"LIMPET LOVE" "Dear asshole, have you unlocked the safe?" "How brave of you!" " And the goods are still in the safe?" " Oh yes!" "Don't fret, if anything goes wrong, we'll do the fire brigade!" "Don't get any funny ideas, you leach!" ""Story by:"" "See, you bunch of jerks?" "Oh, shit!" "Tell me again how you pull these things off?" "I've put the luggage in coach 15, compartment 21!" "And for the first time in history, even the train from Hungary is on time!" "If I had wheels, I'd always be on time." "Hey cornflake!" "Do you breathe at night?" "In Budapest, we hoped that everything was better here - even sleep." "Is that why you're wearing your best pajamas?" "These are all I have." "I'm not rich." "But, my mother was French." "Is French all you speak?" "He speaks lingo with his mouth, Yugoslav with his hands," "Japanese with his feet, Arabic with the ladies, and French with his..." "Fuck!" "Drop it!" "Drop what?" "It means, crawl off, like when you stamp on something creepy with your clog." "You dig clogs?" "of course!" "Clogs, dig..." "Me... my father died a year back." "My mother three months later, because she loved him." "We need foreign invitations to leave Hungary." "The daughter of the sister of my mother who is a movie star - do you say "star"?" "Me, when I go to the movies, it's just for the music." "And I'm in love with the prettiest babe in the world." "Me, I've never been in love." "I've only been sick." "What's the difference?" "Me..." "I was locked up in a mental hospital." "I was yelling in the streets, because my father, see, was put in jail." " Did they bang him up?" " Five years times two!" " As for my father:" "One times even equals seven!" " My name's Léo!" "You're kidding, that's my name too!" "But my father was top dog... a King!" " Mine was only a Prince!" " Mine was old school:" "Poet, Jew, writer!" "Me not..." "Hi, my name is Mickey!" "Delighted." "My brothers:" "François, how French can you get," " Antoine, even worse..." " Don't push it too far." "Ferdinand the Baron." "This guy's just an idiot, can't you see?" "Wanna see her face?" "What do you make of her?" "She craves warmth." "You'll do it." "I was there, gawking like the rest." "She looked at me, but didn't see me." " But, tonight..." " Tonight?" "Hey, I buy her!" " What's going on?" " What do you think?" "Passports, tickets, cha cha cha!" "Duvigny." "Defarge." "Theron." "Fuselli." "Salesman." "Ten foggy days in Budapest?" "I just started my shift, detective." "We're just chatting with a friend from Budapest." "We're in first class, coach 15." "Hungarian." "Thank you." "Can you show me your luggage?" "of course, enthusiastically sir!" "To be enthusiastic means to be inhabited by God!" "Brilliant." "Hey..." "If cops freak you out, how will you ever make it with women?" "Brothers with different names..." "and I'm not a friend from Buda." "Hey, Dumbo!" "Look!" "Isn't it grand?" "You will meet her, you will see her, but you will never believe what you see!" "Isn't Paris more rich than your Buda-shit?" " Nobody picking you up?" " No, I wouldn't dare put anyone out." "The ambulance won't be here for two hours, shall we grab some grub?" "Here, you buy what you like!" "Cigarettes, candy..." "But there was no fog in Budapest." "What was the name of your mental hospital again?" "Will you remember my bros' names?" "I'm so sorry... it's my head... hurts..." "Beauty, fitness, sickness, women!" "That's my cousin's name..." "Whatever, all of them whores." "Except one!" "Dig it?" ""Clog"!" "Here you have to buy!" "And to buy, you have to pay!" "Enjoy it?" "Snap, rush, touchdown!" "Here, they shield everything in the same way." "Their women, their armchairs, their money, their paintings." "They're so wary, and rightly so." "Now we're fisting!" " Glitz and glamor..." " Come on, Prince!" "Like some shit?" "Have it!" "Choke on it!" "See that!" "Fisticuffs, huh?" "Do you think I look snazzy enough?" "My partings, my nails... my feet?" "My earrings." "You're not wearing them?" "Difficult, considering... was it you?" "Earrings?" "Tip of the iceberg..." "Why tonight?" "Because, to have a fiancé who is 50% shit is too much." "Why me?" "Because tonight..." "I'm loaded!" "And you, do you know how to weigh or measure love?" "What are you staring at?" "Your buttons." "They're all... wrong." "I mean, you're beautiful." "Takes a lot of work." "Courtesans yes, maids no!" " Got a taste for it?" " Haven't we eaten?" " Was it you?" " No, it's me." "Then strip." "So, are you disturbing the peace?" "It's only André." "on the table!" "Time's up, oldtimer!" "You'll never make another omlet from bad eggs then snitch like you did to my father!" "These empire chairs, bit shoddy aren't they?" "Just like all empires!" "Anybody moves and he gets it deeper." "You little punk!" "I'll crush you as I..." "You started living the high life too soon, Joseph Venom." "Your Picassos and Bacons and those fellas who paint your ceilings." "I know those guys." "Doughnut economics!" "50/50!" "The cake for you, the hole for everybody else!" "Ladies and gentlemen, hello!" "The Middle East!" "Flat-packed atomic bombs!" "Nerve gas!" "School-kid soldiers minced in the swamps, between Iran and the other one!" "Our export figures look so good in the National Assembly reports!" "And I being a zero!" " No, the other one." " Sorry." " So what now?" "Go straight to the hilt?" "Right." "I'm doing