He's coming
Let's do it
Look at me, Paul. Stand tall. Brittle, edgy...
A matador understands death... terror. A little anxiety...
Clara, look down, be a bit submissive
Not too much!
A bit submissive to the man...
At three, you look at me. It's all in the look
At three, rise up, on your toes, and look at me
One... Two...
Three! Excellent!
You think this is easy for me?
You think I enjoy seeing you unhappy?
I told you, I'm always like this
With other girls it lasted a week, then for six months we did nothing
Really?
With you, it's lasted three months
It's all we've done, night and day...
Don't overdo it
We never did it all night
Come on... We made love over and over
I don't think so
In fact...
We never made love at all
Anyway...
I can cheat on you. But you can't
No getting a hard-on for another girl, if you don't for me
Have you cheated on me?
No
You're lucky. You won't make me give up sex
I haven't cheated on you, but I should have
What does that mean?
Look at me! Have you ever?
Absolutely not!
That's how stupid I am!
You don't deserve my loyalty
You know why you drink?
So you can pass out whenever we get to bed
You only love me when there's a table between us
Since we met, we've been together every night
You sit opposite me every night. And I'm never bored
Like I said,
you like me when there's a table between us
It's insane! I sleep with a guy
who doesn't touch me! You never touch me!
- We talked about that - You promised you'd do something!
- Just wait! - Until the end of the world?
You have to wait!
Maybe three more months! There's more to life than that!
What are you doing? You going?
No
It doesn't matter
Yes, it does
An invisible weight,
heavy, leaden, descends on me
A constant nagging...
Take off your T-shirt
I don't want to sleep with a sack of cotton, I hate cotton
No. Get undressed and come to bed
Why won't you take it off?
You know I hate it. Why rub my face in it?
I'll take the shirt off, but not my shorts
They keep my balls warm
It's nothing to do with you
I never thought we'd be together every night
That's how it is
It's my fault too
I thought you'd have
other things to do than see me every night
We'd be apart for two weeks... a month...
You'd let me disappear
No
Not without staying in touch...
Not if you're in Paris when I am
You don't trust me?
I'll go
If you want, I'll leave
You'll never see me again
See what I mean?
We can't even talk
Come to bed
Take it off
I said it's nothing to do with you
I've always slept like this
It's everything to do with me!
It's because I disgust you
Don't!
I told you never to try that. You'll only make things worse
But you're hard!
Stop it, or we're finished
It means you can
I'm not interested
Be nice. What's wrong with you?
If you couldn't get it up, I'd understand
You've decided to stop making love, just when I...
Watch out! You want me to kill myself?
I've never done this with anyone. I never touched them! Never!
It must be important to you. You never shut up about it
So you don't want to, you can't? I don't get it
Touch me. If you can't get any pleasure, give me some!
Women can come more often than men
If I did that, I'd despise you. I couldn't love you any more
You despise me because I'm a woman
You don't love me at all!
I disgust you,
I make you sick
You think I'm the dirtiest
Stop it
Come here
Why can I only love him or hate him?
Why can't I feel indifferent?
But my head is clear
A man who can't love me physically
is a pit of misfortune,
an abyss of suffering
They say that a man who screws a woman, honours her
The expression is worth noting: it's true
Paul insults me
Do you mind?
Not at all
Here for a nightcap?
I just got up
It's true. I just got dressed
I can't stand sleeping, so I got up
I don't give a damn about time, I'm never tired
I hate people who fake tiredness, to make endless excuses
You agree?
It's because they lack passion
You live alone?
No, I'm married
I told him I had a husband...
So he'd know I wasn't free
Because I'm not free
He has to understand it's adultery
He's asleep. Sleeping doesn't bother him at all!
He has to get up early tomorrow
A business appointment in Deauville at noon
And you? You've got a girlfriend?
She died in a car crash
I haven't made love in four months
Maybe all men are like that
My husband's nice, but he's not interested in sex
The first moves are what I like best
It's delicious
I can never stop myself yielding
It surprises me each time
I watch myself giving in as if it wasn't me
It's true...
I wanted another taste of the miracle:
a stranger making love to you
It's a childish longing...
a pure desire...
Suck me
No. Not now
Maybe later, or tomorrow
Give me your phone number
You don't want to?
To blow you? Not really
It's not my speciality
I don't like to start with that,
I'd rather start again that way, if you see what I mean
But going to a hotel, I'm dying to do that
Now I have to go, right away
- You don't want to go to a hotel? - Of course, but I'm working
And I have to return the car
It's not mine
You'll call me?
