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FEMALE NARRATOR:
It began as a holiday.

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Arthur Howitzer, Jr.,
college freshman,

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eager to escape a bright
future on the Great Plains,

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convinced his father,
proprietor of the Liberty,
Kansas Evening Sun,

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to fund his transatlantic
passage as an educational
opportunity

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to learn the family business

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through the production of
a series of travelogue columns

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to be published for
local readers in
the Sunday Picnic magazine.

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Over the next
ten years, he assembled a team

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of the best expatriate
journalists of his time

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and transformed Picnic
into The French Dispatch,

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a factual weekly report
on the subjects
of world politics,

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the arts,
high and low, fashion,

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fancy cuisine, fine drink,

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and diverse stories
of human interests

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set in faraway quartiers.

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He brought the world
to Kansas.

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His writers line the spines
of every good American
library.

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Berensen,

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Sazerac,

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Krementz,

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Roebuck Wright.

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One reporter known
as the best living writer

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in quality of sentences
per minute.

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One who never completed
a single article,

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but haunted the halls
cheerily for three decades.

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One privately blind writer
who wrote keenly

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through the eyes of others.

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FEMALE NARRATOR:
The uncontested crackerjack

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of grammatical expertise.

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Cover illustrations
by Hermes Jones.

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Famously gracious
with his writers,

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Arthur Jr. was less courteous

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with the rest of
the magazine's staff.

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Oh, no, what's that?

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I need a turkey.

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Stuffed and roasted
on a table

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with all the trimmings
and pilgrims!

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FEMALE NARRATOR:
His fiscal management system

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was convoluted but functional.

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Give her 150 francs
a week for the next 15 years

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against five American cents
per word, minus expenses.

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FEMALE NARRATOR:
His most repeated
literary advice,

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perhaps apocryphal,
was simply this...

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Just try to
make it sound like

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you wrote it that
way on purpose.

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FEMALE NARRATOR:
His return to Liberty

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comes precisely 50 years
after his departure,

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on the occasion
of his funeral,

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by which time the magazine's
circulation exceeds

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half a million subscribers
in 50 countries.

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A willow hamper
containing umpteen pins,

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plaques,
and official citations

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of the highest order
is buried at his side,

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along with
an Andretti Ribbon-mate

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and a ream of triple bond,
Egyptian cotton typing stock.

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He received
an Editor's burial.

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In his will,
he stipulated that

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immediately upon his death,
quote...

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The presses will be
dismantled

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and liquefied.

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The editorial offices will be
vacated and sold.

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The staff will be paid
ample bonuses

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and released
from their contracts,

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and the publication
of the magazine

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will permanently cease.

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Thus,

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the publisher's obituary
will also serve

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as that of this publication.

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All home delivery readers
will, of course,

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be refunded, pro rata

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for the unfulfilled portion
of their subscriptions.

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His epitaph will be taken
verbatim from the stenciled
shingle

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fixed above the door
of his inner office.

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Berensen's article.
The Concrete Masterpiece.

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Three dangling participles,
two split infinitives

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and nine spelling
errors in the first
sentence alone.

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Some of those
are intentional.

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The Krementz story,
Revisions to a Manifesto.

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We asked for
2,500 words,

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and she came in
at 14,000,

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plus footnotes,
endnotes, a glossary,
and two epilogues.

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ARTHUR:
It's one of her best.

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Sazerac?
Impossible to fact-check.

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He changes all the names
and only writes about

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hobos, pimps,
and junkies.

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These are his people.

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How about
Roebuck Wright?

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His door's locked,
but I could hear
the keys clacking.

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Don't rush him.

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The question is,
who gets killed?

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There's one piece
too many

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even if we print
another double-issue,

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which we can't afford
under any circumstances.

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A message from the foreman.
One hour to press.

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You're fired.

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Really?

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Don't cry
in my office.

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Shrink the masthead,
cut some ads,

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and tell the foreman
to buy more paper.

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I'm not killing anybody.

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Good writers.
He coddled them.

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He coaxed them.
He ferociously
protected them.

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What do you think?

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For myself?

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I would start with
Mr. Sazerac.

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FEMALE NARRATOR:
These were his people.

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Ennui rises suddenly
on a Monday.

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Through the time machine
of poetic license,

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let us take
a sight-seeing tour.

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A day in Ennui over
the course of 250 years.

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The great city
began as a cluster

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of tradesmen's villages.

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Only the names
remain unchanged.

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The Bootblack District.

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The Bricklayer's Quarter.

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The Butcher's Arcade.

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Pick-pocket Cul-de-Sac.

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On this site,
a fabled market,

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vending all forms of
victuals and comestibles

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under a single vast,

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glass-and-cast-iron
canopy,

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later demolished,
as you can see,

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in favor of a multi-level
shopping center

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and parking structure.

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Like every living city,

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Ennui supports a menagerie
of vermin and scavengers.

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The rats which colonized

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its subterranean railroad.

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The cats which colonized

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its slanty rooftops.

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The anguillettes
which colonized

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its shallow drainage canals.

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After receiving the Host,
marauding choirboys,

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half-drunk on
the Blood of Christ,

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stalk unwary pensioners

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and seek havoc.

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In the Flop Quarter, students.

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Hungry, restless, reckless.

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In the Hovel District,

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old people.

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Old people who have failed.

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The automobile.

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A mixed blessing.
On the one hand,

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the honking,
skidding, speeding,

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sputtering, and backfiring.

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The emission of toxic fumes
and filthy exhaust-pollution,

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the dangerous accidents,

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the constant traffic,
the high...

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Fuck!

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Department of
Local Statistics.

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Average rainfall,
750 millimeters.

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Average snowfall,
190,000 flakes.

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Eight-point-two-five
bodies are pulled

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from the Blase river
each week.

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A figure which
remains consistent

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despite population growth

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and advances in
health and hygiene.

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As the sun sets, a medley of
unregistered streetwalkers

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and gigolos replaces the day's
delivery boys and shopkeepers,

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and an air of promiscuous calm
saturates the hour.

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What sounds will
punctuate the night?

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And what mysteries
will they foretell?

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Perhaps the doubtful
old maxim speaks true.

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All grand beauties

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withhold their
deepest secrets.

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"Rats, vermin, gigolos,
streetwalkers."

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You don't think
it's almost too seedy
this time?

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No, I don't.
For decent people.

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It's supposed
to be charming.

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"Pick-pockets, dead bodies,
prisons, urinals..."

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You don't want to
add a flower shop

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or an art museum?
No, I don't.

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A pretty place
of some kind?

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I hate flowers.

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You could cut
the second half

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of the second paragraph,
by the way.

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You already
repeat it later.

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Okay.

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We take
as the subject of
tonight's lecture,

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the great painter
at the vanguard

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and heart of the French
Splatter-school Action-group,

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Mr. Moses Rosenthaler.

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Widely celebrated,
as you know,

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for the bold
dramatic style,

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and colossal scale
of his middle-period,

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in particular,
of course,

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the polyptych-tableaux
known as...

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Ten Reinforced Cement
Aggregate Load-Bearing
Murals.

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He remains, in my opinion,
the most eloquent

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and certainly,
the loudest
artistic voice

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of his rowdy generation.

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How does this pivotal
piece come to find
its way

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into its unique position
as a permanent installation
here

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at the Clampette Collection?

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The story begins
in a mess hall.

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The exhibition,
Ashtrays, Pots,
and Macrame,

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a group show of handicrafts
by amateur artisans

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incarcerated in
the lunatic section

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of the Ennui Prison-Asylum,

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might, perhaps,
have been omitted

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from the annals
of art history,

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had it not been
for the inclusion

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in its number
of a small painting

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by Mr. Rosenthaler,
who was, at that time,

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serving a 50-year sentence

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for the crime of
double homicide,

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and the observation of that
work by a fellow inmate,

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the Levantine art dealer
Mr. Julian Cadazio,

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who, by fateful coincidence,
happened to be imprisoned

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in the adjoining annex
on a charge

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of second-degree
sales tax evasion.

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Guard.

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Who painted this picture?

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Citizen 7524.

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I believe that unit
designates maximum
security

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for the demented
and deranged.

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Are you able to
provide me an escort

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and a Friendly Visit Stamp

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for immediate use?

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Simone, Naked.
Cell Block J. Hobby Room.

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I wanna buy it.

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Why?

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Because I like it.

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It's not for sale.

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Yes, it is.

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No, it isn't.
Yes, it is.

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No, it isn't.
Yes, it is.

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No, it isn't.
It is, yes. It is.

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All artists sell
all their work.

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It's what makes you
an artist.

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Selling it. If you don't wish
to sell it, don't paint it.

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Question is,
what's your price?

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50 cigarettes.

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Actually, make it 75.

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Why do you keep
looking at that guard?

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She's Simone.

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Ah.

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I don't want to buy
this important piece
for 50 cigarettes.

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ROSENTHALER: 75.
Or 75 of prison currency.

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I want to pay you
250,000 francs

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in legal French tender.

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Do we agree on the sale?

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Uh-huh.

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I can only offer
a deposit of, uh...

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83 centimes,
one candied chestnut,

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and four cigarettes.

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Everything I have at this
present moment in time.

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However, if you'll accept
my signatory voucher,
I assure you

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a check for
the outstanding balance

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will be remitted to your
account within 90 days.

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Where do you bank?

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Never mind.

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How'd you learn to
do it, by the way?

255
00:16:45,605 --> 00:16:46,973
Paint this kind of picture.

256
00:16:47,107 --> 00:16:50,577
Also, who'd you murder,
and how crazy are you,
really?

257
00:16:50,710 --> 00:16:51,744
I need background
information

258
00:16:51,878 --> 00:16:53,646
so that we can do
a book about you.

259
00:16:53,780 --> 00:16:55,448
It makes you
more important.

260
00:16:55,582 --> 00:16:56,949
Who are you...

261
00:16:59,452 --> 00:17:01,054
Moses Rosenthaler?

262
00:17:04,124 --> 00:17:05,425
Born rich,

263
00:17:05,558 --> 00:17:08,895
the son of
a Jewish-Mexican
horse rancher,

264
00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:12,699
Miguel Sebastian Maria
Moises de Rosenthaler

265
00:17:12,832 --> 00:17:14,801
trained at
the Ecole des Antiquites

266
00:17:14,934 --> 00:17:16,836
at significant
family expense.

267
00:17:16,969 --> 00:17:19,672
But, by the end
of his youth,

268
00:17:19,806 --> 00:17:21,541
he had shed
all the luxuries

269
00:17:21,674 --> 00:17:24,777
of his comfortable
background and replaced
them with...

270
00:17:25,678 --> 00:17:26,846
Squalor.

271
00:17:29,616 --> 00:17:30,883
Hunger.

272
00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,021
Loneliness.

273
00:17:38,358 --> 00:17:39,759
Physical danger.

274
00:17:44,464 --> 00:17:46,166
Mental illness.

275
00:17:48,835 --> 00:17:50,203
And, of course...

276
00:17:52,038 --> 00:17:53,306
Criminal violence.

277
00:18:13,526 --> 00:18:14,894
He did not
pick up a brush

278
00:18:15,027 --> 00:18:16,095
during the first decade

279
00:18:16,229 --> 00:18:18,198
of his long prison sentence.

280
00:19:14,687 --> 00:19:17,257
Permission
to sign up for activity
privileges, gardienne.

281
00:19:18,958 --> 00:19:20,460
This thing?

282
00:19:26,766 --> 00:19:28,501
Citizen 7524,
address the class.

283
00:19:28,635 --> 00:19:29,569
What do you mean?

284
00:19:29,702 --> 00:19:30,837
Tell the group
about yourself.

285
00:19:30,970 --> 00:19:32,772
I don't wanna do that.
It's mandatory.

286
00:19:32,905 --> 00:19:34,541
They know me already.
That's not the point.

287
00:19:34,674 --> 00:19:36,976
I haven't even
prepared a speech.
Say something.

288
00:19:45,485 --> 00:19:49,989
Well, I've been here
3,647 days and nights.

289
00:19:52,024 --> 00:19:56,195
Another 14,603 to go.

290
00:19:56,329 --> 00:20:00,333
I drink 14 pints
of mouthwash rations
per week.

291
00:20:01,133 --> 00:20:03,169
At that rate,

292
00:20:03,303 --> 00:20:05,372
I think I'm going to
poison myself to death

293
00:20:05,505 --> 00:20:08,174
before I ever get to see
the world again,

294
00:20:09,442 --> 00:20:11,878
which makes me feel

295
00:20:12,712 --> 00:20:13,913
very sad.

296
00:20:14,747 --> 00:20:17,250
I gotta change my program.

297
00:20:17,384 --> 00:20:19,986
I gotta go in a new direction.

298
00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:24,357
Anything I can do to keep
my hands busy, I'm gonna do.

299
00:20:26,326 --> 00:20:27,860
Otherwise,

300
00:20:29,329 --> 00:20:32,064
I think maybe it's
gonna be a suicide.

301
00:20:38,671 --> 00:20:41,040
And that's why
I signed up

302
00:20:41,173 --> 00:20:42,942
for clay pottery
and basket weaving.

303
00:20:45,044 --> 00:20:46,579
My name is Moses.

304
00:20:47,947 --> 00:20:49,382
Take a pew.

305
00:21:02,695 --> 00:21:04,397
What's your name,
gardienne?

306
00:21:05,164 --> 00:21:06,265
Simone.

307
00:21:13,105 --> 00:21:16,443
Certain women
do gravitate toward
incarcerated men.

308
00:21:16,576 --> 00:21:19,178
It's a recognized condition.

309
00:21:19,312 --> 00:21:21,814
Something about
the captivity of others

310
00:21:21,948 --> 00:21:25,284
enhances the experience
of their own freedom.

311
00:21:25,418 --> 00:21:27,820
I assure you,
it's erotic.

312
00:21:27,954 --> 00:21:29,489
Look at her,
by the way.

313
00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:31,491
Born into
quasi-serfdom,

314
00:21:31,624 --> 00:21:33,259
16 brothers
and sisters.

315
00:21:33,393 --> 00:21:35,161
Illiterate until
she was 20.

316
00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:37,597
Now, a woman of
considerable property.

317
00:21:37,730 --> 00:21:38,931
Radiant.

318
00:21:39,065 --> 00:21:39,999
Good God.

319
00:21:40,132 --> 00:21:41,300
Wrong slide.
That's me.

320
00:21:43,202 --> 00:21:45,672
Simone, of course,
refused all

321
00:21:45,805 --> 00:21:47,507
Rosenthaler's
entreaties
of marriage,

322
00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,809
which, we are told,
were frequent

323
00:21:49,942 --> 00:21:52,679
and marvelously
enthusiastic.

