- (OBJECT LIGHTLY THUMPS) - (SANDRA CLEARS THROAT)
SANDRA: Sorry. ZOÉ: It's okay.
SANDRA: (CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY) Well...
What do you want to know?
ZOÉ: Er... Oh, just a sec. It hasn't recorded. (CHUCKLES)
- (BALL THUMPING) - Er...
There.
Erm, so, the way you describe the son's accident...
(DANIEL IN FRENCH)
ZOÉ: (IN ENGLISH) It's troubling to the reader, because we know it's your life.
Do you think one can only write from experience?
(ZOÉ AND SANDRA CONTINUE CHATTING IN DISTANCE)
(WATER RUNNING)
(SNOOP PANTING)
(DANIEL IN FRENCH)
(SNOOP WHINING)
(IN FRENCH)
(SNOOP WHIMPERS)
(DANIEL GRUNTS)
(IN ENGLISH)...and then that leads me to an interesting story.
And I decide to put you in the book that I'm writing.
And that's it, it's not more. You're in the book!
And yet I don't know you.
What I do know about is my interest in you, and that is real.
Yeah, but still, you had to meet me first.
I'm real, in front of you, now.
- SANDRA: (LAUGHS) Yes, that you are. - Yeah. Yes.
So, for you to start inventing, you need something real first.
You say your books always mix truth and fiction,
and that makes us want to figure out which is which.
- You want? - Is that your goal?
- (POURING DRINK) - What's...
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
(SNIFFS)
(IN FRENCH)
(P.I.M.P. BY BACAO RHYTHM & STEEL BAND PLAYING)
- (DANIEL MUMBLING) - (CLAMOURING IN DISTANCE)
(OBJECTS THUDDING IN DISTANCE)
SANDRA: (IN ENGLISH) What would you write about?
It's Samuel working upstairs, my husband.
(THUDDING CONTINUES IN DISTANCE)
So, what interests you?
What makes you so mad you want to explore it?
Forget about your thesis, your studies...
I don't want to be a writer.
SANDRA: Well, it's okay. You don't have to write, just talk.
Like we're talking now.
You don't want to go on with my questions?
SANDRA: Of course I want to go on because... Of course!
But we could chat too.
Maybe we ask one question each?
So nobody's frustrated, like a normal conversation. (LAUGHS)
Are you really interested in what I...?
In what interests you? C'mon!
Sure.
I never see anybody. I work here all day long.
You come to see me. Of course you interest me.
Okay, erm...
- I run. - SANDRA: Mmm-hmm?
It's one of my favourite things to do.
It makes me feel high, like I'm on drugs.
(SANDRA LAUGHS)
What do you know about drugs then?
- Oh, a lot... - That's the next question.
- (SANDRA LAUGHS) - Big subject.
SANDRA: Maybe you don't write everything down...
No, no, surely not. Mmm.
(P.I.M.P. CONTINUES PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)
(LAUGHS) I told you... we should've done this in Grenoble.
ZOÉ: Er... It's fine.
I'll write your answers down.
But, er, I have many, many questions, maybe you don't have the time.
Oh, don't... Don't worry about time.
Time is not a problem here.
Okay. Cool.
Er, I'd like to discuss storytelling as an investigation...
I don't like sports. That's the first thing.
Walking, yes, maybe, running, no.
(LAUGHS) No!
- Okay, right. I get it. - No...
Erm, so, your...
(POWER TOOLS BUZZING IN DISTANCE)
It's not really possible any more, is it?
- ZOÉ: Yeah. It's complicated. - So, yeah.
I think we have to stop, Zoé.
(POWER TOOLS BUZZING IN DISTANCE)
You know what, I'll be in Grenoble soon, I'll give you a call, how about that?
Okay.
(HAMMERING IN DISTANCE)
Sorry about that.
(LOUD POUNDING IN DISTANCE)
SANDRA: Okay. Bye. ZOÉ: Bye.
- See you soon. - Yeah, definitely.
SANDRA: Yeah?
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
(PANTING)
(P.I.M.P. PLAYING FAINTLY IN DISTANCE)
(WATER RUSHING IN RIVER NEARBY)
(GROANS AND CLEARS THROAT)
Whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
(IN FRENCH)
(DANIEL CHUCKLES)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(P.I.M.P. CONTINUES PLAYING)
- (BARKS) - (DANIEL EXCLAIMS)
(SNOOP PANTING)
(DANIEL WHISPERS IN FRENCH)
(SNOOP BARKS AND GRUNTS)
(DANIEL IN FRENCH)
Mama!
- Mama! - (SNOOP BARKING)
(CRYING)
Mama! Mama!
Mama!
(DANIEL SOBBING)
Mama!
(P.I.M.P. CONTINUES PLAYING)
(SANDRA SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY IN ENGLISH)
SANDRA: I don't know, because I...
My child was calling me.
Er... Yes!
No, he's... I don't know.
I didn't move him. No, I didn't touch him at all.
I think... He's not breathing, that's why I'm calling.
(SANDRA BREATHING HEAVILY)
No, please come, I can't answer all these questions.
No... (SOBBING)
No, he's not... He's not moving.
Please, just come!
- (VEHICLE DOOR CLOSES) - (PEOPLE CHATTERING IN FRENCH)
(FEMALE REPORTER IN FRENCH)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING IN FRENCH)
(SANDRA RESPONDING IN FRENCH)
(SANDRA SOBBING)
(SANDRA TEARFULLY IN FRENCH)
(CAMERA FLASH CLICKS)
(FORENSIC DOCTOR IN FRENCH)
(DANIEL PLAYING ASTURIAS (LEYENDA) BY ISAAC ALBÉNIZ)
(PIANO PAUSES)
(DANIEL CONTINUES PLAYING SLOWLY)
(PIANO PAUSES)
(REPEATS PREVIOUS SECTION)
(PLAYS SECTION DISCORDANTLY)
(PIANO PAUSES)
(PLAYING SECTION QUICKER IN DIFFERENT OCTAVE)
(HITTING INTERMITTENT DISCORDANT NOTES)
(PIANO PAUSES)
(PLAYING SAME SMALL SECTION SUCCESSFULLY)
(HITTING SEVERAL DISCORDANT NOTES)
(PIANO PAUSES)
(REPEATING SECTION, WITH DISCORDANT NOTES)
(PIANO PAUSES)
(REPEATING SECTION, WITH DISCORDANT NOTES)
(PLAYING SECTION REPEATEDLY, SUCCESSFULLY)
(PIANO PAUSES)
(FINISHES END OF SECTION SUCCESSFULLY)
(CAR APPROACHING)
(CAR ENGINE SHUTS OFF)
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
SANDRA: (IN ENGLISH) Thank you for coming. VINCENT: (SOFTLY) Yeah, well...
