- Move forward a little.
Again.
OK. This way, it's okay.
Turn around a little. That's it, like that.
Uh.
See there, behind me?
This is the living room you came from.
The staircase is right there, on the left.
On your right,
you have the kitchen window.
Uh.
On the table here,
you have the knife.
And you see the mark in tape,
really on your right?
This is where the shadow of the beast will appear.
At one point you look over and see it. OK?
- Uh...
Push your hair back a little.
That's it, like that. Perfect.
And take two, three steps towards me.
That's it, like that.
How are you? - Yes, I am fine. I am ready.
- We are going to go there.
And it's.
when you want to.
Helicopter flyover
- THANKS.
Pauline,
you haven't seen my husband?
- He was in the other living room a few minutes ago.
- You haven't seen Georges?
- Yes. He was in the living room on the other side five minutes ago.
Tell me, why at parties,
we always try to find the people we live with
and that we see every day?
- You are having fun? - A lot.
But I lost my husband. - What luck! Enjoy it.
- I'm taking advantage of it.
Too much.
- I saw him go that way. He must have gone to see the workshop.
- L'atelier?
- You haven't met Anton? - No.
- Anton!
Gabrielle.
We lent him a room so he could work.
Tonight he shows things.
Go see it. It's powerful,
and as dark as the times are bright.
Curious contrast.
- In this case.
- I leave you.
- It's over there? - Yes.
After the back lounge, on the right.
I can take you if you want.
- Thanks, but I can manage.
- You don't want a drink first?
- I have a drink.
- And a glove that hides something.
I bow.
I hope that pleases you.
- I am sure.
THANKS.
- What do you think?
- It's violent. Psychiatric.
Quite beautiful, I think.
- He could paint you.
- No way. I hold on to my soul.
- You remember, don't you?
- What?
- That we have already met.
- Oh yes?
- In Rome. Years ago.
Three years ago.
A dinner,
organized after a performance of Madame Butterfly.
You were with your uncle and your aunt.
You were wearing a fairly dark green dress, with a bun.
- It was in Naples.
Not in Rome.
It was six years ago.
I was with my mother and my brother.
In fact, you don't remember me at all.
- Maybe I'm a little vague on the details.
But on the other hand, I remember you very well.
- That much? - Yes.
- And why?
- Because you told me something that I never forgot
and who, since then, often makes me think of you.
Something you told me on the way home.
You have forgotten?
- We spoke in French?
- I think we were mixing tongues.
I don't know if I'm doing the right thing by trying to remind you, then.
- But yes, go ahead.
- I'm sorry to disturb you in your conversation,
but I can't resist.
You are Gabrielle Monnier, right?
- Indeed.
- So, I just wanted to confess my admiration to you.
You are a magnificent musician.
A pianist of rare sensitivity and...
- THANKS.
It touches me infinitely.
- Since I dare to speak to you, I dare to tell you:
I would love to dress you one day.
- Get dressed? - Yes, I am Paul Poiret.
- Oh?
In this case, I happily accept.
I am very flattered.
- But not as much as me.
I won't bother you any longer.
Beauty, how are you?
- GOOD.
- Have you seen the paintings in the workshop?
- Yes.
- Is George there?
- In one of the living rooms, I imagine.
- All right.
Well, I'll go say hello, then.
Good visit.
- I am very touched.
- Are you okay, darling?
Where were you? - I was looking for you.
- I am here.
How are you? - Yes.
- If you had to describe your skills,
your training and your personal project, what would you say?
- I don't know. I am fast, intuitive.
As for training, I never really had any,
because...
I moved to the United States when I was nine years old.
- For what?
- I don't remember very well, I was very little.
My parents said that the climate had become unbearable.
They were scared.
And then,
when we arrived in the United States, the civil war broke out.
And so, we left.
- Yes, in Chengdu, for nine years. You didn't go to school there.
- Non.
But I still learned a lot on my own.
I learn rather easily.
- And your personal project?
- To work.
If possible
somewhere WHERE I can feel useful.
- Useful?
- Yes, useful.
Something other than what I'm doing now.
- Pardon!
Do you work here?
- No, I'm sorry.
- Ah! You're like me, then.
- I don't know what you are like.
- A little lost.
- In the building
or in life?
- In the building already, that's for sure.
I'm coming for an interview, I don't know where it is.
- I'm coming out.
It's just behind, to the right.
- It went well?
- It's even.
I have to go to work.
Good luck.
- THANKS.
- If you had to give me a good reason
so that we can help you find another job?
- I am smart.
I know how to do lots of things.
- Today, there is no shortage of intelligence .
- The intelligence you speak of still lacks humanity.
