L'amour fugitif (1982) - full transcript
Set during the First World War, two young soldiers, a Frenchman and an Englishman, are disillusioned by the interminable suffering. Warped by the fighting at first they want to kill each other, but this instinct is gradually replaced by friendship as they unite and turn their back on the cause.
SOLDIER: Rouchon!
[speaking french]
[artillery whistling]
[explosion]
[battle cries]
[whistle]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
CHAPIN: Ah!
Come on!
Shitty bastard!
How many others are there?
How many more of you are there?
The sea, la mer.
I want the sea.
[speaking french]
Let's point.
La mer-- la, la there.
Point.
La mer.
[bird whistling]
Wait!
Madame, wait!
Hey!
Hey!
Wait!
[gunshot]
Well, that's not anything.
You'll take me back whenyou sore for medal, yeah?
Fucking French.
Fucking French!
The war back there!
La gare!
You can shit in the gare!
Yeah, you got half the worldfighting to get your land back,
but you don't know
want to know, do you?
You're out 40 miles
away somewhere.
They sent fucking Chinese here!
[speaking french]
You've run off.
You're a deserter, right?
You're same as me.
[speaking french]
I don't want to
fight you, nutter.
La gare pour vous
pour moi finis.
So vous allez over
la, me over there.
ROUCHON: [speaking french]
I have nothing to do with you.
[speaking french]
Fuck.
Come here.
Come here.
This, France.
This, England-- Angleterre.
Ireland.
Me, moi?
You.
To Ireland.
Irelande?
France?
Moi.
Vous, fuck off.
Oh.
And you want to go
from here to there?
You're fracking crazy.
We best run down to the sea.
Follow the river.
Are they shot in the back?
Mine.
Mine.
What do you call this?
Frogs.
Frogs?
Huh.
Frogs.
Why he don't follow the river?
Have you ever been to sea?
It's not easy.
We should rest.
Are you sure you're goingthe right direction?
[artillery blasts]
You don't sail to Irelandlike you walk across a field.
We can stop here
for a few minutes.
- You stay there.
- No, no, no.
Je suis.
No, no, I want
you to stay there.
Would you stop
scratching yourself?
[speaking french]
I don't care.
You don't have to
scratch all the time.
Move back.
I want to jump.
I'm going to have
a shit, all right?
ROUCHON: We should have
followed the river.
CHAPIN: People live by rivers.
What are you doing?
You have got cigarettes?
[speaking french]
So you know about boats?
Yes.
And you?
Yeah, I do.
And you think you're
getting in one with me?
Coming with you.
We go together.
When we reach
Ireland, we separate.
That will have your frogs.
We go together.
I want your coat.
What, this?
You put that on.
ROUCHON: Why?
I'm not wearing that.
Well, if we get
caught, I'm not
having you pretending you'vearrested an English deserter.
We swap coats.
No.
Uh, coat.
For a cigarette?
And you can use these, butyou give them back after.
I get half your food.
We're getting closer.
What's your name?
Why?
Chapin.
My name is Rouchon.
We'd like to get to
the coast tonight?
The boat?
Of course.
Yeah.
We're gonna make it.
Yes, we are.
Shouldn't we be walking
down to the sea land?
That's down [inaudible], not up.
We'll hide for the day.
We'll steal a boat tonight.
Where'd you learn English?
I don't speak English.
I speak American.
You've been to America?
A friend taught me.
What, and he's an American?
What's a Yankee
want with France?
He was my boss.
He's gone back now.
CHAPIN: What sort
of work was it?
You were a lawyer.
How can you be best
friends with your boss
when you speak English?
Show us how you're going
to get us to Ireland.
If we find a
compass in the boat--
No, there's
nothing in the boat.
Well, the sun gives us eastand west, the pole star north.
Set and check our
course by them.
And the pole star is where?
The pole star?
I will show you the pole--
[woman giggling]
How can they just stand there?
Maybe the war is over.
The war will still
be going in 1930
because of people like that.
ROUCHON: She's quite pretty.
- Hand us a rifle.
- Why?
- Come on, just give us it.- No.
Go on, you do it.
Load the rifle.
No, he won't see us.
CHAPIN: They're
going to have a fuck.
ROUCHON: Heh, heh, heh, heh.
He passes the time.
She's quite pretty.
SAILOR: [speaking french]
CHAPIN: Pick up the rope!
Pick up the rope!
Put it back!
Your ass getting tired?
Look, if he was an uncle ofyours or something, I'm sorry.
