Old Fashioned (2020) - full transcript
Paul Château Têtard, 48, falls in love with a young woman working as a counter clerk in the subway. When he plans to marry her, his mother launches a private detective on her tracks to prove she's cheating on her son.
mysterious music
...
Barking
Martial Music
...
...
- Release the dogs!
Barkings
...
-It was a long time ago.
Adelaide and Norbert Château-Têtard,
accompanied by Raoul,
their servant...
-Raoul !
-...went on
an innocent walk with friends.
- A wild boar with its young!
Deafening gunshots
...
-Eight yellow vests,
zero boar.
There, a pheasant!
-I make it my business.
Fire
Cris
-Adélaïde Château-Têtard,
who hated walking,
changed from horse
to wheelchair.
Let's find her 20 years later.
Intriguing music
...
-This is Adélaïde Château-Têtard.
The little whore came out.
This time, I think we've got it.
-The scene we have just seen
cannot be understood
without knowing
the beginning of this story.
Let's do
a little jump in time for that.
It was last August,
in this kind of upscale neighborhood.
Yes, this is where our story begins .
It could be
in this particular mansion,
or this one, or that one.
Never mind,
opaque grids make
these residences identical to us.
Sometimes an Amazon delivery person
rings the doorbell.
It is the only intrusion of those
who are not of the seraglio.
Well, maybe not the only one.
Ah, I forgot, we are
in the middle of a taxi strike.
So much for the surface.
Now let's go underground.
Let's take someone at random.
We could linger
on this young woman.
But let's focus instead
on this one.
Ava.
Hello Ava.
-Hello.
-Come on, good luck, Ava.
catchy song
...
-I work in the house,
I forgot my proof.
-I will speak
to the Queen of England.
Are you paying the fine
now?
- Check if you want.
I have my beep.
- Cash, credit card?
We also have contactless.
That's it, done, thank you.
-Hello.
-Sorry for earlier,
you had to insist.
With contactless,
it goes directly to the headquarters.
The rules are the rules.
You need a ticket.
Otherwise I make a file
for the union.
It's all in good fun,
it's to know who we're dealing with.
Can I write
in front of your first name "naive"?
Upbeat music
...
-Paul was a good boy.
Without an ounce of malice.
- There is no taxi!
-He had resisted
all the heiresses
that his mother had presented to him
for twenty years.
...
-Please ?
The counter is...
How do I get on the plane?
I'm going to Antibes.
-Antibes...
-Yes, mom is over there
with Raoul and the dog.
My plane takes off in 40 minutes,
what do I do?
-Take a taxi or an Uber.
- There is a strike,
the ring road is blocked.
We are still being held hostage.
I would like a ticket.
How much does it cost ?
- You don't often take the metro.
-It's the first time,
I hope I don't get mugged.
-There is a beginning for everything.
I'm selling you a ticket,
but you'll never get your plane.
Here, already a plan.
- Can't you go
through the door?
-There is a camera to fire me
if I break the rules.
Hold.
Oh no !
- I'm calling mom.
- Is she a locksmith?
-Hello, mom, I missed the plane.
There are more taxis in Paris.
I don't even know
how to take the metro.
Well tomorrow.
Or the day after tomorrow.
May I invite you
to accompany me?
-Where ?
-Let's go to Bagatelle,
it's right next door.
It's not very original,
but I have little imagination.
-Ava had been working here for 8 days
.
She felt like she had
been there for years.
Ava, who saw herself as a future unemployed
Parisian transport worker,
opted for the stroke of madness
and a life full of adventures.
Ava decided to be free.
Thus, Madame Château-Têtard,
Raoul and the Rolls
waited in vain
for Paul's arrival at the villa in Antibes.
-What is he making?
-He may have met
a girl from the neighborhood.
- Why not
the Queen of England?
Don't say anything,
Conchita.
Raoul ! The Rolls !
We go back to Paris.
- Let's have a sorbet.
With a good tip,
I entrust him with my suitcase.
-It's too much for an ice cream.
- Keep the change.
- Nope.
You rich people, I know you.
You're going to ask me to keep
your suitcase for 100 euros.
Tomorrow, we will have to watch
the brat on the swing.
Your 100 euros,
I do not want it.
-Rest assured,
I won't ask you anything.
It's not a gift,
it's a gift.
- Do you like romance?
The storm roars.
-I admit that I
never asked myself the question.
-You know how to swim ?
It's raining cats and dogs.
-What do your parents do?
- I have no parents.
I grew up in the Public Welfare.
- Yes, of course, I see.
This social assistance established
by the welfare state.
The storm roars.
Come dry off at home.
Mademoiselle.
Please come up.
Let yourself be guided.
mysterious music
...
I will be back.
...
A phone rings.
...
...
-You don't pick up?
- No, it's mom.
Not at all !
It's mom's chair.
- Do you live with your mother?
-Yes finally...
Mom needs help,
she's in a wheelchair.
Hence the elevator.
We share
the mansion
since dad died.
The ground floor belongs to mum,
I am upstairs.
We have the entrance
and the dining room in common.
So we can
discuss at the table.
The thunder resounds.
Can I get you a drink?
- Uh... yes, if you want.
My father died 15 years ago, he
was an inventor.
-He's going on a trip?
-No, he poses with his invention.
He invented...
What do you think can
make a piano move?
For example.
-Music.
- Oh no! Do not.
No, wheels.
My father invented this.
The suitcase on wheels.
Before being
in the horizontal movement,
we climbed the social ladder
thanks to the elevators.
Grandpa made his fortune
in elevators.
The elevators of the Eiffel Tower
are Château-Têtard.
Everything is here.
-Ah, yes, the Eiffel Tower.
-Grandpa was an inventor,
as Great-grandfather
who invented revolving doors.
Grandpa got rich
during the war
by selling its elevators
to the right people.
Nothing illegal about that,
given the laws then in force.
- Oh, Chile!
-That's what we've done
best.
A feat that dad took care of.
When General Pinochet
was detained in England
by a Spanish judge,
we were asked
to equip his villas
and the presidential palaces
with wheelchair lifts .
In 5 days.
And we succeeded!
Dad's stroke of genius
has been to offer
used equipment
who looked like they had been there
for 10 years.
We sold used equipment
more expensive than new
Knowingly.
Nothing illegal about that.
When the inspectors of the
international tribunal went to his house,
the elevators proved
his health.
The general was indeed
the bedridden man he said he was.
He could not be judged.
He returned to Chile on his plane
on his wheelchair.
He rolled them well.
It gave us publicity.
We then uninstalled everything.
The elevator downstairs
belonged to the general.
Realize.
- But, the general,
was he a dictator?
- That 's not
what everyone says.
There is a dictator and...
This kind of regime is never
totally bad for trading.
These people are
for freedom of enterprise.
You heard me right.
Freedom.
The storm roars.
Aren't you hot?
Upbeat music
...
- By the way, my name is Ava.
- Pleased, my name is Paul.
I would like to marry you.
- Oh, good idea!
- You don't want
me to be happy?
-Do you think I wanted
to marry your father?
We must marry each other.
These rallies were useless.
Your swimming pool subscription,
5000 euros per year.
It's expensive to finish
with the metro.
I should have given them to Conchita.
So to speak, Conchita.
-It's not hard to hear.
Bring happiness
into the house.
-Someone in Rolls is getting married
to someone in the subway.
Who do you think wins?
-Everyone !
The owner of the Rolls
gets what he never could buy.
Love!
I want Ava.
-My son...
I think you've lost your mind.
- The wedding had taken place.
Apart from Notre-Dame which had burned down,
nothing had stood
in the way of the ceremony.
Even the priest
had not put his veto,
lest Paul go
and worship elsewhere.
Ava's happy days
began with Paul's,
and the opening of a bank account,
that is to say freedom.
It was the perfect love.
But quickly,
Paul no longer accompanied
Ava on her outings.
Then, he no longer waited
for her when she returned from shopping.
gaining independence,
Ava had the brilliant idea
of dusting off
the residence of the Château-Têtards.
-My dear child,
If you had spoken to the maid about it,
you would know that nothing is being moved.
Your pranks made us
spend money.
Understand, my child,
here, the furniture is motionless.
Conchita and I don't like
working for nothing.
Conchita tires quickly.
Don't forget to
tip her, she needs it.
-I was thinking...
- You thought wrong.
- It's beautiful, Paris.
-It depends on the neighborhoods, madam.
Know that, Adelaide,
your mother-in-law,
has priority for the Rolls.
-Yes yes.
Upbeat music
...
Why are you closing?
...
- Not, Ava.
Pinochet is not allowed to you.
You are not in a wheelchair.
Give me that.
Give me that!
Put that on there.
This will prevent it from being knocked over
if you trip over your stilts.
Turn it on
since it amuses you so much.
Voilà !
The dog !
Raul! Let's go.
- Yes.
-It was 18 months
since Ava became
Mrs Château-Têtard,
and that she shared her life
between her husband,
outings in Rolls, Raoul,
and the one she had
quickly called
the "Queen Mother".
Ava saw her life
turn into a routine.
One evening, an extraordinary event
happened.
The Wedding March
(Felix Mendelssohn)
-They did it !
Laughter
...
No need to skew anymore, huh.
We're going to enforce
the president's policy.
Let's make some trickle.
We will spend all the money
saved on taxes.
Ava...
- Hello.
-I present to you
the "Smooth and Go".
The silver medal
of the Lépine competition.
sit.
Stand.
Sit.
Bark
Stand.
Sit.
-Okay okay.
-Walk.
Bark
The dog barks.
Stop. Turn.
Turn.
- Pilot mom if you want.
-Certainly not.
Raoul, take the controls.
Faster,
I'm not bedridden.
-Be careful.
But beware !
-Leave me.
I am a professional driver!
-It's going too fast !
It's going too fast !
panicked cries
Help.
-The extraordinary event
of the day before
was irrelevant
in Ava's life.