324
00:21:52,812 --> 00:21:55,748
I wanna say it
as simple as I can.

325
00:21:55,882 --> 00:21:58,284
To try to shape it into words.

326
00:21:58,985 --> 00:22:01,388
The feelings in my heart.

327
00:22:01,521 --> 00:22:03,556
I don't love you.
I love you.

328
00:22:03,690 --> 00:22:05,992
What?
I don't love you.

329
00:22:06,526 --> 00:22:07,627
Already?

330
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:08,795
Already what?

331
00:22:08,928 --> 00:22:10,363
Already how do
you know that?

332
00:22:10,497 --> 00:22:12,131
How can you be sure?
It's so quick.

333
00:22:12,264 --> 00:22:13,600
I'm sure.

334
00:22:14,601 --> 00:22:15,568
Ouch.

335
00:22:16,302 --> 00:22:17,570
That hurts me.

336
00:22:17,704 --> 00:22:21,073
The cruelty of it.
The cold-bloodedness.

337
00:22:21,207 --> 00:22:22,609
You said what
you wanted to say.

338
00:22:22,742 --> 00:22:24,043
I tried to stop you.
That's it.

339
00:22:24,176 --> 00:22:26,446
I said part of what
I wanted to say.

340
00:22:26,579 --> 00:22:28,781
I was in the middle
of it. There's more.

341
00:22:29,115 --> 00:22:30,216
No.

342
00:22:31,083 --> 00:22:33,185
No what? Will you...
No.

343
00:22:33,319 --> 00:22:34,353
Will you marry me?
No.

344
00:23:01,514 --> 00:23:03,115
I'm gonna need art supplies.

345
00:23:04,517 --> 00:23:07,454
Canvas, stretchers,
brushes, turpentine.

346
00:23:07,587 --> 00:23:09,355
What do you want to paint?

347
00:23:09,489 --> 00:23:10,990
The future.

348
00:23:15,161 --> 00:23:16,829
Which is you.

349
00:23:18,565 --> 00:23:21,468
Widely not considered
a great connoisseur,

350
00:23:21,601 --> 00:23:24,571
Julian Cadazio, nevertheless,
had an eye for something,

351
00:23:24,704 --> 00:23:27,440
and he did us all
a very good turn

352
00:23:27,574 --> 00:23:30,409
when the hour he was
released from prison...

353
00:23:35,948 --> 00:23:38,618
We're done with flowers
and fruit bowls.

354
00:23:38,751 --> 00:23:41,454
We're finished with
beaches and seascapes.

355
00:23:41,588 --> 00:23:44,190
We're getting out of armor,
rugs, and tapestries, too.

356
00:23:44,891 --> 00:23:46,125
I found something new.

357
00:23:57,069 --> 00:23:58,270
Modern art?

358
00:23:58,404 --> 00:24:00,640
Modern art.
Our specialty,
starting now.

359
00:24:00,773 --> 00:24:02,241
I don't get it.
Of course you don't.

360
00:24:02,374 --> 00:24:03,643
Am I too old?
Of course you are.

361
00:24:03,776 --> 00:24:05,745
Why is this good?
It isn't good.
Wrong idea.

362
00:24:05,878 --> 00:24:06,946
That's no answer.

363
00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:09,015
My point. You see
the girl in it?

364
00:24:09,148 --> 00:24:10,182
No.

365
00:24:10,316 --> 00:24:12,384
Trust me,
she's there.

366
00:24:14,754 --> 00:24:17,123
One way to tell if
a modern artist actually
knows what he's doing

367
00:24:17,256 --> 00:24:18,791
is to get him to
paint you a horse

368
00:24:18,925 --> 00:24:20,627
or a flower or
a sinking battleship,

369
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,461
or something that's actually
supposed to look like

370
00:24:22,595 --> 00:24:24,864
the thing that it's actually
supposed to look like.

371
00:24:24,997 --> 00:24:27,800
Can he do it?
Look at this.

372
00:24:27,934 --> 00:24:30,336
Drawn in 45 seconds
right in front of me
with a burnt matchstick.

373
00:24:30,469 --> 00:24:32,639
A perfect sparrow.
That's excellent.

374
00:24:32,772 --> 00:24:33,806
May I keep it?

375
00:24:33,940 --> 00:24:35,441
Don't be stupid.
Of course not.

376
00:24:35,575 --> 00:24:38,477
The point is, he could
paint this beautifully
if he wanted,

377
00:24:38,611 --> 00:24:40,713
but he thinks
this is better.

378
00:24:40,847 --> 00:24:43,415
And I think I sort of
agree with him.

379
00:24:43,550 --> 00:24:46,953
Simone, Naked.
Cell Block J. Hobby Room
is probably a masterpiece

380
00:24:47,086 --> 00:24:50,089
worth a significant,
even exorbitant,
sum of money.

381
00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:52,124
But not yet.

382
00:24:52,258 --> 00:24:55,194
Hmm. The desire
must be created.

383
00:24:56,262 --> 00:24:57,463
Mmm.

384
00:24:57,597 --> 00:24:59,131
How long is he in for?

385
00:25:10,677 --> 00:25:13,012
CHIEF MAGISTRATE:
Mr. Rosenthaler,

386
00:25:13,145 --> 00:25:16,515
why should we put you
back on the street?

387
00:25:16,649 --> 00:25:19,018
Because it was
an accident,
Your Honor.

388
00:25:19,986 --> 00:25:22,889
I didn't intend
to kill anybody.

389
00:25:23,022 --> 00:25:26,158
You decapitated
two bartenders
with a meat saw.

390
00:25:30,930 --> 00:25:33,032
The first
bartender was an accident.

391
00:25:34,133 --> 00:25:36,803
The second one
was self-defense.

392
00:25:36,936 --> 00:25:39,405
Well, be that as it may,

393
00:25:39,538 --> 00:25:41,373
what demonstration
of genuine remorse,

394
00:25:41,507 --> 00:25:42,609
or, at the very least,

395
00:25:42,742 --> 00:25:45,344
regret can you offer
for beheading these men?

396
00:25:49,782 --> 00:25:51,651
They had it coming.

397
00:25:51,784 --> 00:25:54,253
I beg your pardon?
Forgive me. Uh...

398
00:25:55,755 --> 00:25:57,724
Is there a part of this
ritual where you ask

399
00:25:57,857 --> 00:26:00,526
if anybody has something
to say before it's too late?

400
00:26:00,660 --> 00:26:01,894
Like, at a wedding.

401
00:26:02,028 --> 00:26:04,063
No.
I'll be brief.

402
00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:10,970
We all know this man
is a murderer.

403
00:26:11,103 --> 00:26:13,305
Totally guilty of
first-degree homicide,

404
00:26:13,439 --> 00:26:14,707
any way you slice it.

405
00:26:14,841 --> 00:26:16,108
That's a given.

406
00:26:16,242 --> 00:26:19,411
However, he's also that rare
once-in-a-generation guy

407
00:26:19,545 --> 00:26:20,780
that you hear about,

408
00:26:20,913 --> 00:26:23,082
but never get the chance
to discover for yourself.

409
00:26:24,216 --> 00:26:26,786
An artistic genius.

410
00:26:26,919 --> 00:26:28,454
Surely, there ought
to be a double standard

411
00:26:28,587 --> 00:26:30,056
for this sort of
predicament.

412
00:26:30,189 --> 00:26:32,424
Supposedly,
he's a psychotic,
by the way.

413
00:26:32,558 --> 00:26:34,093
That's not his fault.

414
00:26:34,226 --> 00:26:36,696
Respectfully, I submit...

415
00:26:38,530 --> 00:26:41,901
maybe we could think up
some other way to
punish him?

416
00:26:42,034 --> 00:26:44,136
Rosenthaler's right
to petition for parole

417
00:26:44,270 --> 00:26:45,337
was permanently revoked

418
00:26:45,471 --> 00:26:46,839
for the duration
of his sentence.

419
00:26:47,874 --> 00:26:50,142
No further questions.

420
00:26:50,276 --> 00:26:52,544
Nevertheless,
Cadazio and his uncles

421
00:26:52,679 --> 00:26:54,146
were unanimous
in their decision

422
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,149
to promote the artist
as his exclusive brokers

423
00:26:57,283 --> 00:26:59,085
throughout the free world.

424
00:27:01,553 --> 00:27:04,390
Simone travelled far and wide.

425
00:27:06,258 --> 00:27:07,827
The Ennui Salon.

426
00:27:10,296 --> 00:27:13,365
The Royal Exposition.

427
00:27:13,499 --> 00:27:16,368
The International Pavilion
at the Liberty, Kansas
State Fair,

428
00:27:16,502 --> 00:27:19,005
which was very nearly
burned to the ground.

429
00:27:19,138 --> 00:27:21,808
In short, the picture
was a sensation.

430
00:27:24,043 --> 00:27:26,545
Even the artist's all but
forgotten earlier work

431
00:27:26,679 --> 00:27:30,449
inspired wildly robust sales
on the secondary market.

432
00:27:32,051 --> 00:27:36,088
Meanwhile, Rosenthaler
continued to work
in confinement.

433
00:27:36,222 --> 00:27:39,759
Strikingly, the artist
favored raw materials
sourced

434
00:27:39,892 --> 00:27:42,661
exclusively from within
the prison-asylum domain.

435
00:27:43,429 --> 00:27:45,397
Powdered eggs.

436
00:27:45,531 --> 00:27:47,333
Pigeon blood.

437
00:27:47,466 --> 00:27:48,968
Shackle grease.

438
00:27:49,101 --> 00:27:50,937
Coal, cork, and dung.

439
00:27:51,070 --> 00:27:52,939
Fire, of course.

440
00:27:53,072 --> 00:27:54,841
Bright yellow scullery soap.

441
00:27:54,974 --> 00:27:57,844
And fresh cream of millet
as a binding agent.

442
00:27:59,211 --> 00:28:01,547
Simone liked to stand still.

443
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,550
Indeed, she was Olympian
in her ability to hold

444
00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:05,885
extremely challenging
positions

445
00:28:06,018 --> 00:28:07,987
for extended
periods of time.

446
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:10,022
She exhibited
very little vulnerability

447
00:28:10,156 --> 00:28:11,791
to extremes of heat or cold.

448
00:28:11,924 --> 00:28:14,727
After even the most adverse
forms of exposure,

449
00:28:14,861 --> 00:28:18,898
her skin remained unburned,
unblemished, un-goose-pimpled.

450
00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:20,266
Another tidbit.

451
00:28:20,399 --> 00:28:23,135
She genuinely enjoyed
the smell of turpentine

452
00:28:23,269 --> 00:28:25,571
and in later years
actually wore it

453
00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:27,406
in the application
of her toilet.

454
00:28:28,908 --> 00:28:30,843
She was more than a muse.

455
00:28:35,982 --> 00:28:37,416
Throw the switch.

456
00:28:45,925 --> 00:28:48,627
Throw the switch,
you cocksucker.

457
00:28:54,066 --> 00:28:56,335
What's wrong with you?
Go back to work.

458
00:28:57,303 --> 00:28:58,570
I can't.

459
00:28:59,471 --> 00:29:01,373
I won't. It's too hard.

460
00:29:02,508 --> 00:29:04,376
It's torture.

461
00:29:04,510 --> 00:29:07,847
I'm literally
a tortured artist.

462
00:29:10,817 --> 00:29:12,251
Poor baby.

463
00:29:12,985 --> 00:29:13,953
Get out.

464
00:29:30,736 --> 00:29:32,271
Is that what you want?

465
00:30:10,276 --> 00:30:11,844
What's your problem?

466
00:30:13,612 --> 00:30:15,347
I don't know what to paint.

467
00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:59,725
The French
Splatter-school
Action-group.

468
00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:03,529
A dynamic, talented,
lusty, slovenly,
alcoholic,

469
00:31:03,662 --> 00:31:06,198
violent pack of
creative savages.

470
00:31:07,499 --> 00:31:10,502
They inspired
and very often

471
00:31:10,636 --> 00:31:14,040
personally attacked
each other for
two decades and more.

472
00:31:14,173 --> 00:31:15,674
I'll have my drink now.

473
00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:23,615
Remember, in those days,
as you know,

474
00:31:23,749 --> 00:31:25,617
it was much more
socially acceptable

475
00:31:25,751 --> 00:31:27,819
for a painter or a sculptor

476
00:31:27,954 --> 00:31:31,223
to hit another fellow
with a chair
or even a brick

477
00:31:31,357 --> 00:31:33,993
or walk around
with a black eye

478
00:31:34,126 --> 00:31:36,762
or a broken tooth
and so on.

479
00:31:36,895 --> 00:31:40,266
Indeed, I'm jumping ahead,
but in my own experience,

480
00:31:40,399 --> 00:31:43,936
Rosenthaler could be quite
unpredictably impulsive.

481
00:31:44,070 --> 00:31:46,772
Uh, meaning, I refer to
the, uh, pigment locker

482
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:49,075
beneath his studio in
the Boulevard des Plombiers,

483
00:31:49,208 --> 00:31:51,877
on one occasion,
he grabbed me
and put me in there,

484
00:31:52,011 --> 00:31:55,581
and inappropriately,
sort of, tried to fuck me

485
00:31:55,714 --> 00:31:58,050
against the wall
in the corner of
that pigment locker.

486
00:31:58,184 --> 00:32:01,387
He was crazy.
Officially certified.

487
00:32:11,197 --> 00:32:14,300
The Cadazios, of course,
represented them all.

488
00:32:24,776 --> 00:32:26,445
It's three years later.

489
00:32:26,578 --> 00:32:28,347
We've made you the most
famous painter alive

490
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,417
based on one small,
scribbly,
overrated picture.

491
00:32:31,550 --> 00:32:32,951
You're an art school course.

492
00:32:33,085 --> 00:32:34,620
You're an encyclopedia entry.

493
00:32:34,753 --> 00:32:37,589
Even your disciples
have won and squandered
multiple fortunes,

494
00:32:37,723 --> 00:32:40,459
yet you refuse to show us
so much as a sketch or a study

495
00:32:40,592 --> 00:32:43,762
for a single new piece
during this entire,
protracted period.

496
00:32:43,895 --> 00:32:45,431
How long are
we meant to wait?

497
00:32:45,564 --> 00:32:47,599
Well, don't answer,
because we're not asking.

498
00:32:48,634 --> 00:32:50,536
We already printed
the invitations.

499
00:32:50,669 --> 00:32:52,204
We're coming in.

500
00:32:52,338 --> 00:32:54,473
All of us.
The collectors.
The critics.

501
00:32:54,606 --> 00:32:57,143
Even your second-rate
imitators we represent
who suck up to you

502
00:32:57,276 --> 00:33:00,079
and smuggle you goodies
and probably turn out to be
better than you are.

