Bird song
-This house, This is where I grew up,
It is located in the Chevreuse valley, in a hamlet, Montabé,
It depends on the commune of Boullay-les-Troux,
I know, it always makes you smile,
located in Essonne, bordering Yvelines,
two departments resulting from the dismemberment of Seine-et-Oise
in the early 1960s,
She looks like she did in my childhood,
even if the witnesses of this childhood have mostly disappeared,
The garden hasn't changed much,
The roots of the fir tree had not moved the path
which now resembles a Japanese trail,
It must be said that the tree was much smaller,
It was my mother's first Christmas tree in France,
after fleeing the collapse of Hungary in 1947,
The neighbors sold their orchard which was subdivided into pavilions,
Moreover, all of Montabé, which in my childhood was the countryside,
has become a residential area,
Formerly, I knew everyone there,
Today, almost no one,
This is my father's office, He hasn't changed,
The table is still beautiful and the chair is still ugly,
He had a black German Erika typewriter,
I came on his knees, he showed me a metal label
that I was quite incapable of reading and he said to
me: “You see, there it says: Forbid children to touch,"
This is the property of our neighbors, the Régnauds,
Miraculously, nothing has changed,
Missing are the begonias and the large lime
tree which stood in front of the 1900 style villa,
We have the right to love or not, Otherwise, everything is there,
The cedar of Lebanon that I climbed as high
as I could and on whose branches I still like to sit,
The small house which was inhabited by Hélène,
the maid that the Régnauds brought on weekends
to take care of meals and maintain the house,
It was a traditional French family,
They had acquired the property before the
Second World War and spent the Occupation there,
Robert Régnaud, “Bob”, was a lawyer,
With his wife, Geneviève, they had raised five children,
Our friends, to my brother Étienne and
I, were the children of their eldest son,
They were about our ages,
Jean-Paul and his sister Joséphine, “Josi”,
We spent our childhood together in this park of theirs
and where I nevertheless feel at home, more than anywhere else,
I know all the ways, all the trees,
That, according to the contractions of
our treasure hunts, was the first fir forest,
That was the second fir tree,
That's the pond,
There was a weeping willow, but he died last year,
It was a small 1900 metal bridge that
connected the artificial island to the shore,
He has been missing for a long time,
I saw this tennis court built,
It is in quick, of a
material then new, porosol,
I remember Bob and Geneviève
Régnaud ceremoniously inaugurating it,
Subsequently, it was rather Jean-Paul, Josi, Étienne and
I who spent our days there as soon as the summer came,
We only had this portico,
There was the swing, a trapezoid,
rings, a smooth rope, a knotted rope,
But nothing pleased us more than climbing
the portico and crossing it like a hanging pig,
This is the vegetable garden,
All around, these are espalier pear trees
and in front of them, climbing apple trees,
The gardener tended various fruits and vegetables,
including strawberries and currants,
There were so many apples in the fall
that they replaced snowballs,
It was better to dodge them,
The uncles died prematurely,
The family was dispersed,
Jean-Paul remained one of the few parents
to retain shares of the joint ownership,
and among them the most active,
He takes advantage of every free moment
to mow, trim, prune, to drain the pond,
Its mission is to preserve,
to bring the park of our childhood to life,
Here, time has stopped,
Bird song
-It's what ?
-These are my socks,
-What did you order on Amazon?
-Yes, -You know the conditions
heartbreaking work in Amazon warehouses,
I'm not telling you anything,
Do you need socks?
-Exactly, -It will soon be May,
You've been confined for two months,
Summer is coming, And do you need socks?
-Quite,
-Okay, okay,
Can't you buy
them in a store?
-No because the stores are closed,
-No, but when they are open,
-It will be too risky to go there,
There aren't the socks I want in the stores anyway,
-Ah but it’s Falke!
We find them everywhere,
-No, sorry, not this model, We open a door,
-Excuse me, sorry, I do my dance class on Zoom,
I saw you picked up the box this morning,
-Yes, correct,
-Aren’t these my Cracotte gluten-free?
-Ah no, these are my socks,
-It's been a week since I ordered them,
I won't bother you anymore, My course is not finished,
*Rhythmic music in the distance
-Yesterday, it was boxers, She closes the door,
And before, bathroom trash cans,
-Yes, and there was also a toilet broom,
-Oh yes ?
-So what? You don't have to live your whole life with the same crappy things,
We are in an old country house,
Needs to be upgraded,
-Are you sure it's not compulsive purchases?
-Compulsive purchases?
-It's good for your head,
-Yes, it changes my mind, -Or according to
marketing analysts, revenge buying,
- “Revenge buying”?
-Yes, you are confined, we frustrate you with your desires,
Society has accustomed you to living like a capricious child,
There, we are bullying you,
You take revenge by giving yourself gifts, -I don't know,
Maybe, -A bit like when you bought
the latest 13-inch iPad, -Ah no, but
I bought this at the start of confinement,
-What does that change? -It's useful,
We're stuck in this old ruin reliving our childhood,
I think it's good to keep up to date with what's going on,
And then everyone can use it, eh?
He coughs,
-You already had an iPad, -Too old,
Too slow, -I understand,
You need it to read the newspaper, -Yes,
The phone is too small,
-Too slow, you throw it away,
-You can sum it up like this,
-You don't consider it a compulsive purchase? -No,
No way, -You give lessons on health protocol,
I see one delivery person per day,
And most of the time without a mask,
-I respect the distancing rules, -And the packages?
-The packages, I put them down
near the trash can, -If we follow your logic,
when we go to the trash, we can be contaminated,
-No way,
because the virus does not survive more than 4 hours on a cardboard box,
-And where do you get that from? -Ah well, from the RTBF website,
-What is RTBF?
-French-speaking Belgian radio and television,
-For what ? -That's the first thing
that comes up when you search on Google
“coronavirus cardboard subsistence”, Alarm
-Mmh!
-Excuse me, Étienne, I have to go,
I have an appointment with my psychologist,
To all, -To all,
Call tone
-Good morning,
*-Good morning,
-It's a pretty strange situation to be confined where you grew up,
In the morning, when I write,
I write in the room where I wrote when I was a student, even a high school student,
*-Do you go back there regularly?
-Yes, sometimes on weekends,
I went there more often when my mother was alive,
She died in 2006,
Anyway, I never stayed very long,
Always happy to leave,
Too many memories,
Too much of the past,
*-But today, you don't feel bad about it?
-No,
No, but I understood something,
*-That you didn't understand before? -No,
I realized that I spent my time running away from this house,
*-That deep down, you loved a lot, -Yes,
It's true,
It's too heavy, too busy, too dense,
The collection of art books,
the masterpieces
of the history of painting,
dark rooms,
grimacing Asian deities,,,
Child,
I was happy outside,
in nature,
My wonder, when the bells come
in the undergrowth through which we passed to return from the local school
and of which we made enormous bouquets,
Blackberry season, then that of chestnuts,
And then this park,
*-This park?
-Yes, yes, this park,
At the end of the day, I go jogging or tennis,
Well, Jean-Paul's family has confined itself elsewhere,
So I don't bother anyone, *-So we can say *that
you are finding your roots, literally and figuratively,
-Yes, roots of adoption, if you want,
*-That you share with your brother, -Yes,
Finally, my brother chose
to live in the imaginary
world where we had found
refuge, teenagers: rock,
And he spent his life observing it,
And now, we are confined together,
He has two adult children,
He just separated from his wife, so,,,
he's a little confused,
*-I thought he had a new friend?
-Yes, I didn't know her, Her name is Carole,
She is confined with us,
*-It's a blank page,
*This should help clear things up,
-Finally, it's been so long
that we didn't see each other for more than a few days,
It's a strange feeling, to rediscover yourself,
It is as if, at the same time,
we knew each other too well
and that we knew each other better, *-You have lived
*together, adults?
-Yes, in the 90s, the same apartment,
rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth,
We were both doing journalism,
So for my brother, it was musical and for me, it was cinematic,
And then there was our friend,
the filmmaker Laurent Perrin,
who lived on rue au Maire, It's very close,
It was around this
time that our father died,
*-Mmh,
*And since then?
-Since then, it's difficult to say,
Well,,,
Family became my
brother’s main concern,
And I made other choices,
*-Okay, *well,
*see you next week,
-Yes,
Same tree, same time,
Beep -Remember when we
almost burned the building down?
-Oh well, well done! -Yes !
-Am I supposed to be impressed?
-It was a long time ago, I remember it,
There was some sort of hipster with a
royalist badge, There was the fleur-de-lis,
-Now we say “modern young people”, -Neither,
-Wait,
He had sent his lit cigarette through the kitchen window,
-In an air duct, -So,
-It started to burn, there was smoke, Fortunately,,,
we realized it, -And it was at this party
where I found Alain Pacadis,,,
-Yes, at dawn, eating a box of cold ravioli from the cupboard,
-Disgusting,
-Who is it ? Am I supposed to know? -No, no,
No, but he's a friend, He wrote to Libération,
Finally, he died, -That means nothing to me at all,
More wine, -I'll get some,
-No, don't move, I'm going to go there,
Besides, I'm not interested, -I'm interested,
It's a time I didn't know, -And Jean-Luc Besson?
