A restoration carried out by Eclair Group and L.E. Diapason
for Ciné-Mag Bodard with the support of the CNC
I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU
SURGERY Rooms 12 to 16
- Has he come to? - No.
Do you want to see him?
Will he live?
I don't know. He survived the operation.
You shouldn't have bothered.
I'd have called you.
Is he dead?
No, but he's still unconscious.
3 days... I wonder if I should wait.
If he could be moved...
you could make the experiment now. He's still alive.
We thought about it. You could keep anyone alive that way?
Who knows?
We know.
The experiment would kill him. We need a healthy man.
There he is.
Will you talk to him?
There's no rush. I'd rather wait.
- Has he seen anyone? - He doesn't want to.
Why don't you use one of your men?
No volunteers?
They were all eliminated.
But why him?
He's been there and back. That's very rare.
Why not a man on death row... who could earn a pardon?
We thought of that.
What are the chances of coming back?
We can't tell.
It's our first human test.
I'd like to meet him.
It's too early.
I'll call you...
You forgot your things.
Thanks. I won't need them.
Claude Ridder?
Yes.
Could you spare a day?
We're not from the police.
I'm from Crespel Research Center.
Never heard of it.
Nobody has.
We'd like to take you there if you're free.
- Is it far? - 30 miles. We have a car.
- How's the weather? - Sunny.
Then let's go.
- What about my taxi? - I'll deal with it.
- Don't you want to go home first? - Not really.
Am / the man you want?
You are.
We aren't kidnapping you.
It wouldn't pay. I have no family.
Crespel?
- What kind of a town is Crespel? - It isn't a town yet.
It's not on the map.
- Is it pretty? - Not very.
Are you tired?
I am tired of that question.
They took good care of you.
Why am I so interesting?
Can you smoke?
Yes.
My only worry now is cancer.
How does it feel to be alive?
It doesn't.
It's only a mile farther.
You don't seem to care.
No. What else can happen to me?
Something extraordinary.
Like the car turning into a pumpkin?
It isn't pretty.
But it's interesting.
Where is Crespel?
This is it.
It's not a town?
There's a town 3 miles away but it's not Crespel.
The director will see you now.
Did your mouse get back safely?
Yes, every four hours as scheduled.
How are they?
Very well, and your Claude Ridder?
He followed us without any questions,
he didn't even go back to his place,
he's here.
I think he's going to agree,
he didn't seem worried.
A mouse hasn't exploded for more than a year.
It's still an adventure for him.
Surprised?
It isn't what I expected.
The center is 15 years old.
Supposedly we do agricultural tests.
But we do not study farming.
We study time.
- Have you solved it? - Partly.
What have I got to do with it?
I'd like to ask you a question.
Answer it if you like.
Please do.
You had a reason to commit suicide?
Yes.
Perhaps things seem different now.
- For whom? - For you.
Nothing has changed for the moment.
You'd do it again?
So I'm the ideal guinea pig...
a guy who doesn't want to live.
If I agree, what are my chances of surviving?
100% if you're a mouse.
Come.
I'll show you something.
Time passing?
Think about putting a filter.
I was interested in your idea of an agency
to distribute time throughout the city.
- It wouldn't work. - Time might break down.
To improve our technical department,
I think we should hire writers to jot down far-fetched ideas.
It might be good.
In this jar, mouse A. In this one, mouse B.
Are they alike?
Is one a female?
They're both males.
Mouse B is a pioneer. Mouse A has never traveled.
Mouse B took a one-minute trip into the past.
A hero! When?
Yesterday, with no ill effects.
How can you be sure he lived in the past?
That's the problem. We are sure
but we can't ask him.
You forgot something.
You should have taught him to talk first.
You will go back exactly one year
into the past
and stay there one minute.
What if it kills me?
It won't
if you submit to our treatment.
Where were you a year ago?
On vacation.
For once I took three months off.
I was on the Riviera.
Are you sure?
It's easy to remember vacations.
You will be in a sphere.
When you come back, you must wait 4 minutes
before we can bring you back.
Why?
I can explain.
It's like
the decompression chamber
through which divers pass before returning to the surface.
- You aren't interested? - Not very.
Why go into the past instead of the future?
You're right.
It's not very spectacular. We're still groping.
One day we'll go much further.
We have to start with a short trip,
a little experiment.
No heart murmur? Not even an ulcer?
You're in excellent health.
Suicide is good for me.