503
00:33:00,212 --> 00:33:02,014
The bribes alone
are going to be
outrageous,

504
00:33:02,148 --> 00:33:03,515
as these guards
can assure you.

505
00:33:03,649 --> 00:33:05,117
But we're gonna pay 'em.

506
00:33:05,251 --> 00:33:07,253
So, finish it,
whatever it is.

507
00:33:07,386 --> 00:33:08,820
The show is in two weeks.

508
00:33:17,163 --> 00:33:19,065
She thinks it's ready,
by the way.

509
00:33:19,598 --> 00:33:20,666
It's ready.

510
00:33:23,369 --> 00:33:25,537
I could use another year.

511
00:33:28,274 --> 00:33:30,042
My employer,
at that time,

512
00:33:30,176 --> 00:33:32,178
received the intriguing
summons

513
00:33:32,311 --> 00:33:34,213
by rapid-priority wire.

514
00:33:34,346 --> 00:33:37,983
I refer, of course,
to Upshur "Maw" Clampette.

515
00:33:39,251 --> 00:33:41,320
Astute collector
of antiquities.

516
00:33:41,453 --> 00:33:43,089
Great friend
to the avant-garde.

517
00:33:43,222 --> 00:33:44,923
Her collection,
even in its infancy,

518
00:33:45,057 --> 00:33:46,525
was well-known
and important,

519
00:33:46,658 --> 00:33:48,094
as was her residence,

520
00:33:48,227 --> 00:33:50,362
Ingo Steen's first
American commission

521
00:33:50,496 --> 00:33:54,200
informally known as
the Doorstop House.

522
00:33:54,333 --> 00:33:56,535
It was my duty,
and I may say,

523
00:33:56,668 --> 00:33:58,504
my privilege
to catalogue,

524
00:33:58,637 --> 00:34:00,239
archive, and advise,

525
00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:02,074
although she did
whatever the hell
she wanted,

526
00:34:02,208 --> 00:34:04,743
no matter what you
told her, anyway.

527
00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:06,912
Thus, we began
the long journey

528
00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:10,216
from Liberty to Ennui.

529
00:34:10,349 --> 00:34:13,219
My dear
Mrs. Clampette,
Maw, if I may,

530
00:34:13,352 --> 00:34:15,020
please join us
for the first display

531
00:34:15,154 --> 00:34:18,090
of Mr. Moses Rosenthaler's
extremely exciting new work,

532
00:34:18,224 --> 00:34:20,459
which I, myself, have not yet
been permitted to see.

533
00:34:20,592 --> 00:34:23,262
In order to facilitate
the viewing in
a timely fashion,

534
00:34:23,395 --> 00:34:24,763
it may prove necessary for us

535
00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:26,998
to surreptitiously gain
access to the facility

536
00:34:27,133 --> 00:34:29,335
where the artist
currently resides.

537
00:34:29,468 --> 00:34:30,569
Please rely on my operatives

538
00:34:30,702 --> 00:34:32,104
to organize any
and all details

539
00:34:32,238 --> 00:34:34,005
and preparations
for your visit.

540
00:34:34,140 --> 00:34:36,408
Caution, do not bring
matches, lighters,

541
00:34:36,542 --> 00:34:38,410
or sharp objects of any kind.

542
00:34:38,544 --> 00:34:41,413
We await your confirmation
with cheerful anticipation.

543
00:34:41,547 --> 00:34:43,749
Yours most truly,
Cadazio Uncles

544
00:34:43,882 --> 00:34:45,617
and Nephew Galerie concern.

545
00:34:49,221 --> 00:34:51,056
The paddy wagon
collected us

546
00:34:51,190 --> 00:34:53,492
directly after the night's
final round of working girls
and revelers

547
00:34:53,625 --> 00:34:56,395
were delivered
to the drunk tank at 3:00 a.m.

548
00:35:42,908 --> 00:35:44,943
Moses, are you here?

549
00:35:46,345 --> 00:35:48,046
Mmm-hmm.

550
00:35:48,180 --> 00:35:49,881
Any words
of introduction?

551
00:35:50,015 --> 00:35:53,452
Or perhaps, a welcome
to our wonderful guests,
some of whom

552
00:35:53,585 --> 00:35:56,054
have traveled a great distance
to come see your work, I hope?

553
00:35:56,188 --> 00:35:58,957
Or, alternatively,
just, I don't know.

554
00:35:59,625 --> 00:36:00,626
Hello?

555
00:36:03,128 --> 00:36:04,996
Quiet, please!

556
00:36:06,565 --> 00:36:08,133
Quiet, please!

557
00:36:12,070 --> 00:36:14,373
I did it. It's good!
This is historic.

558
00:36:14,506 --> 00:36:16,174
Open the champagne!
I did it.

559
00:36:16,308 --> 00:36:17,509
Music!

560
00:36:23,615 --> 00:36:25,183
Why are you sitting
in a wheelchair
like an invalid?

561
00:36:25,317 --> 00:36:27,219
You should be dancing
on the tables!
It's a triumph!

562
00:36:32,458 --> 00:36:33,859
Do you like it?

563
00:36:35,026 --> 00:36:36,328
Do I like it?

564
00:36:37,028 --> 00:36:38,797
Yes.

565
00:36:44,703 --> 00:36:46,705
Look at Maw,
she's mesmerized.

566
00:36:49,174 --> 00:36:50,776
This here's a fresco,
t'weren't it?

567
00:36:50,909 --> 00:36:53,712
Precisely. He's a Renaissance
master of the highest order.

568
00:36:53,845 --> 00:36:56,848
He mines the same vein
as Piperno Pierluigi
when he illuminated

569
00:36:56,982 --> 00:37:00,085
The Christ Before God's
Heavenly Altar in 1565.

570
00:37:00,218 --> 00:37:02,921
Maw, nobody has an eye
for things nobody has
ever seen

571
00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:05,090
like Maw Clampette
of Liberty, Kansas.

572
00:37:05,223 --> 00:37:07,593
We should be ashamed
to even gather
in her presence.

573
00:37:07,726 --> 00:37:09,227
Why the fuck
did she say fresco?

574
00:37:10,529 --> 00:37:12,998
Are they painted
into the walls?

575
00:37:13,865 --> 00:37:16,067
Oh, no. What has he done?

576
00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:18,637
You fucking asshole.

577
00:37:18,770 --> 00:37:20,038
Are you seeing this?
Look at this!

578
00:37:20,171 --> 00:37:22,207
Well, I think it's
utterly wonderful.
It's crucial!

579
00:37:22,341 --> 00:37:24,810
It's probably a turning point
in the evolution
of human pictography.

580
00:37:24,943 --> 00:37:25,977
Scratched and plastered

581
00:37:26,111 --> 00:37:28,213
into a reinforced cement
aggregate gymnasium.

582
00:37:28,347 --> 00:37:29,715
He even painted
onto the radiators!

583
00:37:29,848 --> 00:37:31,483
Maybe one of them
restoration fellers

584
00:37:31,617 --> 00:37:33,619
out at the Fondazione
dell'Arte Classico

585
00:37:33,752 --> 00:37:35,754
could figure a way to
rustle them pictures loose.

586
00:37:35,887 --> 00:37:37,723
We're in
a maximum-security
prison, Maw.

587
00:37:37,856 --> 00:37:39,391
It's federal property.

588
00:37:39,525 --> 00:37:41,527
Even to begin
the bureaucratic nightmare
would require years

589
00:37:41,660 --> 00:37:43,194
of negotiation with
a team of highly-paid,

590
00:37:43,329 --> 00:37:44,896
arrogant,
obnoxious advocates.

591
00:37:45,030 --> 00:37:47,533
I don't even know how
you'd peel them off.
It's a fresco.

592
00:37:47,666 --> 00:37:50,636
Hey! It's a fresco!

593
00:37:51,570 --> 00:37:52,904
So what?

594
00:37:53,038 --> 00:37:55,240
Can you even begin
to fathom the shit-ton
of money

595
00:37:55,374 --> 00:37:58,510
my uncles and I have
squandered to get to
this point of no return?

596
00:37:58,644 --> 00:37:59,778
Look at them!

597
00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:02,314
You've ruined us!

598
00:38:02,448 --> 00:38:04,115
Does it mean nothing to you?

599
00:38:04,249 --> 00:38:05,651
I thought you liked it.

600
00:38:05,784 --> 00:38:09,154
I think it stinks!

601
00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:10,822
Get out of that wheelchair!

602
00:38:10,956 --> 00:38:13,725
I'm going to kick your ass
up and down this hobby room!

603
00:38:15,861 --> 00:38:18,797
Don't growl at me,
you convicted murderer.

604
00:38:18,930 --> 00:38:20,766
You homicidal, suicidal,

605
00:38:20,899 --> 00:38:23,502
psychopathic,
no-talent drunk!

606
00:38:48,093 --> 00:38:50,095
Why didn't you
tell me, gardienne?

607
00:38:51,129 --> 00:38:53,231
Because you would've
stopped him.

608
00:39:00,138 --> 00:39:01,640
We have to accept it.

609
00:39:01,773 --> 00:39:03,575
His need to fail
is more powerful

610
00:39:03,709 --> 00:39:06,512
than our strongest desires
to help him succeed.

611
00:39:06,645 --> 00:39:08,714
I give up.
He's defeated us.

612
00:39:08,847 --> 00:39:11,149
He's defeated us.
Sad, but there it is.

613
00:39:12,751 --> 00:39:16,054
Anyway, at least,
he finished
the motherfucker.

614
00:39:17,589 --> 00:39:19,190
It is, perhaps,
the most interesting

615
00:39:19,324 --> 00:39:20,892
contemplation of
peripheral vision

616
00:39:21,026 --> 00:39:22,561
I've ever seen.

617
00:39:30,502 --> 00:39:31,937
Well done, Moses.

618
00:39:41,613 --> 00:39:45,183
Well done, Moses.
This has a greatness to it.

619
00:39:46,885 --> 00:39:49,521
If you plastered it
deep enough, it may last.

620
00:39:50,789 --> 00:39:53,024
We'll come and see it
again one day.

621
00:39:53,158 --> 00:39:54,626
God willing.

622
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,195
You'll already still
be here, of course.

623
00:39:59,665 --> 00:40:01,266
It's all Simone.

624
00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:17,649
At that moment,

625
00:40:17,783 --> 00:40:20,018
they were both aware
of Simone's intention

626
00:40:20,151 --> 00:40:21,419
to leave her position

627
00:40:21,553 --> 00:40:23,622
at the Ennui Prison-Asylum
the following day,

628
00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:26,291
endowed with funds
provided by the Cadazios

629
00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:27,826
as compensation for her work

630
00:40:27,959 --> 00:40:31,329
as Rosenthaler's model
and muse.

631
00:40:31,463 --> 00:40:33,999
She was reunited with
the estranged child to whom

632
00:40:34,132 --> 00:40:35,901
she had given birth
in her youth,

633
00:40:36,034 --> 00:40:39,471
and the two never again
lived apart.

634
00:40:39,605 --> 00:40:42,373
She and Rosenthaler maintained
a regular correspondence

635
00:40:42,508 --> 00:40:44,275
for the rest
of the artist's life.

636
00:40:49,781 --> 00:40:52,250
Mrs. Clampette would like
to put the piece on hold.

637
00:40:53,685 --> 00:40:54,720
The half-sticker?

638
00:40:54,853 --> 00:40:56,054
Yes, please.

639
00:40:56,187 --> 00:40:57,623
Should she choose
to finalize the sale,

640
00:40:57,756 --> 00:41:00,526
will this amount be acceptable
to you and your uncles?

641
00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:06,431
Can we get a deposit?

642
00:41:06,565 --> 00:41:09,334
Maw? An advance against
the total sum?

643
00:41:11,136 --> 00:41:14,339
Tell them stingy Frenchmen
I ain't making no promises.

644
00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:15,774
BERENSEN:
Ten Reinforced Cement

645
00:41:15,907 --> 00:41:17,342
Aggregate Load-Bearing Murals

646
00:41:17,475 --> 00:41:19,911
was to remain on hold under
the name Upshur Clampette

647
00:41:20,045 --> 00:41:22,447
for the subsequent 20 years.

648
00:41:22,581 --> 00:41:23,682
Monsieur Cadazio?

649
00:41:26,652 --> 00:41:27,719
Which prisoners?

650
00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:33,458
Tell them
we don't bribe

651
00:41:33,592 --> 00:41:35,326
rapists and pickpockets.
It's unethical.

652
00:41:35,460 --> 00:41:38,296
Besides, I didn't bring
an additional 6,000,000
francs in small bills.

653
00:41:45,170 --> 00:41:46,638
How'd you get out there?

654
00:41:46,772 --> 00:41:47,773
What do we do?

655
00:41:48,607 --> 00:41:49,675
Lock the door.

656
00:41:59,050 --> 00:42:01,653
In the aftermath,
72 prisoners

657
00:42:01,787 --> 00:42:03,822
and six members of
the French Splatter-school

658
00:42:03,955 --> 00:42:06,257
lay dead or mortally wounded.

659
00:42:06,391 --> 00:42:09,527
Moses Rosenthaler,
for acts of extreme valor,

660
00:42:09,661 --> 00:42:11,930
which saved the lives
of nine guards,

661
00:42:12,063 --> 00:42:13,832
22 distinguished visitors,

662
00:42:13,965 --> 00:42:16,034
and the Ministers
of Culture and Urbanity,

663
00:42:16,167 --> 00:42:19,470
received his freedom
with probation for life.

664
00:42:21,607 --> 00:42:24,375
And was decorated in
the Order of the Caged Lion.

665
00:42:31,082 --> 00:42:32,217
One score later,

666
00:42:32,350 --> 00:42:34,920
as per Maw Clampette's
detailed instructions,

667
00:42:35,053 --> 00:42:36,722
Cadazio and his own nephews

668
00:42:36,855 --> 00:42:39,124
arranged for the entirety
of the hobby room

669
00:42:39,257 --> 00:42:41,960
to be relocated onboard
a Goliath aviation

670
00:42:42,093 --> 00:42:43,895
12-engine artillery transport

671
00:42:44,029 --> 00:42:46,932
directly from
Ennui to Liberty.

672
00:42:51,369 --> 00:42:54,773
In this form,
the avant-garde
assumed its place

673
00:42:54,906 --> 00:42:57,342
upon the plains
of Central Kansas.

674
00:43:09,888 --> 00:43:12,090
"Pencils, pens,
erasers, thumbtacks,

675
00:43:12,223 --> 00:43:15,093
"pushpins, typewriter
repairman."

