Baron noir (2016–…): Season 2, Episode 8 - Sorpasso - full transcript
A riot breaks out in reaction to Mourad Adjaoui's disappearance. Vidal takes advantage of Amélie's enormous political crisis to shatter Philippe's dream by eliminating the possibility of a union within the left party once and for all. Under these dramatic circumstances, Philippe makes the decision to renew contact with Amélie.
-You're not welcome here.
-I want to go in.
-I want to see the commissioner.
-No one's there!
-You need an appointment.
-I want to see him!
Turn off your camera!
Enough! What's going on?
Mr. Commissioner, my brother's
disappeared, I just want to find him
and nobody's giving me any updates...
I'm Samira Adjawi,
he's Mourad Adjawi,
he's been gone for seven months,
no one wants to help?
Did you file a complaint?
-Yes...
-Then you have nothing to do here.
-You have to go.
-Go, it's enough.
Let go of me!
I want to find my brother!
-Turn off the camera!
-Let go of me!
Turn of the camera!
Let go of me! I want my brother back!
Lucas Brancour,
do we know what he thinks?
Essonne's fifth constituency.
He lives near Evry,
so the burnt cars and the injured
won't make him agree
to a referendum on school diversity.
Besides, his constituency are
middle-class houses. He won't sign.
About Evry, do we know
how tonight could turn out?
The emotion is still strong.
A young woman was hospitalised,
she risks long-term side-effects.
The IGPN is at work.
Two agents have already
been suspended.
-What did they do?
-It seems the young woman
went to the police station
for the umpteenth time
to follow up on a complaint
about her brother
who disappeared
in Courcouronnes in November.
Her insistence exasperated
the policemen.
They tried to make her leave,
she resisted
and apparently,
her head hit the wall.
One hour later,
the first car was burned.
Madam President?
Amélie had a phone conversation with
Kahlenberg that wasn't constructive.
He confirmed he signed the call
for a referendum
on the Balsan proposal.
Do we know the name of the family?
The man who disappeared.
The young woman is Samira Adjawi.
I made a few calls this morning.
About this school
diversity project...
Madam President.
Didn't you hear about Samira Adjawi?
There were riots in Evry last night.
-I know.
-Samira is Mourad Adjawi's sister.
She's looking for her brother,
police didn't like her insistence.
Is she the one hospitalised?
I'd rather not have to be the one
to tell you this.
Madam President...
An operation like
the one we've led...
Once completed,
requires no follow-up.
The less you talk about it,
the better.
But as for Evry, we must do
everything it takes to calm people.
The riots must stop
as soon as possible.
We'll have a report
from the IGPN by tomorrow.
We'll also have
to give answers about Mourad.
Mourad Adjawi was listed "S"
and monitored by the DGSI
as a radicalised person,
until we lost him
in November. Period.
Very good.
"In our name..." I reckon
you're not the only one signing this?
We are ten, all members
of the political office.
-Good.
-It'll be on my blog at noon.
Did you know I was against
your visit to the school?
Politically, the Balsan proposal
is a concentrate of colonialism.
As if we had to dissolve
the suburban youth
in the dominant,
so-called "educated" population.
Besides, campaigning
with the Socialists
while our movement is built
against the SP is a major mistake.
What do you want from me now?
-Nothing.
-There.
I wanted to keep you informed
before its publication.
-Michel. Each time...
-Do you remember
Jeanne Calment,
the former oldest person on Earth?
-Yes.
-In 1965,
A 47 year old notary
bought her apartment.
Life annuity. She was 90,
It seemed like a good deal.
He paid her a rent every month.
30 years later, he died.
Before Calment. His wife
kept paying the old woman
until 1997.
In total, they paid
twice the price of the apartment.
Aurore, The People Stand Up
isn't for sale.
Not cash, nor as life annuity.
-That's not what it's about.
-Really?
"By going to this school
without a prior dialogue or debate,
"Michel Vidal created doubt
on the nature of The People Stand Up.
You can't keep advocating democracy
everywhere but in your own party."
Every time we disagree,
you cut short...
Is it too long to wait for me to die?
If that's your problem, say it.
Say it instead of watching
my wrinkles with your doe eyes.
Your gaze soils me.
Your words disgust me,
I despise you, your blog,
and your school yard conspiracies.
Yes, alright.
Very well. Great.
Not bad, Tony. Not bad at all.
I'm seeing Amélie tomorrow morning.
We got her. We won't let her go,
it's up to you now.
And it's good, because I was afraid
she'd call on Kahlenberg.
Joining us took a lot of effort.
Kahlenberg Is nice,
I like him, but he's fragile.
He's a wuss.
You should have seen his face
when he heard Vidal was coming.
"I'm calling an Uber!"
He's lost contact
with his balls a long time ago.
There's been an abduction alert
for his balls.
-I don't know how Véro manages.
-Fine. What about Amélie?
How will she play?
She'll try to plane your proposal
to make it softer.
Lower the quotas, experiment...
You don't have a choice.
Move one inch back,
Vidal will stab us.
What we want
is Amélie and Vidal both.
And Vidal is under Dupraz's pressure.
Did you see her blog? "Not
in our name." What a frigid bitch.
-We must help Vidal fuck Dupraz.
-How?
Go all out.
Total gratuity of school lunches.
It's in Vidal's program. Big victory
for him, big defeat for Dupraz.
Tactically perfect, but...
Cyril, diversity is great,
but let me ask you...
Do you think you can learn anything
in school with an empty stomach?
A first poll will be
in L'Express this week,
I'm waiting for more detail
but we are at 59-41.
Heading towards yes? People want
to feel generous, it's normal.
Ask again, alone in the voting booth,
when it's about
their children's future.
The number doesn't mean much
but it puts pressure on Amélie.
Rickwaert's got a gun
to her head, look at this.
If he weren't ineligible,
even I would vote for him.
LEFT.
AT THE SCHOOL OF UNION
Can I have my bitchy moment?
-Go ahead.
-You say she has to support the yes,
and that since she's campaigning
on the same side as Vidal,
she's de facto moving left,
which leaves the majority
of the centre to you.
-Thanks to RICKWAERT?
-What if she doesn't support the yes?
She could abstain.
Like a shameful Socialist. I don't
believe it, she'd seem to copy me.
As soon as RICKWAERT wants
a referendum, I call for abstention.
As per my values: liberty,
no sectarianism, pragmatism...
in Souleuvre with Boudard
and Mirmont, I set a compass,
a direction. But what about her?
No one knows what
she really thinks. Who's Dorandeux?
A showcase of French chic
throughout the world.
It's great to sell power plants
and Rafale planes,
but as for the rest...
Anger in the suburbs is increasing.
The government plays with fire.