You'll have to stay here a few days.
On a diet?
A kind of diet, until September the 5th. 4 days.
Will I have to sign a release before the experiment?
I expect so.
You can always say I died in the hospital.
No doubt.
That's clever.
Was it your first suicide?
Yes.
With a gun?
Yes.
- I can't see you with a gun. - Neither can I.
That's why I missed.
You're not afraid?
I've been afraid all my life, for no good reason.
But I'm not afraid now.
- Do you sleep well? - Very well.
- No headaches? - No.
We have to watch the effects of the T.5.
It doesn't seem to hurt you.
- We just have to wait. - 3 days.
What if this minute lasts years?
You'll be away just 60 seconds. The mice can tell you that.
Can we get in?
No danger of turning up under Pontius Pilate?
Lie down.
We'll close the door. You will go one year into the past
and come back here one minute later.
Disappointed?
Reassured?
I expected a kind of laboratory,
a power station.
What if...
What if the experiment fails?
It won't.
You will be back at 4 p.m., September the 5th.
Why 4 p.m.?
No particular reason.
We always sent the mice at 4. They came back.
It's become a habit.
Well! Superstitious scientists!
I still don't know why you picked me.
A computer picked you.
- Out of millions... - Naturally.
- Hello, gentlemen. - Hello, Grabet.
That's normal.
The T.5 makes you sleep.
I think I talk in my sleep.
It's another secondary effect.
- How do you feel when you wake up? - Like I always do.
Tomorrow, before the experiment
I will give you a large dose of T.5.
You will be drugged, but perfectly lucid.
Don't worry. You've been prepared.
The test could fail?
We need a passive subject, who must be able...
to remember...
who is semi-conscious.
How was it?
- Coming? - Later.
Two sea serpents, a few sharks and some jellyfish.
That's about all.
- How was it? - Great.
Did you see many fish?
Two sea serpents, a few sharks and some jellyfish.
That's about all.
I'll have to learn to use those gadgets.
You always say that.
- How was it? - Great.
Did you see many fish?
Let's go out for dinner.
If you like.
- Coming? - Later.
I told you it would end this way.
About 4 months.
How long are you going to be a shipping clerk, Ridder?
As long as there's shipping.
You're a good shipping clerk.
You could do better things.
You could hold a responsible position.
I hate responsibilities.
I felt the same way at your age.
Let's have a cup of coffee.
- Rich family? - Rather.
At your age, I had debts.
- How was it? - Great.
Did you see many fish?
Two sea serpents, a few sharks and some jellyfish.
We've lost him again.
It happens each time.
What time did she come?
At 9, like the others.
We have 5,000 circulars to get out.
That girl has done less than 100.
In four hours!
That makes one envelope every 2 minutes!
It's a record.
- Is she pretty? - Who?
The girl who broke the record.
In a way.
Send her in.
Keep to the right!
Even your car is hard to live with.
Shall we stop for lunch later?
If you like.
Something about Catrine bothers me.
Is it that she doesn't care for you?
- She's so quiet. - When she has nothing to say.
- What did she do? - Nothing.
- And now? - Nothing.
That's not much. Shall we stop here?
Tonight's match was boring.
- He's alive. - He's under the effect of T.5.
- 7 minutes. - That makes 5 times.
- A few seconds are not enough. - You have to wait 4 minutes.
That transition period always worried me.
We could get him early.
He'd burst like those mice.
It can go on for days.
- Shall we wait? - He'll starve.
It's odd to see that from a heated train.
- Was it cold? - Very cold.
We're coming to a town I liberated.
- All by yourself? - Almost.
There were about 50 of us
and only 20 Germans.
- I can't see you with a gun. - I had a machine gun.
I never learned how to use it.
Your name may be on a street or on the war memorial.
It wasn't so pretty during the war.
- You didn't come Wednesday. - I forgot.
Come tonight, both of you.
- Who? - You and Catrine.
We've separated.
- After how long? - 7 years.
- Come alone then. - I'll see.
Doesn't that dirty wall scare you?
All the papers scare me more.
We'll have to decorate your office
with allegorical paintings or tapestries.
You at your desk would be a big picture
representing the 17th of February, 1951
unpaid bill.
Or the kidnapping of a handful of commas
by a bookkeeper.
You have a nice eraser.
- But no pencil. - I hate pencils.
- And erasers? - No, because they need pencils.
- All right? - All right.
Compliments of the author.
Not very original today, Ridder.