676
00:43:15,226 --> 00:43:17,963
Why am I paying for
a hotel room at
a beach club

677
00:43:18,096 --> 00:43:19,297
on the North Atlantic coast?

678
00:43:19,430 --> 00:43:21,967
Because I had
to go there to write it.

679
00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:24,936
"Breakfast, lunch, dinner,
laundry, nightcap, midnight
snack."

680
00:43:25,070 --> 00:43:27,272
What is wrong
with the desk

681
00:43:27,405 --> 00:43:29,107
right here
in your office?

682
00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:30,541
Courtesy of
this magazine.

683
00:43:30,676 --> 00:43:31,910
Don't ask me
to be indiscreet

684
00:43:32,043 --> 00:43:33,578
about what happened
between me and Moses

685
00:43:33,712 --> 00:43:36,114
at a seaside inn
20 years ago.
We were lovers.

686
00:43:36,247 --> 00:43:37,916
I went back
to remember.

687
00:43:38,383 --> 00:43:39,651
On my dime.

688
00:43:39,785 --> 00:43:40,919
Yes, please.

689
00:43:42,888 --> 00:43:44,089
Add it up.

690
00:44:06,111 --> 00:44:07,445
March 1st.

691
00:44:08,847 --> 00:44:10,782
Negotiations between
undergraduates

692
00:44:10,916 --> 00:44:12,183
and the university
administration

693
00:44:12,317 --> 00:44:14,119
break down abruptly
in early morning hours

694
00:44:14,252 --> 00:44:16,955
after clamorous debate,
angry name-calling

695
00:44:17,088 --> 00:44:20,291
and, finally,
outright gambling over

696
00:44:20,425 --> 00:44:22,360
the right of free access
to the girls' dormitory

697
00:44:22,493 --> 00:44:24,830
for all male students.

698
00:44:24,963 --> 00:44:27,098
The protest which
ended in a stalemate...

699
00:44:30,601 --> 00:44:33,004
...gave
the superficial appearance
of a vanity exercise

700
00:44:33,138 --> 00:44:35,240
for the pimple-cream
and wet-dream contingent.

701
00:44:38,777 --> 00:44:41,913
But, in fact, the sexes were
equally represented.

702
00:44:42,047 --> 00:44:43,381
Young lady,

703
00:44:44,149 --> 00:44:45,150
shoes!

704
00:44:46,985 --> 00:44:50,255
And all participants
emphasized the basis
of their frustration,

705
00:44:50,388 --> 00:44:53,491
a desire, more,
a biological need

706
00:44:54,325 --> 00:44:56,561
for freedom. Full stop.

707
00:44:57,796 --> 00:44:59,530
It has exploded into symbolism

708
00:44:59,664 --> 00:45:01,499
and everybody's
talking about it.

709
00:45:04,870 --> 00:45:06,237
March 5th.

710
00:45:06,371 --> 00:45:08,073
Late supper at the B's.

711
00:45:08,206 --> 00:45:10,842
Eldest boy, 19, not home
since yesterday morning.

712
00:45:12,543 --> 00:45:14,212
Father chanced upon him
midday,

713
00:45:14,345 --> 00:45:15,713
marching alongside
his comrades.

714
00:45:15,847 --> 00:45:17,515
Their slogan...

715
00:45:17,648 --> 00:45:19,517
"The children are grumpy."

716
00:45:20,018 --> 00:45:21,452
Thank you.

717
00:45:21,586 --> 00:45:23,721
An additional dinner guest,
thus far, fails to appear.

718
00:45:23,855 --> 00:45:25,190
For this, I am grateful.

719
00:45:25,323 --> 00:45:27,658
Had not been informed of
his invitation in first place.

720
00:45:27,793 --> 00:45:29,027
We didn't mean
to offend you.

721
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,695
We're sorry.

722
00:45:30,829 --> 00:45:32,697
We thought
you might decline
the invitation

723
00:45:32,831 --> 00:45:34,032
if we warned you.

724
00:45:34,165 --> 00:45:35,934
You were right.
Yeah.

725
00:45:36,067 --> 00:45:37,903
Local news reports
aggressive crowd-control
methods...

726
00:45:38,036 --> 00:45:40,205
...in use on street
today. Quote...

727
00:45:40,338 --> 00:45:41,372
Just give him
a chance.

728
00:45:41,506 --> 00:45:43,241
He's very intelligent.

729
00:45:43,374 --> 00:45:45,210
So,
how long has it been
since what's-his-name?

730
00:45:45,343 --> 00:45:46,611
I know you mean well.

731
00:45:46,744 --> 00:45:49,815
"It begins with a prickly
tingling of the exposed skin."

732
00:45:54,652 --> 00:45:56,587
I'm not an old maid.

733
00:45:56,721 --> 00:45:58,389
We don't think that.

734
00:45:58,523 --> 00:46:00,258
Of course you're not.

735
00:46:00,391 --> 00:46:03,194
"Then,
a reddening and swelling
of the orbital muscles."

736
00:46:03,328 --> 00:46:04,863
Take me at my word.

737
00:46:04,996 --> 00:46:06,798
I live by myself on purpose.

738
00:46:06,932 --> 00:46:09,100
I prefer relationships
that end.

739
00:46:09,234 --> 00:46:12,137
I deliberately choose to have
neither husband nor children.

740
00:46:12,270 --> 00:46:14,572
The two greatest deterrents
to any woman's attempt

741
00:46:14,705 --> 00:46:16,741
to live by and for writing.

742
00:46:16,875 --> 00:46:17,843
Why are we crying?

743
00:46:17,976 --> 00:46:19,177
Because it's sad.

744
00:46:19,310 --> 00:46:20,411
We don't want
you to be alone.

745
00:46:20,545 --> 00:46:21,980
Loneliness
is a kind of poverty.

746
00:46:22,113 --> 00:46:23,348
I'm not sad.
My eyes hurt.

747
00:46:23,481 --> 00:46:24,582
There's something wrong

748
00:46:24,715 --> 00:46:26,484
with your apartment.

749
00:46:26,617 --> 00:46:28,987
"Finally, a barrage of
searing pain as snot
pours from the nostrils

750
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,721
"and the throat spasms
and constricts."

751
00:46:30,856 --> 00:46:31,923
MR. B.: Don't breathe.

752
00:46:45,103 --> 00:46:46,471
I'm naked,
Mrs. Krementz.

753
00:46:47,305 --> 00:46:48,539
I can see that.

754
00:46:48,673 --> 00:46:50,608
Why are you crying?
Tear gas.

755
00:46:50,741 --> 00:46:51,776
Also,

756
00:46:52,911 --> 00:46:54,512
I suppose I'm sad.

757
00:46:57,282 --> 00:46:59,584
Please turn away.
I feel shy about
my new muscles.

758
00:47:04,389 --> 00:47:06,524
Go tell your parents
you're home.
They're worried.

759
00:47:06,657 --> 00:47:08,759
I'm expected
back on the barricades.

760
00:47:08,894 --> 00:47:10,261
I didn't see any barricades.

761
00:47:10,395 --> 00:47:12,697
Well, we're still
constructing them.

762
00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:13,798
Uh-huh.

763
00:47:13,932 --> 00:47:15,000
What are you writing?

764
00:47:15,133 --> 00:47:16,401
A manifesto.

765
00:47:16,534 --> 00:47:18,503
I told them not to
invite Paul, by the way.

766
00:47:18,636 --> 00:47:21,139
Maybe you're sad,
but you don't seem
lonely to me.

767
00:47:21,272 --> 00:47:22,640
Exactly!

768
00:47:22,773 --> 00:47:25,143
I saw you at the protest
on top of a bookcase
taking notes.

769
00:47:25,276 --> 00:47:28,013
Is there a story in us?
For the people of Kansas.

770
00:47:28,146 --> 00:47:29,180
Maybe.

771
00:47:29,314 --> 00:47:30,548
Then you should study
our resolutions.

772
00:47:30,681 --> 00:47:32,183
Or, anyway,
will you proofread it?

773
00:47:32,317 --> 00:47:33,784
My parents think
you're a good writer.

774
00:47:35,186 --> 00:47:36,187
Give it to me.

775
00:47:45,964 --> 00:47:47,265
It's a little damp.

776
00:47:48,499 --> 00:47:49,834
Physically
or metaphorically?

777
00:47:49,968 --> 00:47:52,537
Both. Based on the cover
and the first four sentences.

778
00:47:52,670 --> 00:47:54,372
Don't criticize
my manifesto.

779
00:47:54,505 --> 00:47:55,740
Oh, you don't want remarks?

780
00:47:55,873 --> 00:47:57,242
I don't need remarks,
do I?

781
00:47:57,375 --> 00:47:59,244
I only asked you to
proofread it 'cause
I thought you'd be

782
00:47:59,377 --> 00:48:00,979
even more impressed
by how good it already is.

783
00:48:01,112 --> 00:48:03,648
Let's start with the typos.

784
00:48:03,781 --> 00:48:07,185
Can the faculty succeed
if the students fail?

785
00:48:07,318 --> 00:48:09,187
It remains to be seen.

786
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,322
MR. B.: Ah. Paul Duval.
Lucinda Krementz.

787
00:48:11,456 --> 00:48:12,523
How do you do?

788
00:48:13,691 --> 00:48:16,227
Your beard
is scratching me.

789
00:48:16,361 --> 00:48:19,931
Unexpected guest finally
arrives. Looks like hell.

790
00:48:20,065 --> 00:48:21,967
Describes odyssey across city.

791
00:48:22,100 --> 00:48:23,634
Stalled trains, stalled buses,

792
00:48:23,768 --> 00:48:26,972
broken windows, paving stones
flying in all directions.

793
00:48:28,173 --> 00:48:30,441
Anyway, we're here.

794
00:48:30,575 --> 00:48:33,378
The famous Lucinda.
Hello.

795
00:48:33,511 --> 00:48:35,580
I did not know you were
coming. They did not tell me.

796
00:48:35,713 --> 00:48:37,715
This is not
an official meeting.

797
00:48:43,754 --> 00:48:44,755
Good evening.

798
00:48:54,232 --> 00:48:55,333
KREMENTZ:
Start without me.

799
00:49:09,514 --> 00:49:10,815
March 10th.

800
00:49:10,948 --> 00:49:13,218
City services at a halt,
one week and counting.

801
00:49:13,351 --> 00:49:15,586
Public transportation,
suspended.

802
00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:18,789
Piles of garbage, uncollected.
Schools on strike.

803
00:49:18,923 --> 00:49:20,591
No mail, no milk.

804
00:49:20,725 --> 00:49:21,826
It's me again.

805
00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:23,261
KREMENTZ:
What will normal reality be?

806
00:49:23,394 --> 00:49:25,296
Next week, next month,
whenever, if ever,

807
00:49:25,430 --> 00:49:27,165
we get the chance
to experience it again.

808
00:49:27,765 --> 00:49:28,699
Anyone's guess.

809
00:49:28,833 --> 00:49:30,135
What's this part?

810
00:49:30,268 --> 00:49:31,802
I added an appendix.

811
00:49:31,936 --> 00:49:33,171
You're joking.
No, I'm not.

812
00:49:33,304 --> 00:49:35,106
You finished my manifesto
without me.

813
00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:37,008
I made it sound
like you, I think.

814
00:49:37,142 --> 00:49:38,476
Just more clear,
more concise,

815
00:49:38,609 --> 00:49:40,178
a bit less poetic.

816
00:49:40,311 --> 00:49:43,348
Put it this way,
this isn't the first
manifesto I've proofread.

817
00:49:48,286 --> 00:49:50,121
Impossible to imagine
these students,

818
00:49:50,255 --> 00:49:52,823
exhilarated, naive,
brave in the extreme...

819
00:49:54,325 --> 00:49:57,328
...returning to their
obedient classrooms.

820
00:50:05,170 --> 00:50:06,671
Who was that?

821
00:50:06,804 --> 00:50:08,306
Your mother.
My mother.

822
00:50:08,439 --> 00:50:10,108
My mother?

823
00:50:10,241 --> 00:50:11,776
What did she want?
Did you tell her
I was here?

824
00:50:11,909 --> 00:50:13,544
Yes.
Why?

825
00:50:13,678 --> 00:50:15,346
Because she asked.
I don't lie.

826
00:50:15,980 --> 00:50:17,048
Was she upset?

827
00:50:17,182 --> 00:50:18,216
I don't think so.

828
00:50:18,349 --> 00:50:20,185
What did she say?
She nodded.

829
00:50:20,318 --> 00:50:21,852
What did you say?

830
00:50:21,986 --> 00:50:24,155
I told her I was working
on an article about you
and your friends.

831
00:50:24,955 --> 00:50:26,224
So, you are.

832
00:50:26,357 --> 00:50:28,326
I've already written
1,000 words.

833
00:50:28,459 --> 00:50:29,860
I asked to interview her.

834
00:50:29,994 --> 00:50:32,263
Did she agree?
Yes, of course.

835
00:50:34,532 --> 00:50:35,666
Well, I am upset!

836
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:37,868
I don't know how to feel.

837
00:50:38,002 --> 00:50:40,471
Am I in trouble? Why would
my mother be so calm?

838
00:50:40,605 --> 00:50:42,340
Is this proper?

839
00:50:42,473 --> 00:50:45,143
This is all off-the-record.
Everything. My whole life.

840
00:50:47,678 --> 00:50:49,247
What am I supposed
to do now?

841
00:50:50,681 --> 00:50:53,050
I should maintain
journalistic neutrality.

842
00:50:56,321 --> 00:50:57,622
Ooh.

843
00:51:02,693 --> 00:51:05,029
I like how
ruthless you are.

844
00:51:05,163 --> 00:51:07,232
It's part of
your beauty, I think.

845
00:51:09,167 --> 00:51:11,536
So, you've got
1,000 words already, huh?

846
00:51:14,139 --> 00:51:15,440
The kids did this.

847
00:51:15,573 --> 00:51:18,109
Obliterated 1,000 years
of Republican authority

848
00:51:18,243 --> 00:51:19,710
in less than a fortnight.

849
00:51:19,844 --> 00:51:21,479
How and why?

850
00:51:21,612 --> 00:51:24,215
Before it began,
where did it begin?

851
00:51:30,221 --> 00:51:33,158
ZEFFIRELLI:
It was another time.
It was another Ennui.

852
00:51:33,291 --> 00:51:37,595
Must be nearly six months ago,
I guess. My sisters
were still 12, anyway.

853
00:51:43,668 --> 00:51:46,137
You danced to the Craze
and the Lait Chaud.

854
00:51:48,539 --> 00:51:50,208
You wore your hairdo
in the Pompidou,

855
00:51:50,341 --> 00:51:52,243
the Crouton,
or the Fruits-de-Mer.

