need to search for architects in the directory." "Furthermore, her name is not Clément." "Probably an assumed name." "You call this number on my behalf and you ask for Christine." "750 francs for some time, 1500 for the night." "Thanks" "You're welcome." "I'm delighted that you take it so well." "Yes." "I was waiting for your call." "How was the meeting with Morrisson?" "I didn't see him." "He postponed the meeting till tomorrow morning." "I can't be in Toulouse before thursday." "Until thursday then." "Allright." "I put a coin in the coffee machine and it got stucked." "You have to punch it." "Someone is drinking your coffee." "God damn it!" "Hey, it's mine!" "I had a call from the Fielding earlier." "The President saw Mr. Castejac." "Everything is allright." "How?" "I stay here." "The President has received my husband?" "Yes." "All is taken care of." "You have to taste this." "So?" "Very good." "Indeed." "You won't drink this kind of wine very soon." "To you." "It won't comfort you but it's going wrong everywhere." "We hear all day long about societies going bankrupt." "It's all there is." "At least you have the Fielding behind you." "Give me your glass." "You know, the public relations guy, Levêgue." "I had a talk with him." "Occasionally they offer a girl to their clients to smoothe the ambiance." "A girl, like that." "A whore." "Mostly they are Claude's girls." "They're very beautiful." "Why not, basically?" "Food and drink are offered already." "Why not offering someone to..." "That's the girl you were waiting for, the other day." "Give it up, Benoît." "You know, it's best not to fall for a whore." "There's nothing good about them." "Believe me." "Give me the 758 11 40, if you please." "Allo?" "Hello." "I'm a friend of Mr Levêgue." "I would like to meet Christine." "Mr Levêgue's friends are always welcomed." "You are Mr...?" "Maraud." "Paul Maraud." "I'm lodging at Residence du Bois." "Mr." "Paul Maraud, please?" "He's waiting for you, room 17." "No, don't be afraid." "I won't make a scene." "Come in." "I gave a false name to keep a low profile, not to catch you in a trap." "Champagne?" "It was very funny, this little lady of the world routine of yours." "The architect husband, the upclass look." "Very funny." "You might be disappointed but I was not fooled for a second." "Or ten minutes maybe, at the beginning of the evening." "But the mirror cracked and very quickly" "I understood what kind of women I had in front of me." "You see, either in Toulouse, the old city, at the George V's bar, or in Tanger, in a whorehouse," "it's always with the same detail that the whores betray themselves :" "their eyes." "It's to talk about these common ideas that you asked for me?" "Undress now." "Yesterday, with the Japanese, it was for "some time"" "or for the night?" "Levêgue said they were three." "You have a special price for group?" "You have a fascinating job." "What do you want exactly?" "Get dressed." "I don't want you anymore." "Don't forget your little gift." "Christine!" "Follow the Austin." "You really are disgusting." "You followed me?" "A dirty whore." "What do you want exactly?" "I've been nice with you." "I listened to you and I made love with you." "Why are you such a pain in my ass now?" "Good evening, Mrs Lefèvre." "Good evening, Mr." "There will be no water tomorrow between nine and eleven o'clock." "A repair." "I put a bill in the hall but just in case you did not see it." "To be without water ain't funny." "Tomorrow, between 9 and 11." "Don't forget." "Good night, Mrs." "Good night, Mr." "It did cost you nothing." "The Fielding paid for it." "Why do you complain?" "Listen to me, Christine...." "You have nothing to do here." "Go away." "Go away, I tell you." "Listen..." "I lied to you a few minutes ago..." "I believed it." "I even thought there was something going on between us." "Let me." "Listen to me." "I don't fell so good right now." "Everything slip through my fingers, at the plant, everywhere." "Please, come with me." "I don't want to ever see you again." "Get out of here." "Good morning, Mr Benoît." "Bastide!" "Listen to me, Bastide." "You can get stuffed yourself with your strike warrants." "There will never be another strike here because there is no more plant." "I close shop." "Certainly." "Key under the door." "It's over." "You wanted to play tin soldiers