Now, tell me, was he
a good man, a bastard?
Did he have a family?
What?
He was an old man whodidn't want his boat stolen.
He wasn't part of the war.
CHAPIN: Part of mine.
I split his head open.
Look, I did it.
Me, not you, all right?
He couldn't have stopped us.
He was an old man.
Very old, and I wonderwhich is the biggest loss
back there, him or this boat?
You think they'll be cryingfor him at the funeral, do you?
Anyway, we don't
know that he's dead.
You might not have killed them.
Well, I meant to, so
we'll take it I did.
Don't worry about it.
You only helped steal the boat.
CHAPIN: Fuck it!
Fuck it.
Changing course, why?
ROUCHON: I'm going to Ireland.
Keep going west.
We come north.
England's north!
Reverse to England.
We change our course.
If you see land today--
If we see land today,
it'll be England.
And you would be right
and I would be wrong.
But I'm not, so look.
We're not too far out.
No, no, no, no.
North of west,
northwest of north.
Right.
Take it easy.
We could be popping
over to America.
Good.
Send me a Johnny.
Well, otherwise we
go round in circles.
Is that what
you were planning?
America?
What about you?
Me?
I got plans.
Good, I hope.
Yeah, brilliant--
better than yours.
Because nobody is going
to love you in Ireland.
Irish people, the British army.
No, no, no, British
army been kicked out.
- Really?
- Last year.
Revolution.
What [inaudible] about
the Irish [inaudible]?
Heh, heh, heh, heh.
Y Wake up.
What's up?
Look, [inaudible].
What?
[inaudible]
Blimey.
ROUCHON: Look.
CHAPIN: [inaudible]
Have you got a family?
Chapin?
Can't remember.
Beautiful, isn't it?
William the Conqueror.
I can't get up.
How the hell are you
gonna get to America?
Eh?
By ship.
But how?
The ground is moving.
Well, maybe you oughtto take it along with you.
See it goes.
We'll be saying goodbye soon.
You didn't want it?
ROUCHON: It was my rifle.
You could have given it to me.
ROUCHON: It was mine.
Well, this is mine.
I found it, and you can
drink fucking raindrops.
Are you going to get drunk?
I have my reasons.
Who have the Irish kicked out?
The British.
That gun could have
been very handy to me.
You didn't have a
rifle before I met you.
Good luck.
Yeah.
And you.
Yeah, how you going to
pay your way to America?
I'm a piano player.
A piano player?
[piano music playing]
Goodbye, piano player!
ROUCHON: Chapin!
Wait!
Go away!
Wait!
Listen.
Listen.
[artillery in distance]
Yeah?
Did you hear it?
What?
Listen.
[artillery in distance]
It must be the Irish.
They're still fighting.
CHAPIN: Had you
ever been in a boat?
No.
As long as there's a reason.
And Cayeux is where?
Somme.
In Somme?
When we set for
land yesterday,
I wished it was France.
I could have got to America.
We're walking
towards the gunfire.
I'm going home.
-
Where?
The front is that way.
I know.
We go back to the boat.
[explosions]
[artillery whistling]
[explosion]
Come on.
This way, to the woods.
Go on.
[muttering]
The war's not here.
We haven't seen the troops.
Rouchon?
Rouchon?
Rouchon!
Rouchon!
Rouchon!
Rouchon!
Thought you ran out on me.
Fucking mess, that.
Hm.
[speaking french] They
get a [inaudible],
paint it white, pin it to yourchest, for the M, a target.
And that's-- that's certain.
And you can't.
There is a time when thingsbecome certain, when--
oh, God, I can't
speak English tonight.
We could go back to the
boat, have another go.
There is a
[inaudible] and a chin.
That's all I know.
Somewhere, him standinghere and somewhere it's--
and sooner or later
we're going to meet.
If you want to try
the boat again,
you must do what you want.
There is nowhere to go.
I know that.
Ireland.
Ireland was a good plan.
Ireland, yeah.
ROUCHON: Chapin, I don't wantto hide until I am caught.
No.
[humming]
When you hear the rifles bang.
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.
Afternoon.
[humming]
And we're called
"The Naked Army."
Bwa, ba, ba, ba.
[whistling]
Chapin!
Have you seen this?
Yeah.
Must have taken a hammer
in at the outbreak.
I'm going fishing.
What?
Last night, you said
I should do what I want.
Fishing?
Yep.
That's what I want to do today.
Cheerio.
What are you going to catch?
