""Apartment For Rent"" "l`d like a phone slug." " All out." "Down, back and left." " Thanks." "Momma, this is Jeanne." "There`s an apartment in Passy l`m going to see." "Then I go meet Tom at the station." "See you later." "Kisses." "So long." "l`m here for the apartment." "I saw the sign." " Sign?" " Yes." "What sign?" "Always the same." "Nobody tells me anything." " l`d like to see it." " To rent it?" "I don`t know yet." "They rent, they leave, and l`m the last to know." "You think that`s fair?" "If you want to go up alone, go on." "l`m afraid of the rats." "The key is gone." "Lots of strange things happen." "They drink six bottles a day." "Wait." "There must be a duplicate." "Here it is." "You`re very young, right?" "Let me go, please." "She`s crazy." "Where are you?" "What a fright." "How`d you get in?" "By the door." "Oh, yes. I left it open." "But I didn`t hear you come in." " l was already here." " Excuse me?" "Then the key" "And I bribed the concierge." "These old houses are fascinating." "An armchair would look good here." "The armchair has to go... in front of the window." "You are American?" "You have an American accent." " Will you rent it?" " And you?" "I don`t know." "Do I answer or not?" "There is no one." "I don`t know." "Then you decided to take it?" "I had decided, but" "But now I don`t know." "Do you like it?" "Do you?" "I have to think about it." "Think fast." "You still here?" "Attention." "Who do they take us for?" "This is cinema." "We`re making a movie." "If I kiss you, that might be cinema." "If I caress you, it might be cinema." "What the devil do they want?" "I know them." "l`m shooting a film-- "Portrait of a Girl--" for television." "And the girl is you." "But you`re mad!" "You should have asked my permission." "Yes, but it amuses me... to begin with the girl of the portrait who meets her fiance." "This is my crew." "And so you kiss me... knowing it`s a film." "Coward!" "See, it`ll be most of all a love story." "Tell me,Jeanne." "What did you do while I was away?" "I thought of you day and night and I cried." "Darling, I can`t live without you." "Magnificent!" "Stop!" "Perfect!" "I wanted to clean up... but the police didn`t let me." "They didn`t believe in suicide." "Too much blood all over." "They had fun making me reenact." ""She went there." "She went here." "She opened the curtain."" "I did everything like her." "The clients, awake all night." "The hotel full of police." "They playing around with the blood." "All spies." "If she was sad, if she was happy... lf you fought, if you hit each other." "And then when you were married... why you didn`t have children." "Pigs." "They treated me like dirt." "They said..." ""Nervous type, your boss." "You know he was a boxer?"" "So?" ""But he didn`t do well."" "Then he was... an actor." "And then a bongo player." "Revolutionary in South America." "Journalist in Japan." "One day he debarks in Tahiti." "Wanders around." "Learns French." "Then he arrives in Paris." "And here... meets a woman with money." "Marries her and" ""Now what`s your boss do?"" "He`s kept." ""Can I clean up now?"" ""Don`t touch anything." "You really think... she killed herself?"" "And then he pushed me in a corner trying to" "Turn off the water." "Maybe they`ll do an autopsy." "Why don`t you turn off the water?" "Here`s your razor." "lt`s not mine." "They don`t need it anymore." "The inquiry is over." "Yes, she had some cuts here and on the neck." "Excuse me." "Where should I put it?" " You could have rung." " lt was open." "Here?" "No, in front of the fireplace." "And these chairs?" "Here`s the table." "Where do I put it?" "How do I know?" "He`ll decide." "l`ll leave it here." " Heavy. lt`s really a double." " But it won`t fit." "You`ll see." "Your husband`ll find room." "What a mess." "Thank you." "This armchair has to go in front of the window." "Like that." "I only came to return the key." " To return it to you." " What do I care?" "Take off your coat." "Come on." "Give me a hand." "Take these chairs... and put them here." "Put them on the other side." "Take it too." "You didn`t lose any time." "Listen, sir... I have to go." " l thought l`d find you here." " l expected you later." "I took the first train." "Paul, how