L'été (1968) Movie Script | Subs like Script

Written, photographed and

directed by Marcel Hanoun

Summer

Assistant camera: Babette Mangolte

Production Manager: Gaston

Assistants: Jeanne Brunnaire,

Jean-Marie de Cognac

Pierre-Henri Deleau,

Bruno Gera

Sound studio: Dovidis

Sound Mix: Jean-Pierre Pichon

Her: Graziella Buci

Him: Pierre-Henri Deleau

Marianne: Marianne

WHO CREATES?

FOR WHOM?

CONSIDER YOUR DESIRES REALITIES.

ONLY ONE EXISTS

UNDER THE COBBLESTONES, THE BEACH

LONG LIVE THE COMMUNE!

Those who make revolution halfway

only dig their own graves

LIFE, FAST.

He had wanted

to photograph me

in places

we saw come to life.

I need to find myself again.

I need solitude.

We don't know

- Jean-Luc and I -

if we should see each other again.

These events

that drew us together,

also drew us apart.

Those who make revolution halfway

only dig their own graves.

I listen to music almost all the time.

Monteverdi,

Vivaldi, Couperin,

Handel, Bach...

Spanish composers from the

16th and 17th century.

The other night, I even organized

a kind of candlelight ritual

- open parenthesis -

I also lit a fire

- close parenthesis.

I put on a fantasia

- open quote -

for guitar imitating the harp

in the style of Ludovico

- close quote -

by Alonso Mudarra.

The magnificat.

Friends of my parents

offered me their house.

They wont come

this year,

to Normandy.

The house is called Le Broy.

It is isolated in a hamlet.

It's big,

It's almost cold.

"Luther frowned.

"The bold position which this strange

man took against the state offended him

"and thinking over the decree the squire

had sent from Kohlhaasenbruck..."

"... from Kohlhaasenbruck"

"to the baron

"he asked what he wanted

from the Dresden court.

"'I demand that the baron be punished

according to law,' replied Kohlhaas.

"'I also demand my horses be returned

"'in the state they were

found at the castle.

"'And I demand compensation

"'for the injury suffered both by me

"'and the loss of my groom Herse who fell

"'at Muhlberg, through the

violence inflicted upon us."'

- My dear Marianne,

- Please don't be angry that

I haven't written in so long.

- ...haven't written in so long.

You know, of course, all that

has happened in France.

I've just discovered Bach's cantata...

- "Ich habe genung"

You probably know it.

- "Ich habe genung"

You probably know it.

Write me sooner than I've written.

- I'm at the house of some friends,

150 kilometers from Paris.

They are not here.

- They are not here.

The house is called Le Broy.

Why did he look at me so sternly

afterwards, before we separated?

I run in the countryside. I read.

I picked ears of wheat and I made

a flower bouquet with them.

Some of the wheat has

already been reaped.

I pick apples.

I climb trees like when

I was six years old...

I used to climb the tall mimosa

tree in grandmother's garden.

In that house near the sea,

on the outskirts of Cannes.

I went to mother Martin's old mill.

She's beginning to get to know me.

The apples I pick in the countryside

are more acrid than at Le Broy

but I think they're better.

In the attic at Broy,

there is a pile of stones.

The house will be renovated soon...

and overtaken by painters and workers.

So then I'll have to leave.

I picked up a stone and made

a throwing motion.

Then I put it down.

The Sainte-Scolasse festival,

the village 3 kilometers away,

ends tomorrow night.

I heard it on my way back from the mill

where I bought for some reason

a sonata by Liszt.

It's romantic, decadent and old fashioned

and a little too sad.

I was wrong to bring

3 pairs of shoes here.

The ones I use to walk in the

countryside have worn heels.

But I brought more outfits than I need.

An old bourgeois habit.

So I change more than I need to.

I also have the big hat Babette lent me.

The sunlight is very harsh.

I'm reading Michael Kohlhaas.

- I wish I could read it

in your language.

- I wish I could read it

in your language.

- I'm reading Michael Kohlhaas.

- For a long time I've wanted

to learn German.

On a wall I've hung up a series

of photos Jean-Luc tookof me.

Jean-Luc has also gone away.

I don't know if we'll

see each other again.

I shouldn't see him again.

