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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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****!

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Department of
Local Statistics.

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Average rainfall,
millimeters.

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Average snowfall,
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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75.
Or 75 of prison currency.

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I want to pay you
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?

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Paint this kind of picture.

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Also, who'd you murder,
and how crazy are you, really?

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I need background
information

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00:15:40,206 --> 00:15:41,975
so that we can do
a book about you.

259
00:15:42,108 --> 00:15:43,777
It makes you
more important.

260
00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:45,278
Who are you...

261
00:15:47,781 --> 00:15:49,382
Moses Rosenthaler?

262
00:15:52,452 --> 00:15:53,753
Born rich,

263
00:15:53,887 --> 00:15:57,223
the son of a Jewish-Mexican
horse rancher,

264
00:15:57,357 --> 00:16:01,270
Miguel Sebastian Maria
Moises de Rosenthaler

265
00:16:01,161 --> 00:16:03,129
trained at
the Ecole des Antiquites

266
00:16:03,263 --> 00:16:05,165
at significant
family expense.

267
00:16:05,298 --> 00:16:08,100
But, by the end
of his youth,

268
00:16:08,134 --> 00:16:09,869
he had shed
all the luxuries

269
00:16:10,300 --> 00:16:13,106
of his comfortable background
and replaced them with...

270
00:16:17,344 --> 00:16:18,645
Loneliness.

271
00:16:21,981 --> 00:16:23,383
Physical danger.

272
00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:29,789
Mental illness.

273
00:16:32,459 --> 00:16:33,827
And, of course...

274
00:16:35,662 --> 00:16:36,930
Criminal violence.

275
00:16:57,150 --> 00:16:58,518
He did not
pick up a brush

276
00:16:58,651 --> 00:16:59,719
during the first decade

277
00:16:59,853 --> 00:17:01,821
of his long prison sentence.

278
00:17:58,311 --> 00:18:00,880
Permission to sign up for
activity privileges, gardienne.

279
00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:04,840
This thing?

280
00:18:10,390 --> 00:18:12,125
Citizen 7524,
address the class.

281
00:18:12,258 --> 00:18:13,259
What do you mean?

282
00:18:13,326 --> 00:18:14,494
Tell the group
about yourself.

283
00:18:14,594 --> 00:18:16,396
I don't wanna do that.
It's mandatory.

284
00:18:16,529 --> 00:18:18,198
They know me already.
That's not the point.

285
00:18:18,298 --> 00:18:20,600
I haven't even prepared
a speech. Say something.

286
00:18:29,109 --> 00:18:33,613
Well, I've been here
3,647 days and nights.

287
00:18:35,648 --> 00:18:39,819
Another 14,603 to go.

288
00:18:39,953 --> 00:18:43,957
I drink 14 pints of
mouthwash rations per week.

289
00:18:44,758 --> 00:18:46,793
At that rate,

290
00:18:46,926 --> 00:18:48,995
I think I'm going to
poison myself to death

291
00:18:49,129 --> 00:18:51,798
before I ever get to see
the world again,

292
00:18:53,660 --> 00:18:55,502
which makes me feel

293
00:18:56,336 --> 00:18:57,537
very sad.

294
00:18:58,371 --> 00:19:00,874
I gotta change my program.

295
00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:03,610
I gotta go in a new direction.

296
00:19:03,743 --> 00:19:07,981
Anything I can do to keep
my hands busy, I'm gonna do.

297
00:19:09,949 --> 00:19:11,484
Otherwise,

298
00:19:12,952 --> 00:19:15,689
I think maybe it's
gonna be a suicide.

299
00:19:22,295 --> 00:19:24,664
And that's why
I signed up

300
00:19:24,798 --> 00:19:26,566
for clay pottery
and basket weaving.

301
00:19:28,668 --> 00:19:30,203
My name is Moses.

302
00:19:31,571 --> 00:19:33,600
Take a pew.

303
00:19:46,319 --> 00:19:48,210
What's your name,
gardienne?

304
00:19:48,788 --> 00:19:49,889
Simone.

305
00:19:56,730 --> 00:20:00,660
Certain women do gravitate
toward incarcerated men.

306
00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,802
It's a recognized condition.

307
00:20:02,936 --> 00:20:05,438
Something about
the captivity of others

308
00:20:05,572 --> 00:20:08,908
enhances the experience
of their own freedom.

309
00:20:09,420 --> 00:20:11,444
I assure you,
it's erotic.

310
00:20:11,578 --> 00:20:13,113
Look at her,
by the way.

311
00:20:13,246 --> 00:20:15,115
Born into
quasi-serfdom,

312
00:20:15,248 --> 00:20:16,883
16 brothers
and sisters.

313
00:20:17,170 --> 00:20:18,785
Illiterate until
she was 20.

314
00:20:18,785 --> 00:20:21,870
Now, a woman of
considerable property.

315
00:20:23,723 --> 00:20:25,425
Rosenthaler's
entreaties of marriage,

316
00:20:25,558 --> 00:20:27,727
which, we are told,
were frequent

317
00:20:27,861 --> 00:20:30,597
and marvelously
enthusiastic.

318
00:20:30,730 --> 00:20:33,666
I wanna say it
as simple as I can.

319
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,202
To try to shape it into words.

320
00:20:36,903 --> 00:20:39,305
The feelings in my heart.

321
00:20:39,439 --> 00:20:41,474
I don't love you.
I love you.

322
00:20:41,608 --> 00:20:43,910
What?
I don't love you.

323
00:20:44,444 --> 00:20:45,545
Already?

324
00:20:45,679 --> 00:20:46,713
Already what?

325
00:20:46,846 --> 00:20:48,281
Already how do
you know that?

326
00:20:48,415 --> 00:20:50,500
How can you be sure?
It's so quick.

327
00:20:50,183 --> 00:20:51,518
I'm sure.

328
00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:53,520
Ouch.

329
00:20:54,220 --> 00:20:55,488
That hurts me.

330
00:20:55,622 --> 00:20:58,992
The cruelty of it.
The cold-bloodedness.

331
00:20:59,125 --> 00:21:00,527
You said what
you wanted to say.

332
00:21:00,660 --> 00:21:01,961
I tried to stop you.
That's it.

333
00:21:02,950 --> 00:21:04,364
I said part of what
I wanted to say.

334
00:21:04,497 --> 00:21:06,700
I was in the middle
of it. There's more.

335
00:21:07,330 --> 00:21:08,134
No.

336
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,104
No what? Will you...
No.

337
00:21:11,237 --> 00:21:12,272
Will you marry me?
No.

338
00:21:39,432 --> 00:21:41,340
I'm gonna need art supplies.

339
00:21:42,435 --> 00:21:45,372
Canvas, stretchers,
brushes, turpentine.

340
00:21:45,505 --> 00:21:47,273
What do you want to paint?

341
00:21:47,407 --> 00:21:48,908
The future.

342
00:21:53,790 --> 00:21:54,748
Which is you.

343
00:21:56,483 --> 00:21:59,386
Widely not considered
a great connoisseur,

344
00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:02,489
Julian Cadazio, nevertheless,
had an eye for something,

345
00:22:02,622 --> 00:22:05,358
and he did us all
a very good turn

346
00:22:05,492 --> 00:22:08,328
when the hour he was
released from prison...

347
00:22:13,867 --> 00:22:16,536
We're done with flowers
and fruit bowls.

348
00:22:16,670 --> 00:22:19,372
We're finished with
beaches and seascapes.

349
00:22:19,506 --> 00:22:22,108
We're getting out of armor,
rugs, and tapestries, too.

350
00:22:22,809 --> 00:22:24,440
I found something new.

351
00:22:34,988 --> 00:22:36,189
Modern art?

352
00:22:36,322 --> 00:22:38,558
Modern art. Our
specialty, starting now.

353
00:22:38,692 --> 00:22:40,160
I don't get it.
Of course you don't.

354
00:22:40,293 --> 00:22:41,561
Am I too old?
Of course you are.

355
00:22:41,695 --> 00:22:43,663
Why is this good? It
isn't good. Wrong idea.

356
00:22:43,797 --> 00:22:44,864
That's no answer.

357
00:22:44,998 --> 00:22:46,933
My point. You see
the girl in it?

358
00:22:47,670 --> 00:22:48,101
No.

359
00:22:48,234 --> 00:22:50,303
Trust me,
she's there.

360
00:22:52,672 --> 00:22:55,141
One way to tell if a modern artist
actually knows what he's doing

361
00:22:55,175 --> 00:22:56,710
is to get him to
paint you a horse

362
00:22:56,843 --> 00:22:58,545
or a flower or
a sinking battleship,

363
00:22:58,678 --> 00:23:00,480
or something that's actually
supposed to look like

364
00:23:00,513 --> 00:23:02,782
the thing that it's actually
supposed to look like.

365
00:23:02,916 --> 00:23:05,719
Can he do it?
Look at this.

366
00:23:05,852 --> 00:23:08,355
Drawn in 45 seconds right in
front of me with a burnt matchstick.

367
00:23:08,388 --> 00:23:10,557
A perfect sparrow.
That's excellent.

368
00:23:10,690 --> 00:23:11,725
May I keep it?

369
00:23:11,858 --> 00:23:13,360
Don't be stupid.
Of course not.

370
00:23:13,493 --> 00:23:16,396
The point is, he could paint
this beautifully if he wanted,

371
00:23:16,529 --> 00:23:18,631
but he thinks
this is better.

372
00:23:18,765 --> 00:23:21,334
And I think I sort of
agree with him.

373
00:23:21,468 --> 00:23:24,871
Simone, Naked. Cell Block J.
Hobby Room is probably a masterpiece

374
00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:28,800
worth a significant, even
exorbitant, sum of money.

375
00:23:28,908 --> 00:23:30,430
But not yet.

376
00:23:30,176 --> 00:23:33,113
Hmm. The desire
must be created.

377
00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:35,382
Mmm.

378
00:23:35,515 --> 00:23:37,500
How long is he in for?

379
00:23:48,595 --> 00:23:50,930
Mr. Rosenthaler,

380
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,434
why should we put you
back on the street?

381
00:23:54,567 --> 00:23:56,936
Because it was an
accident, Your Honor.

382
00:23:57,904 --> 00:24:00,807
I didn't intend
to kill anybody.

383
00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:04,770
You decapitated two
bartenders with a meat saw.

384
00:24:08,848 --> 00:24:10,950
The first
bartender was an accident.

385
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,721
The second one
was self-defense.

386
00:24:14,854 --> 00:24:17,323
Well, be that as it may,

387
00:24:17,457 --> 00:24:19,292
what demonstration
of genuine remorse,

388
00:24:19,426 --> 00:24:20,527
or, at the very least,

389
00:24:20,660 --> 00:24:23,263
regret can you offer
for beheading these men?

390
00:24:27,701 --> 00:24:29,569
They had it coming.

391
00:24:29,703 --> 00:24:32,172
I beg your pardon?
Forgive me. Uh...

392
00:24:33,673 --> 00:24:35,642
Is there a part of this
ritual where you ask

393
00:24:35,775 --> 00:24:38,445
if anybody has something
to say before it's too late?

394
00:24:38,578 --> 00:24:39,813
Like, at a wedding.

395
00:24:39,946 --> 00:24:41,981
No.
I'll be brief.

396
00:24:46,486 --> 00:24:48,888
We all know this man
is a murderer.

397
00:24:49,220 --> 00:24:51,224
Totally guilty of
first-degree homicide,

398
00:24:51,358 --> 00:24:52,625
any way you slice it.

399
00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:54,270
That's a given.

400
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,330
However, he's also that rare
once-in-a-generation guy

401
00:24:57,464 --> 00:24:58,698
that you hear about,

402
00:24:58,832 --> 00:25:01,000
but never get the chance
to discover for yourself.

403
00:25:02,135 --> 00:25:04,704
An artistic genius.

404
00:25:04,838 --> 00:25:06,473
Surely, there ought
to be a double standard

405
00:25:06,506 --> 00:25:07,974
for this sort of
predicament.

406
00:25:08,108 --> 00:25:10,343
Supposedly, he's a
psychotic, by the way.

407
00:25:10,477 --> 00:25:12,120
That's not his fault.

408
00:25:12,145 --> 00:25:14,614
Respectfully, I submit...

409
00:25:16,449 --> 00:25:19,819
maybe we could think up
some other way to punish him?

410
00:25:19,953 --> 00:25:22,550
Rosenthaler's right
to petition for parole

411
00:25:22,188 --> 00:25:23,256
was permanently revoked

412
00:25:23,390 --> 00:25:24,758
for the duration
of his sentence.

413
00:25:25,792 --> 00:25:28,610
No further questions.

414
00:25:28,194 --> 00:25:30,463
Nevertheless,
Cadazio and his uncles

415
00:25:30,597 --> 00:25:32,650
were unanimous
in their decision

416
00:25:32,198 --> 00:25:35,680
to promote the artist
as his exclusive brokers

417
00:25:35,201 --> 00:25:37,300
throughout the free world.

418
00:25:39,472 --> 00:25:42,308
Simone travelled far and wide.