He had taken, you know, an apartment with Dani, rue Rambuteau,
-Dani, the singer?
-Yes, yes, yes, Well, she’s an actress too, huh,
In Truffaut's Love on the Run,
She died last year,
-Yes, but sorry, Besson, does it have to do with the filmmaker?
-Oh no, not at all, -No, no,
-Ah, I know nothing! I'm rubbish,
-He had created a label, Dorian,
He published all of the French new wave,
-Artifact, Modern Guy,
Suicide Romeo, Modern Mathematics,,,
-Edwige and Claude Artaud, -Even the Rita Mitsouko,
Before they became famous, -Marcia Baila,
-Alas, it wasn't him anymore,
-Sorry, the rest I don't know, However, I love music,
-His big coup is having published
the music for your first short film,
-Jacno had made the music, Rectangle,
-That, I know, -Yes, it's a huge hit,
-Okay, anyway, Jean-Luc
Besson moves in with Dani,
And we gave them an oven,,, He laughs,
Which we no longer had use for,
But I had forgotten a jacket inside,
-Wait, what? -And it caught fire,
-It's true, -It caught fire
when they plugged it in, -No, no, stop!
How do you forget a jacket in an oven?
-To give it to him, I don't know, -I admit that it's not very smart,
-What was Jacno doing in there?
-No but he was Elli's friend,
-I translate: Elli Medeiros,
Clink Laughs -I
know who it is,
I'm drunk, but not totally uneducated,
You, you, my roof,
-At the time, everything revolved around Elli, huh,
Stinky Toys, first,
-Their group, with Jacno, Two albums,
-Yes, after that she played
the leading role in my short film,
When she arrived at parties, it was crazy,
She arrived with her gang, Musicians, journalists,,,
There was Pacadis,
Yves Adrien, and then
Olivia Clavel from Bazooka,
-And you, were you in love with Elli?
-Uh,,, He laughs,
At the time, it was impossible not to be in love with Elli,
Étienne laughs,
The spring of confinement was one of the most beautiful,
We left Paris before the schools closed
to find an already burgeoning countryside,
The vegetation was ahead of schedule and we could have lunch in the sun,
Several weeks of good weather
followed where we saw the lilacs bloom,
The neighbors' wisteria caused shock
among the few authorized walkers,
Only the magnolia of the Régnauds, who had
caught fire like a torch, was thwarted in his plans,
All it took was one night of frost to
wipe out its extravagant flowering,
The modest wildflowers, the buttercups, the
cornflowers, the bells persisted intact, dotting
the freshness of the meadow with so many colored spots,
I marveled at it while jogging, discovering
the apple trees in bloom, then that of the
cherry trees, and thanking the sky for having
the chance to witness this exceptional season,
Upon leaving confinement, I discovered that
David Hockney, undoubtedly the living artist I
admire most, had spent this spring not far
from here, in Normandy, and that he had painted it,
He posted a few images on YouTube, taken on an
iPad, accompanied by a text where he spoke of
the joy he had in capturing the blossoming of
spring, that we had lost our connection to nature,
This question has been on my mind for weeks,
I wondered why my art, cinema,
was also losing its connection to nature,
Not all cinema, of course, but wasn't there
a possible path in this Hockney evidence?
Couldn't the way in which cinema
captures the most fleeting emotions on
faces, and thereby touches its very
essence, be applied to the beauties of nature?
Couldn't a filmmaker do like Monet, on the
banks of the Seine, in the winter of 1879-80,
painting the river when it carried blocks of ice?
Wouldn't this have a place in a film?
Can I talk to you?
-Of course,
-When you go shopping,,,
-I do the shopping for everyone,
-Well, I noticed that when you do the shopping for everyone,
you put the goods directly in the kitchen cupboards,
-Where am I supposed to put them? -So, if you read the press,,,
-What press? -Finally, if you follow the
recommendations, you must leave the goods
outside for a certain time, four hours
minimum, to eliminate any contamination from the surfaces,
-What surfaces? -All,
Plastic packaging, the boxes,,,
-And dairy products?
-Ah well yes, dairy products, obviously,
-I'm sorry, I don't leave them outside,
-For what ?
-I respect the cold chain,
-How so ?
-I avoid encouraging the development of bacteria,
Staphylococcus, listeria, salmonella,,,
-No because if you want to avoid interrupting the cold chain,,,
-Yes,
-,,, it's mainly for frozen foods, eh,
-I don't know, -I know,
-I prefer not to take risks,
-We're talking about Covid and you, the cold chain?
-If we are
careful, we are careful about everything,
You bleached all the handles,
-Diluted, -It is extremely harmful,
-Okay, I would like to use white vinegar,
We ordered six bottles, But it's no use,
You can check,
Aren't you having lunch with Carole? -No,
Today she is fasting,
This is what his nutritionist recommended,
-Good,,,
I'm not asking you to put the bags in direct sunlight,
You can put them in the shade,
It's not that hot, -No,
I find it too risky,
-Finally, Covid is also a risk,
-Everyone has their own priorities,
-Will you be uncompromising on the cold chain?
-So,
-Do you know that our department is in the red zone?
-Not this part of Essonne, -Ah OK,
I didn't know that Essonne was divided into zones,
It's a scoop, huh?
I don't know how long you've had this information, Happy to share it,
-No, I didn't say that, I use my common sense,
None of my neuroses,
-I am concerned about health rules at the time
of the worst epidemic we have ever experienced,
At a time when the world population is confined for the first time,
So it's a neurosis?
Eh ? Am I rambling?
-I remind you that the Hong Kong
flu in 1968 claimed a million lives,
We didn't make all that crazy about it,
-So do you think it's a
good thing or a bad thing?
It's true, a million deaths, why worry about it?
Let's take the Hong Kong flu as an
example, as a model, and do the same,
-That's not what I'm saying, -But what do you say, then?
He sighs,
-This hysteria seems excessive to me, even caricatured,
-I can say that in terms of cinema, we
completely underestimate the problem,
*-However, there are *meetings
to define new protocols on filming,
-Bullshit, there you go,
*-Why do you say that?
-I think we can't make films with distancing rules,
It's impractical, *-This is an extreme and
unrealistic position, but what do you recommend?
-Me, nothing at all,
I don't intend to risk my health on set,
I can say that never in my life, I felt less of a filmmaker,
So let's say we make films,
I don't know when,
People still need to take the risk of going to see them,
*-Not you? -Especially not me,
-Pardon, I'm bothering you for a second,
-Yes ?
-I place the order from the organic grocery store, They deliver late in the afternoon,
-Great,
-But I need to know if you want kohlrabi,
-No, it's okay,
-You made a puree with it,
-I assure you, it's okay,
-All right,
I won't bother you anymore,
-Excuse me, I,,,
Little embarrassed laughs *-You are welcome,
*Have you signed the intermittent workers' petition?
-It's the least we can do,
And it came from my friend Jeanne Balibar,
But hey, basically,,, *-Yes ?
*Do you think anything else?
-No, I think that the situation of
intermittent workers is and will remain,
and for a certain time, desperate, and
it is absolutely necessary to help them, eh,
But hey,,,
related to social devastation
and the abyss of misery and disarray
which will hit the entire society and the entire world,
it's a drop in the ocean,
*-How do you see the future? -I don't see anything,
I'm not a soothsayer, He laughs,
No, I just know,,,
Hmm,,,
Cinemas and filming
are potential hotbeds for the pandemic,
And as long as it is not controlled by a reliable vaccine,
It won't be good for us,
*-But until then? -By then?
In my opinion,
Nothing,
Apart
the injunction
to imagine new ways of making films,
compatible
with new real-world data,
*-Actually,
*every man for himself, -Yes,
*-And that the industry goes to ruin, -No !
But the industry will not go to ruin, rest assured,
It will be reorganized in the more or less short term,
and according to values ​​and
regulations which will make
it all the more rigid and
unfortunately, all the less free,
Classical music This
is my father's library,
There too, time stood still,
He had his books bound in Italy, according to a code by genre and country,
Brown with fleur-de-lis for classic French literature,
Beige with small stars for
contemporary French literature,
Yellow is theater,
Peach skin, the story,
And black is what I prefer: news stories through the ages,
Since my adolescence, I read them compulsively,
And then he stopped having them bound and classified,
And they were piling up beyond the available shelf space,
The “Universe of Shapes” collection was invasive,
André Malraux created it at Gallimard,
La Pléiade, but for art history,
The first volume was devoted to
Sumer, then the Hittites, Assur,
fascinating civilizations giving rise
to the most boring rooms of the great museums,
My father collected the coins that were lying around in a box,
And when the amount was enough, he took me to
buy art books 5 rue du Pont de Lodi to the
stock of Hachette which then distributed Gallimard,
My father, published by Robert Laffont,
benefited from a 30% fraternal discount,
The last time I accompanied him, at
13, we bought two monographs on
Bonnard and Vuillard which I still remember,
Besides, they are there and I sometimes leaf through them,
I was far from imagining how much
their work, and that of Bonnard in
particular, would mark my future inspiration,
*-Until his last day, *my
father insisted on being in a
very meticulous state of *cleanliness,
*The last two-three days, he was
able to have *his usual cup of coffee,
*He liked *to have black coffee when
he got up, with bread and butter,
*Then we sat him down like every day on this
armchair, *this sedan chair that I told you about,
*And two more days before his disappearance, *he
insisted on going into the garden and starting a landscape,
*So we carried him into the garden,
*We were *trying not to
shake this sedan chair too much,
*And our slowness annoyed him a little,
*He said: “But let’s go faster!”