horrible!" "Papa is in bed with asthma." "The doctors forbade him to come." "Better." "l`m stronger." "What are you looking for?" "Something that explains it." "A letter, a clue" "There`s nothing, absolutely nothing." "lt`s impossible that my little Rose" "Nothing for her mother." "Not a word." "Useless to look anymore." "Not even for you, her husband." "You need to rest." "Maybe there`s a vacant room." "With a razor?" "What time did it happen?" "I don`t know." "At night." "And then?" "And then-- l already told you on the phone." "When I found her... I called the ambulance." "After your telephone call... we were awake all night long... talking about you and Rose." "And Papa talked softly... as if it happened in our house." " Where did it happen?" " ln a room." "Did she suffer?" "Ask the doctors who did the autopsy." "The autopsy?" "I already had some announcements." "l`ve had enough of deaths." "I think of everything." "I do." "l`ll prepare a lovely funeral chamber... with lots of flowers." "The cards... the mourning clothes, the flowers." "You have everything in that suitcase." "You didn`t forget anything." "But I don`t want any priests here." "Understand?" "You need them." "It must be a religious funeral." "Rose wasn`t a believer." "Paul, don`t shout." "Don`t shout like that!" "They`ll give her absolution." "Absolution and a nice mass." "That`s all I ask." "Understand?" "Rose-- She`s my baby girl." "Why did she kill herself?" "Why?" "Why did she kill herself?" "Why?" "You don`t know, do you?" "You don`t know." "You shouldn`t have done that to me." "But it`s not a wig." "lt`s mine." "l`m not beautiful?" "Tell me you don`t like the way I look." "But I do like the way you look." "Listen." "You seem changed, but you`re the same." "I can already see a shot." "The camera is high." "It slowly descends toward you." "And as you advance, it moves in on you." "There`s music too." "It gets closer and closer to you." "l`m in a hurry." "Let`s begin." "But first we`ll talk about it a little." "Tonight we improvise." "Follow me." "He was my childhood friend." "He would watch me for hours." "Maybe he understood me." "Dogs are better than people." "May I present Olympia, my nurse." "Mustapha knew how to tell the poor from the rich." "If someone well-dressed came in, he didn`t growl." "But if it was a beggar, you should have seen him." "The colonel had him recognize Arabs by their odor." " Olympia, open the door." " First, give me a kiss." "Go and open it." "Olympia is the personification of domestic virtue." "Faithful, economic and racist." "At Papa`s death, we moved to the old country house." "My childhood was made up of smells." "The mold on the walls, the closed rooms." "Many children came to play." "We ran from morning to night." "Growing old is a crime." "That`s me." "And that`s Mademoiselle Sauvage, the teacher." "Severe and religious." "She was too good and spoiled you." "This is Christine." "The best friend." "She`s married and has two children." "lt`s like a village here." "Everyone knows everyone." "I couldn`t live in Paris." "lt`s more humane here." "lt`s melancholy remembering the past." "Why melancholy?" "lt`s marvelous." "lt`s your childhood." "lt`s everything I want." "And what are you doing there?" "Who are all these zombies around us?" "The door!" "l`m opening the door." "l`m opening the doors!" " What are you doing?" " Setting up the shot." "There. I found it." "Reverse gear." "And what are you doing here?" "Beat it!" "Scram!" "Yes." "Reverse gear!" "Understand?" "Like a car." "Put it in reverse." "Close your eyes." "Back up." "Close your eyes." "Come forward, backing up." "Keep going and find your childhood again." "lt`s Papa." "There." "You take off and find your childhood again." "In full dress uniform." "Don`t be afraid." "Overcome the obstacles." "Papa in Algiers." "You are fifteen." "Fourteen." "Thirteen." "Twelve." "Eleven." "Ten." "Nine." "My favorite street at eight years old." "My notebook." "My French homework." "Theme: "The Countryside."" "Exposition: "The country is the home of the cows." "The cow is all dressed in leather." "The cow has four sides:" "front, back... top and bottom."" " lsn`t that good?" " Really charming." "Source of my culture was Larousse