The runoff
had its gutters.
She expected more.
That's why, that day,
she went on an adventure.
Intriguing music
...
Ava loved the end of summer.
She was enjoying
the sunny days
and already fresh in September
to pass time.
Occasionally a man met
Ava's gaze.
And the latter was
denied on the spot.
She wanted to enjoy the sun,
do nothing and feel alive.
-It's pretty, these flowers.
Would you like flowers
with your salad?
Laughter
Ava, do you know
the game of exquisite corpses?
-Non.
-It is very simple.
Someone starts a sentence
and another finishes it.
Listen.
"Conchita hadn't
dusted so..." Paul?
- Yes, ma'am.
-It's a game, Conchita.
"Conchita hadn't
dusted so..."
-"so...
"we sneezed
all day."
-It sometimes gives
quite funny sentences.
Come on, let's get started.
"As the meal was served
and I wanted..."
Over to you, Ava.
- "...that we were going..."
- No!
"...that we were going..."
Imperfect subjunctive!
Example:
"After each meal, he wanted
"fold your napkin."
You lost, Ava.
Are you doing everything it takes
to have a child?
Are you doing everything it takes
to have a child?
-Is it the game that resumes?
- No, don't be a child.
Or if, when are you going to do it,
this child?
-Mom, these are not things
to be asked at the table.
- We can't talk anymore.
Each time it degenerates.
Mom, the incident is closed.
-The weather's nice.
-What a strange sentence.
- Apparently,
my subjects cause incidents.
So I'm talking about rain
and shine.
The weather's nice.
Ava,
what did you do today,
in this beautiful weather?
- Oh, not much.
Laughter
-Since when do we laugh at the table?
Intriguing music
...
She clicks her tongue.
...
...
Your wife had a very
sparkling look
when I asked her
what she had done.
What did you do today ?
Not much.
No.
Not much.
Or rather...
Not much.
-I didn't notice that tone at all.
-I noticed that today
she went
beyond the boulevard Flandrin.
According to his purchases.
And it's been several times.
I wonder what she finds
going elsewhere?
- This daughter-in-law,
you wanted her so much.
-The Queen Mother displayed
her nuisance abilities.
She was talking about putting her
under curatorship or worse.
She was determined to harm him.
- We must have her committed, doctor.
Across the entire medical spectrum.
-Anyway, it's nobody.
-What do you mean ?
-She has no family.
It will take a DNA test.
-A DNA test? To do what ?
-Imagine...
if she has the poverty genes.
-Oui...
What makes you say that ?
-If the poor do not make it
over several generations,
it's not for nothing.
We are rich
from father to son,
it means something.
Examine it, and you tell me.
-And medical secrecy?
-Ava was far from thinking of all
the pitfalls that were brewing.
Besides, she didn't think,
she was enjoying the moment.
That's what she loved,
in this new life,
a present full of surprises.
romantic music
...
-Health.
You know, that was the rule.
You know what I mean ?
The rules are the rules.
I had to, it was the rules.
A door closes.
-Here she comes back.
Paul, you are really happy
with this Ava?
-I never asked myself the question.
I'm not unhappy.
Good walk ?
- Very good.
Coughing
- It's 2 to 8,
ma'am.
-Perfect, we are
going to sit down to eat.
In 2 minutes.
Ava, my child, tell me...
When you go up,
at least you don't use Pinochet
?
-The Pinochet?
-The elevator.
- No, you asked me
not to.
- That's it, have fun,
my little one.
Intriguing music
...
-What do you want ?
What do you want ?
-Sir ?
Yes you.
Approach.
Hello, my name is Ava.
And you?
-Jérô ...
-Jerome.
-Jerome, would you like an ice cream?
We can say you.
Really?
My husband is so well brought up
that I miss him.
The days are alike.
He often tells me:
"Routine makes you feel like
you live longer."
What do you think ? Finally, you?
In life, I do nothing,
I walk around.
You, what are you doing?
-Things and others.
I finished my studies.
And here I am looking for work.
-I experienced this
a few years ago.
Won't you eat your ice cream?
(In English)
...
-You're welcome.
-Stupid froggies...
-Damned English!
- They drive upside down.
- Navigation is not their thing.
...
...
shouts
...
Shouts
Laughter
...
-Bye-bye !
...
-We kiss ?
-Like that, there?
-Oui.
Upbeat music
...
...
-There they are
...
-They left.
- We got them, huh?
Nageons.
Clothes should be dry.
With this heat,
we'll soon be dry, too.
- Could we meet again?
- Is that really a good idea?
-Oui.
Tomorrow, at the Lutetia, for example.
-In the hotel ?
-Ah yes, the hotel...
Ah yes of course.
I was thinking more of the restaurant,
but...
-This slight flirtation was enough
to annoy Ava.
Besides,
she hadn't thought further
than this
inconsequential love affair.
But this horizon
contained in the exclamation
"in the hotel"
put a nasty bug in his ear
which opened up an unimagined horizon.
An antidote to her neurasthenia
as a rich young woman
who had nothing in his life.
-I'm going to get the clothes.
We've been robbed of our belongings!
- You're sure ?
- Yeah, it's good.
- Ouch! Ouch!
Jerome...
What are you doing ?
I found our clothes thieves,
I'm going to find them.
-How's it progressing?
- Don't worry, I did karate.
It's mine.
...
Blows and screams
-Ah, there you go.
Jean-Denis!
We found her.
Screams and blows
-Please ?
Do you know where the orchestra is?
- They are at a private concert.
- You are not the violinist?
- Oh no, I'm the violist.
It has nothing to do,
it is much more difficult
than the violin.
I'm waiting for the singer.
I've never seen him,
I hope he will know how to recognize me.
It's not you, by any chance?
- Dear Adelaide.
- Dear Eloise.
-Life is beautiful ?
-No, she's ugly,
and even more so when the weather is nice.
Laughter
- And this daughter-in-law?
Your social profiteer...
Still no heir?
-My God,
I make life hard for him.
It's fun, it'll teach her
not to get pregnant.
Laughter
Where did this singer go?
-Who are you ?
-It's me.
- Where are we ?
- Too long.
-What are you doing there ?
-Who are you ?
- I'm the singer.
-It's you !
We've been looking for you everywhere.
Thank you, my friends, thank you.
We found
our latecomer upstairs.
We will open our concert
with an extract from La Vie parisienne
by Jacques Offenbach.
The famous tune of the French cancan.
Audience disappointment
I was only fooling.
Laughter
We will interpret you
some Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Romances without words,
to which we will add a song.
Applause
Romances without words
(Felix Mendelssohn)
...
We knock inside the case.
...
- At least
we have something serious.
-And d'intelligent.
Screams and crashes
Brouhaha
...
-I'm here !
I'm here.
What happened ?
Look, in the instrument!
A naked woman!
Did you see her like me?
My stepdaughter, Ava,
was completely naked!
I'm not crazy, I saw it.
She was completely naked.
And the piano rushes at me,
can you believe it?
-Yes Madam.
- Enclosed under the lid.
That's not the most amazing thing.
Ava ?
What did you do today ?
-I walked.
-Oh yes ? And where?
We would have seen you at the concert.
Isn't it, Conchita?
- Yes Madam.
- Finally, mom,
Ava was out for a walk.
Isn't it, darling?
-I saw her come out naked
from the case of a double bass.
Laughter
-I thought you were in a piano?
Mom, are you kidding us?
Laughter
It's normal
to have a hallucination
after taking a piano
in the face.
-It's not a hallucination,
I saw it!
- I'll take you.
- Useless.
Raoul will take care of it. Raul!
-It's worrying,
I'm worried about his head.
- Do we have her committed
to see if she manages?
We can bring in Dr. Anigo.
-It may be a way
to claim attention, right?
- Me too, I need attention.
-It's a funny evening
ahead!
Luckily the servants
are in bed.
-My back...
It doesn't work out.
video game music
...
Barking
...
-Raoul !
Whose are these black dogs?
-One of our guests took them
for a walk.
-Ava ?
What did you do today ?
Gunshot
She screams.
- Mrs...
- Thank you, Conchita.
You pulled me out
of a nightmare.
-Put that on the bedroom,
I come to pay you.
-Are you coming out tonight?
- No, we never go out
in this house.
Paul plays on his mobile,
the Queen Mother unravels sweaters
and Raoul makes successes.
Besides, he doesn't
just play cards.
Especially with Madame,
but I'll tell you about it another time.
- And tomorrow, what are you doing?
-We meet again ?
I don't want to be bored anymore.
Jerome, I still want.
A clock chimes.
-I have to go to Dalac,
at the agency.
-At the agency ?
- Yes, the agency...
The employment agency.
-If for Ava the thing was simple,
she had a lover,
for Jérôme,
it was a complex problem.
Jerome wondered
what trouble he was getting into.
After all, he would be making up
a lie.
It is very practical
as an exit door.
But this door does not
always lead to the exit.
So, we create another door.
And these exit doors
trap us in lies.
It all started
when he saw that woman,
in Inspector Dalac's office.
- A bundle of dough.
-Dalac was that kind
of private detective
who loved to quote.
He liked brandishing his revolver
and the great authors.
What had motivated
Ms. Château-Têtard
to go to Dalac?
-The little whore.
-The age of the house
and the seriousness that emanated from it.
-There.
When I told you he was coming.
Here... Uh...
- Jerome.
- Jerome, there you go.
Come closer, Jerome.
I present to you Mrs. Château-Têtard,
lifts of the same name.
You can say hi to him,
no billing on that.
No ?
It is Jérôme who will deal with
your little problem.
-Isn't he a bit young?
- No, on the contrary,
in spinning mills,
the younger it is, the
less suspicion there is.
And as Racine said,
"To well-born souls,
"Value does not wait."
-Corneille.
- That's what I said.
- Nope.
- Finally, it's the same.
- Nope.
My little Jerome,
I explain to you.
Already, it is not necessary to
bayer to the crows (Corneille in French).
