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Hello? | 0:02:00 | 0:02:01 | |
Uh, bonjour? | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
Est-ce que...? Hello? | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
Bonjour? | 0:02:10 | 0:02:11 | |
Hello? | 0:02:14 | 0:02:15 | |
Nobody home? | 0:02:19 | 0:02:20 | |
Hello? | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
HE KNOCKS | 0:02:44 | 0:02:46 | |
Anyone here? | 0:02:50 | 0:02:51 | |
HE KNOCKS | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
KNOCK ON DOOR | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
MUSIC PLAYS | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
Excuse me. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:33 | |
Hello? | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
Hello? | 0:03:37 | 0:03:38 | |
-Ah! -Oh, God! -Oh, mon Dieu! | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
I'm sorry. Je suis desole. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
No, no, it's... | 0:03:42 | 0:03:43 | |
Je suis... La... | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
J'ai frappe...la porte...uh... | 0:03:45 | 0:03:49 | |
ENGLISH ACCENT: I think... I think it would be better | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
for both of us if you spoke in English. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
Yes. Good. Well, the door downstairs was open, and I just... | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
You're Mathias. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:02 | |
I'm Mathias, yes. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:05 | |
I actually call myself Jim. But, uh, I like Mathias. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
How do you know my name? | 0:04:09 | 0:04:10 | |
Maitre Brinot told me you'd be stopping by. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
The lawyer, Christophe Brinot. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the lawyer. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
For the apartment. Yes. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
See, I inherited this apartment from my father. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
He died and left it... | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
I'm...I'm Madame Girard. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
Mathilde Girard. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
OK. Well, erm, nice to meet you. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
Do you think, erm...? Could you show me around? | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
Could I...? | 0:04:41 | 0:04:42 | |
Oh, yes. Yes, I could. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
Of course...I could. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
There are quite a few rooms upstairs. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
Uh, yeah. A lot. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
-I went up there before I saw you. -Oh. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
Well, I haven't been up there in years. My legs are useless. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
Some of the rooms haven't been used for, oh...30 years. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
And this...this is the salon d'hiver. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
Ah, in its time it was a glorious room. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:12 | |
We had wonderful parties out there, in the garden. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:17 | |
Wait. That garden is, uh... That's part of the property? | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
A garden like that in the middle of Paris must be worth a fortune. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
That's awfully nice. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:51 | |
CLASHING NOTES | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
A little out of tune, but, er... | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
..it's got a nice action. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:05 | |
HE PLAYS JAZZY REFRAIN | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
You look remarkably like your father. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
Y... You knew my father? | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
Oh... | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
Did he buy the apartment from you? | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
Didn't you speak with Maitre Brinot? | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
The lawyer. Yeah, well... I called him. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
Oh. No. He doesn't... doesn't speak English. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
Not a lot, no. And I haven't spoken French since I was a kid. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
So nobody's...ever explained the..."situation". | 0:06:37 | 0:06:43 | |
Wh...What "situation"? | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
Well, this apartment... | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
..is a viager. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
Uh... | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
-Hmm. -The word viager means, literally, "for life". | 0:06:56 | 0:07:01 | |
It's a French system. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
You know, for buying and selling apartments. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
The buyer gets the apartment cheaply, you see, | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
for what we call a "petit bouquet". | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
But then the buyer must pay the seller a fee, | 0:07:14 | 0:07:19 | |
you know, until the seller dies. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
I, uh... | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
I don't quite follow this. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:26 | |
Uh, my father...bought this apartment as an investment, | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
40 years ago. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:31 | |
Oh, no, 43 years ago. It was after my husband died. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
43 years ago. He owned this apartment until HE died | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
and left it to me in his will, which was just probated. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
You must have inherited quite a lot. KETTLE SINGS | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
Uh...no. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
Some books, his watch, | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
and this apartment. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
-In total? -Period. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
Where did the rest go? | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
-Oh, to who? -To WHOM? | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
-Oh, to whom? -Yes. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
I taught English for years. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
I mean, I've stopped... | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
I've stopped teaching formally, | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
but I cannot stop correcting people, sorry. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
So, tell me - where did the rest go? | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
Erm, he left his money to charity. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
-He didn't feel comfortable leaving it to me. -Oh? | 0:08:20 | 0:08:23 | |
Except the apartment. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
The apartment and, uh... | 0:08:26 | 0:08:27 | |
-HE SPITS -Excuse me. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:29 | |
And some, er, French classics in French, | 0:08:29 | 0:08:34 | |
which should be very useful(!) | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
And, erm, that's it. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:37 | |
So who's been, erm... Who's been collecting your rent? | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
It's not rent, you see. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
It's a fee, payable to me each month. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:48 | |
I'm sorry. Payable TO you? | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
To me. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:54 | |
Until you die? | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
And not a minute afterwards. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
Thank you. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:00 | |
-Are you kidding? -Hmm? -Are you kidding? -Not at all. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
It's not a lot of money by today's standards, | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
for an apartment this size. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:11 | |
2,400 euros a month. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:16 | |
And... | 0:09:16 | 0:09:17 | |
..I'm responsible? | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
Well, I've been paid to the end of the month. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
But when the new month begins... | 0:09:22 | 0:09:23 | |
So...what I inherited | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
was a 2,400-euro-a-month debt? | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
Well, it seems like it, yes. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
-HE CHUCKLES -That's perfect(!) | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
He got me again! | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
Are you... Are you unwell? | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
A bit, yeah. I... | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
I used the last cent that I had to get here. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
This place was my last hope. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
What? This apartment? | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
Don't you have an apartment in New York? | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
Uh, no, not any more, no. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
Well, weren't you planning on going back? | 0:09:57 | 0:09:59 | |
The plan was to sell this apartment and then, | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
I don't know, go somewhere. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
I don't know. Somewhere. Just not stay in Paris. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:10 | |
But you have a plane ticket home? | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
So, what you're saying is, I, uh... | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
I own this apartment, | 0:10:16 | 0:10:17 | |
and, er...I also own you. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:21 | |
Yes. Yes, you own the apartment, and you also own me. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:26 | |
Until I die. After I've died... | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
-Then I'll just own the apartment. -Exactly. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
How old are you? | 0:10:33 | 0:10:34 | |
Sh... Sorry. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
Please understand, I...I'm... | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
I'm in shock. I... | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
I'm completely broke. I owe everyone I know money. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:47 | |
Except for a box full of French books and this apartment, | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
I have nothing. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:51 | |
Didn't you have anything yourself before your father died? | 0:10:51 | 0:10:56 | |
Oh, yeah. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
Yeah, I had lots of stuff, | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
a long time ago, when I was married. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:03 | |
Oh. You're not married any more? | 0:11:03 | 0:11:05 | |
No, I'm divorced. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
A couple of times. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
Three times. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:11 | |
Oh. Three divorces? | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
Mmm. One for each of my three unpublished novels. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