*We were going faster, *then we
dropped him off where he told us to stop,
*And then he changed his mind,
*We went a little further,
*And then he looked at the olive trees,
*I dare say he got lost in the olive trees,
*But he was suffering, He was in terrible pain,
*And from time to time, he who never
complained *even let out a tiny moan,
*And then we placed the canvas on his easel, in front of him,
*And we opened the box of colors,
*The palette was all ready, I had prepared it myself,
*It was precisely the time of the great economy of colors,
*Very few colors, the very clean
palette, *the brush that was put in his hand,
*And he started taking color
*and putting it on the canvas,
*And he stopped moaning,
*His eye lit up,
*We felt that joy, the joy of
painting was possessing him,
*And after a few minutes, he started humming,
*This is how I can tell you about the end of my father,
*The rest, well,,,
*Prat, the surgeon, our friend, came, took care,,,
*tried to make his last moments as painless
as possible, and that's it,
*-And there you have it, our series of interviews ends,
We open the door, -What was that?
I was next, I heard snippets,
-A podcast that Paul recommended to me, Jean Renoir,
-The filmmaker?
-Yes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was his father, He wrote a book about him,
According to Paul, it's a wonder,
-It seemed to be about death,
-He just talks about it,
How it needs to be talked about,
-I wanted to thank you,
-What ?
-Well, I don't know, for welcoming me here, generously,
It wasn't easy, It wasn't planned,
-It seemed like a no-brainer, -Not really,
You know, with Étienne, This is the first time we,,,
that we live together,
-I thought you were together for a long time,
-Yeah for a while, but clandestinely,
There was his wife, his family, He left her, everything changes,
You have to find benchmarks,
-He was hiding from you?
-In a way, yes,
-Did you suffer from it?
-No, It shouldn't have
lasted any longer,
-Would you have left him? -Oh yeah,
-But,,,
you know, I haven't
lived with Paul that long,
Between one and two years, no more,
-Ah good ? -Mmm,
-I imagined it had been a long time,
-No, before, he lived alone with his daughter, in shared custody,
-Is she with her mother?
-Now, yes, She was here before you arrived,
She's coming back soon, we don't know when,
Paul misses her very much,
He used to make her do her homework,
-It's funny, you seem to
have been together forever,
-I feel like that too,
But that's not the case, She laughs,
-I can't seem to fit in,
I'm coming out of a failed marriage, of a painful divorce,
Our daughter is in shared custody, It creates conflicts,
And confinement doesn't help anything,
I miss her terribly,
-You separated because of Étienne?
-No, it was before,
The story with Étienne, It got me out of the hole,
-Yes, but maybe,
finally the fact of being hidden,,,
-Yes,
I imagine that it gives a complex,
a feeling of insecurity,
-Tenacious,
-Is that so obvious? -No !
She laughs, -With Étienne,
we were happy,
We traveled,
But it's the first time we don't lie,
that we can be looked at as a real couple,
-I understand,
-I felt that in your eyes, I'm grateful to you,
*Rock music
-Wait, wait, don't tell me!
He hums,
-SO ?
-Wait, wait,
-Go ahead!
-Yes, wait, wait,
Oh yes, but yes! Snoopy Vs, The Red Baron,
-By the Royal Guardsmen,
Little laugh
-Where do you get it from?
-I found it by chance, on a compilation on iTunes,
-But that's
I haven't heard that in decades,
-Oh? No, You heard it more recently,
-Are you sure? -Yes yes,
Tarantino used it in Once upon a time in Hollywood,
-Yes, it's the scene where Leonardo Dicaprio is in
the pool on his mattress, he listens to it on headphones,
-Too strong, -I remember it well,
I found it incongruous,
-That's what's good, It’s because it’s incongruous,
Be careful, I have some,,, He laughs,
I have a collector's item,
A collector's item, be careful, -Yes ?
-Uh,,,
Here we go,
*Someone breathes,
*Psychedelic music -Ah
well yes, no, That's too easy,
With the sound of the chillum, yes,
Um, it's Quintessence,
Laughter -Notting Hill Gate,
They hum,
-THANKS,
THANKS,
He laughs,
Laughs
He sings,
-No, but they are too bad,
-Oh, the singer was formidable, Raja Ram,
-When was it? I like it, -Han! Do you like it?
-The end of the 60s, something like that,
So there I have one, watch out,
Be careful, concentrate, -Yes yes,
-Concentration,
*Pop music -Ah well yes, Well
yes, it's Eloise from Barry Ryan,
-Are you so sure? -I know,
-Oh no, Who is it ?
-A credits for a very well-known series, -No, no,
*-Every night,,,
-Han! -Oh !
-Claude François' version,
-Ah no, don’t do that to me! No, no, no, no!
-For what ? -It's horrible,
-Finally, it's okay! I love it,
-Do you love that? -Yes,
-No, no, no, please,
Please, no, no, no! -Oh yes
Eloise No, no, no,
Laughter
-Come on, it's okay, It's okay, I'll stop, -Wait,
Don't you want to put on the John Prine album that I like?
John Prine's album with duets,
I like Falling in love again,
-Are you no longer hungry? -How are you,
Salad, ham, cheese, it's good, -I'm going to make myself
a pancake,
There is some pancake batter left, I heat the pan,
-We thought it was,,, -It was perfect,
I'm still feeling a little hungry, A pancake, Carole?
-Mmm, He laughs,
-Do you think he's upset? -No, It's still not easy
to adjust to eating habits
of everyone,
-Yes, -We can't get by anymore,
-Especially since he cares about his pancakes,
-It's been a long time ?
-Well, for a while, yes, He got used to it,
-I understand, It's like therapy,
*"Falling in love again" John Prine
-I think I did quite well, Ham and cheese,
Don't want it?
-No, I don't eat gluten, -Ah, sorry,
Yes, of course, you told me,
Do you want some? -Without ceremony,
-A little bit ? -No,
-Oh, don't,,, -Well,,,
-We're going to go watch a movie, Are we waiting for you?
-What are you looking at? -I don't know,
Maybe a Guitry,
-Have you not watched several of them? -Yeah,
It's a hard drug,
-Or a Renoir, We wanted to see Elena and the men again,
-No, thank you, I prefer to read before bed,
About it,,,
-Yes ?
-Would you mind not turning the sound too loud?
-We don't put it very hard, -We don't put it loudly,
-It's just below our room,
-It's been like this since we were kids,
-Sorry,
I've got a bit of an old man's habits,
-No problem, -It's me who apologizes,
-We'll be careful,
-Yesterday, we had to put earplugs in,
-I never wear it because it makes me anxious,
He laughs,
-No, but just, Étienne, last night, we watched a silent film,
-The music was too loud,
-But as you pointed out to
me yesterday, we were
careful to keep it to a minimum,
-Yeah, that was pretty low,
-We're going to put it even lower, at the point where we are,
-We do that, -Thank you for doing it this evening,
-No but just to know, From now on,
we will only watch silent films here?
They laugh,
-You told me that's what you prefer,
-Yes, well not exclusively either,
-At the moment, I have insomnia,
Well, I'm going through a difficult time,
I wake up at dawn, Not funny,
-Good listening, I will sort it out as I go,
And when it's too strong, you know what?
I will go down, -There you go, we do it like this,
-That's very generous of you, -Good film, then,
-Don't hesitate to clean things up,
-We won't hesitate, Little laugh
-Good night,
-Why did you want to read?
The letters from Héloïse and Abelard? -Arte asked me to make a documentary around Madame Bovary,
It evokes the love of Héloïse and Abelard,
-Ah, and you hadn't read,
-I was situating, but very vaguely,
-Yes, yes, me too,
Well, apart from what Villon says,
-Villon?
-Well yes, in “The Ballad of Ladies of Old Times”,
“Where is the very wise
Hellois “For who was
castrated, then monk “Pierre
Esbaillart” in Saint-Denis?” -Oh yeah?