- This is really weird. - Yes.
- Seeing you again, like this. - It is.
- Okay. - (VINCENT SIGHS)
I didn't realise it was so high...
Yeah.
- Come on! - Yeah.
(IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) It's Samuel, he grew up here.
- VINCENT: Mmm-hmm. - It's his...
Well...
Well, erm...
How... How... How are we gonna do this?
Do you... Will you ask me some questions and...?
- VINCENT: Yeah. - I'm really sorry that
my French isn't any better than when we met.
- No, er, English is fine. - SANDRA: Okay.
Erm...
How many times have you been questioned?
It's been once here by the policemen and once by the investigative judge.
VINCENT: Okay. Can you tell me,
erm, what you told them about the day he died?
Yes, of course.
SANDRA: (IN DISTANCE) I told them everything
from the moment I was with the student until the ambulance got here.
I was in the middle of a meeting with this girl,
and, erm, Samuel started...
blasting a song on repeat to piss me off and make her leave.
Is that what you told them, that he'd played the song
- to piss you off? - No.
No?
I just said that
he played the song super loud, and that we had to stop,
because she was recording the interview and it wasn't possible any more, it was...
VINCENT: Hmm. Good.
I... I need you to be precise.
Erm, tell me everything. I mean, exactly the way you told them.
Yes. (CLEARS THROAT)
So, I told them that I put an end to the interview
and that she left.
And I went upstairs to my bedroom.
And that's when I saw Daniel go out for a walk.
He wasn't at school, Daniel?
SANDRA: No. He only goes two days a week, it's in Grenoble.
- How old is he now? - He's 11.
And, erm...
So, after the girl left, erm...
Samuel came down to see me in my bedroom and we spoke a little bit
about what we were going to do that day, it was nothing special, really.
And, er...
he... (SIGHS)
He went back upstairs to work in the attic,
and I worked a little in bed.
VINCENT: You wrote?
- On your computer? - Yes. I finished a translation.
I translate for several German weeklies, it's for extra money.
And, erm...
Yeah, I heard him working upstairs and play his music for about,
I think, it must have been... 10 minutes.
And then I put some earplugs in, because I wanted to take a nap.
And...
I fell asleep.
And an hour later, I think, I heard Daniel scream. And, erm...
(STUTTERS AND CLEARS THROAT)
One of the earplugs must have fallen out, I guess,
because it woke me up, and...
the music was still on, and I ran downstairs, and...
Yeah, that's it.
I called the SAMU and they arrived 30 minutes later.
Okay.
VINCENT: Erm...
- Can I take a look around? - Of course.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
VINCENT: Erm...
Where do you want to start? Should I explain the...
- Something? - VINCENT: Yeah.
Yeah, maybe, I don't know.
Yeah. This is where...
Come on. This is where we eat.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
- VINCENT: Sorry. - No.
So, (CLEARS THROAT) he was working over there?
Yes, he was insulating the attic.
Huh. And, er, when you were having a nap,
he was right above you?
- Yes. - Okay.
SANDRA: So...
He was supposed to get to that next.
We wanted to make rooms for a B&B.
So he was working there?
SANDRA: These days, yes.
VINCENT: The... window?
Do you remember when the ambulance arrived, was it open?
Yes, it was.
VINCENT: He used to keep it open?
Erm, I'm not sure of that really,
because, er, sometimes he would air the room,
you know, because he wanted to get rid of the wood dust and...
Was he reckless? I mean, did he ever take some risks when he was working?
No. He was very cautious and meticulous, he worked slowly.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
VINCENT: Is there any reason why he would have
leaned out the window, for instance to call out to you or Daniel?
No. When he was working,
especially when he was playing his music,
he... he kind of...
he shut himself off from the rest of the world.
So he never called for me or Daniel up here.
VINCENT: Mmm. Well, anyway, with the height of the...
- (SPEAKING FRENCH) - SANDRA: (IN ENGLISH) Windowsill.
- Windowsill. - SANDRA: Yeah.
Had he been drinking?
SANDRA: No, he never drank during the day, especially when he was working.
(DANIEL SOBBING)
(SANDRA IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) You need to wash up
and get dressed. It's daytime, you need to get up.
Honey, I know this is hard, it's hard for me too,
and it's going to be hard for a while.
- (SOBBING CONTINUES) - (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
But we have to try and do the things that we did before.
- Because I... - (FOOTSTEPS STOP)
Look, Monica came to see you, she made you tiramisu. Huh?
You can't spend whole days like this without going outside.
It's beautiful out, and Snoop needs to go out too.
(MONICA IN FRENCH)
(DANIEL SPEAKING TEARFULLY)
(MONICA SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OUTSIDE)
(DANIEL SOBBING QUIETLY)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
(MONICA SPEAKING)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
(MONICA SPEAKING)
(SANDRA SPEAKING)
(MONICA'S FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)
(SOBBING CONTINUES)
(IN ENGLISH) What do you need?
(DANIEL IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Okay.
SANDRA: Mmm.
(MONICA IN FRENCH)
(IN FRENCH)
- Bonjour. - Bonjour.
- (SANDRA SPEAKING) - (MONICA SPEAKING)
(DOOR CLOSES)
VINCENT: (IN ENGLISH) Er... Er, the plates?
- There. - Yeah.
(OPENS DRAWER)
(SOBBING)
I'm so tired of crying.
It's really ridiculous. I'm so exhausted.
- You want parmesan? - Yes. Yeah, it's perfect.
And I don't know where the pepper...
VINCENT: Don't worry, I'll take care of it.
So, as you know, the autopsy report is inconclusive about the cause of death.
- Mmm-hmm. - The forensic pathologist
didn't have enough concrete elements.
- But... - (SCRIBBLING WITH MARKER)
...what we can defend
is a fall from the attic window,
with him "bouncing" off the shed's roof.
His head may have hit the edge somewhere around here.
- You see? - SANDRA: Okay.
VINCENT: Then he would have landed on the ground, approximately here.
And it seems that he found the strength
to crawl one metre or two
before collapsing in this final position.
That explains the blood on the snow.
But there are several problems.
First, they found nothing on the roof, no DNA, nothing.
And there is this... three blood spatters here on the wall.
It seems it doesn't really match with the head impact on the roof.
And the judge has asked an expert to clarify this.
SANDRA: Mmm-hmm.
And, when you see this, what do you think?