Are you referring to what Beauveau
said on the Adjawi case,
who was seen as radicalised,
and put under supervision?
Nobody believes it.
Just look at the social networks.
This coming night
is likely to be tough.
The young people feel like
they are hiding a blunder
by saying the missing brother
was a radicalised man,
that is to say a potential terrorist
but all testimonies coincide:
Mourad Adjawir showed
no sign of radicalisation at all.
Neither in his words,
nor in his behaviour.
Islam and terrorism are exploited,
and the mix up in a bad way.
-Cyril.
-Madam President.
-How are you?
Very well.
Are you sure?
Yes, very well.
-I wanted to thank you for...
-Please, it's the least I could do.
Thank you.
Your fight against
religious cronyism,
and your determination
to raise the issue
of cultural separation without
dissociating it from social concerns
made you pay the high price
for your convictions
The story can't stop here.
I don't want it to.
You deserve better.
I'm thinking of reshuffling
before the European elections.
I'd like you to be
minister of National Education.
But not to make quotas.
I could be less definitive,
leave things open
and tell you what you want to hear
and decide later.
But it's not the way I work.
You'll realise if you accept .
I tell it like it is.
Ambiguity is ruling the easy way.
I won't do it.
Can I ask you a question?
Please.
The referendum.
Is it your idea?
It's so like Philippe.
I liked him too. A brilliant mind.
A punchline for every idea,
an idea every hour.
All linked to each other
through various tactics,
all part of a global strategy,
itself subject to timing adjustments
depending on the movements
of the political forces.
You get lost, don't you?
It's true.
The problem is he gets lost himself.
Do you really think
he's interested in your proposal?
Your reform, your 77 articles?
To him, it's just a tool,
smoke and mirrors.
Fix the forces and make me
break my alliance with Thorigny.
You mean smoke and mirrors.
I call it conquering the opinion,
leading a cultural battle.
-It's about staging ideas.
-Like denouncing Mrs. Champaigne
and her diocesan committee?
Cyril...
There cannot be a referendum.
The no would win.
The Evry riots won't help.
Each car a kid burns
is one less point for the yes.
Each fire...
I'm not all about
referendum legislation.
But many things have to change.
As long as there are ghetto schools,
-that the school system. .
-Madam President!
There was an attack at the Roubaix
police school. A massacre.
All we know is that it took place
a few minutes ago, around 2 PM,
when the students go back to class.
There were a lot of people outside
the building.
A man arrived on a scooter, stopped
And opened fire, at least
3 shots with an automatic pistol
The investigations are ongoing
the forensic police are here...
-Heard about the attack?
-I'm watching it.
-Did you see Amélie?
-We couldn't finish,
-but we said the essentials.
-We need to debrief
With the bracelet, it's too late for
me to come. Can you come to Dunkirk?
Alright, I'm on my way.
Did he act on his own
or with an accomplice,
the question remains.
The attack has not yet...
-Her opinion on school lunches?
-We didn't talk about that.
-Fuck, Cyril.
-She doesn't want a referendum.
Then what did she want?
Me.
What do you mean?
Have you join the government?
National Education. A reshuffling
before the European elections.
Pure cynicism. Since Kahlenberg,
she's trying the same with you.
People are pawns to her.
She takes them and discards them.
-You're not asking if I accepted?
-Cyril.
Minister of National Education at 30.
Of course you're lost. Especially
after what you've been through.
Winning a referendum on social
diversity is complicated on its own,
but after riots
and a terrorist attack...
Don't hide behind this.
You know how it goes.
Yelling, crying and flowers,
and in two weeks we've moved on.
Back living in denial again...
We must stay on track.
Did I tell you when Laugier asked me
to make his primary campaign?
-I think.
-I was on the left wing, he wasn't.
But I had told him right away
so he wouldn't believe things.
Our disagreement was deep.
He won me over
with the first sentences he said.
"The fight for socialism
is a very simple thing.
It's a fight for the unity
of the socialists."
Jaures didn't do anything else,
nor did Blum or Mitterrand.
I'll win because I won't do
anything else.
Let Vidal and Amélie hate each other,
one on the right, one on the centre,
and the people will lose every chance
to see their lives get better.
The left in power. Because Vidal
alone will never reach 51%.
And Amélie governing with Thorigny's
guys, is it still the left?
Let's keep robbing them,
be united when they're not.
That's the way it is.
I have nothing else to say to you.
Take it as a burden if you will,
I'll take it as an honour.
You have the rest
of your life to be a minister.
Our main lead
is that of the Greshnitsa gang,
a Macedonian village that was
the platform of wide traffic.
Most of the UZls weapons found
in France have been through there.
Its boss in France is a father, owner
of a taxi phone in Aubervilliers.
Excuse me.
The terrorist is live
on Facebook live.
Show it.
In the name of God, the greatest,
the merciful, in the name
of prophet Muhammad...
Today, I could avenge
the murders of 22nd November
by the French government of
the soldiers of the one we venerate.
Abou Awad, Abou Thala Al Faransi
and Abou Atem
have decided to go to the Djina
through jihad,
by leading an action
at the service of the almighty Allah.
He wants us to avenge the murders
by killing kuffars.
It was their duty,
It's ours and yours.
My brothers, following
their divine path any way you can.
Whoever you are, wherever you are.
What's the matter?
Remember November 22nd?
It's the day Salomé told me
she's dropping the name RICKWAERT.
On the same day,
before going to see Thorigny,
Amélie spent the night
in the crisis room.
Alone with Lambray.
I tell myself...
If the services had lost contact with
the Courcouronnes guys that night...
It's a heavy crisis situation.
The fear of an imminent attack.
Amélie wants to stay with Lambray,
I can understand that,
it doesn't mean she killed them.
But what she told me that morning
before going to Thorigny's does.
What did she say?
I told her she was acting stupid.
She said she was the President,
she's the one taking the risks
and the one who'll be judged.
Philippe. What do we do?
Philippe?
This barbarian cult
named the Islamic State
has claimed terrible crimes.
It said they come as retaliation
for three assassinations
that France is said to have lead
on the national territory.
Is this true?
Or is it an opportunistic claim
with the goal of pushing
the country further
into fights between communities?
It's the President's role to answer.
I wholeheartedly hope
that she will bring proof
that everything is false. Or else...
How can we live in doubt?
How can we live without knowing
which side we are on?
On that of barbarism,
or civilisation?
Pre-emptive killings to avoid deaths
does not avoid deaths.
Roubaix is a cruel demonstration
of this fact.
Have we killed pre-preemptively?
Have we killed preemptively
ladies and gentlemen,
the heads of the different services,
policemen... Say what you know!
Even if your leaders refuse!