What a memory,
-I have no merit,
It was set to music by Brassens,
in a very beautiful version,
I listened to her a lot,
-I can tell you that Héloïse was anything but very wise,
She was passionately in love with Abelard,
And this one, even after being the
victim of Canon Fulbert's vengeance,,,
-"Castrated, then monk,,,"
-,,, castrated and then monk,
persists in explaining to him learnedly the primacy of love in Jesus Christ,
-Héloïse’s letters are sublime,
Well, unfortunately, she only wrote two,
That's not much,
-It's not much, but a marvel of the French language,
She talks about physical desire in free and raw terms,
She is guided by her passion, Abelard's
letters pale in comparison to his own,
-You know, I find Héloïse generous
and patient for having accepted
the singularly disembodied lessons,,,
He laughs, of Abelard,
-It’s beautiful, however, what he writes,
-Yes, finally, it has nothing to do with
the dazzling modernity of Héloïse's letters,
-The book was lying around in the office, Did you take it out?
-Yes,
I wanted to reread Letters
from the Portuguese Nun,
It was in the same volume,
It is two monologues of two
women in love, which are
addressed to men overwhelmed
by their desire and its abysses,
-Were you reading it for a reason? -Yes,
I wanted to make a costume film with
Kristen Stewart,
So okay, I'm looking for ideas,
-As a Portuguese nun? -Yes I know, It's not okay at all,
-Mmm,
-It's still more complicated than that,
If you like, what interests me is the
circulation between life and filming,
Both the character she plays and
the way it resonates with her destiny,
-Well, what's the problem?
-He is the fiancé of the Portuguese nun,
He is French, He's really so stupid,
They laugh,
You know, a bit like the English
hussar in The Story of Adèle H,
He is too indifferent to her, So, we don't care a bit,
-From her?
-No, from him, If you want, there's more than a monologue left,
Well, that's not enough to make a film,
-A victim monologue, -No, it’s sublime,
It's a bit like Racine,
But hey, without
any interlocutor,
-I regret,
I loved Kristen Stewart as a Portuguese nun,
-Ah, me too, Little laugh
What if we went for a race?
Dynamic music
Little cries
Good morning, I am Mr, Berger, I come for the order,
-Good morning, This is the 4th caddy, -Yes yes,
Three, four,,, THANKS, Good day,
-Bye, -Bye,
*-How to wash your hands properly?
*Wet your hands,
*Take a sufficient dose of soap,
*Rub palm to palm,
*Exercise forward and backward movement
*with the palm of one hand on the back of the other,
*Then reverse,
*Turn the fingertips of one hand against the palm of the other,
*then reverse,
*Dab your hands thoroughly with a towel,
-How are you ? -Alright,
-Were you afraid of picking up the order?
-Actually, it's impeccably organized,
They put on masks, Collection is done in the parking lot,
And then, they bring you crates,
-Phew, -And above all, they respect
safety distances, No contact,
-And to pay?
-It's very simple, by bank transfer,
-All right,
And then you do laundry with your clothes,
-It's still much safer, yes,
-Tell me, Étienne wondered, did
you have time to stop by the bakery?
He clears his throat, -I,,,
I'm not ready for the bakery,
And then, I can do without it,
-I told myself it was a bit hard, anyway, the bakery,
He will go, then,
-Yes, can you tell him to put on his mask? -He puts it on,
-And gel on the hands, -He does,
-Around the wrists and -Between the fingers,
-THANKS,
-Already, I can download the application,
*-You will call me in front of your computer, I will guide you,
*You're going to need a microphone, -But I don't have any,
*-We'll make you wear one, -All right,
But then take all possible precautions,
It's for my brother who is extremely manic,
*-Yes, we know, We've seen worse,
*A very famous presenter whose name I will not
mention *requested that the delivery man wear
gloves, *that the microphone packaging be wiped
with disinfectant *and that the package be placed on his landing,
*And he waited a whole day before getting it back,
-This is exactly my brother's profile,
*-You give us the address, *we
drop it off in front, you will get it back,
*It will reassure your brother,
*Okay, I'll give you back Maxime,
*-Yes, is it clear like that?
-I'm clumsy with technique, but I should get through it,
*-It's important to do a live at noon,
*I was thinking of a “Song of the Day” type format,
*It gives the feeling that life goes on,
-For the evening, do we do replays?
*-Yes, your series on Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys,
*It's happy, This is what listeners are asking for,
*The idea would be that at the beginning, *you
have an exchange with Laure Adler who precedes you,
-Is she live?
*-No, same, reruns, She is at home,
*She does the intro and outro, we connect you and get you started,
-But when do you want to do that?
*-Not right away, Starting next week,
*Otherwise, do you have any ideas? It's good to be in the news,
-Of course, we can pay tribute to the victims of Covid,
David Greenfield, the Stranglers keyboard,
Paul Oakenfold who produced Primal Scream,,,
*-Yes yes,,,
-Manu Dibango, John Prine *-Of course, yes, finally, That’s not what I had in mind,
*I imagined something that
would change *the ideas,
*But it's your show, your choices,
-Yes, it shouldn't sound too necro,
*-There, that's it, Exactly, not too necro,
-I will do the best I can,
*-What's great about you is that you introduce us
to artists and then you make it all come alive,
-What do we do with strawberries? -I had forgotten them,
-Yes,
I think they're a bit lame,
I'm going to make a compote,
-In which pan? We burned the little one,
-Yes, I know, I threw it away,
I ordered some, They arrived this morning,
-Amazon again? It's madness!
-Precisely, I ordered directly from the Swedish site,
And I took a casserole dish, you see,
And a little saucepan, look,
-What are you going to cook in a mini-casserole?
-It is made of black cast iron with a wooden handle,
I found it pretty,
-How much did it cost?
-90 euros, plus shipping costs,
-90 euros for a mini-casserole that you don't know if you'll use it?
-Okay, can I use the small saucepan to make the strawberries?
-Please, be my guest,
-Good,,,
No, because you were talking about Amazon again,
Do you have a problem with Amazon?
-Ah yes, I have a problem with Amazon,
-No because the stores are closed,
What can I do about it?
-Avoid benefiting war profiteers,
-It's not my fault we're in lockdown,
And it's much more practical, I think, to do your shopping online,
-And we kill small traders,
-They have been killed off by the big box stores for a long time,
-Those who remain,
-And on the contrary, it is the large
stores that are afraid of Amazon,
-And why?
-Ah, because they are afraid that people will get used to buying what they need online,
-Don't worry, They release water, it prevents burning,
-Ah,
Pardon,
-For books, you have lots of alternative French sites,
-I found a portal all in inclusive writing,
To be frank, It totally discouraged me,
-You have a bad mind,
-Anyway, most of these sites
refer you to closed local bookstores,
-We are in a house full of books,
There's no rush to order books on Amazon,
-You are right to point out this problem,
This library scares me,
-However, I saw you digging into it,
-There was Boileau,
-And why Boileau?
-Well, actually, I didn't remember if I had read Poetic Art or not,
-And ? - Think about it, I still don't know,
The verses are so like
proverbs that well,,, He laughs,
-What we understand well is stated clearly,
-What smells burnt?
-Oh, it’s the strawberries!
-You told me not to touch it,
-I never told you that,
-Yes, that’s what you told me,
But they are completely charred,
No, but the pan is dead, -But no !
Leave it to soak overnight, it will be fine, -No way,
No, but the bottom is completely charred there!
No but,,, but,,,
Moans
No, but it is good to throw away,
-I didn't tell you not to watch her,
-No, you shouldn't have touched it,
-Is it my fault?
-I never said that, -Well yes!
-Okay, listen, here,
For your pancakes, -THANKS,
-Please,
-Mmh,,, Oh no!
He laughs,
It tastes burnt, Can I throw it away?
-Yes, don't worry, The trash is there,
-Wait,
They say you can put the pot to boil
with dishwashing liquid and baking soda,
It works really well, -We have baking soda,
I bought some to make gluten free bread,
-She's completely burnt out, -Soak it
in white vinegar, It'll work,
Ah!
Otherwise, there is another site that suggests you throw it away,
-I don't find it funny,
They laugh,
Skype Ringtone
Beep
Ah!
How are you ?
*-As much as that goes in this context,
*My film is stopped,
*And I can take it again next summer, and again,
*Otherwise, it's okay, We are in the countryside,
*The weather is nice,
-And tell me, it's good, Louis' parents' house?
*-Very beautiful,
*They installed a trampoline, Britt spends her days on it,
*They do jumping competitions,
*When she loses, she is grumpy all day,
-Yes, nothing new,
How's homework?
*-Better than with you, -How so ?
*-Are you making him work on his German?
-I don't speak German,
*-These are variations
*to be repeated,
-Yes, well, I do what I can, eh,
*-She has difficulty concentrating,
*You don't just leave it lying around on the internet?
-Uh,,,
The school is closed, it is confined, Not fun for children,
I'm a little more flexible than usual,
*-That's not how she presents it,
-How does she present it? *-She is happy,
*but internet-wise, for her, it's the gulag,
*I imagine that at your place, there is a more flexible regime,
-Yes, finally, I let her chat at
the end of the day with her friends,
That's it, in the spirit of not completely desocializing it,
Which is desirable, it seems to me,
And if she does her homework
well, she can play games on my tablet,
*-What games? -I don't know,
I haven't analyzed which ones, *-You pass your tablet
*and you let her play any game,
*including some that could be harmful?