- The intelligence I speak of saved humanity.
- I'm talking about humanity in the human sense.
Of human presence.
- Artificial intelligence has become responsible and fair.
So, ultimately, human. This is immense progress.
- Honestly, I find it difficult to talk about progress,
with 67% unemployment and 20% mechanical work.
They call us useless people.
I don't know if you realize the contempt?
I'm just asking for work that matches my abilities.
- Do you hear your anger?
You have far too much affect for certain jobs.
As it stands, you will only be able to do work in which the affect
cannot interfere with the result.
Like the one you have today.
- Because we have to choose between work and affects?
- For certain jobs, yes.
Particularly those which involve responsibility and reflection.
And these are obviously the ones that interest you.
Today, there are no more biased decisions
taken by someone who is upset or depressed.
Look at the calm.
- Yes. Well, I don't know if that's a good thing.
- Do you want to relive the same thing as in 2025?
The same dramas?
- No, of course.
- Don't be paranoid, or worse, sentimental.
All this is very recent, hence your distrust.
But the worker will readjust as he always has.
We have already suggested that you dive back into your past lives
to clean your DNA.
And you refused.
- I've just
a little afraid of the consequences.
- In which way?
- I am afraid of.
to no longer be able to feel.
- It's a rumor, that.
Obviously we can still feel.
But we feel more serenely, that's all.
- You know, stop being afraid, darling. You can always fuck.
Besides, I fuck more than you.
It's a little different, but it's not necessarily worse.
This is another thing.
And it’s been scientifically proven to work.
You can trust science.
- Science has proven absolutely nothing.
And we absolutely don't know how it works,
artificial intelligence.
In any case, I am sure
that it cannot be objective.
- Yes. We discover what Buddhism has always known, that's all.
You go through everything that has damaged you for centuries,
and you get rid of it.
- Oh yes?
And when you wake up, do you remember it?
- Oh yes.
And I can tell you: it works.
- In any case, I don't want to become
neither a Buddhist nor a robot.
- No, but I haven't become a robot.
Simply, my emotions no longer make me suffer.
You have nothing to lose
and everything to gain.
- And.
Exactly, I have to lose.
- What?
What do you have to lose, for example?
- Not maybe
never experience a strong feeling.
- Great novels are fantasy, darling.
In any case, I don't regret it for a second.
Fall.
Let go.
And above all, you have the right to more interesting work
than checking the temperature of the data plates.
So, if we offer it to you, that might mean
that, in some way, you are worth it.
Like me.
- By purifying your DNA,
you cleanse old trauma
which you have inherited for centuries
and which have contaminated your subconscious.
It's like regulating hormones,
but at a much higher level.
You understand?
- Yes I think.
- As I told you, we can help you.
We can help you get rid of your affects.
- Of all?
Of all?
It's just that I have a very deep feeling
that something terrible is going to happen.
Kind of a disaster.
And that I will have to face it.
Be there.
Even though it terrifies me.
- You see? Affects, that’s it.
It’s this fear, for example.
Nothing serious can happen anymore. Rest assured.
All the disasters are behind.
- What should I do to rehabilitate?
- You close your eyes.
You reopen them. That's all.
Do it.
- What?
- Close your eyes.
Reopen them.
It's going to be like this.
Nothing more.
Metallic rumbles in the distance
- Do not move.
You're going to get a sting in your ear.
It's absolutely not painful.
- I'm a little scared.
- CIt’s going to go very well.
You will close your eyes, and that's it.
Nothing more.
Close your eyes.
- Close your eyes.
- Do you find me old?
- Non.
- Obviously a little.
- How old were you?
- Is that a fancy way of asking how old I am today?
He's laughing. - No way. No way.
Excuse me.
It's none of my business, but.
The dolls,
Is this your idea?
- Because as a child, I was a little girl?
Non.
I'm only interested in music.
- But how did your husband get into doll making?
- A bit by chance.
He was studying law.
And one morning he woke up and said to me:
“I had this dream.
“I want to make dolls.
"I saw them."
So.
-And so you married him.
- And so, now we have this factory.
- Indeed.
At the moment, I don't have one, but.
I want some.
And I will have some.
- I have no doubt about it.
- And you, then?
- I find Paris more stimulating than London at the moment.
- You are not answering my question.
- Moi?
Let's just say I'm a big loner.
- I'm hungry.
I want pancakes.
- We'll get you some pancakes.
- And jam.
Jam and pain au chocolat.
I would love to hear you play.
- I am not ready.
- What are you working on at the moment?
- Schonberg.
I am suffering.
- Is it that difficult?
- For me, yes.
