Le printemps (1972) - full transcript
When I think of it,
my heart grows a bit, like a sponge,
that you plunge,
in a gulf, full of sulfur,
where you suffer,
of such sad sorrows that
When I think of it,
my heart grows a bit, like a sponge,
that you plunge,
in a gulf, full of sulfur,
where you suffer,
of such sad sorrows that
When I think of it,
my heart grows a bit, like a sponge,
that you plunge,
in a gulf, full of sulfur,
where you suffer,
of such sad sorrows that...
When does it end?
It doesn't.
Ah, it's gone bad.
Go fetch me another.
On the calm black water
where the stars are sleeping
white Ophelia floats
like a great lily;
floats very slowly,
lying in her long veils...
- In the far-off woods you can hear
them sound the mort.
For over a thousand years
sad Ophelia has passed,
a white phantom
down the long black river.
For over a thousand years
her sweet madness
has murmured its ballad
to the evening breeze.
The wind kisses her breasts
and unfolds in a wreath,
her large veils rising
and falling with the waters;
the shivering willows
weep on her shoulder.
The rushes lean over
her wide, dreaming brow.
We're having rabbit?
You mustn't dawdle after school.
You soaked your feet
in the fountain again.
She ran along the rooftops.
The whole wedding party ran after her.
She was afraid of falling.
Last night I saw the war on TV.
- Will you tell me?
- When we're alone.
I'm going to continue with a passage
from the Gospel
according to St. Matthew.
Beware of false prophets
which come to you in sheep's clothing
but inwardly
they are ravening wolves.
You shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns,
or figs of thistles?
Every good tree
bringeth forth good fruit;
but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit.
Every tree
that bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down,
and cast into the flre.
Anne.
You know perfectly well.
Stop. Let's end this.
Stop the car. Let me go.
I want to get out. Stop.
We need gas.
...will soon be apprehended.
The man is considered dangerous.
He may be armed.
It seems he will soon be apprehended.
The man is considered dangerous.
He may be armed.
It seems he will soon be apprehended.
The man is considered dangerous.
He may be armed.
It seems he will soon be apprehended.
Let me kiss you.
Get off me!
Someone's there.
They can see us.
When will the radio be fixed?
It's too old.
We'II have to buy another, later.
I saw the marquise yesterday,
riding a beautifuI horse.
Ah, her.
How can one do such things!
She's completely crazy.
Don't drink water with soup.
And he cometh to Bethsaida;
and they bring a blind man unto him,
and besought him to touch him.
He took the blind man by the hand,
and led him out of the town;
and when he had spit on his eyes,
and put his hands upon him,
he asked:
''Do you see anything?''
And he looked up, and said:
"I see men as trees, walking."
After that
he put his hands again upon his eyes,
and made him look up;
and he was restored,
and saw every man
clearly.
And he sent him away to his house,
saying:
''Don't you go into the village...''
Once upon a time,
a queen gave birth to little twin girls.
And for the baptism...
she invited twelve fairies
to give their blessings,
as was the custom at that time.
So...
Right, she didn't invite
Carabosse's sister,
named Margotine.
She wasn't invited
but she came, just when
everyone was sitting to eat.
So...
So she came,
and they offered her an armchair
to show that she wasn't forgotten.
Because the queen was afraid
that she would curse...
...her...
...her daughters.
So...
Only when...
Only she...
she knew that they had forgotten,
and that they didn't want her to come.
So...
She changed all the meat on the table
into fried serpent
and all the fairies ran away,
ill at ease.
So...
when everyone had gone,
Margotine cast an evil spell
on the first little princess,
saying she shall be exquisitely ugly.
So...
when she's twelve years old,
the little girl
is so ugly
that no one can look at her.
So she asked her father and mother
if she could go away to a distant castle
so that nobody -
because in such a place
nobody would miss her because she's so ugly.
At last they agreed
and the little princess left.