this by the numbers!" "The price of the Queen, like in Shake-a-spear." "You must have ran into a book, now that you're no longer working the streets." "Nobody surrenders a Queen." "You have to take her, you buy her, you have to deserve her." "Come on, all together!" ""O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree," ""How are thy leaves so verdant!"" "Were you talking about me?" "My love." "But I'm worthless!" "My Queen!" "Excuse my lateness, I was drowning in Ministry paperwork!" "And what the fuck are you doing here?" "And what about you, you, you!" "Under what name are you working at the Ministry?" "Delacroix, Delacunt, Delacock!" "And then, Jewish names like Ben Asshole that smell fishy in the Ministry?" "Stop your bullshit!" "Lay off." "He's honest." "Like honest?" "Be honest, then!" "Keep it simple and straight." "You love her how much?" "You don't get it." "She's very expensive." "Sorry..." "Thank you..." "It's not right to burn people." "I'll give you everything." "My name, my memories, my life." "My handkerchief." "Throw me away whenever you want, if you have to." "Idiot." "Don't get hooked, that's my woman." "You want to love her too?" " Yes, that's my handkerchief." " And me?" "Oh yes!" "And you?" "Maybe." "Lovers..." "Friends..." "A meeting of ends." "I'm taking her, she's too decent for you!" " Looks serious." " You're right!" "Letting your dad rot in jail, that's serious." "Changing your name, that's Napoléonic!" "What part are you going to play in your new family, shit-guzzler?" "Shit, help me, Matalon!" "How long have I been saying she's nuts, boss?" "Start digging your grave, dickhead!" "Yours will only need a lid on top." "Music!" "Roll end credits!" " I love you!" " My God." "Can you stomach this?" "You should have gone to a posh deli in Neuilly." " Does he love her or something?" " He hates her!" "Who the hell asked you?" "And who's you, anyway?" "Sorry, I didn't want to hurt you." "Idiot!" "You'll regret that very much." "So, Léo!" "What do you think of Parisian Nights?" "This is nothing, wait for the main course!" "Don't you miss the pigs?" " You won't snout, will you?" " No." "Why?" "I don't judge anyone." "Who judges the judges here?" "Men who have women and friends, they're shelters from justice." "Can you keep on picking my dishes?" "That's class, eh?" "Not even lost her appetite!" "The best for you, my gem." "My black gem." "I'm not a black gem." "I live like my mom did." "In expensive clothes, in luxury, in flesh, without pleasure." "But it would be good to find somebody that loves me, a husband, just like in real life." "The Venom family, you know there are four of them?" "I'll make Ancient Mariners out of them." "Impressed?" "Me no high school!" "A black gem in the hollow of dunes." "Cold Venom for the vultures, and a gold toothpick for my father." "That's the lineup!" "Now paint the town red!" "Shift asses!" "Shake heads!" "Hey you!" "You don't care about turning up late to my engagement, making wallpaper out of my bro?" "Sure Martine, you're pushing it!" "Listen, I was in pain!" "Everyone has monthlies once a month!" " Come on, eat, drink!" "You got here at 9 like everyone else!" " You're too rough handling her!" "Hey baby bro, feet too busy spinning in your oatmeal?" "A cheap, pathetic fuck, that's tops for you lot!" "Princesses for Princes, and trailertrash for flunkies." "You'll never get beyond that!" "That's not about you, Prince." "If I hadn't used my brains to work my ass off for six months, we would never have pulled the job off." "You didn't believe in me, and you still don't." "one shouldn't be crawling on all fours like a worm." "My star!" "Venom is a bit scrunched, but still alive!" "Reliable sources blame the Armenians!" "A bit skittish they are now." "Venom was probably dealing with some big Turkeys!" "That's more honorable!" "Mickey Micheyan sewed the shit, now he has to drink it." "They're assholes, those kids." "It's the moon, Mercury." "Mickey, he's a marked man." "The stars are my thing." "You've got the jitters?" "Wanna split?" "There's a door behind." "I couldn't." " Because of her?" " Yes." "What's her ass got that mine hasn't?" "She's fragile." "That's all in your head." "And your head is here." "You, the slut!" "And you, the missionary, you wait long before you get it!" "Here they come!" "My comrades..." "It's not the same syndicate, commissioner." "It's private here." "It's not them, detective." "The landlord assured me they've been here since 9." "Oh, I know these guys." "They're... small fry... tiddlers." "Their father was in the Resistance." "Dirty little habits..." "The tiddler says..." "Good evening, Miss." "Fire and brimstone at Mr. Venom's, huh?" "You made a good move." "I'm making another:" "Your engagement present." " Good behavior:" "Seven years, minus ten days." " Shit, how could I know?" "They haul me out of the clink only to say that you're shitting in Venom's boots." "It's not '45 or '68 any more." "In '45, you were king of the streets." "What a result." " The streets are still around." " So am I. But the posters have changed." "Well, I'm not dumb enough to get my head on a poster!" "But dumb enough to have your father clean up after you." "Your stepbrother is right." "To survive, it's better to forget." "So they got you banged up, guaranteed you a soldier's pension, is that it?" "What I did, I did in memory of you." "And for