In the House Page #5

it will change the pictures.

"Rettung" is redemption, "Unterbrechung":

Ynterruption "Hoffnung" hope...

...And "Zerstrung" is destruction.

I should go.

Rafa will return with his party...

... what will they say if they find me,

at home, with Esther?

Rafas woman.

Rafa's mother.

(To be continued..)

- It's going to end badly, sorry.

- Of course not!

Imagine:
The game is abandoned,

they return earlier, and see...

...Mother and son's friend,

sitting on the couch.

What couch? Where is it?

So far there is no couch.

- You imagine them on the couch.

- No matter.

- If Rafa sees them, kills them.

- The father or the son?

Both!

They kill Claude.

You take it too seriously.

They do nothing wrong.

- You realize that everything is invented, imagined?

- Imagined?

I imagine very well! It gets increasingly

credible, and increasingly dangerous!

Claude I dont want it simple. With a good

editor, you can be a good storyteller.

I'm must be hallucinating!

- Why?

- Youve found the new Kafka!

Listen, I hope youre not

thinking of publishing it...

Submitting it to a contest...,

or something.

Why not? Its much better

than anything thats been published lately!

- By God!

- Sorry Miss.

Theres good dialogue,

exciting situations...

After re-explaining calculus

for the umpteenth time...

... gave four exercises to Rafa and took

advantage of the absence of his parents...

... to explore further.

Entered the room of the parents.

Heady scent

of middle-class women flooded the room.

Photo of a Chinese smiles

on Rafa-fathers computer screen.

Project XianXian wrists,

XunXin jewellery project...

... attestations of ownership,

Rafa holiday post cards...

... and suddenly, an x-ray.

A backbone.

It seems to be a woman. Yes! Its a woman.

In the closet,

Esther. I imagine her walking

in the park with her red shoes.

Then, go to the bathroom.

Rafa-fathers:
"Eau Sauvage".

Shavers, anti-stretch mark cream,

paracetamol,... Xanax.

Its me, honey.

- Good afternoon! Have a good day?

- You wont guess what the Chinese did!

- What now?

- They argued about the percentage.

- the contract wasnt signed.

- Too bad.

This afternoon, Maurice called me into his

office showed me the restaurant bill,

...challenging, questioning if there

was an even more expensive restaurant!

He insisted that the Chinese

stay happy.

- How much did the restaurant come to?

- 268 euros.

Pay it yourself and forget it.

Its not a matter of money, were

screwed because Wang Li didnt sign...

If he had... I would never

have been questioned about this sh*t!

- What will you do?

- Wait for it to pass.

When they sign up the Chinese theyll

forget about dinner and the 300 euros.

- 300 euros?

- Yes, with the tip!

(To be continued..)

- It doesnt ring true.

- Who?

- Esther.

- Why do you say that?

- Is it that bad.

- The Xanax is an antidepressant, no?

I took Temesta,

like half the teachers here.

How is it you know its hers?

It could be for him.

He seems more sane.

He has problems, its true...

...But hes obsessed with his work,

whereas she has nothing to think about!

He neglects her increasingly.

He no longer even notices her.

I wonder why Claude didnt

looked at the fathers computer?

Perhaps, deep down,

what interests him, is Esther.

- The secret of Esther.

- What secret? If its completely transparent.

Maybe its missing a scene.

To explain the change in Claude.

Dont say anything is missing. On the

contrary, theres too much, it overflows...

Theres too much of Esther... And this X-ray?

Its sentimental and manipulative!

Claude. Seriously,

youre not going to give her cancer?

Claude's character wants Esther.

But there are obstacles...

Rafa-father. Rafa-son. The million-dollar

question:
"What will happen?"

And what happens next? Are you going

to put Esther in a motel room?

No, it has to be in the house.

Everything has to happen in the house.

I think you dont know

what youve got.

Do you want to write, Claude?

A satire of the middle class...

Fotonovela... a travesty,

or "Bildungsroman"?

- A what?

- I thought you knew German.

- You wrote "Zerstrung", "Hoffnung".

- I asked my father.

He lived in Berlin when he was young.

He also explained to me who was Klee was.

Really? Then what youve written is

a Bildungsroman account...

A coming of age story of a young man,

I thought that was what you wanted to tell.

The passage of a child to maturity.

Now, I dont understand what you want.

Claude, tell me what to do?

What I asked, Master:

You're the Sultan, I his Sheherazade.

I never asked you to mock the frustration

of a woman who could be your mother!

And stop calling me "Master"!

Go, see.

- Hello, Germain. Are you well?

- Yes, I'm fine.

- See you later.

- See you tomorrow.

Are you working overtime?

Yes, the boy needed a little help.

Claude Garcia, right?

- What you think of uniforms?

- Pathetic!

I seem to be facing

a flock of sheep.

And this Claude Garcia:

Black sheep or white sheep?

Good day. Glad you're here!

Come, come!

I wanted to talk about a Chinese artist

Im presenting next week.

We hear a lot about him, but he

hasnt exhibited in France.

- Hes Chinese?

- Yes, but he was born in Los Angeles.

Calligraphy Works

through a gender perspective...

Here... "Heaven Shanghai 1"

"Shanghai Sky 2",...

..."Shanghai Sky 3" and "Shanghai Sky 4".

- What is the difference between them all?

- There are no two identical works in the series...

...they all have minor variations,

made at random by computer.

- What is?

- For me, it represents the clouds, the horizon.

- Yes, it is above all a presence.

- Yes!

Presentation instead of representation.

I'm going to show you my favourite,

Its "7 Shanghai sky".

- What's up?

- I think they liked him.

- Your Chinese painter?

- Yes.

- I heard, they looked at everything.

- What did they say about the work?

Nothing in particular, but I felt

that they were interested.

Come to the opening. Rosalie or

Eugnie, I never know which one...

...said I could only ask 30 people.

I dont want to pressure you.

Perhaps the problem with the gallery isnt

what you think, perhaps its the name.

"The Labyrinth of the Minotaur" I always

thought that frightened people off.

Thanks to Rafas score of 18,

I was invited to dinner.

Chinese food of course.

In a restaurant at the foot of the wall,

they serves us a filet...

We didnt not know...

if it was meat or fish.

- You'll never guess what it was.

- What was it?

Membrane of ducks leg!

Germain, the French teacher,

lent me a book by Kafka:...

... "The Chinese Wall".

Rafa says this type is very rare,

a little bitterly.

I think he wanted to be a writer,

and French teacher.

One thing doesnt preclude the other.

I think he has no talent,

thats why hes bitter.

"Bitter". Doesnt it bother

you to talk like that?

Its wrong.

You masochist.

After the news on TV,

Rafa-father leaves to smoke on the terrace.

Yn the summer, I often watched

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