It's full of invention, but.
it's hard to find the feeling inside that.
- What were you playing just now?
- A piece by Schoenberg.
- You are doing well.
- I don't know.
I don't feel like I understand everything yet.
- We don't always have to understand everything, right?
- I guess not.
- We're fine without electricity, actually.
I've never seen the living room like that.
It's beautiful.
We should go on a trip.
We haven't been alone for a long time.
You do not want?
- Doesn't that scare you?
- What?
- To be alone with me?
Not approaching
- I like being scared.
I feel alive.
Gabrielle.
I would like to tell you something.
- Do you want me to close the shutters, sir?
- No, I will, thank you. See you tomorrow.
- I still have a little work to do.
- Everything is fine. Everything is fine.
He went out.
I am here.
It's nothing, it's a pigeon.
He went in, he went out.
- I hope you don't want to know if Paris is going to be swallowed up,
because I can't answer this question anymore.
- No, that's not why I came. - So much the better.
- This is the first time I've done this.
How exactly does it happen?
- Things are going pretty well, in general.
- I ask you questions and you answer me, right?
- Do you know that I do hypnosis?
- No I did not know.
- Oh?
- And how much does it cost?
- It's already paid for.
What exactly are you coming for?
- It is difficult to explain.
I have had anxiety for a long time.
A feeling.
For years,
a feeling
that something is going to happen,
but which, at the same time, does not happen.
And I wanted to know. - A love story?
- Non.
- You seem confident.
- Yes.
I married a man I love and who loves me.
- Tell me about him.
- He was someone who helped me a lot when I was younger.
Precisely when this anxiety was suffocating me.
Besides, I know he's still worried about me.
Even if that fear has gone away.
We get on very well.
It concerns something else.
Don't influence me.
- But I just wanted to know.
Is there a risk?
- Of course.
There is definitely a risk.
But a risk is beautiful, it’s strong, it’s alive.
Close your eyes.
An intriguing note
Close your eyes.
And listen to me.
There is a natural disaster,
but it's not the one everyone is talking about.
There is a beast.
A beast ready to pounce.
There is also a pigeon,
but it's not that beast.
Pigeon,
it is a representation of the Holy Spirit.
He's a messenger.
It's a good sign.
Unless he comes into your house.
That means someone is going to die.
Maybe you, maybe a loved one.
There is a man.
But he can only make love in his dreams.
There is a difficult choice to make.
A feeling of impossibility to do it,
without the possibility of destroying everything.
Like an inner pain
which slowly eats away at you and burns you.
But the most destructive,
it’s this non-choice.
On a table,
a knife that you take.
A man in the next room.
A disaster.
But it's not the one you're thinking of.
It's because you hesitate that there will be a catastrophe.
You should not.
We have to leave.
It's far too dangerous.
He can only make love in his dreams.
At three,
you can slowly open your eyes.
And,
two,
three.
An intriguing note
- I stopped by the factory this morning,
and the electricity is miraculously not cut off.
These walls
are very humid. But there is no infiltration.
On the other hand, this wall
has a crack.
Water from the street could flow into the workshop.
- What if the water rises again?
- For now, it should be fine. But when the flood has subsided,
The damaged part of the wall will have to be repaired .
- Unless he comes into your house.
A man in the next room.
- Afterwards, what I would like is to recover this floor, here,
which overlooks the street.
I tell myself that with a minimum of work.
With a minimum of work, we could open one store and sell the other.
- My love,
I know you tried everything to accompany me
in a path that would be personal to me,
towards a confidence, towards a possibility,
at a time when I was not able
to do nothing, I was so paralyzed.
And those years were the happiest of my life.
But I have an inner pain that slowly eats away at me and burns me.
That of feeling a part of me that begins to move away from us,
the difficulty of retaining it and reuniting with you,
the intuition of immense loss, impossible to imagine,
and my resistance to this tear.
I tried to hold on
all those months that seemed pale to you.
I tried to be there, to believe in us,
but we couldn't escape
to this panic, to this evil.
And everything started to send us back there,
the day and the night.
What has become most unbearable is seeing ourselves unhappy,
while we loved each other so much, carried each other,
since day one and all these years.
I also feel like I'm walking in an unreal world.
I can never tell you that you are no longer part of my life,
because in every intimate plot,
my substance is all that we have been together.
Saying “goodbye” is too difficult for me.
I hope you will pass me this weakness,
because all these words already hurt so much.
- Good morning.
I am Kelly doll.
I'm part of the protocol.
I'm here to make sure everything is okay
and accompany you.
I'm like a nurse.
- Can we address each other in a less formal manner?
Come on, come on.