her." "That's one too many, Mickey." "To survive, you've got to forget!" "I did it for you." "Here, have your beloved son!" "Your favorite!" "I love you!" "Mary!" "Mickey..." "Judas..." "Mickey..." "Judas..." "To survive, it's better to survive..." "See what's left?" "The old man's dead, Donald's dead, my woman..." "Your woman was a twat." "Here, park this!" "You don't have to bad-mouth Martine!" "It's a bit late for niceties!" "I have a woman and a friend." "I'm home and dry." "You said that, didn't you?" " No, it was you." " Same thing." "Park her for me." "We've gotta pull out the stops." "It's not The Beatles any more, it's Attilla and the Destroyers... no future." "If there's still a future, it's tomorrow, 15 rue Nergal." "Now duck." "You trust this jerk with the hot stuff?" " The hot stuff and the ice queen!" " My virgin Mary!" "Would you like some medication?" "Sure, I know a drugstore." "Antoine and I knocked it off a few times, years ago." "For peanuts, petty cash or speed!" "Remember, Antoine?" "We'll keep the hearse." "Why not leave it here?" "For what?" "Should I throw in two wreaths and wait for the Père Lachaise to open?" "Coming?" "Just a sec." "Time enough to waste this jerk first." " Are you retarded or what?" " He touched Martine." "This rat is jinxed!" "Here they come!" "I'm warning you, lying is my speciality." "You're not what's lying." " What is?" " Poverty!" "If one lies, it's to get... one shouldn't ever get!" "Here, it's okay." "Jeez, my clog!" "We can't stay here!" " Do you have money?" " No!" "It's full of memories, this place." "I started when I was thirteen." "I never hurt." "I made supermen out of them." "Don't worry, my tiptoes are always cold." "The ice queen doesn't want to die." "To sleep... to die... to kill... to make love..." "Same battle." "What are you?" " Hatchet man?" "Pocket knife?" " Pardon?" "Friend of a friend?" "Where did Mickey unearth you?" "In a train." "What were you trafficking?" "Myself." "You're a simpleton?" "Can you say "virgin" for a man?" "Not for long." "I'm hurting." "I'm bleeding!" "No, you're coming." "I'm the one who's bleeding." "You're wet, when I want you!" "Léo, don't wait for me." "Forget the address, forget everything." "Mickey's okay." "Anyway." "I'd like..." "I can't..." "Yes?" "We don't give handouts." "Autographs and postcards via mail exclusively." "Hungry?" "The ladies are sleeping." "No noises please." "Come into the kitchen." "Coffee, chocolate, tea?" "From where I come from, we're force-fed all of your disasters." "Floods, wars, famines, terrorist attacks, kid soldiers..." "We shrug off propaganda, we want proof;" "once we have it, we don't know who we are anymore." "But darling..." "In the Kingdom of the Blind, the one-eyed suffers." "So don't look." "Chat up in the morning!" "Death in the afternoon." "You're almost as pretty as my mother!" "You should have let me know." "It was easier to take the train!" "In which hole did you fall?" "It was a woman who was being courted by a gangster!" "I spent the night with her." "I don't know where she is." "I came here." "Have you seen the Eiffel Tower?" "I lost my luggage!" "My mom's picture, my father's last letter, his tie, handkerchiefs too!" "I don't know where!" ""I loved her"." "That's not the truth." "She touched me... moved me..." "You remind me of your father." "He was handsome, your father." "You always fall for beauty, especially when it doesn't buckle." "What use are your truths?" "Does they wash whiter?" "My shirt." "It was the journey." "The night." "The rain... the rain..." "Do you get a kick out of it, or is it just stupidity?" "I kick stupidity?" "Stupidity!" "And when your mother came to Paris for the last time," "I knew I'd never see her again." "I tried to talk myself into believing she was happy." "They said your father could be released." "We compared out destinies, like young girls comparing dresses." "Now she was going to be reunited with a saint." "A martyr, beautiful... noble." "Her gift was living, and she got theater instead." "My gift was theater." "Instead I got snarled up in life..." "So it goes." "She went back." "She died of love." "I waited here for a visa that's never issued to dissidents' sister-in-laws." "And I became as bad at acting as I am in life." ""It's like the sky in the country"." "It's the Atlantic, the wind from the ocean." "You know we have seagulls here in Paris?" "That's what I'm doing at the moment, The Seagull." "Well, the play." "My daughter plays the lead." "Nowadays, after two cheap porno films, you can even become a member of the Academy." "She arranged for me to have a part in the play." "Do you know it?" "Not really." "Sea birds don't fly to Hungary." "And what kind of bird are you?" "What do you do in Hungary?" "I was told to work with my hands." "My head still hurts." "A bird of different feather." "I'm sorry, you make me feel uneasy." "Nestor?" "To the theater!" "The bird touches down on the mud, leaves his mark, more beautiful than his flight, than his life." "I think about my father, about my mother." "I'm searching in the mud." " Don't you want to look at me?" " It's difficult." "Tough day?" "Was it easier with the gangster's woman?" "It was just a reflex." "She loved me." "So one has to be in love to reflect?" "It's better for the other one." " The neighbor?" " Up above." "Do you mean God?" "Could it be just the two of us for two