Do you know Corneille?
Madam loves it very much.
Madame has a son who has a wife,
and it's this wife
you're being asked to tail, okay?
-I let you discuss
with your trainee.
-He hasn't been a trainee
since the day before yesterday.
-That's it.
Cut your meter.
-What do I have to do ?
-Find the lover.
Here is the address of the Château-Têtards.
Spinning, lover, report, fees.
Find the lover.
And here's the wife, Ava.
Oh damn...
Wow!
Nice piece.
First thing,
go through his bank account.
See if there's any shady
spending.
- How are you going to get
his readings?
- I have my starters.
Don't forget I'm a detective.
- The rest, you know it.
On the 1st day,
Jérôme had been grilled by Ava.
On the 2nd day,
he had slipped naked Ava
into a double bass.
And on the third, they both slipped naked
into a bed.
Jerome was trying to find
his way out.
- Here, read this.
-The bank statements
of little Château-Têtard?
No, it's a medical record.
-That's what the banker
told me.
-There is a DNA test,
it's really personal.
It's resold, personal data.
Didn't you know?
This is what bankers ask
for loans.
If we tell the bankers everything,
it ends up
in anyone's hands.
-The number of boyfriends
before marriage!
- Modest people
don't dare piss off
their banker.
That's how it is, poor people.
He obeys its banker, that's it.
-Sometimes they refuse to obey.
- But then, there,
it becomes a revolution.
- The bourgeois also obey.
-Them, when they disobey,
it gives a coup d'etat.
Like in Chile, for example.
Oh, by the way,
your spinning, what did it do?
- Nothing to report.
- What do you mean, nothing to report?
Didn't get spotted?
-Non...
She went to the museum.
- Which museum?
Paris is the city of museums.
I dunno ? Beaubourg? Orsay?
- Yes, Orsay.
-What did she do ?
- She visited, ate an ice cream?
- That's right, she ate an ice cream
after seeing the paintings.
-What kind of paintings?
-The paintings all look
a bit alike.
So I followed her
and nothing to report.
Phone
*-Hello, it's me.
- Good morning, Mrs. Château-Têtard.
*-That's amazing...
-Comment ?
Naked in a double bass?
*-Little Whore.
-Excellent !
*- I'm not crazy!
-She went to the museum,
she saw paintings.
You know, the paintings,
they all look the same.
And she ate ice cream...
Nothing to report.
There...
*-At the museum?
But I don't understand...
- Decidedly,
the investigation stalled.
-Is it art
that gives you this look?
-Enough to ?
-What are you talking about ?
Art does not interest Ava.
-You didn't want to
go to the museum?
-At the Museum ?
To do what ? No.
-You are getting more and more derailed.
- What did you do this afternoon?
-I saw my goddaughter at Épinay.
My friend Noémie whom you had seen,
but you didn't like her.
-The one that is black.
-I'm going to see my goddaughter
since she can't come here.
- Mrs. Château-Têtard was taken aback
by such a lie.
She almost spit out the piece
she was following her,
and that she knew about the museum.
But she stood.
She promised herself to make him
swallow his lies,
to this dirty little whore.
She would clear up
this dark matter
of museum and goddaughter.
-Bizarre,
I thought you had
nothing to do with your goddaughter.
-I couldn't say that,
it's my only family.
- No, there's us.
- We, we count for nothing?
-I love roast.
-I hate meat in the evening.
Let's go to coffee.
-Ava never takes
coffee in the evening.
- It's true, I forgot.
So she finished her meal.
Conchita, double ration of dessert,
I'm starving.
Oh, then yes, I take roast.
You will serve Paul.
Paul,
tomorrow, you have the Board of Directors
of Château-Têtard & Fils.
-The what ?
Board of directors.
You are the president.
-Yes...
Every time I get bored.
I don't want to go there.
-It is important.
You have to show up,
darling.
*-We have a problem.
*The little girl claims to have been
with her goddaughter and not at the museum.
*Find out why she's lying
to her stepmom.
*I can put you
on another move.
- Above all not, we change nothing.
I know the animal well.
*-Be discreet.
-Because of a bulwark of morality
built by his parents,
Jerome was uncomfortable
having sex with Ava
being paid at the union rate.
Not counting overtime.
He knew that by confessing everything,
he would lose everything.
-Ava, I have to tell you something.
About my job.
- Well, since you're unemployed.
-I'm not a gigolo.
- No, it's runoff.
Paul explained it to me.
Don't tell me you have work,
we won't be able to see each other anymore.
If you only knew how boring it is
at home.
-Sexually?
-You're crazy ? We never talk about it.
The clock rings.
- Damn, I have to go.
I'm not going there, I don't want to be bored
with the gray men from the Board.
Upbeat music
...
The phone is ringing.
...
Mom, are you picking up?
Mom, pick up!
Hello ?
Paul Château-Têtard, himself.
Laughter
-Long live the stairs!
To hell with Pinochet!
I see where you're coming from, rascal.
-Mom ! Mom !
Mom !
Mom !
I am fired.
- I'm blocked, unblock.
It's worse.
-I'm trying to unblock.
- Mom, I got fired!
The Board fired me!
- They dared?
I will settle their account.
The dog, at the foot.
We will scare them.
The dog.
At the foot.
Down, dog!
Howls
-Adelaide!
-Maman !
-She's still moving.
She is dead !
-You are very nice, Ava.
I like to be woken up
by the scent of a flower.
You too smell good.
You are a good person.
My son had the courage
not to marry money.
I suffered too much from the arranged union
to impose it on Paul.
Ava, I love you very much.
- Me too, I love you very much.
I made you a coffee.
- How nice, my child.
Will you accompany me in Rolls
this afternoon?
I would like to introduce you
to my best friend.
And we could invite
your goddaughter.
Who is so beautifully black.
-Yes with pleasure.
Do not worry.
With Paul, we do everything
to have a child.
If it's a girl,
we'll call her after you.
The Pinochet is showing
signs of fatigue.
It will be fixed next week.
How
about going to the Seychelles,
or in cure in Vichy,
the time of the repair?
-It's a good idea !
Look.
I'm getting up.
I walk.
It's a miracle.
Fracas
Thank you, Conchita.
You pulled me out
of a terrible nightmare.
Always this recurring dream with Ava.
It was traumatic.
- Puppy, I have your breakfast.
- No, I want to sleep.
I'm in bad spirits, I have the flu.
-The dog.
-Something is wrong ?
-Paul gave me his flu.
I threw it all up this morning.
-We don't vomit for the flu.
- Stomach flu.
What if it's poisoning?
- Which museum today?
-None, on Tuesday
the museums are closed.
- So... At the Vincennes zoo?
With this rotten weather?
She's crazy?
I'm sorry for you.
Spinning in this weather...
It must have been awful.
- It wasn't great.
-Are you sure there isn't
a man under there?
-No...
-I've found.
Can't you see?
-No.
-Think.
No idea ?
It is, however, quite obvious.
And if...
was it a woman?
-If there is a lover it is a man.
And there isn't,
I know something about that.
-That's boring.
-There wouldn't be
a man in the family who...
-Raoul. He has relations
with our Château-Têtard.
- Are
you saying it now?
-I'm talking
about Madame Château-Têtard mother.
Your client.
-How do you know that?
-I'm a detective.
-Dalac
sighed heavily
and picked up the phone.
- Mrs. Chateau-Tetard? Dalac here.
*-At the Vincennes zoo, in the rain?
It's unthinkable.
-But it's
the truth.
-I read at the hairdresser
that sugar gives girls more
and the salty, boys.
Provided you are pregnant, of
course.
Instead of grapefruit,
I asked for mushrooms.
Finally, bites to the queen.
Mushrooms bother you?
Are you worried
that they are poisonous?
You look small, Ava.
Did you have the courage
to go out in this weather?
-Yes.
Where did you go ?
-I visited the Louvre.
-The Louvre... Are you sure?
-Yes, I just told you,
the Louvre.
-The Louvre, on a Tuesday?
There weren't too many people,
at least?
- Yes, it was full.
We could barely move forward.
I couldn't see anything.
Laughter
-I don't doubt that.
Especially since the museum is closed
on Tuesdays.
-Ah...
It's strange, I didn't notice anything.
Now that you say it,
there were
totally empty rooms.
- But then, how did you manage
to enter?
- I stayed outside,
I looked at the museum
through the windows.
And I visited the garden.
The famous zoological garden
of the Louvre.
And that's where
you went to the zoo.
-No.
Since there are none.
-You heard ?
- Heard what?
-She lies like she breathes.
Doesn't that make you jump?
But think!
-I noted the contradictions.
I'm tired of investigating.
-It's not your job.
For the honor of the family,
I hired a private detective.
-Ah ?
And the verdict, then?
-The verdict ?
Your wife is visiting
the zoo in the rain,
and she says she went to the Louvre.
- She lies without gravity.
If she prefers monkeys
to the Mona Lisa, that's okay.
-And when she
actually goes to the museum,
she says she went to see her goddaughter.
The only explanation
for this kind of behavior,
she's crazy!
A mythomaniac!
Paul...
We'll have to sort that out.
And there are not 36 solutions.
You want
commit Ava?
-Doctor Anigo
is coming tomorrow for my back.
I'm going to have
your wife's brain checked.
-Dr Anigo ?
-Raoul !
- Do you trust?
mysterious music
...
Honey, we need to talk.
- I sleep, I get up early
for the museum tomorrow.
-I'll tell you tomorrow.
-That's all ?
Tell me since you woke me up.
-Listen... Mom,
guided by the affection
she has for you...
I'm sure.
Didn't you notice you had
a bodyguard, a guardian angel?
You know what I mean ?
-I don't understand
your gibberish.
-You haven't noticed
that someone is following you
like a detective?
-So what ?
- So, nothing. Finally Yes...
A little problem.
-I can explain it to you.
Paul, how I love you!
It's a misunderstanding.