Erm, I don't know, I'm not a spatter analyst,
but, er, I know a very good one.
So, I'm gonna get her opinion.
There's one last problem for us, the... that bruise on your arm.
It might look like the result of a fight, struggle.
Oh, yeah. (CLEARS THROAT)
Well, when did they see it?
They examined me that same night. My sleeve was rolled up and they saw it.
Okay, and you explained it to them right away?
Yeah, I knew exactly how it happened.
- Should I show you? - Yeah, please.
(CLEARS THROAT) So, when I'm here in the kitchen,
I bang my arm on this all the time, you see?
Like when I move. (CHUCKLES) It's ridiculous.
It happened several times that week,
and, er, I told them that my skin marks easily,
and they could ask Daniel because he hears me
bumping into it all the time.
Okay, well...
So, as you can see, an accidental fall is gonna be hard to defend,
given the height of the... windowsill.
- SANDRA: Mmm-hmm. - So that's why there's an investigation
for mort suspecte, er, and you're...
you're... most suspicious death. Yeah.
And you're a témoin assisté because you were the only person there.
Okay.
And, of course, you're his wife.
Erm, now, looking for a stranger who walks in, kills him
while you were sleeping right above
and Daniel was out for a walk is a shitty strategy:
- Samuel had no enemies that make... - Stop, stop.
I did not kill him.
That's not the point. Really. Erm...
We have to go through Samuel's personality.
What was he going through lately...
Is there anything that would seem consistent with a suicide?
I thought about this, obviously, but I just can't imagine him jumping
with Daniel so close by.
It's just... I just can't get it in my head.
Yeah, but it's probably our best defence.
I mean, if they indict you, it's our only defence.
But I think he fell.
Yeah, but nobody is going to believe that.
I don't believe that.
I need a smoke.
(ASTURIAS (LEYENDA) PLAYING OVER LAPTOP)
(DANIEL PLAYING ASTURIAS (LEYENDA) ON PIANO)
SANDRA: Vincent...
there is something I, er, I want to tell you about.
(DANIEL CONTINUES PLAYING)
About six months ago,
I wonder if Samuel didn't swallow some pills.
I found him passed out drunk on the floor, he vomited.
It was very early in the morning. I...
There were some white spots in the vomit,
and I remember wondering if they were pills.
VINCENT: (ON PHONE) Er... really?
Yes.
And did you talk to him
- after... afterwards? - No, he didn't want to talk about it.
- Did Daniel see this? - No.
And you... did you call for a doctor or...?
No. No, I didn't realise it back then, but looking back at it now,
it seems like it might have been a suicide attempt, no?
Does anyone know about this?
No.
Okay. Er, I'll call you back.
Yes.
- Okay, bye. - Bye.
(CONTINUES PLAYING ASTURIAS (LEYENDA))
(INAUDIBLE)
(CHUCKLES)
(INAUDIBLE)
(JUDGE JANVIER IN FRENCH)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
JUDGE JANVIER: (IN ENGLISH) Okay.
(JUDGE JANVIER IN FRENCH)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
JUDGE JANVIER: (IN ENGLISH) Okay.
(JUDGE JANVIER IN FRENCH)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
JUDGE JANVIER: (IN ENGLISH) Okay.
(DANIEL IN FRENCH)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
JUDGE JANVIER: Oui.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(JUDGE JANVIER IN FRENCH)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
(P.I.M.P. PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)
(MAN SPEAKING AS SAMUEL)
(SANDRA SPEAKING)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
- (WOMAN SPEAKING) - (MUSIC STOPS)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
(ASSISTANT SPEAKING)
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
(P.I.M.P PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)
(MAN SPEAKING AS SAMUEL)
(IN FRENCH)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
(MAN SPEAKING LOUDLY AS SAMUEL)
(WOMAN SPEAKING LOUDLY AS SANDRA)
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
(P.I.M.P RESUMES)
(PEOPLE SPEAKING NEARBY)
- (JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING) - (MUSIC STOPS)
(JUDGE JANVIER SPEAKING)
(PIANO PLAYING ASTURIAS (LEYENDA) IN DISTANCE)
(PLAYING IN INCONSISTENT TEMPO)
(PLAYING OPUS 28 NO. 4 BY CHOPIN)
(IN ENGLISH) This afternoon was hard, wasn't it?
(DANIEL IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) But you didn't lie, did you?
No.
I don't want you to change your memories, you know.
You have to tell them exactly like you remember it.
That can never hurt me.
Give me your hand.
Oui?
(CHUCKLES)
(SANDRA LAUGHS)
What do we do now?
Huh? Huh?
You want a drink?
Whisky?
(BOTH LAUGH)
Come on.
SANDRA: Ah...
SANDRA: Oh. DANIEL: Oh, sorry.
SANDRA: It's all right. (KISSES)
(IN FRENCH)
(REPORTER SPEAKING)
(PROSECUTOR IN FRENCH)
VINCENT: (IN ENGLISH) Okay.
(IN FRENCH)
(NOUR SPEAKING)
Ah, si, si, si.
(NOUR SPEAKING)
(IN FRENCH)
Oh.
(REPORTER 1 SPEAKING)
(REPORTER 2 SPEAKING)
VINCENT: (IN ENGLISH) How could you not tell me about it?
SANDRA: I had no idea he recorded it. VINCENT: Even if he hadn't, I mean,
you had a fight the day before he died.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
SANDRA: That recording is not reality.
It is a part of it, maybe.
If you have an extreme moment in life, an emotional peak, and you focus on it,
of course, it crushes everything.
It may seem like irrefutable proof, but actually warps everything.
It's not reality.
It's our voices, that's true, but it's not who we are.
I don't give a fuck about what is reality, okay?
You... You need to start seeing yourself the way others are going to perceive you.
A trial is not about "The Truth," it's about...
- I didn't know there would be a trial. - VINCENT: Well, there is.
VINCENT: Now, what will really count is, er,
who you have around you.
There's nobody around me.
- Yes, there is Daniel. - Yeah.
Daniel is important.
And didn't you and Samuel have any...
any friends, someone...
I should never have come here.
I didn't want to, I was so happy in London.
It was him. He insisted so much.
He said there'd be no more distractions from work,
it would solve our financial problems...
(SCOFFS)
I left my shithole in Germany
and ended up stuck here in his shithole.
It's fucking absurd, isn't it, come on?
(PEOPLE CHATTERING IN FRENCH)
(SANDRA AND NOUR IN FRENCH)
(NOUR SPEAKING)
VINCENT: Bonjour.
- Bonjour. - (NOUR SPEAKING)
(NOUR SPEAKING)
NOUR: Mmm-hmm.