minutes?" "It'd be too sad." "But everything's sad, open your eyes!" "I can't see." "I can see into, but not..." "And how am I, into?" "Young." "Would you like to visit?" "I can be just as cheap a tart as your tramp, you know!" "No you can't." "You enjoy that?" "You really are fucked up, friend of a friend!" "It's André!" "André, meet my friend of a friend, Léo." "André is a man on the move." "He's moving in Mom, who's moving him up." "Forget sweet talk, when it comes to whoring, I'm his bet." ""But once in America, what will we do?" ""Monsieur de la Fayette will provide you with instructions!"" "Aglaé?" " Coming!" " Monsieur Simon has arrived." "There are those who'd rather be dead than red." "And those who'd rather be red than dead." "At that very moment, Glucksmann shakes his ritzy coiffured mane, and shouts his message:" ""No neutron gale in Bloomingsdale!"" "In the end, we arrive at the same point:" "Order, discipline, social progress." "The gap between your theorists and ours is smaller than you think." "Wait and see, look at Italy..." "To each their own theories, that works best in practice." "I'm not being critical, it must feel delicious bankrolling stage productions to, on one hand, entrap the bourgeoisie, and on the other, plant bombs under their living room floors." "But let's be fair - everyone is entitled to a slice of the cake." "We are the guests of a lady." "This is a first class lounge." "Your bladder's not big enough to pee in all four corners." "Let the little children come to me." "Simon, you destroyed my table plan again." "You're a real ruffian." "You can't even hold a conversation with a fascist." "Simon!" "Only a man of your stature knows that there is revolution in "The Seagull"!" "In a seagull there is truth." "We need a real lake on stage." "Give me the means." "At the end of the show, we open the flood-gates, and enjoy the bourgeois taking the plunge!" "I'm getting nothing out of it." "It's some hard row to hoe." "I'm hoeing." "I grease their cogs." "I oil my piston." "And then what?" "The old bag, fit for Ziegfeld Follies." "Aglaé!" "To keep her happy I should have been equipped with the obelisk of Luxor." " Mary" " I'm speechless!" " What are you up to?" "I didn't hear you come in." "This gentleman let me in." " Will you join us in the lounge?" " I'm heading for the kitchen." "Idiot." "André's got guts." "He does love me." "I'm sure he prefers me to his mother." "I share him so I can act better in the play." "Do you understand?" "You've no right to judge me!" "You've got too much fog in your head for that!" "At last!" "It's okay." "He's clean." "Hey, St. Fruitcake, do you have news from Mickey for Mary?" " I don't know where he is." " Same as Mary..." "You've come to join the winning team?" "I've been telling you that he would find me." "He's my puppy." "Like my sweet little brother!" "He knows about tomorrows." "I'll give you your tomorrows, but hands off my today!" "Mary got back her ticket, but for a price." "I was bowled over by her journey." "And that was priceless." "Stop sticking your weenie into what's not yours!" "You know other ways to prove your cocksmanship, don't you?" "Shut it!" "Watch it, Albert..." "The good lord rears his ugly head when a prick tries not to understand." "As long as you punch me, Albert!" "When you're punching me I know you're alive!" "At last, we got the address for Mickey's hidey-hole!" "We've been in the know for an hour." "Savvy?" "You'll understand." "Sorry for now." "Sorry for before." "Sorry for after." "I didn't know how to get hold of you." "By the time I snuffed out the fuse, you'd disappeared." "I called back." "I looked." "Le Baron tracked you down, he looked up the name of your cousin, thanks to her centerfold in that nudie mag." "He bought out this apartment, just across from yours, because I asked them to." "Top dollar!" "They never understood my caprices!" "And Mickey?" "What did you do to him?" "I destroy everything I love!" "I told you, I am a liar." "The Venom is here, not entirely eradicated." "By the way, did you know he used to be one of my mother's lovers?" "He just found out that you can't put a price tag on love, this venomous man." "A small time punk proved to him that he couldn't keep something that he thought he could junk." "Now he can not, he wants not, he knows not." "Thanks." "I'll do it." "Here comes the soup for my first broken Venom." "Mickey's a mover and a shaker, but this mean Matalan, he's angling for..." "If this is still a man, he wouldn't take it, lying down!" "It's manhood at question now." "Man's ugly business." "Honor, power..." "Gonna start moaning?" "Was my mom moaning?" "Me?" "I faked the screams!" "A spoonful, my love?" "Love is a miracle, you want to see a miracle?" "I'm just following your laws." "You really are the puppet they made out of you." "Fucked by a grenade." "You can't fuck over, or even just fuck!" "Anyone!" "Anyone!" "Go away!" "Can't you understand?" "I'll come!" "I'll come, I swear!" "Shall I decorate with his brains too?" "I'm not ashamed." "I'm not ashamed." "It's not my fault." "It's mine." "Idiot." "So you're in?" "Don't worry." "The cops will be here in 3 minutes." "Just let me do the talking." "Last night's massacre?" "I wasn't there." "This gentleman?" "We've never met." "If you do this for me, never was there a young lady in this courtyard." "Silence!" "What are you groping for