with me, too bad for you." "I didn't fight for myself." "I can stop anytime I want." "Go to St-Tropez." "Hang on all day under the sun." "I'm easy." "I'm not in trouble." "You heard it well." "It's over with the Castejac  Co." "You have no reason to stay here anymmore." "Go back home and make it fast." "Because in three seconds I may kick your ass and send you in Spain!" "And tell to Mr. Morrisson, president of the Fielding Byrdcorporation, that he can go and get stuffed!" "I salute you, gentlemen." "He is incoherent and completely neurotic." "He orders the lock-out and then gives me the sack." "I understood nothing." "We have to throw him away." "This guy is dangerous." "We won't be the owners of his share until the fiftenth of the next month." "We can do nothing before that." "We can file a complaint for damages." "He has no right to act like this." "What are we going to be left with on the fifteen?" "A trial will change nothing." "It will not stop him playing like a kamikaze in his plant." "Completely incoherent." "My father was doing theatre production in the USA." "A small production company." "He put up tours and hired actors." "When he was tired, in the evening, he shook his head and said:" ""I hate actors"." "I'm asking you now : do not take personnally what I'm going to say." ""I hate the french" We cannot accept the lock-out." "This is a despotic decision." "This time, the management showed his true colors." "Unable to face off economic difficulties, it chooses, without consulting us, of course, the worst solution :" "the one which will force all the workers and their families to pay in his place." "I may have done a damned stupidity but I feel good." "You can't let the others walk on your feet al your life." "If the others bring an action against me, I don't give a damn." "I can enjoy myself for fifteen days yet and I take advantage of it." "Come on." "Say something." "This silence is unbearable, those big sad eyes that..." "Never mind." "Bye." "I'm gonna take a walk." "Ciao." "Allo?" "Hang on." "Mrs Clément." "Yes?" "Don't be cross with me, Benoît." "I was in my neighborood, in front of my appartment." "At home, you understand?" "I was afraid." "And it was the first time that a man..." "Then I got tense, and later I was sorry for it." "It's stupid to stay on a misunderstanding." "Well." "I thank you for all these informations." "Allright." "Certainly." "Good-bye." "She is Levêgue's secretary, the public relations guy..." "You know, Levêgue." "I talked to you about him." "I've heard that he had an accident, near the heart." "And he keeps on smoking, this jerk." "Two packs a day." "And then he drinks too." "Scotch and table wine." "Some people are really not careful." "Well." "Good-bye, my darling." "When the storm is over here, we will go to Paris together." "Do you want?" "And we will celebrate, all right?" "I love you, you know that." "I'm going to talk with them." "Surely there is a way to fix things." "You know, René..." "When a man live too much on his nerves, one day, he cracks." "The americans were hard on me." "First, they are not choirboys and I was feeling uncomfortable." "I said to myself, we're in this mess because I've been a fool." "So I had a lot on my mind." "You have to understand me, René." "We understood very well, Mr. Benoît." "Thank you, René." "I knew that speaking with you from man to man..." "No." "Mr. Delorme explained it all to us during a meeting." "He understood very well, him too." "I don't understand." "You've managed to negotiate directly with Delorme." "I have no advice to give you, Mr Benoît but..." "Go on." "At the point we are." "If I was you I would make peace with Delorme." "If the americans keep their promises, there will be no strike and all wil be back in order." "Do you like cassoulet?" "I'm taking you to lunch." "You will eat the best cassoulet of your life." "I may as well sign as quickly as possible since that's what everybody wants." "You reached an agreement with my workers." "My wife was in the loop." "I have nothing more to say." "I'm signing." "I will have to go back to Paris." "I should rent a place there." "I'm always packing and unpacking." "Furthermore, I hate Paris." "Park the car." "I catch you up." "Don't tell him but cassoulet does not agree with me." "He fought for the table." "Normally You have to make