"My eyes suddenly horribly

See no further than myself

"I make gestures in the void

"I am like the blind-born

"Witness to his sole night

"Life suddenly horribly

No longer measures up to time

"My desert contradicts space

"Rotten desert livid desert

"Of my dead one I desire

"I have in my body the ruins of love

"My dead one in her dress

the collar stained with blood."

"My eyes suddenly horribly

"See no further than myself

"I make gestures in the void

"I am like the blind-born

"Witness to his sole night

"Life suddenly horribly

No longer measures up to time

"My desert contradicts space

"Rotten desert livid desert

"Of my dead one I desire

"I have in my body the ruins of love

"My dead one in her dress

the collar stained with blood."

Jean-Luc read me this Eluard poem

to me before we split up.

A people dying of hunger

Biafra

News report

Television

Public opinion

Dying of hunger

The most terrible image

Concentration

Skeletal

Deformed

Edemas

Agony

Emaciated

Half naked

Instinctive

Feed

Hell

Color

Soldiers

Ragged

Guns

Conquer, die

Mercenaries

Hollow bronze statues

Missionaries

Saved

Screams

A million

Civilized

Conscience

Vietnam

Dying of hunger

Verdict

Red Cross

Tragedy

Fire

Bodies

Gravity

Generality

Depth

I just read an article on Biafra.

I feel the need to copy it.

"Western sensitivity is short-lived."

"You can rouse the West if a foreign

country is in fashion, a war, injustice."

"The wave falls fast."

"People take their time to live."

In the meantime...

Hölderlin, "Bread and Wine"

- "What good are poets

in times of misery?"

Hölderlin Bread and Wine

- Here's a Paris Match photo.

- "Something is rotten in

the state of Denmark."

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4.

- "The truth is, there was

no help for me on Earth."

Heinrich von Kleist

- The truth is that

on this earth...

- "The truth is that...

"On this Earth...

"no one could really help me."

Heinrich von Kleist

"Everything earthly is contained

in this formula:

"kill yourself,

"persist,

"surpass yourself."

Hegel

- "The existing city, subjected to

an incoherent development,

"is transformed into a dense agglomeration

"a land full of obstacles where one tries

moving from one point to another.

"The city becomes a necessary

economic evil

"and it flees at the first opportunity.

"Its higher function of exchange

and meeting is lost in constraint.

"Our constant biological rhythm

"conflicts with the increasing speed

"of technical means that

we have at our disposal

"in existing, unadapted structures."

- I just read an article by

Alica and Hieronim Listowski,

two young Polish architects

based in France.

Gra-zie-lla

- Miss

Marianne Weber

Kirsenstrasse

Munich

Here are some quotes of

inscriptions taken from

walls in Paris and the

university buildings.

- Quotes from Spinoza,

Saint-Just,

Antonin Artaud,

René Char,

Robert Escarpit,

a Chinese proverb and others.

- But most of these inscriptions

were spontaneous.

- "The reflection of life is only

the appearance of experience."

- "Life is elsewhere."

"Poetry is in the street

at the heart of suffering."

- "Absence is where

misfortune takes shape."

- "Life loves our awareness of it."

"If a thing cannot be

thought of as another..."

- "It must be thought of as itself."

"Lucidity: the wound closest to the sun."

- "Exaggerate..."

- "Exaggerate, see tears."

"Face the music."

- "Make love and restart."

- "We want savage and ephemeral music."

"Infinity has no accent."

"Chance must be explored systematically."

- "Quick."

"Be realistic!

Demand the impossible!"

"Get angry!"

- "Forget everything you've

learned, begin by dreaming."

"Add up your resentments and be ashamed."

- "Open your brain

as often as your fly."

- "Open the windows of your heart."

- "Hide yourself, object.

Creativity, spontaneity, life."

- "Young red women are

always more beautiful."

- "Young red women are

always more beautiful."

- "A system of 'anything goes."'

- "I declare a state of

permanent happiness."

- "Exaggeration is the

beginning of invention."

"Untrodden paths

endanger your feet."

- "Unthought thoughts

endanger your head."

- "Thoughts no one has thought

endanger your head."

- "People who take their

desires for realities

"believe in the

reality of their desires."

- "I take my desires for reality

because I believe in reality."

- "I don't know what to write,

but I would like to say

"beautiful things and I don't know."

- "Freedom is the right to silence."

"Difficult:

that which can be done immediately.

"Impossible:

that which takes a little more time."

- "The revolution must take place in men

- before it is realized in things."