Those who like you, give life to an
intimate part of the republic,
prove that our state of rights
is inviolable.
It would be the most powerful
political response
to this despicable attack.
And the most beautiful homage
we can pay to the departed.
-Thank you.
-Well said!
Mr. Vidal!
Hold on a second.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL
-Did you listen?
-What?
-Vidal
-No. I was stuck with a citizen.
I'll listen now.
It's over. He called
Amélie a criminal.
He ruined everything.
He fucked us deep.
NO TO COMMUNITARIANISM
YES TO DIVERSITY
Shit. I'll call you back in a minute,
I was on the phone.
Someone had to say what Vidal said.
Sorry?
-What if she did have them killed?
-What would it change?
What would it change if France
killed people preemptively?
Nothing at all...
Not people. Terrorists.
-Courts and prisons exist for that.
-Not enough, it seems.
Do you have something
you need to tell me?
We can't know what Amélie
had to deal with. It is ugly,
for sure, but there is worse,
like 90 killed in a concert hall.
Don't make me defend these assholes,
Daniel, it's too easy.
I'm as angry as you are.
There have always been secret ops,
but never enough to start civil war.
Vidal is crazy.
He just wants to show off.
Are you alright?
When it happened, I was
at the Élysée... I was there.
It may be ridiculous...
But I feel guilty.
Sorry, I was clumsy.
-You haven't been.
-I was stupid.
You're allowed to be. In times
like these, you're not the only one.
-I'll go home.
-No.
I won't let you go home alone.
If you want me to agree with you
on everything, then I do.
Are you coming?
Dear French people, since the start
of our struggle against Jihadism...
Listen, it's important. I insist.
Dear French people, since the start
of our struggle against Jihadism...
Listen, it's important. I insist.
I need to see Amélie urgently.
Before Oudina gets killed.
-Why?
-Because I know things.
Her survival depends
on what I'll tell her.
Look, I'll do my best.
Samira Adjoui is safe.
But the attack gave publicity
to the issue of the missing brother.
A hashtag "WherelsMourad",
the riots, a Facebook page...
-And?
-The social networks are stirred up.
They want to know what happened to
the other two, Nizah and Botillon.
Someone posted a low-quality picture
of someone taken into a van
by force, in front of Nizah's.
So there is a witness?
I couldn't identify it and I'd rather
not try to access the judiciary file.
But it doesn't matter. Even if
the license plate was readable,
all we'd learn
would be that she was stolen
the day before,
then found burned the next day.
The police would conclude
it's a kidnapping by gangsters.
Nizah has a criminal history.
The situation is under control.
Madam President, I'm the only proof
of your involvement
and I will protect you,
whatever the cost.
I used the authority you gave me
in an underhanded way,
and I had three French citizens
killed without letting you know.
I'll take responsibility for it,
you'll be free to condemn me publicly
with all the violence you need.
It won't change the admiration I have
and will still have for you.
SUPPORT TO OCCUPIED FACTORIES
Once Oudina left, the receptionist
called the police
from a machine room.
At 0:56, the police intervened
and discovered in Oudina's room
a Kalashnikov, six grenades and
the phone used for yesterday's video.
All available troops
have Roubaix on lock down.
Thanks to his phone,
we know every single move
Oudina made these past weeks.
Arrests are in progress.
He can't get away.
It's a matter of hours.
I'll do everything it takes
to have him caught alive.
Oudina's arrest will be the best
possible answer
to the insane allegations about
discarding the rule of law in France.
I will talk to the French people
as soon as it's over. Thank you.
She's waiting.
Not one minute to lose.
I don't have much time.
So you're having guys killed?
Says who? A cop killer?
The old, megalomaniac leftist
If that's your only answer,
you're in trouble.
It's politics, not law.
It's about feeling,
perception, opinion.
The opinion's like me.
It thinks you did what you had to do.
Good thing I'm here. I think
you'll get through this from the top.
You'd like me to answer:
"Please, Philippe,
help me, explain to me, save me!
I was wrong about Thorigny,
now you're all I have."
It's quite true. I'm all you have.
Let's go.
If you want to know,
no, I wouldn't like that.
You're a queen, I'm not saying that
because you're the president.
That's the way it is.
You have it in you.
It's what I like about you.
Dominating must be so great.
Be honest. It's not so unpleasant
to be loved, is it?
Who loves you like I do?
We have disagreements,
I'm left wing, you're right wing.
I'm for an alliance with Vidal,
you, with Thorigny.
I believe in the right-wing divide,
you're into the three blocks.
-So a synthesis is impossible.
-But not the third way.
-The third way?
-There.
I can tell you're interested.
Intellectual pleasures interest me.
Let me tell you.
Dissolve the assembly
and win the elections,
without Vidal nor Thorigny.
On your own.
-Dissolve? When?
-Here. Right now.
I wrote a speech for you.
It's a draft, but...
A speech that will make me
win the legislatives on my own?
Yes.
To be honest, it depends.
Can I ask you a question?
Whatever you've done or not,
do you feel guilty?
-No.
-Fuck, I knew it. What a champ.
So you can win.
-Own up to it.
-I do.
You had those fuckers gunned down,
and you would do it again.
Look...
"This situation hasn't happened,
not with Mourad Adjawi any more than
with the other names Oudina gave.
But believe me, if it had to happen,
then yes,
I'd choose the safety of the French
people as that is my main mission."
Remember Mitterrand
after the Rainbow Warrior?
He fired his minister of defence?
The guy's in deep trouble,
criticised for nuclear tests,
and what does he do?
He goes in the Pacific,
where the tests are done,
and he owns up to it.
He says "Go fuck yourselves."
You're not in my place,
you cannot be.
I'm a war leader and I decided this.
The monopoly of legitimate violence,
it's me.
None of you could endure
a tenth of the solitude it implies.
Do you even know what I risk?
80% of favourable opinions.
Besides that, nothing.
You're the commander in chief.
The defender of the nation.
The one whose hand does not shake.
Ready for everything
to protect her children.
You don't bring
the Roman she-wolf to court.
The right is discredited.
Even Chalon is in trouble.
What will they campaign on
if you pass as the iron lady?
Guantanamo? A country-wide
Muslim ban? They have nothing left.
It's even worse for Thorigny.
He's condemned to be your dog.
Can you see him on the same track
as Vidal, but still not as good?
I'd open a huge space for Vidal.
And close it right away.
When you dissolve, you fire Thorigny.
Let the single
work contract project die away.
And you show you understand
the country's main problem,
-better yet, solve it.
-And what is it?
National cohesion.
Adherence to the republic.
What's striking about the Evry riots?
When you learn Adjawi
was listed "S", it doesn't calm down.
It's not that simple.
Yes, it is. The republic
has lost its footing in many areas.