CHAPIN: What would you like?
[piano music playing]
Come on.
What do you want to do tomorrow?
It's your turn.
Whatever you feel like.
I went fishing today, so
tomorrow it's your turn.
Whatever you want.
Yes.
CHAPIN: What?
No.
Come on.
ROUCHON: Heh, heh, heh.
Right, we're going to do that.
ROUCHON: I don't think so.
Out with it.
Well, what I want most is--
[chuckling]
You know.
CHAPIN: Oh, yeah.
Hey, good idea.
First thing in the morning.
ROUCHON: How?
Oh, no problem.
That's a corker.
[laughing]
CHAPIN: She'll do.
She smells good.
I know she does.
ROUCHON: Don't go back in.
Don't!
Do whatever we want, you said.
And you?
ROUCHON: I wanted her.
CHAPIN: Well, you
know where she is.
Three years I've livedwith these little bastards.
This I can do.
ROUCHON: No more.
What are you doing?
ROUCHON: They irritate me.
I spend my whole life
scratching no more.
You can't smoke out lice.
[speaking french] Frogs, pst.
No, you can't.
You can't.
If people see smoke in awood, they'll come running.
This is what I want to do.
I'm not hiding.
Go away if it scares you.
I'm doing this.
CHAPIN: Come.
Let's come try and
find some other way.
I want to do--
I want to do it this way.
Excuse me.
CHAPIN: It can't be the front.
No.
Field gun.
English?
French?
German?
The Boche.
Well, I don't know
where we are, do you?
[speaking french]
[humming piano sounds]
CHAPIN: Put out the fire!
ROUCHON: Chapin!
Chapin!
CHAPIN: Put out the fire!
WOMAN: [speaking french]
ROUCHON: It's all right.
She's alone.
CHAPIN: Fuck's sake.
ROUCHON: She's alone!
No!
No!
What's going on?
Look.
What?
Did she write this?
I can't read French.
What's it say?
ROUCHON: Her name is
Catherine [inaudible].
Says she's alone.
[speaking french] She
wants to talk with us.
CHAPIN: She's one of your lot.
Do something with her.
She's alone.
Is she?
Stop!
What are you doing here?
[speaking french]
[speaking french] She wantsto know what we are doing.
Yeah, yeah, she wants to know.
Does she want to
know about yesterday
morning, that we
went to her farm,
that we waited, that
a woman came out
and we followed her into afield, that we fucked her,
both of us?
Because that's what
we wanted to do.
That's what we're doing--
whatever we want,whatever it takes, right?
You were making smoke.
You must have [inaudible].
We are not hiding.
We're going to be caught.
What are you
talking to her for?
She speaks to me.
What will you do next?
So it's a secret?
Or don't you know?
We know.
I think you're running
away to join the circus.
You begin from thegreenhouse, go around there,
behind the trees here.
The mast.
CHAPIN: Yeah.
Behind here, and then we finishbetween those two trees, right?
You start this.
ROUCHON: One, two, three, go.
One, two, three, go.
Down there.
One, two, three, go.
CHAPIN: You're too fat!
Ha, ha!
Oh, this is too easy!
Oh, yes.
I'm stopping, Chapin.
I'm stopping.
I, uh-- I know what I'm beating.
Ow!
I knew you were gonna do that!
Hey, I'm first!
Have you got a
mug to look at here?
Look here, Chapin.
Look at.
Keep the same march.
No, look at the knife.
You're walking like this.
It's not like this.
It's like that.
Look.
Easy.
Like this, right?
OK.
Do it again.
Yeah, first step don't count.
One--
ROUCHON: Three steps now.
Take a rest.
I'm taking a rest.
Don't kill yourself.
Try it again.
Doesn't help.
Hands further apart.
I'm just leaning on your log.
I have to balance with my arms.
Put this leg up.
ROUCHON: Yeah.
Right.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Go.
Go on, Chapin.
[clapping]
I give you Harry Chapin.
And Henri Rouchon.
[inaudible].
Truly, what I want?
Yep.
Take your time.
You don't need gloves
with stinging nettle.
Just grab them and
they won't hurt you.
Really?
Now watch.
Show me your hands.
No.
Right.
[speaking french]
What?
Problem?
What's the problem?
[speaking french]
I want a man.
I thought there was a problem.
[chickens squawking]
CATHERINE: Harry.
Harry.
How long you been there?
Not long.
Why?
Just wondered.
Harry.
Don't shake your head.
To what?
I'm happy.