Sorry I'm late
Don't worry. I took the register
Good morning
Take out your grammar books,
and write today's date
Last week, we did the present tense
of the verb "to be"
"I am, you are, he is,
"we are, you are, they are"
Today, we'll do "to have"
"To have" isn't like "to be"
One can "be" without "having"
And one can "have" without "being"
I've been had
I've really been had...
I wish you were pregnant
No chance of that!
Why? It could happen
How? By the Holy Ghost? You're kidding!
There's been no chance, ever since I came off the pill
I know you hate details, but dates matter
If you hardly ever do it, and never on the right days, it won't happen
That's what depresses me
That's different
If you say it's a duty call, no problem
- Really? - Yes
That would change everything
If we had a child, it would make sense to be together
It's because you've lost faith
It'll come back
It's like the Circean myth
You want to know what lies ahead, what lies behind
You won't allow the present to unfold
You force things...
You've lost faith, and everything collapses
What if I left?
And didn't phone for two weeks or a month?
Six months?
Would we be through?
That depends...
If you went to the North Pole, or to a desert, maybe...
But if every time you see a phone and say
"I won't call that dumb bitch",
and hang out in every bar in my neighborhood,
I'd say we'd have broken up
I talk of freedom, you talk of bars
It's statistics
A guy needs to remake the world with his pals in a bar, or he dies
You know I don't cheat on you
Maybe I'd rather you did, and also screwed me
Anyway, I can cheat on you, but you can't on me
You've already done it? You talk about it a lot
No
But you deserve to think I have
OK
Tomorrow night, I'm eating with Ashley
You can come, but you know what I'd prefer
That I didn't come
I know I should give him space
But I need to cling to him like a leech
Because I'm madly in love with him
What he calls breathing suffocates me
I never asked to be free
And I don't want him to be
I insist on absolutes
And I think I'm right
But when I apply them to life,
I fall to pieces. Schizo
He dances because he wants to seduce
He wants to seduce because he wants to conquer
He wants to conquer because he's a man
What is it now?
You pull this shit because I dance with some girl?
Not some girl, a slut!
Who gives a fuck about her?
Then don't give a fuck!
I won't have a kid with anyone else
I really have to wear one?
I haven't screwed in six months, I don't have AIDS
You're getting better
You seem to enjoy it
You're almost triumphant!
You want me to watch you slip on your condom
At first you hid
- Think so? - I do...
I didn't dare look. I don't like looking at cocks
Once they've been used, they're revolting
Not very pretty
They are rather disgusting
It's like a Tampax. To screw, you take it out discretely,
hide it under the bed so the guy's not turned off
Guys are easily disgusted
Later, you have to get it back
I quite like disgusting things
Know why most guys can't use a condom?
Their cocks aren't hard enough
It's as if, the rubber...
rubs them out!
I wouldn't know. I don't sleep with guys
It's true. They go limp all the time
Because...
they're not really horny
Just like in porn films
Girls stuff limp cocks into their mouths
They have to give blow jobs because they're not really desired
A guy should take you without a word
but he shouldn't
burden you with his inadequacy
Sometimes a blow job is fine
It's OK
When the guy could fuck you, but won't
It's the torture of Tantalus
It forces you to admit
you can do that...
or even worse...
as long as he ends up fucking you
Most guys have cocks
that are short, thin, pointed
Pointed?
Like a dog's cock
I hate that. Length isn't everything
Width matters more
A thin cock's ignoble
You want it up the ass?
Not yet
Screw me some more, I haven't had enough
My boyfriend doesn't fuck me
How can you love a guy who doesn't fuck you?
I don't love the guys who screw me. I hate them
I don't want to see the men who screw me
Or look at them
I want to be a hole, a pit
The more it gapes, the more obscene it is,
the more it's me, my intimate part,
the more I surrender
It's metaphysical
I disappear in proportion to the cock taking me
I hollow myself
That's my purity
You like your back being tickled?
No, I don't like tenderness
Or to be kissed on the mouth. I couldn't stand that
I don't care who fills my cunt
But I can't kiss someone I don't love
It's too intimate
But I kissed Paolo, I felt like it
When I kissed him, I stopped thinking about Paul
So I decided to stop seeing him
It was a question of integrity
What are you doing?
Nothing. I have a class
You like my cock?
I like its smell
You're disgusting
No, it smells good
I like it that it's not too big
It fits in my hand, and fits in my mouth
Why do you like it?