-Any children? -I'm sorry? | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
Oh, children? No. No. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
I'm 90. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:26 | |
That's a big number. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:29 | |
Yes. I've been here since my 20s. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:34 | |
70 years ago. Mmm... | 0:11:34 | 0:11:36 | |
I was born in England. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
And you stayed English. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:41 | |
Well, when you're born English, you stay English. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
Englishness...is so obvious. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:48 | |
You have no choice. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:49 | |
How old are you? 60? | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
Uh, 60-ish. I'm 57 and 11 months. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
How did you get to be 57 and 11 months | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
and have so little to show for it? | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
Hey, please, don't be subtle with me. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
If you have something you want to ask me that's a little cruel, | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
just ask me(!) | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
I'm 90. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
Subtlety's not something that interests me. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
Come with me. Come on. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
Take this. You can stay here for a while. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
-Until you know what you're doing. -Thank you. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
I'll get the femme de menage to make up a room for you upstairs. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:35 | |
-Do you have any luggage? -Just the one bag. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
-That's it? -That's it. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:40 | |
I think you need some air. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:41 | |
You take a walk. Take a walk by the Seine. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
Hmm? The night will be beautiful. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
Only don't... Please don't jump in. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:48 | |
You'll probably fail to drown yourself | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
and just end up with a dreadful cold. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
Dinner is at 8 o'clock, precisely. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
Don't be late, or I'll start without you. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
I'm still six hours behind. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:01 | |
I'll have to charge you something for staying here. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
I always need money, and that watch is gold. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
You're a pirate, Madame Girard. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:14 | |
C'est vrai. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
BICYCLE BELL RINGS | 0:13:41 | 0:13:43 | |
WOMAN SINGS ARIA | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
Houp, uh... | 0:14:47 | 0:14:48 | |
Attention. Vous voulez, peut-etre - bonjour - des renseignements? | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
Auguste Lefebvre. Pardon. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:55 | |
Lefebvre. Uh, I'm Mathias Gold. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
Call me Jim. | 0:14:58 | 0:14:59 | |
Any chance you speak a little English? | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
Yes, yes, of course I do. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:02 | |
-A little bit, Jim. -Oh, good. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
I'm wondering if you have an apartment | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
about 400 to 600 square metres I could see? | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
Oh... I might have something, yes. Sit down, please. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:15 | |
How big did you say? | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
Around 400 to 600 square metres. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
Yes. With a little imagination - | 0:15:22 | 0:15:26 | |
and a bit of money - | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
this could be, uh, un vrai palace. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:34 | |
Masterpiece. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:36 | |
Mmm. And, uh... | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
This is, uh, how much? | 0:15:41 | 0:15:42 | |
Oh, the owners ask 12 million. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
But I think you can make an offer with enough... | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
12 million. And how much would this be worth if there were | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
a garden in the back, that's equally, | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
if not bigger, in size? | 0:15:54 | 0:15:56 | |
Why do you ask this? | 0:15:56 | 0:15:57 | |
Actually, I'm...I'm looking to sell. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
Ah. D'accord. And where is your apartment? | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
-It's in the Marais. -Ah. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
Yeah. I inherited it. It's, um... It's really big. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:08 | |
I've got some pictures. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:09 | |
-See? It's, um, two stories. -Mm-hm. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:13 | |
It's about that long, and this huge garden. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:17 | |
-Ah. This is good. -Yeah. There's only one problem. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
See that old lady? Yeah. She lives there. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
It's a viager. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:24 | |
Oh, this is not good. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
THEY CHUCKLE | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
No. She's 90. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
-Not so bad. -Yeah. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
This French guy, whose name I can't pronounce, | 0:16:32 | 0:16:34 | |
he's called me a couple of times. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:35 | |
We Skyped while I was still in New York, | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
and he's really hot to buy it. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
'Course, I didn't tell him about the old lady. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:41 | |
-I didn't know about her. -If you see him, | 0:16:41 | 0:16:43 | |
tell him she's 90, right away. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
Tout de suite, vous le dites. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:46 | |
Ah, good point. Yeah. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
Do you have a card? | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
Oh, yes, yes. Of course. Of course, I do. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
Bien sur... | 0:16:54 | 0:16:55 | |
-Voila. -Thanks. | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
I'll be in touch. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
OK. Call me. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:02 | |
CLOCK CHIMES | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
I eat dinner each night at precisely 8 o'clock. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
And breakfast is at precisely 8am. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:15 | |
I don't eat lunch. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:16 | |
Lunch is not a meal that interests me. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
Please? | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
It's a ten-year-old Gigondas. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
Should be lovely. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
Ten years is a perfect age for Gigondas. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:32 | |
Any younger, and the Syrah overpowers the Grenache. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
Any older, then the alcohol overpowers everything and everyone. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:42 | |
You're very precise. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
Very precise, Madame...Girard. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
Precision is the key to a long life. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:54 | |
Precision and wine. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
Right, yes. I'm just going to have water. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
I don't drink, er, alcoholic beverages any more. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:03 | |
You had a drink problem? | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
Uh, it wasn't a problem for me. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
Just for the people around me. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
Mmm. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
A bit young. What a pity. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
CLOCK TICKS | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
HE SIGHS | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
-Vous parlez to me? -IMITATES GUNSHOT | 0:19:34 | 0:19:36 | |
-Parlez-vous anglais? -IMITATES GUNSHOT | 0:19:38 | 0:19:40 | |
-Cochon! -IMITATES GUNSHOT | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
-SHE SHRIEKS -Whoa! | 0:19:59 | 0:20:01 | |
Oh, God, I'm... | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
-What? I'm... -TOILET FLUSHES | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
-You! -I'm very sorry! I'm sorry! | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
-I...I had no idea that anybody else was in the house! -Stay back! | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
I didn't see anything! | 0:20:11 | 0:20:12 | |
You're, uh... Je suis desole... | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
-C'est quoi, ca? -Oh... | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
Mathias, Mathias, this is Chloe. Chloe, this is Mathias. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
What are you doing here? | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
Uh, I own this apartment. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:24 | |
And I also own, uh, Madame Girard. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:26 | |
Do you work here? | 0:20:26 | 0:20:27 | |
No, Chloe is my daughter. She lives here. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
-Your daughter... -Why are you staying here? | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
Well, your mother, uh...invited me. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
MATHILDE AND CHLOE CONVERSE IN FRENCH | 0:20:36 | 0:20:40 | |
She seems upset. What, is she...? Is she leaving? | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
She's probably going to check the rooms to see where you slept. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
Uh... | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
She doesn't think you and I, uh...? | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
-Never mind. -No...! | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
HE CLEARS HIS THROAT | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
Oh! Hello. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:18 | |
That's my room. Can I help you? | 0:21:18 | 0:21:20 | |
How long are you staying here? | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
Here in Paris, or here in the apartment? | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
Here, in this apartment - how long are you staying in this apartment? | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
I don't know. I'm paying rent. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
-Why? -Wh-Why? | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
Why are you paying rent? | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