- Calm down,
you have nothing to reproach yourself for.
It doesn't matter,
just...
Stop lying, honey.
When you go to the zoo,
like this afternoon, let us know.
If you visit a museum,
you tell us.
Why are you talking about
all these salads?
- Didn't he say anything else,
this detective?
-What do you want him to say?
There is nothing.
It's heard ?
No more ugly lies?
Life isn't always fun
with mom.
- No, we never go out.
-Listen,
if you like museums so much,
tomorrow, I'll go with you somewhere.
Intriguing music
...
-This bas-relief
has lost all its relief.
A 15th century virgin
on polychrome wood
whose colors have disappeared.
- What a naughty object!
When I think of Jerome...
...
-It's not okay ?
What is happening ?
-I don't know,
a little anemia, maybe.
- Did you cut it short?
-Ava felt bad.
-Fortunately
Dr. Anigo is still there.
It's up to you, doctor.
*- I tell him :
* "bro, what are you doing ?"
-What do you see ?
-Nothing.
-And there?
-Always nothing.
-You are sure ?
Not even a skull
or a vagina?
*-And here I defuse the bomb.
*-Do you know how to do it?
- Are you vomiting?
- Yes, it comes from food?
-Yes, gastro or appendicitis.
*- I'm in the car,
I see a suspicious face...
-So ?
- I am subject
to professional secrecy.
Your daughter-in-law has all her head.
For the rest,
I'll let her tell you.
*-Go ahead, I'm getting up.
*I'm going to see him, and then I understand.
- And you, mom, are you all right?
You don't have anymore hallucinations ?
- No,
I never had hallucinations!
I saw her naked!
*- I defuse the quiet bomb.
*-Do you really know
what to do?
*-Of course, what do you think?
- Ava, where are you going?
-I'm going back to the Cluny museum
because of yesterday's shortened visit.
-Do you mind
going alone?
- No, don't worry, my bichon.
-Is your nausea better?
-Yes Yes Yes.
Don't worry, my puppy.
-Ava, are you still going to the museum?
I told you
not to use the Pinochet!
-I do not use it.
-I take the Rolls.
-I do not use it.
-I'm going
to the board.
Intriguing music
...
-Here we are.
You remember this scene.
We took a few detours,
but it deserved
some explanation.
-Inspector Dalac?
Adelaide Chateau-Têtard.
The little whore came out.
This time, we've got it.
- Have you picked up the pieces?
So, let's move on.
Upbeat music
...
-Jerome!
...
Jerome!
-What is going on ?
- You took the wrong stairs,
go around the top.
...
- I am followed.
I changed
to fool the spinning mill.
A private follows me.
- Private of what?
- A cop, what!
The Old Château-Têtard
has me followed.
We have a detective hot on our heels.
He's a moron,
he must be following someone else.
Or it's a hideout
who combines his reports at home.
I have another news.
I am pregnant.
Well, is that all the effect
it has on you?
-You're sure ?
- That I'm pregnant?
- No, that you are followed?
-Paul told me.
"Mom loves you so much
she gave you a private.
"You have nothing to say to me ?"
He tells me that I was at the zoo,
while I was at the hotel with you.
And me, I said I was at the Louvre.
Do you see the mess?
It's crazy
that we never spotted this guy.
I wonder
what he looks like.
-The baby ?
- No, the detective!
-I feel bad,
I must have caught your flu.
It doesn't work, the vaccine.
- It was not the flu,
nor a poison,
I am pregnant.
I will leave Paul
and the Queen Mother.
It's your child.
Let's settle down together,
with the baby.
- Wait, I'm thinking.
I have a salary of 1200 euros.
I pay 800 euros in rent
plus taxes.
More 400 euros of food.
Plus a baby, nanny,
diapers.
My future is behind me...
My life is screwed up.
-Where is he going ?
Where are you going ?
-An appointment, I had forgotten!
It's for work.
-Jerome!
- Do you know what you did?
Geoffroy, the clause.
Maître Crépin is going to read you
a clause that concerns you.
-It's a footnote to
the bylaws.
Article 5 C,
paragraph 4.2...
“If the president is dismissed
during a Board,
"if the vote takes place in his absence,
"Mme Château-Têtard mother
"would replace him
until the designation
of a new president.
"In the absence
of this new president,
"the voters
"must be domiciled for tax purposes
"in France."
- Ladies and gentlemen,
I am your president.
-Inspector?
Inspector?
There is someone ?
Over-grown slug?
Pigheaded!
-Turn around, you bastard.
Laughter
You have to learn to draw faster
if you want to stay in the business.
- Do we need a weapon for our investigations?
-Anyway,
what are you doing at the office
when you have to work?
- I finished the investigation.
- What ?
-I have completed
the Château-Têtard investigation.
Ava Château-Têtard
is Raoul's mistress.
The chauffeur.
-It's not possible !
Oh, the rascal!
He becomes the mother and the daughter-in-law.
We will vote to designate
our new president.
Unless you want to
be taxed in France?
Since we agree,
who votes to designate
Paul Château-Têtard, my son,
as president
of Château-Têtard & Fils?
It's a show of hands.
Perfect, you made the right choice.
phone vibrator
*-Inspector Dalac.
Madame Château-Têtard, elevators?
-I'm in the Board meeting.
What is it ?
*- I have the name of the lover.
*Come by taxi.
-Let's go.
The dog.
Raoul !
Thank you.
I will continue by taxi.
-A taxi ?
Adelaide, is there a problem?
-Everything is fine.
See you tonight.
Come by for some champagne.
- Taxi!
- Taxi!
Taxi !
Did we catch the little whore?
The day is prolific.
-I feel that you will
taste the news.
Come, come!
-Raoul ?
- Mrs. Chateau-Tetard?
Madame Chateau-Tetard?
Ouh, ouh!
Madame Chateau-Tetard?
Wake up, Madame Château-Têtard!
Madame Château-Têtard, wake up!
Wake up, Madame Château-Têtard!
A shot rang out.
Go on.
She moans.
...
-Raoul !
Why did you cheat on me
with the little whore?
- Adelaide,
what are you talking about?
Adelaide, I would never have done that!
-Bastard!
- It's not my style at all.
Adelaide, please!
I don't like young people.
Please calm down.
-You will pay for that !
-Adelaide, but it's not true!
Please, Adelaide, calm down.
Calm down.
-I'll fire you.
You won't be coming back to this house anymore.
Open this door!
- Please calm down!
Think for a second.
I didn't cheat on you.
You are mistaken about my masculine side.
Adelaide!
Adelaide, please!
Think for a second.
Calm down.
Don't throw everything in the trash.
Noise
-Where is he ?
Paul !
Paul !
-Maman !
I am going to be a dad.
I'm going to be dad, mom!
Ava...
You are so proud of me.
No, I'm so proud of you!
Raoul !
Raoul, do you know the news?
Raoul !
Dad and president on the same day!
What a manly day!
Raoul ?
Raoul !
Raoul ?
-My hat...
Has a cas ...
- We will miss him, Raoul.
It's going to be weird.
A big void, right?
Conchita, you bring me
a cigarette and a fire.
-I'm sorry, ma'am.
Mr. Paul does not want us to smoke
in the presence of Madame,
who is pregnant.
-You won, my dear.
You are stronger than I imagined.
But it's still Raoul
that I resent the most.
Raoul, how I will miss you.
At least you'll be away from her.
Far from the little whore.
-Jerome dumped me,
I'm pregnant.
The father doesn't want the baby,
but I have a husband who wants to be a father.
Things worked out
as they should.
What could be more natural ?
Jerome...
- Watch out for your little belly,
my treasure.
No, don't cry.
Finally, yes, cry. Don't worry,
it's the hormones.
You want a liquor
to cheer you up?
Oui ?
- Jerome, I'm going to be bored without you.
When the baby is born,
I will play with him.
Yes, but until birth?
I'll take care of her room,
her little clothes...
The baby will annoy me.
Honk
-Paul !
You need a driver.
-Oh dear !
Don't wear that.
It's vulgarity!
-It's the law !
-I command you
to disobey!
- Mom, it's bad to know me.
-Tell me, Jerome,
look at this.
I don't understand it at all.
-It's an account statement.
In the red.
I wouldn't like to be in their place.
-You won't be anymore soon.
It
's the agency's account statements.
-I am fired ?
- What do you want, huh?
It's the fault of the socialists
who are in power.
- Which socialists?
- Well, all that...
-Sorry,
you're way too narrow.
Have a good day.
You.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Good morning sir.
Me Geoffroy Crépin, lawyer.
Are you coming for the announcement?
- Yes.
My cover letter.
- Do you have any flaws?
- Faults ?
-Greed, gluttony,
anger, laziness,
solidarity?
-Uh...
-Qualities ?
Are you integrated into the company?
- With this job, this job,
I imagine being able to move up
the social ladder.
-Don't go too high.
You won't be working with me
.
I just come to select you,
pass judgment.
- You are not a lawyer?
Do you judge too?
-Any idiot can judge.
Just look
at the person's head,
his speech, his bearing,
and it is judged.
Do you know how to drive?
Do you know how to drive?
- Do you know how to drive?
- Yes.
-Hello.
Paul Château-Têtard.
You are hired,
you will be our driver.
The commitment takes effect tomorrow.
We leave for Antibes.
Watch out, my wife is expecting a baby.
Do you know how to drive a Rolls?
-Maman ?
Our new Raoul has arrived.
-As if we could
replace Raoul...
Intriguing music
...
It's Raoul, huh, the father?
...
Why is Doctor Anigo here?
He's still there for Ava?
...
-I said to be careful!
- What about me?
And me ?
- How are you, my dove?
-I'm not going down alone.
Come and help me !
It's insane!
Who are these people ? Who is it ?
What are you doing ?
What is happening ?
Doctor, what's going on?
I saw her come out naked
from a double bass!
I am not crazy !
I am not crazy !