-I don't think these games
are harmful, but I'll check,
*-I thank you for being willing to do so, yes,
-Is she there?
*-I'll pass it on to you, Britt!
-Ah! Oh !
Good morning my love, Good morning !
He sends her kisses,
Oh,,, Little laugh *-Hi, dad,
-Hi,
How are you ? *-Where is my bike?
-He is,,,
It is put away,
He's in the back kitchen, *-Say, dad, *are you
ordering me volume 22 of The War of the Clans?
*Finally the best, it would be 22, 23 and 24,
-And why three volumes?
*-It's the end of the 5th cycle,
-But anyway, I ordered three volumes for you
before you went to mom's, *-I know,
*The 19th, 20th and 21st,
*Now I'm almost halfway through the 21st,
-I don't understand it, How many volumes are there per cycle?
*-Well, six! That's why,
*You can't leave me halfway, It's too cruel,
-Well, listen,
there is an excellent library at Louis' parents' house,
*-These are old books, -So much the better,
What's the problem? *-But dad, *you don’t
understand! I have to finish the 5th cycle,
-Don't you want to discover something else?
Like The Kingdoms of Fire, For example,
*-No, I don't like it, -But why?
*-Pff, I don't like dragons, I'm not interested,
-No, but I assure you! *-Dad !
-I don't insist, but anyway,,,
*-Say, dad, when I get home,
*can I watch movies on your tablet?
-Are you allowed to stay with mom?
*-She never wants to lend me her tablet,
-I think she lends it to you from time to time,
*-She doesn't want me to watch Netflix,
-No, because I think you're watching anyway,
*-How ?
-Using my codes, For example,
Britt, I saw you logged in,
*-How do you know?
-Well listen, they send me notifications,
*-I used it once or twice, -Come and see,
Let's do the same as before, okay?
If you follow the lessons well, that you do your homework well,
you will be allowed to watch films,
*-Netflix? -Don't you want to see something else?
There are things elsewhere that you might like,
*-Netflix?
He sighs,
-Okay, come on, one episode,
*-Three, -No, one, it's one,
*-Three ! -No, listen, two, OK?
*-Two, okay, -Well then,
It's formidable to negotiate with you, *-I know,
*I'll leave you, They started trampolining,
-Yes, wait, Britt!
You're giving your mom back the tablet, right?
*-Promised,
-Yes ?
Britt! Yes, well,,,
Soft music
I go jogging in Régnaud Park,
Anyway, it is prohibited on local roads,
There, I don't meet anyone,
Running is relatively new in my life,
About ten years, And even then, only in summer,
The rest of the year, I don't do any sports,
When I was younger, I didn't know how to run, I didn't know how to find my breath,
And I would immediately get exhausted,
Eventually, I got a taste for it, I found my bearings,
I love the effort of running and
I'm better at it than when I was 20,
Here, in Montabé, I found distant reflexes,
for example, the path around the park,
I go down the steps of the vegetable garden, I am the handstands,
I turn right towards the portico, I'm going behind tennis,,,
I go down to the pond,
I go back up following the fence, which is quite steep,
And I rejoin the undergrowth which takes me back to the villa,
I do six laps,
Strong breathing
Barking in the distance
This was the path I followed when I was a student at Censier,
Light hubbub
I worked in the reading room of the old National Library,
on my master's thesis,
It was dedicated to the serialist Gustave Le Rouge,
Blaise Cendrars dedicated a chapter to him in L'Homme foudroyé,
It was mainly about intimate bonds
between symbolist poetry and the revival of occultism
in France at the end of the 19th century,
It was a source of inspiration when I made my film Irma Vep
or when I wrote an essay on the work of mage-filmmaker Kenneth Anger,
In the morning, during this single period of my youth,
I was going to run before driving to Paris,
It must have been winter,
I remember the frost, steam from the air I exhaled,
I remember the effort to come up from the pond,
At best I had to do two laps,
I liked that,
In the morning, at dawn, it was quite wonderful,
But I don't have good memories of this period of my life,
Claire, whom I always loved, had left
me, and I couldn't imagine replacing her,
She was irreplaceable,
It was the first, and the inspiration
of my first graphic attempts,
Crumpling of a leaf
Pencil strokes
Why I was doing a master's degree, if not to be rid of it?
I didn't want to become a teacher,
Painting was too solitary and cinema was still far away,
-Is there anyone?
Barking
-I understand because next year,
it will be the 2nd centenary of Flaubert’s birth,
So there is news, Well, way of speaking,
Um,,, sorry,
But that's no reason to talk
of Madame Bovary in a conventional way,
You see, me, if I make the documentary,
I need to find an angle,
If there is no angle, I'm not interested,
I don't want to go through dates,
This year he does this, such a year is the trial,
journalists say this or that,,,
That's a bit boring, isn't it?
But,,,
Yes, well then,,,
Sartre rightly asks the question, in The Family
Idiot: what does Flaubert have to say to us today?
Well, that interests me,
There's a briefcase for you at the gate,
-I know,
-She has been stagnating there for two days,
-I got it back, It was a microphone for speaking live,
-Great,
-Ah, can you help me install it?
Carole does her yoga, -Of course,
Well, I drink my coffee and I arrive,
-THANKS, -It was nothing,
-Wait, shit,,,
-What can I do?
-Sit at the desk so I can adjust the height of the microphone,
Sigh
-Come down,
Again, again,
Again,,,, Stop!
It's good for height,
But how can we stabilize it?
-Okay, get fed up,
I call the technician,
Feedback
Call tone
*-SO ?
-I did it, but the microphone is not stable,
*-We will already see if it works like that,
-I'll hold it for you,
Feedback He coughs,
Feedback
-Who remembers the Stranglers,
first wave punk group defined by its sometimes gritty machismo?
What distinguishes their sound is the use of keyboards,
anathema to their contemporaries, and inspired by the Doors,
Their keyboard was,,,
David Greenfield,
victim at 71 of Covid,
We will pay tribute to him today,
*-Stop, I hear nothing,
-I did as you said,
-I maintained it, but it's a bit difficult,
*-It was better before, The signal is weak,
*Have you set up the application correctly?
-Yes, I checked twice,
-Did you tell him about the two Wi-Fi bars?
-Yeah, I told him, *-And the microphone connection?
-I only have two Wi-Fi bars,
*-That's probably the problem,
-You told me that was enough,
*-And if you connect to the Livebox?
-Ah no, but I don't have an Ethernet input,
*-Okay, I'll do my little investigation and I'll call you back,
-I am happy to answer your questions,
I still hesitated a lot, *-Ah?
*For what reason? -I feel very privileged,
In such a dark time when so many people
are struck by poverty, by illness,
bereavement, unemployment, where people
are confined to very small
accommodation, where the worst off are
forced to take the greatest risks, I
find that there is a form of obscenity, if you like, in,,,
to show off how lucky I am to have
a family home to confine myself to,
*-You can share with us what gives you hope,
*We all need it,
-Honestly,,,
Right now, there's nothing that gives me hope,
*-Good,,,
*A piece of music to recommend?
-Yes,
Murder Most Foul by Bob Dylan, that's it,
*-It's what ?
-A 17-minute piece posted online at the start of confinement, It tells of Kennedy's death,
the end of innocence and how his entire generation
accepted this disaster while listening to music,
Yes,
In any case, This is my way of interpreting it,
That's how I received it,
*-You are not in a positive mood,
-That, I warned you,
*-A reading to recommend to us? -Excuse me,
Sorry, I'm bothering you, -No way,
-The road truck passed by, They didn't collect our trash,
-It's already happened, There must be a problem,
-Should I bring it in? -Yes, I'll take care of it,
-That works, I'll leave you, Kiss
-Excuse me, *-You are welcome,
*There is no problem,
*Do you have a reading to recommend?
-So, without hesitation,
I would say The Bedside Book of Sei Shonagon,
She is a courtesan from medieval Japan
who listed what she liked and didn't like,
which made her sad and happy,
If you want, it's like a kind of,,,
of feelings where there is all the
beauty and all the melancholy of the world,
*-Is it in the form of *fragments?
Have you read everything?
-No, but it's not
meant to be read in full,
It's a bit like the I Ching, if you want,
We take a page like this, randomly,
Otherwise, I recommend The
Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki,
-Are you carrying? -In what?
-Have you read it, The Tale of Genji?
-Uh,,,
Not really, but I plan to do it,
-Oh yes ? -Yes,
For a long time, In fact, I had bought
Sieffert's new two-volume translation for my mother,
I got her back when she died,
-And she died in what year? -Ah,,,
2006, They laugh,
I admit that,,,
I was discouraged by the preface,
The translator, if you like, explains
why it's boring, Small laugh
According to him, that is not an obstacle,
Good,,, He laughs,
Shall we play balls to warm up?
