{396}{434}It has become necessary {439}{491}to inform European governments {496}{555}of a fact so small {560}{617}they don't seem aware of it. {622}{683}A population is being assassinated. {688}{749}Where? In Europe.|Are there witnesses? {757}{799}One witness: The world. {804}{862}Do the governments see this? No. {1398}{1514}Nations have something above them|which is beneath them: Governments. {1519}{1577}Sometimes this contradiction is blatant. {1582}{1687}Civilization is in the people.|Barbarity is in the leaders. {1692}{1740}Is this barbarity intentional? No. {1745}{1785}Simply professional. {1808}{1877}Governments ignore|what humanity knows. {1882}{1966}Governments can only be shortsighted: {1971}{2005}Reason of State. {2012}{2059}Humanity sees with another eye: {2064}{2085}Conscience. {2225}{2285}European governments|will be surprised {2290}{2358}to learn this:|Crimes are crimes. {2378}{2451}Governments have no more right|than people {2456}{2480}to murder. {2485}{2532}Europe shows solidarity. {2539}{2612}Everything done in Europe|is done by Europe. {2631}{2670}A government of beasts {2675}{2737}must be treated like a beast. {2768}{2812}At this moment, not far, {2817}{2902}people are slaughtering,|setting fires, pillaging, {2907}{2949}slitting parents' throats {2954}{3004}selling girls and boys. {3038}{3070}The youngest {3075}{3123}are felled with swords. {3128}{3178}Families are burnt in their homes. {3183}{3286}In a few hours, Balak's 9000 inhabitants {3291}{3329}were reduced to 1300. {3334}{3428}Cemeteries are so full,|bodies cannot be buried. {3433}{3509}The dead send the plague to the living {3514}{3564}who sent them to slaughter. {3592}{3654}We inform European governments {3659}{3755}the bellies of pregnant woman|are being ripped open. {3760}{3879}In public places are skeletons|of women's bodies, torn asunder. {3891}{3963}Dogs gnaw at the skulls|of raped girls. {3968}{4005}All this is horrible. {4010}{4095}A gesture from European governments|could stop it. {4100}{4177}Those who commit these crimes|are terrifying. {4182}{4261}Those who let them be committed|are vile. {4352}{4448}Governments stammer.|They've tried stuttering before. {4453}{4501}They say we are exaggerating. {4506}{4541}Yes, we are. {4546}{4657}Balak wasn't exterminated|in a few hours, but in a few days. {4662}{4756}Two hundred villages weren't burned.|Only ninety-nine were. {4761}{4824}It's not the plague,|just typhoid fever. {4829}{4913}Not all the women were raped.|Not all the girls were sold. {4918}{4949}Some escaped. {4961}{5035}Castrated prisoners|were beheaded first, {5040}{5086}making it a lesser evil. {5091}{5160}The boy thrown from spike to spike {5165}{5234}was just speared with a bayonet. {5297}{5339}Et cetera, et cetera. {5625}{5687}And why did those people revolt? {5692}{5802}Why can't a flock of men be owned|like a flock of cattle? {5809}{5865}Et cetera, et cetera. {5887}{5953}Speaking this way|adds to the horror. {5958}{6045}Haggling over public indignation|is pathetic. {6058}{6189}Toning down makes things worse:|Subtlety pleading in favor of barbarity. {6210}{6281}Let's call a spade a spade:|Killing a man {6286}{6370}in Bondy Forest or the Black Forest|is a crime. {6375}{6460}Killing a race|in the forest of diplomacy {6465}{6537}is a crime too.|A bigger one. That's all. {6570}{6606}Where will it end? {6614}{6700}When will that heroic nation's|ordeal be over? {6715}{6781}We're told we forget certain questions. {6786}{6887}Killing a man is a crime.|Killing a race is a question. {6908}{6973}Each government has its question. {6978}{6999}We answer: {7004}{7058}Humanity has its question too. {7110}{7179}Bigger than India, England, Russia. {7194}{7255}It is the baby in its mother's belly. {7692}{7771}The Holy Book tells us|that before leaving, {7794}{7869}Lot's daughters|wanted one last look back. {7893}{7948}They were turned into salt. {8012}{8056}We only film the past. {8066}{8121}That is, what passes. {8155}{8218}And silver salts fix the light. {8693}{8727}No stories... {8732}{8776}when I was inventing. {8808}{8837}Stories... {8873}{8914}when I invent nothing. {8963}{9011}What stories, exactly? {9016}{9062}The battle of Borodino {9067}{9176}and the end of the French domination,|as told by Tolstoy. {9181}{9261}The battle of Baghdad,|as told by CNN. {9294}{9386}The triumph of American television|and its groupies. {9787}{9848}A German, Erich Pommer, {9862}{9903}founder of Universal {9916}{9968}- Matsushita Electronics, today - {9994}{10088}exclaimed: "I'll make|the world cry in their seats!" {10120}{10166}Maybe he did. {10197}{10256}Newspapers and TV stations {10261}{10339}show only death and tears. {10352}{10460}On the other hand,|people who watch television all day {10476}{10513}have no more tears to cry. {10536}{10581}They've unlearned how to look. {10975}{11017}What story do we want? {11030}{11113}<i>Supposing we are still worthy|of The Charterhouse</i> {11118}{11174}and of crimes and punishment. {11188}{11238}David O. Selznick demanded: {11245}{11377}"I want Del Rio and Tyrone Power|in a South Seas romance. {11391}{11502}<i>"Any story will do, as long as|it's called Birds of Paradise</i> {11512}{11597}"and it ends with Del Rio|jumping into a volcano!" {16983}{17022}I was alone, lost, {17027}{17068}in my thoughts. {17082}{17153}<i>I was holding a book:|Manet by Bataille.