- Me neither, ma'am.
-Dr Anigo !
triumphal music
...
-Forward, Raoul.
...
What do you think
of our new Raoul?
...
Upbeat music
...
...
Barking
Martial Music
...
...
- Release the dogs!
Barkings
...
-It was a long time ago.
Adelaide and Norbert Château-Têtard,
accompanied by Raoul,
their servant...
-Raoul !
-...went on
an innocent walk with friends.
- A wild boar with its young!
Deafening gunshots
...
-Eight yellow vests,
zero boar.
There, a pheasant!
-I make it my business.
Fire
Cris
-Adélaïde Château-Têtard,
who hated walking,
changed from horse
to wheelchair.
Let's find her 20 years later.
Intriguing music
...
-This is Adélaïde Château-Têtard.
The little whore came out.
This time, I think we've got it.
-The scene we have just seen
cannot be understood
without knowing
the beginning of this story.
Let's do
a little jump in time for that.
It was last August,
in this kind of upscale neighborhood.
Yes, this is where our story begins .
It could be
in this particular mansion,
or this one, or that one.
Never mind,
opaque grids make
these residences identical to us.
Sometimes an Amazon delivery person
rings the doorbell.
It is the only intrusion of those
who are not of the seraglio.
Well, maybe not the only one.
Ah, I forgot, we are
in the middle of a taxi strike.
So much for the surface.
Now let's go underground.
Let's take someone at random.
We could linger
on this young woman.
But let's focus instead
on this one.
Ava.
Hello Ava.
-Hello.
-Come on, good luck, Ava.
catchy song
...
-I work in the house,
I forgot my proof.
-I will speak
to the Queen of England.
Are you paying the fine
now?
- Check if you want.
I have my beep.
- Cash, credit card?
We also have contactless.
That's it, done, thank you.
-Hello.
-Sorry for earlier,
you had to insist.
With contactless,
it goes directly to the headquarters.
The rules are the rules.
You need a ticket.
Otherwise I make a file
for the union.
It's all in good fun,
it's to know who we're dealing with.
Can I write
in front of your first name "naive"?
Upbeat music
...
-Paul was a good boy.
Without an ounce of malice.
- There is no taxi!
-He had resisted
all the heiresses
that his mother had presented to him
for twenty years.
...
-Please ?
The counter is...
How do I get on the plane?
I'm going to Antibes.
-Antibes...
-Yes, mom is over there
with Raoul and the dog.
My plane takes off in 40 minutes,
what do I do?
-Take a taxi or an Uber.
- There is a strike,
the ring road is blocked.
We are still being held hostage.
I would like a ticket.
How much does it cost ?
- You don't often take the metro.
-It's the first time,
I hope I don't get mugged.
-There is a beginning for everything.
I'm selling you a ticket,
but you'll never get your plane.
Here, already a plan.
- Can't you go
through the door?
-There is a camera to fire me
if I break the rules.
Hold.
Oh no !
- I'm calling mom.
- Is she a locksmith?
-Hello, mom, I missed the plane.
There are more taxis in Paris.
I don't even know
how to take the metro.
Well tomorrow.
Or the day after tomorrow.
May I invite you
to accompany me?
-Where ?
-Let's go to Bagatelle,
it's right next door.
It's not very original,
but I have little imagination.
-Ava had been working here for 8 days
.
She felt like she had
been there for years.
Ava, who saw herself as a future unemployed
Parisian transport worker,
opted for the stroke of madness
and a life full of adventures.
Ava decided to be free.
Thus, Madame Château-Têtard,
Raoul and the Rolls
waited in vain
for Paul's arrival at the villa in Antibes.
-What is he making?
-He may have met
a girl from the neighborhood.
- Why not
the Queen of England?
Don't say anything,
Conchita.
Raoul ! The Rolls !
We go back to Paris.
- Let's have a sorbet.
With a good tip,
I entrust him with my suitcase.
-It's too much for an ice cream.
- Keep the change.
- Nope.
You rich people, I know you.
You're going to ask me to keep
your suitcase for 100 euros.
Tomorrow, we will have to watch
the brat on the swing.
Your 100 euros,
I do not want it.
-Rest assured,
I won't ask you anything.
It's not a gift,
it's a gift.
- Do you like romance?
The storm roars.
-I admit that I
never asked myself the question.
-You know how to swim ?
It's raining cats and dogs.
-What do your parents do?
- I have no parents.
I grew up in the Public Welfare.
- Yes, of course, I see.
This social assistance established
by the welfare state.
The storm roars.
Come dry off at home.
Mademoiselle.
Please come up.
Let yourself be guided.
mysterious music
...
I will be back.
...
A phone rings.
...
...
-You don't pick up?
- No, it's mom.
Not at all !
It's mom's chair.
- Do you live with your mother?
-Yes finally...
Mom needs help,
she's in a wheelchair.
Hence the elevator.
We share
the mansion
since dad died.
The ground floor belongs to mum,
I am upstairs.
We have the entrance
and the dining room in common.
So we can
discuss at the table.
The thunder resounds.
Can I get you a drink?
- Uh... yes, if you want.
My father died 15 years ago, he
was an inventor.
-He's going on a trip?
-No, he poses with his invention.
He invented...
What do you think can
make a piano move?
For example.
-Music.
- Oh no! Do not.
No, wheels.
My father invented this.
The suitcase on wheels.
Before being
in the horizontal movement,
we climbed the social ladder
thanks to the elevators.
Grandpa made his fortune
in elevators.
The elevators of the Eiffel Tower
are Château-Têtard.
Everything is here.
-Ah, yes, the Eiffel Tower.
-Grandpa was an inventor,
as Great-grandfather
who invented revolving doors.
Grandpa got rich
during the war
by selling its elevators
to the right people.
Nothing illegal about that,
given the laws then in force.
- Oh, Chile!
-That's what we've done
best.
A feat that dad took care of.
When General Pinochet
was detained in England
by a Spanish judge,
we were asked
to equip his villas
and the presidential palaces
with wheelchair lifts .
In 5 days.
And we succeeded!
Dad's stroke of genius
has been to offer
used equipment
who looked like they had been there
for 10 years.
We sold used equipment
more expensive than new
Knowingly.
Nothing illegal about that.
When the inspectors of the
international tribunal went to his house,
the elevators proved
his health.
The general was indeed
the bedridden man he said he was.
He could not be judged.
He returned to Chile on his plane
on his wheelchair.
He rolled them well.
It gave us publicity.
We then uninstalled everything.
The elevator downstairs
belonged to the general.
Realize.
- But, the general,
was he a dictator?
- That 's not
what everyone says.
There is a dictator and...
This kind of regime is never
totally bad for trading.
These people are
for freedom of enterprise.
You heard me right.
Freedom.
The storm roars.
Aren't you hot?
Upbeat music
...
- By the way, my name is Ava.
- Pleased, my name is Paul.
I would like to marry you.
- Oh, good idea!
- You don't want
me to be happy?
-Do you think I wanted
to marry your father?
We must marry each other.
These rallies were useless.
Your swimming pool subscription,
5000 euros per year.
It's expensive to finish
with the metro.
I should have given them to Conchita.
So to speak, Conchita.
-It's not hard to hear.
Bring happiness
into the house.
-Someone in Rolls is getting married
to someone in the subway.
Who do you think wins?
-Everyone !
The owner of the Rolls
gets what he never could buy.
Love!
I want Ava.
-My son...
I think you've lost your mind.
- The wedding had taken place.
Apart from Notre-Dame which had burned down,
nothing had stood
in the way of the ceremony.
Even the priest
had not put his veto,
lest Paul go
and worship elsewhere.
Ava's happy days
began with Paul's,
and the opening of a bank account,
that is to say freedom.
It was the perfect love.
But quickly,
Paul no longer accompanied
Ava on her outings.
Then, he no longer waited
for her when she returned from shopping.
gaining independence,
Ava had the brilliant idea
of dusting off
the residence of the Château-Têtards.
-My dear child,
If you had spoken to the maid about it,
you would know that nothing is being moved.
Your pranks made us
spend money.
Understand, my child,
here, the furniture is motionless.
Conchita and I don't like
working for nothing.
Conchita tires quickly.
Don't forget to
tip her, she needs it.
-I was thinking...
- You thought wrong.
- It's beautiful, Paris.
-It depends on the neighborhoods, madam.
Know that, Adelaide,
your mother-in-law,
has priority for the Rolls.
-Yes yes.
Upbeat music
...
Why are you closing?
...
- Not, Ava.
Pinochet is not allowed to you.
You are not in a wheelchair.
Give me that.
Give me that!
Put that on there.
This will prevent it from being knocked over
if you trip over your stilts.
Turn it on
since it amuses you so much.
Voilà !
The dog !
Raul! Let's go.
- Yes.
-It was 18 months
since Ava became
Mrs Château-Têtard,
and that she shared her life
between her husband,
outings in Rolls, Raoul,
and the one she had
quickly called
the "Queen Mother".
Ava saw her life
turn into a routine.
One evening, an extraordinary event
happened.
The Wedding March
(Felix Mendelssohn)
-They did it !
Laughter
...
No need to skew anymore, huh.
We're going to enforce
the president's policy.
Let's make some trickle.
We will spend all the money
saved on taxes.
Ava...
- Hello.
-I present to you
the "Smooth and Go".
The silver medal
of the Lépine competition.
sit.
Stand.
Sit.
Bark
Stand.
Sit.
-Okay okay.
-Walk.
Bark
The dog barks.
Stop. Turn.
Turn.
- Pilot mom if you want.
-Certainly not.
Raoul, take the controls.
Faster,
I'm not bedridden.
-Be careful.
But beware !
-Leave me.
I am a professional driver!
-It's going too fast !
It's going too fast !
panicked cries
Help.
-The extraordinary event
of the day before
was irrelevant
in Ava's life.
The runoff
had its gutters.
She expected more.
That's why, that day,
she went on an adventure.