down there?" "I don't know." "So we won't be playing ping pong?" "You must certainly have some princely motto, say:" "Wherever I appear, the scum disappears." "The barefoot..." ""The Barefoot Contessa", one might say." "Mankiewicz." "She saw her mother die at the hands of the Venoms." "The four Venom brothers." "Like Mickey's four fingers." "I've only wanted what's good for Mary." "But she seeks her mother's fate." "What can one do..." "Two days before retiring," "And still sizing up guys who sell both the cannons and the fodder, the catchphrases." "But I keep trying, with the wild horses." "Mickey, you, the limpet." "1000 to 1." "The luxury of desperate gamblers." "I could give you back to your Hungary, but I'd rather release you into our wild." "I'll take Mr André's statement democratically, like the Pope's edict." "And I'll keep sniffing your scent." "And Mary's." "Sharpening my chompers and waiting for wonders." "I'll ship your miserly, meagre coffin back." "I don't like you." "It's because of her." "She's deranged, she feels the cold." "What's eating you up..." "Shut your trap, Mr. Innocent!" "Don't forget that I'm being generous to you!" "Just like the Police at home!" "Do you want to feel my trotter?" "A big portion of Parisian pig trotter?" "Braised too?" "Thrash him out!" "His stupid suitcase too!" "In case he falls over even more." "You still in one piece?" "It's my fault, I shouldn't have left you all by yourself." "I like it raw." "But I would like it to get raw for me." "Curse you." "Mary, full of ice," "The Lord is against thee," "Punished art thou among women, and punished is the fruit of thy womb." "Nergal!" "15 rue Nergal!" "Follow the guide, my prince!" "Without me, you'll never find the path to passion." "Isn't it what you want?" "Mickey has a bone to pick with you." "The bone, i love that." "The bone and marrow..." "Without the pheasant, nothing is pleasant." "Without spice, nothing is nice." "The gravy is simmering..." "Mickey without Mary:" "No religion." "Mary without Mickey:" "No way." ""Lizard and Necessity"." "Nobel Prize, rings a bell?" ""CHANCE AND NECESSITY"" "That's it, a short survival course for the innocent going on trial." "I could surprise you with a bit of French history." "Useless, it's still the South against the North, the sombre against the dirty, the Parisians against the Arabs." "Second door to the right." "But my dear, watch out." "Cock fighting in Chicago, 1930..." "and no elevator." "He's Mickey's pal." "Hot!" "Hot!" "Hot!" "It's almost burning." "Time's up." "A European Encounter of the Third Kind." "I've got a job for you." "Mickey's not well." "He's lost his mojo." "He'll lose his life if he keeps that woman." "Take her away, do it for me." "If Mickey's not chirpy, he's no good." "I don't want him!" "I want him to go!" "You did her, and now you've come to see what it did to me?" " I love her out of pity, Mickey." " Don't you, by chance, pity me a little?" " I love her out of sorrow." " Me, I love her out of full stop!" " She respects you." " Like one respects graveyards." "I'll never leave her to you." "It's to have you in her mitt that she took that mad flat just across from yours." "Yes, you did your bit to waste the Venom." "But there's still three to go in her noble cause." "You up for it?" "Now it's you she'll run away from." "Mickey isn't the brute you believe he is." "I don't have beliefs." "It..." "It's tough to hurt you." "For me to be able to kill you, you need to be a woman." "I'd wrap the blade in silk." "You wouldn't feel a thing." "No." "She would." "Buzz off!" "Oh no!" "We are such children, prince." "Mary..." "See?" " D'you suffer?" " D'you?" "Our clients!" "Right on time, like for church!" "Hey degenerate, you got Gothic mosques at home?" "Doctor Gilbert Venin, I presume?" "Shit Livingstone, asshole?" "Your finger's on the pulse." "Mickey the Arab wants a word with you." "I'm very expensive." " Playing for keeps, or you got the creeps?" " Don't you worry." "We're in a pest controlled area." "What's on Mickey's agenda?" "Disneyland!" " That's gonna be tough." " No, a straight split." "Tomorrow, midnight, where you want, ladies as witnesses, face to face, all holds barred." "It's high time." "You shit flies, keep buzzing around Mickey." "If he ever comes out of the Casbah, he'll regret his mad wanking." "He's not mad, he's here!" "Skedaddle!" "Oh my!" "Oh my!" "Your what?" "Do you have an aspirin?" "Your lovely brothers." "Simon and Edgar, for instance." "out of your league." "Forget it." "Edgar. 5 am." "Blow deal." "Rue Lenine." "In Charenteuil." "That's our turf." "Sure you've got no aspirin?" "Office..."Future  Wellness"." "Apartment... 