Good.
Then nothing is wrong.
We didn't do anythingto that woman at the farm.
I know.
Henri told me.
Where is he?
Don't know.
Do you want to bathe?
That's all right.
You [inaudible].
No, no, I'd look.
I would.
Nothing wrong.
[whistling]
[artillery whistling]
[explosion]
His parents were--
I mean, his father was a veryimportant man in the town.
They had a huge house.
It seemed like the
whole of the family
had come from all over Francefor the duration of the war--
and cousins, lots of hands.
Michelle knew that I
didn't want to go there,
but I couldn't
stay in the house.
Then the mayor came to giveus the news that Michelle had
given up his life for France.Ah.
It was very grand.
You see, Michelle believed innothing, except us, perhaps,
so his death was not sad.
He was killed by
chance, so I was angry.
I was not tearful.
Yeah, I could still laugh.
The household was in
mourning for two months.
It was dreadful.
We all wore black.
One day, instead of goingstraight into the dining room,
I went in to my room and dressedinto a pretty dress, you know?
When I came down, they wereall waiting for me in silence.
At the end of the meal,Michelle's father turned to me
and he said, we
are all one family.
Well, the next morning Ileft without any goodbyes.
I walked I don't know where,
and I started smoking.
I know more about you
than I do about him.
He's a Catholic piano playerwith a boss friend in America.
That's all.
I can't tell you
anything about him--
really, nothing at all.
Who are you?
CHAPIN: I want to knowwhat you were making today.
ROUCHON: Not yet.
You can see it in the dark.
CHAPIN: What is it?
[chuckling]
ROUCHON: A surprise.
CATHERINE: Ha, ha, ha!
Hey!
I want a child, our child.
You-- will you bring it up?
Yes.
I'll be the mother, yes.
Tell me again.
We'll have a child.
I want this.
I want it.
I can tell when
you are smiling.
Trying to imagine a
little girl, aren't I?
I can see a girl.
Yeah?
Hm.
What's she look like?
She'll have blue
dress and red shoes.
No, she'll have my bigears, Rouchon's little eyes,
and my turned-up nose.
She'll look like a pig.
Let me.
CATHERINE: Where is Henri?
CHAPIN: Haven't seen him.
They won't need to
shoot me and Rouchon.
They can't kick us
out for another month.
Stay here.
Henri?
Henri?
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
No.
Take it.
I'll walk you as
far as the road.
I have to go now.
Yeah.
I want to say a goodbye.
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
I should be the one
to say when we stop.
Why are we wrong?
You're right.
No, you told me.
You said over and over--
Yes, but we are right.
What we want is done.
She has a child.
She has it.
Why didn't you tell me?
You went away.
You were saying goodbye.
Yes, I'm going, because foryou and me what more can we do?
We can celebrate!
We can.
Yes.
Catherine.
We need a bottle of wine.
We need three bottles,
and I can nick it and--
no?
No, no, no.
We are going to drink
to the new child,
and you can't steal that one.
Well, why not?
Wait.
We do what we want.
- Whatever we want.
- Yeah.
Good.
Our future.
Our future.
Um, um--
What?
My--
I'll do it.
To the father.
Oh, I've got one.
I've got one.
To-- there's a piano.
Look, over there.
I've seen it.
Then why are you
just sitting here?
Come on, give us a tune.
- It's not the moment.
Yes, it is.
Henri Rouchon.
I would like to
play for you, but--
- But?
- OK, that's fine.
Well, he's a piano player.
There's a piano.
I think we should
get drunk, very drunk.
That's right.
A few more glasses of wineand I will think for you, OK?
We got enough
for another bottle?
Yes, just.
Can we get it now?
Why?
CHAPIN: Oh, come on.
[speaking french]
See, I'll worry
about it otherwise.
Ah, encore.
Play.
Eh.
Not now.
Later.
We shouldn't be here.
I think we should go.
Go where?
What?
We're celebrating.
No, please.
We must leave.
What for?
[speaking french]
What is it, the wine?
Catherine.
[speaking french]
Hey, hey, hey,
speak in English.
Hey, let us go.
What's the game?
There might not be a child.
We can't be sure.
I can't be sure.
What's she talking about?
Calm down.
Listen.
What if I'm only ill?
It's just a feeling?
No, come on.
We go now.
We can talk about it later.
No, let's--
What are you doing?
Troops here.
Sit down.
Sit down.
[speaking french]
Didn't have a child.
Is that what she said?