It's not loved nor respected,
because it's just not there.
-And it's been a while
-Do you mean we're guilty?
That we should understand
those who join Daesh?
No one will accuse you of that.
You're the Roman she-wolf, but yes,
in front of Islamists
with an ideology,
we must oppose the force
of ideas, the power of a model
republic. But a model, to be
believed in, must go beyond words.
-Let me guess. School?
-Yes. Of course!
Diversity, the Cyril way.
No more referendum. Do it directly.
And push further.
Free school lunches,
public services back
in the ghettos...
Vidal is as much in trouble
as the right. Run him dry.
Pre-emptive on the right,
block the space on the left.
-Hold both sides.
-I disagree. Cohesion, you say?
Fine, but it means full employment,
therefore, the work contract reform.
Cohesion means appeasing
the country's tensions,
not exacerbating them by creating
a school war.
And this cohesion is urgent.
What you're suggesting
is 10 years of experimenting?
Mistakes and collective crises
in the hope of results in 20 years?
We don't have time. We need
quick results in terms of employment.
Thank you, Philippe.
Amélie, hold on.
Amélie, we're not done.
Look, be realistic. Stop loving me.
We lost the signal, do you copy?
Do you copy?
Contact!
Cuff him.
Cuff him.
Cuff him.
Suspect caught and neutralised.
He's alive.
Good work, everyone. Congratulations.
Can I have a moment
with the President?
Thank you, gentlemen.
Well done.
Nice work.
Aren't you afraid Oudina will give
elements to the police or judges?
-Elements?
-Sorry, it's true the guys
from Courcouronnes are in Syria.
-As I told you.
-Of course.
Do you want the moral of the story?
-With pleasure.
-We haven't been united enough.
This fragility led some to believe
they could "left-ify" you at will.
And steal you from me
on the referendum thing.
-Don't you think?
-It's very true.
Let's move forward then.
Create a common force
to follow our logic
and own up to our coherence.
-A common force?
-Yes, a party federation,
a club, a movement. Whatever.
No.
No?
You shouldn't take it this way,
I could be less cooperative.
In what way?
Do you think Vidal is right
to defend the state of right
and call for denunciation?
Go ahead, answer his call,
our soldiers are taught
to keep silent but you can speak.
After your resignation threat,
it's your second empty threat.
-I'm not...
-A common force?
Do you think I'm weak enough
to accept that?
From the start, you've had one goal.
marginalise me and take the lead
of the space I created myself.
You're even weaker than I am.
What are you going to do?
Approve Vidal?
Validate his new divide,
for or against the killer president?
You're better off in my shadow
than in his, believe me.
You're my Prime Minister,
it's great that way.
Don't worry, I won't get a new one.
That will be all.
Silence, please. We're rolling.
Five, four,
three, two...
Dear French people,
their names were Julien, Michaël,
Tiffany, Zora, Bastien and Kofi.
They were the faces of France.
Their courage was our safety.
Their youth was our future.
In agreement with their families,
I have decided that on Thursday,
a state funeral will be held
at the Invalides, in Paris.
We know the enemy very well.
Its only true strength
is our weakness.
The temptation of division.
Yet, every time, the trap
closes down even harder on us.
The poison of self-hate,
the sick obsession of seeing
a sordid conspiracy everywhere
and state assassinations.
Of course, I have heard
the accusations made against me.
These words, like straight out
of the killers' mouth,
suggest these crimes are not crimes
but consequences
because France would be guilty.
To these accusers,
lost in petty political moves,
I have nothing to say.
They are cowards
and submissive people.
But to those of you
who are simply wondering,
I want to answer this:
my first duty is the safety
of the French people,
which is why I tell you,
while the question of ignoring
the rule of law was never raised,
not concerning Mourad Adjawi
any more than any other,
If the question had to be raised,
then yes,
I'd choose the safety
of the French people.
Tonight, I will ask
Prime Minister Stéphane Thorigny
to hand me
his government's resignment.
I will ask him to form
a new government team,
all dedicated to this
republican consolidation.
To tell the enemy that France is one.
My call is not to parties,
even though I do respect them.
My call goes out
to the conscience of these people
of conviction, honour and duty,
who from the left,
the right or the centre,
place the defence of the republic
above everything else.
I want this national union government
to be supported by the French people.
Madam President?
-In a republic,
the people decide.
That is why I am dissolving
the national assembly.
Everywhere, throughout the country
you will be able to choose candidates
who support this will of national
union and republican consolidation.
They will be the voices and faces
of our shared will
to be a united people.
United, therefore invincible.
Thank you. Long live the Republic,
Long live France.
Hi, Philippe.
It's beautiful.
The Los Angeles of the north,
you say?
I could almost believe that.
You know, about Véro...
She joined you for your ideas.
It's stupid but I respect that.
That asshole, Balsan, it's different.
A bourgeois careerist,
everything I hate.
-Anyway, what's up?
-I need you.
Are you kidding me?
There's no more political space
between Amélie and I.
You'll have to accept there are
three blocks, it's a reality,
-it's not theory. It's a new world.
-Fuck. Not the new world thing.
-Keep your televangelist shit.
-I respect you a lot,
-but...
-I don't. You're a Stalinist.
You theorise the new divides
all the time,
but you behave
like the worst Stalinists.
The third period of the
Communist International in the 30s.
Always more willing to denounce
social traitors than Nazis.
-Do you want to speak about 1932?
-Why not?
And where will it take us?
So much to put in talmude.
At one point, historical
and theoretical controversies
have only one goal:
to avoid
your immediate responsibilities
in the present, here and now.
We're not only living in a new world,
we are living in a new era.
I don't refute the CP.
I'm building
an alternative to the SP.
A nice, well-known alternative.
The left is being born again.
We are uniting the people.
We're done using the old machines,
the old rules...
It's an enormous task,
to build everything.
You're the only one who can
help me structure all this.
I need you, Philippe.
It's over. She's gone with the right.
It's over for good.
There's no hope,
admit it and learn from it.
At least think about it.
In your own time.
Do try to think about it.
-Am I interrupting you?
-I'm almost done.
The film starts in 45 minutes.
What did you do today?
Got up at 6.30 a.m, organic cereals,
squeezed orange, jogged at dawn.
That is great. Then?
I wrote for a few hours.
I have seven lines, 63 words.
You almost had a chapter
the other day.
About Grandma RICKWAERT
and the strike of 47?
I read it again. I'm not Zola either.
Mum wants to vote Vidal
at the next presidential.
At least with Vidal,
there's something, an adventure.
But?
At your age, we really thought
worldwide revolution was coming.
We fought for that.
I still think
we should have little place,
preferably under the sun,
where the revolution won't reach,
just in case it turns bad.