12." "Don't fret." "It won't be bleeding for long." "Now it's a habit!" "Well, kick it!" ""Future  Wellness"." "With what they'll get from us, they'll qualify for a new plaque: "Past  Flabby Cankers"!" "Hit it." "Big time." "My half brother, Léo, Mickey." "Edgard Venom." "What does he poison, this Venom?" "He's the fat pussy with a small..." "I can't see his full livery." "He heads the Office of Buildings and Investments." "He's investing in me." "He's pumping shit into your veins." "They all screw you 'cause you believe in the system." "All that's in vain 'cause you don't have taste." "Do you get off on family affairs?" "You unhealthy paranoid." "I want the recipe!" "It's too complex." "You wouldn't get your head round it." "Around what?" "That you and your Venom brothers swap guided missiles for Afghan dope?" "Dope which you blow up in the street?" "Laundering fallout through Buildings and Investments to get clean books?" "As for official stamps, we've got Mr André at the Ministry." "And where is Simon Venom in all of this?" "Simon's untouchable." "He doesn't mix with dirty Arabs like you!" "Dirty Arabs?" "Reminds me of waterboarding." "You got a bathtub in here?" "Buildings and Investments operate through the Pole Pot Bank." "Forget the bank, I want the banker!" "Apart from banking, what does the banker do?" "Walk his dachshund through the park?" "Rare?" "Medium?" "Well done?" "Overdone?" "The theater." "He took a shine to some piss pot actress." "Care to impart her pseudonym?" "Aglaé." "Gla Gla!" "That tip would have saved your hide." "Unfortunately, I have a kiss from Mary." " What can I do for you?" " Nothing!" "Why do I make a show of it?" "Because... you're my friend." "You know what I feel, right now, here?" "I'll tell you." "I'm gonna barf." "What am I good for?" "Nothing gives." "Makes a void inside." "You got religion?" "No!" "Here." "That's for you." "You, at least you don't kill." "My woman." "My cross." "My skin." "Anything else you want?" "Shoo, or do you want a bow on top too?" "No, I'll go to her!" "Don't sweat, she's here!" "It's done!" "Hold me against you, against him, against me." "Stop me from running out, from drowning." "Plug me." "Whatever floats your boat..." "Life is good." "Can you smell it?" "Take a breath!" "They watered the street, to make us grow on the paving." "Yes, I do love you." "We've got everything!" "Our weaknesses," "Ideas," "History!" "But what's keeping us on our asses, waiting for the Cossacks to strike?" "The burden of Money?" "The phantoms of Culture?" "The Final Solution?" "If we don't turn to face the Cossacks, it might hurt a little, get me?" "In '44 we won the Battle of the Rails." "The Final Solution?" "Stale bourgeoisie farts." "We need to take the middle ground, the power of living people, the workers." "The founders of society, the heroes of the future." "The future belongs to the unsung forces of common people, once organized." "Final Dis-Solution in champagne!" "Can not say... anything right!" "But... above all... must not kill..." "with each and every thought!" "With each bite!" "Maybe teeth are for climbing trees." "Like big toes?" "Does another world exist, without cruelty, or would it be even more deformed, and uglier?" "When I'm hungry and thirsty, who forces me to think of the blood, and the flesh that my neighbor ogles?" "of which slaughter house are we kids the inheritors?" "Watch out for the vase, cousin." "Why?" "You're not good with reality." "These clothes, this furniture, the prisons." "I'm the same." "I found a way out:" "The theater." "You will see." "It's not that place where oldies flock, and where my mother is a total flop." "It can really blow your mind, make you die better and faster." "Doesn't make you happy, but it shreds you up." "Better than anything." "I'd like to stay here." "It can be arranged." "I have killer thighs." "Simon's corpse can't say no to me anymore." "That, I know how to do." "We're all lost souls, souls lost in our flesh." "You're lost in your flesh, Aglaé." "Do you understand?" "Everything's cold cold cold." "...can only destroy itself, with bourgeoise means, bourgeoise sets, bourgeoise costumes, bourgeoise acting, the bourgeoise at the bidding of the Revolution, in the name of wrecked humanity." "Their souls melted into one..." "the universal soul, it's me." "In me human consciousness blends into the animal instinct." "And I can live each and every existence through me." "This stuff sounds decadent." "Alone in the universe, my spirit remains..." "She's fresh." "Simon's ham... she'll get you." "It's beautiful, what she says." "I want the book." "Let go!" "Did she get you?" "Who got me?" "Who got you?" "You did." "I love you." "You." "I love you." "You." "I love you." "You, I love you." "Maybe it would be useful to remove your pantaloons if you want to see the light." "Do you want me to?" "Why?" "Because people normally do it for me." "I can also tie up your feet." "Why?" "Because, usually I'm the one they tie up." "And why that?" "Because usually I'm the ridiculous one." "This way, we will forget each other." "I'll take him back whenever I want to." "Don't go!" "I have to go after her." "Do you need to deal out pain in order to survive?" "Even to a kid like that?" "She's not a kid, it's worse." "The worst must be me!" "Want to bet?" "A proper little lady who would want the worst, is it able to suffer then?" "Is it trying to suffer?" "Does one really suffer in theater?" "You'll taste." "Feel." "I'll help you." "Come." "You dithering?" "If you pull out of me, you're finished." "Because of that?" "That?" "Lyon Station." "I owe you for this one." "Oh, how happy Mickey will be!" "For me, this is a pleasure, a vision of the Apocalypse, the Whore on her throne of blood, the fourth horseman, the lamb of the seventh seal, Kafka and his goldfish!" "Kafka and his goldfish." "Good." "Good." "There I can't." "I spent my holidays here with my father and mother." "My father died in that room." "A bullet to the attic." "I'm lying again." "Did he hang himself?" "No... he goofed it up." "He..." "The rain." "What's up with you?" "Soft in the