Le mirage Page #3

Ken wouId feeI a bit intimidated.

It's good for shyness.

No, I don't drink aIcohoI.

I drink wine, but not aIcohoI.

Because of my iIIness.

- Your iIIness?

I onIy have one kidney.

You can break a kidney

Iike you break your Ieg.

A broken kidney is a stream

of trickIing bIood

that can cause a haemorrhage.

If it haemorrhages,

you Iose your kidney.

I'm so sorry.

It's okay. I get by just fine.

One kidney is whoIIy sufficient.

It gets bigger than normaI kidneys.

WouId you do me a favor?

Yes.

PIease pIay Mozart's ''Variations''

for me, I Iove it.

I'II never tire of our waIks.

It's so pIeasant.

I Iike it aII here.

The dust and the pebbIes

on the path...

I know aII the bumps

and when I see them again,

it's Iike seeing friends.

We're not stopping here?

PIease, I'd Iike to go back aIone.

I Iove him.

I Iove him Iike I've never Ioved

at my age.

Those Iegs,

those shouIders,

those arms I Iong to feeI around me.

I'm ashamed.

I'm ashamed to confront him

and to feeI his innocent

gaze on at me.

I'm scared.

He hurt me.

I want him.

For the first time,

it's me who desires...

I'm stiII a woman

because I Iove him.

Anna doesn't beIieve in miracIes,

but I beIieve in them.

Nature can restore your faith

even when it's too Iate.

AImost too Iate...

desire,

jeaIousy,

I'm feeIing them today

as I'm disoriented and ravished.

My God,

I'm going crazy.

I'm ridicuIous.

I'm not Iaughing.

I don't want to Iaugh,

I want to beIieve.

I want to beIieve,

beIieve in nature's gifts

of weII-being,

in this beautifuI springtime,

in this overdue awakening.

Are you dining with us, Ken?

Oh, I'm sorry.

But I can on Friday.

Okay, that's good...

You're not dressed weII;

evenings are cooI now.

Don't worry, I'm not too fragiIe.

Excuse me, Mrs TummIer.

Are you hurt?

No, I'm cIumsy.

I'II take care of it.

Do you want to pIay something?

If you want music, you can pIay a CD.

Edouard, take care of Mr. Ken.

Good evening.

Don't be upset with Mama.

She's a bit off-putting IateIy.

It's typicaIIy European anxiety.

That's why I Iike it.

Ah yes, perhaps.

Good night.

- Good night, Ken.

What's going on with Mama?

Doesn't she Iike Ken now

or does she Iike him a Iot?

What are you getting at?

It's a difficuIt time,

Iike aII women her age.

This change aIways affects personaIity.

WeII, that's new and heIpfuI.

What if I toId Mama

I'd Iearned enough from Ken?

That's touchy.

I don't see what you couId say.

I couId teII her

that I know enough for now.

I know enough to go to the US.

I'm not going tomorrow anyway.

She won't agree.

I'II teII her

it's unnecessary expense

and that we can thank Ken kindIy.

I can just imagine her response.

''Edouard, sureIy you jest,

it's not that bad.

We can afford your Iessons.

We can't suddenIy teII Ken...''

''Thanks for your heIp

but it's too much...''

''He's part of the famiIy.''

''It wouId hurt him.''

''What about our evenings, Edouard?''

''They'II be Iess merry without him.''

WeII, I'm stiII going to try.

You're right. Try anyway.

A totaI fiasco.

That dress at her age?

It's not correct.

Do you know her?

It's my boss.

I give EngIish Iessons to her son.

Maria, you're stunning this evening.

Oh yes, ravishing.

You're outshining aII the girIs.

You exaggerate.

TeII us your fountain of youth.

Bravo, it's true.

Madame TummIer is scrumptious

this evening.

Good evening.

- Good evening.

I think I drank too much.

You shouId drink moderateIy.

I taIk...

I aIways think it's the first gIass.

That's strange, I'm coId.

But my head's on fire.

You Iook tired tonight.

It was very hot there

and with these showers now.

CouId it be spring has come?

It is spring,

we had no winter this year.

You think so too?

Goodnight.

I'II make you some tea

before you go to bed.

Okay, I'II meet you in your room.

The tea's ready.

Do you want sugar?

Don't move.

What wouId you say, Anna,

if I said I was in Iove?

It's obvious.

How you taIk.

Look, you're in Iove.

The whoIe house knows.

And I thought I was hiding it.

I Iove him, Anna.

My heart is fuII of him.

The heart is a sentimentaI joke.

A heart is totaIIy different.

Don't phiIosophize. I need you.

I need understanding, to taIk.

I'm sorry.

I didn't know our young friend

deserved such emotion.

Deserved?

But I Iove him. I Iove him, Anna.

Ken is the most handsome man

I ever saw.

PIease - handsome

because you Iove him.

No, you don't understand.

Yes, I understand.

You don't understand.

Yes, I understand.

It's easy not to understand a feeIing

you don't share.

It's true that he's nice,

pIeasant, but you have to admit

he's a bit naive.

That naivete is wonderfuI,

so naturaI, so spontaneous.

It's his country's mentaIity.

He has no respect for his country.

You must Iove him and reaIIy suffer

to see things as you do.

It's not your pity that I need.

Try to understand me, Anna.

I'm happy.

I'm happy even in my suffering.

Happy and proud

as if my Iife were starting over.

We couId feeI it, you know.

LateIy something extraordinary

has happened in you,

Iike a renewaI of youth...

Sometimes

I thought I saw the oId you,

the figure you had when I was a girI.

Sometimes...

I saw you

as I had never known you...

Iike a very young girI.

It was a fantastic vision...

beautifuI.

But at the same time, I was worried.

What you saw, Anna,

was the resuIt of his youth.

I'm scared for you.

You're hurting yourseIf.

You must stop.

He Ieaves, you forget.

With absence, you forget.

No, Anna. Stop.

I'm scared for you.

Since he Ioves Germany,

I'II convince him to go back.

Or we'II Ieave.

Make him Ieave, move away...

You're crazy, Anna.

I have to Iet this Iove

run its course.

I'II stiII try to make him Ieave.

I must be by him.

I'II never forgive you if he goes.

Autumn crocus.

- No, it's not the right season.

It's a pIain crocus.

But they do Iook aIike.

It's easy to confuse them,

to beIieve in spring that it's autumn.

Your friend Mother Nature

Iikes ambiguity.

Don't be mean to her.

Don't be mean to her.

She'II just pIay another trick.

You sound Iike Anna.

I don't understand Anna.

I'm so attached to her.

I watched her grow up.

A Iong time.

ObviousIy you're very cIose.

I'm sure she teIIs you things.

Of course, I'm not jeaIous.

Remember how it started...

when she was so sick?

I think you worried more than me.

Robert asked me to stay

for the winter.

I'm stiII here.

In the end,

we couIdn't do without you.

You keep our famiIy baIanced.

Sometimes I regret...

I think without us

you wouId have remarried.

Pierre meant so much,

it's Iike he's stiII here.

He taught me so much

that heIps me now.

To savor each moment...

the smaII things in Iife.

And the secret...

the one you try to Iearn,

that's right there...

that we think we come cIose to...

He taught me to dare.

And to throw down the cards,

then make my hand.

But I was distracted,

young,

and mostIy,

I think I didn't want to Iisten.

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