[ Young Man Narrating ] The first time I saw a movie at the Cinematheque Francaise...
I thought, "Only the French--
Only the French would house a cinema inside a palace. "
The movie was sam Fuller"s Shock Corridor.
Its images were so powerful, it was like being hypnotized.
I was 20 years old. It was the late "60s...
and I"d come to Paris for a year to study French.
But it was here that I got my real education.
[ Screaming ]
I became a member of what in those days was kind of a free masonry.
A free masonry of cinephiles...
what we"d call "film buffs. "
I was one of the insatiables...
the ones you"d always find sitting closest to the screen.
Why do we sit so close?
Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first...
when they were still new, still fresh...
before they cleared the hurdles of the rows behind us...
before they"d been relayed back from row to row, spectator to spectator...
until worn-out, secondhand, the size of a postage stamp...
it returned to the projectionist"s cabin.
Doctor, I'm not nuts! I'm here from the paper! I'm a plant!
Maybe, too, the screen really was a screen.
It screened us... from the world.
But there was one evening in the spring of 1 968...
when the world finally burst through the screen.
[ Man #1 speaking French ] The pawn of an obscure coalition...
of dubious interests...
the Minister Malraux has driven...
Henri Langlois out of the French Cinematheque.
[ Speaking French ] ...if offered us all a free and fair conception...
of French film culture.
[ Man #1 speaking French ] Now, for bureaucratic reasons, culture"s arch-enemies...
have seized this bastion ofliberty.
Resist them!
- Liberty isn't given! - [ Man #1 ] It"s taken.!
[ Man #2 ] All those who love film...
-[ Man #1 ] In France... -[ Man #2 ] And abroad.
[ Man #1 ] ...are with you.
And with Henry Langlois!
[ Young Man ] It was Henri Langlois, who created the Cinematheque...
and it was because he liked to show movies...
instead ofletting them rot in some underground vault...
to show any movies-- good, bad, old, new...
silents, Westerns, thrillers--
that all the New Wave filmmakers came here to learn their craft.
This was where modern cinema was born.
[ Man #2 ] What lies behind it?
The police!
[ Young Man ] Langlois had been sacked by the government...
and it seemed like every film buff in Paris had turned out in protest.
It was our very own cultural revolution.
[ Speaking French ] Excuse me.
[ Speaking French ] Can you remove this?
It's stuck to my lips.
Can you remove my cigarette? It's stuck.
[ Speaking French ] Yes, yes...
of course.
Sorry.
- [ Speaking English ] What are you, English? - No. I'm American.
You can put it out now.
- What"s your name? - Matthew.
You're here a lot, aren't you? But you never talk to anyone.
We've been wondering why you're always alone.
I don't really know anybody.
How come you're chained to the gates?
I'm not chained to the gates.
- You're awfully clean. - What?
For someone who likes the cinema so much.
- Do you know Jacques? -Jacques?
"If shit could shit, it would smell just likeJacques.''
My brother's gone to talk to him.
When he gets back, you'll be able to smellJacques on him.
It's like being around pigs.
- You speak English really well. - What?
- You speak English really well. - My mother's English.
- Here's Theo. When I introduce you,just give him a sniff. - Come on.
[ Speaking French ] Truffaut, godard, Charbol, Rivette...
and Renoir,Jean Rouch, Rohmer are here.
Signoret,Jean Marais and god knows who else.
Marcel Carne too.
Why is Carne here?
What should we do? Stay or leave?
I don't know.
[ Speaking English ] Theo, this is Matthew.
- You were right. He's American. - Hi.
I've seen you around. You've been coming to all the Nicholas Rays.
Yeah. I really like his movies.
- What? They Live By Night? - Mm-mm. More like...
Johnny Guitar and Rebel Without a Cause.
- You know what godard wrote about him? - No. What?
"Nicholas Ray is cinema.''
- [ Chuckles ] - [ French ] What's up with you? - [ Sniffing ] Me?
[ Speaking French ] Come on, stick with me!
[ Speaking French ] Fascists!
- Bastards! - Assholes!
[ Police siren Wailing ]
[ Matthew Narrating ] And that was how I first met Theo and Isabelle.
I could hear my heart pounding.
I don"t know if it was because I"djust been chased by the police...
or because I was already in love with my new friends.
As we walked and talked and talked and talked...
about politics, about movies...
and why the French could never come close to producing a good rock band--
- I'm starving. - I forgot the sandwiches.