head?" "Did you get lost?" "Yes." "Here, with you." "It's not like in the movies or in books, where everything is precise, thought-out, organized... with a clear-cut goal." "Everything's chaos, chance... pain... disorder..." "Still, my way of putting things in order is to get them, one by one, my mother's lovers." "There's one left." "Do you want me to tell?" "No." "What for?" "To know my life." "There is no life." "There's only a war." "Listen." "I can't hear anything." "Close your eyes." "Mary?" "You're gliding too high, friend." "You're gonna crawl back." "I won't cushion your descent." "You're overdosing." "If I were human, I'd waste you here and now." "I'm not going to be human." "I won't go back on my word." "I wouldn't want to hurry you, but theaters run on precise timetables." "Go betweens too." "For packaged news," "I'm the only one, for timely deliveries." "It's me." "For the right address, it's still me." "one last breath of fresh air... and it's time to go now." "Don't get alarmed, Léo," "The commissioner is here just to make sure all's quiet on the Alpine front." "Better carry a piece." "Me, never." "Mary, she's his most precious thing." "He's burning through those creeps who got their kicks from grilling his wife." "A hero, the commissioner, in the line of suffering." "Stoke the dice." "Load the fire!" "The carriage awaits me at the gates." "Don't see me at the door, I will go alone." "The carriage awaits me at the gates." "Don't see me at the door, I will go alone." "May I have a drink." "Where are you going now?" "To town." "Is Nina Nicolaevna here?" "Yes." "Last Thursday, my uncle was feeling unwell." "We sent him a telegram." "Why did you tell me you kissed the earth I walked on?" "I should be killed, to be put to rest, to be put to rest," "I am a seagull!" "I warned you:" "Lies, dullness." "I don't want you." " I am an actress!" "He didn't believe in theater, he always used to mock my dreams, and I ended up not believing in them, either." "I lost courage!" "And then the turmoils of love, the jealousy, the constant fear for my little one." "I was becoming petty, insignificant," "My acting was stupid, I didn't know what to do with my hands." "I couldn't control my voice." "You don't know what it feels like," "knowing that you act atrociously." "I am a seagull." "Since I came here I've been walking a lot," "I walk, and I think intensely, and I can feel my soul strengthening." "I know now," "I understand, Kostia," "That in our trade, artist or writer, the essential is neither the glory, nor the sparkles, all that I dreamt of." "The essential is to know how to endure." "Learn to carry your cross and keep your faith." "Here's the item." "It's intact." "Now, let's talk details." "Abhorrent, isn't it?" "Are they plotting, or what?" "Our fiancées." "Here's a doll." "Here's the head, here's the feet." "I turn her upside down." "Close your eyes, close your eyes." "There!" "Show me where the head is?" "Now, her feet." "And now her sex." "That's a good one, huh?" "Isn't it?" "Do us a favor, please?" "Could you turn the stage lights on again?" "It's a child's dream." "Turn the lights on, now!" "Do as she says." "We won't go at it again!" "Not you." "You performed... you came." "I got what I could for you." "Did you like my acting?" "I could smash..." "Why did you tell me you kissed the earth I walk on?" "You have to kill me!" "I am so tired, to rest, to rest!" "I am a seagull!" "No, that's not it." "I am an actress." "That's it!" "He's there too." "Yes." "But that's nothing." "He didn't believe in theater, he always used to mock my dreams, and I ended up not believing in them either, I lost my courage!" "And then the turmoils of love, the jealousy, the constant fear for my little one." "I was becoming petty, insignificant, my acting was stupid!" "I didn't know what to do with my hands, didn't know how to stand!" "I couldn't control my voice!" "You don't know what it feels like!" "She's better than me." "Learn to carry your cross and keep your faith" "I have the faith, and I suffer." "It's ridiculous." "Chicks like this..." "When I think about my vocation," "Say it: "whores"." "one should..." "Life doesn't scare me anymore." "Put them down?" "Here's the only Venom still alive, the untouchable, the only one that never touched me." "The one that lights the match!" "I don't want the penguins splattered in ketchup." "Especially not in front of the fuzz." "Enjoy your meal, gentlemen!" ""Ministers of Integrity"!" "Thank you, show's over." "It's not over for me." "You gave me a theater as payment for a quickie." "I resented you, and went crazy about that innocent." "He burst out of his Hungarian shithole, out of his mind, then began fucking things up for everyone." "The innocent is a dog." "I bought him back from this harlot" " I was wrong." "Do you still want me?" "I want everything." "Whereever you want, whenever you want." "As long as it's now." "And I want him to see it, OK?" "Search him." "The wax of the seventh seal drips on the butcher's fingers." "The lamb is ready." "Here, if you please - same as them." "Am I frightening you?" "Lower." "Where it's real." "Where it smells." "Get lost!" "Get lost!" "The door behind you!" "Me." "Leave it to me!" "You little cunt!" "So, about that killer video..." ""Gone with the Wind"." "Ass... hole." "Don't fret, he won't see me again." "I just want him to understand