No way. I'm off to the country.
Hey.
Extras to the B-hall immediately.
-I saw your movie the other day. -Oh?
Too bad they didn't get each other.
Why not make an original love story where they get each other?
Nobody gets each other by the end these days.
If they do, it's not them.
-How are things with Kent? -You'll see soon enough.
He's so damn jealous. Sometimes I think that he's more interested-
-in being jealous than of me. You know what I mean?
-How are you yourself? -Well, you know how it is...
She thinks less of herself for not working like us.
I mean, she could get a friend.
Someone to gossip with. It's so silly.
Everyone knows I love her. I just can't seem to tell her.
That's some nice drawings Nina!
Did you make those Nina?
-That's some nice drawings. -Yes.
-Am I in one of them? -Yes.
-It's the orange one. -Is that so.
Where's mommy then?
There. And that's me.
-That's Kent, and Inger. -Well, how about that.
-There's him with the big nose. -I see.
The whole assembly.
She's become quite the Scanian, the little girlie.
-When did she do these? -For your arrival.
We have kept quite busy.
-Five it is. -Can I have a look at them?
I think it's six.
It's five because I counted to five.
What did you do with your glasses?
-Mist. -Is it mist?
-Let me wipe them. -I don't think you can.
-Is it lacquer? Why? -Because I'm long-sighted.
Long-sighted? Can I see?
-Put them on and you'll see. -They're too small, they don't fit.
I'll hold them over your eyes.
How strange.
-Does it feel strange? -Yes.
Can I see?
-What can be done to Nina's eye? -One can operate.
That's what I did as a child. I was cross-eyed too.
Does it hurt?
It's not the pain, it's the bandage over the eyes.
It has to be worn for five days.
You can still walk about-
My mom walked me until her feet hurt.
It's the darkness.
Can you imagine the things you can see in that darkness?
All your previous experiences-
-all your old memories from home and around you...
They are still left inside. Aren't they?
And now it's Nina's turn.
This time it's me and Keve who are the parents.
You know?
-What damn Opel? -I found your shoes there.
I took them off yesterday because my feet hurt.
I usually do. You know that.
-I can't wear socks on my shoes. -What about the hammock?
What sodding hammock?
I found a lighter and the scarf.
Oh, the hammock. I crashed there for a while.
You need to calm down a bit.
-I want to listen to music. -Put on a record then.
-Not when you are here. -Are you out of your mind?
Go out for a while. Go for a bathe and sober up for God's sake.
It's a girl right?
I see, thanks. Thanks.
TEAM LINE-UP
LECTURE
What this society has created is a new middle class without traditions.
Without traditions.
I really have nothing left to teach. Tonight I just wanted-
-to point out some of the dangers caused by the new liberty-
-in welfare states like Sweden.
When old values are demolished...
When obsolete taboos cease to apply.
I've wanted to explain how the growing prosperity-
-which results in freedom -- freedom of choice-
-between different alternatives, might make life more difficult.
If you have any questions I'm all ears now.
No?
-Good day. -Good day.
-Thanks for the lecture. -By all means.
-We've met before. -Oh, you remember?
You were the lecturer that time.
Yes, Kårhuset...?
That's right. You came asking me about something I said.
So you remember that, huh.
There were a few more attendants that time.
My wife.
I'm sorry, I should introduce you - Evabritt.
This is my wife. Evabritt. And this is... Well.
I'm coming.
-Sixty kronor. -Yes.
-And the train ticket... -You had...
What ought the price be? 91.60 kronor.
And to halve that.
You pay half the ticket.
110 kronor, then. Is there any change?
Hold on, my wife got change. Here you go.
I'm sorry, I have no change.
Do you have four twenty?
They can't get more of those paintings.
-Is it the same with the horse? -Yes, same with the horse.
Both the horse and Gustav is turning.
He is clearly turning this way when you stand here.
The horse is turning this way now.
If you stand in the other corner the horse will be turned that way.
-You haven't figured it out? -No, I don't understand...
-He's turning! -I say.
-Both the horse and Gustav. -As if they were alive.