Is that what she meant?
[speaking french]
OFFICER: [speaking french]
[speaking french]
FIRING SQUAD LEADER:
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[rifle fire]
[speaking french]
[artillery whistling]
[explosion]
[battle cries]
[whistle]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
CHAPIN: Ah!
Come on!
Shitty bastard!
How many others are there?
How many more of you are there?
The sea, la mer.
I want the sea.
[speaking french]
Let's point.
La mer-- la, la there.
Point.
La mer.
[bird whistling]
Wait!
Madame, wait!
Hey!
Hey!
Wait!
[gunshot]
Well, that's not anything.
You'll take me back whenyou sore for medal, yeah?
Fucking French.
Fucking French!
The war back there!
La gare!
You can shit in the gare!
Yeah, you got half the worldfighting to get your land back,
but you don't know
want to know, do you?
You're out 40 miles
away somewhere.
They sent fucking Chinese here!
[speaking french]
You've run off.
You're a deserter, right?
You're same as me.
[speaking french]
I don't want to
fight you, nutter.
La gare pour vous
pour moi finis.
So vous allez over
la, me over there.
ROUCHON: [speaking french]
I have nothing to do with you.
[speaking french]
Fuck.
Come here.
Come here.
This, France.
This, England-- Angleterre.
Ireland.
Me, moi?
You.
To Ireland.
Irelande?
France?
Moi.
Vous, fuck off.
Oh.
And you want to go
from here to there?
You're fracking crazy.
We best run down to the sea.
Follow the river.
Are they shot in the back?
Mine.
Mine.
What do you call this?
Frogs.
Frogs?
Huh.
Frogs.
Why he don't follow the river?
Have you ever been to sea?
It's not easy.
We should rest.
Are you sure you're goingthe right direction?
[artillery blasts]
You don't sail to Irelandlike you walk across a field.
We can stop here
for a few minutes.
- You stay there.
- No, no, no.
Je suis.
No, no, I want
you to stay there.
Would you stop
scratching yourself?
[speaking french]
I don't care.
You don't have to
scratch all the time.
Move back.
I want to jump.
I'm going to have
a shit, all right?
ROUCHON: We should have
followed the river.
CHAPIN: People live by rivers.
What are you doing?
You have got cigarettes?
[speaking french]
So you know about boats?
Yes.
And you?
Yeah, I do.
And you think you're
getting in one with me?
Coming with you.
We go together.
When we reach
Ireland, we separate.
That will have your frogs.
We go together.
I want your coat.
What, this?
You put that on.
ROUCHON: Why?
I'm not wearing that.
Well, if we get
caught, I'm not
having you pretending you'vearrested an English deserter.
We swap coats.
No.
Uh, coat.
For a cigarette?
And you can use these, butyou give them back after.
I get half your food.
We're getting closer.
What's your name?
Why?
Chapin.
My name is Rouchon.
We'd like to get to
the coast tonight?
The boat?
Of course.
Yeah.
We're gonna make it.
Yes, we are.
Shouldn't we be walking
down to the sea land?
That's down [inaudible], not up.
We'll hide for the day.
We'll steal a boat tonight.
Where'd you learn English?
I don't speak English.
I speak American.
You've been to America?
A friend taught me.
What, and he's an American?
What's a Yankee
want with France?
He was my boss.
He's gone back now.
CHAPIN: What sort
of work was it?
You were a lawyer.
How can you be best
friends with your boss
when you speak English?
Show us how you're going
to get us to Ireland.
If we find a
compass in the boat--
No, there's
nothing in the boat.
Well, the sun gives us eastand west, the pole star north.
Set and check our
course by them.
And the pole star is where?
The pole star?
I will show you the pole--
[woman giggling]
How can they just stand there?
Maybe the war is over.
The war will still
be going in 1930
because of people like that.
ROUCHON: She's quite pretty.
- Hand us a rifle.
- Why?
- Come on, just give us it.- No.
Go on, you do it.
Load the rifle.
No, he won't see us.
CHAPIN: They're
going to have a fuck.
ROUCHON: Heh, heh, heh, heh.
He passes the time.
She's quite pretty.
SAILOR: [speaking french]
CHAPIN: Pick up the rope!
Pick up the rope!
Put it back!
Your ass getting tired?
Look, if he was an uncle ofyours or something, I'm sorry.
Now, tell me, was he
a good man, a bastard?
Did he have a family?
What?
He was an old man whodidn't want his boat stolen.
He wasn't part of the war.