I don't know these people.
How was it?
He was swimming and got caught in the current.
- Is he dead? - Yes, since a while ago.
He was a good swimmer.
He must have swum for hours before he drowned.
Hours! Can you imagine!
Be quiet.
You don't need me. You just like to have me...
tucked in a corner. But I'm alive.
I move, I see people.
If I didn't, I'd cut my throat.
The more I give you the worse you get.
I'm beginning to understand.
I'm leaving.
Tomorrow.
It's three o'clock.
Three hours to go.
Three minutes ago it was three o'clock.
In three weeks it'll be three o'clock.
In a century too.
Time passes for other people, but not for me...
alone in this room.
For me time is static.
It's three o'clock forever.
Hello, T..I..M..E.
It is now exactly
3 o'clock, 0 minutes, 0 seconds.
What? All right...
tomorrow at the same time, as usual.
Love to the family.
For 100 million years algae and mollusks,
and then giant reptiles ruled the earth,
until this firm was created.
I am rushing towards death at 60,000 m.p.h.
And the earth will spin on for eons without me.
Yet I am here,
holding a pencil, on this ball of fire,
trying to convince a customer that we regret
the loss of his shipment...
and that we'll do everything...
All right?
All right.
What is...
What's that mouse doing here?
- Were you talking? - No.
- I just saw a mouse. - So what?
Did you ever see a mouse on a beach?
It's on vacation.
He stayed more than 20 seconds.
- Are you sure? - Definitely.
He's recovering.
- We have succeeded. - At least he isn't dead yet.
A race between time inside and time outside.
Who's winning?
I don't know yet.
She's pretty. She's exactly like her apartment.
Good taste, moderation, things I despise.
You despise almost everything.
I like messes, disorder, things that seesaw.
Do I seesaw?
Not much.
Not at all.
You're spread out.
You're a swamp, night, mud.
Gloomy.
Yes.
I'd rather wring your neck than smile at you,
or slip into you straight but slowly.
I can't imagine Mona outside her showcase.
You smell like low tide,
drowning, octopuses.
- This beach is... - This beach is me.
I need you.
I think I needed you before I saw you,
when they told me of a girl who hated envelopes,
and work and wages.
It's going to rain.
Let's make love.
Here? On the sand?
I'd run away, to a land where there's no night.
Your wife has a cute bottom.
Close your eyes. I'll tell you what you see.
You're by a window.
Everything is blue. The sky,
the sea, the wallpaper, the sand, the town.
The people get blue in the sun.
The pretty girls are already blue.
I miss you, Claude.
It bothers me and pleases me to realize I miss you.
It never happened to me.
I never cared whether people were there or not.
There's a white sail in the distance
and some sea gulls over the beach. Are there sea gulls at the Riviera?
Maybe they mean rain. But it never rains there.
We'll never get that circular out tonight.
You're making errors.
- It's always beautiful. - It's beautiful.
And it's not that sickening green.
Coming?
Later.
- What if I'd been married? - I don't know what I'd have done.
Anything, I guess.
I didn't feel a shock when I met you.
It was different.
Very different.
You looked so out of place
in an office.
So I knew nothing mattered.
- I might not have liked you. - No.
I was so scared that night.
I didn't know what to say.
Was it to impress me that you quit your job?
Yes. Did I?
A little. Were you making lots of money?
A living.
Your eyes are nice.
And I want you.
You see, we're not pioneers.
Shall we answer?
Shall we not?
I love you.
Do you hear me?
I love you.
That was the only reason.
It was long
before you died.
And now I'm dead.
No.
I'm cold.
I heard myself saying "I'm cold".
Oh, it's the drug.
What are my chances of surviving?
Oh, yes,
100% if I were a mouse.
I am a mouse since I'm alive.
They'll come now,
in four minutes.
Where's the mouse?
- You're delirious. - No. It would be better if I were.
But I'm not.
- Not tonight. You scare me. - I don't mean to scare you.
I killed Catrine two months ago.
We left together in January and I came back alone.
- I don't believe it. - You're right and wrong.
What do you mean?
You're right. I can't kill.
But you're wrong. I did.
It's impossible.
I thought so too.
You see,
it's time they got rid of the streetcars.
But buses might be just as bad.
As far as I'm concerned,
a year from now, cars won't be able to move at all.
I'm sorry, sir.
You could take the streetcar.
But you'd miss your train.
Have you got time, sir?