VINCENT: (IN ENGLISH) Er, okay, so we go?
(VINCENT IN FRENCH)
(MARGE SPEAKING)
DANIEL: Mmm. Mmm-hmm.
(CONTINUE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
DANIEL: S'il vous plaît. SANDRA: S'il vous plaît.
(DANIEL IN FRENCH)
(SANDRA REPEATS DANIEL)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
(SANDRA REPEATS DANIEL)
(SANDRA LAUGHS AND REPEATS DANIEL)
(SANDRA PARTIALLY REPEATS DANIEL)
(BOTH LAUGH)
(SANDRA REPEATS DANIEL)
(CHURCH BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE)
SANDRA: (IN ENGLISH) He was... He was one of
the only persons I knew, when he walked into a room,
something shifted.
The atmosphere changed.
And I suppose that's charm, isn't it?
It's, erm... I fell in love with his charm.
Erm...
I'd spent my whole life not understanding my family and friends,
and then he came along, and I felt like...
I understood what he was saying, the signals that he was sending me.
The, erm...
We didn't necessarily agree, but we had...
Er, we had things to tell each other.
And I realised it later when it was gone, so...
Mmm. Don't say it's gone.
Just, erm, focus on him, how you met.
When we met, he'd just gotten a job at a university in London,
so, (CLEARS THROAT) we moved there together.
He was a great teacher.
(CHUCKLES) He was...
He had a... He had a way of making everything sound alive
and accessible, it was great.
But, erm, that wasn't really enough,
(CHUCKLES) so deep down,
what he really wanted to do was to write.
And he was working on a novel for years.
I... I watched him struggle.
It was hard.
Erm...
And I came to realise that his relationship with time, with work,
was complicated, unlike for me, for example.
VINCENT: No, stop com... Stop comparing yourself to him.
Just, er...
go back to your relationship.
SANDRA: Our relationship revolved around intellectual stimulation,
even if it meant neglecting everything else.
Everything else?
(IN FRENCH)
VINCENT: (IN ENGLISH) The accident.
SANDRA: Okay. I didn't know it was sent.
(LAUGHS)
VINCENT: It's okay?
It's okay.
It's just that, I didn't know that it was so, er, like this. Okay.
Erm...
(DOOR OPENS)
Everything changed after the accident.
Er, Daniel was four.
(SIGHS) That day,
Samuel was supposed to pick him up from school.
But he was on a roll with his writing,
so he called a babysitter at the last minute
and the babysitter showed up late.
And as they were crossing the street, a motorcycle hit Daniel,
his optic nerve was permanently damaged.
After that,
Samuel became obsessive about it,
he blamed himself on a loop.
If only he'd come pick him up on time...
Mmm...
He was overcome with guilt...
and perhaps he never truly escaped that feeling.
We spent that whole year at the hospital with Daniel.
We began having financial problems...
and Samuel started taking antidepressants.
Sorry, can we please keep that clean, Vincent?
I would really like to protect him, and his image, and spare Daniel.
VINCENT: We'll try.
Okay.
But it would be like that... I have to...
- I have to... - VINCENT: Yes.
I have to admit things.
VINCENT: (STUTTERS) You have to prepare yourself
- to tell everything... - (BLOWS RASPBERRY)
...and the challenge is to do it in French.
Okay.
(DANIEL PRACTISING ASTURIAS (LEYENDA))
- ZOÉ: (IN ENGLISH) Okay... - (SANDRA LAUGHS)
ZOÉ: Are you really interested in what... SANDRA: In what interests you?
Come on! Sure!
(OVER SPEAKERS) I never see anybody. I work here all day long.
You come to see me, of course, you interest me.
- (P.I.M.P. PLAYING IN BACKGROUND) - ZOÉ: Okay, erm...
ZOÉ: I run. SANDRA: Mmm-hmm.
It's one of my favourite things to do.
It makes me feel high, like I'm on drugs.
SANDRA: (LAUGHS) What do you know about drugs then?
- ZOÉ: Oh, a lot... - That's the next question.
- (ZOÉ EXHALES) - (SANDRA LAUGHING)
ZOÉ: Big subject.
SANDRA: Maybe you don't write everything down.
ZOÉ: No, no, surely not.
(P.I.M.P. CONTINUES IN THE BACKGROUND)
SANDRA: I told you... (LAUGHS)
we should've done this in Grenoble.
ZOÉ: It's... It's fine.
I'll write your answers down.
(P.I.M.P. STOPS)
ADVOCATE GENERAL: Bon.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
Oui, oui.
(ZOÉ SPEAKING)
- (ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING) - Oui.
(ZOÉ SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
(ZOÉ SPEAKING)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL CHUCKLES)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(LAUGHS)
(ZOÉ SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(ZOÉ SPEAKING)
(GALLERY LAUGHS)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(NOUR SPEAKING)
Er...
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
(SANDRA SPEAKING)
(SCOFFS)
(IN ENGLISH) How do you say "speaker," sorry?
(VINCENT TRANSLATES IN FRENCH)
(IN FRENCH)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
(STUTTERS)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
- (ADVOCATE GENERAL SCOFFS) - Pardon?
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(JUDGE JANVIER ON RECORDING)
(DANIEL ON RECORDING)
(JUDGE JANVIER ON RECORDING)
JUSTICE MINISTER: Bon.
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(SCOFFS)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
(EXPERT 1 SPEAKING)
(MOUSE CLICKS)
(EXPERT 1 SPEAKING)
(VINCENT CLEARS THROAT)
(EXPERT 1 SPEAKING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(EXPERT 2 SPEAKING)
(NOUR SPEAKING)
Voilà.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(GALLERY MURMURING)
(EXPERT 2 SPEAKING)
- (ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING) - (GALLERY MURMURING)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING, CHUCKLING)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
(SCOFFS)
(FOOTSTEPS THUDDING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
SANDRA: Oui.
JUSTICE MINISTER: Mmm.
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
DANIEL: (IN ENGLISH) No.
(IN FRENCH)
(DOCTOR SPEAKING)
ADVOCATE GENERAL: Bon.
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(IN ENGLISH) Erm... It's too complicated. Can I change the language, please?
(SANDRA IN FRENCH)
Erm...
(IN ENGLISH) Yeah, I think because he was ashamed.
(TRANSLATOR WHISPERING)
- Samuel had a lot of issues with shame. - (TRANSLATION PLAYING OVER EARBUD)
It's complicated, there were...
He, er...
He was, er, frustrated with teaching in the first place,
it had become a burden.
And he wanted to write.