419
00:25:44,177 --> 00:25:45,745
The Ennui Salon.

420
00:25:48,214 --> 00:25:51,284
The Royal Exposition.

421
00:25:51,418 --> 00:25:54,287
The International Pavilion at
the Liberty, Kansas State Fair,

422
00:25:54,421 --> 00:25:56,923
which was very nearly
burned to the ground.

423
00:25:57,570 --> 00:25:59,726
In short, the picture
was a sensation.

424
00:26:01,961 --> 00:26:04,464
Even the artist's all but
forgotten earlier work

425
00:26:04,597 --> 00:26:08,368
inspired wildly robust sales
on the secondary market.

426
00:26:09,969 --> 00:26:14,700
Meanwhile, Rosenthaler
continued to work in confinement.

427
00:26:14,140 --> 00:26:17,677
Strikingly, the artist favored
raw materials sourced

428
00:26:17,811 --> 00:26:20,580
exclusively from within
the prison-asylum domain.

429
00:26:21,348 --> 00:26:23,316
Powdered eggs.

430
00:26:23,450 --> 00:26:25,251
Pigeon blood.

431
00:26:25,385 --> 00:26:26,886
Shackle grease.

432
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,855
Coal, cork, and dung.

433
00:26:28,988 --> 00:26:30,857
Fire, of course.

434
00:26:30,990 --> 00:26:32,759
Bright yellow scullery soap.

435
00:26:32,892 --> 00:26:35,762
And fresh cream of millet
as a binding agent.

436
00:26:37,864 --> 00:26:39,799
She was more than a muse.

437
00:26:44,938 --> 00:26:46,373
Throw the switch.

438
00:26:54,881 --> 00:26:57,584
Throw the switch,
you ****sucker.

439
00:27:03,230 --> 00:27:05,291
What's wrong with you?
Go back to work.

440
00:27:06,259 --> 00:27:07,527
I can't.

441
00:27:08,428 --> 00:27:10,330
I won't. It's too hard.

442
00:27:11,464 --> 00:27:13,333
It's torture.

443
00:27:13,466 --> 00:27:16,803
I'm literally
a tortured artist.

444
00:27:19,773 --> 00:27:21,207
Poor baby.

445
00:27:21,941 --> 00:27:22,942
Get out.

446
00:27:39,693 --> 00:27:41,227
Is that what you want?

447
00:28:19,232 --> 00:28:20,800
What's your problem?

448
00:28:22,569 --> 00:28:24,304
I don't know what to paint.

449
00:29:05,812 --> 00:29:08,682
The French
Splatter-school Action-group.

450
00:29:08,815 --> 00:29:12,485
A dynamic, talented,
lusty, slovenly, alcoholic,

451
00:29:12,619 --> 00:29:15,155
violent pack of
creative savages.

452
00:29:16,456 --> 00:29:19,459
They inspired
and very often

453
00:29:19,592 --> 00:29:22,996
personally attacked each
other for two decades and more.

454
00:29:23,129 --> 00:29:24,631
I'll have my drink now.

455
00:29:29,836 --> 00:29:32,572
Remember, in those days,
as you know,

456
00:29:32,706 --> 00:29:34,574
it was much more
socially acceptable

457
00:29:34,708 --> 00:29:36,776
for a painter or a sculptor

458
00:29:36,910 --> 00:29:40,180
to hit another fellow with
a chair or even a brick

459
00:29:40,313 --> 00:29:42,949
or walk around
with a black eye

460
00:29:43,830 --> 00:29:45,719
or a broken tooth
and so on.

461
00:29:45,852 --> 00:29:49,222
Indeed, I'm jumping ahead,
but in my own experience,

462
00:29:49,356 --> 00:29:52,892
Rosenthaler could be quite
unpredictably impulsive.

463
00:29:53,260 --> 00:29:55,729
Uh, meaning, I refer to
the, uh, pigment locker

464
00:29:55,862 --> 00:29:58,310
beneath his studio in
the Boulevard des Plombiers,

465
00:29:58,164 --> 00:30:00,834
on one occasion, he grabbed
me and put me in there,

466
00:30:00,967 --> 00:30:04,537
and inappropriately,
sort of, tried to **** me

467
00:30:04,671 --> 00:30:07,700
against the wall in the
corner of that pigment locker.

468
00:30:07,140 --> 00:30:10,343
He was crazy.
Officially certified.

469
00:30:20,153 --> 00:30:23,256
The Cadazios, of course,
represented them all.

470
00:30:33,733 --> 00:30:35,402
It's three years later.

471
00:30:35,535 --> 00:30:37,303
We've made you the most
famous painter alive

472
00:30:37,437 --> 00:30:40,373
based on one small,
scribbly, overrated picture.

473
00:30:40,507 --> 00:30:41,908
You're an art school course.

474
00:30:42,420 --> 00:30:43,576
You're an encyclopedia entry.

475
00:30:43,710 --> 00:30:46,546
Even your disciples have won
and squandered multiple fortunes,

476
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,416
yet you refuse to show us
so much as a sketch or a study

477
00:30:49,549 --> 00:30:52,719
for a single new piece during
this entire, protracted period.

478
00:30:52,852 --> 00:30:54,387
How long are
we meant to wait?

479
00:30:54,521 --> 00:30:56,556
Well, don't answer,
because we're not asking.

480
00:30:57,590 --> 00:30:59,492
We already printed
the invitations.

481
00:30:59,626 --> 00:31:01,161
We're coming in.

482
00:31:01,294 --> 00:31:03,430
All of us. The
collectors. The critics.

483
00:31:03,563 --> 00:31:06,990
Even your second-rate imitators
we represent who suck up to you

484
00:31:06,232 --> 00:31:09,690
and smuggle you goodies and probably
turn out to be better than you are.

485
00:31:09,169 --> 00:31:10,970
The bribes alone are
going to be outrageous,

486
00:31:11,104 --> 00:31:12,472
as these guards
can assure you.

487
00:31:12,605 --> 00:31:14,740
But we're gonna pay 'em.

488
00:31:14,207 --> 00:31:16,209
So, finish it,
whatever it is.

489
00:31:16,343 --> 00:31:17,777
The show is in two weeks.

490
00:31:26,119 --> 00:31:28,210
She thinks it's ready,
by the way.

491
00:31:28,555 --> 00:31:29,622
It's ready.

492
00:31:32,325 --> 00:31:34,494
I could use another year.

493
00:31:37,230 --> 00:31:38,998
My employer,
at that time,

494
00:31:39,132 --> 00:31:41,134
received the intriguing
summons

495
00:31:41,267 --> 00:31:43,169
by rapid-priority wire.

496
00:31:43,303 --> 00:31:46,940
I refer, of course,
to Upshur "Maw" Clampette.

497
00:31:48,208 --> 00:31:50,276
Astute collector
of antiquities.

498
00:31:50,410 --> 00:31:52,450
Great friend
to the avant-garde.

499
00:31:52,178 --> 00:31:53,880
Her collection,
even in its infancy,

500
00:31:54,140 --> 00:31:55,482
was well-known
and important,

501
00:31:55,615 --> 00:31:57,500
as was her residence,

502
00:31:57,183 --> 00:31:59,319
Ingo Steen's first
American commission

503
00:31:59,452 --> 00:32:03,156
informally known as
the Doorstop House.

504
00:32:03,289 --> 00:32:05,492
It was my duty,
and I may say,

505
00:32:05,625 --> 00:32:07,460
my privilege
to catalogue,

506
00:32:07,594 --> 00:32:09,195
archive, and advise,

507
00:32:09,329 --> 00:32:11,131
although she did whatever
the hell she wanted,

508
00:32:11,164 --> 00:32:13,700
no matter what you
told her, anyway.

509
00:32:13,833 --> 00:32:15,869
Thus, we began
the long journey

510
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,172
from Liberty to Ennui.

511
00:32:19,305 --> 00:32:22,175
My dear Mrs.
Clampette, Maw, if I may,

512
00:32:22,308 --> 00:32:23,977
please join us
for the first display

513
00:32:24,110 --> 00:32:27,470
of Mr. Moses Rosenthaler's
extremely exciting new work,

514
00:32:27,180 --> 00:32:29,416
which I, myself, have not yet
been permitted to see.

515
00:32:29,549 --> 00:32:32,218
In order to facilitate the
viewing in a timely fashion,

516
00:32:32,352 --> 00:32:33,720
it may prove necessary for us

517
00:32:33,853 --> 00:32:35,955
to surreptitiously gain
access to the facility

518
00:32:36,890 --> 00:32:38,291
where the artist
currently resides.

519
00:32:38,425 --> 00:32:39,559
Please rely on my operatives

520
00:32:39,659 --> 00:32:41,610
to organize any
and all details

521
00:32:41,194 --> 00:32:42,962
and preparations
for your visit.

522
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,365
Caution, do not bring
matches, lighters,

523
00:32:45,498 --> 00:32:47,367
or sharp objects of any kind.

524
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:50,370
We await your confirmation
with cheerful anticipation.

525
00:32:50,503 --> 00:32:52,706
Yours most truly,
Cadazio Uncles

526
00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:54,574
and Nephew Galerie concern.

527
00:32:58,178 --> 00:33:00,130
The paddy wagon
collected us

528
00:33:00,146 --> 00:33:02,549
directly after the night's final
round of working girls and revelers

529
00:33:02,582 --> 00:33:05,352
were delivered
to the drunk tank at 3:00 a.m.

530
00:33:51,865 --> 00:33:53,900
Moses, are you here?

531
00:33:55,301 --> 00:33:57,300
Mmm-hmm.

532
00:33:57,137 --> 00:33:58,838
Any words
of introduction?

533
00:33:58,972 --> 00:34:02,409
Or perhaps, a welcome to our
wonderful guests, some of whom

534
00:34:02,542 --> 00:34:05,110
have traveled a great distance
to come see your work, I hope?

535
00:34:05,145 --> 00:34:07,914
Or, alternatively,
just, I don't know.

536
00:34:08,581 --> 00:34:09,582
Hello?

537
00:34:12,850 --> 00:34:13,953
Quiet, please!

538
00:34:15,522 --> 00:34:17,900
Quiet, please!

539
00:34:21,270 --> 00:34:23,329
I did it. It's good!
This is historic.

540
00:34:23,463 --> 00:34:25,131
Open the champagne!
I did it.

541
00:34:25,265 --> 00:34:26,466
Music!

542
00:34:32,572 --> 00:34:34,240
Why are you sitting in a
wheelchair like an invalid?

543
00:34:34,274 --> 00:34:36,309
You should be dancing
on the tables! It's a triumph!

544
00:34:41,414 --> 00:34:42,816
Do you like it?

545
00:34:43,983 --> 00:34:45,285
Do I like it?

546
00:34:45,985 --> 00:34:47,754
Yes.

547
00:34:53,660 --> 00:34:55,662
Look at Maw,
she's mesmerized.

548
00:34:58,131 --> 00:34:59,733
This here's a fresco,
t'weren't it?

549
00:34:59,866 --> 00:35:02,669
Precisely. He's a Renaissance
master of the highest order.

550
00:35:02,802 --> 00:35:05,805
He mines the same vein as
Piperno Pierluigi when he illuminated

551
00:35:05,939 --> 00:35:09,420
The Christ Before God's
Heavenly Altar in 1565.

552
00:35:09,175 --> 00:35:11,878
Maw, nobody has an eye for
things nobody has ever seen

553
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,470
like Maw Clampette
of Liberty, Kansas.

554
00:35:14,180 --> 00:35:16,549
We should be ashamed to
even gather in her presence.

555
00:35:16,683 --> 00:35:18,184
Why the ****
did she say fresco?

556
00:35:19,486 --> 00:35:21,955
Are they painted
into the walls?

557
00:35:22,822 --> 00:35:25,250
Oh, no. What has he done?

558
00:35:25,692 --> 00:35:27,594
You ****ing *****.

559
00:35:27,727 --> 00:35:29,290
Are you seeing this?
Look at this!

560
00:35:29,129 --> 00:35:31,164
Well, I think it's utterly
wonderful. It's crucial!

561
00:35:31,297 --> 00:35:33,867
It's probably a turning point in
the evolution of human pictography.

562
00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:34,934
Scratched and plastered

563
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,170
into a reinforced cement
aggregate gymnasium.

564
00:35:37,303 --> 00:35:38,672
He even painted
onto the radiators!

565
00:35:38,805 --> 00:35:40,440
Maybe one of them
restoration fellers

566
00:35:40,573 --> 00:35:42,575
out at the Fondazione
dell'Arte Classico

567
00:35:42,709 --> 00:35:44,711
could figure a way to
rustle them pictures loose.

568
00:35:44,844 --> 00:35:46,680
We're in a maximum-security
prison, Maw.

569
00:35:46,813 --> 00:35:48,348
It's federal property.

570
00:35:48,481 --> 00:35:50,583
Even to begin the bureaucratic
nightmare would require years

571
00:35:50,617 --> 00:35:52,252
of negotiation with
a team of highly-paid,

572
00:35:52,285 --> 00:35:53,853
arrogant,
obnoxious advocates.