I'll take you.
Barking in the distance
I understand that you keep things to yourself.
And I'm not asking you to tell everything.
It's a very special experience to go through all that.
I just want to know how you feel.
- I feel good.
- You don't look like it. What's the matter?
- There is nothing.
- Tell me.
- It's just that I don't want to become like you.
- What do you mean, like me?
- Like you.
You're not even going to die.
Sorry excuse me. That's not what I meant.
It's just that you bore me.
- I have a lot of possibilities, you know.
Take advantage of me.
I can tell stories.
I also make puns.
Do you want to play something?
- Not really, no?
- You want to make love with me?
- You're a little creepy, you know.
- What do you want to do, then?
- To dance?
- Here?
T'as l'air cool.
- THANKS.
- Do you want a cigarette? - No thanks.
- Here you can smoke.
- Ah? OK.
- All the music is from 1972, I love it.
- And why 1972?
- I don't know, but it's crazy.
- Enjoy!
But what is this here?
- There's no real name.
Here you can do lots of things that you can't do elsewhere.
It's like an airlock.
What do you want to do?
- I want to piss.
- The purification center. - Yes.
- What are you doing here?
"Yuki Ga Furu"
- I am with a friend.
Have you decided to try the experience?
- I didn't go there.
- For what?
- I don't know. An intuition.
I think I don't like that they call it "purification".
I don't feel impure, actually.
- I too am starting to doubt.
Yesterday I was certain of my decision, and today,
it's the contrary.
So, I think I can't stand my anxiety attacks anymore.
- It makes anxiety come alive.
- Maybe.
But I thought about the Stoics.
Fulfillment is in the lack of passion.
- Do you know Madame Butterfly?
The opera.
- Not really.
- Look at my hand.
Take it,
Please.
- You have beautiful hands, yes.
- What are you going to do, then?
- Maybe we can give ourselves a few more days.
- Maybe yes.
I had never seen people
dance like that.
- Me neither.
That's why I come here often.
- I'll come back then.
- Who were you talking to?
- One day, I left my husband for this man.
You did well.
- I don't know.
- You still have this feeling
that something terrible is going to happen?
- No, not really anymore.
Well, I don't think so.
- Not really anymore?
- No, I don't have it anymore.
- I'll show you a picture.
You're going to tell me what that means to you.
- What is this?
- You can open your eyes.
The image is no longer there.
It's a difficult test,
but it shows where you are.
There is something that still resists.
It happens sometimes.
You will have another session in two days.
Don't worry.
- How long did it last in total?
- Apparently, ten minutes.
- And do you remember everything exactly?
- Yes, it's quite disturbing.
However, it is difficult to know the degree of reality of things.
- Believe me, it's real.
- It's scary. I'm hesitant to start again.
- What do you really fear? Ask yourself honestly.
- I am torn between the will
to continue in the past
and the fear of ruining the present.
- It is continuing in the past that will allow you
not to spoil the present, precisely.
Either way, losing your loved one is so excruciating that...
even when things go well,
you are still in anguish of the loss to come, then.
You might as well not live it. You're so much better.
You get rid of the pain.
- Certainly.
In any case, I don't want to end here.
I'm going to turn myself into a wardrobe.
- You're better than that, yes.
- Say, Sophie.
Do you think we'll meet one day?
- I don't know.
But I love you, darling.
- Me too.
- Would you like some tea, madam?
- No. Thank you, Bertrand.
- I am late?
- No way.
Let's go, Bertrand.
- Hello Sir. This way.
We are in the middle of a manufacturing transition.
We are going to move on from the classic porcelain doll,
to a new celluloid doll.
You will be able to see a little of both.
We make 30 dolls per day, for a production of 7,000 per year.
There are 12 employees here at the company and three who work from home.
On celluloid, everything is done
using a new method of blowing into the mold.
A pasty liquid is introduced, then the mold is removed.
And it gives a plate like this.
- Fascinating.
- Once they have removed all the members from the plates,
We sand gently so that it is soft.
We call it trimming.
- It's true that the skin is very soft.
It smells like vanilla.
- We also continue the classic porcelain doll.
The transition will happen gradually over a few years.
It's this way.
No, don't smoke, please.
Celluloid is very flammable.
- Excuse me.
- That's the problem with this material,
but we arrive at much more realistic dolls .
There, we give them a little color.
Next, we finalize the dolls' heads.
- Over here we have lockpicking.
The bodies are made of papier-mâché
and we assemble all the members to have a complete doll.
There, on the other side, is the doll clinic.
- The clinic? - Yes.
We repair broken dolls.
Thank you, Bertrand.