Intriguing music
...
Ava loved the end of summer.
She was enjoying
the sunny days
and already fresh in September
to pass time.
Occasionally a man met
Ava's gaze.
And the latter was
denied on the spot.
She wanted to enjoy the sun,
do nothing and feel alive.
-It's pretty, these flowers.
Would you like flowers
with your salad?
Laughter
Ava, do you know
the game of exquisite corpses?
-Non.
-It is very simple.
Someone starts a sentence
and another finishes it.
Listen.
"Conchita hadn't
dusted so..." Paul?
- Yes, ma'am.
-It's a game, Conchita.
"Conchita hadn't
dusted so..."
-"so...
"we sneezed
all day."
-It sometimes gives
quite funny sentences.
Come on, let's get started.
"As the meal was served
and I wanted..."
Over to you, Ava.
- "...that we were going..."
- No!
"...that we were going..."
Imperfect subjunctive!
Example:
"After each meal, he wanted
"fold your napkin."
You lost, Ava.
Are you doing everything it takes
to have a child?
Are you doing everything it takes
to have a child?
-Is it the game that resumes?
- No, don't be a child.
Or if, when are you going to do it,
this child?
-Mom, these are not things
to be asked at the table.
- We can't talk anymore.
Each time it degenerates.
Mom, the incident is closed.
-The weather's nice.
-What a strange sentence.
- Apparently,
my subjects cause incidents.
So I'm talking about rain
and shine.
The weather's nice.
Ava,
what did you do today,
in this beautiful weather?
- Oh, not much.
Laughter
-Since when do we laugh at the table?
Intriguing music
...
She clicks her tongue.
...
...
Your wife had a very
sparkling look
when I asked her
what she had done.
What did you do today ?
Not much.
No.
Not much.
Or rather...
Not much.
-I didn't notice that tone at all.
-I noticed that today
she went
beyond the boulevard Flandrin.
According to his purchases.
And it's been several times.
I wonder what she finds
going elsewhere?
- This daughter-in-law,
you wanted her so much.
-The Queen Mother displayed
her nuisance abilities.
She was talking about putting her
under curatorship or worse.
She was determined to harm him.
- We must have her committed, doctor.
Across the entire medical spectrum.
-Anyway, it's nobody.
-What do you mean ?
-She has no family.
It will take a DNA test.
-A DNA test? To do what ?
-Imagine...
if she has the poverty genes.
-Oui...
What makes you say that ?
-If the poor do not make it
over several generations,
it's not for nothing.
We are rich
from father to son,
it means something.
Examine it, and you tell me.
-And medical secrecy?
-Ava was far from thinking of all
the pitfalls that were brewing.
Besides, she didn't think,
she was enjoying the moment.
That's what she loved,
in this new life,
a present full of surprises.
romantic music
...
-Health.
You know, that was the rule.
You know what I mean ?
The rules are the rules.
I had to, it was the rules.
A door closes.
-Here she comes back.
Paul, you are really happy
with this Ava?
-I never asked myself the question.
I'm not unhappy.
Good walk ?
- Very good.
Coughing
- It's 2 to 8,
ma'am.
-Perfect, we are
going to sit down to eat.
In 2 minutes.
Ava, my child, tell me...
When you go up,
at least you don't use Pinochet
?
-The Pinochet?
-The elevator.
- No, you asked me
not to.
- That's it, have fun,
my little one.
Intriguing music
...
-What do you want ?
What do you want ?
-Sir ?
Yes you.
Approach.
Hello, my name is Ava.
And you?
-Jérô ...
-Jerome.
-Jerome, would you like an ice cream?
We can say you.
Really?
My husband is so well brought up
that I miss him.
The days are alike.
He often tells me:
"Routine makes you feel like
you live longer."
What do you think ? Finally, you?
In life, I do nothing,
I walk around.
You, what are you doing?
-Things and others.
I finished my studies.
And here I am looking for work.
-I experienced this
a few years ago.
Won't you eat your ice cream?
(In English)
...
-You're welcome.
-Stupid froggies...
-Damned English!
- They drive upside down.
- Navigation is not their thing.
...
...
shouts
...
Shouts
Laughter
...
-Bye-bye !
...
-We kiss ?
-Like that, there?
-Oui.
Upbeat music
...
...
-There they are
...
-They left.
- We got them, huh?
Nageons.
Clothes should be dry.
With this heat,
we'll soon be dry, too.
- Could we meet again?
- Is that really a good idea?
-Oui.
Tomorrow, at the Lutetia, for example.
-In the hotel ?
-Ah yes, the hotel...
Ah yes of course.
I was thinking more of the restaurant,
but...
-This slight flirtation was enough
to annoy Ava.
Besides,
she hadn't thought further
than this
inconsequential love affair.
But this horizon
contained in the exclamation
"in the hotel"
put a nasty bug in his ear
which opened up an unimagined horizon.
An antidote to her neurasthenia
as a rich young woman
who had nothing in his life.
-I'm going to get the clothes.
We've been robbed of our belongings!
- You're sure ?
- Yeah, it's good.
- Ouch! Ouch!
Jerome...
What are you doing ?
I found our clothes thieves,
I'm going to find them.
-How's it progressing?
- Don't worry, I did karate.
It's mine.
...
Blows and screams
-Ah, there you go.
Jean-Denis!
We found her.
Screams and blows
-Please ?
Do you know where the orchestra is?
- They are at a private concert.
- You are not the violinist?
- Oh no, I'm the violist.
It has nothing to do,
it is much more difficult
than the violin.
I'm waiting for the singer.
I've never seen him,
I hope he will know how to recognize me.
It's not you, by any chance?
- Dear Adelaide.
- Dear Eloise.
-Life is beautiful ?
-No, she's ugly,
and even more so when the weather is nice.
Laughter
- And this daughter-in-law?
Your social profiteer...
Still no heir?
-My God,
I make life hard for him.
It's fun, it'll teach her
not to get pregnant.
Laughter
Where did this singer go?
-Who are you ?
-It's me.
- Where are we ?
- Too long.
-What are you doing there ?
-Who are you ?
- I'm the singer.
-It's you !
We've been looking for you everywhere.
Thank you, my friends, thank you.
We found
our latecomer upstairs.
We will open our concert
with an extract from La Vie parisienne
by Jacques Offenbach.
The famous tune of the French cancan.
Audience disappointment
I was only fooling.
Laughter
We will interpret you
some Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Romances without words,
to which we will add a song.
Applause
Romances without words
(Felix Mendelssohn)
...
We knock inside the case.
...
- At least
we have something serious.
-And d'intelligent.
Screams and crashes
Brouhaha
...
-I'm here !
I'm here.
What happened ?
Look, in the instrument!
A naked woman!
Did you see her like me?
My stepdaughter, Ava,
was completely naked!
I'm not crazy, I saw it.
She was completely naked.
And the piano rushes at me,
can you believe it?
-Yes Madam.
- Enclosed under the lid.
That's not the most amazing thing.
Ava ?
What did you do today ?
-I walked.
-Oh yes ? And where?
We would have seen you at the concert.
Isn't it, Conchita?
- Yes Madam.
- Finally, mom,
Ava was out for a walk.
Isn't it, darling?
-I saw her come out naked
from the case of a double bass.
Laughter
-I thought you were in a piano?
Mom, are you kidding us?
Laughter
It's normal
to have a hallucination
after taking a piano
in the face.
-It's not a hallucination,
I saw it!
- I'll take you.
- Useless.
Raoul will take care of it. Raul!
-It's worrying,
I'm worried about his head.
- Do we have her committed
to see if she manages?
We can bring in Dr. Anigo.
-It may be a way
to claim attention, right?
- Me too, I need attention.
-It's a funny evening
ahead!
Luckily the servants
are in bed.
-My back...
It doesn't work out.
video game music
...
Barking
...
-Raoul !
Whose are these black dogs?
-One of our guests took them
for a walk.
-Ava ?
What did you do today ?
Gunshot
She screams.
- Mrs...
- Thank you, Conchita.
You pulled me out
of a nightmare.
-Put that on the bedroom,
I come to pay you.
-Are you coming out tonight?
- No, we never go out
in this house.
Paul plays on his mobile,
the Queen Mother unravels sweaters
and Raoul makes successes.
Besides, he doesn't
just play cards.
Especially with Madame,
but I'll tell you about it another time.
- And tomorrow, what are you doing?
-We meet again ?
I don't want to be bored anymore.
Jerome, I still want.
A clock chimes.
-I have to go to Dalac,
at the agency.
-At the agency ?
- Yes, the agency...
The employment agency.
-If for Ava the thing was simple,
she had a lover,
for Jérôme,
it was a complex problem.
Jerome wondered
what trouble he was getting into.
After all, he would be making up
a lie.
It is very practical
as an exit door.
But this door does not
always lead to the exit.
So, we create another door.
And these exit doors
trap us in lies.
It all started
when he saw that woman,
in Inspector Dalac's office.
- A bundle of dough.
-Dalac was that kind
of private detective
who loved to quote.
He liked brandishing his revolver
and the great authors.
What had motivated
Ms. Château-Têtard
to go to Dalac?
-The little whore.
-The age of the house
and the seriousness that emanated from it.
-There.
When I told you he was coming.
Here... Uh...
- Jerome.
- Jerome, there you go.
Come closer, Jerome.
I present to you Mrs. Château-Têtard,
lifts of the same name.
You can say hi to him,
no billing on that.
No ?
It is Jérôme who will deal with
your little problem.
-Isn't he a bit young?
- No, on the contrary,
in spinning mills,
the younger it is, the
less suspicion there is.
And as Racine said,
"To well-born souls,
"Value does not wait."
-Corneille.
- That's what I said.
- Nope.
- Finally, it's the same.
- Nope.
My little Jerome,
I explain to you.
Already, it is not necessary to
bayer to the crows (Corneille in French).
Do you know Corneille?
Madam loves it very much.