It's mine
I don't know
It's like a bird
Feels like I've got a bird in my hand
You see, when you move like that,
it's as if it wanted to fly away
But it doesn't. That's touching
You mind that we don't go all the way?
What I mind is you won't let me touch you
I really resent that
I do let you touch me. But not all the way
Don't worry, I don't come either!
Dictation
"Winter Months"
"Everyone had
"settled for
"a life that was dull
"and orderly."
Full stop
"Then
"suddenly,"
Comma
"light
"burst forth
"once again"
Full stop
"Spring
"had come!"
Exclamation mark
I know, my spelling is awful
How did I pass my teaching exams?
Or get my driver's license?
I can't parallel park
That's not so serious
You're not behind me when I'm double-parked!
I think I'm dis... lex...
dis... lexic
It's like with maths, my reasoning was fine,
but I couldn't learn multiplication tables
That's a problem
Nice place!
Surprises you?
It's small, but there's nothing missing
Women want to see what they've seen on TV
Sliding Japanese screens are in, so that's what I have
Jacuzzis are in, so I've got one
For a small place, it has everything: like a theatre
It's like a stage where I can rehearse
I'm a classy bum who's not handsome,
yet I've had over 10,000 women
Why me?
Because you have to talk to them
Nobody bothers to talk to women anymore
I talk, they listen, they're in the palm of my hand
Then I put my hand in the right place...
without asking... So it goes
Somebody has to get things going
The only way to be loved by women...
is through rape
Women yield easily to a stranger,
but play hard-to-get with a wretch who loves them,
who'd die for them, and swears he respects them
So it goes
But do they want to be respected?
In a sense, yes
But respect is in the nature of things:
since they're up for grabs, they want to be taken
I've had 10,000 women, I don't remember them all,
but I kept their names, their age and the circumstances
Women's cunts...
No two are alike
They're as memorable as faces. But take ten men,
cut off their cocks, put them in a basket: no one can tell his own!
I was on the radio
They wanted proof of my statistics
Yes, indeed
They counted them
Dr. Weil, a psychiatrist and sexologist,
knows a true Casanova, a super Don Juan,
a prince among seducers...
Why does she call me a prince of seducers? It's absurd
I never seduced anyone, any woman
I know I'm not very handsome,
I may even be revolting,
but the fact is,
I've had 10,000 women, several per day
I've been a seducer in the sense of se aductere:
to draw to one's self. To seduce
Se aductere: to draw to one's self
We checked him out
He kept a record of his conquests...
I've got something that will interest you
I bought it, knowing some day I'd make you read it
Here it is
Read me this sentence
One shouldn't lend books: women should read to us,
so we know they've paid attention
I hate reading
Read it. Women must read to us
"As the Mother begets the Son, the Son begets the Mother
"His act is the creative counterpoint of the whole process
"In begetting the Mother, he purifies her
"He purifies her and himself, uno acto
"He turns the Whore of Babylon into a Virgin"
You're making me shy. What's come over me?
Yet you're the one who...
No. I'm fine
You see?
I don't see anything
You're play-acting
I'm being myself
This kind of embarrassment...
Completely natural
...is really desire
It's part of the game...
to forget words when they start to act
otherwise it's too easy to tell them: "Hands off!"
That's what this is,
a trivial relationship,
a very shameful one
Why do men who disgust us
understand us better than the ones we love?
There's a hole in your education
yet you're a teacher
Yes, a hole
There
You're amazed that I'm fingering your pussy
but it's me doing it
I'm not aroused yet,
but you are: you're amazed it's me
So it goes
Beautiful women are taken by ugly men
That's a well-kept secret
There has to be action,
and the action isn't between man and woman, that's too simple
It's between beauty and ugliness
Beauty feeds on degradation, communes with it
That's where I come in. I feast on it
So it goes
Don't blame me
You'd like me to dominate you?
Open your eyes
Shall I gag you?
It implies going further
than it's reasonable for a woman to accept
She may have to go beyond what she agreed to
You don't yearn for what you can't accept
Physical love...
is the trivial clashing with the divine
It's strange
Obscenity doesn't bother women
Does it hurt?
Take it off
I can't stand it...
I didn't realize...
You should've told me. I thought we could go a long way
I can tie you up less severely
Or we can make love normally
I'm OK
It's me...
The problem is...
You know
Nobody ever tied me up before
I've never done it
Really? Never?