-Chloe! -Maman, s'il te plait. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
Je veux le parler seule. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
Oh, no, you don't have to speak French in front of me. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:40 | |
-I can go to my room if you like. -Yes, please. Thank you. Do. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
-What, go to my room? -Yes, please do! | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
Your daughter has a wonderfully welcoming spirit. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
I feel bienvenu beyond belief in her presence(!) | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
THEY CONVERSE IN FRENCH | 0:21:51 | 0:21:56 | |
J'ai deux mots a vous dire... | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
No, no, no. No French. No. My French is for shit. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:01 | |
Please don't be vulgar. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
Well, I'll try not to be, but I can't make any promises. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
I know exactly who you are and I know exactly why you're here. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:09 | |
Who...? Who am I, exactly? And why am I here? | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
-Chloe! -Maman, s'il te plait. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
I had a Cairn terrier named Murphy who used to eavesdrop constantly. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:18 | |
He was, uh, 90 in dog years when he died. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:22 | |
Same age as your mom. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:23 | |
-My mother's 92. -She told me she was 90. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:27 | |
-She lies about her age. -She had me totally fooled(!) | 0:22:27 | 0:22:30 | |
You have no legal access here before my mother dies. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
If you continue to trespass, Mr Gold... | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
Whoa, whoa. Let's start all over. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
Hi. I'm Mathias Gold, I'm from New York. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
I'm renting a room from your mother. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
-I've paid her... -I have no time for this. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
Simply and clearly, | 0:22:45 | 0:22:46 | |
if you are not out of this apartment by noon today, | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
our lawyers will petition the police to have... | 0:22:49 | 0:22:51 | |
Excuse me, but, uh, I'd like to say something, simply and clearly. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
This is MY apartment! | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
Yeah! My dad bought it! | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
And he paid for it over 43 years! Gazillions of dollars! | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
And then...he left it to me. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
I don't care if your mother's 500 years old | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
and the two of you end up living in a tent. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
I own this apartment and I'm going to sell this apartment! | 0:23:11 | 0:23:15 | |
The moment I have the money in my pocket, I'll be gone, | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
and not a minute before. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
OK? | 0:23:21 | 0:23:23 | |
You heard what he said? Hmm? | 0:23:23 | 0:23:25 | |
DOORS SLAM | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
CHLOE SPEAKS FRENCH | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
Chloe, what did you say? | 0:23:46 | 0:23:48 | |
I'm going. I won't be home for dinner. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:52 | |
BIRDSONG | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
PHONE CAMERA CLICKS | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
-Bonjour. -Bonjour. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
Um...parlez-vous English? | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
Yes. Definitely. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:27 | |
I speak francais, anglais, Dutch, polonais. Whatever you want. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
OK. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:32 | |
Well, I've got some things here I want to sell. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:37 | |
-That... -Oh, no, no. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:38 | |
No - I can't really sell all this stuff, no, no. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
No... Well, I quite like those '50s pieces. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
OK. I got four of those. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:47 | |
Oh. Great. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
No, no. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:51 | |
And the lamp. The lamp could be interesting. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
-That's Art Deco, that table. -Brilliant. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
How much for four chairs like that, | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
an Art Deco table and the lamp? | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
Minute. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:02 | |
Uh... | 0:25:04 | 0:25:05 | |
900, if everything is in top condition. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
-Everything is in top condition. -Yeah. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
That's why it's worth 1,300. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:11 | |
No, no, no. 1,000 is my absolute maximum. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
1,200? | 0:25:14 | 0:25:15 | |
-You can deliver today? -I'll do my best. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
-Brilliant. -Pleasure doing business with you. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
Um, my table? My lamp? | 0:25:41 | 0:25:43 | |
-I'll be right back. -Thank you. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
Mille deux cents. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:55 | |
Merci beaucoup. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
SHE SPEAKS FRENCH | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
-What? -Uh, cleaning. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:11 | |
Cleaning. No, thanks. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
-No, -I -do. -Oh, good. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:14 | |
Uh, th-thank you for seeing me. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
I found you through, um, Madame Mathilde Girard. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:48 | |
Mm-hm. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:49 | |
-You are Madame Girard's friend? -Friend? | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
Well, you could say that. Yes, provisionally. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:54 | |
Um, I'm Mathias Gold. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:57 | |
What can I do for you, Mr Gold? Are you ill? | 0:26:57 | 0:27:00 | |
N... Am I ill? No. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:03 | |
I was actually inquiring about Madame Girard's health. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:05 | |
Is she ill? | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
Well, that's what I was hoping to find out. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
I mean, she's quite...elderly. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
Why are you asking? | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
Well, if I can be honest, I... | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
I own her apartment as a viager. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:22 | |
Oh. Well... | 0:27:22 | 0:27:26 | |
You may have made a terrible investment, Mr Gold. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
When I last saw Madame Girard, she was in top form. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
-Top form? -Mm-hm. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:35 | |
French women can live a long time. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:37 | |
Yes. It's the red wine, isn't it? | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
Exactly. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
We had in France an old woman, the oldest in the world - | 0:27:42 | 0:27:45 | |
Jeanne Calment. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:46 | |
Never heard of her. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:48 | |
She was 122 years old when she died. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
She sold her apartment in a viager contract | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
with her lawyer when she was 90. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
Her lawyer paid her several thousand francs a month for 30 years, | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
until HE died. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
A viager can be a very bad gamble. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
Mmm. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:06 | |
As far as I know, Madame Girard is in excellent health | 0:28:06 | 0:28:09 | |
and could well outlive Jeanne Calment. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:11 | |
And you've been Madame Girard's doctor for a long time? | 0:28:12 | 0:28:16 | |
Madame Girard and her daughter | 0:28:16 | 0:28:18 | |
were my mother's patients for many years. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:20 | |
Now they're mine. | 0:28:20 | 0:28:22 | |
They're also my English teachers. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
We exchange skills. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:25 | |
I get private lessons, they get doctoring. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:27 | |
It's an excellent arrangement. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
-CHUCKLING: -Yes. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:32 | |
You exchange skills. That's charming. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:34 | |
Well, thank you for your time. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:36 | |
Not at all. | 0:28:36 | 0:28:39 | |
CLOCK CHIMES | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
DOOR OPENS | 0:29:11 | 0:29:13 | |
I'll get that. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:14 | |
Oh, no, no. No, the trolley gives me balance. | 0:29:14 | 0:29:18 | |
Oh. Well, I, uh...just wanted to help. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:21 | |
Oh. | 0:29:21 | 0:29:23 | |
If I allow people to help, they don't help at all. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:28 | |
I know what you mean. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:29 | |
SHE SIGHS | 0:29:32 | 0:29:34 | |
So, when were you last in Paris? | 0:29:34 | 0:29:36 | |
Oh, I haven't been here since I was a kid. | 0:29:36 | 0:29:39 | |
Oh? Why is that? | 0:29:39 | 0:29:41 | |
I think it's because my mother thought Paris was, um, | 0:29:41 | 0:29:44 | |
the enemy, in a way. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:46 | |
My father was here on business all the time and, uh... | 0:29:46 | 0:29:49 | |
I think, uh... | 0:29:49 | 0:29:51 | |
You kind of got the feeling that he loved Paris | 0:29:51 | 0:29:53 | |
more than he loved his wife or his son. | 0:29:53 | 0:29:54 | |
Why are there, um... | 0:29:54 | 0:29:56 | |
..guns in my room? | 0:29:57 | 0:29:59 | |
Oh! | 0:29:59 | 0:30:01 | |
My husband's business took him to Africa, | 0:30:01 | 0:30:03 | |
and he loved safari. | 0:30:03 | 0:30:04 | |
He was always game shooting. | 0:30:04 | 0:30:06 | |
Ah! That explains the dead animals on my wall. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:10 | |
The pig and the cow. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:11 | |
CHUCKLING: It's a wild boar. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
I can't remember what else was on the wall. | 0:30:13 | 0:30:19 | |
I wouldn't think it's a cow. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
Well, to me, anything of that girth is a cow. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:24 | |
Lucky you weren't here a few months ago. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:27 | |