Shall I show you the showroom?
- Gladly.
What scares you so much?
You can tell me now.
- I don't know.
It's hard to put a feeling into words.
- You can trust me.
Try.
- I spent my life thinking only about terrible things
that I can't tell.
- Because they are too terrible?
- Yes.
- Saying goodbye is too difficult.
I hope you will forgive me this weakness,
because all these words already hurt so much.
We are not made the same
and it's very beautiful because we get along so well.
You need to experience absolute love.
I need to pursue a form of sweet reverie,
while telling myself that our bond will not be cut forever
and that something, one day, will reinvent itself.
Otherwise, I fall.
You can't even sleep anymore.
- Five o'clock in the morning.
- I do not really know.
I'm looking for work, I guess.
- Nothing special.
I must be the only model in LA who doesn't fuck on Saturday nights.
I feel like I'm 150 years old.
-Are you a model now?
- Well, I don't really know what I am.
I don't really know what I'm doing here. “Indian music
Find love? My professional future?
- My darling, I'm going to leave you.
- Yes, I am fine.
I love you.
- Kelly is absent today. She is undergoing tests.
- It's serious?
- Nothing is serious. Don't worry.
- Darling,
It's normal to go through difficult times.
- I do not understand anymore. There was the TV on,
and there was this song.
And I started crying while listening to it.
I don't know why, but I was crying so much.
- It shows how necessary what you are doing is.
- Where are you?
- At home, my cat is sick.
- Oh? I'm sorry.
It's serious?
- He has a fever and...
difficulty breathing.
But I will cure him.
- I know you love your little cat so much.
I have one last session tomorrow.
They say it still hasn't worked and they have to start again.
-And where are you?
- Good evening.
- You are looking for someone?
- Yes, I'm looking for someone named Louis.
He comes here often.
- He often came here.
- Do you know where I can find it?
- That's not the kind of thing we say, even here.
- Please. It is important.
I'll have a vodka, please.
THANKS.
Can I sit with you?
- For what?
- I don't know, just for discussion.
I don't want to be alone.
- Who is this whore? - I don't know.
- Girl, we're between us now. Cleared.
- Yeah, if you sit with us, you have to assume.
There, you don't seem to assume it.
- Get out, bitch.
Either way, we screwed it up.
We had everything.
But we blew it.
Nothing can happen to us anymore. The catastrophe has already occurred.
We're pissing ourselves off.
- I am ready.
Whore.
- You should not collapse in front of this image.
Even if it is that of your own death,
of your decline,
of the end
- Pardon.
- It's me who's sorry.
It doesn't work on you.
It doesn't work at all.
We only have 0.7% failure
and you are unfortunately one of them.
I am really sorry.
- You're sad? - No.
On the contrary.
- So, how are you.
I had a dream with you last night.
This is the first time I've done one.
You were in that club we went to together.
But this time the atmosphere was completely different.
There was no one there except you and a man.
You were dancing on the floor, against each other.
And then,
there was a song
“which spoke of a love enduring through the years.
An evergreen love.
- And what happened afterwards?
- I do not know anymore.
I just remember you,
so happy,
so sexy.
I want you.
- You're a doll, Kelly.
I have something to ask you.
I know you don't have the right,
but you need to help me find someone's contact.
Please.
- Would that really make you happy?
- Yes.
Louis? It's Gabrielle.
We said to ourselves that we would give ourselves a few days,
and we did well.
Every time we were in front of each other,
we were completely helpless.
We were lost because we were moved,
without really knowing why.
Now I know why.
We need to see each other.
As soon as possible.
Try to meet me tonight at the club where we last saw each other.
Tonight, if you can.
I will wait for you.
I beg you, come.
Ok.
See you tonight.
- What is stronger?
Your fear or your love for me?
- Because you think I love you?
- Show me your hand again.
- He came back. - Where?
- He's over here.
Do you want one?
- It's weird.
There is absolutely no one there today.
- Yes, it's weird.
It's not bad that there's no one there.
- I agree.
After we saw each other last time,
I listened to Madame Butterfly in its entirety.
It’s true that it’s magnificent.
- I am happy to see you.
- Me too.
You wanted to tell me something? - Yes.
But it's hard to say.
I don't really know where to start.
- In this case, you have to start at the end.
- Do you want to dance with me?
We did well to wait.
- We listened to this piece together so much.
- But when?
- When it came out.
I reviewed all the images during the purification.
- What did you do?
- I got a job at the Ministry of Justice.
I have just started.
It's quite exciting.
You should apply.
It would be nice if we were together, don't you think?
We would see each other often, like this.
- Me too.
I'm happy to see you.