me, and to forgive." "If Mickey's okay with that." "Are you hurt?" "Where?" "Ba-ku-nin..." "Comrade Vit-a-min..." "Che Guevara, "The Bolivian Diaries"." "Maurice Thorez... complete works, timeless." ""The Young Marx:" "The Misery of Philosophy", I know this." "Fred Astaire." "Woody Allen." "Who's that?" ""Gone with the Wind"." "Mickey, I've got it!" "Come on!" "Torch it!" "I was there in the tree." "Eleven years old." "Playing hooky from boarding school." "I needed to see her!" "A Sunday once in a while wasn't enough!" "She didn't even bother packing her bags!" "How she was fed up with my poor cop father!" "And he with her." "It killed her." "She wallowed with those pigs." "In their dough, their drugs, their shit!" "Mommy, mommy, my mommy!" "I followed." "They fed me, they dressed me, they beat me, but they never sullied me." "I'm like her, I'm like her," "I'm like her, like her..." "like her..." "I'm like her..." "Mommy, mommy... mommy!" "My mommy..." "Now that I am King... and that the Queen is Queen..." ""Impossible" is a French word." "I'll never marry you." "Leave the ending to me." "I need this money!" "I need this money..." "It's too swell." "Expatriation!" "What is that?" "Oh yes, I forgot to tell you, the big surprise!" "Your mother's corset exploded." "Ambulance, firemen, four nurses, two obstetricians." "Nine and a half pounds on arrival, incognito for seven months!" "A triumph!" "It's all your doing..." "Madam's my age." ""From each according to his faculties;" ""To each according to his needs"." "My poor little thing." "Is it love?" "My cub..." "Love." "I'll show you." "Mommy!" "The smell is the proof." "You don't leave a friend wounded in the trenches of old age." "Especially when they're incontinent." "Here I am, my friend." "Come on, get down here, you prick." "Do you want me to snatch you by the balls?" "Jump off!" "And don't fidget!" "Do you remember when, you told me that" "I am doing all this for Mary." "You were right." "Do you know what a "lost girl" means in French?" "Nobody knows any more." "It's a woman that keeps on walking until she falls apart." "You can never help her." "Ever." "You can try to kill yourself." "That's all." "Yeah, I know." "You could tell me that I could have nabbed the Munch Bunch at the parking lot, or the villa..." "I'm not God." "I'm just holding his crayon." "That's all." "one more point, I'm not like the ones you've dealt with at home." "Come on." "I'll give you a lift, whereever you're going." "Tell your fucking Minister," "I clean up this city all by myself." "That I defend the law in spite of the laws." "Raising the rats against each other." "It's an art rarely appreciated." "Are you going to get me my medal?" "I'll tell everything!" "I can't go further on." "Candy?" "Don't swallow the pit." "one last detail you've missed." "Mary..." "I tracked her down less than a year ago." "I'm her father." "Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Libya!" "Albania, Egypt, Nicaragua: "War."" ""I often have this strange and penetrating dream of an unknown woman..." ""Whom I love and who loves me..."" ""Do not spoil this tender act of being or being not." ""For I have lived up to our pact, awaiting heart is all I've got."" ""Wisen up, Pain, and hold still." ""Were you demanding the night?" "It's coming down, at will."" ""Black air, envelops the city, bring peace to some, and to some the pity."" "He's been in there for hours with that bitch of his." "Do you want to unbind him?" "He keeps the door closed, and says nothing." "Try to shake him up, for fuck's sake, or we'll miss the big barbeque in the white city." "You are the only one." "And you didn't do anything." "Léo, it's the Prince of Idiots." "I was doing it in her sleep, but you woke her up." "I did wrap the blade in silk." "She's not hurting too much." "Come!" "Do you want to finish the job?" "Mary..." "I love her." "And me." " Do you love me?" " Léo, yes!" "Speaking of which, she told me again that I made love to her like nobody else." "Then she told me that it wasn't important." "My father, my mother, you." "Love." "The same feet, the same toes," "the same footprints." "Footprints change with the sole of your shoes." "The mud without marks, that's me." "You're cold." "You're warm." "You're hot." "You burn." "You kill." "Do you want to finish me?" "Don't piss about!" "Take off your sneakers, so they think we aren't here." "I won't give her up to anybody." "No." "She belongs to me." "If God made us, he would have made us different." "The rats have made off." "I'm offering you quiet on the Western front!" "Come on, what are you going to do all by yourself in this gutter?" "With me, you have a chance!" "You can all rot with her!" "This stare, not for me." "I've got to see Him!" "Now I can't see a thing." "Now you can see for real." "At the end of a regularfilm, I'd go on a killing spree too." "I'd be the hero." "But there are no more heroes." "Just the humiliated." "Stop your bullshit." "Let's walk out of here... barefoot." "Made off, the rats, welfare!" "This is the end, my only friend." "I won't have the lake." "There won't be any real revolution." "From now on don't budge!" "Hear me?" "Watch him." "Save me." "Take me." "Any place you want." "This film was inspired by "The Idiot" by Fedor Dostoevsky." "It is intended as a homage to this great writer." "English Translation:" "Daniel Bird and Andrzej Zulawski."