"It really is a bargain." "It's the 1st floor of a former hospice." "Splendid!" "Solid old walls." "Seven rooms, kitchen and bath for a million." "A steal." "As a lawyer, you know the purchase terms." "Loan, escrow, under the counter payment... 10% to secure the deal." "Let me find the enormous key." "I sold it 20 years ago to a young doctor." "He was thorough, a bit stuffy." "He checked everything, and asked questions." "The place was empty, dirty and cheap." "It needed imagination, but she had plenty." "His wife was gorgeous." "A dreamer." "I remember her white satin dress." "A dream of a woman!" "20 years later she was unrecognizable." "Even her eyes had paled." "Then came the tragedy." "Poor thing." "The family left town a week later." "He abandoned his practice." "He was a highly regarded gerontologist." "The house isn't linked to the tragedy." "But it's why the price is so low." "To sell and forget." "It was a hospice, but it could make a grand home." "A doctor should think big." "Some decide everything at once." "Our bed there, the sofa here, your desk, my dresser..." "They have no furniture or children, but here in this empty space is their future." "The future conditional." "We realtors do the same thing." "I can picture your family, your clientele... your bedroom, waiting room, game room..." "I'm glad you're not a gynecologist." "Fewer temptations!" "Jealousy is a nasty trait." "I don't want you to cheat on me." "Don't talk nonsense." "I'm pregnant all the time." "But slim right afterward." "A marvel of Nature!" "Respect your food and those who provide it!" "Yes, Dad." "Paco, sit up straight." "Louise, your elbows!" "Sophie, hands off the plate!" "It's a huge, old-fashioned kitchen." "You can prepare fine memories here for your children." "You'll soon make it functional." "Michèle!" "What do you want?" " A hug!" " Want a hug?" "You want one too?" "You put it on inside out." "Don't cry." "Mom will be back soon." "Is the boss lady here?" "Need some thread?" "Not expensive!" "We don't need anything." "Nothing at all." "Would you like me to read your palm?" "Hypertension, a vascular accident, degeneration, temporal lobe, scabs... clots... arteriosclerosis..." "I just put Louise to bed." "It must be measles." "...lachrymal glands, stroke..." "I don't know what to do." "Would you go see her?" "Give her an aspirin." "I'll go later." "Tonight is Professor Lambert's party." "Important to my career." "Cerebral hemorrhage, aneurysm..." "Michèle, what would I do without you?" "It's ready." "Shall I serve now?" "Nicholas, sit down." "No playing ball!" "Are you kidding?" "Come here!" "Take your seat." "I'm not hungry." "Sit!" "In this house you'll learn good manners!" "I'll just eat an apple." "What?" "I've graduated." "I'm an adult now." "I won't obey you like a soldier." "Louise!" "What's gotten into you?" "You boys can do as Dad says if you want to." "But I'm leaving home." "I want to be free!" ""Any call to freedom is somehow a challenge to us." ""But the study of civilizations," ""and our future in society as outlined by our father," ""force me to ignore my sister." ""Her cry is a vain protuberance," ""a false note, the cackling of hens."" "Are you finished?" "There's a good auction house nearby for furniture, pictures, antiques." "The nuns and patients left nothing behind." "But these walls have a soul." "I didn't want to leave this house." "I was happy in the hospice." "I didn't want to leave." "I must show you the lavatory." "A hospice bathroom is a large family's dream." "A washbasin for each person." "DREAM" "I remember Gaston and Angèle." "What devoted, impeccably good servants!" "Seeing you, I wonder why I fell in love." "Seeing you, I can't remember being in love with you, nor how you attracted me." "Yolande left cigarette butts in the hall again." "She's a good cook, she's frugal." "I despise her clothes and cigarettes." "The smoke!" "But our children don't smoke." "At least we taught them that." "Not only have you gained 45 pounds, but your face has changed..." "Your eyes are paler." "Your mouth has narrowed." "Your face has definitely changed." "Your eyes are paler." "Your mouth has narrowed." "I remember Gaston and Angèle." "How helpful, devoted and impeccable!" "Pity they caught that disease." "True, you are a presentable wife, and I do trust you." "And big fat Michèle..." "When the children were babies, she did everything." "I'm sorry she died." "Colleagues my age have charming wives." "Take Dr. Mercier." "A charming wife." "Mrs. Mercier, what a charming woman!" "One can't find good servants now." "That Yolande!" "She works hard but smokes too much." "And leaves dirty corners." "A guy said to me "Take a drag on this!"" "I don't understand that." "The Upper Council of the Institute of Paranatural Research is satisfied." "Today I'm the happiest zoosystemician." "I now hope to play a major role in the theatrical realm of knowledge." "I'm