I didn"t want that night ever to end.
- Merci. - Didn't you bring anything?
No. I'm okay. Please eat.
Don't mind me.
- No. I'm really not hungry. - I've broken it now. Take it.
- You're very kind, but I don't-- - For goodness sake, take it when you're offered it.
Thank you.
- Theo, don't you have something for Matthew? - This is fine.
- I gave him a third of mine. - Okay.
[ Chuckles ]
- Really, I didn't come here to eat your sandwiches. - He doesn't want it.
Yes, he does! He's just too polite to say he does.
- Aren't you, Matthew? - You're very kind.
- So where are you from exactly? - San Diego.
What about you two? Were you both born in Paris?
I entered this world on the Champs Elysees, 1 959.
[ Speaking French ] The pavement of the Champs-Elysees.
[ Speaking English ] And you know what my very first words were?
No. What?
"New York Herald Tribune.!"
New York Herald Tribune.!
- New York Herald Tribune.! - New York Herald Tribune.!
[ speaking French ] Will you come to Rome with me?
Here! Right here! Here!
[ Speaking French ] No, there!
- [ Speaking English ] good night, Matthew! - Night.
♪♪[ Matthew singing ]
♪♪ [ Humming ]
[ Matthew ] "Dear Mom...
"I"ve got some real news this time.
I just met my first French friends.''
[ Telephone Ringing ]
[ Ringing Continues ]
- Hello. - Matthew?
Who is this?
- Don't be suspicious. It's me. - Theo?
- Don't tell me I woke you up. - No, I--
- I've been up for ages. - You don't sound as if you've been up for ages.
I always sound like this in the morning.
Sorry. I had to call you early because I go to class at 9:00.
- Right. - Listen, you want to have dinner tomorrow night?
Um, you mean like a real dinner in a nice restaurant?
No, not in a restaurant. Here at home.
Yeah, I'd-- Sure, that'd be great.
Yes? Okay, why don't you--
Theo, please get off the phone. It's 9:00.
Yes,yes. Why don"t you meet us for a drink first at Le Raspail, 6:00?
You know where it is?
- Boulevard Saint-germain? - Be there are 6:00.
Hey!
- [ Speaking French ] Third floor! - [ Repeats In French ]
You know, there"s room in here for all of us.
- [ Speaking French ] Theo and I are contagious! - [ Speaking French ] What?
- We're very contagious! - Contagious?
[ Speaking French ] You mustn't catch us.
- [ Speaking French ] It's beautiful. - You think so?
[ Speaking French ] good luck.
[ Panting ]
[ Speaking French ] Evening, Maman.
[ speaking French ] What are you doing here?
- We're here for dinner. - What?
With Matthew.
- Didn't Isabelle say? - Which Matthew?
[ speaking English ] This Matthew.
He's our new friend. Matthew, this is my mother.
- Hi. - Very pleased to meet you, Matthew.
- Likewise. - Oh, you're American, are you?
- Yeah. I'm from California. - Oh.
Matthew lives in that nasty student Hotel Malebranche...
- so we invited him to dinner. - Oh.
[ Speaking French ] What's wrong?
What can I say, Isabelle? I'm cooking for two...
and now there are five of us.
Didn't Theo tell you?
No, he didn't. And neither did you.
Have you got mashed potatoes for brains or what?
You were supposed to tell her!
You're crazy! [ Squealing ]
Bitch, cow, slut--
[ Speaking English ] Oh, for god's sake! Put a sock in it, you two!
I must apologize for my children's behavior, Matthew.
No. I'm the one who should be apologizing.
Please don't put yourself out on account of me.
That's very sweet of you, seeing as you're completely blameless.
Let me look at you.
Okay. I want you to make a good impression on Papa.
[ speaking French ] Papa, it"s me.
We're eating in.
And the cinematheque?
Closed until further notice.
[ Speaking English ] Papa, can't you see we have a guest?
- This is Matthew. - Oh.
- Sir. - Matthew.
Matthew's dining with us tonight.
My young Matthew, inspiration is like a baby.
It does not choose a nice, seemly hour to enter the world.
It has no consideration for the poor poets. I know.
But when it does come...
when it deigns to come, then you know it's--
Young man, I was speaking to you. I imagine you were listening.
I was. I'm-- I'm sorry.
What?
Nothing. I was just, um--
You seemed to be mesmerized by this tin lighter.
I'd like to know why.
- Well? - George, please.