-It’s true that it’s good to quote The Tale of Genji on France Culture,
-Yes, okay, that's good,
But hey, if you like, at the
moment, I'm having trouble with fiction,
I don't know where it comes from,
David Hockney talks about it in an interview,
-Can't you just talk?
It's always: “David Hockney said this,”
-But I admire him, so I pay attention to what he says,
Especially since I didn't wait for it
to read historical and popular science works,
Cry of effort
-Hence the books on genetics
who seem to obsess you, -Ah yes no but,,,
It is certain that today, epigenetics
and the study of paleohistory
using DNA, that's what there is
more exciting, and all the more so as we are still at the beginning,
So that leaves prospects for discoveries, but they are staggering,
-Yes, it’s exciting, It's astonishing,
-Hey ! -Eh ?
-You're not going to take me back on everything, -On nothing,
-Come on,
Match, -Match, You have revenge to take,
Friction
-Stop
to scrub the pan, it's infuriating,
-Have you tried white vinegar?
-It's been soaking for three days,
There is no result,
-Throw it away, You keep saying she's kaputt,
-I'll get there, -Throw it away,
-It will take as long as it takes,
but I will get there,
-What's his name, the neighbor?
-Uh, which one? -The one who has the wood where I call,
-Mr Malinois,
-Mr, The Malinois, rude character, -Oh?
-I was with my therapist, He interrupted me,
-You know, it's forbidden to take the local road,
-You have the right now, if you respect the distances,
-Yes, but if you follow the local path,
you arrive directly at the Le Malinois,
And this is private property,
Finally, I warned you, -The guy was odious,
He questioned me, I told him to go fuck himself,
-To go fuck yourself? -Yes,
-Why didn't you go and call the Régnauds?
-Wood, This is where I make my calls,
-It's not wood, It is a hunting reserve,
-I'm going to take a shower,
I'll set the table later, -We'll take care of it,
What do I wear? Half an hour?
-I was watching, On Marmiton, they say 25 minutes at 210,
-If anyone is interested, I
found out about trash cans,
-Ah, that’s great, -Oh yes ?
-Good,,,
Do you want me to explain? -It fascinates me,
-Okay then, our trash can is not up to standard,
So the road truck doesn't take it,
-Why not up to standards?
-So, I
contacted
Sictom du Hurepoix,
-The Sictom of Hurepoix?
-Yes I know, We are in the Chevreuse valley, but for
our garbage, we are dependent on Sictom du Hurepoix,
This is the name of the region, -Sictom?
-Intercommunal household waste treatment union,
It is up to them to provide the bin to standards,
Somehow, the trash belongs to them,
-Like at home in Côte d'Or, It's very strict,
-So, I ordered,
But hey, they don't want to deliver because of the confinement,
In short, then, for our household waste, we
can put our bags in the neighbor's trash cans,
-What if there is no room?
-Wait, there's always room,,,
at the house of,,,
at the Mourghes, just opposite,
-Excuse me, it's captivating, but,,,
I'm going to check that the roast isn't burning,
-But the thorniest
problem is recyclables,
-I didn't know we were sorting,
-The recyclables truck comes by every Friday,
-To the extent that we do not
sort, or without my knowledge,,,
-We're going to do it, I bought a trash can with two bins,
It should arrive tomorrow
or the day after tomorrow,
-How do you know? Transporters are overwhelmed,
-No but I see it on the tracking,
Here, look, for example, we see
that she has just arrived in France, Look at,
Hmm? There remains the problem of glass,
-It's really
a problem, are you sure?
-No, but you didn't see the quantity of glass,
there, just behind the kitchen?
-No, I don't go behind the kitchen often,
-If you went there,,, -I'm going, but not day by day,
-I'll take you, -I believe you, I don't care!
-No, but I want you to see,
Okay, come on,
-I'm not accompanying you, eh,
-So,
-Ah yes, indeed, It's impressive,
*Salsa music
-It's still unexpected,
that neighbor who listens to salsa all day,
-Especially at lunchtime, -Well yes,
It's time to be in the garden,
-He has the right to listen to music while eating lunch,
Barking
Last year, we were in Cuba for your film,
-Yes, it was salsa
morning, noon and evening, Little laugh
There were some as soon as we walked through the hotel lobby,
Silence
Ah!
He sighs,
-It’s beautiful, this silence,
-Mmm,
-Usually, there are always planes,
cars in the distance,
There, nothing,
-Yes, it's magical, Barking
-Gandalf! You give up, that’s enough!
-Magic, yes, They laugh,
-Here !
-This neighbor, when he doesn't listen to salsa,
he trains dogs,
-I actually thought I noticed,
He growls,
Barking
-Capone!
-Wait, He growls,
No but,,,
Wait, do you want some coffee? -Yes, I want coffee,
Yes, I want coffee, I want coffee,
No, no, no!
Classical music -I sleep in
the room that was my mother's,
Our parents lived in separate rooms,
They divorced when we were children,
but even before then, they slept separately,
Afterwards, my mother lived in Paris,
We stayed with our father in the countryside,
with our Hungarian nanny,
We communicated with her in this language,
She never learned French,
Our mother came every weekend,
Metronomically, she arrived on Friday evening,
She was honking for someone to come get her bags,
Horn blasts And only then,
she was going to park her car,
During the week, his room was inaccessible,
We weren't going there, we had nothing to do about it,
Yet it was the largest room in the house, the one
furnished with the most beautiful furniture and paintings,
One, quite remarkable, although small and dark,
is a northern landscape attributed to Ruysdael, or
to Allart Von Everdingen, we don't really know,
The other painting, less interesting,
nevertheless has a story that I never tire of,
My Milanese grandfather, Guillaume
Assayas wanted to buy a painting,
I think he would have phrased it in terms of investment,
So he addressed his friend,
the director of the Pinacoteca de Brera,
He offered him two options,
The more reasonable one, a safe
investment, a pretty 18th century
landscape by the Tuscan artist
Francesco Zuccarelli, with a simple,
classic and timeless style, Or a more
risky choice, that of a young Italian
Jewish artist based in Paris and painting in the modern style of his time,
We will have recognized Amedeo Modigliani,
My grandfather did not manifest his discernment,
He chose Zuccarelli,
Shortly before her death, my mother
told me that she hoped that after her
disappearance, she would say "when I
am in China", I would have her room back,
It took me years to decide because this
forbidden room intimidated me so much,
I always thought of places as haunted and inhabited,
And this one more than any other,
Today, I've gotten used to it, even though I have
the feeling that I'm living with my mother and that
this room will remain hers no matter what I do there,
Does this mean I have reconciled with my mother?
Did I need to reconcile with her?
Maybe,
She regretted that I didn't have children like my brother,
One year, she gave me a mini copper carpenter's meter,
And she added, to make it clear,
that Saint Joseph was a carpenter,
As fate would have it, my daughter
was born three years after my mother died,
There is an adjoining bedroom, become a child's bedroom,
It was to be close to my daughter that I adopted my mother's room,
*-After Orthodox theology with Father Chrysostom,
*we will move on to a very different subject, rock'n'roll,
*Are you with us, Étienne Berger?
-Good evening, Laura,
*-Good evening, Étienne Berger, What did you make for us this evening?
-Well, Laura, for our confined listeners,
a ray of Californian sunshine with the first
part of a series dedicated to the Beach Boys,
*-You will make surfing enthusiasts happy,
-Not only that, I hope,
-Now that the beaches are reopened to swimmers,
Beep
-Can't you stay a few more days?
-I haven't seen my daughter in a month, It's the first time,
-Come back here, -I can't, school will start again,
And then I have my house, my garden, my parents,,,
-I know, -You will join us,
-I don't have the right, It's more than 100 km away,
-You say that the restrictions will stop,
-It's hard to be certain,
Who would have imagined that we would be confined for three months?
-Try to be patient with your brother, -But I am patient,
-Do you take it with you? -I take it upon myself,
He brings his neuroses to bear, -You just have visions
very different from the pandemic, -That's the least we can say,
I don't want to get caught up in stupid anxieties,
-Aren't you exaggerating a little? -No way,
We respect barrier gestures,
What's the problem?
-We know nothing about this disease,
He is careful, perhaps too much, but I understand it,
-I have enough worries, I don't want to add more,
-Have you spoken to your wife?
-Yes, When we can move around, she will go get her things,
She will move them to her home in Normandy,
-The face you make,,,
How are you ? Are you at peace with that?
-It's complicated,
Married very young, 25 years of living together,
I don't want to be at peace right away,
You know how badly I sleep,
-Not when I'm here,
-Yes, not when you're here, but you are not there enough,
-I could say the same,
This is the first time we've spent a month together,
A step in the right direction, -A funny step,
-But a step nonetheless,
-An unexpected step,
-Even unexpected, -Yes,
Unexpected,
-The bouquet Morgane made me was lovely,
-She stole the neighbors' wisteria,
-And their broom,
-Everyone was sad that you left,
Especially me,
Moaning with effort
She sighs,
-I don't like to drag out goodbyes,
I'll call you when I get there, -Mmm,
He sighs,
Not approaching
Someone mutters,
Stop! -Why “stop”?
