Sonuvabitch!
Chloé!
Jacques, why come so early?
If I were you...
You're not me!
"Morning.
What's wrong?
It's nothing.
Just an accident.
You know I don't like your hair like that.
Yes, I know.
The bastard puked on me!
Throw him out, dammit!
- That's disgusting! - Oh, forget it.
Can't you go sleep?
If I were you...
Well, you're not him!
Do I know you?
I need you.
You need me!
Go over there. Over the bridge.
Hotel Normandy. Mr Bérangère.
He's the manager.
And then?
And then...
You'll see.
I'll tell you what you should do.
Less than 20 yards away, one minute's walk,
there's what's called a police station.
- So, get out... - No.
You're the one who can help me.
That's funny! OK...
Ask for Room 401.
My scarf...
What's up, old pal?
Did you lose your car keys?
My scarf.
Oh, shit.
I wonder who that woman was.
Which woman?
I've seen her before.
Like someone from the past...
What're you talking about?
Come on. Don't stay there.
Maybe the captain's right.
You should go see Gourmand.
That's his name, isn't it?
Jacques, you miss your appointments.
That drives the boss crazy.
- Pierre! - Talk of the devil!
What're you playing at?
I said, go to the Hotel Normandy.
Hurry up!
I was just going, boss!
I'll call you. Bye.
Fred, you spill any coffee in my car, you're out!
You say that every day!
- What did Jacques say? - He saw another ghost.
Chihuahua!
Don't annoy the gentleman.
Rosemonde de Pomerole de Pujol de Gramond.
Duchess.
Onlyjust!
The Duke, my first husband,
died 2 weeks after our wedding!
Are you from here, Mr...?
Renard... Le Havre.
I knew a Donnedieu de Vabres, but never a Renard Le Havre!
Do you know what day it is, Captain?
Lieutenant.
May 22nd, Lieutenant.
Antoine disappeared 48 hours ago.
It's been exactly 36 years.
Do you think one can die of love?
What happened 36 years ago?
Yes, you do.
Can I help you?
Lt. Renard, Criminal Investigations.
Could I see Room 401?
Pardon?
I'd like to see Room 401.
There is no Room 401. You were misinformed.
Why are you flustered?
I'm not.
I just spent an hour with your men.
What do you want?
What did you tell them?
OK...
My father left 2 days ago. He hasn't come back since.
- Then? - Nothing.
No-one saw him go. His car's gone.
A Mercedes he hadn't driven in years.
Well, he's an adult. He can leave when he likes.
Without ID or money?
Leaving everything behind?
Is this a recent photo?
It was taken last year.
A seductive man. Maybe he wasn't alone?
He's run the hotel for 40 years. His job is to be seductive.
He's always lived here. It's his whole life.
I don't see what he'd be looking for.
Unless...
An affair?
If only...
He only loved one woman.
Your mother?
My mother, yes.
He left everything... except his rifle.
Do you think he...?
My father is a depressed old man
who loves nothing and no-one.
I'd like to see his rooms.
A waste of time. They didn't find a thing.
Georges...
Get me Constance, please.
Mr Bérangère keeps the curtains closed.
The bedroom is this way. Please follow me.
- Doesn't he sleep with his wife? - No!
Is it that obvious?
Well, yes!
Are you OK?
You can't put your shoes on the bed...
If Mrs Bérangère sees...
- Let me help you. - I'll be OK.
I'll go get help.
Victoria Benutti dies in terrible crash
Mom...
I was looking for you, Camille.
Leave us, Constance.
Captain Penaud called. They found your father's car.
What about papa?
No. Just the car.
Abandoned on top of a cliff.
We should expect the worst.
What are you doing? Get up!
Get up, will you?
Stop being a child!
Constance!
Who came here?
The policeman. He felt dizzy.
What policeman?
Where is he now?
I don't know.
Lieutenant...
Renard, I think.
Who? Why was he here?
Captain Penaud is on your father's case.
Camille!
Where is this lieutenant?
I saw him this morning.
He asked for Room 401.
Why are you in this room?
It does exist!
Give me the key. You have no warrant.
You only get search warrants in TV series.
Victoria Benutti was your mother.
The only mother I had was the one who raised me.
How dare you meddle in our lives?