- Matthew's our guest. - No, no. I'm genuinely curious.
I'd like to know why.
I was just-- I was fidgeting with Isabelle's lighter...
and... I wasn't really realizing it...
then I noticed, and I thought it was rude...
so I put it down on the table.
But I put it diagonally across one of these squares.
Do you see?
Look.
That's when I noticed that the lighter's length...
is exactly the same length as the diagonal itself.
So I put it lengthwise, along the outside edge.
- Look. It fits there too. - Yeah.
But it fits there.
And it fits like this and like this...
and this way too.
And I bet you if I just split it in half...
you know, it"s got to fit somewhere.
I mean, it really fits anywhere. Look.
See?
I was noticing that the more you look at everything--
this table, the objects on it, the refrigerator, this room...
-your nose, the world-- - [ Isabelle Chuckles ]
suddenly...
you realize that there"s some sort of cosmic harmony...
of shapes and sizes.
I was just wondering why. I don't know why that is.
I know that it is.
You have an interesting friend here.
More interesting, I suspect, than you know.
I mean, when we look around us, what is it we see?
[ French ] Complete chaos.
Yet viewed from above...
viewed, as it were, by god...
everything suddenly fits together.
My children believe that their demonstrations and sit-ins...
and happenings...
what, they believe that these possess the capacity...
not only to provoke society, but also to transform it.
What is it you're saying? If Langlois is dismissed, we shouldn't do anything?
If immigrants are deported, if students are beaten up, we shouldn't do anything?
What I'm saying is that a little lucidity would not go amiss.
so, uh, everyone"s wrong but you?
In France, in Italy, germany, America?
Listen to me, Theo. Before you can change the world...
you must realize you yourself are part of it.
You cannot stand outside looking in.
You're the one who stands outside.
You're the one who refused to sign a petition against the Vietnam War.
Poets don't sign petitions. They sign poems.
Apetition is a poem.
Yes! And a poem is a petition. Thank you, but I'm not gaga yet.
I don't need you to remind me of my own work!
- Hmm? - That"s right.
[ Speaking French ] A petition is a poem, a poem is a petition.
- [ English ] Yes. - Those are the most famous lines you ever wrote.
And now look at you.
[ Speaking French ] I hope I'll never be like him.
Theo.
[ speaking English ] We should say good night, darling.
We got a long day ahead of us tomorrow.
George.
[ Speaking French ] Yes, sorry. You were saying?
[ speaking French ] We should go to bed.
You had something to tell the children, didn't you?
Yes, of course.
I'm sorry.
The cheques are on the mantelpiece.
Don't cash them until you need them, all right?
[ Speaking English ] good night, everybody.
[ Speaking French ] good night, Papa. Have a safe journey.
good night, dear. Theo.
[ Speaking English ] A very good night to you, Matthew.
It was a pleasure meeting you, sir. A pleasure.
- Very nice meeting you, Matthew. - You too.
- Thank you so much for dinner. - It's my pleasure.
Why don't you invite Matthew to spend the night?
I'm not sure I like the sound of Hotel Malebranche. [ Chuckles ]
[ Speaking French ] good night.
[ Clicks Lighter ]
Why haven't you dazzled us with these philosophical speculations of yours?
- I didn't know I was being philosophical. - Papa was awfully impressed.
- Papa's full of shit. - [ Matthew ] I think you"re lucky.
I-- I wish my parents were that nice.
Other people"s parents are always nicer than our own.
And yet for some reason, our own grandparents...
are always nicer than other people's.
You know, that's true. That's-- That's absolutely true.
I never thought about it before, but it's-- it's true.
Matthew,you sweet--
This...
is double the length of--
Well, I'm for bed.
Are you staying?
- Are you okay? - Yeah, I'm okay.
good night, Matthew.
Everybody's got a father.
Yes.
But the fact that god doesn't exist...
doesn't mean he can take his place.
- [ Sighs ] - [ Laughs ]
♪♪[ Rock Guitar ]
Okay?
- [ Chuckles ] - That's fine.
- good night. - good night.
- See you in the morning. - See you.
- Thank-- - [ Door Closes ]
Thank you.
♪♪[ Woman singing Blues Rock ]
No!
♪♪[ Ends ]
[ Engine Starts ]
good morning.
What was that all about?
I was removing the sleep from your eyes.
Theo lets me do his every morning.
That's the strangest thing to want to do.
Didn't you enjoy it?
- Was I supposed to? - Naturally.