It's hard. We'll have to sew the cat's eye.
What?
You know we have a cat.
Are psychoses red?
The future is red.
- And psychoses? - They're green.
I get them mixed up.
Are you awake too?
Go to the office for me.
- I think I need you. - I'm hard to live with.
I don't care.
I just want to be with you.
Stay with me tonight.
I don't want to leave you.
- I'm afraid. - Afraid?
Afraid not to find you tomorrow,
not to be with you tonight.
We could go to...
The last time he stayed in the sphere a minute and a half.
He'd been gone 4 and a half minutes.
This time he's been gone 3 minutes...
And if he never goes back to the 1966 minute?
If things go wrong, he could find himself anywhere.
Or else he keeps reliving one minute.
If so, we've a better chance to get him.
I couldn't stay there.
- Stay here. - No, I'm going home.
- Aren't you sleepy? - She'd be sad if you didn't come.
Sad? She's always sad.
If I'm there, if I'm not, if she's asleep or awake or laughing.
Sometimes she's sad not to be sad enough.
You should be used to it, after 5 years.
6 years.
I wonder if I should leave her.
I can't help her. No one can.
- But she needs you. - That doesn't help.
Could you leave her?
Probably not.
I can't stand it. It's as if I were being oxidized.
- A month ago I left. - And you came back.
After 2 days. When I came back, she asked me if I had lunch.
Claude Ridder, you've had it.
She dreamt of a house by the sea.
But she was sad on the Riviera.
- Maybe she doesn't like the sun. - She loves it.
She dreads not seeing it one day.
You can't live with her or without her.
And so God made the earth and said:
"I hope to God it'll turn."
You go to sleep.
I'm not sleepy.
You don't often copy addresses?
I never write.
This work doesn't suit you.
No work suits me. Offices make me sick.
Do you know what you've earned?
14 francs.
- Enough to buy a pack of cigarettes. - It's not much.
I won't be back after lunch.
You hoped to make enough this morning
to live how long?
A day, tomorrow.
Here's what we'll do.
I'll give you the 14 francs
and you invite me to lunch.
- Why? - I don't want to.
- You never buy anything. - Yes I do.
Bread, milk, matches, vegetables, meat, mustard.
- Nothing for you. - I don't need anything.
You could buy a sweater.
- I've got two. - That's not many.
No visits?
I don't want.
Let's stay out all night.
We never go to bed before dawn.
That's different.
Are you feeling all right?
- How was it? - Great.
Something's gone wrong.
I don't know what time it is.
They didn't give me a watch.
Maybe it's not allowed.
No watch for trips in time!
I could... Of course, I could...
count the seconds
to calm down.
4 minutes. That makes...
One... two... three...
- What? - No.
- What kind of no? - Just no.
- Why not? - Because.
Because not yes?
You said yes.
She can sure say no.
Can't they tell?
I'm here.
They must know it.
I'm back.
I'm here!
Nothing.
Or else, I'm minutes older and centuries have passed outside.
The scientists died long ago and I've been forgotten...
forgotten.
One minute.
In 3 minutes we can get him.
Oh, there you are!
Where were you?
You're on a trip too.
How was it? Did you go far?
They can't get you back either.
I think we're both in a mess.
I know who you are.
You're the mouse I saw on the beach.
You surprised me!
You take trips in my past.
What if I took a trip in yours?
It's all very logical.
It's all logical.
You don't have a watch either.
How long have we been here?
It's starting again!
I have to get out of here.
I'll concentrate.
It's 10:30 you know.
- I feel awful. - Are you sick?
If Catrine had died, we'd know it.
It's so simple, you don't believe it.
- You've heard about Catrine? - For years.
- You met her, didn't you? - Never.
Not many of my friends knew Catrine.
They didn't even know I still lived with her.
- You hid her. - People bored her.
- She had family? - No.
No cousins, no friends, no boss.
She didn't have a job.
She never had any papers till she went away with me.
- No one will miss her. - No one.
People think we've separated. You thought so.
You left her there?
Why bring her back?
- Why did you tell me? - Because nobody knows.
You let me caress you.
You could make love with me.
Yet you say you're in love with him.
I is, you am, he are... they be in bed.
If I stroked your knee
and your thigh...
It's because I'm lonely tonight.
I've been abandoned.
If Catrine left me tonight, I'd be thrilled.
I once knew a man...
You're not listening.
I'm listening to your fingers.
You've changed since last week.