573
00:35:53,987 --> 00:35:56,489
I don't even know how you'd
peel them off. It's a fresco.

574
00:35:56,623 --> 00:35:59,592
Hey! It's a fresco!

575
00:36:00,527 --> 00:36:01,861
So what?

576
00:36:01,995 --> 00:36:04,197
Can you even begin to
fathom the shit-ton of money

577
00:36:04,330 --> 00:36:07,467
my uncles and I have squandered
to get to this point of no return?

578
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:08,735
Look at them!

579
00:36:10,337 --> 00:36:11,338
You've ruined us!

580
00:36:11,404 --> 00:36:13,730
Does it mean nothing to you?

581
00:36:13,206 --> 00:36:14,607
I thought you liked it.

582
00:36:14,741 --> 00:36:18,111
I think it stinks!

583
00:36:18,244 --> 00:36:19,779
Get out of that wheelchair!

584
00:36:19,913 --> 00:36:22,682
I'm going to kick your ***
up and down this hobby room!

585
00:36:24,818 --> 00:36:27,754
Don't growl at me,
you convicted murderer.

586
00:36:27,887 --> 00:36:29,723
You homicidal, suicidal,

587
00:36:29,856 --> 00:36:32,459
psychopathic,
no-talent drunk!

588
00:36:57,500 --> 00:36:59,520
Why didn't you
tell me, gardienne?

589
00:37:00,860 --> 00:37:02,188
Because you would've
stopped him.

590
00:37:09,950 --> 00:37:10,597
We have to accept it.

591
00:37:10,730 --> 00:37:12,532
His need to fail
is more powerful

592
00:37:12,665 --> 00:37:15,468
than our strongest desires
to help him succeed.

593
00:37:15,602 --> 00:37:17,671
I give up.
He's defeated us.

594
00:37:17,804 --> 00:37:20,106
He's defeated us.
Sad, but there it is.

595
00:37:21,708 --> 00:37:25,110
Anyway, at least, he
finished the mother****er.

596
00:37:26,546 --> 00:37:28,148
It is, perhaps,
the most interesting

597
00:37:28,281 --> 00:37:29,849
contemplation of
peripheral vision

598
00:37:29,983 --> 00:37:31,518
I've ever seen.

599
00:37:39,459 --> 00:37:40,894
Well done, Moses.

600
00:37:50,570 --> 00:37:54,140
Well done, Moses.
This has a greatness to it.

601
00:37:55,842 --> 00:37:58,478
If you plastered it
deep enough, it may last.

602
00:37:59,746 --> 00:38:01,981
We'll come and see it
again one day.

603
00:38:02,115 --> 00:38:03,583
God willing.

604
00:38:03,717 --> 00:38:06,152
You'll already still
be here, of course.

605
00:38:08,621 --> 00:38:10,223
It's all Simone.

606
00:38:25,372 --> 00:38:26,606
At that moment,

607
00:38:26,740 --> 00:38:28,975
they were both aware
of Simone's intention

608
00:38:29,109 --> 00:38:30,377
to leave her position

609
00:38:30,510 --> 00:38:32,579
at the Ennui Prison-Asylum
the following day,

610
00:38:32,712 --> 00:38:35,248
endowed with funds
provided by the Cadazios

611
00:38:35,382 --> 00:38:36,783
as compensation for her work

612
00:38:36,916 --> 00:38:40,286
as Rosenthaler's model
and muse.

613
00:38:40,420 --> 00:38:42,956
She was reunited with
the estranged child to whom

614
00:38:43,890 --> 00:38:44,858
she had given birth
in her youth,

615
00:38:44,991 --> 00:38:48,428
and the two never again
lived apart.

616
00:38:48,561 --> 00:38:51,331
She and Rosenthaler maintained
a regular correspondence

617
00:38:51,464 --> 00:38:53,233
for the rest
of the artist's life.

618
00:38:58,738 --> 00:39:01,207
Mrs. Clampette would like
to put the piece on hold.

619
00:39:02,642 --> 00:39:03,677
The half-sticker?

620
00:39:03,810 --> 00:39:05,110
Yes, please.

621
00:39:05,145 --> 00:39:06,646
Should she choose
to finalize the sale,

622
00:39:06,713 --> 00:39:09,482
will this amount be acceptable
to you and your uncles?

623
00:39:13,253 --> 00:39:15,388
Can we get a deposit?

624
00:39:15,522 --> 00:39:18,291
Maw? An advance against
the total sum?

625
00:39:20,930 --> 00:39:23,296
Tell them stingy Frenchmen
I ain't making no promises.

626
00:39:23,430 --> 00:39:24,731
Ten Reinforced Cement

627
00:39:24,864 --> 00:39:26,299
Aggregate Load-Bearing Murals

628
00:39:26,433 --> 00:39:28,868
was to remain on hold under
the name Upshur Clampette

629
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,404
for the subsequent 20 years.

630
00:39:31,538 --> 00:39:32,639
Monsieur Cadazio?

631
00:39:35,608 --> 00:39:36,676
Which prisoners?

632
00:39:41,281 --> 00:39:42,415
Tell them
we don't bribe

633
00:39:42,549 --> 00:39:44,284
rapists and pickpockets.
It's unethical.

634
00:39:44,417 --> 00:39:47,253
Besides, I didn't bring an additional
6,000,000 francs in small bills.

635
00:39:54,127 --> 00:39:55,595
How'd you get out there?

636
00:39:55,729 --> 00:39:56,730
What do we do?

637
00:39:57,564 --> 00:39:58,631
Lock the door.

638
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,610
In the aftermath,
72 prisoners

639
00:40:10,744 --> 00:40:12,779
and six members of
the French Splatter-school

640
00:40:12,912 --> 00:40:15,215
lay dead or mortally wounded.

641
00:40:15,348 --> 00:40:18,485
Moses Rosenthaler,
for acts of extreme valor,

642
00:40:18,618 --> 00:40:20,887
which saved the lives
of nine guards,

643
00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:22,789
22 distinguished visitors,

644
00:40:22,922 --> 00:40:24,991
and the Ministers
of Culture and Urbanity,

645
00:40:25,125 --> 00:40:28,428
received his freedom
with probation for life.

646
00:40:30,563 --> 00:40:33,333
And was decorated in
the Order of the Caged Lion.

647
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:41,174
One score later,

648
00:40:41,307 --> 00:40:43,877
as per Maw Clampette's
detailed instructions,

649
00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:45,679
Cadazio and his own nephews

650
00:40:45,812 --> 00:40:48,810
arranged for the entirety
of the hobby room

651
00:40:48,214 --> 00:40:50,917
to be relocated onboard
a Goliath aviation

652
00:40:51,510 --> 00:40:52,852
12-engine artillery transport

653
00:40:52,986 --> 00:40:55,889
directly from
Ennui to Liberty.

654
00:41:00,326 --> 00:41:03,730
In this form, the avant-garde
assumed its place

655
00:41:03,863 --> 00:41:06,299
upon the plains
of Central Kansas.

656
00:41:18,845 --> 00:41:21,470
"Pencils, pens,
erasers, thumbtacks,

657
00:41:21,181 --> 00:41:24,500
"pushpins, typewriter
repairman."

658
00:41:24,184 --> 00:41:26,920
Why am I paying for a
hotel room at a beach club

659
00:41:27,530 --> 00:41:28,254
on the North Atlantic coast?

660
00:41:28,388 --> 00:41:30,924
Because I had
to go there to write it.

661
00:41:31,570 --> 00:41:33,893
"Breakfast, lunch, dinner,
laundry, nightcap, midnight snack."

662
00:41:34,270 --> 00:41:36,229
What is wrong
with the desk

663
00:41:36,363 --> 00:41:38,640
right here
in your office?

664
00:41:38,198 --> 00:41:39,499
Courtesy of
this magazine.

665
00:41:39,632 --> 00:41:40,867
Don't ask me
to be indiscreet

666
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,569
about what happened
between me and Moses

667
00:41:42,669 --> 00:41:45,710
at a seaside inn 20
years ago. We were lovers.

668
00:41:45,205 --> 00:41:46,873
I went back
to remember.

669
00:41:47,340 --> 00:41:48,608
On my dime.

670
00:41:48,742 --> 00:41:49,876
Yes, please.

671
00:41:51,845 --> 00:41:53,460
Add it up.

672
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:16,403
March 1st.

673
00:42:17,804 --> 00:42:19,739
Negotiations between
undergraduates

674
00:42:19,873 --> 00:42:21,141
and the university
administration

675
00:42:21,274 --> 00:42:23,760
break down abruptly
in early morning hours

676
00:42:23,209 --> 00:42:25,912
after clamorous debate,
angry name-calling

677
00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:29,249
and, finally,
outright gambling over

678
00:42:29,382 --> 00:42:31,317
the right of free access
to the girls' dormitory

679
00:42:31,451 --> 00:42:33,787
for all male students.

680
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,560
The protest which
ended in a stalemate...

681
00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:41,961
gave the superficial
appearance of a vanity exercise

682
00:42:42,950 --> 00:42:44,197
for the pimple-cream
and wet-dream contingent.

683
00:42:47,734 --> 00:42:50,870
But, in fact, the ***es were
equally represented.

684
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:52,339
Young lady,

685
00:42:53,106 --> 00:42:54,107
shoes!

686
00:42:55,942 --> 00:42:59,212
And all participants emphasized
the basis of their frustration,

687
00:42:59,346 --> 00:43:02,449
a desire, more,
a biological need

688
00:43:03,283 --> 00:43:05,518
for freedom. Full stop.

689
00:43:06,753 --> 00:43:08,488
It has exploded into symbolism

690
00:43:08,621 --> 00:43:10,457
and everybody's
talking about it.

691
00:43:13,827 --> 00:43:15,195
March 5th.

692
00:43:15,328 --> 00:43:17,300
Late supper at the B's.

693
00:43:17,163 --> 00:43:19,799
Eldest boy, 19, not home
since yesterday morning.

694
00:43:21,501 --> 00:43:23,169
Father chanced upon him
midday,

695
00:43:23,303 --> 00:43:24,671
marching alongside
his comrades.

696
00:43:24,804 --> 00:43:26,473
Their slogan...

697
00:43:26,606 --> 00:43:28,475
"The children are grumpy."

698
00:43:28,975 --> 00:43:30,410
Thank you.

699
00:43:30,543 --> 00:43:32,679
An additional dinner guest,
thus far, fails to appear.

700
00:43:32,812 --> 00:43:34,147
For this, I am grateful.

701
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,616
Had not been informed of
his invitation in first place.

702
00:43:36,750 --> 00:43:37,984
We didn't mean
to offend you.

703
00:43:38,118 --> 00:43:39,652
We're sorry.

704
00:43:39,786 --> 00:43:41,654
We thought you might
decline the invitation

705
00:43:41,788 --> 00:43:42,989
if we warned you.

706
00:43:43,123 --> 00:43:44,891
You were right.
Yeah.

707
00:43:45,250 --> 00:43:46,960
Local news reports aggressive
crowd-control methods...

708
00:43:46,993 --> 00:43:49,162
in use on street
today. Quote...

709
00:43:49,295 --> 00:43:50,330
Just give him
a chance.

710
00:43:50,463 --> 00:43:52,198
He's very intelligent.

711
00:43:52,332 --> 00:43:54,167
So, how long has it been
since what's-his-name?

712
00:43:54,300 --> 00:43:55,568
I know you mean well.

713
00:43:55,702 --> 00:43:58,772
"It begins with a prickly
tingling of the exposed skin."

714
00:44:03,610 --> 00:44:05,545
I'm not an old maid.

715
00:44:05,679 --> 00:44:07,347
We don't think that.

716
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,215
Of course you're not.

717
00:44:09,349 --> 00:44:12,152
"Then, a reddening and
swelling of the orbital muscles."

718
00:44:12,285 --> 00:44:13,820
Take me at my word.

719
00:44:13,953 --> 00:44:15,755
I live by myself on purpose.

720
00:44:15,889 --> 00:44:18,580
I prefer relationships
that end.

721
00:44:18,191 --> 00:44:21,940
I deliberately choose to have
neither husband nor children.

722
00:44:21,227 --> 00:44:23,530
The two greatest deterrents
to any woman's attempt

723
00:44:23,663 --> 00:44:25,699
to live by and for writing.

724
00:44:25,832 --> 00:44:26,833
Why are we crying?

725
00:44:26,933 --> 00:44:28,134
Because it's sad.

726
00:44:28,268 --> 00:44:29,436
We don't want
you to be alone.

727
00:44:29,502 --> 00:44:30,937
Loneliness
is a kind of poverty.

728
00:44:31,710 --> 00:44:32,305
I'm not sad.
My eyes hurt.

729
00:44:32,439 --> 00:44:33,540
There's something wrong

730
00:44:33,673 --> 00:44:35,442
with your apartment.

731
00:44:35,575 --> 00:44:38,440
"Finally, a barrage of searing
pain as snot pours from the nostrils

732
00:44:38,780 --> 00:44:39,679
"and the throat spasms
and constricts."

733
00:44:39,813 --> 00:44:40,880
Don't breathe.

734
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:55,428
I'm naked,
Mrs. Krementz.