You see, I've just sold most of his animal head collection. | 0:30:27 | 0:30:31 | |
Oh, there were animal heads everywhere. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:33 | |
Lions, tigers, zebra. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:36 | |
Carnage. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:37 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:30:37 | 0:30:39 | |
Yes. Absolument, carnage. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:43 | |
HE GROANS | 0:30:43 | 0:30:44 | |
So, what are your memories of...of Paris? | 0:30:44 | 0:30:48 | |
Uh...not a lot. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:51 | |
My father had an apartment near here. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:54 | |
I remember kicking a ball in a courtyard with a concierge. | 0:30:54 | 0:30:58 | |
Not with your father? | 0:30:59 | 0:31:01 | |
Oh, definitely not with my father. No. | 0:31:01 | 0:31:04 | |
Was he...? Was he alone when he died? | 0:31:06 | 0:31:09 | |
I don't know. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:15 | |
He was in a home. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:17 | |
It's a fear of mine. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:21 | |
He's buried here in France, somewhere. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:24 | |
They shipped his ashes over. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:26 | |
Yes. | 0:31:27 | 0:31:29 | |
Ah. Fruits de mer. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:32 | |
Ah. Why not? | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
-I hope you like oysters. -Oh, yes. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:36 | |
I have them specially delivered on Tuesdays. | 0:31:36 | 0:31:39 | |
Ah. Expensive, no? | 0:31:39 | 0:31:41 | |
Not at all. Not at all. | 0:31:41 | 0:31:42 | |
I barter English lessons | 0:31:42 | 0:31:45 | |
with the owner of the restaurant, | 0:31:45 | 0:31:47 | |
and his wife makes the mayonnaise. | 0:31:47 | 0:31:49 | |
-Ah. -Would you, please? | 0:31:49 | 0:31:51 | |
-Oh. -It's a Chablis. | 0:31:51 | 0:31:52 | |
-Ah. -1990. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
-Remarkable. -Mmm. | 0:31:54 | 0:31:57 | |
My private students | 0:31:57 | 0:31:58 | |
come here tonight between 9:00 and 10:00 | 0:31:58 | 0:32:02 | |
for English conversation. | 0:32:02 | 0:32:04 | |
I don't think we'll disturb you. | 0:32:04 | 0:32:06 | |
Oh, I'm sure you won't. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:08 | |
Well, good health. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:10 | |
Long life. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:13 | |
MUFFLED CONVERSATION | 0:32:19 | 0:32:21 | |
Which one? | 0:32:21 | 0:32:24 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:32:24 | 0:32:26 | |
Now, today is Jean-Christophe's birthday, so... | 0:32:34 | 0:32:39 | |
-Happy birthday! -Happy birthday! | 0:32:39 | 0:32:42 | |
Yes, happy birthday. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:44 | |
And, uh, we say, "Many happy returns of the day." | 0:32:44 | 0:32:50 | |
-ALL: -Many happy returns of the day. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:53 | |
Bravo. Brava. And what are you reading, Jean-Christophe? | 0:32:53 | 0:32:57 | |
I'm reading Ulysse by Jam' Joyce. | 0:32:57 | 0:33:00 | |
Oh. But it's ULYSSES. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:03 | |
-U-ly-sses. -U-lysses. | 0:33:03 | 0:33:07 | |
-Can you? ALL: -U-ly-sses. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:11 | |
U-ly-sses... | 0:33:11 | 0:33:13 | |
Such difficult language. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:15 | |
But well worth the struggle. | 0:33:15 | 0:33:18 | |
Yes, Florence? | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
What is the meaning of the word "wang"? | 0:33:20 | 0:33:22 | |
Wang? | 0:33:24 | 0:33:25 | |
Well, it's, um... | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
It's an Oriental dynasty. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
Why? What are you reading? | 0:33:30 | 0:33:32 | |
A roman by a young disciple of Philip Rot' - Philip ROTH. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:37 | |
Well, what is the context? | 0:33:37 | 0:33:40 | |
"His blood-filled wang | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
"was in her mouse | 0:33:43 | 0:33:45 | |
"when the tea kettle whistle whistled." | 0:33:45 | 0:33:48 | |
Ah. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
C'est du porno. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:52 | |
GROUP LAUGHS | 0:33:52 | 0:33:55 | |
Oh. C'est du porno. | 0:33:55 | 0:33:56 | |
Also, Florence - "MOUTH." | 0:33:56 | 0:33:59 | |
"Mou-TH." | 0:33:59 | 0:34:01 | |
Mouse. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:02 | |
Mouse is a little thing. | 0:34:02 | 0:34:04 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:34:04 | 0:34:06 | |
"In her mouth." | 0:34:06 | 0:34:07 | |
-"In her mouth"? -Yes. | 0:34:07 | 0:34:09 | |
Oh! | 0:34:09 | 0:34:11 | |
Oh! | 0:34:26 | 0:34:28 | |
-SHE SCREAMS -Sorry! Nearly done. | 0:34:28 | 0:34:30 | |
-C'est impossible! -I'm done! | 0:34:30 | 0:34:32 | |
-TOILET FLUSHES -It's all yours. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:34 | |
OK. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:39 | |
"Cafe Colbert at 2 o'clock." | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
OK. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
So, if I can't sell my old lady, | 0:34:51 | 0:34:53 | |
and I can't sell my apartment, can I sell the contract? | 0:34:53 | 0:34:56 | |
Eh, oui, oui, oui. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:58 | |
Mais...when someone can afford a high-end apartment, | 0:34:58 | 0:35:01 | |
they rarely want involvement in a viager situation. | 0:35:01 | 0:35:05 | |
Why is there only one toilet in such a big apartment? | 0:35:05 | 0:35:09 | |
One toilet is the French way. | 0:35:09 | 0:35:11 | |
French people love eating, | 0:35:11 | 0:35:12 | |
but pooing isn't so important. | 0:35:12 | 0:35:15 | |
The old lady probably has her own toilet downstairs. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:18 | |
What if I get the Girards to agree | 0:35:19 | 0:35:21 | |
to split the apartment into two apartments? | 0:35:21 | 0:35:23 | |
They keep the top floor | 0:35:23 | 0:35:24 | |
and I get you to sell the bottom floor for me. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:27 | |
No problem, if we can find a buyer | 0:35:27 | 0:35:29 | |
who accepts a viager contract. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:32 | |
Ce qui peut, c'est vrai, un petit peu... | 0:35:32 | 0:35:34 | |
Complique. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:35 | |
The French guy I told you about? | 0:35:35 | 0:35:37 | |
Francois something? | 0:35:37 | 0:35:39 | |
He's, uh, very hot to buy the apartment. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:41 | |
And I'm meeting the daughter at 2:00 at a cafe. | 0:35:41 | 0:35:44 | |
I invited him to join us so I can propose this split idea. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:47 | |
I'd be anxious to know. Did you tell him about the old lady's age? | 0:35:47 | 0:35:50 | |
Yeah. Nothing seems to scare him. | 0:35:50 | 0:35:52 | |
Of course not. It's a good age, a good address. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:55 | |
Where do you live, Lefebvre? | 0:35:57 | 0:36:00 | |
I live in the blood of Paris. | 0:36:02 | 0:36:05 | |
Uh-huh... | 0:36:07 | 0:36:09 | |
Your coat's torn. | 0:36:17 | 0:36:19 | |
Oh, yeah. It is. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:21 | |
Has, uh, Francois Roy contacted you yet? | 0:36:22 | 0:36:27 | |
"France Wah-Wah?" | 0:36:27 | 0:36:28 | |
A man called Francois Roy will be contacting you | 0:36:28 | 0:36:31 | |
regarding the sale of the apartment. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:33 | |
Yes, he already... He already called me. In New York. | 0:36:33 | 0:36:35 | |
-We Skyped. -Hmm. | 0:36:35 | 0:36:38 | |
Be careful with him. He's a snake. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:41 | |
Uh, Mademoiselle Girard, | 0:36:41 | 0:36:42 | |
I think we're about to have a little problem. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:45 | |
It's a pleasure to meet you face-to-face, Mr Gold. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:47 | |
-As it were. -What are you doing here? -This is yours? -No. | 0:36:47 | 0:36:50 | |
FRANCOIS SPEAKS FRENCH | 0:36:52 | 0:36:54 | |
-You invited him?! -Just call me Jim. | 0:36:54 | 0:36:56 | |
And remember, I don't speak French. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:58 | |
Not a problem, Jim. | 0:36:58 | 0:37:00 | |
We'll speak English. | 0:37:00 | 0:37:02 | |
I'm sorry I'm a little bit late. | 0:37:02 | 0:37:03 | |
This is an outrage. Did you not speak to Maitre Brinot? | 0:37:03 | 0:37:05 | |
I have. Several times. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
I want to propose something. | 0:37:08 | 0:37:09 | |
This idea of splitting the apartment into two apartments. | 0:37:11 | 0:37:14 | |
You keep apartment A, with the toilet, | 0:37:14 | 0:37:16 | |
and I sell apartment B to Wah-Wah. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:19 | |
Vous etes fou. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:21 | |
Vous etes un imbecile. | 0:37:21 | 0:37:22 | |
I-I...I don't speak French, | 0:37:22 | 0:37:24 | |
but I get the gist of "imbecile". | 0:37:24 | 0:37:26 | |
What about you? | 0:37:26 | 0:37:27 | |
I'm only interested in the entire apartment, as is. | 0:37:27 | 0:37:32 | |
Then what do you propose to offer for the entire apartment, "as eez?" | 0:37:32 | 0:37:37 | |
-(What are you doing?) -You are very direct. | 0:37:37 | 0:37:39 | |
Yes. Well? | 0:37:39 | 0:37:42 | |
Nine million euros. | 0:37:42 | 0:37:43 | |
The apartment is worth 12 million. | 0:37:43 | 0:37:45 | |
-Probably more. -I think not. | 0:37:45 | 0:37:47 | |
Well, I've been talking to | 0:37:47 | 0:37:49 | |
the best real estate agent in France. | 0:37:49 | 0:37:51 | |
Uh, several times. | 0:37:51 | 0:37:53 | |
This man lives in the blood of Paris. | 0:37:53 | 0:37:55 | |
At the moment, the property is a merdier - a mess. | 0:37:55 | 0:38:00 | |
Both literally and legally. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:03 | |
C'est Chloe Girard. Je voudrais parler a Maitre Brinot... | 0:38:03 | 0:38:05 | |
I'm prepared to consider your offer. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:08 | |
D'accord. D'accord. | 0:38:08 | 0:38:09 | |
Jim, you are legally within your rights to sell the contract to me. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:12 | |
Why don't you just murder my mother and me? | 0:38:12 | 0:38:14 | |
It would make things a lot easier! Can't you see what you're doing? | 0:38:14 | 0:38:17 | |
On Tuesday, my mother dies, | 0:38:17 | 0:38:19 | |
on Wednesday, this man has me thrown out on the street | 0:38:19 | 0:38:22 | |
with no money and no home, and on Thursday, the building | 0:38:22 | 0:38:24 | |
that my great-grandfather built for his children, | 0:38:24 | 0:38:26 | |
and their children, and their children's children | 0:38:26 | 0:38:28 | |
is destroyed by this monster | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
and turned into one of those hideous hotels! | 0:38:30 | 0:38:34 | |
It's all about the money, isn't it? | 0:38:34 | 0:38:36 | |
That's the speech you should have made to your mother | 0:38:36 | 0:38:39 | |
before she sold the apartment to this man's father...for money. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:42 | |
My mother sold her apartment to this man's father | 0:38:42 | 0:38:44 | |
to keep it away from YOUR FATHER! | 0:38:44 | 0:38:46 | |
Guys, guys, you've got to keep it down, OK? | 0:38:46 | 0:38:49 | |
Look, I just need a week to consider your offer. | 0:38:49 | 0:38:53 | |
But I-I'm going to need a good-faith advance, | 0:38:53 | 0:38:57 | |
during the week of consideration. | 0:38:57 | 0:38:59 | |
I don't completely understand. | 0:38:59 | 0:39:01 | |
You haven't heard a single word I've said, have you? | 0:39:01 | 0:39:03 | |
Quiet, please. | 0:39:03 | 0:39:05 | |
It means that I won't negotiate with anyone else for one week | 0:39:05 | 0:39:09 | |
while I'm considering your offer. | 0:39:09 | 0:39:11 | |
But right now, I need a...a binder from you, | 0:39:11 | 0:39:16 | |
a small bouquet in cash. | 0:39:16 | 0:39:18 | |
How much cash do you have on you? | 0:39:18 | 0:39:21 | |
Are you serious? | 0:39:21 | 0:39:22 | |
Deadly. | 0:39:22 | 0:39:24 | |
Let's look in our wallet, shall we? | 0:39:24 | 0:39:26 | |
-Really? -No joke. | 0:39:26 | 0:39:28 | |
Uh... | 0:39:32 | 0:39:35 | |