It's stifling in here.
I need to let some air in.
It smells like death!
Why didn't you bring me here?
Victoria Benutti died in a car accident on May 20, 1970.
36 years later to the day, your father disappears.
It doesn't look like a coincidence.
He's lived with a dead woman for 36 years!
Do you understand that?
Yeah.
Who are you?
What're you looking for?
I'm looking for her.
You're as crazy as papa!
Why do you hate your birth mother?
You hardly knew her. You were 3 when she died.
Best thing she ever did for me!
She abandoned me. I was nothing to her.
You'll find nothing in that face.
No love whatsoever.
- What are you doing? - I'm to burn it all.
- Keep it! - No, wait...
Police seizure!
- Lt. Renard, I suppose. - Yes.
I'm Mrs Bérangère, the manageress of the hotel.
How did you get into Room 401?
Through the door.
You can't rummage through Antoine's private life!
I'm investigating.
What?
Captain Penaud is running the investigation.
I will find out how you got in.
It means more than finding your husband?
So?
Suicide, by the look of it.
We found the weapon in the rocks: a hunting rifle.
As for the body, with the tide, it's probably in Holland by now.
Didn't hejump off from here?
No, probably scared of heights, I guess.
He did it down there. The tide's cleaned it all up.
Hey, how did you know we were here?
The Captain for you.
Yeah, it's me.
The Captain's furious.
Mrs Bérangère complained about you.
- You raised hell at the hotel. - What?
Hey, don't you start, too!
Pierre, I'm going.
OK, I'll call you when I leave.
Come...
Let's go.
Come on.
I don't want you to drive. You can pick it up tomorrow.
I'll show you a real car.
Get in.
We're going to the funny farm.
You don't come in 3 weeks, then you just turn up.
That's not good enough.
Let's see...
Here's your file.
I'll see Dr Gourmand tomorrow.
I'll make an appointment for you for next Tuesday.
Tuesday, yeah.
Do you take these photos?
Yes, something to remember you all by.
I had one of you, but it's gone.
Funny, when you come back, you all look at my photos.
Though you tend not to remember what happened here.
You're looking better.
Yeah, I'm OK.
Don't forget: Dr Gourmand next Tuesday.
Or I'll be in trouble, and as for you...
I'm onto it.
So I see...
Come...
- "Night. - See you tomorrow.
Come to say hello?
That's sweet.
I came to wait for her.
Stop it. Go home.
No, it's worse, she's there all the time!
It's my fault!
No, it wasn't your fault.
Do you hear me?
I'm sorry, Marilou.
- I shouldn't have come. - Hey, I'm here for you.
Whenever you need me. You can count on me.
Don't worry about me, I'm doing OK.
I'm hungry. I know a great Chinese.
Not wearing the dress I bought you?
No.
You must.
Are you sure your wife will obey?
Absolutely.
She has no choice.
She has too much to lose...
Her darling son!
She must pay, Antoine!
No!
You're beautiful.
You're perfect.
I have to go.
Who says you'll come back?
No-one.
What are your projects after this film, Miss Benutti?
I want to look after those I love.
To take time to do so.
To lead a normal life.
I dream of the family I never had.
I have to finish the films I signed up for, then...
I'm going to live.
There's your money.
Insomniac as well,
are you?
It's late.
You're here for her...
Who?
Victoria, of course.
Who else?
When I look at you,
I see poor Antoine's face on his bad days,
when he paced the corridors of his hotel
in search of his beloved.
I'm investigating a missing person.
I saw it in your eyes the first time we met.
Love is what counts most for you.
Take me to my room. It'll remind me of the good old days.
Last year, a chambermaid said she saw her in a corridor.
The idiot told everyone the hoteI's haunted.
She was fired on the spot!
Take the money and go!
Go away!
They're all scared.
Of Victoria's ghost?
Why do you think Antoine wears his best suit every night
before going up to Room 401,
all spruced up like on a first date?
To look at old photos? Leaf through magazines?
Come now!
Goodnight, Duchess.
See?
Goodnight, Lieutenant.
Goodnight.
- Show me the money! - It's all there.
We can't go now. It's infected.
It hurts!
Do something!
There's nothing here.
You have to see a doctor.