856
00:51:53,578 --> 00:51:55,246
Your slang mixed
bits of Latin

857
00:51:55,380 --> 00:51:57,682
with philosophy jargon
and manual signaling.

858
00:51:59,584 --> 00:52:02,187
Devil's advocates bickered
and debated perpetually,
ad nauseam,

859
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:03,954
only for the sake of argument.

860
00:52:07,024 --> 00:52:08,759
Every clique had a rival.

861
00:52:11,896 --> 00:52:14,899
The Nuts had the Bolts.
The Sticks had the Stones.

862
00:52:15,032 --> 00:52:17,101
The Jocks had us,
the Bookworms,

863
00:52:17,235 --> 00:52:18,736
until Mitch-Mitch failed
the baccalaureate

864
00:52:18,869 --> 00:52:21,306
and got sent down
to National Duty-obligation.

865
00:52:21,439 --> 00:52:23,508
Three months
in the Mustard Region.

866
00:52:58,876 --> 00:53:00,545
He was sent
to the Mustard Region

867
00:53:00,678 --> 00:53:01,846
for National Duty-obligation.

868
00:53:05,182 --> 00:53:06,917
I'm sorry?

869
00:53:07,818 --> 00:53:08,919
How dare you?

870
00:53:09,053 --> 00:53:10,555
Who gave you permission
to besmirch our friend?

871
00:53:10,688 --> 00:53:12,790
Does it occur to you
he's very probably
somewhere marching

872
00:53:12,923 --> 00:53:14,525
in the middle of
the night right now,

873
00:53:14,659 --> 00:53:16,894
carrying a 50-pound
sack of gunpowder
and peeling stale potatoes

874
00:53:17,027 --> 00:53:19,664
while he digs a latrine trench
in the rain with a tin cup?

875
00:53:19,797 --> 00:53:21,399
He doesn't want
to be in the military.

876
00:53:28,906 --> 00:53:30,608
Easy for you to say

877
00:53:30,741 --> 00:53:32,510
from the comfort
of the Sans Blague.

878
00:53:40,184 --> 00:53:41,986
Mitch-Mitch,
what are you doing here?

879
00:53:42,119 --> 00:53:43,354
You're supposed to be
in the Mustard Region

880
00:53:43,488 --> 00:53:44,855
for another two months.

881
00:53:44,989 --> 00:53:46,891
Five years later,
I, myself, translated

882
00:53:47,024 --> 00:53:49,159
Mitch-Mitch Simca's
poetic interpretation

883
00:53:49,294 --> 00:53:51,596
of his National
Duty-obligation service.

884
00:53:55,065 --> 00:53:58,235
The flashback scene
in Act Two
of Goodbye, Zeffirelli.

885
00:53:58,369 --> 00:54:01,406
In North Africa,
I caught a bullet
in the tail.

886
00:54:01,539 --> 00:54:02,873
In South America,
I caught a chunk of

887
00:54:03,007 --> 00:54:05,476
high-explosive shrapnel
in the left wing.

888
00:54:05,610 --> 00:54:07,211
In East Asia,
I picked up a rare,

889
00:54:07,345 --> 00:54:08,879
microbial,
infectious gut-parasite

890
00:54:09,013 --> 00:54:10,448
in the lower
abdominal cavity,

891
00:54:10,581 --> 00:54:12,717
and I've got them
all with me right now,

892
00:54:12,850 --> 00:54:14,919
still in my body,

893
00:54:15,052 --> 00:54:18,689
but I don't regret
my choice to wear
this uniform.

894
00:54:18,823 --> 00:54:21,559
And in 16 years,
I'll get my pension.

895
00:54:23,093 --> 00:54:25,262
Well, that's your bedtime
story, ladies. Lights out!

896
00:54:25,396 --> 00:54:26,697
Hup! Ho! Hut!
Lights out!

897
00:54:26,831 --> 00:54:28,132
Covers tucked! Blankets on!

898
00:54:28,265 --> 00:54:29,967
-Pray your prayers!
-Sir!

899
00:54:34,739 --> 00:54:37,308
Amen. Amen. Amen.

900
00:54:40,978 --> 00:54:42,079
Psst.

901
00:54:45,082 --> 00:54:47,217
Psst, Mitch-Mitch. Psst.

902
00:54:47,352 --> 00:54:49,920
Psst, Mitch-Mitch.
What do you wanna be?

903
00:54:50,054 --> 00:54:51,155
MITCH-MITCH: What?

904
00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:53,624
What do you want
to be, Mitch-Mitch?

905
00:54:53,758 --> 00:54:56,594
With my grades,
I'll be an assistant
pharmacist.

906
00:54:56,727 --> 00:54:58,796
Will that make you
be satisfied?

907
00:54:58,929 --> 00:55:01,599
It won't depress me.
I should have studied
harder.

908
00:55:01,732 --> 00:55:03,100
And you, Robouchon?

909
00:55:03,233 --> 00:55:04,502
Oh, I have no choice.

910
00:55:04,635 --> 00:55:06,437
I'll work for my father's
glass factory.

911
00:55:06,571 --> 00:55:09,306
Someone has to take over.
It's normal.

912
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,308
Vaugirard.
What's your plan?

913
00:55:11,442 --> 00:55:13,511
I suppose I'll continue
to be an attractive wastrel

914
00:55:13,644 --> 00:55:15,346
like my cousins on
both sides of the family.

915
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,181
Your cousins are the best.
I love your cousins.

916
00:55:17,314 --> 00:55:19,417
Yeah.
What about you, Morisot?

917
00:55:21,419 --> 00:55:23,187
Morisot, what do
you want to be?

918
00:55:25,790 --> 00:55:26,991
A protestor.

919
00:55:28,426 --> 00:55:30,995
What'd he say?
He said, "A protestor."

920
00:55:31,128 --> 00:55:33,030
What does he mean?
I don't know.

921
00:55:33,163 --> 00:55:34,865
I thought Morisot
was supposed to be

922
00:55:34,999 --> 00:55:36,567
a professor of
geological chemistry.

923
00:55:36,701 --> 00:55:38,202
Morisot's crying.

924
00:55:38,335 --> 00:55:40,237
Shh!
Who said "shh"?

925
00:55:40,371 --> 00:55:41,506
I won't do it.

926
00:55:43,307 --> 00:55:44,742
It's only eight more weeks,
Morisot,

927
00:55:44,875 --> 00:55:46,511
before we complete
the program.

928
00:55:46,644 --> 00:55:48,312
I don't mean the program.

929
00:55:50,314 --> 00:55:53,350
I mean from when we go home
until retirement age.

930
00:55:53,484 --> 00:55:55,886
That 48-year period
of my life, I mean.

931
00:55:56,020 --> 00:55:57,822
That's what I won't do.

932
00:55:58,856 --> 00:56:00,758
I can no longer
envision myself

933
00:56:00,891 --> 00:56:03,193
as a grown-up man
in our parents' world.

934
00:56:12,036 --> 00:56:14,439
Morisot! He went
out the window!

935
00:56:16,273 --> 00:56:17,875
Is he dead?
I don't know.

936
00:56:18,008 --> 00:56:19,209
How far did he fall?

937
00:56:19,343 --> 00:56:20,711
Five floors
with high ceilings.

938
00:56:20,845 --> 00:56:23,213
It rained last night.
Maybe the mud's
still soft.

939
00:56:23,347 --> 00:56:24,482
He's not moving.

940
00:56:26,116 --> 00:56:27,485
He's still not moving.

941
00:56:29,119 --> 00:56:30,421
He's still not moving.

942
00:56:31,756 --> 00:56:33,057
He's still not moving.

943
00:56:34,158 --> 00:56:35,526
He's still not moving.

944
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:37,562
He's still not moving.

945
00:56:38,529 --> 00:56:39,797
He's still not moving.

946
00:57:09,527 --> 00:57:10,828
The next morning,

947
00:57:10,961 --> 00:57:13,163
Mitch-Mitch was arrested
for Desertion and Desecration,

948
00:57:13,297 --> 00:57:14,832
and the Sans Blague
became headquarters

949
00:57:14,965 --> 00:57:16,266
for the Movement
of Young Idealists

950
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:17,502
for the Revolutionary
Overthrow

951
00:57:17,635 --> 00:57:19,269
of Reactionary
Neo-liberal Society.

952
00:57:19,403 --> 00:57:20,437
What are you doing?

953
00:57:23,107 --> 00:57:24,274
They can live together.

954
00:57:25,242 --> 00:57:26,744
Tip-top with Charvet.

955
00:58:08,018 --> 00:58:11,155
There followed,
a brisk, unpredictable
tit-for-tat.

956
00:58:11,288 --> 00:58:13,524
between Ennui's elders
and its youngers.

957
00:58:14,825 --> 00:58:16,260
August.

958
00:58:16,393 --> 00:58:19,396
Community Whisper Campaign
denounces student movement.

959
00:58:20,164 --> 00:58:21,599
September.

960
00:58:21,732 --> 00:58:24,268
Sans Blague coffee license
revoked by official decree.

961
00:58:26,303 --> 00:58:27,605
October.

962
00:58:27,738 --> 00:58:29,674
Propaganda Committee
erects pirate radio tower

963
00:58:29,807 --> 00:58:31,609
on Physics Department rooftop.

964
00:58:33,010 --> 00:58:34,378
November.

965
00:58:34,511 --> 00:58:37,214
Meal plan blockade of
the undergraduate cafeteria.

966
00:58:38,148 --> 00:58:39,550
December.

967
00:58:39,684 --> 00:58:41,986
Check-out protest at
the Bibliotheque Principale.

968
00:58:42,119 --> 00:58:44,354
Entire library circulation
legally removed

969
00:58:44,488 --> 00:58:48,192
until five minutes before
incur of massive overdue
book fines.

970
00:58:48,325 --> 00:58:49,526
January.

971
00:58:49,660 --> 00:58:51,596
Mitch-Mitch released
to parental custody.

972
00:58:53,197 --> 00:58:54,632
February.

973
00:58:54,765 --> 00:58:56,400
The girls' dormitory uprising.

974
00:58:58,002 --> 00:59:00,304
It all, in the end,
leads to...

975
00:59:01,138 --> 00:59:02,072
March.

976
00:59:02,206 --> 00:59:03,808
The chessboard revolution.

977
01:00:01,231 --> 01:00:02,532
What page you on?

978
01:00:09,907 --> 01:00:11,308
I think so.
By definition.

979
01:00:20,751 --> 01:00:22,787
In spite of the purity
of their cause,

980
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,622
to create a free, borderless,
utopian civilization,

981
01:00:25,756 --> 01:00:27,424
the students, nevertheless,

982
01:00:27,557 --> 01:00:30,094
split into factions
before fully uniting
in first place.

983
01:00:36,066 --> 01:00:37,735
One thing is now
finally clear,

984
01:00:37,868 --> 01:00:39,336
they are answering
their parents.

985
01:00:39,469 --> 01:00:42,106
What do they want?
To defend their illusions.

986
01:00:42,239 --> 01:00:43,674
A luminous abstraction.

987
01:00:51,148 --> 01:00:53,383
I am convinced they are better
than we were.

988
01:01:10,067 --> 01:01:12,469
Mrs. Krementz
suggested it, actually.
The appendix.

989
01:01:14,604 --> 01:01:16,573
Polished it.
Certain passages.

990
01:01:33,123 --> 01:01:34,458
I inscribed it to you.

991
01:01:34,591 --> 01:01:35,559
Oh.

992
01:01:42,299 --> 01:01:43,500
Remind myself,

993
01:01:43,633 --> 01:01:45,602
"You are a guest
at this manifestation.

994
01:01:45,736 --> 01:01:49,273
"Not my fight.
Stay out of it, Lucinda.
Keep your mouth shut."

995
01:01:49,406 --> 01:01:51,441
I have to say something.

996
01:01:51,575 --> 01:01:54,111
You're a very
bright girl, Juliette.

997
01:01:54,244 --> 01:01:56,914
If you put away
your powder puff for
one minute, forgive me,

998
01:01:57,047 --> 01:01:59,149
and think for yourself
for one minute, forgive me,

999
01:01:59,283 --> 01:02:01,485
you might realize
you're all in this together.

1000
01:02:01,618 --> 01:02:03,020
Even the riot police.

1001
01:02:11,028 --> 01:02:12,396
Our move.

1002
01:02:17,501 --> 01:02:19,703
That was impolite. Of me.

1003
01:02:19,837 --> 01:02:21,571
I withdraw the remark.

1004
01:02:24,408 --> 01:02:25,776
I beg your pardon.

1005
01:02:27,912 --> 01:02:28,913
I'm sorry.

1006
01:02:30,881 --> 01:02:31,916
Thank you.

1007
01:02:33,217 --> 01:02:34,384
You're sure?

1008
01:02:39,890 --> 01:02:41,425
Sure you're not a child?

1009
01:02:43,928 --> 01:02:46,997
Then learn
to accept an apology.
That's important.

1010
01:02:52,903 --> 01:02:53,938
Grown-ups.

1011
01:02:57,041 --> 01:02:58,642
Our move.
The mayor's waiting.

1012
01:03:19,596 --> 01:03:21,665
Kindly leave me my dignity.

1013
01:03:23,333 --> 01:03:25,836
She's not an old maid.
She's not in love with me.

1014
01:03:25,970 --> 01:03:27,637
She's our friend.
I'm her friend.

1015
01:03:27,771 --> 01:03:30,107
She's confused.
She wants to help us.

1016
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:32,642
She's angry.
She's a very good writer.

1017
01:03:34,144 --> 01:03:36,680
It's a lonely life,
isn't it?

1018
01:03:38,215 --> 01:03:40,650
Sometimes.

1019
01:03:40,784 --> 01:03:43,854
It's true. I should maintain
journalistic neutrality,

1020
01:03:43,988 --> 01:03:45,289
if it exists.

1021
01:03:47,291 --> 01:03:49,960
Please excuse me,
Mrs. Krementz.

1022
01:04:15,986 --> 01:04:18,155
It's just fireworks.

1023
01:04:18,288 --> 01:04:20,190
She's the best of them.

1024
01:04:20,324 --> 01:04:22,927
Stop bickering.
Go make love.

1025
01:04:27,831 --> 01:04:30,100
Me, too.
Except for Mrs. Krementz.

1026
01:04:31,368 --> 01:04:32,569
I thought so.

1027
01:04:45,615 --> 01:04:46,816
March 15th.

1028
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:54,925
Discover on flyleaf of
my composition book
a hasty paragraph.

1029
01:04:55,059 --> 01:04:57,561
Not sure when Zeffirelli
had the chance to write it.