360 euros. | 0:39:35 | 0:39:37 | |
That'll do. OK. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:39 | |
Well? | 0:39:39 | 0:39:41 | |
You have my word as a New Yorker - I will not talk to anyone else. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:45 | |
And I will give you my answer in one week exactly. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:48 | |
This is unique. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:52 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:39:52 | 0:39:53 | |
Uh, Mr Gold... | 0:39:53 | 0:39:56 | |
-Jim. -Jim. | 0:39:56 | 0:39:59 | |
-Chere Mademoiselle Girard. -Wah-Wah. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:02 | |
Let me get the tea. | 0:40:05 | 0:40:07 | |
Charmant? Garcon? Gendarme? | 0:40:07 | 0:40:11 | |
Le cheque. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:13 | |
He plans to turn our building into a hotel | 0:40:13 | 0:40:16 | |
like the two monstrosities he has in Montparnasse. | 0:40:16 | 0:40:19 | |
He has options to buy every apartment in our building | 0:40:19 | 0:40:22 | |
as soon as he gets ours. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:23 | |
But until he gets ours, the city won't give permission. | 0:40:23 | 0:40:25 | |
So he really needs the apartment. "Excellente..." | 0:40:25 | 0:40:27 | |
It's not about money. It's about preserving a historic neighbourhood. | 0:40:27 | 0:40:31 | |
Yeah, I get all that. But what is so wrong about my idea | 0:40:31 | 0:40:34 | |
about dividing it into two apartments? | 0:40:34 | 0:40:36 | |
-This is unacceptable. -Why? What do you want? | 0:40:36 | 0:40:40 | |
I want to buy the entire apartment from you | 0:40:40 | 0:40:44 | |
and keep it exactly as it is. | 0:40:44 | 0:40:46 | |
And I'm prepared to offer you 3,000 euros a square metre. | 0:40:46 | 0:40:51 | |
You're joking. Right? | 0:40:51 | 0:40:54 | |
Mr Gold, if you had a heart or a soul, | 0:40:54 | 0:40:57 | |
you would accept my offer. | 0:40:57 | 0:40:59 | |
The apartment is worth ten times that. | 0:40:59 | 0:41:01 | |
You heard Wah-Wah's offer. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:03 | |
That was just his opener. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:05 | |
Let me simplify things. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:07 | |
By contract, we are due to receive 2,400 euros from you | 0:41:07 | 0:41:11 | |
in one week, precisely. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:12 | |
If we don't receive our money in a timely fashion, | 0:41:12 | 0:41:15 | |
our lawyers will instruct the court | 0:41:15 | 0:41:17 | |
to have your contract made null and void. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:20 | |
Bon apres-midi, "Jim." | 0:41:20 | 0:41:22 | |
JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS | 0:41:28 | 0:41:31 | |
KNOCK ON DOOR | 0:41:31 | 0:41:33 | |
Oh. | 0:41:34 | 0:41:35 | |
Sorry. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:36 | |
Come in, come in. I was just reading. | 0:41:36 | 0:41:40 | |
Uh, I just had tea with your daughter. | 0:41:40 | 0:41:44 | |
Oh? Now, that... That pleases me. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:47 | |
Does it? I'm not sure your daughter would share your enthusiasm. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:50 | |
Oh, are you still not getting on? | 0:41:50 | 0:41:53 | |
Uh, not so much, no. | 0:41:53 | 0:41:56 | |
Mrs G, I want you to know I'm trying to be fair. | 0:41:56 | 0:41:59 | |
About the apartment? | 0:41:59 | 0:42:02 | |
I offered your daughter...an extremely reasonable solution, | 0:42:02 | 0:42:06 | |
and she rejected it. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:07 | |
This is something you must resolve with Chloe, | 0:42:07 | 0:42:12 | |
for obvious reasons. | 0:42:12 | 0:42:13 | |
Why obvious? | 0:42:13 | 0:42:16 | |
I'll be dead, won't I? | 0:42:16 | 0:42:18 | |
Right. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:20 | |
Well, anyway, I wanted you to know I'm trying to be reasonable. | 0:42:20 | 0:42:23 | |
Is your daughter going to be having dinner here tonight? | 0:42:23 | 0:42:27 | |
Well, ye... Oh, no. It's Wednesday. | 0:42:27 | 0:42:28 | |
She teaches a night class | 0:42:28 | 0:42:30 | |
and she usually has dinner with her friend beforehand. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:33 | |
She has a friend? | 0:42:33 | 0:42:35 | |
She has. Mmm. | 0:42:35 | 0:42:37 | |
A male friend? | 0:42:37 | 0:42:39 | |
Yes. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:41 | |
Has your daughter ever been married? | 0:42:45 | 0:42:47 | |
Not at all. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:50 | |
Do you find my daughter interesting? | 0:42:52 | 0:42:54 | |
Nice riff. | 0:42:55 | 0:42:57 | |
Are you a serious jazz person? | 0:42:59 | 0:43:01 | |
I am. | 0:43:03 | 0:43:04 | |
Do you know I saw Django Reinhardt play guitar? | 0:43:06 | 0:43:09 | |
At La Grosse Pomme, Montmartre, about 50 times. | 0:43:10 | 0:43:15 | |
Or more. | 0:43:15 | 0:43:16 | |
-Genius. -Mmm. | 0:43:16 | 0:43:19 | |
Seems 100 years ago. | 0:43:19 | 0:43:22 | |
Poor chap. He died so young. | 0:43:22 | 0:43:25 | |
I had a romantic liaison with Django Reinhardt. | 0:43:27 | 0:43:31 | |
Well, no, it was more a flirtation, really. | 0:43:31 | 0:43:35 | |
You know, just a fling. A fling. | 0:43:35 | 0:43:38 | |
You had a fling with Django Reinhardt? | 0:43:38 | 0:43:41 | |
Well, Paris was different, then, you know? | 0:43:41 | 0:43:43 | |
It was just after the war. | 0:43:43 | 0:43:46 | |
We were young and carefree, in love with love. | 0:43:46 | 0:43:49 | |
Every day was filled with romantic possibilities. | 0:43:49 | 0:43:53 | |
This is actually a fact? | 0:43:53 | 0:43:55 | |
You really had a fling with Django Reinhardt? | 0:43:55 | 0:43:59 | |
I did. I did. | 0:43:59 | 0:44:01 | |
You devil. That's very cool. | 0:44:01 | 0:44:04 | |
Did you ever, uh, like, uh...date Sigmund Freud? | 0:44:04 | 0:44:08 | |
No. | 0:44:10 | 0:44:12 | |
CLOCK CHIMES | 0:44:12 | 0:44:14 | |
I may not be back in time for dinner. | 0:44:18 | 0:44:20 | |
-Are you going out? -Yes, I...I feel that I should. | 0:44:20 | 0:44:24 | |
HE MOUTHS SILENTLY | 0:45:22 | 0:45:25 | |
CHILDREN LAUGH | 0:45:27 | 0:45:28 | |
Salut, papa! Comment ca va? | 0:45:31 | 0:45:33 | |
-Mademoiselle Girard! -Oh! Stop it. | 0:45:58 | 0:46:00 | |
Fancy meeting you, of all French people. | 0:46:00 | 0:46:03 | |
-Stop it! -Oh, it takes great pictures. | 0:46:03 | 0:46:06 | |
It doesn't work as a phone any more because I didn't pay my bill. | 0:46:06 | 0:46:09 | |
It's also good for telling the time | 0:46:09 | 0:46:10 | |
now that your mother's taken my watch. | 0:46:10 | 0:46:12 | |
-So, where are you coming from? -Work. | 0:46:12 | 0:46:15 | |
Really? | 0:46:15 | 0:46:16 | |
-You work? -I do! | 0:46:17 | 0:46:21 | |
I teach. | 0:46:21 | 0:46:23 | |
Really? What? | 0:46:23 | 0:46:24 | |
-What, "what"? -What do you teach? | 0:46:24 | 0:46:27 | |
-English. -Oh. Where? | 0:46:27 | 0:46:29 | |
Um, my mother's school. | 0:46:29 | 0:46:31 | |
It's a bilingual French-English school. | 0:46:31 | 0:46:33 | |
-We sold... She sold it. -Ah. | 0:46:33 | 0:46:35 | |
But you still work there? | 0:46:35 | 0:46:36 | |
SHE SIGHS | 0:46:36 | 0:46:38 | |
While the school still exists, they're obliged to employ me. | 0:46:38 | 0:46:41 | |
I was part of the sale. | 0:46:41 | 0:46:42 | |
Let me guess - your mother arranged that? | 0:46:42 | 0:46:44 | |
-She did. -Yeah, that seems to be her specialty. | 0:46:44 | 0:46:47 | |
So, uh, tell me, | 0:46:47 | 0:46:49 | |
who was the guy in the restaurant? | 0:46:49 | 0:46:50 | |
What? | 0:46:53 | 0:46:54 | |
The guy in the restaurant. He looked familiar. | 0:46:54 | 0:46:56 | |
I think I saw him duck into a hotel with you the other day. | 0:46:56 | 0:46:58 | |
But today, he didn't seem quite so happy to see you, | 0:46:58 | 0:47:00 | |
what with the wife and all, the kids, you know. | 0:47:00 | 0:47:03 | |
-How dare you! -Oh, I dare! | 0:47:03 | 0:47:06 | |
You give me all that holier-than-thou crap | 0:47:06 | 0:47:08 | |
about family and tradition, | 0:47:08 | 0:47:09 | |
and you're doing the hoopie with somebody's husband, some kids' dad? | 0:47:09 | 0:47:12 | |
And I'm a heartless bastard because I want to sell an apartment? | 0:47:12 | 0:47:15 | |
This is not your affair. | 0:47:15 | 0:47:16 | |
Oh, good choice of words. | 0:47:16 | 0:47:18 | |
I'm just wondering if it might be worth, | 0:47:18 | 0:47:20 | |
say, 2,400 euros a month to somebody | 0:47:20 | 0:47:22 | |
for me not to sit down with that man's wife | 0:47:22 | 0:47:25 | |
and, you know, have a little conversation | 0:47:25 | 0:47:27 | |
over a cafe filtre and pain au chocolat. | 0:47:27 | 0:47:30 | |
Please don't do that. | 0:47:32 | 0:47:34 | |
See? Just when you think things are really bad, they get terrible. | 0:47:34 | 0:47:38 | |
PHONE CAMERA CLICKS | 0:47:50 | 0:47:52 | |
"If you do not love me, I shall not be loved." | 0:48:33 | 0:48:37 | |
Ah! Bonjour. | 0:49:00 | 0:49:02 | |
Yeah, bonjour. | 0:49:02 | 0:49:03 | |
Uh... | 0:49:03 | 0:49:06 | |
Uh, Mrs G, are you, by any chance, | 0:49:06 | 0:49:09 | |
the charity that got my inheritance? | 0:49:09 | 0:49:11 | |
No, not at all. Not at all. | 0:49:14 | 0:49:17 | |
But, uh... | 0:49:17 | 0:49:19 | |
You knew my father pretty well. | 0:49:19 | 0:49:21 | |
Your father and I were lovers | 0:49:26 | 0:49:29 | |
since I was 29. | 0:49:29 | 0:49:32 | |
If you want to know for whom you are named, | 0:49:34 | 0:49:37 | |
you are named for me. | 0:49:37 | 0:49:39 | |
I am Mathilde. You are Mathias. | 0:49:40 | 0:49:43 | |
CORK POPS | 0:50:04 | 0:50:06 | |
MUSIC: Peace Like a River by Paul Simon | 0:50:06 | 0:50:09 | |
Bonsoir. | 0:50:10 | 0:50:11 | |
Bonsoir. | 0:50:13 | 0:50:14 | |
The end of my wagonhood. Cheers. | 0:50:16 | 0:50:19 | |
# Oh-oh, oh-oh, we were satisfied | 0:50:21 | 0:50:26 | |
# Oh, and I remember misinformation... # | 0:50:31 | 0:50:38 | |
Midnight in Paris. | 0:50:38 | 0:50:41 | |
# Nobody knew from time to time if the plans were changed | 0:50:41 | 0:50:47 | |
# Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh | 0:50:49 | 0:50:52 | |
# If the plans were changed | 0:50:52 | 0:50:55 | |
# You can beat us with wires | 0:50:57 | 0:50:59 | |
# You can beat us with chains | 0:51:00 | 0:51:02 | |
# You can run out your rules | 0:51:04 | 0:51:06 | |
# But you know you can't outrun the history train | 0:51:06 | 0:51:11 | |
# I've seen a glorious day | 0:51:11 | 0:51:13 | |
# I... # | 0:51:13 | 0:51:17 | |
BELLS TOLL | 0:51:17 | 0:51:20 | |
-Oh. -What? -Oh, there you are. I've been so worried. | 0:51:25 | 0:51:28 | |
-You've been drinking. -Drinking, getting robbed. | 0:51:30 | 0:51:34 | |
No wallet, no phone. | 0:51:34 | 0:51:36 | |
HE LAUGHS WEAKLY | 0:51:36 | 0:51:37 | |
My head feels like a broken arm. | 0:51:37 | 0:51:40 | |
I've been terribly upset. | 0:51:40 | 0:51:42 | |
Well, that makes two of us. | 0:51:42 | 0:51:44 | |
Uh...I'd like to ask you some questions. | 0:51:44 | 0:51:49 | |
I'll try to answer them. | 0:51:49 | 0:51:51 | |
When exactly did you meet my father? | 0:51:54 | 0:51:58 | |
Just a few years after Chloe's father and I got married. | 0:51:58 | 0:52:02 | |
I knew. I knew when I met him he would be the love of my... | 0:52:02 | 0:52:05 | |
Uh-uh - spare me the fromage. | 0:52:05 | 0:52:07 | |
Where was my mother when this was happening? | 0:52:07 | 0:52:09 | |
In Paris. | 0:52:09 | 0:52:11 | |
They'd just met. | 0:52:11 | 0:52:13 | |
So... | 0:52:13 | 0:52:15 | |
So my father married my mother after you two already hooked up? | 0:52:16 | 0:52:21 | |
We were young. | 0:52:21 | 0:52:23 | |
My husband was very successful in business, | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
and your father was penniless. | 0:52:26 | 0:52:28 | |
It just seemed the best plan. | 0:52:28 | 0:52:30 | |
I... | 0:52:30 | 0:52:32 | |
How is it at my age I can still be shocked? | 0:52:32 | 0:52:34 | |
Well, I'm shocked that you're shocked. | 0:52:34 | 0:52:37 | |
During three marriages, you never had a lover? | 0:52:37 | 0:52:39 | |
I'm sorry to disappoint you, Madame G. | 0:52:41 | 0:52:43 | |
Some people...do the right thing. | 0:52:43 | 0:52:47 | |
Well, why would you know the right thing | 0:52:47 | 0:52:49 | |
and your father and I not know? | 0:52:49 | 0:52:51 | |
What is so especially clever about you | 0:52:51 | 0:52:54 | |
and your way of understanding life? | 0:52:54 | 0:52:58 | |
Ah, well. | 0:52:58 | 0:52:59 | |
I know... | 0:53:01 | 0:53:03 | |
..my pain. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:06 | |
See, I know the pain that you brought into my life, | 0:53:06 | 0:53:08 | |
and I don't like it. | 0:53:08 | 0:53:10 | |
-Oh, just stop drinking. -Why? | 0:53:10 | 0:53:11 | |
