:23:00
Ideally, she would've wanted him to be
a painter or an architect...
:23:03
...or a musician or a writer,
because that's where his talent lies.
:23:08
He writes well. Sometimes really well.
:23:10
But it's extremely difficult for him.
:23:14
It annoyed my mother to see him rewrite
the same page, it discouraged him.
:23:19
And the others?
:23:21
The other women?
:23:24
Now there's Eve, his girlfriend.
:23:26
She's different.
:23:28
She's a bit of a vampire.
:23:31
She steals his ideas. She wrote
an article for a small magazine.
:23:35
She's fairly talented.
In any case, writing is easy for her.
:23:38
It's not personal at all, very journalistic.
:23:41
Doesn't that stimulate your father?
:23:44
You don't know him!
It kills his inspiration instantly.
:23:49
Recently, he's given up.
:23:51
There's his manuscript.
He hasn't touched it.
:23:53
It's very sad.
:23:56
In any case, that girl
is a bad influence on him, on every level.
:24:01
My only hope is that it doesn't last.
:24:03
He thinks he's in love,
but he's fooling himself.
:24:06
Do you think she loves him?
:24:09
Her?
:24:10
No.
:24:12
I'd say she doesn't.
:24:13
She likes him. He's 40, in his prime.
:24:16
He's given her so much more
than she's given him.
:24:19
She's given him nothing.
:24:21
What's worse, what she gives him is bad.
:24:23
She's such a nasty person.
:24:26
God knows I've tried,
but I've never been able...
:24:29
...to agree with her about anything.
:24:32
You'd think she was jealous.
:24:34
Jealous of me,
jealous of my father and me.
:24:36
It's absurd.
:24:41
-Do you play piano?
-Not at all.
:24:43
I'm not very good with my hands.
:24:46
Songs of the Dawn, that's wonderful!
:24:48
You know it?
:24:50
Yes.
:24:51
It's Schumann's most beautiful piece.
:24:53
Want to hear it?
:24:55
Maybe it's a little late....
:24:57
I think it's rather nocturnal,
despite the title.