Up, up, up, up, up! What are you waiting for?
Isabelle, I'm not dressed.
- What are you doing? - What are you doing?
I've been memorizing this room.
In the future, in my memory...
[ Both ] I shall live a great deal in this room.
Queen Christina...
where greta garbo bids farewell to the room...
where she spent the night with John gilbert.
Bravo.! [ Applauds ]
Alors. We have a private wing to ourselves.
The bathroom's at the end of the corridor.
If you aren't there in one minute, we're coming back to get you!
[ Theo speaking French ] Come in.
[ Speaking French ] good morning.
- [ Speaking English ] Are you going to church? - [ Chuckles ]
Oh, sorry. You want to use my toothbrush?
- Uh, no. - Sure?
I'll use my finger.
[ Brushing ]
- sleep well? - Yeah.
- I mean, fine. - good.
- You know, Matthew? - Hmm.
You really do have the most beautiful pair of lips.
Can I touch them?
- You-- You wanna touch my lips? - Uh-huh.
Okay.
So red... and ripe and luscious.
So sullen, brutal.
Let's see what you look like with lipstick.
- I really should be going. - You'd make such a pretty girl.
Ignore her, Matthew. she sucks in all the air around her.
No, I-- I really have to, um, be getting back to my hotel.
No. Why? You have been invited to stay.
- Really? - sure.
You know our parents have left.
They're going to be introuves for a month.
We thought you might like to move your things here.
- R-Really? - Sure.
But you just met me two days ago. You barely even know me.
This way we get to know you. You don't have to stay in a hotel, do you?
- No. - Then we"ll go and pick up what you need...
with my Mobilette, okay?
- Come on. - But... what about you?
It was my idea.
[ Matthew ] Whoa! You're scaring me right now!
[ Theo Laughs ]
Jesus.
I'm going to check out the Cinematheque,just in case.
- Okay. - Don't take too long.
Don't worry, I won't. I don't have much stuff.
With us, you're not going to need much.
Okay.
Oh,just don't forget your toothbrush!
Okay.
[ Matthew ] "Dear Mom, I guess you"re surprised to be hearing from me...
"so soon after my last letter.
"But I've just moved out of my hotel and into an apartment...
"belonging to a famous French author...
"whose children are the same age as me and have the same interests.
"I know how pleased you"ll be to hear I"m getting in with the right kind of people.
say hello to Father. I hope he"s not still mad at me. "
Listen to this, Matthew.
"The difference between Keaton and Chaplin...
"is the difference between prose and poetry...
"between the aristocrat and the tramp...
"between eccentricity and mysticism...
between man as a machine and man as animal.''
[ Speaking French ] Not bad, huh?
That's good. Except for me, there's no comparison.
Why? 'Cause Chaplin's incomparable?
No. Because Keaton is incomparable.
Keaton? You think Keaton's greater than Chaplin?
- Absolutely I do. - Oh,you"re not serious.
- Of course I am. - You're crazy.
Come on. In the first place, you can"t deny that Keaton"s funnier than Chaplin.
- Yes, I can. - You don't think that Keaton is funnier than Chaplin?
- I don't think anyone's funnier than Chaplin. - Keaton is!
Even when he"s not doing anything, he"s funny. And he looks like Godard.
Keaton is a real filmmaker. Chaplin, all he cares about is his own performance...
- his own ego. - That's bullshit.
- It's not bullshit. - Yes, it is.
You Americans understand fuck-all about your own culture.
- No wonder you never got the point ofJerry Lewis. - Don't even get me started!
Listen, when Chaplin wanted to have a beautiful shot, he knew how.
Better than Keaton, better than anybody.
You remember the last shot of City Lights?
He looks at the flower girl, she looks at him...
and don"t forget, she"d been blind...
so she was seeing him for the very first time.
It"s as if, through her eyes, we also see him for the very first time.
Charlie Chaplin, Charlot, the most famous man in the world...
and it"s as if we"ve never really seen him before.
[ Resetting Turntable ]
Isa, if you play that fucking record again, I'll break it in two, okay?
But you like Janis Joplin.
♪♪[ Continues ]
stop it.!
- I said stop it, Isabelle! - [ Yelps ]
[ Speaking French ] Stop!
- [ Speaking English ] Tell me, what film? - Wha-What?
Name a film-- Let go.!
Name a film where someone tap dancing drives someone else crazy!
- Oh, I know this! - Come on.! Quick.! Quick.!
