The Debussy Film Page #3

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and as many experiences

as money and agility could buy.

(Chuckles)

Debussy became his favourite.

Or he sponged from him,

whichever way you want to put it.

Anyway, they were friends and, er...

worked together on various projects,

most of which collapsed.

But Louys introduces him

to all sorts of writers.

The two of them were going to share

a house at one time.

He wanted Debussy to come to

North Africa and the Middle East with him,

but Debussy didn't go.

(Chuckles) Louys liked young girls.

He wrote to Debussy

saying that he couldn't get on

with the work they were planning

because he did nothing with his fingers

except unmentionable things.

Mm. And the music behind this scene

is from L Zzprs-m/b?' 0"un zune.

Debussy took the poem from Mallarm.

- We're ready.

- All right... (indistinct)

What happened to Louys, the kinky one?

Kinky...

He got what he deserved. He...

lived to a cultured old...

dirty old age.

OK?

OK, let's run.

Who's playing LOWS?

(Whispers) I am.

Me.

That's me. That's Louys.

He wrote

a very successful pornographic book,

took lots of strange photographs.

What he really liked to do

was manipulate people,

a kind of Svengali.

And Debussy was good material for him,

always dreaming.

At one time, he and Gaby used to spend

more time at L0uiis's home than their own.

And Debussy would always be dreaming,

dreaming his way through the strange

beauty of all L0uis's possessions.

Dreaming his way through

a hot summer afternoon with Gaby.

They did play with balloons. I checked.

(I DEBUSSY:

"Prlude Faprs-midi d'un faune")

(Director) It was new music. Really new.

Nothing like it

had ever been written before.

(Woman) Who's the slave girl?

(Director)

Zara, a present from Andre Gide.

There he is.

It was he who went to Algeria with Louys,

instead of Debussy.

I don't know how to work it in.

Gide, Oscar Wilde, Mallarm,

Rodin, Monet.

All interacting, all so complicated.

(Jazz music)

- Rene Peter, Baudelaire...

- Mm.

- Mater... Materlich?

- Maeterlinck.

- Mallarm.

- Yeah.

- Louys himself?

- Yeah...

He based his music

on writings of all these?

Yes, 90 per cent of his music started

from a painting or a poem or a play.

They're just a selection,

they were all in Paris.

If I put down everyone

he worked with or knew well,

it would sound like the last roll call

of all the brilliant dead.

- Who were Chocolat and...Footitt, is it?

- Yes. Clowns, friends of his.

- And the Revue b/anche?

- A magazine.

He was the music editor for a time.

According to your list, he was patron

and pianist of every nightclub in time.

What did he do for kicks?

It's all in his music.

What's this g/gue bit?

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