I always wanted to
We'll resume. I won't tie you so tightly
No
It's fine
There's no other way
Really? Was it good for you too?
For me it was very beautiful, truly beautiful
I want to give you pleasure. When you cry, I panic
I feel I've done something wrong
No, it's fine
At first...
you feel your hands going numb...
you think you can stand it...
then suddenly it's unbearable...
A way of dying...
a galloping death...
You think your hands will fall off...
you turn slowly into dead flesh...
and then
it has to stop at once, it can't last a second more
I was afraid you couldn't hear because of the gag
It's really strange
But you liked the gag?
I don't like having to say things...
When I got home, Paul wasn't there
That caused my world to fall apart
It has nothing to do with what I did
What's done is done. It's behind me
My head is very clear
It's all I can count on
My head
My body feels like it doesn't belong to me
It's an appendage, anonymous
In my head, there's Paul
He could have reconciled me with my body
But he didn't want to do that
Because I didn't like my body
I was easy prey
A victim
Women are the victims men sacrifice in expiation
I always masturbate with my legs closed,
I rarely part them
I can offer myself to myself,
rape myself
It's mildly satisfying,
a bit nauseating,
but it's proof I don't need a man if I have to resort to this
It was painful for me to be on his bed
I felt like a piece of lost luggage
The more time went by, the less I could bear it
I had to cast myself out on the streets like a wreck
Like a wreck, belonging to anyone
The only thing I told myself, like a two-bit equation,
was that if I'd cheated on him,
and still only loved him,
it didn't much matter if he'd cheated on me
But he hadn't
It was worse
He was thrilled to be alone
Love between men and women,
I'll say it again, is a devious conflict
There
If I get home after him, I've won
I know it. I'll have the edge
A tenner, just to eat you
That's my dream
To know that for some guy, I'm just a pussy he wants to stuff
No sentimental bullshit
Just raw desire
To be taken by a guy,
anyone
A nobody, a bum
with whom you wallow for the joy of wallowing,
for the dishonour, the shame
That's pleasure for a girl
- Turn over. Show me your ass - Pay me!
You've got no choice, bitch!
You like me?
Slut!
Whore! Bitch!
I reamed you good!
I'm not ashamed, asshole!
Is nymphomania destroying yourself because
you choose
the man who doesn't love you?
I don't want to sleep with men
I want to be opened up all the way. When you can see that
the mystique is nothing but raw meat, the woman is dead!
Maybe I really want to meet Jack the Ripper
He'd certainly dissect a woman like me!
Once again I hung around for an hour
so I'd get home after him
Proof that women are capable
of greater love than men
Much greater love
He's waiting for me, too
When I get home after him, it's not as easy
The little guy's edgy
- I just got home - Me too
So I see
But I just got home too
Sure... You wouldn't watch crap TV for an hour
"A Love Affair deals with an older man's obsession
with a young prostitute"
So he won't screw me...
"Maybe due to his education,
"women always seemed alien to him
"He preferred the company of his friends
"Women were from another world,
"somehow superior..."
My cunt is swollen, moist: I can hold out forever
He won't beat me down this way
When he wants an evening without me, I make the most of it
I get tied up
It's his fault
Shall I dominate you?
Want to tie me up? Today you choose
I don't want to do anything
You like being tied up?
Yes, but not my elbows
Last time, my hands were numb for two weeks
A month ago, one elbow still felt weird
That's not normal. You've got bad circulation
One day in Cannes, I picked up Grace Delly
If I'd known it was her, I wouldn't have dared
But she liked me and made a date to meet at my place
She rings,
blonde, impeccable hairdo,
in a dog's tooth suit. A bitch for a hound dog!
I screw her, love in the afternoon,
she leaves in fine spirits
Next day I see her, I was with a friend
I tell him, "I screwed that woman"
He says, "You screwed Grace Delly?"
I just looked at him. I didn't know
See? I'm not handsome or wealthy
or even attractive, but I screwed her
Later, I go over to her,
we have a drink, and I ask her:
"Why?"
"Why didn't you say you were Grace Delly?"
She replied, "Would you have behaved like you did?"
I guess not
You don't act like that with Grace Delly
You wear kid gloves!
It's a pity! That was nice
Wait...
This doesn't hurt
Too bad, I don't have two
It doesn't matter
I'll do it this way
Raise your ass
I'll pull up your skirt
Like that
I'll spread your legs, OK?
I think you like it when I spread your legs
Wait
I love it
There
That's nice
Now I'll put this on
Wait...