735
00:44:56,262 --> 00:44:57,497
I can see that.

736
00:44:57,630 --> 00:44:59,566
Why are you crying?
Tear gas.

737
00:44:59,699 --> 00:45:00,734
Also,

738
00:45:01,868 --> 00:45:03,470
I suppose I'm sad.

739
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,541
Please turn away. I feel
shy about my new muscles.

740
00:45:13,346 --> 00:45:15,482
Go tell your parents you're
home. They're worried.

741
00:45:15,615 --> 00:45:17,717
I'm expected
back on the barricades.

742
00:45:17,851 --> 00:45:19,219
I didn't see any barricades.

743
00:45:19,352 --> 00:45:21,654
Well, we're still
constructing them.

744
00:45:21,788 --> 00:45:22,789
Uh-huh.

745
00:45:22,889 --> 00:45:23,957
What are you writing?

746
00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:25,358
A manifesto.

747
00:45:25,492 --> 00:45:27,460
I told them not to
invite Paul, by the way.

748
00:45:27,594 --> 00:45:30,960
Maybe you're sad, but
you don't seem lonely to me.

749
00:45:30,230 --> 00:45:31,598
Exactly!

750
00:45:31,731 --> 00:45:34,100
I saw you at the protest on
top of a bookcase taking notes.

751
00:45:34,234 --> 00:45:36,970
Is there a story in us?
For the people of Kansas.

752
00:45:37,103 --> 00:45:38,138
Maybe.

753
00:45:38,271 --> 00:45:39,606
Then you should study
our resolutions.

754
00:45:39,639 --> 00:45:41,141
Or, anyway,
will you proofread it?

755
00:45:41,274 --> 00:45:42,742
My parents think
you're a good writer.

756
00:45:48,915 --> 00:45:50,216
It's a little damp.

757
00:45:51,451 --> 00:45:52,786
Physically
or metaphorically?

758
00:45:52,919 --> 00:45:55,488
Both. Based on the cover
and the first four sentences.

759
00:45:55,622 --> 00:45:57,323
Don't criticize
my manifesto.

760
00:45:57,457 --> 00:45:58,692
Oh, you don't want remarks?

761
00:45:58,825 --> 00:46:00,193
I don't need remarks,
do I?

762
00:46:00,326 --> 00:46:02,295
I only asked you to proofread
it 'cause I thought you'd be

763
00:46:02,328 --> 00:46:04,300
even more impressed
by how good it already is.

764
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,599
Let's start with the typos.

765
00:46:06,733 --> 00:46:10,136
Can the faculty succeed
if the students fail?

766
00:46:10,270 --> 00:46:12,138
It remains to be seen.

767
00:46:12,272 --> 00:46:14,274
Ah. Paul Duval.
Lucinda Krementz.

768
00:46:14,407 --> 00:46:15,475
How do you do?

769
00:46:16,643 --> 00:46:19,179
Your beard
is scratching me.

770
00:46:19,312 --> 00:46:22,882
Unexpected guest finally
arrives. Looks like hell.

771
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:24,918
Describes odyssey across city.

772
00:46:25,510 --> 00:46:26,586
Stalled trains, stalled buses,

773
00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:29,923
broken windows, paving stones
flying in all directions.

774
00:46:31,124 --> 00:46:33,393
Anyway, we're here.

775
00:46:33,526 --> 00:46:36,329
The famous Lucinda.
Hello.

776
00:46:36,463 --> 00:46:38,531
I did not know you were
coming. They did not tell me.

777
00:46:38,665 --> 00:46:40,667
This is not
an official meeting.

778
00:46:46,706 --> 00:46:47,707
Good evening.

779
00:46:57,183 --> 00:46:58,284
Start without me.

780
00:47:12,465 --> 00:47:13,767
March 10th.

781
00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:16,169
City services at a halt,
one week and counting.

782
00:47:16,302 --> 00:47:18,538
Public transportation,
suspended.

783
00:47:18,672 --> 00:47:21,741
Piles of garbage, uncollected.
Schools on strike.

784
00:47:21,875 --> 00:47:23,543
No mail, no milk.

785
00:47:23,677 --> 00:47:24,778
It's me again.

786
00:47:24,911 --> 00:47:26,212
What will normal reality be?

787
00:47:26,346 --> 00:47:28,248
Next week, next month,
whenever, if ever,

788
00:47:28,381 --> 00:47:30,116
we get the chance
to experience it again.

789
00:47:30,717 --> 00:47:31,718
Anyone's guess.

790
00:47:31,785 --> 00:47:33,860
What's this part?

791
00:47:33,219 --> 00:47:34,754
I added an appendix.

792
00:47:34,888 --> 00:47:36,122
You're joking.
No, I'm not.

793
00:47:36,256 --> 00:47:38,580
You finished my manifesto
without me.

794
00:47:38,191 --> 00:47:39,959
I made it sound
like you, I think.

795
00:47:40,930 --> 00:47:41,428
Just more clear,
more concise,

796
00:47:41,561 --> 00:47:43,129
a bit less poetic.

797
00:47:43,263 --> 00:47:46,299
Put it this way, this isn't the
first manifesto I've proofread.

798
00:47:51,237 --> 00:47:53,730
Impossible to imagine
these students,

799
00:47:53,206 --> 00:47:55,775
exhilarated, naive,
brave in the extreme...

800
00:47:57,277 --> 00:48:00,280
returning to their
obedient classrooms.

801
00:48:08,121 --> 00:48:09,622
Who was that?

802
00:48:09,756 --> 00:48:11,257
Your mother.
My mother.

803
00:48:11,391 --> 00:48:13,590
My mother?

804
00:48:13,193 --> 00:48:14,828
What did she want? Did
you tell her I was here?

805
00:48:14,861 --> 00:48:16,496
Yes.
Why?

806
00:48:16,629 --> 00:48:18,298
Because she asked.
I don't lie.

807
00:48:18,932 --> 00:48:19,999
Was she upset?

808
00:48:20,133 --> 00:48:21,167
I don't think so.

809
00:48:21,301 --> 00:48:23,136
What did she say?
She nodded.

810
00:48:23,269 --> 00:48:24,804
What did you say?

811
00:48:24,938 --> 00:48:27,540
I told her I was working on an
article about you and your friends.

812
00:48:27,907 --> 00:48:29,175
So, you are.

813
00:48:29,309 --> 00:48:31,277
I've already written
1,000 words.

814
00:48:31,411 --> 00:48:32,812
I asked to interview her.

815
00:48:32,946 --> 00:48:35,215
Did she agree?
Yes, of course.

816
00:48:37,484 --> 00:48:38,618
Well, I am upset!

817
00:48:38,752 --> 00:48:40,820
I don't know how to feel.

818
00:48:40,954 --> 00:48:43,423
Am I in trouble? Why would
my mother be so calm?

819
00:48:43,556 --> 00:48:45,291
Is this proper?

820
00:48:45,425 --> 00:48:48,940
This is all off-the-record.
Everything. My whole life.

821
00:48:50,630 --> 00:48:52,198
What am I supposed
to do now?

822
00:48:53,633 --> 00:48:56,200
I should maintain
journalistic neutrality.

823
00:48:59,272 --> 00:49:00,573
Ooh.

824
00:49:05,645 --> 00:49:07,981
I like how
ruthless you are.

825
00:49:08,114 --> 00:49:10,183
It's part of
your beauty, I think.

826
00:49:12,118 --> 00:49:14,487
So, you've got
1,000 words already, huh?

827
00:49:17,900 --> 00:49:18,391
The kids did this.

828
00:49:18,525 --> 00:49:21,610
Obliterated 1,000 years
of Republican authority

829
00:49:21,194 --> 00:49:22,662
in less than a fortnight.

830
00:49:22,796 --> 00:49:24,431
How and why?

831
00:49:24,564 --> 00:49:27,167
Before it began,
where did it begin?

832
00:49:33,173 --> 00:49:36,109
- It was another time.
- It was another Ennui.

833
00:49:36,242 --> 00:49:40,547
Must be nearly six months ago, I
guess. My sisters were still 12, anyway.

834
00:49:46,619 --> 00:49:49,890
You danced to the Craze
and the Lait Chaud.

835
00:49:51,491 --> 00:49:53,159
You wore your hairdo
in the Pompidou,

836
00:49:53,293 --> 00:49:55,195
the Crouton,
or the Fruits-de-Mer.

837
00:49:56,529 --> 00:49:58,198
Your slang mixed
bits of Latin

838
00:49:58,331 --> 00:50:00,633
with philosophy jargon
and manual signaling.

839
00:50:02,535 --> 00:50:05,138
Devil's advocates bickered and
debated perpetually, ad nauseam,

840
00:50:05,271 --> 00:50:06,906
only for the sake of argument.

841
00:50:09,976 --> 00:50:11,711
Every clique had a rival.

842
00:50:14,848 --> 00:50:17,851
The Nuts had the Bolts.
The Sticks had the Stones.

843
00:50:17,984 --> 00:50:20,530
The Jocks had us,
the Bookworms,

844
00:50:20,186 --> 00:50:21,788
until Mitch-Mitch failed
the baccalaureate

845
00:50:21,821 --> 00:50:24,257
and got sent down
to National Duty-obligation.

846
00:50:24,391 --> 00:50:26,459
Three months
in the Mustard Region.

847
00:51:01,828 --> 00:51:03,496
He was sent
to the Mustard Region

848
00:51:03,630 --> 00:51:04,798
for National Duty-obligation.

849
00:51:08,134 --> 00:51:09,869
I'm sorry?

850
00:51:10,770 --> 00:51:11,871
How dare you?

851
00:51:12,500 --> 00:51:13,606
Who gave you permission
to besmirch our friend?

852
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,842
Does it occur to you he's very
probably somewhere marching

853
00:51:15,875 --> 00:51:17,477
in the middle of
the night right now,

854
00:51:17,610 --> 00:51:19,946
carrying a 50-pound sack of
gunpowder and peeling stale potatoes

855
00:51:19,979 --> 00:51:22,615
while he digs a latrine trench
in the rain with a tin cup?

856
00:51:22,749 --> 00:51:24,351
He doesn't want
to be in the military.

857
00:51:31,858 --> 00:51:33,560
Easy for you to say

858
00:51:33,693 --> 00:51:35,462
from the comfort
of the Sans Blague.

859
00:51:43,136 --> 00:51:44,938
Mitch-Mitch,
what are you doing here?

860
00:51:45,710 --> 00:51:46,406
You're supposed to be
in the Mustard Region

861
00:51:46,439 --> 00:51:47,807
for another two months.

862
00:51:47,941 --> 00:51:49,843
Five years later,
I, myself, translated

863
00:51:49,976 --> 00:51:52,112
Mitch-Mitch Simca's
poetic interpretation

864
00:51:52,245 --> 00:51:54,547
of his National
Duty-obligation service.

865
00:51:58,180 --> 00:52:01,187
The flashback scene in Act
Two of Goodbye, Zeffirelli.

866
00:52:01,321 --> 00:52:04,357
In North Africa, I
caught a bullet in the tail.

867
00:52:04,491 --> 00:52:05,925
In South America,
I caught a chunk of

868
00:52:05,959 --> 00:52:08,428
high-explosive shrapnel
in the left wing.

869
00:52:08,561 --> 00:52:10,163
In East Asia,
I picked up a rare,

870
00:52:10,296 --> 00:52:11,831
microbial,
infectious gut-parasite

871
00:52:11,965 --> 00:52:13,400
in the lower
abdominal cavity,

872
00:52:13,533 --> 00:52:15,668
and I've got them
all with me right now,

873
00:52:15,802 --> 00:52:17,871
still in my body,

874
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:21,641
but I don't regret my
choice to wear this uniform.

875
00:52:21,775 --> 00:52:24,511
And in 16 years,
I'll get my pension.

876
00:52:26,460 --> 00:52:28,214
Well, that's your bedtime
story, ladies. Lights out!

877
00:52:28,348 --> 00:52:29,649
Hup! Ho! Hut!
Lights out!

878
00:52:29,783 --> 00:52:31,840
Covers tucked! Blankets on!

879
00:52:31,217 --> 00:52:32,919
- Pray your prayers!
- Sir!

880
00:52:37,691 --> 00:52:40,260
Amen. Amen. Amen.

881
00:52:43,930 --> 00:52:45,310
Psst.

882
00:52:48,340 --> 00:52:50,170
Psst, Mitch-Mitch. Psst.

883
00:52:50,303 --> 00:52:52,872
Psst, Mitch-Mitch.
What do you wanna be?

884
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:54,107
What?

885
00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:56,576
What do you want
to be, Mitch-Mitch?

886
00:52:56,710 --> 00:52:59,546
With my grades, I'll be
an assistant pharmacist.

887
00:52:59,679 --> 00:53:01,748
Will that make you
be satisfied?

888
00:53:01,881 --> 00:53:04,551
It won't depress me. I
should have studied harder.

889
00:53:04,684 --> 00:53:06,520
And you, Robouchon?

890
00:53:06,186 --> 00:53:07,454
Oh, I have no choice.