1030
01:04:57,694 --> 01:05:00,130
Late that night while I slept?

1031
01:05:00,264 --> 01:05:02,566
Poetic, not necessarily
in a bad way.

1032
01:05:02,699 --> 01:05:04,234
Reads as follows...

1033
01:05:08,405 --> 01:05:10,707
Post script
to a burst appendix.

1034
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:13,277
An invincible comet speeds
on its guided arc

1035
01:05:13,410 --> 01:05:16,880
toward the outer reaches
of the galaxy in cosmic
space-time.

1036
01:05:17,014 --> 01:05:18,715
What was our cause?

1037
01:05:20,917 --> 01:05:22,987
Recollection of two memories.

1038
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:25,589
You. Soap scent of
drugstore shampoo,

1039
01:05:25,722 --> 01:05:29,426
ashtray of stale cigarettes,
burnt toast.

1040
01:05:29,559 --> 01:05:31,728
Her. Perfume of
cheap gasoline,

1041
01:05:31,861 --> 01:05:35,932
coffee on the breath,
too much sugar,
cocoa butter skin.

1042
01:05:36,066 --> 01:05:37,434
Where does she
spend her summers?

1043
01:05:39,169 --> 01:05:41,305
They say it's the smells
you finally don't forget.

1044
01:05:41,438 --> 01:05:42,906
The brain works that way.

1045
01:05:44,074 --> 01:05:45,875
I've never read
my mother's books.

1046
01:05:46,010 --> 01:05:49,146
I'm told my father was
really quite remarkable
during the last war.

1047
01:05:49,279 --> 01:05:50,647
Best parents I know.

1048
01:05:52,382 --> 01:05:54,284
The girls' dormitory.

1049
01:05:54,418 --> 01:05:55,652
First time I've come inside,

1050
01:05:55,785 --> 01:05:58,622
except to vandalize it
during demonstrations.

1051
01:05:58,755 --> 01:06:02,826
I said, "Don't criticize
my manifesto." She said...

1052
01:06:04,928 --> 01:06:07,931
I feel shy about
my new muscles.

1053
01:06:08,065 --> 01:06:11,301
Her large, stupid eyes
watched me pee.

1054
01:06:15,139 --> 01:06:17,007
A thousand kisses later,

1055
01:06:17,141 --> 01:06:20,310
will she still remember
the taste of my tool on
the tip of her tongue?

1056
01:06:22,312 --> 01:06:25,849
Apologies, Mrs. Krementz.
I know you despise
crude language.

1057
01:06:32,289 --> 01:06:33,957
Additional sentence
at bottom of page

1058
01:06:34,091 --> 01:06:37,094
completely indecipherable
due to poor penmanship.

1059
01:06:42,666 --> 01:06:46,436
"Revisions to a Manifesto.
Page four, asterisk one.

1060
01:06:48,472 --> 01:06:49,706
"The promotion of..."

1061
01:07:09,659 --> 01:07:10,760
I'll be right back.

1062
01:07:18,502 --> 01:07:20,036
Zeffirelli!

1063
01:07:49,899 --> 01:07:51,835
He is not an invincible comet

1064
01:07:51,968 --> 01:07:53,703
speeding on its guided arc

1065
01:07:53,837 --> 01:07:56,506
toward the outer reaches
of the galaxy in cosmic
space-time.

1066
01:07:59,776 --> 01:08:02,312
Rather, he is a boy
who will die young.

1067
01:08:04,047 --> 01:08:06,483
He will drown on this planet

1068
01:08:06,616 --> 01:08:09,386
in the steady current
of the deep, dirty,
magnificent river

1069
01:08:09,519 --> 01:08:11,955
that flows night and day
through the veins and arteries

1070
01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:13,623
of his own ancient city.

1071
01:08:15,859 --> 01:08:18,228
His parents will receive
a telephone call at midnight,

1072
01:08:18,362 --> 01:08:20,230
dress briskly, mechanically,

1073
01:08:20,364 --> 01:08:21,998
and hold hands
in the silent taxi

1074
01:08:22,132 --> 01:08:24,734
as they go to identify
the body of their cold son.

1075
01:08:27,271 --> 01:08:30,374
His likeness, mass-produced
and shrink-wrap packaged,

1076
01:08:30,507 --> 01:08:33,042
will be sold like bubblegum
to the hero-inspired

1077
01:08:33,177 --> 01:08:36,480
who hope to see
themselves like this.

1078
01:08:36,613 --> 01:08:38,715
The touching narcissism
of the young.

1079
01:08:55,131 --> 01:08:56,466
March 30th.

1080
01:09:01,238 --> 01:09:03,807
Across the street,
a glaring metaphor.

1081
01:09:03,940 --> 01:09:06,142
Bell rings,
pupils scamper inside

1082
01:09:06,276 --> 01:09:08,178
back to their
obedient classrooms.

1083
01:09:13,683 --> 01:09:16,853
A creaky swing sways
in the deserted schoolyard.

1084
01:09:28,498 --> 01:09:29,466
Come in!

1085
01:10:18,482 --> 01:10:22,185
Someone told me you have
a photographic memory.

1086
01:10:22,319 --> 01:10:24,854
Is that true?
That is false.

1087
01:10:24,988 --> 01:10:27,223
I have
a typographic memory.

1088
01:10:27,357 --> 01:10:29,125
I recollect
the written word

1089
01:10:29,259 --> 01:10:30,794
with considerable
accuracy and detail.

1090
01:10:30,927 --> 01:10:33,196
In other spheres,
my powers of retention

1091
01:10:33,330 --> 01:10:35,532
are distinctly
impressionistic.

1092
01:10:35,665 --> 01:10:38,768
I'm known to my intimates
as a most forgetful man.

1093
01:10:38,902 --> 01:10:40,069
Yet you remember

1094
01:10:40,203 --> 01:10:41,771
every word you ever wrote.
Hmm.

1095
01:10:41,905 --> 01:10:44,274
The novels, the essays,
the poems, the plays...

1096
01:10:44,408 --> 01:10:47,210
The unrequited valentines.
Sadly, I do.

1097
01:10:48,077 --> 01:10:49,413
May I test you?

1098
01:10:49,546 --> 01:10:50,747
If you must.

1099
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:53,783
Unless we try the patience
of your viewership,

1100
01:10:53,917 --> 01:10:58,254
or the esteemed spokesmen
for Gemini tooth powder?

1101
01:10:58,388 --> 01:11:00,724
My favorite piece
is the one about the cook,

1102
01:11:00,857 --> 01:11:02,692
where the kidnappers
get poisoned.

1103
01:11:02,826 --> 01:11:05,495
"Do students of the table
dream in flavors?

1104
01:11:05,629 --> 01:11:09,132
"That was the first of
the questions a reporter
for this magazine

1105
01:11:09,265 --> 01:11:11,635
"had diligently prepared
in advance of his encounter

1106
01:11:11,768 --> 01:11:13,603
"with Lieutenant Nescaffier,

1107
01:11:13,737 --> 01:11:17,006
"ranking chef at
District Headquarters on
the narrow river-peninsula

1108
01:11:17,140 --> 01:11:20,009
"known as
the Rognure d'Ongle.

1109
01:11:20,143 --> 01:11:22,111
"All such queries
were to remain unanswered

1110
01:11:22,245 --> 01:11:24,180
"in the course of
that eventful evening."

1111
01:11:25,449 --> 01:11:27,116
Shall I carry on?

1112
01:11:27,817 --> 01:11:28,918
Please.

1113
01:11:33,423 --> 01:11:35,659
I'd arrived
insufficiently early.

1114
01:11:38,094 --> 01:11:39,963
Though the suite of rooms
on the penultimate floor

1115
01:11:40,096 --> 01:11:43,400
of the grand edifice was
hypothetically indicated
on a floorplan

1116
01:11:43,533 --> 01:11:45,402
provided on the back
of the carte de degustation...

1117
01:11:48,372 --> 01:11:50,740
it was nigh impossible
to locate,

1118
01:11:50,874 --> 01:11:52,241
at least for this reporter.

1119
01:11:52,376 --> 01:11:54,578
A weakness in cartography.

1120
01:11:54,711 --> 01:11:56,513
The curse of the homosexual.

1121
01:12:02,085 --> 01:12:04,187
Monsieur Nescaffier made
his name and reputation.

1122
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:07,524
He is fanatically celebrated
among cooks, cops,
and capitaines,

1123
01:12:07,657 --> 01:12:10,394
not to mention squealers,
stoolies, and snitches,

1124
01:12:10,527 --> 01:12:12,962
as the great exemplar
of the mode of cuisine

1125
01:12:13,096 --> 01:12:15,732
known as
Gastronomie Gendarmique.

1126
01:12:20,604 --> 01:12:21,805
"Police cooking" began

1127
01:12:21,938 --> 01:12:24,007
with the stake-out picnic
and paddy-wagon snack,

1128
01:12:24,140 --> 01:12:26,576
but has evolved and codified
into something refined,

1129
01:12:26,710 --> 01:12:29,813
intensely nourishing,
and, if executed properly,

1130
01:12:29,946 --> 01:12:31,648
marvelously flavorful.

1131
01:12:33,016 --> 01:12:34,050
Fundamentals...

1132
01:12:34,183 --> 01:12:36,185
highly portable,
rich in protein,

1133
01:12:36,319 --> 01:12:38,187
eaten with the non-dominant
hand only,

1134
01:12:38,321 --> 01:12:40,490
the other being reserved
for firearms and paperwork.

1135
01:12:48,798 --> 01:12:51,968
Most dishes are served
pre-cut. Nothing crunchy.

1136
01:12:52,101 --> 01:12:53,403
Quiet food.

1137
01:12:56,139 --> 01:12:59,142
Sauces are dehydrated
and ground to a powder
to avoid spillage

1138
01:12:59,275 --> 01:13:01,310
and the risk of
the tainting of
a crime scene.

1139
01:13:03,212 --> 01:13:06,249
Diners are expected
to provide their own
fourchettes de poche,

1140
01:13:06,382 --> 01:13:08,217
often engraved with
the arcane mottoes

1141
01:13:08,351 --> 01:13:10,787
and off-color sayings of
their respective precincts.

1142
01:13:37,614 --> 01:13:40,149
How are you planning
to kill me?

1143
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:45,088
I believe this to be

1144
01:13:45,221 --> 01:13:47,524
a case of mistaken identity.

1145
01:13:51,394 --> 01:13:55,064
Have you been
in the chicken coop
for a very long while?

1146
01:14:02,105 --> 01:14:03,439
I beg your pardon.

1147
01:14:17,654 --> 01:14:20,023
Monsieur Nescaffier,
even during his apprenticeship

1148
01:14:20,156 --> 01:14:21,691
in a provincial
fire department,

1149
01:14:21,825 --> 01:14:23,793
aspired to a lofty perch,

1150
01:14:23,927 --> 01:14:26,362
and there can be
no higher position
in the metier than that of

1151
01:14:26,496 --> 01:14:28,865
Chef Cuisinier
for the private dining room

1152
01:14:28,998 --> 01:14:31,434
of the Commissaire
de la Police Municipale.

1153
01:14:40,577 --> 01:14:42,478
Forgive my tardiness.

1154
01:14:44,480 --> 01:14:46,282
No, not at all.
Not at all.

1155
01:14:49,318 --> 01:14:51,020
Mr. Wright,
may I present my mother

1156
01:14:51,154 --> 01:14:53,690
Louise de la Villatte.
You can call her Maman.

1157
01:14:53,823 --> 01:14:55,424
We all do.
Bonsoir, monsieur.

1158
01:14:55,559 --> 01:14:57,927
THE COMMISSAIRE:
This is my oldest friend,
Chou-fleur.

1159
01:14:58,061 --> 01:15:00,930
When I met him,
he was a girlish
little schoolboy

1160
01:15:01,064 --> 01:15:03,800
with ringlets
and a full set of teeth.

1161
01:15:03,933 --> 01:15:07,170
Now, he looks like a corpse.

1162
01:15:07,303 --> 01:15:09,272
In the corner,
Patrolman Maupassant.

1163
01:15:09,405 --> 01:15:11,374
He'll be serving.

1164
01:15:11,507 --> 01:15:13,342
Cocktails.
Oui, monsieur.

1165
01:15:17,046 --> 01:15:18,815
THE COMMISSAIRE:
And this is my son, Gigi,

1166
01:15:18,948 --> 01:15:20,183
in the crime-lab smock.

1167
01:15:20,316 --> 01:15:23,587
What are you stealing
from my personal records?

1168
01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:25,689
Unsolved cases.

1169
01:15:25,822 --> 01:15:27,557
THE COMMISSAIRE:
Well, say hello to Mr. Wright.

1170
01:15:27,691 --> 01:15:28,925
Hello, Mr. Wright.

1171
01:15:29,058 --> 01:15:30,426
Hello, Gigi.

1172
01:15:31,561 --> 01:15:34,831
Full name,
Isadore Sharif de la Villatte.

1173
01:15:37,033 --> 01:15:39,002
The Commissaire
and his only son,

1174
01:15:39,135 --> 01:15:42,105
widowered and motherless,
left the colony where
the boy was born,

1175
01:15:42,238 --> 01:15:44,507
cemented together
by their shared grief.

1176
01:15:44,641 --> 01:15:45,975
Gigi was six.

1177
01:15:47,210 --> 01:15:48,277
His schoolrooms

1178
01:15:48,411 --> 01:15:50,213
were the station house
and the squad car.

1179
01:15:51,547 --> 01:15:53,382
He was educated
by forensic tutors

1180
01:15:53,516 --> 01:15:55,251
in the traditions
of law enforcement.

1181
01:15:56,820 --> 01:15:58,688
His first drawings
were facial composites

1182
01:15:58,822 --> 01:16:00,423
based on eyewitness testimony.

1183
01:16:03,359 --> 01:16:06,362
His first words
were in Morse code.

1184
01:16:06,495 --> 01:16:09,532
It was, I suppose,
wonderfully obvious.

1185
01:16:09,666 --> 01:16:12,702
He was brought up to succeed
the Commissaire himself.

1186
01:16:14,638 --> 01:16:16,806
Yes, I've read you.
In the magazine.

1187
01:16:18,241 --> 01:16:20,309
To your satisfaction?

1188
01:16:20,443 --> 01:16:22,311
Of course. Of course.

1189
01:16:22,445 --> 01:16:23,713
Good writer.

1190
01:16:26,282 --> 01:16:29,252
I trust you are already
familiar with this genius.

1191
01:16:29,385 --> 01:16:31,054
At least by reputation.

1192
01:16:31,187 --> 01:16:32,656
Lieutenant Nescaffier.

1193
01:16:32,789 --> 01:16:33,990
I surely am.