Top Hat.! Top Hat.! Fred Astaire's dancing over ginger Rogers's room.
[ Matthew ] And she"s mad because he wakes her up.
[ stomping Continues ]
I'm right.
[ Speaking French ] He's good.
[ Speaking French ] You know what I'm thinking?
What?
"Bande a part. "
[ Theo ] You"re right.
[ Speaking English ] Why are you two looking at me like that?
Well,you see, my little Matthew...
there's something Theo and I have been meaning to do for a long time...
but we've been waiting for the right person to do it with.
- And I think you're finally it! - To do what?
Try to be the record of Bande a part.
- What record? - You've seen Bande a part, haven't you?
- Yeah. - Remember the scene where the three race through the Louvre?
- Uh, vaguely. Remind me. - They try to beat the world record...
- of 9 minutes and 45 seconds. - Oh, yeah! Of course.
We're going to beat their record.
Uh, oh.
- What? - What's the matter?
- Nothing, really, I'm-- - Not afraid, are you?
- No. I'm not afraid. - What, then?
It's easy for you two. I'm an American, what you French call an alien.
- So? - So if I get caught, I get deported.
Well, don't worry, little man, we're not going to get caught.
- Yeah,you don"t know that. - They weren't caught in Bande a part.
- And if we beat their record-- - It's a movie!
- go get Papa's stopwatch. - It's a great idea, but--
Matthew, this is a test.
Are you going to pass it or fail it?
Be careful. A lot depends on how you answer.
He.! Non.! Arretez.!
[ Shouting ]
[ Laughing ]
Nine minutes and 28 seconds.
We beat the record by 1 7 seconds!
[ Laughing ]
Matthew! My little Matthew!
You were wonderful!
- We accept him. One of us! - One of us!
[ Isabelle And Theo ] We accept him, one of us!
We accept her, we accept her.
gooble, gobble. gooble, gobble.
- We accept him, one of us! - One of us!
[ Thunderclap ]
♪♪[ Folk Rock ]
Hey!
Theo. Isabelle.
Theo.
♪♪[ Continues ]
Hey!
- We accept you, one of us! One of us! One of us! - ♪♪[ Ends ]
One of us! One of us!
[ Ringing ]
[ Speaking French ] That's Mama.
I'm too wet to answer.
[ Speaking English ] Isa's smart, but she doesn't know how to deal with parents.
- What do you mean? - I mean, it's not enough to ignore them.
They should all be arrested...
put on trial, confess their crimes...
sent to the country for self-criticism...
and reeducation!
- They're already in the country. - They are at the seaside.
[ Speaking French ] That's different.
Allo. Allo?
[ Speaking French ] Too bad.
[ Matthew ] My parents never go anywhere.
At least you have the house to yourselves.
Where are you going?
Uh, I gotta get out of these clothes.
It'll be cold in your room. Come into mine.
- Okay. - ♪♪[ Big Band ]
You can wear this.
Thanks.
I"m going to get a Coca. You want one?
Okay.
♪♪[ Continues ]
- [ Knocking ] - Matthew.! - Yeah!
- Just open the door. My hands are full. -Just a second.
- Why didn't you open the door? - I was--
I was dressing.
♪♪[ Isabelle Humming ]
What film?
In what film does a chorus line dance like this...
with a singer in a fur coat?
- I've seen this film? - We saw it together.
- We did? give me a clue. - Certainly not.
- Come on. Be a sport. Director's name. - No.
Number of words in the title.
- I said no. Non.! - Isabelle.!
- The first letter of the first word. - God.! You"re pathetic.
Isn't he pathetic, Matthew? Don't you think he's pathetic?
- Matthew, I bet you know. - Don't you dare help him.
Did the Sphinx give Oedipus a clue?
- Fuck you. - ♪♪ [ Hums ]
give up?
Yeah.
- Blonde Venus. Marlene Dietrich. 1 93 2. - [ Speaking French ] Shit.
I knew that.
- Forfeit. - If you insist.
I dare you to do now...
in front of us...
what I've watched you do... in front of her.
Who?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, yes, you do, my pet.
- [ Chuckles ] - Forfeit.
What a bitch you are.
A bitch and a sadist.
Are you going to pay the forfeit or not?
Very well.
Mm-mm-mm. I want you to do it the way you did it...
when you thought no one was watching.
[ Grunts ]
[ Theo Grunts ]
[ grunts ]
[ Grunting ]
[ Panting ]
Let's have a drink. I'll meet you downstairs.