The night of her sister's wedding -
Bellotte,
who dearly loved Laideronette -
on her sister's wedding night
she went to the castle, her old home,
her mother and father's castle.
And...
And there she was poorly welcomed
because she was ugly and...
well, they weren't very happy
that she came because she's so ugly
that it upset all the onlookers.
Then...
Wait.
Oh yeah. So then she left,
and...
everyone made fun of her.
Then...
She was so sad that she wanted to die.
So she went into the storm
on a boat, on the sea,
and the boat smashed
against some rocks.
Then she grabbed two or three...
she grabbed some wood
and went to the beach.
And she realized that
she was hugging...
she was holding Green Serpent.
So she fainted.
And when she woke up
she was in a castle
surrounded by little pagodas,
there to serve her.
Then...
she was in her room
and started to get bored and...
she...
she heard a voice
that claimed to be a prince and...
that he wanted to marry her.
So in the end the princess agrees
because the king spoke very well
and he was very nice and all...
So she also invited the queen and king
- her mother and father -
to come visit.
But the king and queen were upset
because she still hadn't seen...
she still hadn't seen her husband,
you know,
The poor princess was a confused
and disturbed that,
after sending away her family
with presents that more than made up
for their purple silks and the muff riband,
she determined, happen what might,
to see her husband, so she concealed a lamp
to look upon the invisible king,
so dear to her heart.
But how terrible were her shrieks
when,
instead of her loving prince,
gentle, fair, young,
and altogether charming,
she saw hideous Green Serpent
with his long bristling hair.
He awoke,
transported with rage and despair :
''Oh! cruel one!'' he cried,
"is this the reward of my great love?''
The princess heard no more,
she swooned with fear,
and Serpent was already far away.
Hearing the tragedy,
some of the pagodas rushed in.
They put the princess to bed,
and assisted to restore her.
When she came to, her condition may be
more easily imagined than described.
- Hello, miss.
- Hello.
The door was open so we came in.
Are you still sick?
When I think of it,
my heart grows a bit, like a sponge,
that you plunge, in a gulf,
full of sulfur,
where you suffer, of such sad sorrow
that when I think of it
my heart grows a bit,
like a sponge, that you plunge...
When does it end?
It doesn't.
It won't be very long.
I saw a film with Jesus Christ.
Your father...
Can I come with you
to get eggs from the garden?
I went to see my teacher in her house.
The teacher's breasts...
- Her breasts?
-Yes.
One Saturday night,
while building this castle,
startled by a peasant,
Mélusine fled,
dropping the stones
she had carried in her dress.
In the fold of her dress.
She cursed the castles
she had just built:
Lusignan, Salbart,
Vouvant and Mervent,
will perish stone by stone each year.
Saturday was the sole day of the week,
when Mélusine again became a fairy
and it was agreed that
under no circumstance
was her husband to see her.
People enviously suggested
that she was untrue,
and pestered the prince with questions
about her mysterious Saturday habits,
when she could never be found.
The prince didn't know how to respond
and grew jealous himseIf.
One Saturday
he climbed to the tower
where his wife hid,
and with his sword,
unlatched the iron door
and gazed upon her.
He saw his wife, bathing.
Down to the waist, she was a woman.
Below, she was a serpent.
She was a serpent.
Mélusine was startled,
and leapt to the window.
But because of her husband,
she had lost her fairy powers.
She fell with a terrible shriek.
Damn.
Shit. Ass. Shit.
Son of a bitch.
Shit.
Ass.
Son of a bitch.
I went into the attic.
Quentin killed his goldfish.
He cut its head off with scissors.
That's him?
It was him.
Grandma!
Grandma!
- Why are you yelling like that?
- I don't want anyone to know.
Come with me, Anne.