The whole room were filled with those. But they're gone now.
Oh, so there were more of those turning ones?
Yes, but they weren't as good. This one was especially good.
-Have you seen Keve? -No.
Painting turning objects is his specialty.
I'm really somewhere else. I'm frying a pig.
-Do you need anything? -No, no I'm fine.
Don't worry about me, I'm fine. We had rice pudding today.
-With fruit sauce? -Yes.
I see you in the papers occasionally. But it's not the same.
I've got so much going on, the divorce and everything.
I'll visit you more often.
...Example of a patient who's so comfortable in a hospital that-
-they'll do something like this just to get back again.
It's also quite an ordinary symptom for serious-
-insanity to maim oneself, as your brother have done.
It's a defect in his hereditary equipment that have shaped him this way.
Do you know you've got a couple of days left to film with me.
How's tomorrow for you?
Tomorrow's no good. It's Anette's birthday.
I'm attending her party.
-The day after tomorrow, then? -Yep, that's fine.
-That's fine? -Yep.
-Is that a cold, or you just snotty? -I'm just snotty.
Wipe your snout in daddy's handkerchief.
Aren't you finishing that movie soon, daddy?
There's been a delay. Things are more difficult now.
-Will I see you tonight? -No, I can't tonight...
No, cut!
-Damnit, you have to tell me... -Just say the line directly as you file!
-Without giving it some importance. -The scene has... Why do you laugh?
-Seriously... -This really isn't that complicated.
How many takes is it now?
But Keve... Why is it wrong if I look up on her?
It's a contact I'm planning to establish later on.
And once again. Ready!
Cut!
Like this? That I'm watching her like this?
I can't approve of that much life in this scene. I must save that for later.
Can I try it like that?
Alright, I'll try your way.
Okay.
One final go then!
You ready? Silence!
Camera!
Action!
-No! Cut! -Why the hell did you cut now?
I had it! Didn't you see I had it?
There's no point trying.
That's a wrap for today. Thank you!
Bastugatan 10.
Let go of me!
I love him. I love him.
What do we do now?
Well, we've slept together, right?
You're the first. I never cheated on him.
There was so much that was... confined. Is that the expression?
Yes.
-Can one tell such things? -Yes, mostly.
How's your wife?
-She's blonde. -That I've seen in the papers.
I mean... What's wrong with her?
-Wrong? What do you mean? -I mean, this... Everything.
I love her.
It's like entering the woods from a different direction.
I mean Love... You enter the woods from a new direction each time.
For every new person you love.
You see the old trees in a new light. And you see new trees.
You see more and more trees, and always dream of seeing the whole forest.
Do you know why I direct movies?
Do I talk too much?
I always babble when I'm falling in love.
What happened to the cinema is that it suddenly got morals.
It finally got the courage to proclaim itself as cinema and nothing else.
"Cinema is truth 24 times per second", Godard says.
That's to which extent he can commit.
And to Antonioni every choice of camera angles is a matter of morals.
We can no longer make movies with a beginning, middle and an end.
The old cinema was a lie already through its utmost form.
It claimed continuity.
It told us about an unbroken world that could be perceived in only one way.
Where is that world today?
-Am I holding a lecture? -It's just my arm that's fallen asleep.
No, the truth of today... It can't be extended over time.
Artists can't lay puzzles, because there is no pattern.
What we can do is to hold the pieces towards the light.
The pattern you may be able to imagine then... It might be the truth...
...or at least a small part of it.
Let me try.
Wait, do it like this.
No, I want to see for myself.
-It's your turn today. -What turn?
To leave here first.
-It's your turn. -No, yours.
I went first yesterday.
-I went first twice last week. -Then you should suit yourself.
No, I don't think the art has to go to Mars to evolve.
And what can we expect the next time?
I would like to become more simple...
...without lying.
I want to make a movie that is as real and concrete-
-as something one would say at a breakfast table.
-Tired? -Mm.
-What have you done today Nina? -I've played.
-Did you play with the train? -What train?
-The red train? -What red train?