It's only an escape. | 0:53:11 | 0:53:13 | |
Bingo. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:17 | |
Mrs G, I... | 0:53:17 | 0:53:18 | |
I'm sorry. I fail to see the wonder of you. | 0:53:18 | 0:53:22 | |
It's no surprise that Max loved you. | 0:53:22 | 0:53:25 | |
You're his soul mate. | 0:53:25 | 0:53:26 | |
Max Gold was the coldest son of a bitch I ever knew, | 0:53:26 | 0:53:31 | |
and I have known some tres connards froids! | 0:53:31 | 0:53:35 | |
I will not hear this. | 0:53:35 | 0:53:37 | |
Wait. | 0:53:38 | 0:53:40 | |
Wait! You WILL hear this if I want to say it! | 0:53:40 | 0:53:43 | |
You tell me my father was Casanova | 0:53:45 | 0:53:47 | |
and St John the Divine combined, | 0:53:47 | 0:53:49 | |
and I'm supposed to, what, sit there and nod? | 0:53:49 | 0:53:52 | |
But when I try to point out that my father was LESS like St John | 0:53:52 | 0:53:56 | |
and more like Captain Hook, | 0:53:56 | 0:53:58 | |
you just won't hear it, will you? | 0:53:58 | 0:53:59 | |
TEARFULLY: Your father was loving, kind and generous to a fault. | 0:53:59 | 0:54:02 | |
Oh! I'm sure he was! | 0:54:02 | 0:54:05 | |
With you, but not with me. | 0:54:05 | 0:54:07 | |
And certainly not with his wife. | 0:54:07 | 0:54:09 | |
I remember! | 0:54:12 | 0:54:13 | |
I remember being a kid and watching...my mother. | 0:54:16 | 0:54:20 | |
I saw. | 0:54:22 | 0:54:23 | |
I knew. I knew. | 0:54:25 | 0:54:27 | |
Look, I...I have no doubt that what you're saying is the truth. | 0:54:30 | 0:54:33 | |
But this particular truth is your truth. | 0:54:33 | 0:54:36 | |
Not mine. | 0:54:36 | 0:54:37 | |
Definitely not my mother's. | 0:54:39 | 0:54:41 | |
I don't have a friend in the world. | 0:54:43 | 0:54:45 | |
When my friends see me coming, they cross the street. | 0:54:45 | 0:54:48 | |
Oh, no, no. They're terrified that if they get too close, | 0:54:48 | 0:54:51 | |
they're going to catch some loser virus. | 0:54:51 | 0:54:53 | |
That's exactly what your father said about you. | 0:54:53 | 0:54:55 | |
Excuse me? | 0:54:57 | 0:54:58 | |
That you drink too much and you have no self-esteem. | 0:54:58 | 0:55:03 | |
Exactly. | 0:55:05 | 0:55:07 | |
I drink too much and I have no self-esteem. | 0:55:07 | 0:55:10 | |
Do people like you and my father ever wonder why? | 0:55:12 | 0:55:15 | |
Do you think self-esteem is some kind of birthright, | 0:55:15 | 0:55:18 | |
that the baby's born, and the doctor slaps him on his ass, | 0:55:18 | 0:55:20 | |
and he says, "Look! He's got all of his fingers! | 0:55:20 | 0:55:23 | |
"He's got all of his toes. | 0:55:23 | 0:55:24 | |
"He's got his little dick. He's got his self-esteem." | 0:55:24 | 0:55:27 | |
It doesn't work that way. No. | 0:55:27 | 0:55:28 | |
If you want to kill a kid... | 0:55:28 | 0:55:30 | |
..you don't shoot him, you just do nothing. | 0:55:31 | 0:55:33 | |
You just keep your distance and watch the kid wither | 0:55:33 | 0:55:35 | |
and devote his miserable life to trying to please you. | 0:55:35 | 0:55:38 | |
To displease you. | 0:55:38 | 0:55:40 | |
At some point, the kid decides, | 0:55:40 | 0:55:42 | |
"Oh, I've just got to stop trying." | 0:55:42 | 0:55:45 | |
But you can't stop trying. | 0:55:45 | 0:55:47 | |
You think everyone else in the world is loved, but not you. | 0:55:47 | 0:55:50 | |
You've got this terrible secret. | 0:55:50 | 0:55:52 | |
I can't imagine that my parents spent a good deal of time | 0:55:58 | 0:56:01 | |
organising my birth. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:03 | |
I can only imagine my mother desperately unhappy, | 0:56:03 | 0:56:08 | |
sobbing in the night, | 0:56:08 | 0:56:10 | |
my father, home from travel, home from your bed, | 0:56:10 | 0:56:13 | |
throwing in a little midnight mercy hump. | 0:56:13 | 0:56:16 | |
Then my mother's pregnant with me, | 0:56:16 | 0:56:18 | |
with this constant, permanent reminder of this man! | 0:56:18 | 0:56:21 | |
Stop talking. Just stop talking. | 0:56:21 | 0:56:24 | |
You don't want to hear about the other woman? | 0:56:24 | 0:56:27 | |
Absolutely not! | 0:56:27 | 0:56:29 | |
Just...stop talking. | 0:56:29 | 0:56:32 | |
-Fine. -Now, I knew your father... | 0:56:32 | 0:56:35 | |
..better than any person on the face of this planet. | 0:56:36 | 0:56:38 | |
Better than your mother. | 0:56:38 | 0:56:40 | |
Certainly better than you. | 0:56:40 | 0:56:42 | |
And he was not your enemy. | 0:56:42 | 0:56:46 | |
You just need someone to blame for your misery, so you blame him. | 0:56:46 | 0:56:51 | |
Well, your father is not the source of your failure. | 0:56:51 | 0:56:56 | |
Not the source of your poverty. | 0:56:57 | 0:57:00 | |
And he's certainly not the reason for your unthinkable sadness. | 0:57:00 | 0:57:05 | |
You have life left, Mathias. | 0:57:08 | 0:57:13 | |
There is no greater wealth. | 0:57:13 | 0:57:15 | |
Now, I'm an old woman. | 0:57:17 | 0:57:19 | |
There is... | 0:57:19 | 0:57:21 | |
There's nothing...more tiring than exasperation. | 0:57:21 | 0:57:26 | |
BREATHLESS: And you... You've exhausted me. | 0:57:27 | 0:57:30 | |
Would you please...please just leave me - leave me alone? | 0:57:30 | 0:57:34 | |
Fine. | 0:57:37 | 0:57:38 | |
You! | 0:57:45 | 0:57:48 | |
You better start packing, cos I'm selling. | 0:57:48 | 0:57:51 | |
I'm selling! | 0:57:51 | 0:57:53 | |
CHUCKLING | 0:57:59 | 0:58:01 | |
FRANCOIS SPEAKS FRENCH | 0:58:01 | 0:58:03 | |
Excuse me, Jim. Business. | 0:58:07 | 0:58:10 | |
Do you have anything for a headache? | 0:58:10 | 0:58:11 | |
I do. | 0:58:11 | 0:58:14 | |
Ba-ba-ba... | 0:58:14 | 0:58:16 | |
-This works quickly. -Ah. | 0:58:20 | 0:58:22 | |
I'm very pleased by your decision, Jim. | 0:58:22 | 0:58:25 | |
Good. When do I get the money? | 0:58:25 | 0:58:28 | |
As soon as the contract is signed. | 0:58:28 | 0:58:30 | |
And how soon do I get the contract? | 0:58:30 | 0:58:33 | |
Oh, is tomorrow noon all right? | 0:58:33 | 0:58:36 | |
Yeah. That'll be fine. | 0:58:36 | 0:58:38 | |
I'm going to need another small bouquet as a binder. | 0:58:38 | 0:58:43 | |
3,000 euros. | 0:58:43 | 0:58:45 | |
You'll have much more than that tomorrow when you sign the contract. | 0:58:47 | 0:58:49 | |
Yeah, but I need the 3,000 euros today. In cash. | 0:58:49 | 0:58:54 | |
I'm afraid it won't be possible. | 0:58:54 | 0:58:57 | |
Oh, well. | 0:58:57 | 0:58:58 | |
Then I won't be able to sign the contract, | 0:58:58 | 0:59:02 | |
and you won't be able to ever have the apartment. | 0:59:02 | 0:59:05 | |
Cheers. | 0:59:05 | 0:59:06 | |
It is a threat, Mr Gold? | 0:59:08 | 0:59:10 | |
No, Mr Wah-Wah. | 0:59:12 | 0:59:14 | |
This is a fact. | 0:59:14 | 0:59:15 | |
Vous etes Monsieur Gold? | 0:59:22 | 0:59:24 | |
Uh, wrong Monsieur Gold. | 0:59:24 | 0:59:26 | |
That one's dead. | 0:59:26 | 0:59:28 | |
Tell me about these. | 1:00:12 | 1:00:14 | |
That's Chloe, isn't it? | 1:00:14 | 1:00:15 | |
Right? | 1:00:15 | 1:00:17 | |
Yes, that's Chloe. | 1:00:17 | 1:00:18 | |
Your father took that in the garden. | 1:00:18 | 1:00:20 | |
You were beautiful children. | 1:00:20 | 1:00:23 | |
He brought you here once. | 1:00:23 | 1:00:25 | |
Whoa... | 1:00:25 | 1:00:27 | |
He never came back here after your mother died. | 1:00:30 | 1:00:34 | |
He wrote some beautiful letters to me, but he never came back. | 1:00:34 | 1:00:38 | |
Mrs G, it's really not...easy | 1:00:39 | 1:00:43 | |
for me to process this fabulous love story of yours. | 1:00:43 | 1:00:47 | |
I get that my father loved you. | 1:00:47 | 1:00:49 | |
What I don't get is that he never loved me. | 1:00:49 | 1:00:51 | |
Of course - of course he loved you. | 1:00:51 | 1:00:53 | |
He just thought you were more your mother's child than his. | 1:00:53 | 1:00:56 | |
Oh, that's sweet. | 1:00:56 | 1:00:58 | |
Yeah, what about when I was 20, and living on my own? | 1:00:58 | 1:01:02 | |
Or when I was 40, | 1:01:02 | 1:01:04 | |
near death at Lennox Hill Hospital? | 1:01:04 | 1:01:07 | |
Six blocks from his house. | 1:01:07 | 1:01:09 | |
Why were you in hospital? | 1:01:09 | 1:01:11 | |
I had an accident. I, er... | 1:01:14 | 1:01:17 | |
I was taking a bath, and I, er... | 1:01:17 | 1:01:20 | |
Well, my razor blade slipped, | 1:01:20 | 1:01:23 | |
and cut both my wrists rather badly. | 1:01:23 | 1:01:25 | |
You tried to kill yourself? | 1:01:28 | 1:01:29 | |
I'm not very adept. | 1:01:32 | 1:01:34 | |
You saw that right away. Remember the first day? | 1:01:36 | 1:01:38 | |
You said, "Don't jump in the Seine. You'll just get a head cold." | 1:01:38 | 1:01:42 | |
Mathias, you must get help. | 1:01:44 | 1:01:48 | |
Help! | 1:01:50 | 1:01:52 | |
HE CHUCKLES | 1:01:52 | 1:01:54 | |
W-What sort of help were you thinking about? Psychoanalysis? | 1:01:54 | 1:01:58 | |
I tried that. | 1:01:58 | 1:02:00 | |
My doctor told me that I should put the child that I was | 1:02:00 | 1:02:03 | |
on the knee of the man I had become, | 1:02:03 | 1:02:06 | |
and comfort the child. | 1:02:06 | 1:02:09 | |
But I keep having these dreams | 1:02:10 | 1:02:13 | |
where the child that I was is on my knee, | 1:02:13 | 1:02:18 | |
and my hands are around his throat. | 1:02:18 | 1:02:22 | |
Speaking of children, er, where is your daughter? | 1:02:24 | 1:02:27 | |
Isn't she usually home by now? | 1:02:27 | 1:02:29 | |
TOILET FLUSHES | 1:02:32 | 1:02:34 | |
SHE MUTTERS TO HERSELF | 1:03:04 | 1:03:06 | |
DOOR OPENS | 1:03:08 | 1:03:10 | |
Je peux vous aider? | 1:03:13 | 1:03:14 | |
Er, oui. Je suis desolee de vous deranger. | 1:03:15 | 1:03:17 | |
Je suis la prof d'anglais de Philippe. | 1:03:17 | 1:03:20 | |
Je sais exactement qui vous etes. | 1:03:20 | 1:03:22 | |
Vous pouvez lui dire que j'ai arrete de donner les cours? | 1:03:24 | 1:03:28 | |
Philippe! | 1:03:28 | 1:03:29 | |
Chloe? | 1:03:34 | 1:03:35 | |
I've stopped teaching, Philippe, | 1:03:37 | 1:03:38 | |
so you'll have to find yourself another teacher. | 1:03:38 | 1:03:41 | |
Um, but I hope you don't, because your English is perfect. | 1:03:41 | 1:03:44 | |
And if you stop taking classes, | 1:03:44 | 1:03:46 | |
you'll be able to spend more time with your wife | 1:03:46 | 1:03:50 | |
and your children. | 1:03:50 | 1:03:51 | |
There we are. | 1:03:53 | 1:03:55 | |
Voila. | 1:03:55 | 1:03:57 | |
Non. Chloe. Attend. Attend. Attend! | 1:03:57 | 1:04:01 | |
Um... | 1:04:02 | 1:04:03 | |
HE SIGHS | 1:04:04 | 1:04:06 | |
I don't know what...what to say. | 1:04:07 | 1:04:09 | |
Say, "Goodbye." | 1:04:09 | 1:04:11 | |
Say, "This is a mistake." | 1:04:11 | 1:04:12 | |
Say, "I've got two beautiful daughters waiting for me at home. | 1:04:14 | 1:04:18 | |
"This is crazy." | 1:04:18 | 1:04:20 | |
Chloe... | 1:04:20 | 1:04:21 | |
Do you really want to put your beautiful family at risk? | 1:04:22 | 1:04:26 | |
No. | 1:04:34 | 1:04:36 | |
SHE SIGHS | 1:04:51 | 1:04:53 | |
SHE KNOCKS | 1:05:11 | 1:05:12 | |
FOOTSTEPS APPROACH | 1:05:40 | 1:05:43 | |
Oh! Heavy date tonight? | 1:05:45 | 1:05:48 | |
-Excuse me? -I don't think I will. | 1:05:48 | 1:05:50 | |
Oh, I've got your rent. Here you go. | 1:05:50 | 1:05:52 | |
Er, one, two, three, four, five. | 1:05:55 | 1:06:01 | |
600 for me...and, er, 2,400 for you. | 1:06:01 | 1:06:07 | |
Paid in full. | 1:06:07 | 1:06:09 | |
-Thank you. -Mm. | 1:06:09 | 1:06:10 | |
You better keep your mother alive for a long time, | 1:06:10 | 1:06:12 | |
because as soon as she's dead, there goes the neighbourhood. | 1:06:12 | 1:06:16 | |
How can soul "clap its hands"? | 1:06:34 | 1:06:37 | |
What? | 1:06:38 | 1:06:40 | |
"An aged man is but a paltry thing | 1:06:40 | 1:06:42 | |
"A tattered coat upon a stick | 1:06:42 | 1:06:44 | |
"Unless soul clap its hands and sing." | 1:06:44 | 1:06:49 | |
How can a soul clap its hands? | 1:06:49 | 1:06:52 | |
My book. | 1:06:52 | 1:06:53 | |
Well, all right. Fine. So, er, in the face of that... | 1:06:53 | 1:06:56 | |
..as it is your book, I'll ask you again. | 1:06:58 | 1:07:01 | |
How can soul clap its hands? | 1:07:01 | 1:07:03 | |
Don't know. Don't care. | 1:07:03 | 1:07:05 | |
I don't care. Nique ta mere. | 1:07:05 | 1:07:09 | |
Nique ta mere. I don't care. | 1:07:09 | 1:07:12 | |
A Yeatsian couplet in Goldian Franglais. | 1:07:12 | 1:07:16 | |
It's a pity my father didn't know you. | 1:07:16 | 1:07:18 | |
In what sense? | 1:07:18 | 1:07:20 | |
He would have had your head on the wall, | 1:07:20 | 1:07:22 | |
next to the other beasts. | 1:07:22 | 1:07:23 | |
Oh! In the carnage sense? Yes. | 1:07:23 | 1:07:25 | |
Isn't it lovely when things make sense? | 1:07:25 | 1:07:27 | |
Think your dad knew about my dad? | 1:07:33 | 1:07:35 | |
How could he not? | 1:07:39 | 1:07:41 | |
And you? | 1:07:42 | 1:07:44 | |
You-you...knew it was going on? | 1:07:44 | 1:07:47 | |
I was ten years old | 1:07:53 | 1:07:55 | |
when I discovered what was, um..."going on". | 1:07:55 | 1:07:58 | |
That's very precocious. | 1:08:00 | 1:08:02 | |