I can't do that!
I shot a guy for you!
Don't look at me like that!
You're crazy!
I had no choice. I did it for you!
So we could go away together, see?
You want to go without me?
Now you got the money!
No, that's not it.
- You killed someone? - Yes!
And you're an accomplice.
You've had it, my girl!
I'm telling you,
you've had it!
Listen...
Let's not ruin everything now.
Don't worry.
I got it all planned.
You scared me! Why're you here?
No idea... Why are you here?
To empty the room.
I told you not to touch anything.
Haven't you heard? A trawler found the body this morning.
Mrs Bérangère's at the morgue.
How do I get rid of all this?
Take it to this address.
You new here?
The pathologist's on vacation. I'm replacing him.
How did they identify this?
Excuse me.
They wouldn't see him.
Neither the mother nor the son. They don't have to.
I can understand it. The head's blown off.
They identified the objects found on the body as the husband's.
The suit, the watch... Even the car keys.
Still in his jacket pocket.
It's all in the report.
"Suicide of Antoine Bérangère with a hunting weapon.
The weapon - a hunting rifle -
fired a 12 mm bullet under the chin,
causing total destruction of the skull and face.
The weapon was identified as Mr Bérangère's
by his wife, Mélanie and his son, Camille Bérangère.
The distances measured show that it was fired by the victim. "
This is garbage! Who wrote it?
I did.
Time of death?
Probably before high tide.
Shit!
Dammit!
See a 1960s Volvo coupé?
Think I watch every car go past?
No.
I didn't see it, then.
Are you Mario?
Yes.
You're a fan!
The cemetery's on the left as you enter town.
The municipal cemetery.
She's buried there?
I didn't know.
You don't know much for a fan.
So, you did see her go past in a Volvo?
You're nuts! She died over 30 years ago!
That's not what I meant.
The crash was on this road?
Yes.
A bit further on in the direction you came from.
She stopped to fill up.
I asked for an autograph.
- What's your name? - Mario, Ma'am.
"Ma'am"!
15 minutes later...
How did you find out so soon?
There was a lot of traffic on this road before the freeway.
15 minutes later, a guy was calling for an ambulance.
What guy?
A guy who went past in a Mercedes.
He'd seen the crash
and stopped here to call.
A Mercedes, you say?
Yeah.
A 1951 "220" model.
You remember a car like that.
Was this the driver?
It was ages ago. I can't remember.
Look! Look carefully.
Was this him?
I really can't say.
He was younger than that.
Yes, that's true.
That's my scarf!
"Eternal fidelity"...
I found it.
Bravo, Lieutenant. Good work.
And the culprit?
No, not yet.
The girl in the circle...
Is her name Lucie?
You interrogating me?
Lucie, yes.
The two of you got along very well.
You probably don't remember,
but we even found you in bed together once.
That surprises you, huh?
Patients often get together.
First, they lend cigarettes, then swap everything!
Was she here for attempted suicide, too?
See? It's coming back.
Yes, attempted suicide, her too.
You were the two in the group.
- Lucie what? - Lucie "I forget"!
I wouldn't tell you, anyway. I'm not allowed to.
Even for my investigation?
Even for that.
- You OK? - Yeah, fine.
But she's in grave danger.
You should change your pills or increase the dose.
Go on, scram!
Bedtime, sandman's coming.
- "Night, Jacques. - "Night.
See you on Tuesday.
Yeah, right, Tuesday.
- Thanks for the coffee. - Welcome.
What're you doing here?
I don't want to go home... I can't...
I won't!
I won't take it!
Don't mess with me!
Do I know you?
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Sonuvabitch!
Shit!
Jacques, open up. It's Pierre!
I know you're in there! Open up!
You're a pain! Open up!
The hospital filed a complaint for a PC and a medicine cabinet.
What've you done?
Listen, I'll wait for you downstairs.
Hurry up, OK?
I know you can hear me.
OK, so he's gone. Let's go eat now.
Marilou, lend me your car keys.
Where's your car?
I'll tell you later.
Excuse me.
Jacques, if you break the car, I'll break your...
Thanks.
You be careful. Off you go.
I want to speak to Captain Penaud.
Ah, Lieutenant.
How exhausting to look after others" lives
when your own needs so much attention!