You know, the RICKWAERT saga
is 800 pages, 60 chapters minimum.
Maybe I could even beat
The Brothers Karamazov.
Only one chapter really matters.
-I want to go in.
-I want to see the commissioner.
-No one's there!
-You need an appointment.
-I want to see him!
Turn off your camera!
Enough! What's going on?
Mr. Commissioner, my brother's
disappeared, I just want to find him
and nobody's giving me any updates...
I'm Samira Adjawi,
he's Mourad Adjawi,
he's been gone for seven months,
no one wants to help?
Did you file a complaint?
-Yes...
-Then you have nothing to do here.
-You have to go.
-Go, it's enough.
Let go of me!
I want to find my brother!
-Turn off the camera!
-Let go of me!
Turn of the camera!
Let go of me! I want my brother back!
Lucas Brancour,
do we know what he thinks?
Essonne's fifth constituency.
He lives near Evry,
so the burnt cars and the injured
won't make him agree
to a referendum on school diversity.
Besides, his constituency are
middle-class houses. He won't sign.
About Evry, do we know
how tonight could turn out?
The emotion is still strong.
A young woman was hospitalised,
she risks long-term side-effects.
The IGPN is at work.
Two agents have already
been suspended.
-What did they do?
-It seems the young woman
went to the police station
for the umpteenth time
to follow up on a complaint
about her brother
who disappeared
in Courcouronnes in November.
Her insistence exasperated
the policemen.
They tried to make her leave,
she resisted
and apparently,
her head hit the wall.
One hour later,
the first car was burned.
Madam President?
Amélie had a phone conversation with
Kahlenberg that wasn't constructive.
He confirmed he signed the call
for a referendum
on the Balsan proposal.
Do we know the name of the family?
The man who disappeared.
The young woman is Samira Adjawi.
I made a few calls this morning.
About this school
diversity project...
Madam President.
Didn't you hear about Samira Adjawi?
There were riots in Evry last night.
-I know.
-Samira is Mourad Adjawi's sister.
She's looking for her brother,
police didn't like her insistence.
Is she the one hospitalised?
I'd rather not have to be the one
to tell you this.
Madam President...
An operation like
the one we've led...
Once completed,
requires no follow-up.
The less you talk about it,
the better.
But as for Evry, we must do
everything it takes to calm people.
The riots must stop
as soon as possible.
We'll have a report
from the IGPN by tomorrow.
We'll also have
to give answers about Mourad.
Mourad Adjawi was listed "S"
and monitored by the DGSI
as a radicalised person,
until we lost him
in November. Period.
Very good.
"In our name..." I reckon
you're not the only one signing this?
We are ten, all members
of the political office.
-Good.
-It'll be on my blog at noon.
Did you know I was against
your visit to the school?
Politically, the Balsan proposal
is a concentrate of colonialism.
As if we had to dissolve
the suburban youth
in the dominant,
so-called "educated" population.
Besides, campaigning
with the Socialists
while our movement is built
against the SP is a major mistake.
What do you want from me now?
-Nothing.
-There.
I wanted to keep you informed
before its publication.
-Michel. Each time...
-Do you remember
Jeanne Calment,
the former oldest person on Earth?
-Yes.
-In 1965,
A 47 year old notary
bought her apartment.
Life annuity. She was 90,
It seemed like a good deal.
He paid her a rent every month.
30 years later, he died.
Before Calment. His wife
kept paying the old woman
until 1997.
In total, they paid
twice the price of the apartment.
Aurore, The People Stand Up
isn't for sale.
Not cash, nor as life annuity.
-That's not what it's about.
-Really?
"By going to this school
without a prior dialogue or debate,
"Michel Vidal created doubt
on the nature of The People Stand Up.
You can't keep advocating democracy
everywhere but in your own party."
Every time we disagree,
you cut short...
Is it too long to wait for me to die?
If that's your problem, say it.
Say it instead of watching
my wrinkles with your doe eyes.
Your gaze soils me.
Your words disgust me,
I despise you, your blog,
and your school yard conspiracies.
Yes, alright.
Very well. Great.
Not bad, Tony. Not bad at all.
I'm seeing Amélie tomorrow morning.
We got her. We won't let her go,
it's up to you now.
And it's good, because I was afraid
she'd call on Kahlenberg.
Joining us took a lot of effort.
Kahlenberg Is nice,
I like him, but he's fragile.
He's a wuss.
You should have seen his face
when he heard Vidal was coming.
"I'm calling an Uber!"
He's lost contact
with his balls a long time ago.
There's been an abduction alert
for his balls.
-I don't know how Véro manages.
-Fine. What about Amélie?
How will she play?
She'll try to plane your proposal
to make it softer.
Lower the quotas, experiment...
You don't have a choice.
Move one inch back,
Vidal will stab us.
What we want
is Amélie and Vidal both.
And Vidal is under Dupraz's pressure.
Did you see her blog? "Not
in our name." What a frigid bitch.
-We must help Vidal fuck Dupraz.
-How?
Go all out.
Total gratuity of school lunches.
It's in Vidal's program. Big victory
for him, big defeat for Dupraz.
Tactically perfect, but...
Cyril, diversity is great,
but let me ask you...
Do you think you can learn anything
in school with an empty stomach?
A first poll will be
in L'Express this week,
I'm waiting for more detail
but we are at 59-41.
Heading towards yes? People want
to feel generous, it's normal.
Ask again, alone in the voting booth,
when it's about
their children's future.
The number doesn't mean much
but it puts pressure on Amélie.
Rickwaert's got a gun
to her head, look at this.
If he weren't ineligible,
even I would vote for him.
LEFT.
AT THE SCHOOL OF UNION
Can I have my bitchy moment?
-Go ahead.
-You say she has to support the yes,
and that since she's campaigning
on the same side as Vidal,
she's de facto moving left,
which leaves the majority
of the centre to you.
-Thanks to RICKWAERT?
-What if she doesn't support the yes?
She could abstain.
Like a shameful Socialist. I don't
believe it, she'd seem to copy me.
As soon as RICKWAERT wants
a referendum, I call for abstention.
As per my values: liberty,
no sectarianism, pragmatism...
in Souleuvre with Boudard
and Mirmont, I set a compass,
a direction. But what about her?
No one knows what
she really thinks. Who's Dorandeux?
A showcase of French chic
throughout the world.
It's great to sell power plants
and Rafale planes,
but as for the rest...
Anger in the suburbs is increasing.
The government plays with fire.
Are you referring to what Beauveau
said on the Adjawi case,
who was seen as radicalised,
and put under supervision?
Nobody believes it.
Just look at the social networks.
This coming night
is likely to be tough.
