L'été (1968) - full transcript
After the May 1968 uprisings in France, a young woman named Graziella moves to a remote house in the Norman countryside to contemplate the events.
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,
- 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
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
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."
- "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?
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.
I don't want to bite him.
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.
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,
- 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
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
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."
- "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?
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.
I don't want to bite him.
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.