and I copied it." ""Menstruation." "Feminine noun." "Physiological function consisting in flow." "Penis." "Masculine noun." "Organ of copulation, measuring between five and 40 centimeters."" "This is a little Robert!" "Look." " Who is it?" " My first love." " Who?" " lt`s my cousin Paul." "The first love." " But his eyes are closed." " What?" "His eyes are closed!" "He played piano very well." "That`s how I remember him-- sitting at the piano." "His fingers flew over the keys." "He practiced hour after hour." "At the bottom of the garden there were two trees." "A plantain and a chestnut." "Sunday after mass... everyone sat under his own tree." "It was marvelous." "We looked into each other`s eyes." "And for me these trees were the jungle." " What are you doing?" " We`re shitting." "Why?" "Can`t you see ?" " ln my jungle?" " Let`s run!" "Shoot!" "Shoot!" "Did you get everything?" " Did you get it?" " Everything." "Olympia was sublime." "She gave a precise idea of her racism." "This really is a jungle." "Tell me about your father." " Aren`t we finished?" " Five minutes." "But l`m in a hurry for work." "But the colonel?" "The colonel had green eyes and shiny boots." "I loved him like a god." "He was so handsome in his uniform." "What are you saying?" "I forbid you." "He died in `58 in Algeria." "In `58, and I forbid you to joke." "Why don't you listen to me?" "The first time?" "I was very late for school." "I began running downhill." "Suddenly, I felt a strong sensation here." "I came as I ran." "Then I ran faster and faster, and the more I ran... the more I came." "Two days later I tried running again... but no dice." "Why don`t you listen to me?" "You know, it seems to me l`m talking to the wall." "Your solitude weighs on me, you know?" "It isn`t indulgent or generous." "You`re an egoist!" "We can`t sleep with this music." "I came to this hotel for one night... and stayed for five years." "When we had the hotel people came here to sleep." "Now they do anything." "They hide out, take drugs, play music." "Remove that hand." "You`re not alone." "l`m here." "You`re crazy!" "l`m beginning to understand." "You want me to stop the music?" "Okay." "l`ll make him shut up." "What are you doing, Paul?" "Turn on the light." "Light, Paul." " Good night, Madam." " Good night." "Good night, Marcel." "Good night, Paul." "Who is it?" "You like?" "He was Rosa`s lover." "I am coming." "I am ready." "Are we going together?" "He is a jerk." "He didn`t even say bye!" "What are you doing here?" "l`m coming. l`m flying." "Stay there!" "Why didn`t you talk on the phone?" "What`s the matter?" "Find another girl for your film." "But why?" "You take advantage of me." "You make me do things l`ve never done." "You`re stealing my time." "You make me do whatever you want." "The film is over." "l`m tired of having my mind raped!" "Come in." "You wanted to talk to me?" "Do." "But... "l didn`t come here to cry with you."" "It bothers you if I keep working?" "It distracts me after what happened." "identical." " Rose wanted them identical." " Our bathrobes." "You can`t tell me anything I don`t already know." "Same color, same design." "Yes, yes." "You are precise." "l`m wondering why... you save these newspaper clippings." "is it a job or a hobby?" "I don`t like the word "hobby."" "lt`s a job to roll out the salary." "Then it`s serious." "lt`s a job that makes you read." "Very instructive." "Be sincere." "Didn`t you know we had identical bathrobes?" "We have lots of things in common." "I know everything." "Rose often told me about you." "I don`t think there are many such marriages." "lt`s strange." "l`m thirsty." " A sip of bourbon?" " Wait." "Here`s the "bourbon."" "Another present from Rose?" "I don`t like it, but Rose always wanted it around." "l`ve often wondered... if by these details... by certain unimportant things... one can explain... understand together." "Together?" "For almost a year Rose and I, without passion... but regularly-- l thought I knew her as one can know" "One`s mistress." "For example, a while ago something happened... I couldn`t explain." "Look there on the wall." "She climbed up on the wall... and tried to tear off the paper with her hands." "I stopped her." "She was ruining