Because I know now I'll never write again.
You said that last year.
I want to show you something you'd like.
- Is it big? - No.
It's tiny. That's why you'll like it.
Animal, vegetable, sideral or mineral?
Half and half.
I want to stay with you tonight.
What's wrong?
- I'm terrified. - You're afraid?
No.
Afraid and terrified are the same.
Afraid, you're hot. Terrified, you're cold.
Try to read if you can't sleep.
Only one of my eyes wants to read.
You're absolutely...
I don't know what, but you're it absolutely.
Now I'm afraid too.
Of what? Dying?
No, I'm afraid of not dying.
I never heard such a thing.
Are you still here?
Will you be out late?
Yes. He lives on the other side of town.
It's too hot in here.
Come with me.
I don't want to go alone.
I've called a taxi.
Glasgow is too gloomy.
Bring me back some oranges.
- What's the matter? - Nothing.
- Can't you sleep? - I wanted the light on.
Come close to me.
It's much harder to understand simple things.
- Did you go to school? - Yes.
But I didn't learn much. I never listened.
But you read?
Some things you can't learn in books.
Once Claude told me streetcars stay on tracks
because the electric cable holds them.
I'd never thought of it. I thought they ran on gas.
You have Martian eyes!
- Missed by two minutes. - It's as bad as two months.
The T.5 has worn off now.
And where has the lab mouse gone? You know it...
There are too many circulars.
We'll have to write a new text.
You'll have it next week.
Let's say 5 days.
It will be out by the 25th.
How many pages?
40 more. That will cost more.
We'll cut some.
We still can't send them till the 17th.
The mouse B took a one-minute trip into the past.
A hero! When?
Yesterday, with no ill effects.
How can you be sure he lived in the past?
That's the problem.
If they told me, during the war, that I'd talk about that...
Where are you going?
To buy some cigarettes.
What are you doing here?
What?
What are you doing here?
I couldn't sleep.
I was afraid I'd die.
So I came here.
And tomorrow, when you came out,
you'd have found me dead
or sleeping.
Come.
I went into the room
and found a girl
about to take a bath. She was very sexy.
Every man's dream.
Well, nothing happened.
I simply washed her from head to toe.
- Did you see her again? - I dream about her.
Dear Sir, we accollege reseat
of yours of the 2nd.
We are glorified to learn that you never deceived
the watchamacallit we whipped.
We will fend you a new one quite away
and cope it alive shafely.
Please,
except our exclusives.
Yours screwly, Claude Ridder.
I killed Catrine in Glasgow.
We needed it yesterday.
He can work all night.
He has no pencil.
He never does.
Does he know we need it tomorrow?
He makes errors.
He can't spell "tomorrow".
It's late.
Isn't he tired?
Has he seen this spot?
You're right. This green isn't so sickening.
What if man were allergic to green?
Maybe green makes our cells wear out.
Millions of scientists invent can openers, detergents,
bottle stoppers, etc...
without any notion of what would change everything.
That's the secret. No one ever thought of it.
We'll give up salad for a month to see.
If you buy a boat, I'll learn to steer.
If that isn't why I'm sad, I'll find another reason.
I'm just a burden.
If I only had money.
I can't imagine you marinating in money.
I'd pretend to be poor.
And I'd go tell your boss to give you lots of money.
A tree!
Another tree, and a weed.
Mine was a field tree. They're rarer.
I saw a road sign that you missed.
Are you sure?
Drop that one and take this.
It's better.
- I'll tell them. - But the other one...
I'm sure of it, you got me my false identity papers.
It wasn't me!
Don't you know me? I'm Claude Ridder.
I was called Claude Rabois in 1943.
You don't know me. I had false papers too.
You have a calcite.
Is it serious?
Not terribly.
You killed her all the same.
That will be 90 francs.
Shall I come back?
Are you tired?
Dead.
- Why? - I don't know.
I only listened.
- Didn't you talk? - No.
- What about? - Nothing.
I wasn't listening.
What do you want?
Something to eat.
I bought spinach.
Grass.
I'd like salted cucumbers
and a huge herring.
I can't do anything.
I wonder who you really are.
Something blurred,
more and more blurred.
I shrink and fade in water.
Tell me what you're writing.
I don't write much anymore.
Shall we have lunch together?
If you killed her, it was a perfect crime.
They're about to close. I'll dress.
I like you all mauve.
What if God created the cat in His image?