Erm, he'd been working on a novel for years,
before and after Daniel's accident.
Erm, I read everything he wrote back then,
and I thought it was really good and I told him so,
but from one day to another, he just...
couldn't do it any more. He just stopped and, er...
it made him feel like a coward.
He... He would belittle himself and, erm...
He ended up convincing himself that he could not write
because of his dependency on the medication,
and he wanted to free himself of that.
- And he could not of course... - (DOCTOR SPEAKING FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) I'm sorry, I'm not finished.
He could not talk about the suicide attempt
because his feelings of failure were just too painful. And... It was all...
(DOCTOR IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) No, he blamed you for getting him hooked on the pills
from the very first session, and it drove him mad...
(IN FRENCH)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(IN ENGLISH) I'm sorry to interrupt, I'm sorry.
But... I don't know, you... you come here,
okay, with your, maybe your opinion,
and you tell me who Samuel was,
and what we were going through...
But what you say is just a...
it is just...
a little part of the whole situation, you know?
I mean, sometimes...
Sometimes a couple...
is kind of a chaos.
And everybody is lost. No?
And sometimes we fight together and sometimes we fight alone
and sometimes we fight against each other,
that happens, and I think
it's possible that Samuel needed
to see things the way you describe them, but...
(SCOFFS)
If... if I'd been seeing a therapist,
he could stand here too
and say very ugly things about Samuel.
But would those things be true?
ADVOCATE GENERAL: Madame Voyter...
(IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) We were both dealing with very different emotions at that time.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Yes, for a few days, Daniel was on his watch...
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(SANDRA CLEARS THROAT)
(IN ENGLISH) Yeah, about his responsibility
for the accident, yes, of course.
I mean, maybe, the doctor earlier
said something about a tragic situation, I...
I immediately refused to see it that way.
I never saw Daniel as handicapped.
You know?
I... I wanted to protect him from that perception.
Because as soon as you mark a child that way,
you condemn him to not, to not...
see his life as his own,
whereas, he should feel
that it's his best life,
because it's the only life he's got,
it is his own.
He... He reads books,
he goes on social media like any other kid,
he plays the piano, he dreams,
he cries, he laughs...
He's a... he's a very lively kid.
He's okay!
Yeah?
So perhaps...
yeah, I...
I resented Samuel for projecting his own pain onto Daniel, yes.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(SANDRA SNIFFLES)
SANDRA: (IN ENGLISH) I want to drink all night.
VINCENT: Yeah, same.
I will drink, to forget.
Oh, come on! You're the only lawyer...
(BOTH LAUGHING)
- VINCENT: Okay, once again. - No, you're really the only lawyer I know.
Is it a great reason for placing your life in someone's hands?
- Is it? - No, but you're good too, right?
- VINCENT: Ah? Yeah? - Aren't you? You're good.
- I don't know. - Oh, come on!
(CHUCKLES)
You look like a dog.
(BOTH LAUGH)
- VINCENT: Oh, I'm... No, no. - What, excuse me?
A beautiful dog. You know, the...
How do you say? The... un basset?
Basset? Basset? You say that?
SANDRA: It's funny you say that.
I can't trust someone if I can't put an animal's head on them.
Really? So, what am I?
SANDRA: Erm, I'm not sure yet.
- What? - I don't know.
- After all this time? - SANDRA: Mmm.
You still don't know.
Okay.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(VINCENT CHUCKLES)
SANDRA: Vincent?
Sandra?
SANDRA: Do you... Do you remember me from before?
When we first met?
Yes, I do, of course.
I don't. What was I like?
VINCENT: You were a bit lost, as I can remember, and...
lonely, and...
ambitious.
And I was hopelessly in love.
(VINCENT CHUCKLES)
Can't remember a thing.
Okay. Hmm.
SANDRA: But I'm innocent. You know that, right?
Yes.
SANDRA: I mean, really.
- VINCENT: Yes. - I don't know what you're thinking really.
I think a lot of things I don't tell you.
- Otherwise, you'd fire me right now. - No, no, no, Vincent.
In your head, you're thinking, aren't you?
Because sometimes, when you look at me, just like right now,
I can feel that you are judging me.
I don't know what you think.
Sandra, I believe you.
I'm not judging you.
SANDRA: (WHISPERING) My love...
I just want you to know one thing.
I'm not... I am not that, that...
I'm not that monster, you know?
Everything you hear in the trial,
er, it's just...
It's twisted, you know?
And it wasn't like that, you know.
Er, your father...
Your father was my soul mate...
We chose each other and I loved him.
But how do you prove that?
I just wish you would be shielded
from all this, you know, that you could do...
That you could do children's stuff,
just a little bit, that you could be a child,
just a bit longer, you know?
(GALLERY MURMURING)
(BELL RINGS)
(BAILIFF IN FRENCH)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
(ASSISTANT WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY IN FRENCH)
(ASSISTANT SPEAKING)
(GALLERY MURMURING)
(DOOR OPENS)
JUSTICE MINISTER: Voilà.
SANDRA: (ON RECORDING, IN ENGLISH) What do you
expect me to do? I mean, it's part of the job,
you have to organise yourself differently.
I'm not going to cancel.
SAMUEL: How am I supposed to get organised differently on my own?
You know we have to plan things together.
I'm not just going to leave Daniel alone because you're off doing your own thing.
SANDRA: Leave him with Monica, what's the big deal?
SAMUEL: Three days a week?
We'd have to pay her for that.
We can't afford it.
I need time.
Not just a few hours,
I'm talking about blocking out time for myself for the whole year.
This isn't working for me any more.
Well, organise your time differently if you want to, it's up to you.
SAMUEL: When's the last time you've helped him
- doing his homework? - It's delicious.
There's a ton of things you don't give a shit about,
but that's the time I'm talking about.
SANDRA: Darling, the book just came out, you know very well it's just this time...
It's always "just this time."
Whether you have a book out, or you're writing,
or you need space to figure out what to write.
I mean, I've been following your lead for years!
I can't do anything with my time,
do you understand?
It's not my time, it's yours!
Do I force you to teach?
Do I force you to home-school Daniel?
No one's forcing you.
If you want to make more time for yourself,
- I've never stopped you. - Are you fucking serious?
(PLATE CLATTERS)
I cut my course load in half this year
to gain more time, and it's still not enough.
I have to finish the renovation,
plus I'm dealing with everything else.
Why do you refuse to talk about it?
Why can't you just admit that it has to do with how things are divided between us?
SANDRA: Because you are wrong,
I don't owe you any time, I do my part.
C'mon, let's not start taking inventory here, please.