-Don't walk on the floor I washed,
No shoes, sir,
-I'm going to the kitchen to have a coffee,
-No, seriously, you wait for it to dry,
He laughs,
-Okay,,, No but,
what is the need to wash the entrance tiles?
-I do it once a week, on Sunday,
in case you hadn't noticed,
-He was clean,
-No, we go in, we walked into anything, It's unhealthy,
-Unhealthy? -Yes, unhealthy,
You're a freak about a thousand other things, So it's okay!
-No, but listen, no one says otherwise,
-You take it in an unpleasant tone,
-Total respect,
-It's okay, I'm fed up!
-But,,, -I'm making a remark to you,
you lock yourself in your office for an hour!
I could make a fool of myself! I have reasons,
But I crash and shut up,
-No, but go ahead! What reasons?
-I don't want to talk about it, -Okay well,,,
-I adapt to your quirks, -What habits?
I don't know, I just ask you to leave the boxes outside,
Don't do your shopping in all kinds of
stores where people don't wear masks,
Is it extravagant? -I do !
I adapt! I wash the entrance, I ask you to respect,
-Was it me who invented that you
have to leave everything outside?
These are recommendations on reference sites,
-I can't take this paranoia anymore,
I have inquired, you are not part of the populations at risk:
it is the obese and the elderly who have several pathologies,
Tired of suffering your anxieties! It oppresses me to be locked up,
I need to get in my car and go wherever I want,
-It's not me who forbids you, -But you're the one doing the heavy lifting,
All day, These are your concerns,
Fed up!
I believe in carelessness,
It is the best immune defense,
The more calm you are, the less you catch it,
-There, what you mean is
that we should stop worrying?
-To take the trouble, yes,
I'm waiting for the lockdown to be lifted
so I can live and not be held accountable,
Sorry, but that's enough,
I am patient, but up to a certain point, Shit !
-There, there's no point in raising your voice,
-It's not me who's being upset,
Sorry if I raise my voice, but it has to come out,
I take it upon myself! -All right,
-There, it's good, -All right,
-That's it, it's said,
-THANKS,
You saw, the magnolia has grown again,
-Oh yes,
I thought the frost killed him,
-The flowers are dead, but the sap came back up,
-However, the lilacs are fading,
-Mmm,
We will have seen them appear and disappear,
-This hasn't happened to me since my childhood,
Moaning with effort
-He's right,
You shouldn't have scowled at him,
-Wait, I never made a face,
-But of course it is, You locked yourself in your office,
-Ah but I had work,
-Lunch time?
-Well,,,
-He had prepared the meal, He had put flowers,
No reason to get upset, -I never got angry,
I just went to get myself a coffee in the kitchen, okay,,,
-Well, you wait for the ground to dry,
-Listen, I tiptoed there
with sneakers, it's fine!
-It makes him happy to have washed the floor,
-Do you hear yourself? It pleases him
for washing the floor? -Stop,
What's the problem?
-I do lots of things, I don't bother anyone with that,
-What does that have to do with it? -Well,,,
-Your coffee can wait 10 minutes, right?
-No but I don't know,,,
-You bicker like children,
-Anyway,,, It's also here, It brings back childhood,
-You were the big brother, and him the little brother,
There you are the same age, You are two adults,
-Sometimes I wonder, -Me too, And it's not positive,
-But these are shared memories,
These are Hungarian words that we thought we had forgotten,
A childhood spent in the countryside
creates conscious and unconscious links,
-And a whole life lived independently,
doesn't that make you a bit of a stranger too?
-Foreigners? You're exaggerating, -No way,
You each built yourselves in a different way in worlds not so
distant, but which, ultimately, have nothing to do with each other,
-No doubt,
-Because you share a thousand anecdotes from childhood, you think you are the same,
But it is the tree that hides the forest,
-Yes,
But finally,,,
Which forest do you think?
-It is life, existence, time, finally,,,
There's nothing else,
-Well, nothing else, finally,,,
-Do you want to be defined by your childhood?
-No, no, no,
-Well, so?
-No, but,,,
Our father died when we were relatively young,
We were 20 years old,
We had to face it together,
-Okay,,, And?
-Well, nothing, Nothing,
Just, childhood lasted longer,
-Until when?
-Until my brother got married,
-Do you want my diagnosis?
-Well, yes, Finally, what you have to say interests me,
-Nothing more banal,
-All right,
Are you making pancakes? -Well yes,
-Ah, For lunch?
-For those who are not fed up, Little laughs
The door resists,
-Ah,,,
-Are you getting through it? -Yes,
I couldn't stand this door anymore,
Moaning with effort
She was driving me crazy,
Little laugh
She's been rubbing for years,
Maybe even decades,
He blows,
Strong breathing
And there you have it,
That's it, I got his skin,
Pshit!
Last week it was okay, More this week,
*-Was it okay?
-I was coping well with confinement, That reassured me,
*-What reassured you?
-Well,,,
The idea that everything stops,
that I may be in good conscience away from the world,
*-You would have
*might find it distressing, -No way !
There is such pressure to be in the flow of the world,
in its acceleration,
that the fact that everything
stops has a liberating power,
It reminded me of Year 01, Do you know what it is?
*-Not really,
-It is an anarchist
utopia which was
invented by a
Charlie Hebdo cartoonist, Gébé,
The slogan was: “We stop everything, We're starting again, and it's not sad,"
*-You seem comfortable *with
the first part of the program,
-Yes, we'll stop everything,
*-A little less with the 2nd,
-It's true, It is said that the
deconfinement will be announced,
that it will be progressive,
But barring disaster, the government
wants to stick to its schedule,
But me,,,
Me, I have,,,
I liked the fact of
being in a stopped time,
I liked the idea of ​​experiencing
a somewhat miraculous interlude,
*-Miraculous, you said?
-I like the idea of ​​starting again, but
in the sense of starting all over again,
But there, the perspective, it is to resume as
before, but with surgical masks and barrier gestures,
*-That interests you less, -Yes, it worries me,
I had a clash with my brother,
*-About,,, ?
-About nothing special,
I think it's more of a symptom,
*-A symptom of what?
-Well,,,
a symptom of where we are,
*-And where are we, *in your opinion?
-Rather from where I am,
Despite the anxieties,
I liked the confinement,
*-Mmh, Your brother, no,
-No, really not,
He experienced it as an attack on his freedom,
*-It wasn't your fault, -No, but anyway,
as I took the threat seriously,
I became the vector of containment,
I legitimized the confinement, *-He has just
separated *from his wife, he wants to be free,
*And you prevent him from being free, -Me, no,
*-What you embody, Especially if you experience it positively,
-Yes, finally, it was like a utopia,
But it had to stop, this utopia,
*-Assuming that it ever took place,
-You are right,
It didn't happen,
immobility, it can't be a utopia,
Stillness is nothingness,
And confinement too,
The saddest part of all this is
thinking that nothing is going to change,
*-Are you sure? -Alas, yes,
*-Are you afraid of deconfinement? -Yes,
*-From a health point of view?
-Well, I'm afraid of living in the world of the pandemic,
*-Indeed, you look terrified,
-Yes, finally, it's a little
excessive "terrorized", but,,,
Well no, it's not excessive,
I'm terrified,
Tinkerbell -Hello,
-Good morning,
-There are two more,
I bring them to you, -THANKS,
The grocer came out without his mask, Is it serious?
-He's usually vigilant,
-Well, he didn't have it,
-You, did you have yours? -Yes of course,
-Did you speak?
-Respecting distances,
He rushed at me with his crate,
I didn't have time to move away, I don't know if he spoke,
I don't remember,
-Was it outside? -Mmm,
-Okay, I think it's okay, -Are you sure?
I've been worrying about it ever since, -No, finally, there is,,,
There's no reason,
Well, I think so, -You think?
-No, no, well, I'm sure,
He clears his throat,
Strong breathing I wanted to tell you,,,
There you go, I,,,
that I had been happy to be confined with you,
-Me too,
-I wouldn't have wanted to be confined with anyone else,
-Me neither,
-How long has it been?
-That we are confined? -No, that we are together,
-It's been two years,
Well, less than two years, Summer 2018,
But we never really spent time together,
You always left for scouting, festivals,
when you filmed in Cuba,,,
-You came to Cuba, -Yes, but not for very long,
It's as if confinement had forced us
to live together for the first time,
-And it was convincing, -Yes,
Little laugh It was completely convincing,
-Well, we never said that to each other, -Mmm,
It's better to say it to yourself,
-Okay, roughly speaking, that means we're going to stay confined together
even when we are deconfined?