Then, after a million years or a few hours, God created man...
only to be a slave to the cat to the end of time.
- A slave? - Exactly.
The cat got indolence and lucidity.
And man got the passion to build and own.
- I see. - No, you don't see.
So man was created to fulfill the cat's needs.
- You understand? - Yes.
Human civilization has only one aim:
the food, comfort and shelter of the cat.
- Of the cat. - Exactly.
Man invented thousands of things,
only to produce a few articles for the cat.
Fishermen, sawdust, rugs, cushions,
radiators, bowls,
and the radio because cats like music.
I'm glad to know why we're here. I've often wondered.
So have I.
Look!
What is it?
A beetle.
You've been there two hours. What's wrong?
Nothing.
Where's the cat?
Bastard.
Did you sleep with her?
- Do you care? - Do you?
You're a little superficial.
I dreamed of having an inept employee,
of firing her
and then going away with her.
When I get my back pay, we'll go away
somewhere.
Then?
We'll come back.
We'll see.
- Another coffee? - Yes, please.
I wonder why you picked me.
A computer picked you.
- Out of millions. - Of course.
Our oldest employee.
He's the computer.
He'll like that. He must be hot.
Just think... buried all alone in that mud.
You should write a guide to graveyards.
It would be a bestseller.
Luceram - cemetery for one shinbone. Picturesque.
Others - 3 shinbones, worth a detour.
No shinbones. Avoid.
I'd rather live here than die here.
Such things only happen in books.
We don't like it for real!
I'd like to see that.
I don't mean to scare you.
I killed Catrine in Glasgow, 2 months ago.
I left with her and came back alone.
I don't believe it.
You're right and wrong.
- What do you mean? - You're right, I can't kill.
But you're wrong, I did.
It's impossible.
I thought so too.
It was cold in Glasgow that day.
It was her first long trip.
Mine too. She hated Glasgow.
I'd never seen her so depressed.
She was absolutely...
We haven't slept at all.
I'll be tired.
Let's try to sleep a little.
It's strange to wake up just as I thought
I was going to sleep.
She was asleep.
It was funny. She was smiling...
whilst sleeping.
She never smiled in her sleep. It was the first time.
She looked relaxed and happy.
That's how it happened.
I looked at her.
29 minutes.
What shall we do?
We have to stop him from moving.
It's risky.
We have to, since the T.5 has worn off.
Are you Claude Ridder?
Yes, it's me.
Wiana went to the post office.
I'll wait.
Come in if you like.
We're in the bathroom.
Do you take the left one or the right one?
The left one.
Or... no, the left one.
You picked wrong. I'm Nicole.
Do you mind if I take a bath? You can wash my back.
You can tell me about your life.
What do you do at the office?
Sometimes I think.
I pick up an object.
This is a pencil.
I concentrate and understand it's a pencil.
It's red, but it writes black. Appearances are deceiving.
It's a medium-sized pencil of a common species,
found mostly in temperate climates.
It has a point,
like a pencil.
If you push it, it rolls like a roller
or a pencil.
If you hold it up,
it looks like a tree
or a pencil.
Hence, it must be a pencil. I never use a pencil.
Why have one?
Because tables were created to hold...
pencils.
I like your story. Go on.
There are also erasers, typewriters, calendars, paper.
We received 150 complaints.
- And 300 letters. - And now?
- We're caught up. - We're even ahead.
Claude has replied to a letter we haven't got yet.
I'm snowed under. I only got 3 hours of sleep last night.
I was dreaming I was writing.
It's going to be a nice day.
One knows these things at the seaside.
If people are up already, it's...
Everything's ready.
Is it much?
Yes. 5 whole years.
I'll be a few days.
When I make love with other girls, I'm drawn to you.
Too bad you make love with other girls.
If I didn't, I wouldn't know what I just said.
You understand?
That's what makes me sad.
Prometheus, without his vulture...
By the way, I bought a chicken.
I just can't get down to work.
Even under the menace, I couldn't.
Well, do something.
I keep watching the telephone.
What's she got?
Nothing. But I want her.
For a girl like that, I could do anything.
I could tell Catrine to go to hell.
Well, call her.
I don't have her number, she has mine.
All I can do is wait and I can't work.
- Let's not go home. - You couldn't.
I wish I could.
- It seems to work. - He's quite still.
Let's stay another week.
I'll concentrate.
I have to find that minute.
I'm in the water.
The sun's out but it's not hot.