reservation 3 days before." "Furthermore, I have already lunched in the plane." "Mr Levêgue's secretary rang me up yesterday." "She's very kind." "What's her name?" "Mrs..." "Mrs Saillard." "No, the other one." "Which other one?" "Levêgue has only one secretary." "Ah." "Who is Mrs. Clément?" ""Mrs. Clément"?" "I don't know." "Why?" "No, no." "For nothing." "She is my husband's mistress?" "I beg your pardon?" "Benoît has a mistress in Paris." "I'm sure of it." "That's the reason why he's always packing." "Slacken your belt, my friend." "You're going to need it." "Aperitif?" "No thanks." "Where did you park the car?" "In front of the post office." "Give me the keys" "Why?" "I will let you two have lunch together." "I'm not hungry." "How?" "I'm not feeling well." "Give me the keys." "You want me to drive you home?" "It's not that serious." "I can go back on my own." "Are you sure you don' want..." "No." "But what's wrong with her?" "You feel better?" "Very well." "What happened to you, my darling?" "Nothing." "I was tired, that's all." "You missed something, you know." "How he stuffed his mouth, that young fellow." "You can't imagine." "In the end, he's not that bad, that little guy." "A man who loves so much cassoulet can't be completely bad." "Did you pack my suitcase" "No" "No?" "You don't leave." "I don't leave?" "Delorme said that the Fielding could send the contract here." "You have no reason to take a leave." "Listen." "I have a headache and Morrison is waiting for me in Paris." "It's not Morrison waiting for you." "What does that mean?" "You understood very well." "Let your suitcase here and go take care of your plant." "It's the best thing for you to do." "You really don't fell well." "You leave, just the same." "You make a ridiculous scene." "Don't you think I have enough troubles right now?" "Who is Mrs Clément?" "What are you doing with my shirt?" "Fold it back, at least." "Shit." "You don't want to answer me?" "Tear it up, while you're at it." "Why those lies Benoît?" "It's your smoking shirt." "You're going to sign at the Fielding dressed with your smoking?" "Where are my other shirts, then?" "I don't make a scene, Benoît." "I try to help you." "And shit!" "Benoît!" "What's hapenning?" "All the flies are cancelled." "Why?" "Ground employees are on strike." "But I absolutely must go back to Paris." "Then, take the ferry-boat." "A call from London, Mr." "Yes." "I'm stuck in London by the strike." "What am I doing?" "Take a taxi plane." "You absolutely have to be here tonight." "Talk a little about you." "Come on." "Talk about you." "I'm speaking all the time about me." "It's useless." "You didn't have an easy life, did you?" "How?" "Your life." "It surely wasn't that easy." "Why?" "Well, I don't know." "To get to..." "To what?" "To this." "My father died when I was 5, beheaded by a mechanical shovel." "And my mother had to be a domestic to raise me up." "It's ugly." "At 15 I stole a pastry in a bakery." "Approved school and I was caught up in the mesh." "My poor love." "Do you really believe all this bullshit?" "Huh?" "I'm born in a burgess house and I've never missed anything." "Why are you telling lies then?" ""The two orphans", that's what you're waiting for." "If I had not tell you that I was born in the gutter to end on the pavement, you would be disturbed." "There is some reason." "If you were never poor, why are you doing..." "The whore ?" "Because I like it." "What?" "I like it, that's all." "No." "It's the money you like." "Not only." "There's something else." "What "something else"?" "When you have an appointment with an unknown, and you don't know what kind of man you will find, it gives you the thrills." "All the girls doing this job will tell you the same thing." "And the others, the "honest" women, they won't tell it, but they're dreaming about it." "You could find a monster behind the door." "Old, distorted, filthy." "A third." "On ten men, three are ugly, three or four average and three beautiful." "But really beautiful, sometimes." "Why are they paying these ones?" "It's easier for them." "They are alone in Paris for one night, they don't want to lose their time in picking up some fatso." "One telephone call and they have a presentable girl." "And maybe it's less expensive for them, in the end." "Answer frankly :" "are you happy?" "Answer frankly :" "isn't it a silly question?" "You know what I'm going to do?" "I'm going to buy you a watch." "Tomorrow we'll go to Cartier's." "You will take the most beautiful one." "No." "Why?" "You don't like watches?" "If I had kept all the Cartier's watches I've been offered, I could have opened a branch." "Don't sulk." "It's the fist time I say no." "It's a good sign." "You don't have regrets about the times you were modelling?" "Not at all." "I made love with a lot of guys when I was a model." "Free of charge." "Believe me :" "Nine out of ten weren't worth it." "If they had paid for it, I would be more wealthy now." "There's not only money in life." "It makes you laugh?" "Always, when I'm hearing this." "Here you are." "Christine, you're going to stop this" "How?" "I'm going to take care of you." "First you will move and I will find you a studio appartment." "You're going to put me in a home of my own?" "You will need nothing." "I will give you everything you need." "Every month?" "That's it, "every month"." "We'll talk about it later." "Go on now or you will be late." "Your phone number?" "I don't have phone." "Call me at the 758 11 40." "I don't like it very much." "See you later." "Mr Castejac is here, Mr President." "Let him in." "I'm going to slip." "He may not be very happy to see me." "Ten in the morning is a little early for Champagne." "Above all, it's useless." "I knew that we would get along in the end." "Good-bye Mr President." "Good-bye, Benoît." "Yes?" "Mr. Castejac, how are you?" "Done with the signing?" "It was the best thing to do." "For your business diners, you will have to find a new niece." "Good morning." "Suzanne, ask for the George V's, if you please." "The President called me this morning." "All went very well." "Allo, the George V's ?" "Hang on, please." "I would like a coffee, Suzanne." "At once, Mrs." "Allo, give Mr Castejac." "Hang on, please." "Tell him that all was arranged for with Bastide." "Allo?" "Benoît." "How are you?" "I have learned that you have signed this morning." "You could have called." "So be it." "I'm not too formal." "You know that young man who is not that bad because he likes cassoulet," "Delorme." "I'm going to sleep with him." "You leave me alone and I can't stand it ." "I'm forty and, me neither, I don't have time to lose." "And I think I can still satisfy a man." "So." "Have a lot of fun in Paris with Mrs. Clément" "Can you listen to me?" "Of course, he could refuse, but I don't think so." "He's well educated." "Good-bye." "There is your coffee." "Give me number 758 11 40, please." "Hang on." "Allo?" "Hello." "Mr Castejac on the phone." "I would like to see Christine." "Christine is on a trip, Mr. Call back in a few days." ""On a trip"?" "But I've seen her this morning." "She left this morning, Mr." "It's not possible." "She would have tell me." "She didn't leave a message for me?" "Benoît Castejac." "No, Mr, I'm sorry." "There's a way to reach her, isn't there?" " No, Mr. I hope it is fresh enough." "Bitch." "You lied to me again." "Don't touch me." "You did the tenderness trick for me to sign up with these scums." "But, Mr. Could you explain the reason for this intrusion?" "You treated me like a bloody idiot again!" "And for a few bucks..." "Yes, I treated you like a dummy, but for 5000 francs, paid cash by the Fielding, plus air taxi." "For this sum I could begin again." "Because the only way for me to be a pain in your neck is to get your money." "How much do you make in a month?" "You director's salary?" "30000 francs?" "Me, I'm making 60000 francs, without being tired." "This scumbag gives me 1500 francs for an hour." "That's what you'll give me for a month's work in your fucking plant." "And you could screw me free because I would be afraid to lose my job." "If you want my advice, she may be a little bit right." "And you wanted to put me in a home of my own?" "That's why the Fielding bought your plant back :" "You're hundred years late." "To put me in a home of my own?" "You understood nothing." "Cassoulet, little women of Paris and the plant which is a big family." "You're so frenchy, to the top of your beret." "Americans, Japanese, Germans," "Arabs, everybody is eating you in the raw." "It was very, very, very well." "What does it mean, that bullshit?" "If you wanted to have some, you had to come in Paris." "For god's