Let's relax.
SANDRA: (SOFTLY) I love you.
SANDRA: When you decided to home-school Daniel,
I told you, "Be careful,"
it's a beautiful and generous choice,
and I thank you for it, but you don't have to do it,
and I told you it would force you to...
- What? - ...cut your...
Force me to spend more time with my son?
Well, I'm glad I did.
I wouldn't have the relationship I have with him today if I didn't.
Yeah, the relationship that I don't have with him
- is what you meant to say. - No, I didn't say that.
- No. - No.
SAMUEL: I'm saying maybe, just maybe,
things are a little out of balance between us,
and I want you to take a look at that. Why is this so hard to discuss?
First of all, I don't believe in the notion of reciprocity in a couple.
It's naive and, frankly, it's depressing. Yes.
And I think discussing it is a waste of time,
considering the state you're in, seriously.
All this blah, blah, blah here and more time is gone,
all this time spent chitchatting could be spent in silence,
doing whatever you want to do, if only you knew what it is that...
SAMUEL: I want time to start writing, just the same as you.
SANDRA: Do it. I don't know a single writer who doesn't write
just because he has a son and a house and groceries to buy.
Stop whining about your scheduling bullshit
and drop this logic which comes down to casting blame
on me for what you did or didn't do.
I live with you, I plan my life around you.
If I imposed on you what you're imposing on me,
neither of us would be able to write.
SANDRA: Don't worry about me, I always manage to write.
- Great. Perfect. - Yeah.
If you're so sure of yourself, adapt, that's all I'm asking.
I do adapt. I take Daniel to school.
- SAMUEL: Once a week. - We have Monica on Tuesdays, c'mon.
No, Sandra, don't be dishonest.
(SCOFFS) I'm not, you're the one nitpicking.
SAMUEL: I've given you too much... too much time, too many concessions.
I want this time back and you owe it to me, be fair!
(LAUGHS) I'm sorry, but, no, are you insane?
I don't owe you anything, really.
This is about your relationship with your son
and to protect yourself and your comfort and because you got scared
and you put yourself in that position.
It was your choice to come here and start this renovation.
- This is your own trap. - Okay, now you're talking about the past.
- It's your own trap... No! - I could answer point by point.
- I'm not taking time from you! - But fuck that!
- You wasted it all on your own! - I want things to change now.
I want time to start writing again.
SANDRA: Great, go for it.
If you want my advice, go back to the one you ditched.
That's your advice?
Go back to a book that you plundered?
Okay, now it's plundering?
Okay. We've discussed it, you'd given up.
(SAMUEL LAUGHS SARDONICALLY)
You took the book's best idea,
how am I supposed to just "go back to it"?
Do you realise how cynical that is of you?
You can publish your own version and say it inspired me,
- I'll admit to it. - (SAMUEL SCOFFS)
If something needs to be written,
- someone has to write it. - SAMUEL: Oh, wow.
You know what, you have animal vision. You pretend to be obliging, but...
Look at you, even your bullshit moral, it's bullshit moralising what you do.
- (SAMUEL SCOFFS) - Yeah. And this,
really, it's a way for you to waste more time.
- Each one in his territory. - You should be flattered
that I was inspired by you. This is life, things circulate, you know.
- SAMUEL: (SARCASTICALLY) Yes. - Yes?
And frankly, I wish you'd be inspired
- to "plunder" me someday. - You are not alone in your jungle,
I live with you and you impose everything.
You impose your rhythm, your use of time, you even impose your language.
Even when it comes to language, I'm the one meeting you on your turf.
- We... We speak English at home. - SANDRA: I'm not on my turf.
I don't speak my mother tongue.
SAMUEL: You don't speak mine either.
- Even though we live here. - Yes, it's a middle ground,
- in fact, you know. - Yes.
Because I'm not French, you're not German,
so we create a middle ground.
So nobody has to meet the other on their turf.
This is what English is for,
it's our meeting point, you can't blame me for that.
SAMUEL: But we live in France.
- That is our reality. - Yeah.
Daniel hears you speak a language that has nothing to do with his life.
Just because you imposed this on him, just like everything else.
We're on your turf, all the time.
Yeah, in your country.
Every single day, I have to accept
that we live in your hometown.
The people that you grew up with,
they look down on me whenever I don't make the effort to smile at them.
You don't think me living here counts as meeting you on your turf?
- You never smile at anyone. - Yeah!
That's why you love me, right?
Because if you wanted to have some stupid bitch
who grins at your friends at the ski slopes,
- you'd have picked someone else. - (SAMUEL LAUGHS SARDONICALLY)
SAMUEL: You really have no shame.
That's your superpower,
it allows you to see no one but yourself.
I see you very clearly. I just don't see you as a victim.
You impose your way of living,
speaking, eating, even fucking.
I could never get you to fuck any other way.
Because you just expect me to follow your lead.
- That's your notion of what a couple is. - I don't believe that. I don't...
(SCOFFS) I don't have a notion. I don't give a fuck about couples, really.
SAMUEL: Mmm.
So, you say I'm stopping you
from fucking the way you want?
- Seriously? - Yes.
Be honest. Who's been refusing to fuck since the accident?
You know damn well I meant before.
What did I ever refuse to do sexually?
Everything.
Everything, plus I have to accept that you fuck other people.
- I do not fuck other people! - SAMUEL: (SCOFFS) Don't deny it.
Once! And you cling to it in order to suffer.
SAMUEL: You have fucked other people!
- You do this all the time. - SAMUEL: Several times!
- You make yourself the victim! - SAMUEL: I'm not a victim!
I am a man who's been cheated on!
- Plundered, and cheated on! - (SIGHS HEAVILY)
SANDRA: I can live without sex,
but not forever.
SAMUEL: So what, you're blaming me? I'm the one frustrating you?
It's not about who's, who's, who's, who's...
who's blaming who or who's frustrating who.
The frustration is there and we're both dealing with it, you see.
Me, personally, I refuse to rot inside,
so I find solutions, and at this point,
sex was just a question of personal hygiene.
Yes, but you impose your solutions,
which are solutions for you only.
You don't give a shit if it hurts me and Daniel.
You leave Daniel out of the game here. This is not about Daniel.
I do not impose anything on Daniel. You made us live here among the goats!
You complain about the life that you chose!
You're not a victim!
Not at all!
Your generosity conceals something dirtier and meaner.
You're incapable of facing your ambitions, and you resent me for it.
But I'm not the one who put you where you are.
I have nothing to do with it!
You're not sacrificing yourself, as you say.
You choose to sit on the sidelines because you're afraid!