her nails." "She did it with a strange... violence." "I had never seen her like that." "Our room is painted white." "She wanted it different from the others... so it would seem like... a normal house." "She wanted to change in here too... and she`d begun with the walls." "A fever blister." "Shit." "You were lucky enough to-- to be" "You must have been a good man... 20 years ago." "Not as much as you." "You have all your hair." "I have to cut it often and wash it." "I wash my hair often." "Do you have massages?" "You`re in good shape." "What do you do for the belly?" "That`s my problem." "Here." " l have a secret." " What?" "Thinking of leaving?" "The suitcase." "America." "Why did she betray you with me?" "You don`t think Rose killed herself?" "lt`s difficult for me, too, to believe it." "Here`s my secret." "Thirty times every morning." "Really, Marcello... I wonder what she ever saw in you." "Are you here?" "Nobody here?" "Hi, monster." "Something wrong?" "What do you think?" "That an American on the floor in an empty house... eating cheese and drinking water is interesting?" "What`s under here?" "An empty space." "What are you doing here?" "Shit!" "Know why I sent everyone away?" "Because you want to be alone with me." "And why?" "Because you have something important to tell me." "lt`s something very important." "Happy or sad?" "lt`s a secret." "Then it`s happy." "What kind of secret?" "A secret between a man... and a woman." "Dirt or love?" "Love." "And it`s not everything." "A love secret that isn`t everything?" "What is it?" "That in a week l`m marrying you." "What?" "l`m marrying you!" " l`m marrying you!" " Marrying me?" " Let`s get married?" " Yes." "Let`s get married!" " Shall we marry or not?" " Yes, let`s get married." "Yes or no?" "Send everything to the country." "What do you think,Jeanne?" "Olympia will be happy." "I went with Tom." "He`s preparing a family museum." "Papa`s boots, no." "l`ll keep them." "They give me strange shivers." "These military things never get old." "How heavy it was when Papa taught me to shoot." "l`ll keep that." "lt`s a good idea to have a weapon in the house." " But if you don`t know how to use it?" " lt`s enough to have it." "It frightens." "You saved everything of Papa`s." "This was his orderly." "A fine example of a Berber." "A strong race, but as servants-- disastrous." "Send everything to the country." "Enough accumulating." "Don`t worry." "Soon you`ll have lots of space." "What`s that mean?" "Nothing." "Madame, the colonel`s lady, announces..." "What?" "that in these solemn days..." "What solemn days?" "l`m getting married in a week." "What did you say?" "To Tom!" "In a week!" " What?" " Tom!" " ln one week!" " What are you doing in a week?" "Rolling." "Five... two." "Come forward." "Start shooting." "Yes, yes, we are coming." "Wait." "Push your arm." "How do you see marriage?" " The marriage?" " Yes." "I see it everywhere." "Always." "Everywhere?" "On walls, on housefronts." "Yes, on posters." "What do the posters say?" "They talk about cars... canned meat, cigarettes." "No, the subject is the young couple... before marriage, without children." "Then, after the marriage, with the children." "Marriage, in short." "The ideal, successful marriage... isn`t anymore the old style, in church... with a depressed and a complaining wife." "Today, the advertising marriage is smiling." "Smiling?" "In the posters." "But why not take the poster marriage seriously?" "Marriage." "The pop marriage." "Pop." "There`s the formula." "For pop youth, pop marriage." "And if it doesn`t work?" "Fix it like a car." "The couple are two workmen in overalls... repairing a motor." "And in case of adultery, what happens?" "Instead of two workmen, there are three or four." "And love?" "is love pop too?" "No." "Love is not pop." "If it is not pop, what is it?" "The workmen go to a secret place." "They take off their overalls, becoming men and women again... and make love." "You`re superb!" "lt`s the dress that makes the bride." "You`re better than Rita Hayworth... than Joan Crawford..." "Kim Novak..." "Lauren Bacall..." "Ava Gardner when she loved Mickey Rooney!" "What are you doing?" "Stop!" "Why don`t you film with the rain?" "You are crazy!" " Where`s