The young people feel like
they are hiding a blunder
by saying the missing brother
was a radicalised man,
that is to say a potential terrorist
but all testimonies coincide:
Mourad Adjawir showed
no sign of radicalisation at all.
Neither in his words,
nor in his behaviour.
Islam and terrorism are exploited,
and the mix up in a bad way.
-Cyril.
-Madam President.
-How are you?
Very well.
Are you sure?
Yes, very well.
-I wanted to thank you for...
-Please, it's the least I could do.
Thank you.
Your fight against
religious cronyism,
and your determination
to raise the issue
of cultural separation without
dissociating it from social concerns
made you pay the high price
for your convictions
The story can't stop here.
I don't want it to.
You deserve better.
I'm thinking of reshuffling
before the European elections.
I'd like you to be
minister of National Education.
But not to make quotas.
I could be less definitive,
leave things open
and tell you what you want to hear
and decide later.
But it's not the way I work.
You'll realise if you accept .
I tell it like it is.
Ambiguity is ruling the easy way.
I won't do it.
Can I ask you a question?
Please.
The referendum.
Is it your idea?
It's so like Philippe.
I liked him too. A brilliant mind.
A punchline for every idea,
an idea every hour.
All linked to each other
through various tactics,
all part of a global strategy,
itself subject to timing adjustments
depending on the movements
of the political forces.
You get lost, don't you?
It's true.
The problem is he gets lost himself.
Do you really think
he's interested in your proposal?
Your reform, your 77 articles?
To him, it's just a tool,
smoke and mirrors.
Fix the forces and make me
break my alliance with Thorigny.
You mean smoke and mirrors.
I call it conquering the opinion,
leading a cultural battle.
-It's about staging ideas.
-Like denouncing Mrs. Champaigne
and her diocesan committee?
Cyril...
There cannot be a referendum.
The no would win.
The Evry riots won't help.
Each car a kid burns
is one less point for the yes.
Each fire...
I'm not all about
referendum legislation.
But many things have to change.
As long as there are ghetto schools,
-that the school system. .
-Madam President!
There was an attack at the Roubaix
police school. A massacre.
All we know is that it took place
a few minutes ago, around 2 PM,
when the students go back to class.
There were a lot of people outside
the building.
A man arrived on a scooter, stopped
And opened fire, at least
3 shots with an automatic pistol
The investigations are ongoing
the forensic police are here...
-Heard about the attack?
-I'm watching it.
-Did you see Amélie?
-We couldn't finish,
-but we said the essentials.
-We need to debrief
With the bracelet, it's too late for
me to come. Can you come to Dunkirk?
Alright, I'm on my way.
Did he act on his own
or with an accomplice,
the question remains.
The attack has not yet...
-Her opinion on school lunches?
-We didn't talk about that.
-Fuck, Cyril.
-She doesn't want a referendum.
Then what did she want?
Me.
What do you mean?
Have you join the government?
National Education. A reshuffling
before the European elections.
Pure cynicism. Since Kahlenberg,
she's trying the same with you.
People are pawns to her.
She takes them and discards them.
-You're not asking if I accepted?
-Cyril.
Minister of National Education at 30.
Of course you're lost. Especially
after what you've been through.
Winning a referendum on social
diversity is complicated on its own,
but after riots
and a terrorist attack...
Don't hide behind this.
You know how it goes.
Yelling, crying and flowers,
and in two weeks we've moved on.
Back living in denial again...
We must stay on track.
Did I tell you when Laugier asked me
to make his primary campaign?
-I think.
-I was on the left wing, he wasn't.
But I had told him right away
so he wouldn't believe things.
Our disagreement was deep.
He won me over
with the first sentences he said.
"The fight for socialism
is a very simple thing.
It's a fight for the unity
of the socialists."
Jaures didn't do anything else,
nor did Blum or Mitterrand.
I'll win because I won't do
anything else.
Let Vidal and Amélie hate each other,
one on the right, one on the centre,
and the people will lose every chance
to see their lives get better.
The left in power. Because Vidal
alone will never reach 51%.
And Amélie governing with Thorigny's
guys, is it still the left?
Let's keep robbing them,
be united when they're not.
That's the way it is.
I have nothing else to say to you.
Take it as a burden if you will,
I'll take it as an honour.
You have the rest
of your life to be a minister.
Our main lead
is that of the Greshnitsa gang,
a Macedonian village that was
the platform of wide traffic.
Most of the UZls weapons found
in France have been through there.
Its boss in France is a father, owner
of a taxi phone in Aubervilliers.
Excuse me.
The terrorist is live
on Facebook live.
Show it.
In the name of God, the greatest,
the merciful, in the name
of prophet Muhammad...
Today, I could avenge
the murders of 22nd November
by the French government of
the soldiers of the one we venerate.
Abou Awad, Abou Thala Al Faransi
and Abou Atem
have decided to go to the Djina
through jihad,
by leading an action
at the service of the almighty Allah.
He wants us to avenge the murders
by killing kuffars.
It was their duty,
It's ours and yours.
My brothers, following
their divine path any way you can.
Whoever you are, wherever you are.
What's the matter?
Remember November 22nd?
It's the day Salomé told me
she's dropping the name RICKWAERT.
On the same day,
before going to see Thorigny,
Amélie spent the night
in the crisis room.
Alone with Lambray.
I tell myself...
If the services had lost contact with
the Courcouronnes guys that night...
It's a heavy crisis situation.
The fear of an imminent attack.
Amélie wants to stay with Lambray,
I can understand that,
it doesn't mean she killed them.
But what she told me that morning
before going to Thorigny's does.
What did she say?
I told her she was acting stupid.
She said she was the President,
she's the one taking the risks
and the one who'll be judged.
Philippe. What do we do?
Philippe?
This barbarian cult
named the Islamic State
has claimed terrible crimes.
It said they come as retaliation
for three assassinations
that France is said to have lead
on the national territory.
Is this true?
Or is it an opportunistic claim
with the goal of pushing
the country further
into fights between communities?
It's the President's role to answer.
I wholeheartedly hope
that she will bring proof
that everything is false. Or else...
How can we live in doubt?
How can we live without knowing
which side we are on?
On that of barbarism,
or civilisation?
Pre-emptive killings to avoid deaths
does not avoid deaths.
Roubaix is a cruel demonstration
of this fact.
Have we killed pre-preemptively?
Have we killed preemptively
ladies and gentlemen,
the heads of the different services,
policemen... Say what you know!
Even if your leaders refuse!
Those who like you, give life to an
intimate part of the republic,
prove that our state of rights
is inviolable.
It would be the most powerful
political response
to this despicable attack.
And the most beautiful homage
we can pay to the departed.
-Thank you.
-Well said!