Catrine is on the beach.
The water's warm. I'm swimming underwater.
I see the bottom.
I want to take a bath.
Thanks.
I'm sorry. I don't speak French.
Do you understand English?
Yes, very well.
Then, where is Catrine?
After all...
After all?
Nothing. Do you have to go?
I should.
Stay with me.
I can't find an excuse every day.
We'll write a dictionary of excuses.
You're already late.
I'm punctual in my lateness. Never more than an hour,
rarely less.
Did you see many fish?
Two sea serpents, some sharks.
Nothing's happening.
Nothing's changed.
It's funny. I'm going to die.
That's it.
You know...
you were right.
I'd like to see the mouse.
He comes back more often.
30 seconds between his last 2 visits. It's never been so short.
A storm at 7 a.m. is unusual.
- People get up so early. - Who?
God, the workers.
You don't understand. Not today.
You're all blind. You're lucky.
People are afraid when life is hard.
They should be glad then
to think it won't last.
But it's frightening when you're happy.
To think one day you'll lose it all is unbearable.
When people are hungry, time drags.
3 months or 60 years to die.
All these people with cancer who adapt to it.
Choose something.
Carrots, they're good for the skin.
And spinach, to keep from catching cold.
And fruits, it's good for everything.
I can't help you. We're too much alike.
- I'm sorry I met you. - It's all the same.
You'd have met a girl like me.
- Some wine? - No.
It puts me to sleep.
Have you been here long?
Oh hi, how is it going?
We can work now.
You don't have the documents.
Hello cat.
I'm glad to see you.
Did she feed you today?
She doesn't give me enough to eat.
She's a little stringy.
Not stringy, stingy.
Outside you had less to eat.
That's no reason to starve me here.
You exaggerate. If I didn't, you wouldn't believe me.
I don't like your records either. They're too loud
and they're all alike. I had more fun outside.
I had friends.
We're your friends.
But you're not very clever.
Sophie thinks we're clever.
What are you reading?
Where did you get it?
What does that mean?
I don't know. It bores me to explain.
I couldn't care less anyway.
Why?
It has nothing to do with me.
- And you? - Nothing.
Then it's silly, and a little sad.
It depends on how you look at it.
Besides... Oh, I'm getting mixed up.
I like you. I better than like you.
You can't say that.
But I can think that.
Remember? I used to wake up all night.
I hated it.
I stayed awake so as not to wake up.
But now, I never wake up at night.
I sleep until morning. I sleep well, don't I?
Had you thought of killing her?
Yes, often.
I believe it.
You do believe it?
All night I thought of what you said.
I thought it was true.
You could have killed Catrine.
Yes.
But why would I have done it?
To end it all.
To end her suffering.
From what you say,
Catrine was incurable.
The periods vary.
We can't do anything.
Then he's lost.
I went there to see a lawyer.
We found a room in a little hotel.
We turned on the gas heater.
Catrine had taken a sleeping pill.
She was asleep.
It was funny. She was smiling.
She never smiled in her sleep. It was the first time.
She looked relaxed and happy.
Totally relaxed.
She was no longer afraid.
That's how it happened.
What?
I was going out. Suddenly it was cold in the room.
I smelled gas.
The flame had gone out, the gas was on.
That's all.
I looked at Catrine smiling in her sleep.
When I came back, she was dead.
The police were there.
I don't know why, but you're lying.
Why didn't they arrest you?
It looked like an accident.
It was an accident.
I lied to see if you'd believe me.
The flame must have died while I was out.
I came back very late
that night.
Much later.
She really died there?
For a moment, I was glad,
although it was horrible.
She was asleep. She didn't know.
Then I knew she'd gone.
She'd never be here again.
And I couldn't stand it.
It gets worse and worse.
What's wrong?
Nothing. George is dead.
- Who? - Strobel. He's dead.
He died 8 months ago.
You knew it?
Yes, I did.
His wife wrote to me.
You didn't tell me.
You were depressed that day.
Can you imagine a man who, to spare the woman he lives with,
would hide all bad news?
He'd hire actors to replace
people who had died.
He'd buy up all the newspapers
so she'd never read the horrors.
He'd have to cover up the planet.
It would cost a lot.
It's ghastly.
- What? - Everything.
Even when you're with me.
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More than an hour.
We'll never get him back.
His pulse is slow.
He's lost a lot of blood.
Can we move him?
Call the hospital.
We'll have to check our figures.
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