Madame has a son who has a wife,
and it's this wife
you're being asked to tail, okay?
-I let you discuss
with your trainee.
-He hasn't been a trainee
since the day before yesterday.
-That's it.
Cut your meter.
-What do I have to do ?
-Find the lover.
Here is the address of the Château-Têtards.
Spinning, lover, report, fees.
Find the lover.
And here's the wife, Ava.
Oh damn...
Wow!
Nice piece.
First thing,
go through his bank account.
See if there's any shady
spending.
- How are you going to get
his readings?
- I have my starters.
Don't forget I'm a detective.
- The rest, you know it.
On the 1st day,
Jérôme had been grilled by Ava.
On the 2nd day,
he had slipped naked Ava
into a double bass.
And on the third, they both slipped naked
into a bed.
Jerome was trying to find
his way out.
- Here, read this.
-The bank statements
of little Château-Têtard?
No, it's a medical record.
-That's what the banker
told me.
-There is a DNA test,
it's really personal.
It's resold, personal data.
Didn't you know?
This is what bankers ask
for loans.
If we tell the bankers everything,
it ends up
in anyone's hands.
-The number of boyfriends
before marriage!
- Modest people
don't dare piss off
their banker.
That's how it is, poor people.
He obeys its banker, that's it.
-Sometimes they refuse to obey.
- But then, there,
it becomes a revolution.
- The bourgeois also obey.
-Them, when they disobey,
it gives a coup d'etat.
Like in Chile, for example.
Oh, by the way,
your spinning, what did it do?
- Nothing to report.
- What do you mean, nothing to report?
Didn't get spotted?
-Non...
She went to the museum.
- Which museum?
Paris is the city of museums.
I dunno ? Beaubourg? Orsay?
- Yes, Orsay.
-What did she do ?
- She visited, ate an ice cream?
- That's right, she ate an ice cream
after seeing the paintings.
-What kind of paintings?
-The paintings all look
a bit alike.
So I followed her
and nothing to report.
Phone
*-Hello, it's me.
- Good morning, Mrs. Château-Têtard.
*-That's amazing...
-Comment ?
Naked in a double bass?
*-Little Whore.
-Excellent !
*- I'm not crazy!
-She went to the museum,
she saw paintings.
You know, the paintings,
they all look the same.
And she ate ice cream...
Nothing to report.
There...
*-At the museum?
But I don't understand...
- Decidedly,
the investigation stalled.
-Is it art
that gives you this look?
-Enough to ?
-What are you talking about ?
Art does not interest Ava.
-You didn't want to
go to the museum?
-At the Museum ?
To do what ? No.
-You are getting more and more derailed.
- What did you do this afternoon?
-I saw my goddaughter at Épinay.
My friend Noémie whom you had seen,
but you didn't like her.
-The one that is black.
-I'm going to see my goddaughter
since she can't come here.
- Mrs. Château-Têtard was taken aback
by such a lie.
She almost spit out the piece
she was following her,
and that she knew about the museum.
But she stood.
She promised herself to make him
swallow his lies,
to this dirty little whore.
She would clear up
this dark matter
of museum and goddaughter.
-Bizarre,
I thought you had
nothing to do with your goddaughter.
-I couldn't say that,
it's my only family.
- No, there's us.
- We, we count for nothing?
-I love roast.
-I hate meat in the evening.
Let's go to coffee.
-Ava never takes
coffee in the evening.
- It's true, I forgot.
So she finished her meal.
Conchita, double ration of dessert,
I'm starving.
Oh, then yes, I take roast.
You will serve Paul.
Paul,
tomorrow, you have the Board of Directors
of Château-Têtard & Fils.
-The what ?
Board of directors.
You are the president.
-Yes...
Every time I get bored.
I don't want to go there.
-It is important.
You have to show up,
darling.
*-We have a problem.
*The little girl claims to have been
with her goddaughter and not at the museum.
*Find out why she's lying
to her stepmom.
*I can put you
on another move.
- Above all not, we change nothing.
I know the animal well.
*-Be discreet.
-Because of a bulwark of morality
built by his parents,
Jerome was uncomfortable
having sex with Ava
being paid at the union rate.
Not counting overtime.
He knew that by confessing everything,
he would lose everything.
-Ava, I have to tell you something.
About my job.
- Well, since you're unemployed.
-I'm not a gigolo.
- No, it's runoff.
Paul explained it to me.
Don't tell me you have work,
we won't be able to see each other anymore.
If you only knew how boring it is
at home.
-Sexually?
-You're crazy ? We never talk about it.
The clock rings.
- Damn, I have to go.
I'm not going there, I don't want to be bored
with the gray men from the Board.
Upbeat music
...
The phone is ringing.
...
Mom, are you picking up?
Mom, pick up!
Hello ?
Paul Château-Têtard, himself.
Laughter
-Long live the stairs!
To hell with Pinochet!
I see where you're coming from, rascal.
-Mom ! Mom !
Mom !
Mom !
I am fired.
- I'm blocked, unblock.
It's worse.
-I'm trying to unblock.
- Mom, I got fired!
The Board fired me!
- They dared?
I will settle their account.
The dog, at the foot.
We will scare them.
The dog.
At the foot.
Down, dog!
Howls
-Adelaide!
-Maman !
-She's still moving.
She is dead !
-You are very nice, Ava.
I like to be woken up
by the scent of a flower.
You too smell good.
You are a good person.
My son had the courage
not to marry money.
I suffered too much from the arranged union
to impose it on Paul.
Ava, I love you very much.
- Me too, I love you very much.
I made you a coffee.
- How nice, my child.
Will you accompany me in Rolls
this afternoon?
I would like to introduce you
to my best friend.
And we could invite
your goddaughter.
Who is so beautifully black.
-Yes with pleasure.
Do not worry.
With Paul, we do everything
to have a child.
If it's a girl,
we'll call her after you.
The Pinochet is showing
signs of fatigue.
It will be fixed next week.
How
about going to the Seychelles,
or in cure in Vichy,
the time of the repair?
-It's a good idea !
Look.
I'm getting up.
I walk.
It's a miracle.
Fracas
Thank you, Conchita.
You pulled me out
of a terrible nightmare.
Always this recurring dream with Ava.
It was traumatic.
- Puppy, I have your breakfast.
- No, I want to sleep.
I'm in bad spirits, I have the flu.
-The dog.
-Something is wrong ?
-Paul gave me his flu.
I threw it all up this morning.
-We don't vomit for the flu.
- Stomach flu.
What if it's poisoning?
- Which museum today?
-None, on Tuesday
the museums are closed.
- So... At the Vincennes zoo?
With this rotten weather?
She's crazy?
I'm sorry for you.
Spinning in this weather...
It must have been awful.
- It wasn't great.
-Are you sure there isn't
a man under there?
-No...
-I've found.
Can't you see?
-No.
-Think.
No idea ?
It is, however, quite obvious.
And if...
was it a woman?
-If there is a lover it is a man.
And there isn't,
I know something about that.
-That's boring.
-There wouldn't be
a man in the family who...
-Raoul. He has relations
with our Château-Têtard.
- Are
you saying it now?
-I'm talking
about Madame Château-Têtard mother.
Your client.
-How do you know that?
-I'm a detective.
-Dalac
sighed heavily
and picked up the phone.
- Mrs. Chateau-Tetard? Dalac here.
*-At the Vincennes zoo, in the rain?
It's unthinkable.
-But it's
the truth.
-I read at the hairdresser
that sugar gives girls more
and the salty, boys.
Provided you are pregnant, of
course.
Instead of grapefruit,
I asked for mushrooms.
Finally, bites to the queen.
Mushrooms bother you?
Are you worried
that they are poisonous?
You look small, Ava.
Did you have the courage
to go out in this weather?
-Yes.
Where did you go ?
-I visited the Louvre.
-The Louvre... Are you sure?
-Yes, I just told you,
the Louvre.
-The Louvre, on a Tuesday?
There weren't too many people,
at least?
- Yes, it was full.
We could barely move forward.
I couldn't see anything.
Laughter
-I don't doubt that.
Especially since the museum is closed
on Tuesdays.
-Ah...
It's strange, I didn't notice anything.
Now that you say it,
there were
totally empty rooms.
- But then, how did you manage
to enter?
- I stayed outside,
I looked at the museum
through the windows.
And I visited the garden.
The famous zoological garden
of the Louvre.
And that's where
you went to the zoo.
-No.
Since there are none.
-You heard ?
- Heard what?
-She lies like she breathes.
Doesn't that make you jump?
But think!
-I noted the contradictions.
I'm tired of investigating.
-It's not your job.
For the honor of the family,
I hired a private detective.
-Ah ?
And the verdict, then?
-The verdict ?
Your wife is visiting
the zoo in the rain,
and she says she went to the Louvre.
- She lies without gravity.
If she prefers monkeys
to the Mona Lisa, that's okay.
-And when she
actually goes to the museum,
she says she went to see her goddaughter.
The only explanation
for this kind of behavior,
she's crazy!
A mythomaniac!
Paul...
We'll have to sort that out.
And there are not 36 solutions.
You want
commit Ava?
-Doctor Anigo
is coming tomorrow for my back.
I'm going to have
your wife's brain checked.
-Dr Anigo ?
-Raoul !
- Do you trust?
mysterious music
...
Honey, we need to talk.
- I sleep, I get up early
for the museum tomorrow.
-I'll tell you tomorrow.
-That's all ?
Tell me since you woke me up.
-Listen... Mom,
guided by the affection
she has for you...
I'm sure.
Didn't you notice you had
a bodyguard, a guardian angel?
You know what I mean ?
-I don't understand
your gibberish.
-You haven't noticed
that someone is following you
like a detective?
-So what ?
- So, nothing. Finally Yes...
A little problem.
-I can explain it to you.
Paul, how I love you!
It's a misunderstanding.
- Calm down,
you have nothing to reproach yourself for.
It doesn't matter,
just...