Jeanne?" " She ran out." "Where`d she go in this rain?" "Pardon me!" "I wanted to leave you." "I could not." "I can`t leave you." "Understand?" "Do you still want me?" "I want to get out of here." "I want to go away." "I can`t take it anymore here." "l`m going away." "l`m never coming back." "Never." "What?" "There is some noise there." "Then is there somebody?" "Hurry up!" "Wake up!" "Open up!" " But it`s 4:00 a.m. - l need the usual room." "Number 4." "Half an hour will do." "Yes, yes." "Half an hour." " We`re full." " No, indeed." "When you`re full you put out a sign." "I know." "l`m tired of arguing." "Call the owner." "Move it!" "The owner`s always been helpful to me." "We`re old friends, Rose and me." "Open, please." "Knock it off if you don`t want me to tell her." "Come in." "All set." "Happy?" "He left me." "Sorry." "Hurry, please." "He can`t be too far." "Talk him into coming back." "Tell him this can`t be done." "Please don`t say you found me." "Did you see how ugly she is?" "Once my wife was enough for me, but now... she`s got a disease that gives her snake skin." " Put yourself in my place." " Come." "Come with me." "Let me go." "Please let me go." "You`re crazy!" "Let me go!" "Don`t you remember the gentlemen in 4?" "He`s been living here for a few days." "I don`t know anyone." "They come in, go out." "The man in 4." "The lady in 1 ." "What do I know?" "Where`d they take the furniture?" "lt`s empty." "Where do you send his mail?" "Give me the address." "I don`t have it." "I don`t know anyone." " Not even his name?" " Nothing." "Miss!" "I found an apartment for us." "1 Jules Verne Street." "Yes, in Passy." "Come quick." "Come right away." "You understood where it is?" "l`ll wait for you." "Come." "Come in." "You like our apartment?" "lt`s full of light." "There`s one room too small for a big bed." "Maybe for a baby." "Fidel." "Nice name for a kid." "Fidel." "Like Castro." "But I want a daughter too." "Rose." "Like Rose Luxembourg." "She`s not as well known, but she`s not bad." "I wanted to film you every day." "In the morning when you wake up, then when you fall asleep." "When you smile the first time." "And I didn`t film anything." "Today we finish shooting." "The film is finished." "I don`t like things that finish." "One must begin something else right away." "But it`s huge!" "Who are you?" " You could get lost in here." " Oh, stop it." "How`d you find it?" "By chance." " We`ll change everything." " Everything." "We`ll change chance to fate." "Come forward." "Take off!" "You`re in heaven!" "Now dive!" "Make three turns!" "Descend!" "What`s happening to me?" "An air pocket." "What`s happening to you?" "Enough of these turbulent zones." "We can`t joke like this, like children." " We`re adults." " Adults?" "That`s terrible." "Yes, it`s terrible." " Then how must we act?" " l don`t know." "lnvent gestures, words." "For example..." "One thing I do know." "Adults are serious, logical... circumspect, hairy..." "They face all problems." "Here, this apartment is not for us." "Absolutely not." " Where are you going?" " To look for another." "Another like what?" "One you can live in." "But you can live here." "I find this sad." "It smells." " Come with me?" " No, no." "I have to close the windows, give back the keys, leave it all in order." "Okay." "Okay." "Bye." "Mr. mâitre d`hôtel." "The jury has just chosen... the following ten best couples." "Three, seven... eight, nine... eleven, twelve... thirteen, fourteen, fifteen... and nineteen." "Then, ladies and gentlemen... all best wishes for the last tango." "Out!" "What are you doing?" "lt`s love!" "Always" "But it`s a contest!" "Where`s the love fit in?" "Go to the movies to see love!" "Enough!" " Listen" " Enough!" "lt`s over!" "Go away!" "Go away!" "l`ll call the police!" "I mean, after you, mademoiselle." "So long, sister." "lt`s over. lt`s over!" "Police!" "You`re crazy!" "Help!" "Help me, please!" "Help me, please!" "Please help!" "Help!" "I don`t know who he is." "He followed me on the street." "He tried to rape me." "He`s a madman." "I don`t know his name." "I don`t know who he is." "He wanted to rape me." "I don`t know." "I don`t know him." "I don`t know who he is." "He`s a madman." "I don`t know his name."