doing a zoologistical systemic that conjugates fabricatory declamatory, symbolic, phantasmatic, testiculatoric acts with logical, axiomatable acts." "In short, I taxidermatise concepts." "Lose superficial living and dive into mucilaginous artifice, or better yet, into the Hypoficial." "What's for dinner tonight?" "Speak nicely to Dad." "Don't fight!" "Seen my toothpaste?" "He adores his children." "But he's a pain in the ass!" "Your boyfriend's gone to your head." " Ever loved a man?" " Your father!" "Louis was so handsome and attractive." "Louise makes me a daddy's girl!" "I'm changing my name." "I don't like you smoking while cooking." "And fix your apron." "Shall I hand it in for good?" "No!" "What would I do without you, Yolande?" "Everyone there?" "It's ready!" "Then all my troubles began." "I stayed for 11 years." "And all along the hall there were windows." "We'd open them." "Crack them open." "Some wider than others." "Seen the time?" "That won't make me obey you." "Go to your room!" "The smell of grass after it rains..." "That's life!" "When I was a kid in the country," "Mom would have us clean the knives outside." "We'd jab the blades into the dirt to scour them from top to bottom." "I didn't want to leave this house." "I must get out of this house." "I'll go to Mexico and play the sax." "Real life is beyond the trees, not here." "I don't know what I want." "I know what I hate." "I often watch Dad's mouth when he talks." "I see a pink slit in his facial hair." "Dad's beard, Dad's mustache." "I don't hear what he says." "Anyway, it doesn't interest me." "I want everything except what's here." "Sweet Mom understands nothing." "At least you have no children." "You don't talk about labor." "Mom told me again about all our births." "One of them died." "The other one is Pitou." "He does as he pleases." "Anyway, I want none of it." "I want a career, not a family." "Right!" "Leave!" "You're 18." "You can always leave at 18." "What can they say?" "They can't tie you up." "As for money... swipe the silver and sell it." "No, they'd accuse me." "I'll finagle a way to use their credit card!" "Ask for your inheritance." "You have it coming." "No need to kill them!" "Demand what's rightfully yours." "Children, what a misfortune!" "Such a fine man!" "He loved you." "We barely knew him." "Poor Mireille." "Aunt Simone's upset." "It's very hard on you." "Be brave." "You have your family." "We respected him enormously." "We'll help you." "Do you know what "making love" means?" "I know some words like ass, cunt, iron prick, droopy-dick, hairy nuts, silver balls, red oysters, cock-shaped umbilical cord, blossoming boner, pussy, sex, fuck, knocked-up, ejaculating cock, super cock," "titty titty bang bang, bottle cock..." "I'm pure sex, pure sex." "Wind makes my heart pound." "You make my heart pound." "It's true." "A beating heart..." "How silly." "I'm so impatient to see you." "I think of you constantly." "I can't stand it." "I love you so much!" "I want everything." "I'm swept away." "Me too." "I want to be with you all the time." "You fill my heart." " Impatient..." " True..." "All the time..." "I can't wait..." "Beating heart..." "I'm breaking eggs." "Breaking eggs." "I love breaking eggs." "I could spend my life breaking eggs." "But eggs and I don't like to shell out." "The one that misses is for the soldier." "There's no omelet without breaking eggs!" "The boss likes 'em real runny." "I'm troubled by their vertigo that dissociates live flesh from artificial flesh," "etc..." "I don't hear what he says." "It doesn't interest me." "18 lost years." "I can't wait." "I want everything except what's here." "I suddenly remember visiting this place with them." "It was so long ago." "Here's the key." "Shall we take a look?" "I'm sure you'll like it." "This film was shot at the St. Louis Hospice, Avignon, during the Alive and Artificial exhibition, created by Louis Bec in 1984." "Our thanks to D. Sanchez H.Manganiforthe kitchen," "C. Tobas  J. Tartaroli for the bathroom." "Cast:" "Father:" "H. Mangani, then L. Bec." "Mother:" "S. Cohen-Tanugi, then C. Bonnet." "Eldest Son:" "P. Esposito." "Eldest Daughter:" "C. De Barbeyrac." "Boyfriend:" "F. Chevalier." "The good maid:" "M. Nespoulet." "The Belgian maid:" "Y. Moreau." "Crew:" "Photography:" "Nurith Aviv." "Asst:" "P. Gordower." "Sound:" "D. Olivier." "Editing:" "S. Mamou." "Mixing:" "P. Bertault." "Gaffer:" "D. Testud." "Grip:" "B. Largemains." "Unit Mgr:" "F. Noël." "Asst:" "D. Treillou." "Interns:" "A. Knoos and M. Henrio." "Music:" "P. Barbaud." "Soloist:" "J.C. Bernede, Hortensia Publishers." "Clouseau Publishers for Petite Roquette by E. Tabushi, sung by the Tokow Boys." "Laboratory G.T.C. Auditorium Auditel" "Film Fuji" "A Ciné-Tamaris Production with the C.N.A.P. And F.I.A.C.R.E. Of the Ministry of Culture" "SEVEN BEDROOMS, KITCHEN AND BATH" "A film written and directed by Agnès Varda" "Subtitling TITRA FILM Paris"