</i> {17208}{17309}Manet's women seem to say:|"I know what you're thinking." {17326}{17416}Probably because until Manet|- Malraux taught me this - {17442}{17530}inner reality was more subtle|than the cosmos. {17573}{17656}The famous, pale smiles|of da Vinci and Vermeer {17661}{17718}first say: "Me, me." {17730}{17767}The world comes after. {17800}{17879}Even Corot's woman in pink|doesn't think {17884}{17921}the thoughts of Olympia, {17942}{17984}of Berthe Morisot, {18013}{18074}of the Folies-Berg?re barmaid. {18131}{18186}Because finally, the world within {18203}{18246}has opened out to the cosmos. {18271}{18352}With Manet begins modern painting:|That is, {18363}{18398}the cin?matographe. {18453}{18514}Forms making their way|toward speech. {18536}{18612}Precisely: A form which thinks. {18679}{18795}Cinema was first made for thinking.|This would soon be forgotten. {18800}{18842}But that's another story. {18879}{18954}The flame went out for good|in Auschwitz. {18984}{19062}This thought is worth|at least a farthing. {19139}{19209}I was alone,|lost in my thoughts. {19232}{19321}Then Zola came along|with his eternal camera. {19326}{19429}<i>He ended Nana with these words:|"To Berlin! To Berlin!"</i> {19442}{19494}Then Catherine Hessling arrived. {19509}{19583}Forty years and two wars after Zola, {19593}{19636}she took the train to Berlin. {19677}{19746}The first co-production|with the UFA. {19751}{19805}<i>The last was Quai des Brumes.</i> {19811}{19862}But Goebbels upset everything. {19872}{19926}He disliked Mich?le Morgan's eyes. {21728}{21796}Alas, I was alone in thinking {21801}{21887}that she wasn't alone|on that train in 1942, {21905}{21961}one year before the Liberation {21969}{22038}- Albert, Danielle,|Junie, Suzy, Viviane - {22055}{22112}just before the Gli?res maquis fell {22121}{22233}despite the help Bresson's|youngest dame brought in a whisper. {24966}{25038}And I am probably still alone... {25043}{25145}in thinking that one of the visitors|on that night in '42, {25150}{25225}that Gilles|- no, not the one in Drieu - {25230}{25272}goes to visit Dominique {25277}{25394}and asks: "So, do we or don't we|take this train?" {25421}{25495}And that their hearts|thumped and thumped... {28946}{29019}I was alone that night,|with my dreams. {29024}{29115}Fifty years later,|we celebrate the Liberation. {29128}{29217}Television,|because power has become spectacle, {29230}{29281}is organizing a huge show. {29291}{29334}No decoration for Guy Debord. {29366}{29468}French cinema never shook off|the Germans or Americans, {29490}{29609}so no one will be there to film|Claude Roy, who is seizing the CNC {29642}{29700}that citadel built by Vichy. {29733}{29816}The waves reconstituted|by Japanese cameras {29826}{29905}will again forget to bury the dead... {29921}{29949}as the poet did. {30656}{30708}Poetry is resistance. {30714}{30770}Ossip Mandelstam knew this. {30778}{30851}But these days,|everyone ignores Russians. {30861}{30983}Why is it that from '40 to '45|there was no resistance cinema? {31004}{31116}There were resistance films.|Left and right, here and there, {31126}{31193}but the only film,|in the true sense, {31198}{31270}to resist America's occupation|of cinema {31275}{31341}and a uniform way of making films {31351}{31393}was an Italian film. {31402}{31435}It is not by chance. {31449}{31502}Italy fought the least. {31517}{31591}It suffered greatly.|But having betrayed twice, {31596}{31659}it suffered|to have lost its identity. {31672}{31735}<i>It found it|with Rome, Open City</i> {31746}{31825}because the film was made|by men without uniform. {31830}{31866}It was the only time. {31871}{31984}The Russians made martyr films.|The Americans made commercials. {31991}{32071}The English made|what they always make: Nothing. {32076}{32119}The Germans had no cinema. {32161}{32190}No more cinema. {32233}{32299}<i>And the French made|Sylvia and the Ghost.</i> {32327}{32449}<i>The Poles made two expiatory films,|The Passenger and The Last Step,</i> {32454}{32506}<i>and a nostalgic film, Kanal.</i> {32522}{32586}Then they welcomed Spielberg. {32609}{32695}"Never again" became|"It's better than nothing". {32737}{32831}<i>But w...
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