-I have no other plans,
-Me neither,
David Hockney,,,
-Stop with David Hockney! I can't take it anymore, stop,
Little laugh
Hmm? -David Hockney
said he was 83 years old
and that he was going to die,
He said
that we die because we are born,
And he said that the most important thing,
it's love,
-Mmm,
It's love,
-Sometimes it can take a while to figure it out,
-Well, the message got through,
-Yes, She laughs,
Yes, he passed, -He passed,
Light moaning
He sighs,
Horn blast
-Can I go see dad?
-Wait here, I need to speak with your father,
-But mom,,, -No, you give us 5 minutes!
Baby's cooing
Are you helping him with his bag? -Yes,
-Be careful of Moritz with the sun, -Don't worry,
-Hi, Louis, -Hi, Paul,
She sighs,
-How are you ? -How are you,
Finally, Louis’ parents caught Covid,
-Ah, shit,
They were cloistered, How so ? -We don't know,
They went shopping the day we
had a pediatrician appointment,
-Did they wear masks?
-Cloth masks sent by a cousin,
-Look no further,
-I'm really not looking,
With a baby, It's not safe to stay,
We return to Paris,
Strong breathing
-They have symptoms?
-Yes, they have had a fever for two days,
They have lost their sense of taste and smell,
We haven't been in contact, We were in a separate building,
I did a test, I am negative,
There you go, I hope that was enough to reassure you,
-Why do you say that ?
-I know you a little, We lived together for ten years,
You're scared,
-Fear,,,
-You're afraid of dying from Covid,
-Yes, well, I am wary of Covid,
We don't know the disease, I'd rather not have it,
-That's what I'm telling you,
-Between that and being afraid of dying, there is still a margin,
-I can guarantee you that Britt is negative,
Two weeks of living in seclusion,
-I didn't ask you that much,
-You asked me if we were careful,
-It's normal that I ask you the question,
-No need to make him wear his mask,
So, -Okay, that's what I wanted to know,
-Because afterwards, you insisted,
-We may not have the same criteria,
We just have to be clear,
-So, That's no reason to be heavy,
-Am I heavy?
-Yes, heavy, Well, let's try to avoid that, I have neither the time nor the inclination,
I have an appointment with the notary,
-At the notary? -Yeah,
I am selling my apartment,
-You bought it two years ago,
-It suits me more since there is Moritz,
-That's for sure,
A baby, that,,,
It takes up space and energy,
And tell me, how do
Britt and Moritz get along?
-Alright, -Oh !
-She adores her little brother,
I'll let her take care of it, It creates a bond,
-And where are you going?
-We found a house in Pré-Saint-Gervais,
There is even a garden where a fig tree grows,
He sighs,
-And what do you plan
on doing for Britt's college?
Because it's near my house,
-She will take the metro,
-She is 10 years old,
-For the moment, there is no school open,
We're talking about next year, and again,,,
-And again,,,
-There have been six months of work,
-Do you really think this is the right time?
to get started in this business?
-No, that's not the right time, that's for sure,
But I have to be sure, Then it's not easy,
There are days when I break down,
-I know,
-No, you don't know, You don't have money problems,
-Yes, finally, when I
was young, I had some,
-But not real problems,
-No, it's true,
I didn't have any children, So there was no issue, I know,
-It was your choice,
I didn't do the same, -Yes,
She sighs,
-And we agree?
Three hours minimum for online courses, every morning,
-Which online courses?
There weren't any, to my knowledge,
-Excuse me, I'm not specific enough,
I meant the exercises that the teachers put online,
On the college website, Have you heard of it?
-I'll do like you and I'll watch,
-She has a file to submit on Pericles,
They do this together online with her friend Edwarda,
-Pericles? She laughs,
-I know, It surprised me too,
-No, but you know what? I wonder
if it's not a tactic to steal my tablet
and supposedly FaceTime
to go to stupid sites,
-No, they work, -If you say so,
They hum,
Brit!
-Dad !
Little happy grunts
Britt laughs,
-I missed you, Kiss
How are you ? -How are you,
Mom !
-Ooh, okay, will you do your homework well?
Do you promise me? -Promised,
-When I call you, you will show me,
-Ok, -Oh,,,
Kisses
-Good,,,
They laugh,
Okay, hello, -Yeah, hi,
-Oh my!
Was it good with mom?
-Yes, I saw all the Screams,
-Is that all? -No,
We played Scrabble and Monopoly, -Ah,
-I went shopping with Mom and Louis,
-It's still not very prudent, that,
-Even if we catch Covid, it's not very serious,
-Personally, I would prefer if you didn't catch it,
-Mom, she says you're afraid of dying from Covid,
-I prefer to avoid having it,
-You don't risk much, -Yes well,,,
You will explain to me why, That interests me,
Belt,
He sighs,
Did you like Louis’ parents’ house?
-Phew! They are too nice,
They installed a trampoline, -Ah OK,
-We had competitions,
-Did you win? -Of course,
I always win,
Little grunt
-Pshi!
They laugh,
-Can we install a trampoline?
-The garden is too small,
-At the Régnauds,
-It's not our place,
-It's super big, There will be room,
-Yes, but it’s
not our place,
Do you have all your school stuff?
-I took everything,
-Otherwise, your mother will kill us, They laugh,
Okay, let's go,
Have you done all your homework?
-I did everything with mom, But I have a presentation to finish,
-Yes, I know, I know,
It's on "Périclé", right?
-Pericles!
-No, but it’s okay, Pericles,
And why Pericles?
-We had to choose a great king, We hesitated with Ramses II,
-Ah!
Why focus on Pericles?
-He had the Pantheon built, -Mmm,,,
Are you really sure?
-Ah, the Parthenon,
-Here is the Parthenon,
-Edwarda visited the Parthenon with her parents,
-Ah! All right,
-His wife was Aspasia, a very free woman for her time,
-I didn't know that,
-She was even accused of pimping,
-Is that true? It's not very advisable,
Do you know what it is? -Perfectly,
He laughs, -Go ahead, explain,
-A woman who trades in women,
-Yes, okay,
We can indeed say that, yes, Well, well done,
-We also wanted to talk about the great wars,
-Mmh!
-Pericles was a strategist,
-All right, -That is to say war leader,
So he is shown with a helmet,
He laughs,
-You impressed me,
-No problem, I read it on Wikipedia,
Can you print some photos for me?
-Oh well yes, No problemo, that,
-Why are you stopping?
-Uh,,,
I wanted to tell you something
important that you need to understand,
-And you don't want to say it while driving?
-No, Small laugh
-OK, I'm listening,
-What I wanted to tell
you is that I saw a notary,
-What is the notary?
-The person you contact if you want
to buy or sell a house, a bit like mom,
-Very good, the house at Pré-Saint Gervais,
I can't wait, There is a fig tree,
-You know, the house in Montabé
belonged to your grandfather,
-Yes, you already told me,
It was a farm building,
-Yes, And when your grandfather died,
well the house passed to his two sons,
Your uncle Étienne and
me, -So that means you have half?
-Exactly, and,,,
I made a document with the notary so that this half,,,
He sighs,
well,,,
it is now yours,
-To me? -Yes, Yeah,
-Are you telling me that
the house is mine?
-Yes, well, half, eh, -Half,
Can I invite all the friends I want?
-Yes, well, if your uncle agrees,
In any case, for the moment,
I am the usufructuary,
-You're confusing me,
-Finally, it's me who is responsible, If you want,
-So it's with you that we have
to negotiate to invite friends?
-Exact,
-Can I invite friends?
-Not with Covid,
-Please, -No,
I told you not with Covid,
-What's the point in you giving it to me?
-I thought you would be interested,
-Is that why you stopped?
-I restart, then?
-Okay,
Little laugh
Come on,
-Anyway, I suspected it, -What ?
-That one day the house would be mine,
-Yes, finally, there are your cousins ​​too,
-And to my cousins,
That's how it happens, -You're right,
-So it's normal? -Yes,
It's normal,
“Ballad of the ladies of yesteryear” George Brassens
-Tell me where, in what country
Is Flora, the beautiful Roman
Archipiades, born Thaïs
Who was his first cousin
Echo speaking when noise we lead
Above river or pond
Who beauty had too much more than human
But where are the snows of yesteryear
Who beauty had too much more than human
But where are the snows of yesteryear
Where is the very wise Helloïs
For who was castrated and then a monk
Pierre Esbaillart in Saint-Denis
For his love had this essay
Similarly, where is the queen
Who commanded that Buridan
Was thrown in a bag in the Seine
But where are the snows of yesteryear
Was thrown in a bag in the Seine
But where are the snows of yesteryear
The lily-white queen
Who sang with the voice of a siren
Big-footed Berte, Bietris, Alis
Harembourgis who held Maine
And Jeanne the good Lorraine
That the English burned in Rouen
Where are they Sovereign Virgin
But where are the snows of yesteryear
Where are they Sovereign Virgin
But where are the snows of yesteryear
Prince, don't inquire any week
Where they are, born this year
May this chorus not remain with you
But where are the snows of yesteryear
May this chorus not remain with you
But where are the snows of yesteryear
Soft music
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