CHAPIN: Part of mine.
I split his head open.
Look, I did it.
Me, not you, all right?
He couldn't have stopped us.
He was an old man.
Very old, and I wonderwhich is the biggest loss
back there, him or this boat?
You think they'll be cryingfor him at the funeral, do you?
Anyway, we don't
know that he's dead.
You might not have killed them.
Well, I meant to, so
we'll take it I did.
Don't worry about it.
You only helped steal the boat.
CHAPIN: Fuck it!
Fuck it.
Changing course, why?
ROUCHON: I'm going to Ireland.
Keep going west.
We come north.
England's north!
Reverse to England.
We change our course.
If you see land today--
If we see land today,
it'll be England.
And you would be right
and I would be wrong.
But I'm not, so look.
We're not too far out.
No, no, no, no.
North of west,
northwest of north.
Right.
Take it easy.
We could be popping
over to America.
Good.
Send me a Johnny.
Well, otherwise we
go round in circles.
Is that what
you were planning?
America?
What about you?
Me?
I got plans.
Good, I hope.
Yeah, brilliant--
better than yours.
Because nobody is going
to love you in Ireland.
Irish people, the British army.
No, no, no, British
army been kicked out.
- Really?
- Last year.
Revolution.
What [inaudible] about
the Irish [inaudible]?
Heh, heh, heh, heh.
Y Wake up.
What's up?
Look, [inaudible].
What?
[inaudible]
Blimey.
ROUCHON: Look.
CHAPIN: [inaudible]
Have you got a family?
Chapin?
Can't remember.
Beautiful, isn't it?
William the Conqueror.
I can't get up.
How the hell are you
gonna get to America?
Eh?
By ship.
But how?
The ground is moving.
Well, maybe you oughtto take it along with you.
See it goes.
We'll be saying goodbye soon.
You didn't want it?
ROUCHON: It was my rifle.
You could have given it to me.
ROUCHON: It was mine.
Well, this is mine.
I found it, and you can
drink fucking raindrops.
Are you going to get drunk?
I have my reasons.
Who have the Irish kicked out?
The British.
That gun could have
been very handy to me.
You didn't have a
rifle before I met you.
Good luck.
Yeah.
And you.
Yeah, how you going to
pay your way to America?
I'm a piano player.
A piano player?
[piano music playing]
Goodbye, piano player!
ROUCHON: Chapin!
Wait!
Go away!
Wait!
Listen.
Listen.
[artillery in distance]
Yeah?
Did you hear it?
What?
Listen.
[artillery in distance]
It must be the Irish.
They're still fighting.
CHAPIN: Had you
ever been in a boat?
No.
As long as there's a reason.
And Cayeux is where?
Somme.
In Somme?
When we set for
land yesterday,
I wished it was France.
I could have got to America.
We're walking
towards the gunfire.
I'm going home.
-
Where?
The front is that way.
I know.
We go back to the boat.
[explosions]
[artillery whistling]
[explosion]
Come on.
This way, to the woods.
Go on.
[muttering]
The war's not here.
We haven't seen the troops.
Rouchon?
Rouchon?
Rouchon!
Rouchon!
Rouchon!
Rouchon!
Thought you ran out on me.
Fucking mess, that.
Hm.
[speaking french] They
get a [inaudible],
paint it white, pin it to yourchest, for the M, a target.
And that's-- that's certain.
And you can't.
There is a time when thingsbecome certain, when--
oh, God, I can't
speak English tonight.
We could go back to the
boat, have another go.
There is a
[inaudible] and a chin.
That's all I know.
Somewhere, him standinghere and somewhere it's--
and sooner or later
we're going to meet.
If you want to try
the boat again,
you must do what you want.
There is nowhere to go.
I know that.
Ireland.
Ireland was a good plan.
Ireland, yeah.
ROUCHON: Chapin, I don't wantto hide until I am caught.
No.
[humming]
When you hear the rifles bang.
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.
Afternoon.
[humming]
And we're called
"The Naked Army."
Bwa, ba, ba, ba.
[whistling]
Chapin!
Have you seen this?
Yeah.
Must have taken a hammer
in at the outbreak.
I'm going fishing.
What?
Last night, you said
I should do what I want.
Fishing?
Yep.
That's what I want to do today.
Cheerio.
What are you going to catch?
CHAPIN: What would you like?
[piano music playing]
Come on.
What do you want to do tomorrow?
It's your turn.
Whatever you feel like.
I went fishing today, so
tomorrow it's your turn.