Help me!
That's beautiful!
You're lovely like that
You're very beautiful
Now I'll gag you
I enjoyed it so much, I grew fond of Robert
Tying me up without tying me down, was the secret of his ritual
After our sessions I was never depressed. We giggled
We went out, ate too much
...the guy was flat broke,
so she said to him...
You want more caviar?
More caviar?
Waiter, please!
More caviar!
And vodka!
I love to drink
But I never get drunk, or what they call drunk
Can we have some more vodka?
You seem fine
You see your pals. I see my girlfriends
I bet you badmouth us!
We badmouth you, we do, we don't...
Help me?
Touch me
I can't. You kept them on
If that's all it takes...
Love is a bitch
It's just a power trip
A guy you're faithful to, won't fuck you
Cheat on him, and he screws you
They don't guess you're cheating,
they sense you're getting away
My hands are dead. I can't do a thing
Now what? What are you playing at?
Why can't you see I only do this with you?
I've never touched anyone else's cock
Then why won't you leave me alone?
Because you do nothing
Now you be me
You be the woman
I'll be your guy, I'll screw you
Can you believe it?
That's how that selfish bastard got me pregnant!
Nobody came, not even him
He pulled a Virgin Mary on me, with a drop of seminal fluid
Spread your legs. Relax. There...
The neck is closed. Good. The uterus is...
It's been eight weeks
Your turn
That's how I became a case study for spotty interns
A slab of meat
Once you're pregnant, they spread your legs
and peer all the way up your vagina
Strangely I took a bitter liking to it
As I'd made a truce with Robert
while I was pregnant, nobody else touched me
My monthly visits were the only sex I had
I'm uneasy on an exam table, I resent spreading my legs
That's why it upsets me:
I'm a bit of an ice-maiden
I see why the Chinese used an ivory dildo to probe you
Though even that's distasteful
Porn movies, too, protect your libido.
You watch a surrogate image
But what you can't tolerate in life,
you can't tolerate in images either
An image is just as compromising, since it stands for you
Very good
Paul is right
You can't love a face when a cunt tags along
Cunts and faces don't mix
I fantasize about a brothel,
where heads are separated from bodies,
by a machine like a guillotine
before the blade comes down
Of course, there's no blade
I wear a silky red skirt that billows up and rustles
And those silly trappings that give men a hard-on
It's proof a hard-on doesn't mean they love us
Paul is right, being a woman has a fatal flaw
If she gets you hard, you want to screw her
Wanting to screw her is to despise her
Love between men and women is impossible
Men you can't see, you imagine coarse and ape-like
Aziz, look at my cock!
As if crudeness is all one can expect
There we see the head
That was the spine
The femur
Want to know what it is?
It's a boy
Fabulous
You want me to marry you?
Yes
That night, Paul made love to me for the first time in ages
And for the last time
From then on he dragged me around like a ball and chain,
a duty he had to endure
We went out every night
with his sister and brother-in-law
Now that I was the mother of his son,
I'd met his whole family
You OK?
Two whiskies!
- You OK? - Fine
Want another drink?
Later
Please don't make a scene
Don't worry
I felt like dancing, so I grabbed a girl
I almost kissed her, she was so hot for me
Then I dumped her where I picked her up
She never knew what happened
You can't complain
I didn't
But you wanted to
A whisky, please!
You two fallen out of love?
You look like a couple of squares!
Sit down
Feeling tired?
I'm fine
She's my sister, but I'll tell her
A man likes a challenge
He hates being followed around
He needs to fear he may lose her. Then he chases her
Or chases someone else
A man's always chasing
You agree?
You and your chasing's a bore
The bastard!
He leaves me alone with the fear
that soon my vagina will open and spit out the baby
Wake up!
I'm sick of your boozing!
You slob! You stupid tart!
Coming down
What's going on?
You'll like it
Get on the table. Wait for the contraction to pass
Breathe deeply
Breathe. Once it's over, get on the table
- The father can't stay - Yes, he can!
Don't I get an epidural?
It's too late, your baby's being born
Ready? We're going to push the baby out. Breathe in!
Breath in! Hold your breath, grab the bar
Push hard! Again!
As hard as you can. Hold your breath. Again!
It's incredible to create life
Breathe in!
Hold your breath and push
Go on!
They say a woman isn't a woman until she's a mother. It's true
Nothing that happened before really matters
For Christine Pascal
I gave my son his father's name
If someone up there's counting souls,
then we're even
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