Stop lying, honey.
When you go to the zoo,
like this afternoon, let us know.
If you visit a museum,
you tell us.
Why are you talking about
all these salads?
- Didn't he say anything else,
this detective?
-What do you want him to say?
There is nothing.
It's heard ?
No more ugly lies?
Life isn't always fun
with mom.
- No, we never go out.
-Listen,
if you like museums so much,
tomorrow, I'll go with you somewhere.
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...
-This bas-relief
has lost all its relief.
A 15th century virgin
on polychrome wood
whose colors have disappeared.
- What a naughty object!
When I think of Jerome...
...
-It's not okay ?
What is happening ?
-I don't know,
a little anemia, maybe.
- Did you cut it short?
-Ava felt bad.
-Fortunately
Dr. Anigo is still there.
It's up to you, doctor.
*- I tell him :
* "bro, what are you doing ?"
-What do you see ?
-Nothing.
-And there?
-Always nothing.
-You are sure ?
Not even a skull
or a vagina?
*-And here I defuse the bomb.
*-Do you know how to do it?
- Are you vomiting?
- Yes, it comes from food?
-Yes, gastro or appendicitis.
*- I'm in the car,
I see a suspicious face...
-So ?
- I am subject
to professional secrecy.
Your daughter-in-law has all her head.
For the rest,
I'll let her tell you.
*-Go ahead, I'm getting up.
*I'm going to see him, and then I understand.
- And you, mom, are you all right?
You don't have anymore hallucinations ?
- No,
I never had hallucinations!
I saw her naked!
*- I defuse the quiet bomb.
*-Do you really know
what to do?
*-Of course, what do you think?
- Ava, where are you going?
-I'm going back to the Cluny museum
because of yesterday's shortened visit.
-Do you mind
going alone?
- No, don't worry, my bichon.
-Is your nausea better?
-Yes Yes Yes.
Don't worry, my puppy.
-Ava, are you still going to the museum?
I told you
not to use the Pinochet!
-I do not use it.
-I take the Rolls.
-I do not use it.
-I'm going
to the board.
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...
-Here we are.
You remember this scene.
We took a few detours,
but it deserved
some explanation.
-Inspector Dalac?
Adelaide Chateau-Têtard.
The little whore came out.
This time, we've got it.
- Have you picked up the pieces?
So, let's move on.
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...
-Jerome!
...
Jerome!
-What is going on ?
- You took the wrong stairs,
go around the top.
...
- I am followed.
I changed
to fool the spinning mill.
A private follows me.
- Private of what?
- A cop, what!
The Old Château-Têtard
has me followed.
We have a detective hot on our heels.
He's a moron,
he must be following someone else.
Or it's a hideout
who combines his reports at home.
I have another news.
I am pregnant.
Well, is that all the effect
it has on you?
-You're sure ?
- That I'm pregnant?
- No, that you are followed?
-Paul told me.
"Mom loves you so much
she gave you a private.
"You have nothing to say to me ?"
He tells me that I was at the zoo,
while I was at the hotel with you.
And me, I said I was at the Louvre.
Do you see the mess?
It's crazy
that we never spotted this guy.
I wonder
what he looks like.
-The baby ?
- No, the detective!
-I feel bad,
I must have caught your flu.
It doesn't work, the vaccine.
- It was not the flu,
nor a poison,
I am pregnant.
I will leave Paul
and the Queen Mother.
It's your child.
Let's settle down together,
with the baby.
- Wait, I'm thinking.
I have a salary of 1200 euros.
I pay 800 euros in rent
plus taxes.
More 400 euros of food.
Plus a baby, nanny,
diapers.
My future is behind me...
My life is screwed up.
-Where is he going ?
Where are you going ?
-An appointment, I had forgotten!
It's for work.
-Jerome!
- Do you know what you did?
Geoffroy, the clause.
Maître Crépin is going to read you
a clause that concerns you.
-It's a footnote to
the bylaws.
Article 5 C,
paragraph 4.2...
“If the president is dismissed
during a Board,
"if the vote takes place in his absence,
"Mme Château-Têtard mother
"would replace him
until the designation
of a new president.
"In the absence
of this new president,
"the voters
"must be domiciled for tax purposes
"in France."
- Ladies and gentlemen,
I am your president.
-Inspector?
Inspector?
There is someone ?
Over-grown slug?
Pigheaded!
-Turn around, you bastard.
Laughter
You have to learn to draw faster
if you want to stay in the business.
- Do we need a weapon for our investigations?
-Anyway,
what are you doing at the office
when you have to work?
- I finished the investigation.
- What ?
-I have completed
the Château-Têtard investigation.
Ava Château-Têtard
is Raoul's mistress.
The chauffeur.
-It's not possible !
Oh, the rascal!
He becomes the mother and the daughter-in-law.
We will vote to designate
our new president.
Unless you want to
be taxed in France?
Since we agree,
who votes to designate
Paul Château-Têtard, my son,
as president
of Château-Têtard & Fils?
It's a show of hands.
Perfect, you made the right choice.
phone vibrator
*-Inspector Dalac.
Madame Château-Têtard, elevators?
-I'm in the Board meeting.
What is it ?
*- I have the name of the lover.
*Come by taxi.
-Let's go.
The dog.
Raoul !
Thank you.
I will continue by taxi.
-A taxi ?
Adelaide, is there a problem?
-Everything is fine.
See you tonight.
Come by for some champagne.
- Taxi!
- Taxi!
Taxi !
Did we catch the little whore?
The day is prolific.
-I feel that you will
taste the news.
Come, come!
-Raoul ?
- Mrs. Chateau-Tetard?
Madame Chateau-Tetard?
Ouh, ouh!
Madame Chateau-Tetard?
Wake up, Madame Château-Têtard!
Madame Château-Têtard, wake up!
Wake up, Madame Château-Têtard!
A shot rang out.
Go on.
She moans.
...
-Raoul !
Why did you cheat on me
with the little whore?
- Adelaide,
what are you talking about?
Adelaide, I would never have done that!
-Bastard!
- It's not my style at all.
Adelaide, please!
I don't like young people.
Please calm down.
-You will pay for that !
-Adelaide, but it's not true!
Please, Adelaide, calm down.
Calm down.
-I'll fire you.
You won't be coming back to this house anymore.
Open this door!
- Please calm down!
Think for a second.
I didn't cheat on you.
You are mistaken about my masculine side.
Adelaide!
Adelaide, please!
Think for a second.
Calm down.
Don't throw everything in the trash.
Noise
-Where is he ?
Paul !
Paul !
-Maman !
I am going to be a dad.
I'm going to be dad, mom!
Ava...
You are so proud of me.
No, I'm so proud of you!
Raoul !
Raoul, do you know the news?
Raoul !
Dad and president on the same day!
What a manly day!
Raoul ?
Raoul !
Raoul ?
-My hat...
Has a cas ...
- We will miss him, Raoul.
It's going to be weird.
A big void, right?
Conchita, you bring me
a cigarette and a fire.
-I'm sorry, ma'am.
Mr. Paul does not want us to smoke
in the presence of Madame,
who is pregnant.
-You won, my dear.
You are stronger than I imagined.
But it's still Raoul
that I resent the most.
Raoul, how I will miss you.
At least you'll be away from her.
Far from the little whore.
-Jerome dumped me,
I'm pregnant.
The father doesn't want the baby,
but I have a husband who wants to be a father.
Things worked out
as they should.
What could be more natural ?
Jerome...
- Watch out for your little belly,
my treasure.
No, don't cry.
Finally, yes, cry. Don't worry,
it's the hormones.
You want a liquor
to cheer you up?
Oui ?
- Jerome, I'm going to be bored without you.
When the baby is born,
I will play with him.
Yes, but until birth?
I'll take care of her room,
her little clothes...
The baby will annoy me.
Honk
-Paul !
You need a driver.
-Oh dear !
Don't wear that.
It's vulgarity!
-It's the law !
-I command you
to disobey!
- Mom, it's bad to know me.
-Tell me, Jerome,
look at this.
I don't understand it at all.
-It's an account statement.
In the red.
I wouldn't like to be in their place.
-You won't be anymore soon.
It
's the agency's account statements.
-I am fired ?
- What do you want, huh?
It's the fault of the socialists
who are in power.
- Which socialists?
- Well, all that...
-Sorry,
you're way too narrow.
Have a good day.
You.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Good morning sir.
Me Geoffroy Crépin, lawyer.
Are you coming for the announcement?
- Yes.
My cover letter.
- Do you have any flaws?
- Faults ?
-Greed, gluttony,
anger, laziness,
solidarity?
-Uh...
-Qualities ?
Are you integrated into the company?
- With this job, this job,
I imagine being able to move up
the social ladder.
-Don't go too high.
You won't be working with me
.
I just come to select you,
pass judgment.
- You are not a lawyer?
Do you judge too?
-Any idiot can judge.
Just look
at the person's head,
his speech, his bearing,
and it is judged.
Do you know how to drive?
Do you know how to drive?
- Do you know how to drive?
- Yes.
-Hello.
Paul Château-Têtard.
You are hired,
you will be our driver.
The commitment takes effect tomorrow.
We leave for Antibes.
Watch out, my wife is expecting a baby.
Do you know how to drive a Rolls?
-Maman ?
Our new Raoul has arrived.
-As if we could
replace Raoul...
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...
It's Raoul, huh, the father?
...
Why is Doctor Anigo here?
He's still there for Ava?
...
-I said to be careful!
- What about me?
And me ?
- How are you, my dove?
-I'm not going down alone.
Come and help me !
It's insane!
Who are these people ? Who is it ?
What are you doing ?
What is happening ?
Doctor, what's going on?
I saw her come out naked
from a double bass!
I am not crazy !
I am not crazy !
- Me neither, ma'am.
-Dr Anigo !
triumphal music
...
-Forward, Raoul.
...
What do you think
of our new Raoul?
...
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...