Because your pride makes your head explode
before you can even come up with a little germ of an idea!
And now you wake up and you're 40, and you need someone to blame.
And you're the one to blame!
You're petrified by your own fucking standards
and your fear of failure.
This is the truth!
You're smart, and I know you know I'm right. And Daniel...
(OVER RECORDING) has nothing to do with it.
Stop it!
SAMUEL: You're a monster.
Even Daniel says it, with his own words.
SANDRA: You take that back, you piece of shit.
- You take that back. - He's told me countless times
how hard you are, do you know that?
SANDRA: He's telling you what you want to hear!
He can feel your guilt, and he's trying to reassure you.
Don't you see that?
You've never stopped feeling guilty about him!
SAMUEL: You're cold-hearted. You have no pity.
SANDRA: Yes, and you have way too much for yourself.
SAMUEL: I can't stand any more of your fucking ice!
(DISHES SHATTERING)
SAMUEL: You're violent! SANDRA: Yes, I am violent!
- (BLOW LANDS) - (SLAPS)
(OBJECTS AND BODIES CLATTERING)
- (SLAPPING ON CLOTHING) - (SANDRA WHIMPERING)
- (DISHES CLATTERING) - (SANDRA SHRIEKS)
(OBJECTS CRASH)
(SANDRA GRUNTS AND SHRIEKS)
(SAMUEL GRUNTING LOUDLY)
(SLAPPING ON BODY)
(SAMUEL GROANING IN PAIN)
(SANDRA EXHALES LOUDLY AND SHRIEKS)
- (BLOWS LAND) - (SAMUEL GROANS LOUDLY)
(BOTH PANTING)
(IN FRENCH)
(INVESTIGATOR SPEAKING)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
SANDRA: (IN ENGLISH) Er, yes.
Er, because, er, I was afraid
that if I, if I mentioned it,
erm, yeah, I knew
it would make me a suspect, and I got scared.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH, STUTTERS) For me, it was... It was just one lie.
Because, if I had been honest
about the bruises, I'd have mentioned the argument.
And I didn't, erm... I didn't want to be seen as guilty.
(IN FRENCH)
(INVESTIGATOR SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(IN ENGLISH) The first sound of breaking glass is me
throwing a glass against the wall...
it's a wine glass that stood on the table.
And after that, I, (CLEARS THROAT)
I went over to my husband and I slapped him.
And that's when he grabbed my wrist quite violently
and that's the struggling we can hear.
And just after, I tried to stop him from throwing picture frames to the floor.
But I couldn't, so we, we hear them shattering.
(IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) No.
What we hear next is Samuel repeatedly hitting himself
in the face and in the head,
and then, er, punching the wall.
You can still see the dent.
Erm, there are a few of them around the house.
It's not the first time he'd done that.
Er, years ago,
he already broke, erm, a finger,
er, punching the wall during an episode.
(IN FRENCH)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
SANDRA: (IN ENGLISH) No. But I knew that he often recorded moments of our lives.
(JUSTICE MINISTER IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Erm, at first, he would mention it,
yes, but after a while he did it without us really knowing.
He recorded conversations, Daniel's piano lessons...
and sometimes just himself, talking to himself.
And I think he did that because he wanted to gather material
to help him start writing again.
Now, with hindsight, it seems possible
that he could have provoked this fight
just to record it.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(NOUR SPEAKING)
(SANDRA SIGHS)
(IN ENGLISH) He went through my phone and he discovered messages from a woman
I'd met at the beginning of that year.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) It was sexual. We slept together twice.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(IN ENGLISH) It meant with just one person.
(IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) That's not... That's not true.
Er, I had a few flings, erm, the year of Daniel's accident.
And it wasn't cheating, because Samuel knew.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) No, I told him.
It was a tricky year.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Er, I'm not saying that,
I'm just saying I was honest about it.
(IN FRENCH)
(SIGHS)
(IN ENGLISH) Things were different...
I felt that it would hurt him too much, at that time, so...
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) No, I felt it would hurt him too much because he was fragile.
And, er, as I said,
with her, it was just sexual.
And the person I had feelings for was Samuel.
(IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Er, I don't even know what that means, really I'm sorry.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) No, pardon. No, we never had that kind of agreement,
or something like that.
After the accident, we were both trying to feel better,
and I needed that to keep it together, and I was honest about it.
(IN FRENCH)
(SANDRA SPEAKING)
(IN ENGLISH) No, I don't... I don't know.
He was hurt, that's true.
And, er, sometimes when we fought,
he brought it up,
but he didn't think about all the time.
According to your logic,
all of Samuel's problems were my fault, that's not true.
I mean, his pain came from deeper places.
(IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) No. There never was any... There wasn't any plundering.
In the that book he abandoned, and that's important,
there was a very interesting passage...
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) About 20.
(IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Oui. Yeah, it was just a rough outline,
and I thought the idea was brilliant.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(NOUR SPEAKING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(IN ENGLISH) Well, this passage
was about a guy imagining how his life would've been
without the accident that killed his brother.
One day, he wakes up, finds himself in two different realities.
One where the accident is the centre of his life,
and one where the accident never happened.
I told Samuel I loved it.
He had me read everything he wrote back then.
And soon after, he abandoned the whole book.
And I asked him if I could use the idea and he said yes.
No.
(IN FRENCH)
SANDRA: (IN ENGLISH) It's an argument.
People exaggerate and alter facts when they argue.
(IN FRENCH)
(SIGHS AND SCOFFS)
ADVOCATE GENERAL: Non?
(IN ENGLISH) All I took was this idea.
My characters are a woman and her daughter,
and I developed the story over 300 pages.
(SCOFFS) I can't believe I must tell you
what is the difference between an outline and a novel.
He agreed to it,
and when he read it, he told me I... I did something very different with it.
And sometimes, yes, when we argued,
it came out, because he was upset,
because he couldn't write.
(IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) We were...
We were both really shaken.
We were both keeping to ourselves.
And Samuel, he was...
I don't know, something was gone,
he was depleted, his energy was just gone.
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
(NOUR SPEAKING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(NOUR SPEAKING)
(NOUR INTERRUPTS)
(NOUR SPEAKING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL IN FRENCH)
- Non. - ADVOCATE GENERAL: Non?
- Non. Oui. - (ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(GALLERY MURMURING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(INVESTIGATOR SPEAKING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(ADVOCATE GENERAL ARGUES)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(GALLERY MURMURING)
SANDRA: (IN ENGLISH) That was not Samuel...
JUSTICE MINISTER: Bon.
(NOUR WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)
Voilà.