Translated and adapted:
Nathaniel Draper
''Ophélie'' trans. Olivier Bernard
(Penguin, 1962)
''Serpentin Vert'' trans. MacDonell, Lee
(Lawrence & Bullen, 1892)
my heart grows a bit, like a sponge,
that you plunge,
in a gulf, full of sulfur,
where you suffer,
of such sad sorrows that
When I think of it,
my heart grows a bit, like a sponge,
that you plunge,
in a gulf, full of sulfur,
where you suffer,
of such sad sorrows that
When I think of it,
my heart grows a bit, like a sponge,
that you plunge,
in a gulf, full of sulfur,
where you suffer,
of such sad sorrows that...
When does it end?
It doesn't.
Ah, it's gone bad.
Go fetch me another.
On the calm black water
where the stars are sleeping
white Ophelia floats
like a great lily;
floats very slowly,
lying in her long veils...
- In the far-off woods you can hear
them sound the mort.
For over a thousand years
sad Ophelia has passed,
a white phantom
down the long black river.
For over a thousand years
her sweet madness
has murmured its ballad
to the evening breeze.
The wind kisses her breasts
and unfolds in a wreath,
her large veils rising
and falling with the waters;
the shivering willows
weep on her shoulder.
The rushes lean over
her wide, dreaming brow.
We're having rabbit?
You mustn't dawdle after school.
You soaked your feet
in the fountain again.
She ran along the rooftops.
The whole wedding party ran after her.
She was afraid of falling.
Last night I saw the war on TV.
- Will you tell me?
- When we're alone.
I'm going to continue with a passage
from the Gospel
according to St. Matthew.
Beware of false prophets
which come to you in sheep's clothing
but inwardly
they are ravening wolves.
You shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns,
or figs of thistles?
Every good tree
bringeth forth good fruit;
but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit.
Every tree
that bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down,
and cast into the flre.
Anne.
You know perfectly well.
Stop. Let's end this.
Stop the car. Let me go.
I want to get out. Stop.
We need gas.
...will soon be apprehended.
The man is considered dangerous.
He may be armed.
It seems he will soon be apprehended.
The man is considered dangerous.
He may be armed.
It seems he will soon be apprehended.
The man is considered dangerous.
He may be armed.
It seems he will soon be apprehended.
Let me kiss you.
Get off me!
Someone's there.
They can see us.
When will the radio be fixed?
It's too old.
We'II have to buy another, later.
I saw the marquise yesterday,
riding a beautifuI horse.
Ah, her.
How can one do such things!
She's completely crazy.
Don't drink water with soup.
And he cometh to Bethsaida;
and they bring a blind man unto him,
and besought him to touch him.
He took the blind man by the hand,
and led him out of the town;
and when he had spit on his eyes,
and put his hands upon him,
he asked:
''Do you see anything?''
And he looked up, and said:
"I see men as trees, walking."
After that
he put his hands again upon his eyes,
and made him look up;
and he was restored,
and saw every man
clearly.
And he sent him away to his house,
saying:
''Don't you go into the village...''
Once upon a time,
a queen gave birth to little twin girls.
And for the baptism...
she invited twelve fairies
to give their blessings,
as was the custom at that time.
So...
Right, she didn't invite
Carabosse's sister,
named Margotine.
She wasn't invited
but she came, just when
everyone was sitting to eat.
So...
So she came,
and they offered her an armchair
to show that she wasn't forgotten.
Because the queen was afraid
that she would curse...
...her...
...her daughters.
So...
Only when...
Only she...
she knew that they had forgotten,
and that they didn't want her to come.
So...
She changed all the meat on the table
into fried serpent
and all the fairies ran away,
ill at ease.
So...
when everyone had gone,
Margotine cast an evil spell
on the first little princess,
saying she shall be exquisitely ugly.
So...
when she's twelve years old,
the little girl
is so ugly
that no one can look at her.
So she asked her father and mother
if she could go away to a distant castle
so that nobody -
because in such a place
nobody would miss her because she's so ugly.
At last they agreed
and the little princess left.