891
00:53:07,587 --> 00:53:09,389
I'll work for my father's
glass factory.

892
00:53:09,522 --> 00:53:12,258
Someone has to take over.
It's normal.

893
00:53:12,392 --> 00:53:14,260
Vaugirard.
What's your plan?

894
00:53:14,394 --> 00:53:16,463
I suppose I'll continue
to be an attractive wastrel

895
00:53:16,596 --> 00:53:18,298
like my cousins on
both sides of the family.

896
00:53:18,431 --> 00:53:20,233
Your cousins are the best.
I love your cousins.

897
00:53:20,266 --> 00:53:22,369
Yeah.
What about you, Morisot?

898
00:53:24,371 --> 00:53:26,139
Morisot, what do
you want to be?

899
00:53:28,742 --> 00:53:29,943
A protestor.

900
00:53:31,378 --> 00:53:33,947
What'd he say?
He said, "A protestor."

901
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:35,982
What does he mean?
I don't know.

902
00:53:36,116 --> 00:53:37,817
I thought Morisot
was supposed to be

903
00:53:37,951 --> 00:53:39,519
a professor of
geological chemistry.

904
00:53:39,652 --> 00:53:41,154
Morisot's crying.

905
00:53:41,287 --> 00:53:43,189
Shh!
Who said "shh"?

906
00:53:43,323 --> 00:53:44,457
I won't do it.

907
00:53:46,259 --> 00:53:47,694
It's only eight more weeks,
Morisot,

908
00:53:47,827 --> 00:53:49,462
before we complete
the program.

909
00:53:49,596 --> 00:53:51,264
I don't mean the program.

910
00:53:53,266 --> 00:53:56,302
I mean from when we go home
until retirement age.

911
00:53:56,436 --> 00:53:58,838
That 48-year period
of my life, I mean.

912
00:53:58,972 --> 00:54:00,774
That's what I won't do.

913
00:54:01,808 --> 00:54:03,710
I can no longer
envision myself

914
00:54:03,843 --> 00:54:06,146
as a grown-up man
in our parents' world.

915
00:54:14,988 --> 00:54:17,390
Morisot! He went
out the window!

916
00:54:19,225 --> 00:54:20,827
Is he dead?
I don't know.

917
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:22,162
How far did he fall?

918
00:54:22,295 --> 00:54:23,663
Five floors
with high ceilings.

919
00:54:23,797 --> 00:54:26,166
It rained last night.
Maybe the mud's still soft.

920
00:54:26,299 --> 00:54:27,434
He's not moving.

921
00:54:29,690 --> 00:54:30,437
He's still not moving.

922
00:54:32,720 --> 00:54:33,373
He's still not moving.

923
00:54:34,708 --> 00:54:36,900
He's still not moving.

924
00:54:37,110 --> 00:54:38,478
He's still not moving.

925
00:54:39,312 --> 00:54:40,513
He's still not moving.

926
00:54:41,481 --> 00:54:42,749
He's still not moving.

927
00:55:12,479 --> 00:55:13,780
The next morning,

928
00:55:13,913 --> 00:55:16,116
Mitch-Mitch was arrested
for Desertion and Desecration,

929
00:55:16,249 --> 00:55:17,784
and the Sans Blague
became headquarters

930
00:55:17,917 --> 00:55:19,285
for the Movement
of Young Idealists

931
00:55:19,352 --> 00:55:20,553
for the Revolutionary
Overthrow

932
00:55:20,587 --> 00:55:22,222
of Reactionary
Neo-liberal Society.

933
00:55:22,355 --> 00:55:23,390
What are you doing?

934
00:55:26,590 --> 00:55:27,227
They can live together.

935
00:55:28,194 --> 00:55:29,696
Tip-top with Charvet.

936
00:56:10,970 --> 00:56:14,107
There followed, a brisk,
unpredictable tit-for-tat.

937
00:56:14,240 --> 00:56:16,476
Between Ennui's elders
and its youngers.

938
00:56:17,777 --> 00:56:19,212
August.

939
00:56:19,346 --> 00:56:22,349
Community Whisper Campaign
denounces student movement.

940
00:56:23,116 --> 00:56:24,551
September.

941
00:56:24,684 --> 00:56:27,220
Sans Blague coffee license
revoked by official decree.

942
00:56:29,255 --> 00:56:30,557
October.

943
00:56:30,690 --> 00:56:32,625
Propaganda Committee
erects pirate radio tower

944
00:56:32,759 --> 00:56:34,561
on Physics Department rooftop.

945
00:56:35,962 --> 00:56:37,330
November.

946
00:56:37,464 --> 00:56:40,166
Meal plan blockade of
the undergraduate cafeteria.

947
00:56:41,101 --> 00:56:42,502
December.

948
00:56:42,635 --> 00:56:44,938
Check-out protest at
the Bibliotheque Principale.

949
00:56:45,710 --> 00:56:47,307
Entire library circulation
legally removed

950
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:51,144
until five minutes before incur
of massive overdue book fines.

951
00:56:51,277 --> 00:56:52,479
January.

952
00:56:52,612 --> 00:56:54,547
Mitch-Mitch released
to parental custody.

953
00:56:56,149 --> 00:56:57,584
February.

954
00:56:57,717 --> 00:56:59,352
The girls' dormitory uprising.

955
00:57:00,954 --> 00:57:03,256
It all, in the end,
leads to...

956
00:57:04,900 --> 00:57:05,910
March.

957
00:57:05,158 --> 00:57:06,760
The chessboard revolution.

958
00:58:04,184 --> 00:58:05,485
What page you on?

959
00:58:12,859 --> 00:58:14,260
I think so.
By definition.

960
00:58:23,703 --> 00:58:25,739
In spite of the purity
of their cause,

961
00:58:25,872 --> 00:58:28,575
to create a free, borderless,
utopian civilization,

962
00:58:28,708 --> 00:58:30,377
the students, nevertheless,

963
00:58:30,510 --> 00:58:33,460
split into factions before
fully uniting in first place.

964
00:58:39,190 --> 00:58:40,687
One thing is now
finally clear,

965
00:58:40,820 --> 00:58:42,288
they are answering
their parents.

966
00:58:42,422 --> 00:58:45,580
What do they want?
To defend their illusions.

967
00:58:45,191 --> 00:58:46,626
A luminous abstraction.

968
00:58:54,100 --> 00:58:56,336
I am convinced they are better
than we were.

969
00:59:13,190 --> 00:59:15,422
Mrs. Krementz suggested
it, actually. The appendix.

970
00:59:17,557 --> 00:59:19,526
Polished it.
Certain passages.

971
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:37,410
I inscribed it to you.

972
00:59:37,544 --> 00:59:38,545
Oh.

973
00:59:45,251 --> 00:59:46,453
Remind myself,

974
00:59:46,586 --> 00:59:48,555
"You are a guest
at this manifestation.

975
00:59:48,688 --> 00:59:52,225
"Not my fight. Stay out of it,
Lucinda. Keep your mouth shut."

976
00:59:52,359 --> 00:59:54,394
I have to say something.

977
00:59:54,527 --> 00:59:57,630
You're a very
bright girl, Juliette.

978
00:59:57,197 --> 00:59:59,866
If you put away your powder
puff for one minute, forgive me,

979
00:59:59,999 --> 01:00:02,102
and think for yourself
for one minute, forgive me,

980
01:00:02,235 --> 01:00:04,437
you might realize
you're all in this together.

981
01:00:04,571 --> 01:00:05,972
Even the riot police.

982
01:00:13,980 --> 01:00:15,348
Our move.

983
01:00:20,453 --> 01:00:22,655
That was impolite. Of me.

984
01:00:22,789 --> 01:00:24,524
I withdraw the remark.

985
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:28,728
I beg your pardon.

986
01:00:30,864 --> 01:00:31,865
I'm sorry.

987
01:00:33,833 --> 01:00:34,868
Thank you.

988
01:00:36,169 --> 01:00:37,337
You're sure?

989
01:00:42,842 --> 01:00:44,377
Sure you're not a child?

990
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,949
Then learn to accept an
apology. That's important.

991
01:00:55,855 --> 01:00:56,890
Grown-ups.

992
01:00:59,993 --> 01:01:01,594
Our move.
The mayor's waiting.

993
01:01:22,549 --> 01:01:24,617
Kindly leave me my dignity.

994
01:01:26,286 --> 01:01:28,788
She's not an old maid.
She's not in love with me.

995
01:01:28,922 --> 01:01:30,590
She's our friend.
I'm her friend.

996
01:01:30,724 --> 01:01:33,590
She's confused.
She wants to help us.

997
01:01:33,193 --> 01:01:35,595
She's angry.
She's a very good writer.

998
01:01:37,970 --> 01:01:39,632
It's a lonely life,
isn't it?

999
01:01:41,167 --> 01:01:43,603
Sometimes.

1000
01:01:43,737 --> 01:01:46,806
It's true. I should maintain
journalistic neutrality,

1001
01:01:46,940 --> 01:01:48,241
if it exists.

1002
01:01:50,243 --> 01:01:52,912
Please excuse me,
Mrs. Krementz.

1003
01:02:18,938 --> 01:02:21,107
It's just fireworks.

1004
01:02:21,241 --> 01:02:23,143
She's the best of them.

1005
01:02:23,276 --> 01:02:25,879
Stop bickering.
Go make love.

1006
01:02:30,784 --> 01:02:33,530
Me, too.
Except for Mrs. Krementz.

1007
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:35,522
I thought so.

1008
01:02:48,568 --> 01:02:49,769
March 15th.

1009
01:02:53,473 --> 01:02:57,877
Discover on flyleaf of my
composition book a hasty paragraph.

1010
01:02:58,110 --> 01:03:00,513
Not sure when Zeffirelli
had the chance to write it.

1011
01:03:00,647 --> 01:03:03,830
Late that night while I slept?

1012
01:03:03,216 --> 01:03:05,518
Poetic, not necessarily
in a bad way.

1013
01:03:05,652 --> 01:03:07,187
Reads as follows...

1014
01:03:11,358 --> 01:03:13,660
Post script
to a burst appendix.

1015
01:03:13,793 --> 01:03:16,229
An invincible comet speeds
on its guided arc

1016
01:03:16,363 --> 01:03:19,833
toward the outer reaches of
the galaxy in cosmic space-time.

1017
01:03:19,966 --> 01:03:21,668
What was our cause?

1018
01:03:23,870 --> 01:03:25,939
Recollection of two memories.

1019
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:28,541
You. Soap scent of
drugstore shampoo,

1020
01:03:28,675 --> 01:03:32,379
ashtray of stale cigarettes,
burnt toast.

1021
01:03:32,512 --> 01:03:34,681
Her. Perfume of
cheap gasoline,

1022
01:03:34,814 --> 01:03:38,885
coffee on the breath, too
much sugar, cocoa butter skin.

1023
01:03:39,190 --> 01:03:40,387
Where does she
spend her summers?

1024
01:03:42,122 --> 01:03:44,257
They say it's the smells
you finally don't forget.

1025
01:03:44,391 --> 01:03:45,859
The brain works that way.

1026
01:03:47,270 --> 01:03:48,828
I've never read
my mother's books.

1027
01:03:48,962 --> 01:03:52,980
I'm told my father was really
quite remarkable during the last war.

1028
01:03:52,232 --> 01:03:53,600
Best parents I know.

1029
01:03:55,668 --> 01:03:58,672
completely indecipherable
due to poor penmanship.

1030
01:04:04,244 --> 01:04:08,140
"Revisions to a Manifesto.
Page four, asterisk one.

1031
01:04:10,500 --> 01:04:11,284
"The promotion of..."

1032
01:04:31,237 --> 01:04:32,339
I'll be right back.

1033
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:41,614
Zeffirelli!

1034
01:05:11,478 --> 01:05:13,413
He is not an invincible comet

1035
01:05:13,546 --> 01:05:15,281
speeding on its guided arc

1036
01:05:15,415 --> 01:05:18,840
toward the outer reaches of
the galaxy in cosmic space-time.

1037
01:05:21,354 --> 01:05:23,890
Rather, he is a boy
who will die young.

1038
01:05:25,625 --> 01:05:28,610
He will drown on this planet

1039
01:05:28,194 --> 01:05:30,964
in the steady current of the
deep, dirty, magnificent river

1040
01:05:31,970 --> 01:05:33,533
that flows night and day
through the veins and arteries

1041
01:05:33,666 --> 01:05:35,201
of his own ancient city.

1042
01:05:37,437 --> 01:05:39,806
His parents will receive
a telephone call at midnight,

1043
01:05:39,939 --> 01:05:41,808
dress briskly, mechanically,

1044
01:05:41,941 --> 01:05:43,576
and hold hands
in the silent taxi

1045
01:05:43,710 --> 01:05:46,312
as they go to identify
the body of their cold son.

1046
01:05:48,848 --> 01:05:51,951
His likeness, mass-produced
and shrink-wrap packaged,

1047
01:05:52,850 --> 01:05:54,621
will be sold like bubblegum
to the hero-inspired

1048
01:05:54,754 --> 01:05:58,580
who hope to see
themselves like this.