How do you do it?
You should take care of yourself - physically.
"Mens sana in corpore sano".
A healthy mind in a healthy body.
Ex-Lieutenant Renard isn't very well.
What's the sick policeman here for?
The truth.
The truth...
Everybody wants that. But what's sadder than the truth?
You interested in your father's disappearance?
Frankly, no.
If he chose to die, that's up to him.
Look at me.
I've been going over the weight of my existence for 40 years.
Floating with emptiness beneath me...
Some have the right to die...
Death is gentle, they say.
Do you know Lucie?
No. Who is she?
Someone your father knows very well.
Knew very well.
What do you mean by "very well"? He only ever worshipped his actress.
Does Evelyne mean anything to you?
Another one?
Nope.
Who is she?
A name I saw on your mother's grave. On Victoria Benutti's.
I've never visited her grave.
I don't worship the dead.
I can't help you.
Mrs Bérangère might remember...
My mother has absolutely nothing to do
with those women.
If you feel like it...
No, thanks, I don't swim.
You should. It'd do you a lot of good.
I'll be off.
Good day, Lieutenant.
Hello, Duchess. This is Lt. Renard.
I need your help, my dear Rosemonde.
Car.
Car!
Does the name Evelyne mean anything to you?
No, Evelyne in connection with Victoria.
Well if you remember, give me a call. Bye, my dear Rosemonde.
Yeah!
Yes, Marilou.
She wouldn't give her name.
Want me to open it?
OK, I'll look.
Hello.
It's a DVD.
Go on in. Emile will look after you.
It's called "Do You Remember Me?"
Hey, the woman looked like the one on the box.
Here's your money.
As you wanted.
Drop your gun, Rebecca.
Why did you betray me?
I loved no-one but you.
"Morning, sir.
Where did you put the things from Room 401?
Where you told me to, sir.
I told you to burn them.
That's what I did. I burned them.
No, you didn't. You just said
you'd put them somewhere. Where?
Sorry, sir! I should have... I didn't know...
Didn't know what?
- Who to listen to, you or...? - Who?
You eating that?
It stinks.
Open the window.
- Eat up and shut up! - Thanks.
Christ, Chloé!
You'll pay for that!
Sorry!
Watch out!
Take this.
Stop!
Fred, move!
Pull over!
Jacques, pull over, dammit!
Take it easy!
Don't worry.
Marilou! The DVD!
You got a problem?
You didn't see me.
Is it the right size?
Oh, yeah.
Are you decent?
Uh, yes.
You should take off the other suit.
We'd have a better idea.
What are you doing?
Come back! Stop thief!
Stop thief!
Police! Move!
Lucie...
Run for it.
Run!
Just calm down!
I am calm.
For the past 3 months,
you haven't been to see Dr Gourmand.
We said you could work if you followed your treatment.
And now you rob a hospital...
You steal a suit from a mall...
Are you out of your mind?
I'm talking to you!
And why go sticking your nose into ancient history?
Just because that Victoria...
- Benutti. - Right.
Just because she died...
Pierre! When did that actress die?
1970.
36 years ago!
You're mixing it all up with your wife's accident.
Let's say no more about it. Case closed. Cut the crap, OK?
I can still put things right.
What do you say?
You buried your pal Bérangère real fast.
This jerk's a pain in the ass!
He's crazy! He makes my life hell 3 months before I retire!
Put him in a cell. That'll teach him!
Hello, Inspector, it's Rosemonde.
I did as you said. I found your Evelyne.
Camille's nanny for the first 3 years.
Victoria met her at the hotel. She was a chambermaid.
She hired her as an assistant on her movie.
Then, Evelyne looked after the baby.
Afterthe accident, she disappeared.
The boy called her Line. I remembered,
because my husband loved the actress, Line Renaud.
See? Evelyne... Line!
Call the Duchess. I'll be in my office.
But, sir, she left the hotel an hour ago.
She was leaving on the 31st!
Your mother and the Duchess had coffee together
in Mrs Bérangère's suite earlier on.
800 euros for that shit!
You know what it cost?
Sure, I paid for it.
Coffee?
They withdrew the complaint.
Thanks, Pierre.
You gotta let me go.
She's in mortal danger.