The night of her sister's wedding -
Bellotte,
who dearly loved Laideronette -
on her sister's wedding night
she went to the castle, her old home,
her mother and father's castle.
And...
And there she was poorly welcomed
because she was ugly and...
well, they weren't very happy
that she came because she's so ugly
that it upset all the onlookers.
Then...
Wait.
Oh yeah. So then she left,
and...
everyone made fun of her.
Then...
She was so sad that she wanted to die.
So she went into the storm
on a boat, on the sea,
and the boat smashed
against some rocks.
Then she grabbed two or three...
she grabbed some wood
and went to the beach.
And she realized that
she was hugging...
she was holding Green Serpent.
So she fainted.
And when she woke up
she was in a castle
surrounded by little pagodas,
there to serve her.
Then...
she was in her room
and started to get bored and...
she...
she heard a voice
that claimed to be a prince and...
that he wanted to marry her.
So in the end the princess agrees
because the king spoke very well
and he was very nice and all...
So she also invited the queen and king
- her mother and father -
to come visit.
But the king and queen were upset
because she still hadn't seen...
she still hadn't seen her husband,
you know,
The poor princess was a confused
and disturbed that,
after sending away her family
with presents that more than made up
for their purple silks and the muff riband,
she determined, happen what might,
to see her husband, so she concealed a lamp
to look upon the invisible king,
so dear to her heart.
But how terrible were her shrieks
when,
instead of her loving prince,
gentle, fair, young,
and altogether charming,
she saw hideous Green Serpent
with his long bristling hair.
He awoke,
transported with rage and despair :
''Oh! cruel one!'' he cried,
"is this the reward of my great love?''
The princess heard no more,
she swooned with fear,
and Serpent was already far away.
Hearing the tragedy,
some of the pagodas rushed in.
They put the princess to bed,
and assisted to restore her.
When she came to, her condition may be
more easily imagined than described.
- Hello, miss.
- Hello.
The door was open so we came in.
Are you still sick?
When I think of it,
my heart grows a bit, like a sponge,
that you plunge, in a gulf,
full of sulfur,
where you suffer, of such sad sorrow
that when I think of it
my heart grows a bit,
like a sponge, that you plunge...
When does it end?
It doesn't.
It won't be very long.
I saw a film with Jesus Christ.
Your father...
Can I come with you
to get eggs from the garden?
I went to see my teacher in her house.
The teacher's breasts...
- Her breasts?
-Yes.
One Saturday night,
while building this castle,
startled by a peasant,
Mélusine fled,
dropping the stones
she had carried in her dress.
In the fold of her dress.
She cursed the castles
she had just built:
Lusignan, Salbart,
Vouvant and Mervent,
will perish stone by stone each year.
Saturday was the sole day of the week,
when Mélusine again became a fairy
and it was agreed that
under no circumstance
was her husband to see her.
People enviously suggested
that she was untrue,
and pestered the prince with questions
about her mysterious Saturday habits,
when she could never be found.
The prince didn't know how to respond
and grew jealous himseIf.
One Saturday
he climbed to the tower
where his wife hid,
and with his sword,
unlatched the iron door
and gazed upon her.
He saw his wife, bathing.
Down to the waist, she was a woman.
Below, she was a serpent.
She was a serpent.
Mélusine was startled,
and leapt to the window.
But because of her husband,
she had lost her fairy powers.
She fell with a terrible shriek.
Damn.
Shit. Ass. Shit.
Son of a bitch.
Shit.
Ass.
Son of a bitch.
I went into the attic.
Quentin killed his goldfish.
He cut its head off with scissors.
That's him?
It was him.
Grandma!
Grandma!
- Why are you yelling like that?
- I don't want anyone to know.
Come with me, Anne.
Translated and adapted:
Nathaniel Draper
''Ophélie'' trans. Olivier Bernard
(Penguin, 1962)
''Serpentin Vert'' trans. MacDonell, Lee
(Lawrence & Bullen, 1892)