sake!" "Everybody knows everything in the country." ""Mrs Castejac is sleeping with your engineer counsel." "Signed :" "A friend that wish you well"" "What's this mess?" "We asked you to inspect his plant, not his woman." "We treat ourselves with a technocrat and all the bloody nuisances they bring." "A snobish polytechnician, stuffy, pleased with his lot, despising, and convinced he has the makings of a Giscard d'Estaing." "We have to discover now that he has balls in his little pants, like everybody else." "I don't have to endure these abuses, Mr President." "I'm giving you my resignation." "You're leaving for Germany." "Our plant in Munich." "I need somebody to replace him in Toulouse." "Preferably an impotent." "We have Moreau." "He's not that young and he had mumps a few years ago." "Perfect." "Let's try Moreau." "He's leaving tonight." "And you, go fuck german girls." "You will have the feeling of creating the Europe Community." "And cuckold too." "Does he know?" "I don't know." "Punches are coming on him from everywhere." "He has lost his plant, he fell in love with you and his wife ditched him." "Did he leave?" "No, he is still in Paris, at his hotel." "He's having his little depression." "He's not answering to the phone anymore." "Our friend has invited you to dance." "You're going home." "You pack your suitcase and you take the plane." "Why don't you mind your own business?" "I hate the mess." "Delorme was assigned in Germany, your wife is waiting for you." "Go back to her and stop gushing on yourself." "You came here to say that?" "I tell you, I hate the mess." "This depression in a palace, while everybody's laughing at you, is simply grotesque." "You couldn't shave?" "I've been thrown really bad punches." "It's not a reason for not shaving." "I'm glad you came." "Hold your horses." "I'm only going to the airport." "I'm playing the good-hearted whore because you are on my way." "You're going?" "I have an appointment in Milan." "My plane is leaving at twelve." "Driving you to the airport is the only thing I can do for you." "Go pay your bill and shave yourself." "Come on, move up yourself." "When will you be back?" "Why do you care?" "Of course." "Well." "I'm going to start over the best I can, then." "I am the head director of the plant for five years." "Good for you." "I will be a piece of furniture but I'll be busy." "If I told my wife that you're the one who brought me home..." "Split or you'll miss your plane." "I think I've learned my lesson, you know." "So long." "What does it mean?" "I have the right to go to Milan." "It wasn't a big success when you followed me the last time." "You must not act like this with me, Castejac." "Why?" "Because you annoy me." "First class passengers to Milan, please." "And your wife?" "I don't care." "Listen, my little fellow." "I don't want to be pissed off anymore." "You're going to take your responsibilities." "You can't play the beatnik at fifty because you just found love." "Be reasonable and go home." "Listen, girl." "I've been reasonnable for fifty years, and what did I win?" "My plant belongs now to the americans because my country didn't support me." "The money I put on the side is ridiculous and I realize that I fought during 30 years for nothing." "The Fielding wait for me at Toulouse to play the figurehead, my wife for us to grow old together, but I'm leaving for Milan with a whore who doesn't like me but gives me a boner and I like it." "That's it." "Benoît!" "What are you going to do there?" "His driver is waiting for me at the airport and takes me to his hotel." "What can you do?" "We won't be able to see each other." "You're wasting your time doing this trip." "I am a whore, Castejac." "You know what it means?" "A whore." "What are you hoping for, with me?" "You know." "Levêgue, the guy of the Fielding, he wanted to sleep with me but I didn't want." "He gave me 2000 francs and I agreed." "You know what I did to him for 2000 francs?" "I don't ask you to tell me all the details." "I don't like you." "Do you hear?" "I don't like you." "You are ridiculous." "You give me laughs." "Did you see yourself?" "You are grotesque." "And you're not young." "You have nothing for you." "You couldn't even manage to give me a climax." "You have nothing." "I don't like you." "Get out." "Come on, get out." "Castejac!" "You bloody fool."