I was...57 when I found out. | 1:08:03 | 1:08:06 | |
Whoa. | 1:08:07 | 1:08:09 | |
So what did you do? | 1:08:11 | 1:08:12 | |
What did I do about what? | 1:08:13 | 1:08:15 | |
If I'd have known what was going on, | 1:08:15 | 1:08:16 | |
I would have done something about it. | 1:08:16 | 1:08:18 | |
And what should I have done that I didn't do? | 1:08:18 | 1:08:20 | |
Stopped it! | 1:08:20 | 1:08:21 | |
I was ten! | 1:08:21 | 1:08:23 | |
You could have told your dad what you knew. | 1:08:23 | 1:08:26 | |
I hardly think that was my place. | 1:08:27 | 1:08:29 | |
And what would have been your place, ma chere demoiselle? | 1:08:31 | 1:08:35 | |
I suppose my place was to watch my father suffer. | 1:08:38 | 1:08:41 | |
Oh, your father suffered? | 1:08:41 | 1:08:43 | |
Oh, please. What do you think? | 1:08:43 | 1:08:46 | |
Is that why he shot and stuffed all those animals? | 1:08:46 | 1:08:49 | |
So he wouldn't have to shoot and stuff your mother? | 1:08:49 | 1:08:53 | |
-Or your father? -Or my father. | 1:08:53 | 1:08:56 | |
Did...? | 1:08:56 | 1:08:57 | |
Did you ever, um...? | 1:08:58 | 1:09:00 | |
Did your father ever ask you about it, directly? | 1:09:02 | 1:09:06 | |
He didn't need to ask. He knew. | 1:09:06 | 1:09:08 | |
But he did ask, didn't he? | 1:09:08 | 1:09:10 | |
Yes. | 1:09:12 | 1:09:13 | |
-And you lied. -And I lied. | 1:09:13 | 1:09:15 | |
How often did they see each other? | 1:09:15 | 1:09:17 | |
Often. | 1:09:19 | 1:09:20 | |
And your mother used you for an excuse to get out of the house? | 1:09:20 | 1:09:24 | |
Why didn't your father try to stop it? | 1:09:27 | 1:09:29 | |
My father was totally discreet. | 1:09:32 | 1:09:34 | |
So, he suffered discreetly? | 1:09:34 | 1:09:37 | |
That's the way French people do it. | 1:09:39 | 1:09:41 | |
Yeah. | 1:09:41 | 1:09:43 | |
Vive la French people! | 1:09:43 | 1:09:45 | |
Vive la French people! | 1:09:47 | 1:09:49 | |
Now, that is truly sad. | 1:09:56 | 1:09:58 | |
I mean, all this we talk about is, you know... | 1:09:58 | 1:10:01 | |
It's got a kind of historical, hysterical sadness to it. | 1:10:01 | 1:10:05 | |
But this bottle is now. This is... | 1:10:05 | 1:10:07 | |
This is now. | 1:10:07 | 1:10:09 | |
This is an incontrovertible fact, | 1:10:09 | 1:10:13 | |
my dear, darling Mademoiselle Girard. | 1:10:13 | 1:10:18 | |
Bottle's a dead soldier. | 1:10:19 | 1:10:21 | |
-BOTTLE SMASHES -Ooh! | 1:10:25 | 1:10:27 | |
HE LAUGHS | 1:10:27 | 1:10:29 | |
MAN SHOUTS ANGRILY | 1:10:29 | 1:10:31 | |
Ah. | 1:10:33 | 1:10:34 | |
I remember when I was ten. | 1:10:36 | 1:10:38 | |
I saw my mother out on our balcony, through our doors. | 1:10:39 | 1:10:43 | |
She was leaning over the balcony. | 1:10:43 | 1:10:46 | |
She was looking down on Park Avenue. She was crying. | 1:10:46 | 1:10:50 | |
There's no question about what she was thinking about doing. | 1:10:50 | 1:10:53 | |
She was leaning way, way over. | 1:10:53 | 1:10:56 | |
And I knew I had about five seconds to do something, | 1:10:56 | 1:10:59 | |
so I ran as fast as I could. | 1:10:59 | 1:11:02 | |
Right? | 1:11:02 | 1:11:03 | |
And I-I put my arm right through the glass on the door, and I... | 1:11:03 | 1:11:08 | |
..I-I cut it wide open. See? | 1:11:11 | 1:11:13 | |
My mother snapped immediately into serious mother mode. | 1:11:15 | 1:11:19 | |
She wrapped my arm up in a towel | 1:11:19 | 1:11:21 | |
and...took me off to the hospital. | 1:11:21 | 1:11:24 | |
I bled...for her. | 1:11:26 | 1:11:29 | |
She bled for me. | 1:11:32 | 1:11:33 | |
Nine years later, I came home one Saturday from college. | 1:11:39 | 1:11:42 | |
I-I...used the key to let myself in. | 1:11:42 | 1:11:46 | |
I threw my duffel bag on the bed. I called, "Hey, Ma! I'm home." | 1:11:46 | 1:11:49 | |
She called back, "I'm in my room," in this strange, throaty voice. | 1:11:49 | 1:11:56 | |
I go in, and she has this gun. | 1:11:56 | 1:11:58 | |
Not a hearty hunting rifle like your dad's. | 1:12:02 | 1:12:05 | |
No, hers was a... | 1:12:05 | 1:12:07 | |
..snub-nosed, chrome, kind of, pistoly thing that my father... | 1:12:09 | 1:12:13 | |
..gave her to keep by her bed... | 1:12:15 | 1:12:17 | |
..just in case an intruder were to wander in while he was away. | 1:12:20 | 1:12:25 | |
My father. | 1:12:27 | 1:12:29 | |
She puts it in her mouth and she kills herself. | 1:12:31 | 1:12:34 | |
No words. No complications. Just... | 1:12:35 | 1:12:37 | |
..boom! | 1:12:39 | 1:12:40 | |
Terrible mess, all over. | 1:12:44 | 1:12:46 | |
HE SIGHS | 1:12:48 | 1:12:49 | |
I sat on the floor. | 1:12:51 | 1:12:52 | |
I held her. | 1:12:54 | 1:12:56 | |
She died. | 1:13:00 | 1:13:01 | |
My mother said she died from an illness. | 1:13:11 | 1:13:14 | |
A bullet in the throat can make a person extremely ill. | 1:13:16 | 1:13:19 | |
I'm so sorry. | 1:13:23 | 1:13:25 | |
She was wrong to do that to you. | 1:13:40 | 1:13:42 | |
You're right. | 1:13:47 | 1:13:49 | |
It wasn't very nice. | 1:13:49 | 1:13:50 | |
JUDDERING BREATH | 1:13:56 | 1:13:58 | |
HE SOBS | 1:13:58 | 1:14:00 | |
I'm so upset. | 1:14:02 | 1:14:04 | |
No. | 1:14:15 | 1:14:17 | |
SHE SIGHS | 1:14:21 | 1:14:22 | |
-Hmm. -HE GROANS | 1:15:00 | 1:15:03 | |
Hmm-mm. | 1:15:05 | 1:15:07 | |
Oh. | 1:15:14 | 1:15:16 | |
Oof. | 1:15:20 | 1:15:21 | |
KNOCK ON DOOR | 1:15:28 | 1:15:29 | |
Chloe? | 1:15:36 | 1:15:37 | |
KNOCKING CONTINUES | 1:15:39 | 1:15:40 | |
DOOR BUZZER | 1:15:42 | 1:15:44 | |
I got it! | 1:15:44 | 1:15:45 | |
LOCK BUZZES | 1:15:48 | 1:15:49 | |
Oh! | 1:15:52 | 1:15:53 | |
-Monsieur Gold? -Yeah. | 1:15:54 | 1:15:56 | |
I'm Francois Roy's assistant. | 1:15:56 | 1:15:58 | |
Je dois repartir avec le contrat...? | 1:15:58 | 1:16:00 | |
Yeah, yeah, give me that. | 1:16:00 | 1:16:01 | |
Am I disturbing you? | 1:16:03 | 1:16:05 | |
-Are you disturbing me? -HE LAUGHS | 1:16:05 | 1:16:07 | |
That's a bit of politesse that boggles the brain. | 1:16:07 | 1:16:10 | |
Do you mind if I close these curtains? Headache. | 1:16:10 | 1:16:13 | |
Oh, if you wish. | 1:16:13 | 1:16:14 | |
Has Chloe left for school? | 1:16:15 | 1:16:18 | |
Oh, I... That's my guess. I don't know for sure. | 1:16:18 | 1:16:20 | |
I can't, you know... | 1:16:20 | 1:16:23 | |
Who can say? You know how it is with kids today. | 1:16:23 | 1:16:26 | |
You and my daughter were awake together last night. | 1:16:26 | 1:16:29 | |
Very precise. | 1:16:31 | 1:16:33 | |
Usually a mother wants to know, "Did you sleep with my daughter?" | 1:16:33 | 1:16:36 | |
Which actually describes a perfectly innocent act. | 1:16:36 | 1:16:39 | |
But "Were you awake with my daughter?" | 1:16:39 | 1:16:41 | |
That's a 64-euro mother of a question. | 1:16:41 | 1:16:45 | |
I was awake most of the night, thinking about your mother. | 1:16:45 | 1:16:48 | |
Really? And? | 1:16:50 | 1:16:52 | |
I was thinking that she didn't know about me is naive. | 1:16:52 | 1:16:56 | |
She must have known. | 1:16:56 | 1:16:57 | |
I mean, nothing passes unnoticed in a marriage, I think. | 1:16:57 | 1:17:00 | |
No, I think she knew... | 1:17:00 | 1:17:02 | |
..and I think, somehow, she approved. | 1:17:03 | 1:17:06 | |
Approved? | 1:17:06 | 1:17:08 | |
You really believe that? | 1:17:09 | 1:17:11 | |
Well, she did nothing to stop it. | 1:17:11 | 1:17:13 | |
She was stuck in a marriage with a kid. She was trapped. | 1:17:13 | 1:17:17 | |
I stayed in my marriage...by choice. | 1:17:17 | 1:17:21 | |
I was pregnant at the same time as your mother. | 1:17:23 | 1:17:25 | |
Er, hold on. | 1:17:26 | 1:17:28 | |
Is it possible that Max got two birds with one stone, | 1:17:28 | 1:17:33 | |
if you know what I mean? | 1:17:33 | 1:17:34 | |
No, I don't know what you mean. | 1:17:34 | 1:17:36 | |
Did Chloe have her own father? | 1:17:36 | 1:17:40 | |
Of course. | 1:17:40 | 1:17:41 | |
Of course Chloe had her own father. | 1:17:41 | 1:17:43 | |
You had your father. Chloe had her father. | 1:17:43 | 1:17:46 | |
I think you're an old French fibber, Mrs G. | 1:17:46 | 1:17:49 | |
What went on between your father and me concerned nobody but us. | 1:17:49 | 1:17:52 | |
We were discreet. We were cautious. | 1:17:52 | 1:17:55 | |
-We were considerate. -You...? | 1:17:55 | 1:17:57 | |
I-I-I don't wish to cloud your delusions in any way, Mrs G, | 1:17:57 | 1:18:02 | |
but what went on between you and my father | 1:18:02 | 1:18:04 | |
concerned me and your daughter quite significantly. | 1:18:04 | 1:18:08 | |
You were hardly discreet, not at all cautious. | 1:18:08 | 1:18:10 | |
And...considerate? Hmm. Well, er... | 1:18:10 | 1:18:15 | |
In view of the 10 to 15 suicide failures of my mother, | 1:18:15 | 1:18:20 | |
and the ultimate suicide success, | 1:18:20 | 1:18:22 | |
I just don't see how the word "considerate" fits in... | 1:18:22 | 1:18:25 | |
Your mother killed herself? | 1:18:25 | 1:18:26 | |
Y... | 1:18:26 | 1:18:27 | |
-You didn't know? He didn't tell you? -No. | 1:18:29 | 1:18:32 | |
No, I did not know. | 1:18:33 | 1:18:35 | |
I knew she was ill. | 1:18:37 | 1:18:38 | |
I... That's why he never came back. | 1:18:38 | 1:18:43 | |
That's so considerate(!) | 1:18:43 | 1:18:45 | |
Madame G? | 1:18:47 | 1:18:49 | |
PIANO PLAYS | 1:18:49 | 1:18:51 | |
-Doctor gone? -Gone. | 1:19:05 | 1:19:07 | |
HE CONTINUES PLAYING | 1:19:07 | 1:19:09 | |
Is she dead or alive? | 1:19:11 | 1:19:12 | |
She must be alive. I didn't hear any hideous screams. | 1:19:12 | 1:19:15 | |
What are you staring at? | 1:19:16 | 1:19:18 | |
Do I have spinach between my teeth? | 1:19:18 | 1:19:20 | |
Can't have spinach between my teeth. | 1:19:20 | 1:19:23 | |
Oh. | 1:19:24 | 1:19:25 | |
Chateauneuf-du-Pape between my teeth. | 1:19:28 | 1:19:30 | |
-Do you want my mother to outlive you? -What...? | 1:19:30 | 1:19:33 | |
Oh, a reference to my drinking. Mm-hm. | 1:19:33 | 1:19:36 | |
Yes, I've been drinking with my little friend here. | 1:19:38 | 1:19:42 | |
He's not...not very good company. | 1:19:42 | 1:19:45 | |
He drinks not at all and he says even less. | 1:19:45 | 1:19:48 | |
A boar...is a bore. | 1:19:50 | 1:19:53 | |
Er, speaking of wordplay, I've been doing a little ink sport myself. | 1:19:54 | 1:20:00 | |
Um, it's, er... | 1:20:00 | 1:20:02 | |
It's for you. It's a gift. It's a small...memoir. | 1:20:02 | 1:20:07 | |
Um, mostly my anec-dotage. | 1:20:07 | 1:20:11 | |
But I think you'll be amused and engaged from cover to cover. | 1:20:11 | 1:20:15 | |
-Should I...? -No. | 1:20:15 | 1:20:16 | |
Please don't, er... Don't read it while I'm in the room. | 1:20:16 | 1:20:19 | |
It'll be embarrassing, for both of us. | 1:20:19 | 1:20:22 | |
HE RESUMES PLAYING | 1:20:24 | 1:20:25 | |
Do you mind if I ask you something personal? | 1:20:25 | 1:20:28 | |
Of course. | 1:20:28 | 1:20:30 | |
Er... | 1:20:30 | 1:20:32 | |
What's, um... | 1:20:34 | 1:20:35 | |
What's happening with your...your friend? | 1:20:36 | 1:20:38 | |
My friend? Mm. Um... | 1:20:40 | 1:20:42 | |
He has a wife and two children | 1:20:44 | 1:20:46 | |
and a granddaughter from his first marriage. | 1:20:46 | 1:20:49 | |
I thought that just having him in my life was... | 1:20:53 | 1:20:56 | |
..was worth it, but I was wrong. | 1:20:57 | 1:20:59 | |
SHE SIGHS | 1:21:01 | 1:21:03 | |
I was wrong. | 1:21:03 | 1:21:04 | |
He's gone now. I asked him to go. | 1:21:06 | 1:21:08 | |
What you said to me... | 1:21:10 | 1:21:12 | |
..hurt me, um... | 1:21:13 | 1:21:15 | |
..cos it was true. | 1:21:17 | 1:21:19 | |
I was doing to those children... | 1:21:20 | 1:21:23 | |
..exactly what our parents did to us. | 1:21:24 | 1:21:27 | |
It's a pity we didn't meet before we were born. | 1:21:31 | 1:21:34 | |
What your mother did to you... | 1:21:41 | 1:21:43 | |
..was unthinkably cruel. | 1:21:45 | 1:21:48 | |
Unforgivable. | 1:21:48 | 1:21:49 | |
No. No, you really... No. We can't. | 1:21:54 | 1:21:57 | |
If you kiss me, I'll just drag you down. | 1:21:57 | 1:22:00 | |
I do that to people. | 1:22:00 | 1:22:01 | |
Once they kiss me, their lives change for the worse. | 1:22:03 | 1:22:06 | |
You're so beautiful. | 1:22:10 | 1:22:12 | |
Mm...I'm not beautiful. | 1:22:12 | 1:22:14 | |
I'm nearly old. | 1:22:14 | 1:22:15 | |
No. You're beautiful. | 1:22:18 | 1:22:19 | |
-You've been warned. -I know. | 1:22:24 | 1:22:27 | |
'My name is Mathias Gold. | 1:22:43 | 1:22:45 | |
'When I used to have friends, they called me Jim, | 1:22:45 | 1:22:48 | |
'and I would answer. | 1:22:48 | 1:22:50 | |
'I grew up on Park Avenue in New York City. | 1:22:50 | 1:22:54 | |
'My parents were wealthy. | 1:22:54 | 1:22:56 | |
'I was born with a silver knife in my back. | 1:22:56 | 1:22:59 | |
'Any time anyone follows their heart, | 1:23:02 | 1:23:04 | |
'someone else gets their heart broken. | 1:23:04 | 1:23:07 | |
'There's always detritus, | 1:23:07 | 1:23:10 | |
'always hurt, always pain. | 1:23:10 | 1:23:12 | |