"It is not man but the world

that has become abnormal."

"Politics is never innocent."

- "When the finger points at the moon,

the idiot looks at the finger."

- "When the finger points at the moon,

the idiot looks at the finger."

"God: I suspect you of being

a left wing intellectual."

"A good master: we will have one

as soon as everyone is their own."

"Live in the present."

"Ten days of happiness already."

- "Ten days of happiness already."

"The wind is rising.

You must try to live."

"Leave the unforgettable."

"In Paris,

"after Lamartine and Hugo,

"even Eugene hadn't thought of it.

"Only teargas can make us cry."

- "Comrades! Banish applause,

the spectacle is everywhere!"

"Watch out for your ears,

they have walls."

Marcuse,

The One Dimensional Man,

Negative Thinking

Aristotle's Metaphysics states the

connection between concept and control:

the knowledge of"first causes" is

"as knowledge of the universal"

the most effective and

certain knowledge,

for disposing over the causes

is disposing over their effects.

By virtue of the universal concept,

thought attains mastery

over the particular cases.

However, even in its most extreme forms

logic still refers to the structure

of the given world,

the experienced world,

as general as it is.

The pure form is still that of

the content which it formalizes.

The idea of formal logic itself

is a historical event in the development

of the mental and physical instruments

for universal control and calculability.

In this undertaking man had to create

theoretical harmony out of actual discord,

to purge thought from contradictions,

to bring out identifiable and

interchangeable units

in the complex process of

society and nature.

For formal logic, the idea of conflict

between essence and appearance

is outmoded and possibly meaningless.

I have not dreamed for a long time.

Jean-Luc made love to me last night.

"'Now, Kohlhaas,' the Elector repeated,

'Now that justice has been accorded to you

"'prepare to give satisfaction

to His Imperial Majesty

"'whose representative

"'has come to accuse you for the

breach of the public peace.'

"'I'm ready,' Kohlhaas replied,

"removing his hat and

throwing it to the ground.

"He took his children

once more in his arms,

"pressed them to his heart

"and gave them to the

bailiff of Kohlhaasenbrück.

"While the latter

"silently weeping,

"led the children away from

the place of punishment,

"Kohlhaas turned to the scaffold.

"He had already untied his handkerchief

and was preparing to open his doublet

"when he saw,

"hidden behind two gentlemen

"the well-known man with the

blue and white feathers.

"Freeing himself from the guards,

he strode up to him,

"took the locket from round his neck,

"took out the mysterious message,

"unsealed it and read it.

"Fixing his gaze steadily on the man

with the feathers

"who began to entertain hopes,

"he put it into his mouth

and swallowed it.

"At this sight, the man with the plumage

fell down in convulsions.

"While the man's attendants

stooped to lift him,

"Kohlhaas climbed the scaffolding

"and soon his head fell

under the executioner's ax.

"Thus ends the history

of Michael Kohlhaas."

Michael Kohlhaas, the rebel of Saxony,

was a bourgeois who respected power,

trusted the law and was what

some would call a "good subject."

It's the story of a man,

facing society alone.

Near the radio building,

young people gathered,

some attacked,

three tanks were set on fire.

The soldiers shot.

It was a serious, dramatic incident

but it seems limited and isolated.

To our knowledge, it is the

only case of a bloody clash

in Czechoslovakia, invaded last night

by Russian troops and their allies.

Because, in fact, in a few hours,

last night and this morning,

Soviet troops, helped by their

allies in the Warsaw Pact,

except the Romanians,

that is, helped by the East Germans,

the Polish, the Bulgarians and Hungarians,

in a few hours last night and this morning

troops of the Warsaw Pact occupied

Prague and all of Czechoslovakia.

A telegram sent by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

to Mr. Brezhnev and Mr. Kosygin.

I cannot sleep.

I don't know how to continue living.

All I know is that I have a moral duty

to express to you the feelings

that overpower me.

I am deeply convinced that our action

in Czechoslovakia is a tragic mistake

and a blow to Soviet-Czechoslovak

friendship and the Communist movement.

It lowers our prestige in the world

and in our own eyes.

It is a set back for all progressive

forces, for peace in the world

and for humanity's dreams

of future brotherhood.

It is a personal tragedy for me

because I have many

friends in Czechoslovakia

and I don't know how I would seem

if I were to meet them again.

I love my country and my people.