Mr. Vidal!
Hold on a second.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL
-Did you listen?
-What?
-Vidal
-No. I was stuck with a citizen.
I'll listen now.
It's over. He called
Amélie a criminal.
He ruined everything.
He fucked us deep.
NO TO COMMUNITARIANISM
YES TO DIVERSITY
Shit. I'll call you back in a minute,
I was on the phone.
Someone had to say what Vidal said.
Sorry?
-What if she did have them killed?
-What would it change?
What would it change if France
killed people preemptively?
Nothing at all...
Not people. Terrorists.
-Courts and prisons exist for that.
-Not enough, it seems.
Do you have something
you need to tell me?
We can't know what Amélie
had to deal with. It is ugly,
for sure, but there is worse,
like 90 killed in a concert hall.
Don't make me defend these assholes,
Daniel, it's too easy.
I'm as angry as you are.
There have always been secret ops,
but never enough to start civil war.
Vidal is crazy.
He just wants to show off.
Are you alright?
When it happened, I was
at the Élysée... I was there.
It may be ridiculous...
But I feel guilty.
Sorry, I was clumsy.
-You haven't been.
-I was stupid.
You're allowed to be. In times
like these, you're not the only one.
-I'll go home.
-No.
I won't let you go home alone.
If you want me to agree with you
on everything, then I do.
Are you coming?
Dear French people, since the start
of our struggle against Jihadism...
Listen, it's important. I insist.
Dear French people, since the start
of our struggle against Jihadism...
Listen, it's important. I insist.
I need to see Amélie urgently.
Before Oudina gets killed.
-Why?
-Because I know things.
Her survival depends
on what I'll tell her.
Look, I'll do my best.
Samira Adjoui is safe.
But the attack gave publicity
to the issue of the missing brother.
A hashtag "WherelsMourad",
the riots, a Facebook page...
-And?
-The social networks are stirred up.
They want to know what happened to
the other two, Nizah and Botillon.
Someone posted a low-quality picture
of someone taken into a van
by force, in front of Nizah's.
So there is a witness?
I couldn't identify it and I'd rather
not try to access the judiciary file.
But it doesn't matter. Even if
the license plate was readable,
all we'd learn
would be that she was stolen
the day before,
then found burned the next day.
The police would conclude
it's a kidnapping by gangsters.
Nizah has a criminal history.
The situation is under control.
Madam President, I'm the only proof
of your involvement
and I will protect you,
whatever the cost.
I used the authority you gave me
in an underhanded way,
and I had three French citizens
killed without letting you know.
I'll take responsibility for it,
you'll be free to condemn me publicly
with all the violence you need.
It won't change the admiration I have
and will still have for you.
SUPPORT TO OCCUPIED FACTORIES
Once Oudina left, the receptionist
called the police
from a machine room.
At 0:56, the police intervened
and discovered in Oudina's room
a Kalashnikov, six grenades and
the phone used for yesterday's video.
All available troops
have Roubaix on lock down.
Thanks to his phone,
we know every single move
Oudina made these past weeks.
Arrests are in progress.
He can't get away.
It's a matter of hours.
I'll do everything it takes
to have him caught alive.
Oudina's arrest will be the best
possible answer
to the insane allegations about
discarding the rule of law in France.
I will talk to the French people
as soon as it's over. Thank you.
She's waiting.
Not one minute to lose.
I don't have much time.
So you're having guys killed?
Says who? A cop killer?
The old, megalomaniac leftist
If that's your only answer,
you're in trouble.
It's politics, not law.
It's about feeling,
perception, opinion.
The opinion's like me.
It thinks you did what you had to do.
Good thing I'm here. I think
you'll get through this from the top.
You'd like me to answer:
"Please, Philippe,
help me, explain to me, save me!
I was wrong about Thorigny,
now you're all I have."
It's quite true. I'm all you have.
Let's go.
If you want to know,
no, I wouldn't like that.
You're a queen, I'm not saying that
because you're the president.
That's the way it is.
You have it in you.
It's what I like about you.
Dominating must be so great.
Be honest. It's not so unpleasant
to be loved, is it?
Who loves you like I do?
We have disagreements,
I'm left wing, you're right wing.
I'm for an alliance with Vidal,
you, with Thorigny.
I believe in the right-wing divide,
you're into the three blocks.
-So a synthesis is impossible.
-But not the third way.
-The third way?
-There.
I can tell you're interested.
Intellectual pleasures interest me.
Let me tell you.
Dissolve the assembly
and win the elections,
without Vidal nor Thorigny.
On your own.
-Dissolve? When?
-Here. Right now.
I wrote a speech for you.
It's a draft, but...
A speech that will make me
win the legislatives on my own?
Yes.
To be honest, it depends.
Can I ask you a question?
Whatever you've done or not,
do you feel guilty?
-No.
-Fuck, I knew it. What a champ.
So you can win.
-Own up to it.
-I do.
You had those fuckers gunned down,
and you would do it again.
Look...
"This situation hasn't happened,
not with Mourad Adjawi any more than
with the other names Oudina gave.
But believe me, if it had to happen,
then yes,
I'd choose the safety of the French
people as that is my main mission."
Remember Mitterrand
after the Rainbow Warrior?
He fired his minister of defence?
The guy's in deep trouble,
criticised for nuclear tests,
and what does he do?
He goes in the Pacific,
where the tests are done,
and he owns up to it.
He says "Go fuck yourselves."
You're not in my place,
you cannot be.
I'm a war leader and I decided this.
The monopoly of legitimate violence,
it's me.
None of you could endure
a tenth of the solitude it implies.
Do you even know what I risk?
80% of favourable opinions.
Besides that, nothing.
You're the commander in chief.
The defender of the nation.
The one whose hand does not shake.
Ready for everything
to protect her children.
You don't bring
the Roman she-wolf to court.
The right is discredited.
Even Chalon is in trouble.
What will they campaign on
if you pass as the iron lady?
Guantanamo? A country-wide
Muslim ban? They have nothing left.
It's even worse for Thorigny.
He's condemned to be your dog.
Can you see him on the same track
as Vidal, but still not as good?
I'd open a huge space for Vidal.
And close it right away.
When you dissolve, you fire Thorigny.
Let the single
work contract project die away.
And you show you understand
the country's main problem,
-better yet, solve it.
-And what is it?
National cohesion.
Adherence to the republic.
What's striking about the Evry riots?
When you learn Adjawi
was listed "S", it doesn't calm down.
It's not that simple.
Yes, it is. The republic
has lost its footing in many areas.
It's not loved nor respected,
because it's just not there.
-And it's been a while
-Do you mean we're guilty?
That we should understand
those who join Daesh?
No one will accuse you of that.