1049
01:05:58,191 --> 01:06:00,293
The touching narcissism
of the young.

1050
01:06:16,710 --> 01:06:18,440
March 30th.

1051
01:06:22,816 --> 01:06:25,385
Across the street,
a glaring metaphor.

1052
01:06:25,518 --> 01:06:27,721
Bell rings,
pupils scamper inside

1053
01:06:27,854 --> 01:06:29,756
back to their
obedient classrooms.

1054
01:06:35,261 --> 01:06:38,431
A creaky swing sways
in the deserted schoolyard.

1055
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:51,770
Come in!

1056
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,763
Someone told me you have
a photographic memory.

1057
01:07:43,897 --> 01:07:46,433
Is that true?
That is false.

1058
01:07:46,566 --> 01:07:48,802
I have
a typographic memory.

1059
01:07:48,935 --> 01:07:50,704
I recollect
the written word

1060
01:07:50,837 --> 01:07:52,372
with considerable
accuracy and detail.

1061
01:07:52,505 --> 01:07:54,774
In other spheres,
my powers of retention

1062
01:07:54,908 --> 01:07:57,110
are distinctly
impressionistic.

1063
01:07:57,243 --> 01:08:00,347
I'm known to my intimates
as a most forgetful man.

1064
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:01,648
Yet you remember

1065
01:08:01,781 --> 01:08:03,350
every word you ever wrote.
Hmm.

1066
01:08:03,483 --> 01:08:05,852
The novels, the essays,
the poems, the plays...

1067
01:08:05,985 --> 01:08:08,788
The unrequited valentines.
Sadly, I do.

1068
01:08:09,656 --> 01:08:10,990
May I test you?

1069
01:08:11,124 --> 01:08:12,325
If you must.

1070
01:08:12,459 --> 01:08:15,362
Unless we try the patience
of your viewership,

1071
01:08:15,495 --> 01:08:19,833
or the esteemed spokesmen
for Gemini tooth powder?

1072
01:08:19,966 --> 01:08:22,302
My favorite piece
is the one about the cook,

1073
01:08:22,435 --> 01:08:24,270
where the kidnappers
get poisoned.

1074
01:08:24,404 --> 01:08:27,730
"Do students of the table
dream in flavors?

1075
01:08:27,207 --> 01:08:30,710
"That was the first of the questions
a reporter for this magazine

1076
01:08:30,844 --> 01:08:33,213
"had diligently prepared
in advance of his encounter

1077
01:08:33,346 --> 01:08:35,181
"with Lieutenant Nescaffier,

1078
01:08:35,315 --> 01:08:38,585
"ranking chef at District Headquarters
on the narrow river-peninsula

1079
01:08:38,718 --> 01:08:41,588
"known as
the Rognure d'Ongle.

1080
01:08:41,721 --> 01:08:43,690
"All such queries
were to remain unanswered

1081
01:08:43,823 --> 01:08:45,759
"in the course of
that eventful evening."

1082
01:08:47,270 --> 01:08:48,695
Shall I carry on?

1083
01:08:49,396 --> 01:08:50,497
Please.

1084
01:08:55,100 --> 01:08:57,237
I'd arrived
insufficiently early.

1085
01:08:59,673 --> 01:09:01,641
Though the suite of rooms
on the penultimate floor

1086
01:09:01,675 --> 01:09:04,978
of the grand edifice was
hypothetically indicated on a floorplan

1087
01:09:05,111 --> 01:09:07,113
provided on the back
of the carte de degustation...

1088
01:09:09,949 --> 01:09:12,318
it was nigh impossible
to locate,

1089
01:09:12,452 --> 01:09:13,820
at least for this reporter.

1090
01:09:13,953 --> 01:09:16,156
A weakness in cartography.

1091
01:09:16,289 --> 01:09:18,910
The curse of the homo***ual.

1092
01:09:23,663 --> 01:09:25,765
Monsieur Nescaffier made
his name and reputation.

1093
01:09:25,899 --> 01:09:29,102
He is fanatically celebrated
among cooks, cops, and capitaines,

1094
01:09:29,235 --> 01:09:31,971
not to mention squealers,
stoolies, and snitches,

1095
01:09:32,105 --> 01:09:34,541
as the great exemplar
of the mode of cuisine

1096
01:09:34,674 --> 01:09:37,310
known as
Gastronomie Gendarmique.

1097
01:09:42,182 --> 01:09:43,383
"Police cooking" began

1098
01:09:43,516 --> 01:09:45,585
with the stake-out picnic
and paddy-wagon snack,

1099
01:09:45,719 --> 01:09:48,154
but has evolved and codified
into something refined,

1100
01:09:48,288 --> 01:09:51,391
intensely nourishing,
and, if executed properly,

1101
01:09:51,524 --> 01:09:53,226
marvelously flavorful.

1102
01:09:54,594 --> 01:09:55,628
Fundamentals...

1103
01:09:55,762 --> 01:09:57,764
highly portable,
rich in protein,

1104
01:09:57,897 --> 01:09:59,766
eaten with the non-dominant
hand only,

1105
01:09:59,899 --> 01:10:02,680
the other being reserved
for firearms and paperwork.

1106
01:10:10,377 --> 01:10:13,546
Most dishes are served
pre-cut. Nothing crunchy.

1107
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:14,981
Quiet food.

1108
01:10:17,717 --> 01:10:20,720
Sauces are dehydrated and
ground to a powder to avoid spillage

1109
01:10:20,854 --> 01:10:22,889
and the risk of the
tainting of a crime scene.

1110
01:10:24,791 --> 01:10:27,827
Diners are expected to provide
their own fourchettes de poche,

1111
01:10:27,961 --> 01:10:29,796
often engraved with
the arcane mottoes

1112
01:10:29,929 --> 01:10:32,365
and off-color sayings of
their respective precincts.

1113
01:10:59,192 --> 01:11:01,728
How are you planning
to kill me?

1114
01:11:05,980 --> 01:11:06,666
I believe this to be

1115
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:09,102
a case of mistaken identity.

1116
01:11:12,972 --> 01:11:16,643
Have you been in the chicken
coop for a very long while?

1117
01:11:23,683 --> 01:11:25,180
I beg your pardon.

1118
01:11:39,232 --> 01:11:41,601
Monsieur Nescaffier,
even during his apprenticeship

1119
01:11:41,735 --> 01:11:43,269
in a provincial
fire department,

1120
01:11:43,403 --> 01:11:45,372
aspired to a lofty perch,

1121
01:11:45,505 --> 01:11:47,941
and there can be no higher
position in the metier than that of

1122
01:11:48,740 --> 01:11:50,443
Chef Cuisinier
for the private dining room

1123
01:11:50,577 --> 01:11:53,130
of the Commissaire
de la Police Municipale.

1124
01:12:02,155 --> 01:12:04,570
Forgive my tardiness.

1125
01:12:06,590 --> 01:12:07,861
No, not at all.
Not at all.

1126
01:12:10,897 --> 01:12:12,599
Mr. Wright,
may I present my mother

1127
01:12:12,732 --> 01:12:15,268
Louise de la Villatte.
You can call her Maman.

1128
01:12:15,402 --> 01:12:17,300
We all do.
Bonsoir, monsieur.

1129
01:12:17,137 --> 01:12:19,506
This is my oldest friend,
Chou-fleur.

1130
01:12:19,639 --> 01:12:22,509
When I met him, he was
a girlish little schoolboy

1131
01:12:22,642 --> 01:12:25,378
with ringlets
and a full set of teeth.

1132
01:12:25,512 --> 01:12:28,748
Now, he looks like a corpse.

1133
01:12:28,882 --> 01:12:30,850
In the corner,
Patrolman Maupassant.

1134
01:12:30,984 --> 01:12:32,952
He'll be serving.

1135
01:12:33,860 --> 01:12:34,921
Cocktails.
Oui, monsieur.

1136
01:12:38,625 --> 01:12:40,393
And this is my son, Gigi,

1137
01:12:40,527 --> 01:12:41,761
in the crime-lab smock.

1138
01:12:41,895 --> 01:12:45,165
What are you stealing
from my personal records?

1139
01:12:45,298 --> 01:12:47,267
Unsolved cases.

1140
01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:49,135
Well, say hello to Mr. Wright.

1141
01:12:49,269 --> 01:12:50,503
Hello, Mr. Wright.

1142
01:12:50,637 --> 01:12:52,500
Hello, Gigi.

1143
01:12:53,139 --> 01:12:56,409
Full name,
Isadore Sharif de la Villatte.

1144
01:12:58,611 --> 01:13:00,580
The Commissaire
and his only son,

1145
01:13:00,714 --> 01:13:03,683
widowered and motherless, left
the colony where the boy was born,

1146
01:13:03,817 --> 01:13:06,860
cemented together
by their shared grief.

1147
01:13:06,219 --> 01:13:07,554
Gigi was six.

1148
01:13:08,788 --> 01:13:09,856
His schoolrooms

1149
01:13:09,989 --> 01:13:11,791
were the station house
and the squad car.

1150
01:13:13,126 --> 01:13:14,961
He was educated
by forensic tutors

1151
01:13:15,950 --> 01:13:16,830
in the traditions
of law enforcement.

1152
01:13:18,398 --> 01:13:20,266
His first drawings
were facial composites

1153
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:22,100
based on eyewitness testimony.

1154
01:13:24,938 --> 01:13:27,941
His first words
were in Morse code.

1155
01:13:28,740 --> 01:13:31,111
It was, I suppose,
wonderfully obvious.

1156
01:13:31,244 --> 01:13:34,280
He was brought up to succeed
the Commissaire himself.

1157
01:13:36,216 --> 01:13:38,385
Yes, I've read you.
In the magazine.

1158
01:13:39,819 --> 01:13:41,888
To your satisfaction?

1159
01:13:42,220 --> 01:13:43,890
Of course. Of course.

1160
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:45,291
Good writer.

1161
01:13:47,861 --> 01:13:50,830
I trust you are already
familiar with this genius.

1162
01:13:50,964 --> 01:13:52,632
At least by reputation.

1163
01:13:52,766 --> 01:13:54,234
Lieutenant Nescaffier.

1164
01:13:54,367 --> 01:13:55,568
I surely am.

1165
01:14:09,150 --> 01:14:11,951
The drink, a milky,
purplish aperitif,

1166
01:14:12,850 --> 01:14:14,521
ferociously fragrant,
overtly medicinal,

1167
01:14:14,654 --> 01:14:16,322
ever so faintly anesthetizing

1168
01:14:16,456 --> 01:14:19,459
and cooled to a glacial
viscosity in a miniature version

1169
01:14:19,592 --> 01:14:20,960
of the type of vacuum-flask

1170
01:14:21,940 --> 01:14:23,830
normally associated with
campsites and schoolrooms,

1171
01:14:23,963 --> 01:14:25,298
cast a spell,

1172
01:14:25,432 --> 01:14:27,867
which, during the subsequent
60-second interval,

1173
01:14:28,100 --> 01:14:29,969
was to be mortally broken.

1174
01:14:30,103 --> 01:14:32,472
On three overlapping
dramatic timelines,

1175
01:14:32,605 --> 01:14:34,674
the following events
came to pass.

1176
01:14:38,445 --> 01:14:40,613
One.

1177
01:14:40,747 --> 01:14:43,850
Monsieur Nescaffier began
his mysterious ritual.

1178
01:14:43,983 --> 01:14:45,685
I can neither comprehend
nor describe

1179
01:14:45,819 --> 01:14:47,420
what occurs behind
a kitchen door.

1180
01:14:47,554 --> 01:14:49,556
I have always been content
to enjoy the issue

1181
01:14:49,689 --> 01:14:52,392
of an artist's talent without
unveiling the secrets of the chisel

1182
01:14:52,525 --> 01:14:54,600
or the turpentine.

1183
01:14:55,195 --> 01:14:56,262
Two.

1184
01:15:01,835 --> 01:15:03,303
Patrolman Maupassant,

1185
01:15:03,436 --> 01:15:05,638
responding to an infrequently
illuminated signal,

1186
01:15:05,772 --> 01:15:07,574
delivered a telephone
to his superior.

1187
01:15:15,248 --> 01:15:16,750
Go ahead.

1188
01:15:21,187 --> 01:15:22,389
As you know by now,

1189
01:15:22,522 --> 01:15:23,623
we have kidnapped your son

1190
01:15:23,757 --> 01:15:25,580
and absconded
to a secure location

1191
01:15:25,910 --> 01:15:26,292
which you will never discover.

1192
01:15:26,359 --> 01:15:28,361
Release or execute the Abacus

1193
01:15:28,495 --> 01:15:30,964
and the little boy will be
safely returned to your custody.

1194
01:15:31,970 --> 01:15:34,534
Failure to do so by sun-up will
result in your son's violent death.

1195
01:15:41,941 --> 01:15:43,410
Three.

1196
01:15:43,543 --> 01:15:45,245
The skylight window
of the makeshift nursery

1197
01:15:45,311 --> 01:15:48,415
which occupies the attic
quarters jimmied ajar.