1194
01:16:47,436 --> 01:16:50,373
The drink, a milky,
purplish aperitif,

1195
01:16:50,506 --> 01:16:52,942
ferociously fragrant,
overtly medicinal,

1196
01:16:53,076 --> 01:16:54,744
ever so faintly anesthetizing

1197
01:16:54,878 --> 01:16:57,881
and cooled
to a glacial viscosity
in a miniature version

1198
01:16:58,014 --> 01:16:59,382
of the type of vacuum-flask

1199
01:16:59,515 --> 01:17:02,251
normally associated with
campsites and schoolrooms,

1200
01:17:02,385 --> 01:17:03,720
cast a spell,

1201
01:17:03,853 --> 01:17:06,289
which, during the subsequent
60-second interval,

1202
01:17:06,422 --> 01:17:08,391
was to be mortally broken.

1203
01:17:08,524 --> 01:17:10,894
On three overlapping
dramatic timelines,

1204
01:17:11,027 --> 01:17:13,096
the following events
came to pass.

1205
01:17:16,866 --> 01:17:19,035
One.

1206
01:17:19,168 --> 01:17:22,271
Monsieur Nescaffier began
his mysterious ritual.

1207
01:17:22,405 --> 01:17:24,107
I can neither comprehend
nor describe

1208
01:17:24,240 --> 01:17:25,842
what occurs behind
a kitchen door.

1209
01:17:25,975 --> 01:17:27,977
I have always been content
to enjoy the issue

1210
01:17:28,111 --> 01:17:30,814
of an artist's talent
without unveiling
the secrets of the chisel

1211
01:17:30,947 --> 01:17:32,481
or the turpentine.

1212
01:17:33,616 --> 01:17:34,684
Two.

1213
01:17:40,256 --> 01:17:41,725
Patrolman Maupassant,

1214
01:17:41,858 --> 01:17:44,060
responding to an infrequently
illuminated signal,

1215
01:17:44,193 --> 01:17:45,995
delivered a telephone
to his superior.

1216
01:17:53,669 --> 01:17:55,171
Go ahead.

1217
01:17:59,608 --> 01:18:00,810
As you know by now,

1218
01:18:00,944 --> 01:18:02,045
we have kidnapped your son

1219
01:18:02,178 --> 01:18:03,379
and absconded
to a secure location

1220
01:18:03,512 --> 01:18:04,647
which you will never discover.

1221
01:18:04,781 --> 01:18:06,783
Release or execute the Abacus

1222
01:18:06,916 --> 01:18:09,385
and the little boy
will be safely returned
to your custody.

1223
01:18:09,518 --> 01:18:12,956
Failure to do so by sun-up
will result in your son's
violent death.

1224
01:18:20,363 --> 01:18:21,831
Three.

1225
01:18:21,965 --> 01:18:23,599
The skylight window
of the makeshift nursery

1226
01:18:23,733 --> 01:18:26,836
which occupies the attic
quarters jimmied ajar.

1227
01:19:01,204 --> 01:19:04,173
The getaway
and eventual motor pursuit
was rendered vividly,

1228
01:19:04,307 --> 01:19:06,275
if, perhaps, a bit fancifully,
in a comic strip

1229
01:19:06,409 --> 01:19:08,077
published the following week.

1230
01:19:42,912 --> 01:19:44,948
Though the infamous
Ennui gang war

1231
01:19:45,081 --> 01:19:46,749
"Winter Crimewave"
had eradicated

1232
01:19:46,883 --> 01:19:48,684
a healthy number of
thugs and hooligans,

1233
01:19:48,818 --> 01:19:50,519
it had also claimed the lives

1234
01:19:50,653 --> 01:19:53,422
of a disgraceful proportion
of innocent citizens.

1235
01:19:55,391 --> 01:19:57,894
Due to the surprise capture
of the racketeering accountant

1236
01:19:58,027 --> 01:19:59,395
Albert "the Abacus",

1237
01:19:59,528 --> 01:20:01,564
in possession of a valise
containing payroll stubs

1238
01:20:01,697 --> 01:20:04,267
for all three of
the city's major syndicates,

1239
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:07,170
the law-abiding community's
hopes for an accelerated
resolution

1240
01:20:07,303 --> 01:20:09,438
to the crisis
had been renewed.

1241
01:20:14,577 --> 01:20:17,646
However, this turn of events
had forcefully rattled
the cages

1242
01:20:17,780 --> 01:20:19,983
of the denizens
of the criminal underworld.

1243
01:20:26,322 --> 01:20:29,458
For myself, I had failed
to recognize the Abacus,

1244
01:20:29,592 --> 01:20:32,295
but as it happened,
I knew the chicken coop.

1245
01:20:32,428 --> 01:20:34,130
This is not in the article,
by the way.

1246
01:20:34,263 --> 01:20:36,465
If I refer to Mr. Howitzer,
do you know who I mean?

1247
01:20:36,599 --> 01:20:38,201
Of course.
Arthur Howitzer, Jr.

1248
01:20:38,334 --> 01:20:40,336
Founder and editor
of The French Dispatch.

1249
01:20:40,469 --> 01:20:43,806
It was my first week
in Ennui when I suffered
the misfortune

1250
01:20:43,940 --> 01:20:46,575
of being arrested in
a drinking establishment

1251
01:20:46,709 --> 01:20:48,811
on the fringes of
the Flop Quarter

1252
01:20:48,945 --> 01:20:52,348
along with a number of
newly-found companions.

1253
01:20:52,481 --> 01:20:54,050
What was the charge?

1254
01:20:54,483 --> 01:20:56,619
Love.

1255
01:20:56,752 --> 01:20:59,155
You see, people may
or may not be
mildly threatened

1256
01:20:59,288 --> 01:21:01,790
by your anger,
your hatred, your pride,

1257
01:21:01,925 --> 01:21:04,227
but love the wrong way

1258
01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:07,163
and you will find yourself
in great jeopardy.

1259
01:21:07,296 --> 01:21:10,799
In this case,
a chicken coop jail cell
for six days straight.

1260
01:21:10,934 --> 01:21:14,470
I had no one who cared
to rescue me, and no one
who cared to scold me.

1261
01:21:14,603 --> 01:21:18,908
And the only local number
committed to my typographic
memory was

1262
01:21:19,042 --> 01:21:21,177
Printer's District 9-2211.

1263
01:21:21,310 --> 01:21:22,578
While I regret
we are unable

1264
01:21:22,711 --> 01:21:25,048
to publish either
of these specific pieces,

1265
01:21:25,181 --> 01:21:28,251
I would be very pleased
to consider other submissions
in the future.

1266
01:21:28,384 --> 01:21:30,519
Or if you find yourself
in Ennui...

1267
01:21:36,359 --> 01:21:38,261
I'd never
met the man.

1268
01:21:38,394 --> 01:21:41,630
I knew how to reach him
only because I wanted a job.

1269
01:22:00,316 --> 01:22:02,851
Let's see here.

1270
01:22:02,986 --> 01:22:06,022
High school newspaper,
poetry club, drama society.

1271
01:22:06,155 --> 01:22:09,025
Wrote the school song.
Words and music.

1272
01:22:09,158 --> 01:22:12,428
Junior researcher,
cub reporter,
assistant editor.

1273
01:22:12,561 --> 01:22:13,696
Fires and murders.

1274
01:22:13,829 --> 01:22:15,064
That's how I started.

1275
01:22:15,198 --> 01:22:17,266
My father owned
the paper, of course.

1276
01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:20,036
Bit of sports, bit of crime,
bit of politics.

1277
01:22:20,169 --> 01:22:22,405
Shortlisted twice,
Best Essays.

1278
01:22:22,538 --> 01:22:25,041
Deep South, Midwest,
East Coast.

1279
01:22:25,174 --> 01:22:27,110
Vast country.

1280
01:22:27,243 --> 01:22:29,612
Haven't been there
in 20 years.

1281
01:22:29,745 --> 01:22:33,582
Not now. I'm conducting
a job interview.

1282
01:22:33,716 --> 01:22:36,519
Your writing samples are good.
I re-read them in the taxi.

1283
01:22:36,652 --> 01:22:38,254
Have you ever done
any book reviews?

1284
01:22:39,555 --> 01:22:41,157
Never.

1285
01:22:41,290 --> 01:22:43,759
You're gonna be in there
another few hours before
they process you out.

1286
01:22:45,928 --> 01:22:48,331
Read this.
Give me 300 words.

1287
01:22:48,464 --> 01:22:52,701
I'll pay you 500 francs
minus the 250 I advanced
for your bail,

1288
01:22:52,835 --> 01:22:56,039
but I'll re-advance that
against cost of living.

1289
01:22:56,172 --> 01:22:58,674
Bring me a first draft
tomorrow morning

1290
01:22:58,807 --> 01:23:01,144
and however you go
about it, Mr. Wright,

1291
01:23:01,277 --> 01:23:04,280
try to make it sound like
you wrote it that way
on purpose.

1292
01:23:12,588 --> 01:23:13,822
Thank you.

1293
01:23:16,392 --> 01:23:17,793
No crying.

1294
01:23:25,934 --> 01:23:28,304
It came to be known
as the "Night of
a Thousand Slugs."

1295
01:23:28,437 --> 01:23:30,206
I'm reciting again.

1296
01:23:30,339 --> 01:23:33,176
How the Commissaire
and his elite team of
experts and analysts

1297
01:23:33,309 --> 01:23:36,879
succeeded so swiftly
in determining the location
of the kidnappers' lair...

1298
01:23:40,883 --> 01:23:41,884
Well...

1299
01:23:46,222 --> 01:23:47,890
I just don't know.

1300
01:23:51,294 --> 01:23:53,496
The tools of the trade,
I suppose.

1301
01:24:00,303 --> 01:24:02,338
But succeed they did.

1302
01:24:36,872 --> 01:24:38,207
Who were they?

1303
01:24:40,042 --> 01:24:41,410
It was later revealed.

1304
01:24:42,578 --> 01:24:44,613
A hired crew of
bandits and gunmen

1305
01:24:44,747 --> 01:24:46,982
imported by the ranking bosses
of the Ennui rackets

1306
01:24:47,116 --> 01:24:49,585
and their network
of underworld middlemen.

1307
01:24:51,387 --> 01:24:56,225
Chauffeur Joe Lefevre,
a once almost promising
instrumentalist.

1308
01:24:56,359 --> 01:24:58,927
Stetson, Spinster,
and Hieronymus Von Altman,

1309
01:24:59,061 --> 01:25:00,996
Dutch masterminds.

1310
01:25:01,130 --> 01:25:04,600
Marconi Brutelli,
the Mediterranean anarchist.

1311
01:25:05,768 --> 01:25:08,537
A pair of hooligans,
estranged cousins.

1312
01:25:09,872 --> 01:25:13,041
A trio of showgirls,
all junkies.

1313
01:25:15,077 --> 01:25:17,112
Plus one small,
resourceful prisoner,

1314
01:25:17,246 --> 01:25:20,583
determined to free himself
and reduce taxpayer expense.

1315
01:25:31,527 --> 01:25:32,595
What's that noise?

1316
01:25:34,330 --> 01:25:37,466
Uh, air bubbles
in the radiator pipes.
It's pressurized.

1317
01:25:37,600 --> 01:25:39,202
Sounds like Morse code.

1318
01:25:40,636 --> 01:25:42,438
Vaguely, maybe.

1319
01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:46,809
I'm Gigi, by the way.
What's your name?

1320
01:25:46,942 --> 01:25:50,513
I'm not gonna tell you that.
This is a felony.

1321
01:25:50,646 --> 01:25:54,049
You're not a criminal.
You're just a mixed-up
showgirl.

1322
01:25:54,183 --> 01:25:56,519
Ha.
Ha, yourself.

1323
01:25:57,152 --> 01:25:58,354
Shut up.

1324
01:25:59,288 --> 01:26:00,689
What color eyes
do you have?

1325
01:26:00,823 --> 01:26:02,057
Blue?

1326
01:26:11,567 --> 01:26:12,668
Hello.

1327
01:26:14,337 --> 01:26:15,538
Hello.

1328
01:26:19,842 --> 01:26:21,644
Sing me a lullaby.

1329
01:26:21,777 --> 01:26:23,178
I'm scared.

1330
01:26:52,475 --> 01:26:54,377
Are you asleep?

1331
01:26:55,344 --> 01:26:56,412
Uh-huh.

1332
01:27:00,416 --> 01:27:03,719
The Commissaire
adored Gigi with all his
voluminous heart.

1333
01:27:03,852 --> 01:27:05,354
However, his mind,

1334
01:27:05,488 --> 01:27:07,222
that exceptional machine
for the detection

1335
01:27:07,356 --> 01:27:09,392
and investigation
of criminal activity,

1336
01:27:11,026 --> 01:27:12,828
had been whirring
since dinnertime.

1337
01:27:14,463 --> 01:27:16,399
Diner.
Diner.

1338
01:27:16,532 --> 01:27:19,402
And he was in a condition
of dire calorific depletion.

1339
01:27:22,004 --> 01:27:23,939
Nescaffier, back in the field

1340
01:27:24,072 --> 01:27:25,874
for the first time
in six years,

1341
01:27:26,008 --> 01:27:28,076
came prepared to dazzle.

1342
01:27:30,078 --> 01:27:32,281
Diner.

1343
01:27:32,415 --> 01:27:35,183
The change was instantaneous.

1344
01:27:40,723 --> 01:27:42,758
Mmm.

1345
01:27:42,891 --> 01:27:44,126
Nescaffier.

1346
01:27:44,259 --> 01:27:45,728
Even as
the faintest hints

1347
01:27:45,861 --> 01:27:47,630
of the aromas of
the great chef's kitchen

1348
01:27:47,763 --> 01:27:49,832
ribboned into
the Commissaire's nostrils,

1349
01:27:49,965 --> 01:27:51,734
he began to
envision and formulate

1350
01:27:51,867 --> 01:27:54,102
a multi-pronged battle-plan.

1351
01:27:54,236 --> 01:27:55,371
To start...

1352
01:27:55,504 --> 01:27:57,239
Deviled eggs of
the precinct canary

1353
01:27:57,373 --> 01:27:59,475
served in shells of
its own meringue.

1354
01:28:01,810 --> 01:28:02,778
Next...

1355
01:28:04,046 --> 01:28:05,414
Kidneys.

1356
01:28:05,548 --> 01:28:08,116
Poached with plums from
the mayor's rooftop arbor.

1357
01:28:10,919 --> 01:28:11,920
Then...

1358
01:28:13,121 --> 01:28:15,958
minced lamb bon-bons
in pastry wrappers.

1359
01:28:17,292 --> 01:28:18,961
Blase oyster soup.