You're the Roman she-wolf, but yes,
in front of Islamists
with an ideology,
we must oppose the force
of ideas, the power of a model
republic. But a model, to be
believed in, must go beyond words.
-Let me guess. School?
-Yes. Of course!
Diversity, the Cyril way.
No more referendum. Do it directly.
And push further.
Free school lunches,
public services back
in the ghettos...
Vidal is as much in trouble
as the right. Run him dry.
Pre-emptive on the right,
block the space on the left.
-Hold both sides.
-I disagree. Cohesion, you say?
Fine, but it means full employment,
therefore, the work contract reform.
Cohesion means appeasing
the country's tensions,
not exacerbating them by creating
a school war.
And this cohesion is urgent.
What you're suggesting
is 10 years of experimenting?
Mistakes and collective crises
in the hope of results in 20 years?
We don't have time. We need
quick results in terms of employment.
Thank you, Philippe.
Amélie, hold on.
Amélie, we're not done.
Look, be realistic. Stop loving me.
We lost the signal, do you copy?
Do you copy?
Contact!
Cuff him.
Cuff him.
Cuff him.
Suspect caught and neutralised.
He's alive.
Good work, everyone. Congratulations.
Can I have a moment
with the President?
Thank you, gentlemen.
Well done.
Nice work.
Aren't you afraid Oudina will give
elements to the police or judges?
-Elements?
-Sorry, it's true the guys
from Courcouronnes are in Syria.
-As I told you.
-Of course.
Do you want the moral of the story?
-With pleasure.
-We haven't been united enough.
This fragility led some to believe
they could "left-ify" you at will.
And steal you from me
on the referendum thing.
-Don't you think?
-It's very true.
Let's move forward then.
Create a common force
to follow our logic
and own up to our coherence.
-A common force?
-Yes, a party federation,
a club, a movement. Whatever.
No.
No?
You shouldn't take it this way,
I could be less cooperative.
In what way?
Do you think Vidal is right
to defend the state of right
and call for denunciation?
Go ahead, answer his call,
our soldiers are taught
to keep silent but you can speak.
After your resignation threat,
it's your second empty threat.
-I'm not...
-A common force?
Do you think I'm weak enough
to accept that?
From the start, you've had one goal.
marginalise me and take the lead
of the space I created myself.
You're even weaker than I am.
What are you going to do?
Approve Vidal?
Validate his new divide,
for or against the killer president?
You're better off in my shadow
than in his, believe me.
You're my Prime Minister,
it's great that way.
Don't worry, I won't get a new one.
That will be all.
Silence, please. We're rolling.
Five, four,
three, two...
Dear French people,
their names were Julien, Michaël,
Tiffany, Zora, Bastien and Kofi.
They were the faces of France.
Their courage was our safety.
Their youth was our future.
In agreement with their families,
I have decided that on Thursday,
a state funeral will be held
at the Invalides, in Paris.
We know the enemy very well.
Its only true strength
is our weakness.
The temptation of division.
Yet, every time, the trap
closes down even harder on us.
The poison of self-hate,
the sick obsession of seeing
a sordid conspiracy everywhere
and state assassinations.
Of course, I have heard
the accusations made against me.
These words, like straight out
of the killers' mouth,
suggest these crimes are not crimes
but consequences
because France would be guilty.
To these accusers,
lost in petty political moves,
I have nothing to say.
They are cowards
and submissive people.
But to those of you
who are simply wondering,
I want to answer this:
my first duty is the safety
of the French people,
which is why I tell you,
while the question of ignoring
the rule of law was never raised,
not concerning Mourad Adjawi
any more than any other,
If the question had to be raised,
then yes,
I'd choose the safety
of the French people.
Tonight, I will ask
Prime Minister Stéphane Thorigny
to hand me
his government's resignment.
I will ask him to form
a new government team,
all dedicated to this
republican consolidation.
To tell the enemy that France is one.
My call is not to parties,
even though I do respect them.
My call goes out
to the conscience of these people
of conviction, honour and duty,
who from the left,
the right or the centre,
place the defence of the republic
above everything else.
I want this national union government
to be supported by the French people.
Madam President?
-In a republic,
the people decide.
That is why I am dissolving
the national assembly.
Everywhere, throughout the country
you will be able to choose candidates
who support this will of national
union and republican consolidation.
They will be the voices and faces
of our shared will
to be a united people.
United, therefore invincible.
Thank you. Long live the Republic,
Long live France.
Hi, Philippe.
It's beautiful.
The Los Angeles of the north,
you say?
I could almost believe that.
You know, about Véro...
She joined you for your ideas.
It's stupid but I respect that.
That asshole, Balsan, it's different.
A bourgeois careerist,
everything I hate.
-Anyway, what's up?
-I need you.
Are you kidding me?
There's no more political space
between Amélie and I.
You'll have to accept there are
three blocks, it's a reality,
-it's not theory. It's a new world.
-Fuck. Not the new world thing.
-Keep your televangelist shit.
-I respect you a lot,
-but...
-I don't. You're a Stalinist.
You theorise the new divides
all the time,
but you behave
like the worst Stalinists.
The third period of the
Communist International in the 30s.
Always more willing to denounce
social traitors than Nazis.
-Do you want to speak about 1932?
-Why not?
And where will it take us?
So much to put in talmude.
At one point, historical
and theoretical controversies
have only one goal:
to avoid
your immediate responsibilities
in the present, here and now.
We're not only living in a new world,
we are living in a new era.
I don't refute the CP.
I'm building
an alternative to the SP.
A nice, well-known alternative.
The left is being born again.
We are uniting the people.
We're done using the old machines,
the old rules...
It's an enormous task,
to build everything.
You're the only one who can
help me structure all this.
I need you, Philippe.
It's over. She's gone with the right.
It's over for good.
There's no hope,
admit it and learn from it.
At least think about it.
In your own time.
Do try to think about it.
-Am I interrupting you?
-I'm almost done.
The film starts in 45 minutes.
What did you do today?
Got up at 6.30 a.m, organic cereals,
squeezed orange, jogged at dawn.
That is great. Then?
I wrote for a few hours.
I have seven lines, 63 words.
You almost had a chapter
the other day.
About Grandma RICKWAERT
and the strike of 47?
I read it again. I'm not Zola either.
Mum wants to vote Vidal
at the next presidential.
At least with Vidal,
there's something, an adventure.
But?
At your age, we really thought
worldwide revolution was coming.
We fought for that.
I still think
we should have little place,
preferably under the sun,
where the revolution won't reach,
just in case it turns bad.
You know, the RICKWAERT saga
is 800 pages, 60 chapters minimum.
Maybe I could even beat
The Brothers Karamazov.
Only one chapter really matters.