1198
01:16:22,782 --> 01:16:25,752
The getaway and eventual
motor pursuit was rendered vividly,

1199
01:16:25,885 --> 01:16:27,854
if, perhaps, a bit fancifully,
in a comic strip

1200
01:16:27,987 --> 01:16:29,656
published the following week.

1201
01:17:04,491 --> 01:17:06,526
Though the infamous
Ennui gang war

1202
01:17:06,659 --> 01:17:08,328
"Winter Crimewave"
had eradicated

1203
01:17:08,461 --> 01:17:10,263
a healthy number of
thugs and hooligans,

1204
01:17:10,397 --> 01:17:12,980
it had also claimed the lives

1205
01:17:12,232 --> 01:17:15,100
of a disgraceful proportion
of innocent citizens.

1206
01:17:16,970 --> 01:17:19,472
Due to the surprise capture
of the racketeering accountant

1207
01:17:19,606 --> 01:17:20,974
Albert "the Abacus",

1208
01:17:21,107 --> 01:17:23,143
in possession of a valise
containing payroll stubs

1209
01:17:23,276 --> 01:17:25,845
for all three of
the city's major syndicates,

1210
01:17:25,979 --> 01:17:28,748
the law-abiding community's
hopes for an accelerated resolution

1211
01:17:28,882 --> 01:17:31,170
to the crisis
had been renewed.

1212
01:17:36,156 --> 01:17:39,225
However, this turn of events
had forcefully rattled the cages

1213
01:17:39,359 --> 01:17:41,561
of the denizens
of the criminal underworld.

1214
01:17:47,901 --> 01:17:51,370
For myself, I had failed
to recognize the Abacus,

1215
01:17:51,171 --> 01:17:53,873
but as it happened,
I knew the chicken coop.

1216
01:17:54,700 --> 01:17:55,709
This is not in the article,
by the way.

1217
01:17:55,842 --> 01:17:58,440
If I refer to Mr. Howitzer,
do you know who I mean?

1218
01:17:58,178 --> 01:17:59,779
Of course.
Arthur Howitzer, Jr.

1219
01:17:59,913 --> 01:18:01,915
Founder and editor
of The French Dispatch.

1220
01:18:02,480 --> 01:18:05,385
It was my first week in Ennui
when I suffered the misfortune

1221
01:18:05,518 --> 01:18:08,154
of being arrested in
a drinking establishment

1222
01:18:08,288 --> 01:18:10,390
on the fringes of
the Flop Quarter

1223
01:18:10,523 --> 01:18:13,927
along with a number of
newly-found companions.

1224
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:15,628
What was the charge?

1225
01:18:16,620 --> 01:18:18,198
Love.

1226
01:18:18,331 --> 01:18:20,734
You see, people may or
may not be mildly threatened

1227
01:18:20,867 --> 01:18:23,370
by your anger,
your hatred, your pride,

1228
01:18:23,503 --> 01:18:25,805
but love the wrong way

1229
01:18:25,939 --> 01:18:28,742
and you will find yourself
in great jeopardy.

1230
01:18:28,875 --> 01:18:32,379
In this case, a chicken coop
jail cell for six days straight.

1231
01:18:32,512 --> 01:18:36,490
I had no one who cared to rescue
me, and no one who cared to scold me.

1232
01:18:36,182 --> 01:18:40,487
And the only local number committed
to my typographic memory was

1233
01:18:40,620 --> 01:18:42,756
Printer's District 9-2211.

1234
01:18:42,889 --> 01:18:44,157
While I regret
we are unable

1235
01:18:44,290 --> 01:18:46,626
to publish either
of these specific pieces,

1236
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:49,829
I would be very pleased to consider
other submissions in the future.

1237
01:18:49,963 --> 01:18:52,980
Or if you find yourself
in Ennui...

1238
01:18:57,937 --> 01:18:59,839
I'd never
met the man.

1239
01:18:59,973 --> 01:19:03,209
I knew how to reach him
only because I wanted a job.

1240
01:19:21,895 --> 01:19:24,431
Let's see here.

1241
01:19:24,564 --> 01:19:27,600
High school newspaper,
poetry club, drama society.

1242
01:19:27,734 --> 01:19:30,603
Wrote the school song.
Words and music.

1243
01:19:30,737 --> 01:19:34,700
Junior researcher, cub
reporter, assistant editor.

1244
01:19:34,140 --> 01:19:35,275
Fires and murders.

1245
01:19:35,408 --> 01:19:36,643
That's how I started.

1246
01:19:36,776 --> 01:19:38,845
My father owned
the paper, of course.

1247
01:19:38,978 --> 01:19:41,614
Bit of sports, bit of crime,
bit of politics.

1248
01:19:41,748 --> 01:19:43,983
Shortlisted twice,
Best Essays.

1249
01:19:44,117 --> 01:19:46,619
Deep South, Midwest,
East Coast.

1250
01:19:46,753 --> 01:19:48,688
Vast country.

1251
01:19:48,822 --> 01:19:51,191
Haven't been there
in 20 years.

1252
01:19:51,324 --> 01:19:55,161
Not now. I'm conducting
a job interview.

1253
01:19:55,295 --> 01:19:58,980
Your writing samples are good.
I re-read them in the taxi.

1254
01:19:58,231 --> 01:19:59,833
Have you ever done
any book reviews?

1255
01:20:01,134 --> 01:20:02,736
Never.

1256
01:20:02,869 --> 01:20:05,672
You're gonna be in there another
few hours before they process you out.

1257
01:20:07,507 --> 01:20:09,909
Read this.
Give me 300 words.

1258
01:20:10,430 --> 01:20:14,280
I'll pay you 500 francs minus
the 250 I advanced for your bail,

1259
01:20:14,414 --> 01:20:17,617
but I'll re-advance that
against cost of living.

1260
01:20:17,751 --> 01:20:20,253
Bring me a first draft
tomorrow morning

1261
01:20:20,387 --> 01:20:22,722
and however you go
about it, Mr. Wright,

1262
01:20:22,856 --> 01:20:25,859
try to make it sound like you
wrote it that way on purpose.

1263
01:20:34,167 --> 01:20:35,402
Thank you.

1264
01:20:37,971 --> 01:20:39,372
No crying.

1265
01:20:47,514 --> 01:20:49,883
It came to be known as the
"Night of a Thousand Slugs."

1266
01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:51,785
I'm reciting again.

1267
01:20:51,918 --> 01:20:54,754
How the Commissaire and his
elite team of experts and analysts

1268
01:20:54,888 --> 01:20:58,458
succeeded so swiftly in determining
the location of the kidnappers' lair...

1269
01:21:02,462 --> 01:21:03,463
Well...

1270
01:21:07,801 --> 01:21:09,469
I just don't know.

1271
01:21:12,872 --> 01:21:15,750
The tools of the trade,
I suppose.

1272
01:21:21,881 --> 01:21:23,917
But succeed they did.

1273
01:21:58,451 --> 01:21:59,786
Who were they?

1274
01:22:01,621 --> 01:22:02,989
It was later revealed.

1275
01:22:04,157 --> 01:22:06,192
A hired crew of
bandits and gunmen

1276
01:22:06,326 --> 01:22:08,561
imported by the ranking bosses
of the Ennui rackets

1277
01:22:08,695 --> 01:22:11,164
and their network
of underworld middlemen.

1278
01:22:12,966 --> 01:22:17,804
Chauffeur Joe Lefevre, a once
almost promising instrumentalist.

1279
01:22:17,937 --> 01:22:20,507
Stetson, Spinster,
and Hieronymus Von Altman,

1280
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:22,575
Dutch masterminds.

1281
01:22:22,709 --> 01:22:26,179
Marconi Brutelli,
the Mediterranean anarchist.

1282
01:22:27,347 --> 01:22:30,116
A pair of hooligans,
estranged cousins.

1283
01:22:31,451 --> 01:22:34,621
A trio of showgirls,
all junkies.

1284
01:22:36,656 --> 01:22:38,692
Plus one small,
resourceful prisoner,

1285
01:22:38,825 --> 01:22:42,162
determined to free himself
and reduce taxpayer expense.

1286
01:22:53,106 --> 01:22:54,174
What's that noise?

1287
01:22:55,909 --> 01:22:59,450
Uh, air bubbles in the
radiator pipes. It's pressurized.

1288
01:22:59,179 --> 01:23:00,780
Sounds like Morse code.

1289
01:23:02,215 --> 01:23:04,170
Vaguely, maybe.

1290
01:23:05,819 --> 01:23:08,388
I'm Gigi, by the way.
What's your name?

1291
01:23:08,521 --> 01:23:12,920
I'm not gonna tell you that.
This is a felony.

1292
01:23:12,225 --> 01:23:15,628
You're not a criminal. You're
just a mixed-up showgirl.

1293
01:23:15,762 --> 01:23:18,980
Ha.
Ha, yourself.

1294
01:23:18,732 --> 01:23:19,933
Shut up.

1295
01:23:20,867 --> 01:23:22,268
What color eyes
do you have?

1296
01:23:22,402 --> 01:23:23,636
Blue?

1297
01:23:33,146 --> 01:23:34,247
Hello.

1298
01:23:35,915 --> 01:23:37,117
Hello.

1299
01:23:41,421 --> 01:23:43,223
Sing me a lullaby.

1300
01:23:43,356 --> 01:23:44,758
I'm scared.

1301
01:24:14,540 --> 01:24:15,955
Are you asleep?

1302
01:24:16,923 --> 01:24:17,991
Uh-huh.

1303
01:24:21,995 --> 01:24:25,298
The Commissaire adored Gigi
with all his voluminous heart.

1304
01:24:25,432 --> 01:24:26,933
However, his mind,

1305
01:24:27,670 --> 01:24:28,802
that exceptional machine
for the detection

1306
01:24:28,935 --> 01:24:30,970
and investigation
of criminal activity,

1307
01:24:32,605 --> 01:24:34,407
had been whirring
since dinnertime.

1308
01:24:36,420 --> 01:24:37,977
Diner.
Diner.

1309
01:24:38,111 --> 01:24:40,980
And he was in a condition
of dire calorific depletion.

1310
01:24:43,583 --> 01:24:45,518
Nescaffier, back in the field

1311
01:24:45,652 --> 01:24:47,454
for the first time
in six years,

1312
01:24:47,587 --> 01:24:49,656
came prepared to dazzle.

1313
01:24:51,658 --> 01:24:53,860
Diner.

1314
01:24:53,993 --> 01:24:56,763
The change was instantaneous.

1315
01:25:02,302 --> 01:25:04,337
Mmm.

1316
01:25:04,471 --> 01:25:05,705
Nescaffier.

1317
01:25:05,839 --> 01:25:07,307
Even as
the faintest hints

1318
01:25:07,440 --> 01:25:09,209
of the aromas of
the great chef's kitchen

1319
01:25:09,342 --> 01:25:11,411
ribboned into
the Commissaire's nostrils,

1320
01:25:11,544 --> 01:25:13,313
he began to
envision and formulate

1321
01:25:13,446 --> 01:25:15,682
a multi-pronged battle-plan.

1322
01:25:15,815 --> 01:25:16,950
To start...

1323
01:25:17,830 --> 01:25:18,818
Deviled eggs of
the precinct canary

1324
01:25:18,952 --> 01:25:21,540
served in shells of
its own meringue.

1325
01:25:23,390 --> 01:25:24,391
Next...

1326
01:25:25,625 --> 01:25:26,993
Kidneys.

1327
01:25:27,127 --> 01:25:29,696
Poached with plums from
the mayor's rooftop arbor.

1328
01:25:32,499 --> 01:25:33,500
Then...

1329
01:25:34,701 --> 01:25:37,537
minced lamb bon-bons
in pastry wrappers.

1330
01:25:38,872 --> 01:25:40,540
Blase oyster soup.

1331
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:43,977
A magnificent
city-park pigeon hash.

1332
01:25:44,110 --> 01:25:45,145
Finally...

1333
01:25:46,713 --> 01:25:48,515
tabac pudding
with quadruple cream.

1334
01:25:52,180 --> 01:25:53,520
May I interrupt
with a question?

1335
01:25:53,653 --> 01:25:54,821
Please.
Forgive me.

1336
01:25:54,954 --> 01:25:56,589
Just permit me to dog-ear
the page. Mentally.

1337
01:25:56,623 --> 01:25:57,991
I beg your pardon.

1338
01:25:58,124 --> 01:25:59,893
You've written about
the American negro,

1339
01:26:00,260 --> 01:26:01,161
the French intellectual,

1340
01:26:01,294 --> 01:26:03,960
the Southern romantic...
And the anti-negro.

1341
01:26:03,229 --> 01:26:05,310
The anti-negro.

1342
01:26:05,165 --> 01:26:07,534
Scripture, mythology,
folklore,

1343
01:26:07,667 --> 01:26:09,969
true crime, false crime,

1344
01:26:10,103 --> 01:26:12,472
the ghost story, the
picaresque, the bildungsroman.

1345
01:26:12,605 --> 01:26:14,607
But more than anything,
over all these years,

1346
01:26:14,741 --> 01:26:16,376
you've written about food.

1347
01:26:16,776 --> 01:26:18,780
Why?