- Matthew. - Yes?
Yes.
[ Theo ] Why don"t you admit you were thrilled?
Come on. You can tell me.
What?
Weren't you just a tiny bit excited?
- What is it exactly you're trying to get me to say? - I asked you a question.
Well, I suppose you know who you sound like.
- Who? - Isabelle.
Why not? She's my twin sister.
- You two are twins? - Yes.
She'd be me if she were a man.
- That's crap. You're not identical. - Yes, we are.
We're Siamese twins, joined here.
You're a strange one, Theo.
Half an hour ago, I saw you look at her as though you wanted to strangle her.
I did.
I don't understand you.
- Don't you have any brothers or sisters? - I have two older sisters.
Didn't you ever want to strangle them?
Of course I did! But I never masturbated in front of them, and I never--
They never forced me to do anything I never wanted to do.
You think Isabelle forced me, do you?
[ Matthew Narrating ] Deep down I knew things couldn"t go on as before.
Now the stakes had been raised.
But for a while, at least, there did seem to be a kind of truce between Theo and Isabelle.
And then one evening--
- [ Wheezing ] - Theo!
[ Wheezing Continues ]
[ Coughing, Gasping ]
- What film? - [ Isabelle ] "What film?"
Name a film where a cross marks the spot of a murder, or pay the forfeit.
- You too, Matthew. - Me?
What-- What have I done?
Name a film or pay the forfeit.
- Uh, um-- - Time's up.
- Time's up? You didn't even give me a chance. - The film?
scarface. Howard Hawks, 1 93 2.
And the forfeit?
Well, now...
as you know, Isabelle, I'm not a sadist.
I just want to see everyone happy, no one left out.
So I'd like you...
and Matthew...
to make love in front of me.
But not in here.
I don't fancy sleeping in someone else's revolting sweat.
- No offense, Matthew. - Where?
In the spare room...
in front of the Delacroix.
Maybe one reproduction will inspire another.
- Um, um-- - I won't do it.
- Won't do it? - You wouldn't.
Matthew isn't my type.
Okay.
♪♪ [ Man Singing In French ]
♪♪[ Continues ]
I gotta go to the bathroom.
♪♪[ Continues, Indistinct ]
Matthew.! Matthew.
♪♪[ Continues, Indistinct ]
Matthew.
Yes?
This is silly. Come out of there.
Okay.
[ Yells ]
- [ Yells ] - Okay. All right.
Look. Wait. Look. You're hurting me!
I'm not violent. I'm-- I'm against violence.
- I'm not gonna resist. Look. - So shut up. Okay?
- Okay. - Now, Matthew, you aren't being very gallant.
Is the prospect of making love to me so hateful?
I've seen you. I saw you in bed together.
Oh. Our guest has been spying on us.
Hmm. Now, that wasn't a friendly thing to do, Matthew.
Especially when we've been so hospitable.
Okay, okay. Look--
- shh, shh. - I'm not resisting! I'm not resisting!
[ gasps, Laughs ]
Oh, how sweet of you, Matthew...
to keep my image next to your heart.
- I didn't mean-- - [ Isabelle Laughing ]
good. [ Laughs ]
Oh, Matthew. Oh, come on. Oh, wake up. Oh.
Come on, wake up.
Isabelle?
[ Laughs ] No. I'm Theo.
[ Chuckles ] Where is Isabelle?
[ Matthew ] You have to help me.
[ Loud Moaning ]
Sorry.
[ Moaning Continues ]
[ siren Wailing ]
[ Moaning Continues ]
[ Moaning Intensifies ]
[ People Shouting, Whistles Blowing ]
[ Siren Wailing ]
[ Isabelle Sobbing ]
[ grunting, Moaning ]
[ Sighs, Chuckles ]
Oh, that was the best one.
What about yesterday?
- Where? - In Papa's study.
You thought that was better?
Mm-hmm. Please, please, please, please.
- What? - Stay inside.
Matthew.
My love.
My first love.
My great love. My great lover.
My Valentino.
- ♪♪ [ Sings ] - [ Laughs ]
♪♪[ Man singing In French, Indistinct ]
You know, I thought you had many lovers.
When I first saw you at the Cinematheque--
you and Theo-- you looked so cool.
so sophisticated.
- Like a movie star. - I was.
I was acting, Matthew.
How did you and--
How did you and Theo...
come together the way that you are?
Theo and me?