I'm a modest inheritor of the

traditions of Russian literature

of such writers as Pushkin,Tolstoy,

Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn.

These traditions have taught me that

silence is sometimes a disgrace.

- "Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun."

Mom!

Mother!

Only one exists.

Balthazar has vanished.

Good morning Ma Martin!

Good morning Graziella!

Little rabbit, little rabbit!

I'm gonna look for the hunter.

You see? I don't go hunting anymore.

I go fishing instead.

Do the fish bite?

It's like I had a gun or if I went hunting

with a fishing rod.

In any case hunting is too exhausting

and my gun is broken.

The fish are too green!

There may not be any fish but

there are fleas, little stones...

I'm flying, I flew.

Can I help you?

Who is it?

Can I help you?

What's that over there?

Over there, what's that?

Hi!

Hello?

Hello Graziella!

Hello cat.

Are you ignoring me?

Are you sulking?

Hello dog.

I'm not a dog. I'm a cat.

I thought you were a dog.

So over there is a cat?

Kitty, kitty!

Then the cat goes: "Grrr!"

If she continues, I'm gonna scratch her.

Catch!

The cat's in the dog kennel and

he doesn't want to come out.

I don't want to come out.

The cat's no longer in the kennel.

I don't want to bite him.

It's my right!

It's not a cat, it's a tiger.

My god, he's rabid!

I'm rabid!

I am rabid!

It's a beautiful striped tiger.

I'll put you in my motor

and I'll zigzag down the road.

I run through the countryside.

I read.

I picked ears of wheat

and I made a flower bouquet.

Some of the wheat has

already been reaped.

I went to mother Martin's old mill.

She's starting to get to know me.

Here, at Le Broy, I climb up trees

like when I was six years old.

The apples in the countryside

are more acrid than at Le Broy.

But I think they're better.

In the attic,

there is a pile of stones.

So I will have to go.

It rained.

I thought of hitchhiking to Moulin.

I didn't go.

People threw water on us from the

window to reduce the effects of tear gas.

We were almost caught

on the corner of Rue Mouffetard

and Rue de l'Arbalète.

Jean-Luc was running behind me

to protect me.

He also did a series of portraits of me.

[Jean-Luc's room]

"I'm the last one on your road

"The last spring the last snow fall

"The last fight to not die

"I'm the last one on your road

"The last spring the last snow fall

"The last fight to not die

"And here we are

lower and higher than ever.

"Our bonfire has some of everything

Pinecones tendrils

"But also flowers stronger than water

Sludge and dew,

"The flame is below our feet

the flame crowns us

"At our feet insects birds men

Will fly away.

"The sky is light, the earth is dark,

But the smoke leaves for the sky

"The sky has lost all its fires.

"The flame remains on earth.

"The flame is the heart's swarm

And all the blood's branches

"It sings our tune

"It clears our winter fog.

"Nocturnal and in horror

grieving up in flames

"The ashes blossomed in joy and beauty

"We turn our backs to the setting sun

Everything has the color of dawn."

Why did he look at me so sternly

afterwards, before we split up?

Why does he always have

such a stern look?

No, I don't want to die.

I have to go to the Ste-Scolasse festival.

It's supposed to end tomorrow night.

I left this address with Jean-Luc

so he's at least able to write me.

He hasn't done so.

I don't think he will.

In the old trunk in the attic

I found,

it's strange,

a fake gun and a cross together.

In the countryside, I often pass

a strange, unhinged character,

bare chested, looking crazy

and who never turns

around to look at me.

Why did I imagine Jean-Luc coming

to get me, when it's all over?

I came to find you.

Summer's going to end.

This film was shot in 7 days

from August 19 to 25, 1968.

It was edited by Marcel Hanoun

assisted by Annick Surinack.

Distch Abanis and Daniel Bukino

were the set photographers.

The opening stills

are by Jacques Espana.

Laboratory: Cime

Music by Claudio Monteverdi,

"The Magnificat"

Disques Bärenreiter.

François Couperin,

Jean-Marie Leclair,

Johann Sebastian Bach

the Cantata "Ich habe genung"

Disques Valois.

Enríquez de Valderrábano,

Antonio Vivaldi, Franz Liszt,

Disques Chant du Monde

Alonso Mudarra

Disques Musidisc.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Concerto for Harpischord and Orchestra

Disques Erato.

L'été (1968) - full transcript