Whatever you want.
Yes.
CHAPIN: What?
No.
Come on.
ROUCHON: Heh, heh, heh.
Right, we're going to do that.
ROUCHON: I don't think so.
Out with it.
Well, what I want most is--
[chuckling]
You know.
CHAPIN: Oh, yeah.
Hey, good idea.
First thing in the morning.
ROUCHON: How?
Oh, no problem.
That's a corker.
[laughing]
CHAPIN: She'll do.
She smells good.
I know she does.
ROUCHON: Don't go back in.
Don't!
Do whatever we want, you said.
And you?
ROUCHON: I wanted her.
CHAPIN: Well, you
know where she is.
Three years I've livedwith these little bastards.
This I can do.
ROUCHON: No more.
What are you doing?
ROUCHON: They irritate me.
I spend my whole life
scratching no more.
You can't smoke out lice.
[speaking french] Frogs, pst.
No, you can't.
You can't.
If people see smoke in awood, they'll come running.
This is what I want to do.
I'm not hiding.
Go away if it scares you.
I'm doing this.
CHAPIN: Come.
Let's come try and
find some other way.
I want to do--
I want to do it this way.
Excuse me.
CHAPIN: It can't be the front.
No.
Field gun.
English?
French?
German?
The Boche.
Well, I don't know
where we are, do you?
[speaking french]
[humming piano sounds]
CHAPIN: Put out the fire!
ROUCHON: Chapin!
Chapin!
CHAPIN: Put out the fire!
WOMAN: [speaking french]
ROUCHON: It's all right.
She's alone.
CHAPIN: Fuck's sake.
ROUCHON: She's alone!
No!
No!
What's going on?
Look.
What?
Did she write this?
I can't read French.
What's it say?
ROUCHON: Her name is
Catherine [inaudible].
Says she's alone.
[speaking french] She
wants to talk with us.
CHAPIN: She's one of your lot.
Do something with her.
She's alone.
Is she?
Stop!
What are you doing here?
[speaking french]
[speaking french] She wantsto know what we are doing.
Yeah, yeah, she wants to know.
Does she want to
know about yesterday
morning, that we
went to her farm,
that we waited, that
a woman came out
and we followed her into afield, that we fucked her,
both of us?
Because that's what
we wanted to do.
That's what we're doing--
whatever we want,whatever it takes, right?
You were making smoke.
You must have [inaudible].
We are not hiding.
We're going to be caught.
What are you
talking to her for?
She speaks to me.
What will you do next?
So it's a secret?
Or don't you know?
We know.
I think you're running
away to join the circus.
You begin from thegreenhouse, go around there,
behind the trees here.
The mast.
CHAPIN: Yeah.
Behind here, and then we finishbetween those two trees, right?
You start this.
ROUCHON: One, two, three, go.
One, two, three, go.
Down there.
One, two, three, go.
CHAPIN: You're too fat!
Ha, ha!
Oh, this is too easy!
Oh, yes.
I'm stopping, Chapin.
I'm stopping.
I, uh-- I know what I'm beating.
Ow!
I knew you were gonna do that!
Hey, I'm first!
Have you got a
mug to look at here?
Look here, Chapin.
Look at.
Keep the same march.
No, look at the knife.
You're walking like this.
It's not like this.
It's like that.
Look.
Easy.
Like this, right?
OK.
Do it again.
Yeah, first step don't count.
One--
ROUCHON: Three steps now.
Take a rest.
I'm taking a rest.
Don't kill yourself.
Try it again.
Doesn't help.
Hands further apart.
I'm just leaning on your log.
I have to balance with my arms.
Put this leg up.
ROUCHON: Yeah.
Right.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Go.
Go on, Chapin.
[clapping]
I give you Harry Chapin.
And Henri Rouchon.
[inaudible].
Truly, what I want?
Yep.
Take your time.
You don't need gloves
with stinging nettle.
Just grab them and
they won't hurt you.
Really?
Now watch.
Show me your hands.
No.
Right.
[speaking french]
What?
Problem?
What's the problem?
[speaking french]
I want a man.
I thought there was a problem.
[chickens squawking]
CATHERINE: Harry.
Harry.
How long you been there?
Not long.
Why?
Just wondered.
Harry.
Don't shake your head.
To what?
I'm happy.
Good.
Then nothing is wrong.
We didn't do anythingto that woman at the farm.
I know.
Henri told me.
Where is he?
Don't know.
Do you want to bathe?