Who?
That woman!
Dammit, don't you see who Victoria is?
Victoria's dead.
Of course Victoria's dead, you jerk!
But it's not Victoria.
She pretends to be Victoria. Her name's Lucie.
Antoine Bérangère's manipulating her!
He's dead, too! Just cut it out, will ya?
They're all dead! And Chloé's dead, too!
And you're stark raving nuts!
Jesus, Jacques! We do all we can.
You come here and raise hell!
You trash my car, then bust my balls over the living dead!
Wasn't 6 months in the bin enough?
You still want to screw up your life and ours, too?
Well, go ahead. It's your problem, not mine.
Pierre, calm down.
- You've lost it. - I've lost it?
I've lost it?!
Yeah, right, I've lost it!
Now listen up, pal!
You rob a hospital, you total 2 cars,
and you make out you're a cop.
My money can't help you.
I am a cop!
Not anymore. You're fired!
And you're going down.
Internal Affairs will show no mercy.
Look, the boss is prepared to forget it all
if you agree to treatment.
Jacques, the only thing you can do now is
sign the admission form.
You seriously think I'm crazy?
Look, sign it.
It'll stop you going tojail.
- What're you doing? - I was getting ready.
- What's that scarf? - It's nothing.
What is it?
You're telling stories!
- Where were you last night? - On the boat.
Liar! You didn't smell of the sea.
Stop it! You're hurting!
I went to the hospital for your morphine, OK?
How else could I inject you?
How do you think you keep going?
I don't want to hurt you.
You mean so much to me.
I couldn't lose you again.
Because I love you.
You know that...
I love you.
Camille...
What's going on? What are you doing there?
What's got into you?
I didn't dare to...
Camille, son... you didn't dare what?
You say you don't know Evelyne - she was my nanny.
Why did you try to...
Try? What are you talking about?
Evelyne what?
I can't remember the names of all your nannies.
She stayed for 3 years until the accident.
Until you were 3, everything concerning you
was handled by your father and... his actress.
After the accident, I looked after you.
And I thank God every day for giving me a son like you.
She disappeared just like that?
Without a trace?
She didn't say why she was going?
I'm here now.
All that's meaningless.
Please pull yourself together.
At the funeral tomorrow, be strong and dignified.
I'm here.
I've always been here.
I've always protected you.
From what?
From whom?
Well, from...
whatever might harm you.
It's a miracle...
you're not dead.
Antoine's car!
Faster! He's found us! It's him!
Faster! He's found us!
It's Antoine!
You've got a visitor.
Go on.
Sorry, I have to lock it.
Don't worry about all this. Sit down.
I need to talk to you.
About Evelyne, the woman who was close to my mother.
I don't know much.
I can't carry on from in here.
She was my nanny apparently.
You're the only one who knows
or wants to know things.
Won't you tell me?
- This Lucie... - I don't know anything.
Everyone's stopping me from finding out more.
Aren't you sick of those corridors and rooms where people whisper?
Open the doors. Tear down the masks!
Be brave, Camille.
I think I can be.
- You make me want to be. - So, go on!
Don't retreat.
There are living people behind all the dead.
I'm not sure I understand you.
But I'm going now.
Can I help to get you out of here?
Yeah.
Look after yourself.
Thank you.
May I embrace you?
Evelyne Darcan!
"Morning, sir.
So you've seen sense.
- I got no choice. - What about me?
Look at the crate I have to drive. You're a pain in the ass!
OK, I'll just put my fine suit away
and grab a few things.
- Wait here. I'll be 5 minutes. - Right.
- I'm not gonnajump! - You sure?
Yes, I am.
Christ, Pierre!
Christ, Jacques! Sorry, I'm coming, too.
Papa, I'm stuck!
It's a miracle...
you're not dead.
800 euros! You could make an effort.
I'm out of Coke.
I'll just freshen up.
What's this crazy shit?
Sonuvabitch!
- What're you doing? - Where is he?
Who?
The body found at sea!
I need an autopsy and a DNAtest. Where is it?
Bérangère?
It's not Bérangère, it's a tramp!
A tramp who's been passed off as Bérangère!
He was attacked in his cave.
He defended himself like that!
He's wounded, see?