'Love is a limited substance. | 1:23:13 | 1:23:16 | |
'When you give love to someone new, | 1:23:16 | 1:23:18 | |
'you have to take it away from someone old. | 1:23:18 | 1:23:21 | |
'My father took every ounce of love he had | 1:23:22 | 1:23:25 | |
'and dumped it in Paris. | 1:23:25 | 1:23:27 | |
'People like us think we've been cursed by God, | 1:23:28 | 1:23:31 | |
'but, in fact, we've been cursed by our parents. | 1:23:31 | 1:23:34 | |
'You look in the mirror, and you see an adult. | 1:23:35 | 1:23:38 | |
'But you have to look more carefully. | 1:23:38 | 1:23:41 | |
'There's a big piece of you that never grew up. | 1:23:41 | 1:23:43 | |
'It may have grown tall, but not up. | 1:23:43 | 1:23:46 | |
'You spend your life waiting for your parents | 1:23:46 | 1:23:48 | |
'to come back and make it all right. | 1:23:48 | 1:23:50 | |
'But they don't come back. | 1:23:50 | 1:23:52 | |
'It's not all right. | 1:23:52 | 1:23:54 | |
'You have to somehow move past them. | 1:23:55 | 1:23:57 | |
'You have to somehow convince yourself | 1:23:57 | 1:23:59 | |
'that you don't need those people. | 1:23:59 | 1:24:01 | |
'Because you don't.' | 1:24:01 | 1:24:03 | |
DOOR OPENS | 1:24:09 | 1:24:10 | |
Couldn't you sleep? | 1:24:13 | 1:24:14 | |
-No. -No, nor could I. | 1:24:15 | 1:24:18 | |
I called to you in the night. | 1:24:18 | 1:24:20 | |
-Why? -I wanted to talk to you. | 1:24:20 | 1:24:22 | |
-Why? -Oh, I've lived too long, Chloe. | 1:24:24 | 1:24:27 | |
I've only the dead to talk to. Everyone I've ever loved is gone. | 1:24:27 | 1:24:31 | |
How can you s-say that? | 1:24:31 | 1:24:32 | |
Oh, you know I didn't mean you. | 1:24:32 | 1:24:34 | |
I know that I... | 1:24:37 | 1:24:39 | |
..spent my entire childhood in this house without love. | 1:24:40 | 1:24:44 | |
You had a loving mother and a loving father. | 1:24:44 | 1:24:46 | |
How can you say that? | 1:24:46 | 1:24:48 | |
I know that watching Mathias sleeping, | 1:24:48 | 1:24:51 | |
I could see his father's face, and... | 1:24:51 | 1:24:53 | |
..some part of me wanted him dead. | 1:24:55 | 1:24:56 | |
-You can't mean that. -Why not?! | 1:24:56 | 1:24:58 | |
-Why can't I mean that? Why can't I mean that? -Because... | 1:24:58 | 1:25:01 | |
Because he's a person who is so sad. | 1:25:01 | 1:25:03 | |
Oh. So sad. | 1:25:03 | 1:25:05 | |
And defeated. | 1:25:05 | 1:25:07 | |
Like me. | 1:25:08 | 1:25:09 | |
-I would never say that. -You'd never say that cos you never see it! | 1:25:11 | 1:25:14 | |
Oh, how could a child of yours be unhappy? | 1:25:14 | 1:25:17 | |
Oh, that would be unthinkable! | 1:25:17 | 1:25:18 | |
-You're not a child any more, Chloe. -I'm YOUR child! | 1:25:18 | 1:25:21 | |
-Years and years ago! -What does that mean? | 1:25:21 | 1:25:23 | |
It means that when you were 15, you stopped being my child | 1:25:23 | 1:25:26 | |
and started being my daughter. | 1:25:26 | 1:25:27 | |
I have spent my whole life at your side. | 1:25:30 | 1:25:33 | |
I have never left you. | 1:25:33 | 1:25:34 | |
I never asked for that! | 1:25:34 | 1:25:37 | |
Look, it seems I've caused nothing but unhappiness | 1:25:38 | 1:25:41 | |
in your life, and in Mathias's life. | 1:25:41 | 1:25:44 | |
So what should I have done? | 1:25:44 | 1:25:45 | |
We know what I should not have done. | 1:25:47 | 1:25:49 | |
I-I should not have followed my heart. | 1:25:49 | 1:25:51 | |
I should not have stayed with your father | 1:25:51 | 1:25:53 | |
and made a home for my daughter. | 1:25:53 | 1:25:54 | |
All these things were wrong. | 1:25:54 | 1:25:56 | |
I'm 92. I've made nothing but mistakes. | 1:25:57 | 1:25:59 | |
So you tell me. You tell me, Chloe. What...? | 1:25:59 | 1:26:02 | |
You know so much. You tell me what I should have done. | 1:26:02 | 1:26:05 | |
Is Mathias's father my father? | 1:26:08 | 1:26:10 | |
There's so much about him that's like me. Just... | 1:26:13 | 1:26:16 | |
Just tell me the truth. | 1:26:16 | 1:26:17 | |
Is Mathias my...brother? | 1:26:17 | 1:26:20 | |
I don't know. | 1:26:24 | 1:26:25 | |
I have never known. | 1:26:26 | 1:26:30 | |
What possible difference could it have made, knowing or not knowing? | 1:26:30 | 1:26:34 | |
Your father brought you up. He loved you. | 1:26:34 | 1:26:36 | |
You were his daughter. | 1:26:36 | 1:26:37 | |
Oh, Chloe. | 1:26:44 | 1:26:45 | |
Chloe. | 1:26:47 | 1:26:49 | |
SHE GRUNTS WITH EFFORT | 1:27:13 | 1:27:15 | |
PANTING: Oh... | 1:27:42 | 1:27:43 | |
Chloe? | 1:27:45 | 1:27:47 | |
Oh, Chloe. Je t'en prie. | 1:27:47 | 1:27:48 | |
-Maman, s'il te plait, va-t'en! -Oh, Chloe. | 1:27:48 | 1:27:51 | |
You're the reason he hated me! | 1:27:53 | 1:27:56 | |
-Mathias? -No! | 1:27:56 | 1:27:58 | |
My father, your husband! | 1:27:58 | 1:28:01 | |
He didn't hate you. | 1:28:01 | 1:28:04 | |
You were his daughter. He loved you. | 1:28:04 | 1:28:06 | |
There was no love! No love! | 1:28:06 | 1:28:08 | |
SHE SNIFFS | 1:28:09 | 1:28:11 | |
Perhaps that's why Mathias and I detested each other. | 1:28:11 | 1:28:14 | |
Because somewhere deep inside, we both knew the truth. | 1:28:14 | 1:28:18 | |
Why didn't you tell him the truth? | 1:28:22 | 1:28:25 | |
There is no other truth. | 1:28:25 | 1:28:27 | |
Do you know where I slept last night, Mother? | 1:28:29 | 1:28:32 | |
Well, I don't think the world will come to an end because of that. | 1:28:34 | 1:28:38 | |
I see nothing catastrophic in the two of you comforting each other. | 1:28:38 | 1:28:42 | |
No virtue in two of you being lonely. | 1:28:42 | 1:28:46 | |
That's sweet. | 1:28:47 | 1:28:49 | |
Insane, but sweet. | 1:28:49 | 1:28:51 | |
Well, you're certainly not going to have children at your age. | 1:28:51 | 1:28:54 | |
Oh! | 1:28:54 | 1:28:55 | |
No. You're certainly right, Mother. | 1:28:55 | 1:28:57 | |
I certainly can't have children at my age. | 1:28:57 | 1:29:01 | |
It certainly stops with us. | 1:29:01 | 1:29:03 | |
People like Mathias and me, | 1:29:10 | 1:29:12 | |
we keep telling ourselves that none of this matters, | 1:29:12 | 1:29:14 | |
that...a childhood is just, um... | 1:29:14 | 1:29:17 | |
..a human invention. It's not... | 1:29:19 | 1:29:20 | |
..God's invention. There's nothing natural about it, | 1:29:22 | 1:29:25 | |
and we should just let it all go. | 1:29:25 | 1:29:27 | |
But...we can't... | 1:29:27 | 1:29:30 | |
..because... | 1:29:32 | 1:29:33 | |
..our pain tells us that we're cursed | 1:29:35 | 1:29:39 | |
and so we go through life thinking... | 1:29:39 | 1:29:41 | |
-GUNSHOT -Agh! -Oh, my God! | 1:29:41 | 1:29:44 | |
Oh! | 1:29:44 | 1:29:46 | |
Oh... | 1:29:46 | 1:29:47 | |
Agh! | 1:29:49 | 1:29:51 | |
Oh...! | 1:29:51 | 1:29:52 | |
I shot the pig. | 1:29:52 | 1:29:53 | |
-You shot the pig? -I shot the pig! | 1:29:53 | 1:29:56 | |
You shot the pig. He shot the pig! | 1:29:56 | 1:29:59 | |
He shot the pig? What pig? | 1:29:59 | 1:30:02 | |
One of us had to go. It was him or me. | 1:30:02 | 1:30:05 | |
Listen. Last night... | 1:30:05 | 1:30:07 | |
..after we, er, "stayed awake" together | 1:30:08 | 1:30:10 | |
and our souls clapped their hands and sang, | 1:30:10 | 1:30:12 | |
we made a clean breast of it, I was thinking about you saying, | 1:30:12 | 1:30:15 | |
"I'm not beautiful. I'm nearly old." | 1:30:15 | 1:30:18 | |
And I wished I'd a better answer. | 1:30:18 | 1:30:20 | |
And I think I've thought of one, so would you mind saying it again? | 1:30:20 | 1:30:23 | |
-What are you asking me? -What you said yesterday, | 1:30:23 | 1:30:26 | |
when you said, "I'm not beautiful. I'm nearly old." | 1:30:26 | 1:30:28 | |
Just...could you say it again? Please? | 1:30:28 | 1:30:31 | |
I-I'm not beautiful. I'm nearly old? | 1:30:31 | 1:30:33 | |
A perfect flower is nearly old. | 1:30:35 | 1:30:37 | |
It's good, isn't it? | 1:30:40 | 1:30:42 | |
No. | 1:30:42 | 1:30:43 | |
You hate it. No. | 1:30:43 | 1:30:46 | |
It's over the top, but I like it. | 1:30:46 | 1:30:48 | |
I like it too. | 1:30:48 | 1:30:49 | |
-Oh. -Oh. | 1:30:52 | 1:30:54 | |
Talk to me, Mrs G. | 1:30:54 | 1:30:56 | |
Well...I-I don't know what to say. | 1:30:56 | 1:30:59 | |
Well, try saying... | 1:30:59 | 1:31:01 | |
"I'm sorry I lied." | 1:31:01 | 1:31:03 | |
Well, I am sorry I lied. | 1:31:03 | 1:31:05 | |
And I forgive you for selling my chairs. | 1:31:07 | 1:31:09 | |
Please, Mathias. | 1:31:11 | 1:31:13 | |
Don't leave. | 1:31:13 | 1:31:15 | |
Please stay. | 1:31:15 | 1:31:17 | |
Oh... | 1:31:17 | 1:31:19 | |
I don't know. | 1:31:19 | 1:31:21 | |
Negative. Not family. | 1:31:50 | 1:31:53 | |
-Not family? -Pas du tous. Not at all. | 1:31:53 | 1:31:56 | |
Merci beaucoup. | 1:32:04 | 1:32:06 | |
Hey! Monsieur Gold. | 1:32:15 | 1:32:18 | |
Lefebvre! | 1:32:18 | 1:32:19 | |
LEFEBVRE CHUCKLES | 1:32:19 | 1:32:21 | |
Would you like a glass of wine? | 1:32:21 | 1:32:23 | |
What, you live on this thing? | 1:32:23 | 1:32:25 | |
Yes, yes. I do. | 1:32:25 | 1:32:27 | |
It's like an old barge. | 1:32:27 | 1:32:29 | |
Exactly. | 1:32:29 | 1:32:30 | |
Oh! The blood of Paris! I get it. | 1:32:30 | 1:32:33 | |
Right. Come, come! I'll show you. | 1:32:33 | 1:32:36 | |
Whoa. Watch out. | 1:32:36 | 1:32:38 | |
Got it. | 1:32:38 | 1:32:40 | |
-Voila, monsieur. Bienvenue a bord! -Merci. | 1:32:40 | 1:32:42 | |
-That's my place. -Wow. | 1:32:42 | 1:32:44 | |
My yard. My garden. | 1:32:44 | 1:32:46 | |
Come. I show you inside. | 1:32:46 | 1:32:48 | |
Pretty cool. Really nice. | 1:32:52 | 1:32:55 | |
Yeah. I, er... | 1:32:55 | 1:32:57 | |
Je l'aime beaucoup, beaucoup. I love it. Yeah. | 1:32:57 | 1:33:00 | |
I bought it as a viager many, many years ago. | 1:33:00 | 1:33:03 | |
Oh. And the person died? | 1:33:03 | 1:33:06 | |
Six days after we signed the contract. | 1:33:06 | 1:33:09 | |
HE CHUCKLES | 1:33:09 | 1:33:10 | |
Oh. You're kidding? | 1:33:10 | 1:33:12 | |
I was lucky. | 1:33:12 | 1:33:13 | |
It's a crazy system you've got here. | 1:33:14 | 1:33:16 | |
Betting like that on people dying. | 1:33:16 | 1:33:19 | |
It's a game of destiny. | 1:33:21 | 1:33:23 | |
If the person dies quickly, it's your destiny to replace them. | 1:33:23 | 1:33:26 | |
And if they don't die quickly? | 1:33:26 | 1:33:28 | |
Then it's your destiny to pay to help them live. | 1:33:28 | 1:33:32 | |
HE LAUGHS | 1:33:32 | 1:33:34 | |
Hmm. | 1:33:36 | 1:33:38 | |
# Mi trema un poco il cor | 1:33:40 | 1:33:45 | |
# Felice, e ver, sarei | 1:33:45 | 1:33:49 | |
# Ma puo burlarmi ancor | 1:33:49 | 1:33:54 | |
# Ma puo burlarmi ancor... | 1:33:54 | 1:33:59 | |
# La ci darem la mano | 1:33:59 | 1:34:03 | |
# La mi dirai di si | 1:34:03 | 1:34:08 | |
# Vedi, non e lontano | 1:34:08 | 1:34:12 | |
# Partiam, ben mio, da qui | 1:34:12 | 1:34:17 | |
# Andiam! | 1:34:17 | 1:34:19 | |
# Andiam! | 1:34:19 | 1:34:22 | |
# Andiam! | 1:34:22 | 1:34:26 | |
# Andiam, andiam, mio bene | 1:34:26 | 1:34:30 | |
# A ristorar le pene | 1:34:30 | 1:34:34 | |
# D'un innocente amor | 1:34:34 | 1:34:40 | |
# Andiam, andiam, mio bene | 1:34:40 | 1:34:44 | |
# A ristorar le pene | 1:34:44 | 1:34:47 | |
# D'un innocente amor. # | 1:34:47 | 1:34:52 | |
HE CONTINUES SINGING WORDLESSLY | 1:34:52 | 1:34:55 | |
Oh. | 1:35:21 | 1:35:22 | |
Is...is Chloe here? | 1:35:22 | 1:35:24 | |
Oh, no. Sh-she'll...she'll be here soon. | 1:35:24 | 1:35:28 | |
I'm going to stay. | 1:35:28 | 1:35:30 | |
But don't tell Chloe. I want to tell her myself. | 1:35:30 | 1:35:33 | |
Oh, I'm...I'm so pleased. | 1:35:33 | 1:35:36 | |
You need never worry about money. | 1:35:36 | 1:35:39 | |
You'll soon be able to sell this apartment as a viager. | 1:35:39 | 1:35:45 | |
You won't get full value because, you know, | 1:35:45 | 1:35:47 | |
you're both still quite young, but... | 1:35:47 | 1:35:50 | |
..you'll always have a roof over your heads. | 1:35:51 | 1:35:54 | |
Phew. | 1:35:56 | 1:35:57 | |
Oh, Mathias? | 1:35:57 | 1:35:59 | |
This is yours. | 1:36:01 | 1:36:03 | |
I gave it to your father, but he wanted you to have it. | 1:36:03 | 1:36:07 | |
Thank you. | 1:36:11 | 1:36:12 | |
Hm. | 1:36:14 | 1:36:15 | |
Where are my father's ashes? | 1:36:17 | 1:36:19 | |
You did a good thing sending me here, Max. | 1:36:37 | 1:36:40 | |
Thank you. | 1:36:40 | 1:36:41 | |
On a scale of 1 to a 100, you've just gone from a 1 to a 3. | 1:36:49 | 1:36:53 | |
Wow. | 1:38:31 | 1:38:32 | |
I have the cheque. | 1:38:32 | 1:38:35 | |
Um... | 1:38:35 | 1:38:37 | |
We're not selling. | 1:38:37 | 1:38:38 | |
I'm sorry? | 1:38:41 | 1:38:42 | |
It's a family thing. | 1:38:42 | 1:38:44 | |
You understand. | 1:38:45 | 1:38:46 | |
Wh-where did you study English? | 1:40:09 | 1:40:11 | |
Ah, I never studied English. | 1:40:11 | 1:40:15 | |
I...learned it from watching American movies. | 1:40:15 | 1:40:18 | |
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give you a damn." | 1:40:18 | 1:40:21 | |
-Oh. Yeah. Clark Gable. -Right. -HE CHUCKLES | 1:40:23 | 1:40:26 | |
I'd know that anywhere. | 1:40:26 | 1:40:28 |