That's all right.
You [inaudible].
No, no, I'd look.
I would.
Nothing wrong.
[whistling]
[artillery whistling]
[explosion]
His parents were--
I mean, his father was a veryimportant man in the town.
They had a huge house.
It seemed like the
whole of the family
had come from all over Francefor the duration of the war--
and cousins, lots of hands.
Michelle knew that I
didn't want to go there,
but I couldn't
stay in the house.
Then the mayor came to giveus the news that Michelle had
given up his life for France.Ah.
It was very grand.
You see, Michelle believed innothing, except us, perhaps,
so his death was not sad.
He was killed by
chance, so I was angry.
I was not tearful.
Yeah, I could still laugh.
The household was in
mourning for two months.
It was dreadful.
We all wore black.
One day, instead of goingstraight into the dining room,
I went in to my room and dressedinto a pretty dress, you know?
When I came down, they wereall waiting for me in silence.
At the end of the meal,Michelle's father turned to me
and he said, we
are all one family.
Well, the next morning Ileft without any goodbyes.
I walked I don't know where,
and I started smoking.
I know more about you
than I do about him.
He's a Catholic piano playerwith a boss friend in America.
That's all.
I can't tell you
anything about him--
really, nothing at all.
Who are you?
CHAPIN: I want to knowwhat you were making today.
ROUCHON: Not yet.
You can see it in the dark.
CHAPIN: What is it?
[chuckling]
ROUCHON: A surprise.
CATHERINE: Ha, ha, ha!
Hey!
I want a child, our child.
You-- will you bring it up?
Yes.
I'll be the mother, yes.
Tell me again.
We'll have a child.
I want this.
I want it.
I can tell when
you are smiling.
Trying to imagine a
little girl, aren't I?
I can see a girl.
Yeah?
Hm.
What's she look like?
She'll have blue
dress and red shoes.
No, she'll have my bigears, Rouchon's little eyes,
and my turned-up nose.
She'll look like a pig.
Let me.
CATHERINE: Where is Henri?
CHAPIN: Haven't seen him.
They won't need to
shoot me and Rouchon.
They can't kick us
out for another month.
Stay here.
Henri?
Henri?
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
No.
Take it.
I'll walk you as
far as the road.
I have to go now.
Yeah.
I want to say a goodbye.
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
I should be the one
to say when we stop.
Why are we wrong?
You're right.
No, you told me.
You said over and over--
Yes, but we are right.
What we want is done.
She has a child.
She has it.
Why didn't you tell me?
You went away.
You were saying goodbye.
Yes, I'm going, because foryou and me what more can we do?
We can celebrate!
We can.
Yes.
Catherine.
We need a bottle of wine.
We need three bottles,
and I can nick it and--
no?
No, no, no.
We are going to drink
to the new child,
and you can't steal that one.
Well, why not?
Wait.
We do what we want.
- Whatever we want.
- Yeah.
Good.
Our future.
Our future.
Um, um--
What?
My--
I'll do it.
To the father.
Oh, I've got one.
I've got one.
To-- there's a piano.
Look, over there.
I've seen it.
Then why are you
just sitting here?
Come on, give us a tune.
- It's not the moment.
Yes, it is.
Henri Rouchon.
I would like to
play for you, but--
- But?
- OK, that's fine.
Well, he's a piano player.
There's a piano.
I think we should
get drunk, very drunk.
That's right.
A few more glasses of wineand I will think for you, OK?
We got enough
for another bottle?
Yes, just.
Can we get it now?
Why?
CHAPIN: Oh, come on.
[speaking french]
See, I'll worry
about it otherwise.
Ah, encore.
Play.
Eh.
Not now.
Later.
We shouldn't be here.
I think we should go.
Go where?
What?
We're celebrating.
No, please.
We must leave.
What for?
[speaking french]
What is it, the wine?
Catherine.
[speaking french]
Hey, hey, hey,
speak in English.
Hey, let us go.
What's the game?
There might not be a child.
We can't be sure.
I can't be sure.
What's she talking about?
Calm down.
Listen.
What if I'm only ill?
It's just a feeling?
No, come on.
We go now.
We can talk about it later.
No, let's--
What are you doing?
Troops here.
Sit down.
Sit down.
[speaking french]
Didn't have a child.
Is that what she said?
Is that what she meant?
[speaking french]
OFFICER: [speaking french]
[speaking french]
FIRING SQUAD LEADER:
[speaking french]
[speaking french]
[rifle fire]