The sonuvabitch is wounded, but he's not dead.
Just compare this blood...
No!
The Captain, the DA, the family said
it was suicide. Forget the DNA test.
Get off me! You're crazy!
I'll kill the next person to say that.
Where is he? Where?!
The funeral home.
They came for the body last night.
The cremation's a day earlier.
It's this morning.
This morning...
Well... did they all go?
No.
Who?
Who didn't go?
Your son.
Poor Camille...
Only now is he settling his score with me.
Throughout their lives
and in prayer...
Georges!
- Still no news of my son? - No, Ma"am.
Constance saw him drive off.
He should've been here ages ago.
- Should I tell the police? - No!
He must've stopped to meditate on the way.
Evelyne Darcan?
Papa?
You again?
- Where is he? - Who?
Antoine.
You've no respect for the dead.
- We buried him this morning. - No, you didn't!
You cremated him!
To stop tongues from wagging!
You have no proof!
And you're crazy. Everyone knows that!
There's always someone to believe a madman.
Camille, say.
I'm sure he dreams of finding his dear papa
to have it out with him.
He'll never believe you!
Want a bet?
It's too late.
Antoine's gone.
He's far away now.
I'm not so sure.
He's wounded. He's waiting.
He's hiding somewhere.
What about money?
He can't disappear without money.
Unless you helped him...
You can't stop him leaving.
He'd kill you.
Well, in that case, you'd be rid of me.
You wouldn't have to tell Camille the truth about his papa
and a woman who looks strangely like Victoria.
We own a yacht
moored in the port by the last landing stage.
3 years ago, he had it fixed up.
Why are you on my boat,
asshole?
To arrest you, Mr Bérangère.
You're a murderer.
It's a bit late, Lieutenant.
- You know him? - Yes.
We met at the hospital.
Don't bust my balls!
Tie him up! Quick!
You step back!
- Think you'll get far? - Further than you!
Shut up or I'll waste ya!
Tie the fucker's hands behind his back!
We're setting sail.
Keep an eye on him.
Where are you going?
- You never... - To my sister. She needs me.
- Your sister? - Yes, my sister!
I suppose she is, isn't she?
Lucie!
You both hid her from me!
How could you?!
- You let papa abuse a chil... - Shut up!
You did it all your life!
Hear, see, speak no evil!
You're monsters! Monsters!
I'm not a monster.
You're the love of my life.
Look at me.
What could I hope for in life?
I had no choice but to accept.
Or I'd lose everything. The man I loved...
The son I could never have!
But at what cost?
You only spoke badly about my mother.
You made me hate her...
and revere you.
If I hadn't loved you, who would have?
She went off to make her movies! To him,
you were just a way of making her come back.
She went away for weeks!
Until she wanted you back.
As if you were her plaything!
No!
My love saved you, see?
But I was her son.
She and her new lover wanted to kidnap you.
Evelyne was her accomplice.
They planned it. She took you to the beach.
It was a kidnapping, see? A kidnapping!
She came back to snatch you away!
You couldn't go! I wouldn't have it!
I've always been here.
Always been here. I'm here...
No-one knew Victoria had a second baby
with her lover, Albert.
Antoine entrusted the baby to Evelyne,
persuaded her to adopt her and give her her name.
When she grew up, he became crazy about her.
I didn't know.
I didn't know about the rest.
You didn't want to know.
You never wanted to know.
Under your tough skin, you lived in shame.
- Be quiet. - I won't be quiet.
You kept me in silence and fear.
You locked me up in your hotel.
You never wanted to see the real me.
Camille, don't leave me.
I'm your mother.
My mother's dead.
Don't move!
Take the helm, stupid girl!
Don't you move!
Steer, dammit!
You've lost.
She won't follow you.
Listen up, punk!
You think she'll go with you?
She'll go all the way with me!
Look!
I'm going to live...
Hello.
Excuse me.
Excuse me. It's strange but...
Have we met before?
No, I don't think so.
Are you an actress?
No, not at all.
Sorry, but... what's your name?
- Lucie. And you? - Auguste.
I'm new here...
- Well, good luck. - Thanks.
- Good luck to you too... - Thanks.
Lucie...
Subtitles: J. Miller
Subtitling: Eclair Vidéo