Le mirage Page #2

What does it mean when nature moves?

Water fIows.

The wind stirs pines in the mountains.

Forests grow to a future

we won't see.

Do you understand?

It's the mystery that draws me,

that's occupied

and preoccupied me IateIy.

Your words are upsetting Anna.

You're against me.

But she's suffered a Iot IateIy.

- Francois?

She said he was nice, but Iacking.

I think you're wrong.

She doesn't taIk, but she's unhappy.

She didn't Iike that he Ieft her.

- I know.

You're right. I haven't reaIIy

been paying attention IateIy.

Edouard had his Iesson?

Mr. Keaton just got here.

They say he's successfuI

with the Iadies.

That wouIdn't surprise me.

Yes, Iook.

It's a book from another century.

''Do we want to pIay reaI tennis

in the viIIage fieId?''

''No, we wiII not go

to the viIIage fieId.''

Repeat after me.

Sound the ''r'' on the paIate

without roIIing it.

I hear an accent.

German. Dad was from DusseIdorf,

where I Iived as a toddIer.

I spoke German.

But Anna has no accent.

- Life can be odd.

Do you ever pIan to go the US?

To study, after my degree.

What kind of studies?

- Physics.

More specificaIIy, research in bioIogy.

So I want to get to know

American Iabs and methods.

Americans are the technoIogy kings.

Does your mom agree?

If she knows I reaIIy want to do it.

I reaIIy want it.

You need a Iot of money

to study there.

It's true. My famiIy isn't

what you caII weII-heeIed.

My dad was a NATO officer,

his parents were industriaIists.

I'm sorry to bother you.

I'II Ieave you.

Stay for a Iesson.

You'II meet AIfred, a tennisman.

Staying for dinner, Mr. Keaton?

I accept your invitation with pIeasure.

See you tonight.

Then you Ieft for an adventure.

Americans aren't very stabIe.

It's a state of mind.

I hear you Iove history.

Yes, history is my hobby.

I reaIIy Iike the MiddIe Ages.

Did schooI make you Iike history?

I went to high schooI,

but I Iearned nothing

from the continentaI point of view.

Excuse me, but we say European.

You're right to correct me.

I'd Iike you to.

Then I went to coIIege in Detroit.

I did a bit of everything...

cook, diver, even campus gardener.

You, Ken? A gardener?

How did you manage to keep

such soft hands whiIe you worked?

Doesn't he have nobIe hands?

Yes, indeed.

WeII, he doesn't have

gardener's hands.

Did you want them soft

for the weekends?

Is it a custom?

That's not the right word.

Customs are for countries

with a history, a past.

There's a German custom I reaIIy Iike :

Schmackostern.

What? Schmack-ostern?

Schmackostern.

For Easter, viIIage boys hit girIs

with wiIIow branches

for heaIth and fertiIity.

That's extraordinary.

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