La chambre double (2022) - full transcript

WITH EXCERPTS FROM THE MYSTERY

OF THE CHARITY OF JOAN OF ARC

Come on Cayenne.

Get a move on.

- I start at the back.

- Fine.

- You can go back, I'll finish off.

- See you this evening.

Come on, Cayenne. Get in!

There's the possibility

of global collapses.

What do we mean by collapses?

They've happened in the past.

It could be a banking collapse,

collapses in the populations

of birds and insects,

ecosystems, biodiversity,

people, social classes or countries.

There are five criteria:

wars, invasions,

natural and environmental disasters,

drought, etc.

The fifth criteria is poor decisions

by economic and political elites

when faced with the abyss.

This fifth criteria is the only one

we've seen each time a civilisation

has collapsed. As though

the elites failed to see it coming.

They make bad decisions

because they live in a bubble.

They don't see that the environment

for both non-humans...

...is collapsing

and there will come a point

when society crumbles.

Are you all on your own here?

I needed some air.

Some space.

I couldn't breathe.

Fair enough.

Are you sure you're alright?

Should I phone a doctor?

No, I'm fine.

Since time immemorial,

for all of time, we have been lost.

But for the past 40 years

all we have been doing

is getting lost.

What's happening, O Lord?

What's happening?

It used to be the land,

at least sometimes,

that was a preparation for hell.

It's not even that any more.

The land isn't

preparation for hell.

Hell is now spreading

across the land.

What's happening, O Lord?

What's happening?

If you were there, O Lord,

none of this would be happening.

None of this would have happened.

We see all of this

happening before our eyes,

and our only response thus far

has been vain charity,

with no intention of ending war.

Our only response

thus far has been vain charity

because we

do not want to end war.

We are complicit in all of this.

We are complicit,

making us the perpetrators.

We are complicit

and we are the perpetrators.

Complicit.

It is the same

as being the perpetrator.

Allowing something

to happen is the same as doing it.

They are one and the same.

The person who

allows something to happen

is the same

as the person who does it.

In fact, they are worse,

because doing something

at least takes courage.

Someone who commits a crime

at least has

the courage to commit it.

When you let something happen,

it is the same crime.

It is the same crime,

only with that cowardice as well.

There's that cowardice as well.

All around us

we see infinite cowardice.

Being complicit

is worse than being the perpetrator.

Infinitely worse.

- No, thank you.

- You're right.

I read that it makes you

30% more likely to get cancer,

so I've stopped reading.

Do you act in films as well?

Now and then.

But there's one thing

I can't get my head around.

It's crazy.

One second in the present

becomes one second in eternity.

One second of your breathing,

a smile, a glance.

In each film, you become

a ghost of yourself.

It's not like theatre.

Theatre is like making a fire

out of the present with your bodies.

You appear and then you disappear.

It makes my head spin, especially

when I'm playing Joan of Arc.

You can spend the night here.

I mean, if you can.

Here's your room.

- Goodnight.

- Goodnight.

Yes, hello, I'm a friend of Elise.

I'm calling because

she's not feeling very well.

No, nothing to worry about,

just a bit of an accident.

She just needs to take it easy.

Yes, I'll be looking after her,

but it would be best if she were

left on her own for a few days.

I think it would do her good

to stay here for a bit longer.

Yes.

Exactly. I'll keep you posted.

OK, thank you. Bye.

That director of yours

doesn't give up easy.

Thank you, you're a star.

I was too scared to phone.

I don't want to leave.

Right, I need to go.

Will you be back tonight?

- I'll need to see with my dad.

- Your dad?

I'm coming!

How long have you

been back here?

Eight months.

How long were you together?

Three and a half years.

You'll get over it soon.

Look around you. Here,

"All is grace".

My soul is in sorrow.

- Just earlier...

- Then why pretend?

- Why look like everybody else?

- Because I'm afraid.

Sorrow, fear, suffering.

It's a large family and

there are a lot of them.

It's as though you had consumed

all of the land's sorrows.

How can one's soul

not drown in sorrow?

Just earlier I saw

two children walking past,

two kids,

going down the path over there

on their own, behind the birches,

behind the hedge.

The older one was dragging

the other along. They were in tears,

shouting, "Madam, I'm hungry!"

That got me right in the gut,

right in the heart.

It crushed my heart,

if cries can crush the heart.

It caused me pain.

Are you OK?

Really, it's nothing.

I know how your story ends.

- You gave them all your bread.

- That's right.

And their joy caused me pain,

even more pain.

Did you know

the greatest sin is despair?

It says so here!

History always repeats itself,

but that's no reason

to get used to it.

Lord, I have secret prayers.

You know.

I am your confidant.

Let's start there.

Let's start small,

then we shall see.

Then we shall see.

You can come in if you want.

Sorry.

My God, this has to end.

It can't go on like this.

History always repeats itself.

Lord, I have secret prayers.

You know. I am your confidant.

When I think of those

who damn themselves.

When I think of all the souls

who had not yet been damned

when I began this prayer,

but who have since

been damned for all eternity.

Forgive me, my Lord, if I blaspheme

when I think these things.

...they all must take serious steps

in order to keep global warming to

1.5 degrees over the next 12 years.

The picture painted

by the IPCC is highly alarming:

heatwaves, the extinction of

certain animal and plant species...

Were you up during the night?

No, why?

No reason.

Is your dad alright?

It's so brave the way you help him.

- What sort of life...

- Do you have any sugar?

I mean it, I really admire you.

Thank you.

You should be proud of yourself.

It's true.

It's true that my soul

is in mortal suffering.

I am in distress.

I would never have thought the death

of my soul would be so painful.

All those I once loved

are now absent from me.

All those I love

are now absent from me.

That's what has

killed me beyond repair.

I won't go any further.

I can't go.

My life is completely

hollow inside of me.

- How short should it be?

- Really quite short.

- I won't be staying over tonight.

- Really? Why not?

You know I'm leaving soon?

It's because of my dad.

SUBTITLES BY PAUL MULLANEY