-The one I got you yesterday. -But I haven't got any train!
What do you mean daddy?
There were some part in the sixth take, just as they turn...
It looks dreadful.
I should've done a movie about this...
About an artist asking himself: "Why can't I evoke life in them?"
Why can't I evoke any feelings?
You have at least taught me how to lie.
I've known how to do that for a long time, it's my profession.
But what about me? I don't have a profession...
[ Scanian babble ]
Long time no see...
It's been a long winter. -Yes.
Glad it became summer.
I was invited this year too.
"After your successful appearance last year"...
..."we here by request a new"...
..."stimulating"...
The horse didn't turn this year either. I don't think it can turn.
There were fifteen people in the room at least.
We were only eleven last year.
Twelve...
Why did you lose her?
She had been lying too much.
She can't lie. She never could lie.
You don't have to say anything else.
Do you want to stay?
Who are you?
You can go out and play.
What do you miss the most about her?
Do you know what I miss?
What is your life based on? You can't base it on empty rows.
There's a line by Moravia...
...which is pretty good. It's no particulary good novel though.
"One doesn't have to be together in a room"-
-"to still love each other".
While you... you and her...
...I was always close to her.
It's no particulary good novel though.
Look! Over there!
-Anyone I know? -It's me. Is it you?
-Welcome to the ladies' room. -I'm sobering up when I see you.
-Movie drunkenness is special. -How do they make it look so elegant?
And what's with the rose in their mouths? They probably drink less than we do.
What was her name, the tall one? With a rose in her mouth.
-Who? -Her...
-Tall and English, right? -Yes. With a rose in her mouth.
No, I can't remember.
-The name of the movie then? -I don't remember.
She was tall and English, right?
I don't remember.
-You know who I mean? -Yeah, I know.
-What was her name? -I told you, I don't know.
Know what I got?
-Want to taste? -Taste what?
-Here you go. -Thanks.
-Want more? -Mm.
Without rose...
Hey...
-How long did you date Keve? -That was a hundred years ago.
-You can't be jealous of that. -No.
I'm just asking for the statistics.
-How do you like Ben? -I like Ben a lot.
Kent was so...
He did a lot of good things, but it got complicated.
Things seemed so difficult when he did them. You know?
Ben is gone.
He got mad at Keve. Thought Keve deceived him.
-The old ladies stare. Hurry! -Hide it.
Can you hide it? There they are!
Oh, Porky!
It's empty, right?
I still got my jacket at least.
What's there to do with it?
-Don't know. Fix it. -For me? Mm.
It's worse for me, you know. I put my effort into the kids, I've got one.
And my marriage. The one I'm married to don't care for me.
Damn it, being a woman is hard.
Indeed. We got it bad. Period, fetal pain and...
-Scouring knees... -Fragile hands...
-Everything but the military service. -It's just a matter of time.
Let's go home.
-Oh no you don't. Want a sandwich? -Yes.
-Was it alright? -Yes.
Pity. They were good. They were good letters.
Yeah...
They were beautiful.
-But they didn't mean anything. -They meant something back then.
-One has to write new ones. -I wouldn't dare to read them.
Do you remember...
Remember the cabin at the beach?
Imagine that we used to live in that small cabin a whole summer.
It was prohibited to live there so we sneaked in at night.
Remember that?
We used newspapers to seal out the wind.
We could stand each other in 4 square metres back then.
4.5. Its length was 2.25m.
4.5 then.
We could stand each other in 4.5 square metres.
But we...
Calm the fuck down. Don't go all hysterical. Let the child sleep.
You don't care about her. Only when you need her for your damn movies.
Did you ever think about those five dark days?
If it were tomorrow...
How do you think she would feel under the bandage?
-You're not more commited than... -You're talking about primitive methods.
I was at the doctor last week. After surgery she sleeps one night.
The next morning she's fit for fight. The darkness lasts a few hours.
Another responsibility we can ignore.
It's moving forward.
It gets easier, Ann-Marie.
They make life more easy to endure.
Easier...
Original subtitles by Voice. Updated by AnotherStranger.