1360
01:28:20,429 --> 01:28:22,398
A magnificent
city-park pigeon hash.

1361
01:28:22,531 --> 01:28:23,566
Finally...

1362
01:28:25,133 --> 01:28:26,935
...tabac pudding
with quadruple cream.

1363
01:28:30,439 --> 01:28:31,940
May I interrupt
with a question?

1364
01:28:32,074 --> 01:28:33,241
Please.
Forgive me.

1365
01:28:33,376 --> 01:28:34,910
Just permit me to dog-ear
the page. Mentally.

1366
01:28:35,043 --> 01:28:36,412
I beg your pardon.

1367
01:28:36,545 --> 01:28:38,313
You've written about
the American negro,

1368
01:28:38,447 --> 01:28:39,582
the French intellectual,

1369
01:28:39,715 --> 01:28:41,517
the Southern romantic...
And the anti-negro.

1370
01:28:41,650 --> 01:28:43,452
The anti-negro.

1371
01:28:43,586 --> 01:28:45,954
Scripture, mythology,
folklore,

1372
01:28:46,088 --> 01:28:48,391
true crime, false crime,

1373
01:28:48,524 --> 01:28:50,893
the ghost story,
the picaresque,
the bildungsroman.

1374
01:28:51,026 --> 01:28:53,028
But more than anything,
over all these years,

1375
01:28:53,161 --> 01:28:54,797
you've written about food.

1376
01:28:55,197 --> 01:28:56,499
Why?

1377
01:28:57,700 --> 01:29:00,503
Who? What? Where? When?
How? Valid questions,

1378
01:29:00,636 --> 01:29:03,238
but I learned
as a cub stringer,

1379
01:29:03,372 --> 01:29:05,140
never, under any circumstance,

1380
01:29:05,273 --> 01:29:08,644
if it is remotely
within your power
to resist the impulse,

1381
01:29:08,777 --> 01:29:10,913
never ask a man why.

1382
01:29:11,046 --> 01:29:13,382
It... It tightens a fellow up.

1383
01:29:13,516 --> 01:29:14,517
I apologize,
but I'm gonna

1384
01:29:14,650 --> 01:29:16,018
hold you to it...
Torture.

1385
01:29:16,151 --> 01:29:17,686
...if you'll agree.

1386
01:29:17,820 --> 01:29:20,956
Self-reflection is a vice
best conducted in private
or not at all.

1387
01:29:22,124 --> 01:29:24,159
Well,

1388
01:29:24,292 --> 01:29:27,062
I'll answer your question
out of sheer weariness,

1389
01:29:28,997 --> 01:29:31,634
but I truly don't know
what I'm about to say.

1390
01:29:35,137 --> 01:29:39,207
There is a particular
sad beauty

1391
01:29:39,341 --> 01:29:41,343
well-known to
the companionless
foreigner

1392
01:29:41,477 --> 01:29:43,378
as he walks
the streets
of his adopted,

1393
01:29:43,512 --> 01:29:47,115
preferably moonlit,
city. In my case,
Ennui, France.

1394
01:29:48,150 --> 01:29:50,519
I have so often...

1395
01:29:50,653 --> 01:29:54,189
I have so often shared
the day's glittering
discoveries with

1396
01:29:56,892 --> 01:29:58,861
no one at all.

1397
01:29:58,994 --> 01:30:02,064
But always, somewhere along
the avenue or the boulevard,

1398
01:30:02,197 --> 01:30:04,867
there was a table
set for me.

1399
01:30:06,068 --> 01:30:10,105
A cook, a waiter, a bottle,
a glass, a fire.

1400
01:30:12,240 --> 01:30:14,309
I chose this life.

1401
01:30:16,344 --> 01:30:20,082
It is the solitary feast
that has been very much
like a comrade,

1402
01:30:20,215 --> 01:30:22,951
my great comfort
and fortification.

1403
01:30:24,887 --> 01:30:28,223
TALK SHOW HOST:
Do you remember where
you placed the bookmark?

1404
01:30:28,356 --> 01:30:30,859
Of course, silly goose.
"Meanwhile."

1405
01:30:30,993 --> 01:30:33,361
"Meanwhile,
across the street..."

1406
01:31:26,248 --> 01:31:29,618
Hold your fire!
Hold your fire!

1407
01:31:38,561 --> 01:31:41,029
During a lull
in the skirmish,
an ancient concierge,

1408
01:31:41,163 --> 01:31:43,431
veteran of two wars,
limped across the street

1409
01:31:43,566 --> 01:31:45,500
to deliver
an enigmatic message.

1410
01:31:58,847 --> 01:32:02,551
I'm speaking to the leader
of the gang of kidnappers
on the top floor.

1411
01:32:02,685 --> 01:32:05,220
Do you have a working
kitchen in your lair?

1412
01:32:05,353 --> 01:32:07,055
My son needs a snack.

1413
01:32:07,189 --> 01:32:09,692
Allow us to send in
our precinct cook

1414
01:32:09,825 --> 01:32:12,060
along with some supplies
and provisions.

1415
01:32:12,194 --> 01:32:14,730
He will prepare a supper
of sufficient proportions

1416
01:32:14,863 --> 01:32:17,432
to feed you
and all your accomplices.

1417
01:32:18,366 --> 01:32:19,902
We already ate.

1418
01:32:26,541 --> 01:32:28,510
THE CHAUFFEUR:
Is it an underling

1419
01:32:28,644 --> 01:32:30,679
or Nescaffier himself?

1420
01:32:58,674 --> 01:33:00,375
Blackbird pie.

1421
01:33:12,788 --> 01:33:15,457
Required, of course,
to sample each item,

1422
01:33:15,590 --> 01:33:18,460
the chef ate
the deathly poison.

1423
01:33:24,066 --> 01:33:25,801
For the little boy.

1424
01:33:27,670 --> 01:33:28,871
Stop.

1425
01:33:30,773 --> 01:33:32,407
Write down the recipe.

1426
01:33:44,119 --> 01:33:45,253
Help...

1427
01:33:48,423 --> 01:33:50,058
ROEBUCK:
But Nescaffier survived,

1428
01:33:50,192 --> 01:33:52,160
thanks to
the extreme fortitude,

1429
01:33:52,294 --> 01:33:54,462
bolstered and braced,
season upon season,

1430
01:33:54,596 --> 01:33:56,464
by the richest,
most potent plates,

1431
01:33:56,598 --> 01:33:58,266
pans, and sauce pots

1432
01:33:58,400 --> 01:34:01,436
of his almost
superhuman stomach.

1433
01:34:02,604 --> 01:34:04,039
He knew well, of course,

1434
01:34:04,172 --> 01:34:07,275
Gigi loathed and despised
the radish in all its forms

1435
01:34:07,409 --> 01:34:09,344
with a deep,
unbridled passion,

1436
01:34:09,477 --> 01:34:11,213
and had never
so much as touched one

1437
01:34:11,346 --> 01:34:12,514
or even spoken the word,

1438
01:34:12,647 --> 01:34:15,217
during his entire
young lifetime.

1439
01:34:15,350 --> 01:34:17,219
However, as it happened,

1440
01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:20,789
the chauffeur
hated radishes, too.

1441
01:36:25,647 --> 01:36:27,015
Take the wheel!

1442
01:36:51,039 --> 01:36:53,241
Perhaps the most
stirring and startling
phenomenon

1443
01:36:53,375 --> 01:36:57,012
witnessed over the trajectory
of that protracted dinner date
was this...

1444
01:37:09,657 --> 01:37:11,393
A delicious irony.

1445
01:37:11,526 --> 01:37:14,196
Monsieur Albert,
accountant to the demi-monde

1446
01:37:14,329 --> 01:37:17,165
and remote cause of the entire
spectacular contretemps,

1447
01:37:17,299 --> 01:37:18,800
had been forgotten
in the chicken coop

1448
01:37:18,934 --> 01:37:20,635
from Thursday dinner
to Monday breakfast

1449
01:37:20,768 --> 01:37:23,338
and had very nearly
starved in his cell.

1450
01:37:23,471 --> 01:37:25,807
It was only the convalescent
Monsieur Nescaffier himself

1451
01:37:25,941 --> 01:37:27,242
who retained
the presence of mind

1452
01:37:27,375 --> 01:37:29,677
to prepare the prisoner
an omelette a la policier,

1453
01:37:29,811 --> 01:37:30,979
which he delivered warm,

1454
01:37:31,113 --> 01:37:33,348
wrapped in a day-old
search warrant.

1455
01:37:35,183 --> 01:37:37,319
The Abacus ate well
that morning.

1456
01:37:40,322 --> 01:37:42,490
A word from
Gemini tooth powder.

1457
01:37:45,460 --> 01:37:47,495
It was supposed to be
an article about
a great chef.

1458
01:37:47,629 --> 01:37:48,630
It is in part.

1459
01:37:48,763 --> 01:37:50,232
For the Tastes
and Smells section...

1460
01:37:50,365 --> 01:37:52,968
I understand.
The assignment was
perfectly clear.

1461
01:37:53,936 --> 01:37:56,638
Perhaps,
you fail to grasp

1462
01:37:56,771 --> 01:38:00,108
that I was shot at
and hand-grenaded
against my will.

1463
01:38:00,842 --> 01:38:02,244
I only asked to be fed,

1464
01:38:02,377 --> 01:38:05,380
and was, marvelously,
as I described
in some detail.

1465
01:38:05,513 --> 01:38:08,183
Nescaffier only gets
one line of dialogue.

1466
01:38:10,652 --> 01:38:15,357
Well, I did cut something
he told me.
It made me too sad.

1467
01:38:15,490 --> 01:38:17,192
I could stick it
back in, if you like.

1468
01:38:18,860 --> 01:38:20,795
What did he say?

1469
01:38:40,648 --> 01:38:42,917
Martin... Martin...

1470
01:38:43,051 --> 01:38:44,286
Guillaume Martin.

1471
01:38:54,429 --> 01:38:56,131
They had a flavor.

1472
01:38:58,100 --> 01:38:59,601
I beg your pardon?

1473
01:39:01,036 --> 01:39:05,207
The toxic salts
in the radishes...

1474
01:39:05,340 --> 01:39:06,908
they had a flavor.

1475
01:39:07,976 --> 01:39:11,246
Totally unfamiliar to me.

1476
01:39:11,379 --> 01:39:15,583
Like a bitter,
moldy, peppery,

1477
01:39:16,451 --> 01:39:19,321
spicy, oily kind of

1478
01:39:20,488 --> 01:39:22,590
earth.

1479
01:39:22,724 --> 01:39:25,493
I never tasted
that taste in my life.

1480
01:39:26,428 --> 01:39:28,330
Not entirely pleasant,

1481
01:39:28,997 --> 01:39:31,299
extremely poisonous,

1482
01:39:31,433 --> 01:39:33,935
but still, a new flavor.

1483
01:39:35,003 --> 01:39:37,305
That's a rare thing
at my age.

1484
01:39:39,474 --> 01:39:41,976
I admire your bravery,
Lieutenant.

1485
01:39:42,610 --> 01:39:44,512
I'm not brave.

1486
01:39:45,213 --> 01:39:46,848
I just wasn't

1487
01:39:46,981 --> 01:39:48,816
in the mood to be

1488
01:39:48,950 --> 01:39:50,985
a disappointment
to everybody.

1489
01:39:52,820 --> 01:39:54,456
I'm a foreigner, you know.

1490
01:39:55,890 --> 01:39:58,093
This city is full
of us, isn't it?

1491
01:39:59,127 --> 01:40:00,962
I'm one myself.

1492
01:40:03,098 --> 01:40:05,167
Seeking something missing.

1493
01:40:07,102 --> 01:40:09,437
Missing something
left behind.

1494
01:40:12,640 --> 01:40:14,709
Maybe with good luck,

1495
01:40:14,842 --> 01:40:17,712
we'll find
what eluded us

1496
01:40:17,845 --> 01:40:20,348
in the places
we once called home.

1497
01:40:29,324 --> 01:40:32,427
That's the best part
of the whole thing.

1498
01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:34,896
That's the reason
for it to be written.

1499
01:40:37,132 --> 01:40:39,000
I couldn't agree less.

1500
01:40:41,035 --> 01:40:44,239
Well, anyway,
don't cut it.

1501
01:41:14,035 --> 01:41:15,970
Are we all here?

1502
01:41:16,104 --> 01:41:18,540
I guess you know.
It was a heart attack.

1503
01:41:20,575 --> 01:41:21,643
Excusez-moi.

1504
01:41:34,055 --> 01:41:35,257
No crying.

1505
01:41:42,364 --> 01:41:44,566
Is somebody coming
to take him away?

1506
01:41:44,699 --> 01:41:46,701
There's a strike
at the morgue.

1507
01:41:50,372 --> 01:41:51,473
Who was with him?

1508
01:41:51,606 --> 01:41:52,974
He was alone.

1509
01:41:53,107 --> 01:41:55,210
Reading birthday telegrams.

1510
01:41:55,343 --> 01:41:56,411
Psst.

1511
01:41:57,445 --> 01:42:00,248
Don't light the candles.
He's dead.

1512
01:42:01,349 --> 01:42:02,917
I'll have a slice.

1513
01:42:03,518 --> 01:42:05,653
Me, too.

1514
01:42:05,787 --> 01:42:08,390
We need to draft something.
Who wants it?

1515
01:42:08,523 --> 01:42:09,491
We've got a file.

1516
01:42:09,624 --> 01:42:10,958
I'm working on the art.

1517
01:42:13,895 --> 01:42:15,497
That's him.

1518
01:42:19,634 --> 01:42:21,303
Let's write it together.

1519
01:42:21,436 --> 01:42:24,206
Hmm, write what?
The obituary.

1520
01:42:25,907 --> 01:42:28,710
Arthur Howitzer, Jr.
Born in North Kansas,

1521
01:42:28,843 --> 01:42:32,113
10 miles from the geographical
center of the United States.

1522
01:42:32,247 --> 01:42:33,515
Mother died
when he was five.

1523
01:42:33,648 --> 01:42:36,184
Son of a newspaper publisher,
founder of this magazine.

1524
01:42:36,318 --> 01:42:38,453
The French Dispatch,
previously known
as Picnic.

1525
01:42:38,586 --> 01:42:40,455
A largely unread
Sunday supplement

1526
01:42:40,588 --> 01:42:42,557
to the Liberty,
Kansas Evening Sun.

1527
01:42:42,690 --> 01:42:44,192
It began as a holiday.

1528
01:42:44,326 --> 01:42:45,393
Is that true?

1529
01:42:45,527 --> 01:42:46,628
Sort of.

1530
01:42:49,063 --> 01:42:50,665
What happens next?