The Kreutzer Sonata
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- Year:
- 2008
- 99 min
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I'd like an ambulance, please.
5-2-3-3...
Arden Drive.
Yeah.
Thanks.
to tell you that I was very vain.
In a rich man's life,
our type leads.
If a man's not vain, he doesn't
have much to five for.
So I went out of my Way to make
absolutely sure that the
benefit was organized with the
maximum possible good taste.
Garlic and dill.
Mmm!
Always, you always do
a remarkable job.
Well, thank you.
{personally supervised
the catering.
Not too much,
but we want enough.
No rubber chicken served here.
{issued ah' the invitations myself
Thank you very much for coming,
it means a lot, this charity.
The most important thing that we
can get out of today is understanding
that a little bit goes such a long way
around the world...
Oh, how Well I remember
all the details of that evening.
I remember how he produced his violin,
the Way he opened the case,
tossed a cloth aside and took his
cheap violin out like it was a Strad.
I remember the Way my Wife
sat down at the piano,
trying to appear indifferent...
when I could tell she was
extremely nervous,
scared she was gonna f*** it up.
They played Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata"
You know it.
The first movement?
I hate that f***ing sonata.
In fact, I hate classical music.
I mean, What's it about?
What? What's it for?
You can't dance to it.
You can't hum the tune.
What am I supposed to do,
sit there like some dummy?
Doing What?
Waiting for the end so that
I can applaud politely?
I've read that music carries
you directly into the state
of consciousness that was
experienced by the composer.
How does anyone know what
the f*** was on Beethoven's mind
when he Wrote this?
I don't.
Do you?
You know the Way it happens
sometimes?
It's like an electric shock
goes through you
and you Wake up.
I Woke up like that in a hotel room
in San Francisco...
my head full of thoughts about her,
about my sexual desire for her...
about him, the violinist...
and the two of them f***ing.
Hello?
Hi, Ginger, it's Edgar.
Is she back yet?
No, um...
she called, she'll be back
around 11:
15.Oh.
All right, I'll talk to you
tomorrow, thanks.
I shuddered with rage and horror.
Stay down!
Then I began to
reason with myself
Nothing's going on.
Nothing's been going on...
I mean, she's my wife?
The mother of my children.
This is very L.A.
It's a bubbly moment...
Yeah, it's not last summer,
it's many summers ago.
And what else?
And it seems to be rather...
- Fun!
- Fun.
And open.
Yeah, blowing.
What do you know
about art anyway?
Not a lot.
What do you know? Do you know
anything about big fish?
Do I? No...
I like yours, you like mine...
That's the way it works.
What are you drinking?
Oh, you want,
you want a little sip of mine?
Yeah, I'll have yours.
It's free...the drink
is freezing my hand off.
The drink is free?
Free-Zing.
I'm free!
Are you from L.A.?
I am, I've lived here
practically all my life.
Shall I hold it for you?
I'm just worried about
You're gonna hold it for me?
- Are your hands getting cold?
- No.
See? Feel how cold mine are.
Your hands are...
No!
Um, I'm not-
you didn't ask me...
No, I didn't!
But I'm not from here.
Where are you from?
I am from New York.
And I don't really like L.A. that much,
but I have to tell you,
it was definitely the right
career move for me to come here,
because, um, you know, it's
a really difficult business that I'm in.
I'm a classical pianist
that many places to get jobs
and L.A., I think,
is really on the rise.
Wonderful-I would love
to hear you play.
I bet you would.
And I would really like to play for you.
Well, are you with anybody now?
I am, yeah.
Where is he?
I don't know where he is.
Not here.
Presently.
And not comfortable with me
probably being here either...
In fact, I think I'm gonna
go get a drink.
Oh hi, honey.
Um, come on in.
I was looking for you.
Really.
I was looking for you.
Yeah, you were...
I'll take care of you.
Why are you acting surprised?
Why are you acting surprised?
What's going on?
Nothing, nothing.
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
Mmm, thank you.
Absolutely.
What kind of counseling?
- Marriage.
- Marriage.
Kinsey's not dating anybody.
Who are you telling that to?
I'm not telling that to you.
I'm saying that to Edgar because
I had a conversation with him.
Edgar, Kinsey's not dating...
No, I wanna know what
the conversation was, really.
About alter egos.
It was nothing.
God, I'm sorry.
Is he some kind
of a split personality?
This is awful now because I've
backed myself into a corner!
And I remember what you said,
god damn it!
No, he was just saying that secrets
are very hard to maintain...
and that they can sometimes
work in your best interest.
That trust is an imposition.
Something that we attach
all this importance to
and in actual fact, they haven't.
It's just your idea of them.
There's a trust... If you don't
have trust, I don't understand...
an interesting point...
I mean, define that trust.
Define the trust?
You trust that you love each other,
you trust that you
want to stay together,
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