1348
01:26:19,279 --> 01:26:22,820
Who? What? Where? When?
How? Valid questions,

1349
01:26:22,215 --> 01:26:24,818
but I learned
as a cub stringer,

1350
01:26:24,951 --> 01:26:26,720
never, under any circumstance,

1351
01:26:26,853 --> 01:26:30,223
if it is remotely within your
power to resist the impulse,

1352
01:26:30,357 --> 01:26:32,492
never ask a man why.

1353
01:26:32,625 --> 01:26:34,961
It... It tightens a fellow up.

1354
01:26:35,950 --> 01:26:36,960
I apologize,
but I'm gonna

1355
01:26:36,229 --> 01:26:37,597
hold you to it...
Torture.

1356
01:26:37,731 --> 01:26:39,265
If you'll agree.

1357
01:26:39,399 --> 01:26:42,535
Self-reflection is a vice best
conducted in private or not at all.

1358
01:26:43,703 --> 01:26:45,739
Well,

1359
01:26:45,872 --> 01:26:48,641
I'll answer your question
out of sheer weariness,

1360
01:26:50,577 --> 01:26:53,213
but I truly don't know
what I'm about to say.

1361
01:26:56,716 --> 01:27:00,787
There is a particular
sad beauty

1362
01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:02,922
well-known to the
companionless foreigner

1363
01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:04,958
as he walks the
streets of his adopted,

1364
01:27:05,910 --> 01:27:08,695
preferably moonlit, city.
In my case, Ennui, France.

1365
01:27:09,729 --> 01:27:12,980
I have so often...

1366
01:27:12,232 --> 01:27:15,769
I have so often shared the
day's glittering discoveries with

1367
01:27:18,471 --> 01:27:20,440
no one at all.

1368
01:27:20,573 --> 01:27:23,643
But always, somewhere along
the avenue or the boulevard,

1369
01:27:23,777 --> 01:27:26,446
there was a table
set for me.

1370
01:27:27,647 --> 01:27:31,685
A cook, a waiter, a bottle,
a glass, a fire.

1371
01:27:33,820 --> 01:27:35,889
I chose this life.

1372
01:27:37,924 --> 01:27:41,661
It is the solitary feast that has
been very much like a comrade,

1373
01:27:41,795 --> 01:27:44,531
my great comfort
and fortification.

1374
01:27:46,466 --> 01:27:49,803
Do you remember where
you placed the bookmark?

1375
01:27:49,936 --> 01:27:52,439
Of course, silly goose.
"Meanwhile."

1376
01:27:52,572 --> 01:27:54,941
"Meanwhile,
across the street..."

1377
01:28:47,827 --> 01:28:51,197
Hold your fire!
Hold your fire!

1378
01:29:00,140 --> 01:29:02,609
During a lull in the skirmish,
an ancient concierge,

1379
01:29:02,742 --> 01:29:05,110
veteran of two wars,
limped across the street

1380
01:29:05,145 --> 01:29:07,800
to deliver
an enigmatic message.

1381
01:29:20,427 --> 01:29:24,130
I'm speaking to the leader of the
gang of kidnappers on the top floor.

1382
01:29:24,264 --> 01:29:26,800
Do you have a working
kitchen in your lair?

1383
01:29:26,933 --> 01:29:28,635
My son needs a snack.

1384
01:29:28,768 --> 01:29:31,271
Allow us to send in
our precinct cook

1385
01:29:31,404 --> 01:29:33,640
along with some supplies
and provisions.

1386
01:29:33,773 --> 01:29:36,309
He will prepare a supper
of sufficient proportions

1387
01:29:36,443 --> 01:29:39,120
to feed you
and all your accomplices.

1388
01:29:39,946 --> 01:29:41,481
We already ate.

1389
01:29:48,121 --> 01:29:50,900
Is it an underling

1390
01:29:50,223 --> 01:29:52,258
or Nescaffier himself?

1391
01:30:20,253 --> 01:30:21,955
Blackbird pie.

1392
01:30:34,367 --> 01:30:37,370
Required, of course,
to sample each item,

1393
01:30:37,170 --> 01:30:40,400
the chef ate
the deathly poison.

1394
01:30:45,645 --> 01:30:47,380
For the little boy.

1395
01:30:49,249 --> 01:30:50,450
Stop.

1396
01:30:52,352 --> 01:30:53,987
Write down the recipe.

1397
01:31:05,699 --> 01:31:06,833
Help...

1398
01:31:10,300 --> 01:31:11,638
But Nescaffier survived,

1399
01:31:11,771 --> 01:31:13,740
thanks to
the extreme fortitude,

1400
01:31:13,873 --> 01:31:16,420
bolstered and braced,
season upon season,

1401
01:31:16,176 --> 01:31:18,440
by the richest,
most potent plates,

1402
01:31:18,178 --> 01:31:19,846
pans, and sauce pots

1403
01:31:19,979 --> 01:31:23,160
of his almost
superhuman stomach.

1404
01:31:24,184 --> 01:31:25,618
He knew well, of course,

1405
01:31:25,752 --> 01:31:28,855
Gigi loathed and despised
the radish in all its forms

1406
01:31:28,988 --> 01:31:30,924
with a deep,
unbridled passion,

1407
01:31:31,570 --> 01:31:32,792
and had never
so much as touched one

1408
01:31:32,926 --> 01:31:34,940
or even spoken the word,

1409
01:31:34,227 --> 01:31:36,796
during his entire
young lifetime.

1410
01:31:36,930 --> 01:31:38,798
However, as it happened,

1411
01:31:40,100 --> 01:31:42,369
the chauffeur
hated radishes, too.

1412
01:33:47,227 --> 01:33:48,595
Take the wheel!

1413
01:34:12,619 --> 01:34:14,821
Perhaps the most stirring
and startling phenomenon

1414
01:34:14,954 --> 01:34:18,591
witnessed over the trajectory of
that protracted dinner date was this...

1415
01:34:31,237 --> 01:34:32,972
A delicious irony.

1416
01:34:33,106 --> 01:34:35,775
Monsieur Albert,
accountant to the demi-monde

1417
01:34:35,909 --> 01:34:38,745
and remote cause of the entire
spectacular contretemps,

1418
01:34:38,878 --> 01:34:40,380
had been forgotten
in the chicken coop

1419
01:34:40,513 --> 01:34:42,215
from Thursday dinner
to Monday breakfast

1420
01:34:42,349 --> 01:34:44,918
and had very nearly
starved in his cell.

1421
01:34:45,510 --> 01:34:47,387
It was only the convalescent
Monsieur Nescaffier himself

1422
01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:48,822
who retained
the presence of mind

1423
01:34:48,955 --> 01:34:51,257
to prepare the prisoner
an omelette a la policier,

1424
01:34:51,391 --> 01:34:52,559
which he delivered warm,

1425
01:34:52,692 --> 01:34:54,928
wrapped in a day-old
search warrant.

1426
01:34:56,763 --> 01:34:58,898
The Abacus ate well
that morning.

1427
01:35:01,901 --> 01:35:04,700
A word from
Gemini tooth powder.

1428
01:35:07,400 --> 01:35:09,750
It was supposed to be an
article about a great chef.

1429
01:35:09,209 --> 01:35:10,210
It is in part.

1430
01:35:10,343 --> 01:35:11,811
For the Tastes
and Smells section...

1431
01:35:11,945 --> 01:35:14,547
I understand. The
assignment was perfectly clear.

1432
01:35:15,515 --> 01:35:18,218
Perhaps,
you fail to grasp

1433
01:35:18,351 --> 01:35:21,688
that I was shot at and
hand-grenaded against my will.

1434
01:35:22,422 --> 01:35:23,823
I only asked to be fed,

1435
01:35:23,957 --> 01:35:26,960
and was, marvelously, as
I described in some detail.

1436
01:35:27,930 --> 01:35:29,763
Nescaffier only gets
one line of dialogue.

1437
01:35:32,232 --> 01:35:36,936
Well, I did cut something he
told me. It made me too sad.

1438
01:35:37,700 --> 01:35:38,772
I could stick it
back in, if you like.

1439
01:35:40,440 --> 01:35:42,375
What did he say?

1440
01:36:02,228 --> 01:36:04,497
Martin... Martin...

1441
01:36:04,631 --> 01:36:05,865
Guillaume Martin.

1442
01:36:16,900 --> 01:36:17,711
They had a flavor.

1443
01:36:19,679 --> 01:36:21,181
I beg your pardon?

1444
01:36:22,615 --> 01:36:26,786
The toxic salts
in the radishes...

1445
01:36:26,920 --> 01:36:28,488
they had a flavor.

1446
01:36:29,556 --> 01:36:32,826
Totally unfamiliar to me.

1447
01:36:32,959 --> 01:36:37,163
Like a bitter,
moldy, peppery,

1448
01:36:38,310 --> 01:36:40,900
spicy, oily kind of

1449
01:36:42,680 --> 01:36:44,170
earth.

1450
01:36:44,304 --> 01:36:47,730
I never tasted
that taste in my life.

1451
01:36:48,800 --> 01:36:49,909
Not entirely pleasant,

1452
01:36:50,577 --> 01:36:52,879
extremely poisonous,

1453
01:36:53,130 --> 01:36:55,515
but still, a new flavor.

1454
01:36:56,583 --> 01:36:58,885
That's a rare thing
at my age.

1455
01:37:01,540 --> 01:37:03,556
I admire your bravery,
Lieutenant.

1456
01:37:04,190 --> 01:37:06,920
I'm not brave.

1457
01:37:06,793 --> 01:37:08,428
I just wasn't

1458
01:37:08,561 --> 01:37:10,397
in the mood to be

1459
01:37:10,530 --> 01:37:12,565
a disappointment
to everybody.

1460
01:37:14,401 --> 01:37:16,360
I'm a foreigner, you know.

1461
01:37:17,470 --> 01:37:19,673
This city is full
of us, isn't it?

1462
01:37:20,707 --> 01:37:22,542
I'm one myself.

1463
01:37:24,678 --> 01:37:26,746
Seeking something missing.

1464
01:37:28,682 --> 01:37:31,170
Missing something
left behind.

1465
01:37:34,220 --> 01:37:36,289
Maybe with good luck,

1466
01:37:36,423 --> 01:37:39,292
we'll find
what eluded us

1467
01:37:39,426 --> 01:37:41,928
in the places
we once called home.

1468
01:37:50,904 --> 01:37:54,700
That's the best part
of the whole thing.

1469
01:37:54,140 --> 01:37:56,476
That's the reason
for it to be written.

1470
01:37:58,712 --> 01:38:00,580
I couldn't agree less.

1471
01:38:02,615 --> 01:38:05,819
Well, anyway,
don't cut it.

1472
01:38:35,615 --> 01:38:37,550
Are we all here?

1473
01:38:37,684 --> 01:38:40,120
I guess you know.
It was a heart attack.

1474
01:38:42,155 --> 01:38:43,223
Excusez-moi.

1475
01:38:55,635 --> 01:38:56,836
No crying.

1476
01:39:03,943 --> 01:39:06,146
Is somebody coming
to take him away?

1477
01:39:06,279 --> 01:39:08,281
There's a strike
at the morgue.

1478
01:39:11,951 --> 01:39:13,530
Who was with him?

1479
01:39:13,186 --> 01:39:14,554
He was alone.

1480
01:39:14,688 --> 01:39:16,790
Reading birthday telegrams.

1481
01:39:16,923 --> 01:39:17,991
Psst.

1482
01:39:19,250 --> 01:39:21,828
Don't light the candles.
He's dead.

1483
01:39:22,929 --> 01:39:24,497
I'll have a slice.

1484
01:39:25,980 --> 01:39:27,233
Me, too.

1485
01:39:27,367 --> 01:39:29,969
We need to draft something.
Who wants it?

1486
01:39:30,103 --> 01:39:31,104
We've got a file.

1487
01:39:31,204 --> 01:39:32,539
I'm working on the art.

1488
01:39:35,475 --> 01:39:37,770
That's him.

1489
01:39:41,214 --> 01:39:42,882
Let's write it together.

1490
01:39:43,160 --> 01:39:45,785
Hmm, write what?
The obituary.

1491
01:39:47,487 --> 01:39:50,290
Arthur Howitzer, Jr.
Born in North Kansas,

1492
01:39:50,423 --> 01:39:53,693
10 miles from the geographical
center of the United States.

1493
01:39:53,827 --> 01:39:55,950
Mother died
when he was five.

1494
01:39:55,228 --> 01:39:57,764
Son of a newspaper publisher,
founder of this magazine.

1495
01:39:57,897 --> 01:40:00,330
The French Dispatch,
previously known as Picnic.

1496
01:40:00,166 --> 01:40:02,350
A largely unread
Sunday supplement

1497
01:40:02,168 --> 01:40:04,137
to the Liberty,
Kansas Evening Sun.

1498
01:40:04,270 --> 01:40:05,772
It began as a holiday.

1499
01:40:05,905 --> 01:40:06,973
Is that true?

1500
01:40:07,107 --> 01:40:08,208
Sort of.

1501
01:40:10,643 --> 01:40:12,245
What happens next?