(SHOWER RUNNING)
- (IN FRENCH) - (SANDRA SPEAKING)
(MARGE SPEAKING)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
MARGE: (WHISPERS) Okay.
MARGE: Sandra...
SANDRA: Oh.
Daniel?
(IN ENGLISH) Is... Is that what you want?
Okay, is it because of what you heard today?
Because, er... I couldn't talk to you
about all that before, do you understand?
We just weren't allowed to talk to you about it...
(MARGE IN FRENCH)
(IN FRENCH)
(IN ENGLISH) Okay? Erm, I totally understand
that you need calm, but I can just mind my own business,
keep to myself... I won't talk to you if you don't want to.
- (MARGE IN FRENCH) - (IN ENGLISH) Can we try that?
- (MARGE IN FRENCH) - (IN ENGLISH) Daniel.
(IN FRENCH)
(MARGE SPEAKING)
Erm...
(IN ENGLISH) Yeah, I will just get my... my stuff.
Somebody said, "Of course,
"money doesn't make you happy,
"but it's still better to... to cry
"in a car than in the subway."
(VINCENT AND SANDRA LAUGHING)
- VINCENT: (IN ENGLISH) Who said that? - I don't know.
(BOTH LAUGH)
(SANDRA SIGHS)
(SOBBING)
(IN FRENCH)
(SOBBING)
(MUFFLED CHATTERING OUTSIDE)
(SNOOP'S PAWS CLACKING ON FLOOR)
(DANIEL IN FRENCH)
(KISSES)
(RAIN PATTERING ON WINDOW)
(DISHES CLATTERING IN DISTANCE)
(WHISPERING)
(SNOOP BREATHING LIGHTLY)
Snoop? Snoop? Snoop?
(DANIEL PANTING AND GASPING)
- (SNOOP GRUNTING SOFTLY) - Snoop?
Snoop?
- (DANIEL SOBBING) - (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(MARGE SPEAKING)
- (MARGE SPEAKING) - (DANIEL SPEAKING)
(MARGE SPEAKING)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
(MARGE SPEAKING)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
(MARGE SIGHS DEEPLY)
(DANIEL CONTINUES SOBBING)
(TAP RUNNING)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
(RETCHING)
(MARGE SPEAKING FRENCH)
(MARGE SHUSHING SOFTLY)
(MARGE SPEAKING FRENCH)
Oh, oui.
(MARGE SPEAKING FRENCH)
(MARGE SPEAKING FRENCH, SIGHS)
(DANIEL SOBBING)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
MARGE: Bon...
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
(MARGE SIGHS)
(MARGE SPEAKING)
MARGE: Non.
(CRITIC ON TV SPEAKING FRENCH)
(CRITIC SPEAKING)
(TURNS OFF TV)
(PLAYING CHOPIN'S OPUS 28 NO. 4)
(DANIEL CONTINUES PLAYING COMPOSITION)
(PIANO STOPS)
(JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING)
ADVOCATE GENERAL: Bon.
Daniel...
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
ADVOCATE GENERAL: Bon.
(DANIEL PLAYING CHOPIN'S OPUS 28 NO. 4 ON PIANO)
(SNOOP PANTING AND PAWS CLACKING ON FLOOR)
(SNOOP LAPPING)
MARGE: Daniel!
(REPORTER 1 SPEAKING ON TV)
SANDRA: Er...
(REPORTER 1 SPEAKING)
(VINCENT SPEAKING)
(REPORTERS CLAMOURING)
(CLAMOURING CONTINUES)
(MARGE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
(REPORTERS CLAMOURING)
(SIGHS)
(SANDRA SPEAKING)
(SANDRA LAUGHS)
Oui.
(IN ENGLISH) Okay.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
(IN FRENCH)
(SANDRA MOANS HAPPILY)
(IN ENGLISH) I need a drink.
(BOTH LAUGH)
(IN ENGLISH) Another!
(LAUGHTER)
Okay, deal!
(STUTTERS)
Do you always... Do you...
When you win, do you always, like that?
- I mean, this is happening... - VINCENT: We never win.
(LAUGHTER)
VINCENT: That's the fucking first time in our life we win!
- No! - VINCENT: Yes. Of course!
You told me you're a good lawyer, and what is happening now?
(LAUGHTER)
- SANDRA: No, that's not true! - No?
VINCENT: It's not spicy.
SANDRA: You have to try this, really.
VINCENT: Sandra, I ate too much.
FEMALE LAWYER: I'm gonna throw up.
(IN FRENCH)
VINCENT: (IN ENGLISH) Okay, no, that you first, please.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
It's not so easy, no?
No. It's not, it's with all the bones and...
After this, we go?
You're ready to go home?
I can... I can drive.
I can... I can drop you off.
SANDRA: One more.
For... For the road.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
VINCENT: Of course, for the driver.
Okay, same?
SANDRA: Mmm-hmm.
(VINCENT CLEARS THROAT)
(VINCENT IN FRENCH)
VINCENT: Merci, monsieur.
(VINCENT SPEAKING FRENCH)
- VINCENT: (IN ENGLISH) Okay. - Okay.
- (SIGHS) Yeah. - (SIGHS) Yeah.
- To you. - To you.
(VINCENT CLEARS THROAT)
Are you all right?
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(SANDRA CLEARS THROAT)
- Tell me. - I... No. I just...
I thought...
I thought I'd feel relieved.
Well...
(CHUCKLES AND SNIFFLES)
It doesn't come right away.
(SNIFFLES AND CLEARS THROAT)
(SHUDDERS) You sure?
- VINCENT: I'm not sure. - (LAUGHS)
Well...
It's just, you know, when you lose, you lose.
It's the worst thing that can happen.
And if you win, you...
kind of expect some reward...
but there isn't any.
- VINCENT: Hmm. - It's just...
It's just over.
Maybe sometimes, we expect too much.
Yeah, maybe.
(SANDRA SIGHS)
(SANDRA IN FRENCH)
SANDRA: Oh, oui.
SANDRA: (IN ENGLISH) Okay.
(WHISPERS IN FRENCH)
(MARGE WHISPERING)
- (SANDRA WHISPERING) - (MARGE WHISPERING)
SANDRA: Oh.
(BOTH CHUCKLE QUIETLY)
(BOTH SPEAKING)
(DANIEL SPEAKING)
(KISSES)
(GROANS SOFTLY)
(SIGHS)
(SNOOP'S PAWS CLACKING ON FLOOR)
(SANDRA CHUCKLES)
(OPUS 28 NO. 4 BY CHOPIN PLAYING)
(OPUS 28 NO. 4 CONTINUES)