Exiles (Exils)

BEST DIRECTOR WINNER AT THE CANNES FESTIVAL - 2004

It is urgent to speak of the absent ones.

It's time to speak of those who made mistakes.

It is important to interrogate the absent ones.

Those who have lived with no democracy in general.

It is urgent to speak of the absent ones.

It is urgent to speak of the absences.

It's time to speak of those who have always been wrong.

It is urgent to speak of freedom.

It is important to interrogate the absent ones.

Those who have lived with no democracy in general.

Democracy always walks hand in hand with...

Wanna go to Algeria?

Algeria?!

What's so funny?

Why would you want to go to Algeria?

What music do you play?

I don't play anymore.

EXILES

The conductor! Move it!

Oh shit!

Duck!

Those are artichokes.

That's a cabbage.

And those are peas.

- Where are the peas? - See them?

The green hanging things!

Your bullshit's contagious.

Shitty road!

What am I doing here, without my cell?

- I shouldn't have broken it. - What's all this?

The rain's not my fault!

Get off my case!

You and your macrobiotics.

You're mixing it up with ecology.

What's that scar?

A burn.

I was in the car with my folks.

The firemen got me out.

What's that one?

A souvenir of a guy. He slugged me.

And what's that?

That... I can't tell you.

Go to sleep my little button, my sweetie, my sugarplum.

I'll be upset if you wake in the night.

Go to sleep my little button...

Hey! You're not washing your dog!

- Come on! - Gently!

Get the towels.

Hi.

Do you know if there's a bus to Seville?

A bus going to Seville.

Some tea, my brother?

They're French.

You smoke?

- What? - What's your name?

Naima.

Naima. Isn't that Arab?

You're Arab.

It's just Naima.

Why are you here?

We're off to Algeria.

Why go to Algeria?

- We're walking to Algiers. - Walking?

Why don't you speak Arab?

No one taught me.

My father wouldn't speak it to us.

He didn't talk about his country.

Leila, I'm sick of this place.

Are going to Paris or Amsterdam?

It's better in Paris.

Here, there's no work, no nothing.

We left Algeria to study in Paris or Amsterdam.

What's Paris like?

We left because we had nothing.

Paris has everything. But nothing's free.

You've nothing? All the French have something.

That's how it is.

Is Paris dangerous?

No, Paris isn't dangerous.

We're going...

to go...

to Algeria.

We're walking...

to

the capital.

My father often spoke of his father.

He was a hero, an anti-colonialist.

He was tortured, murdered in the Algiers prison in 1959.

In 1962 all the family was repatriated by boat.

My father wanted us to visit Algiers.

He'd never gone back.

We took the car.

I just remember the trees.

They were spinning around.

I heard my father shout...

And then...

That was all.

After the accident I was in hospital two weeks.

The doctors who told me...

my father and mother were dead.

I never touched the violin again.

A total block.

So long, my brother.

- You looking for work, too? - No, we're traveling.

Paco, let's go. We're late!

If you go to Paris...

go to this address. Phone on my behalf. OK?

Good luck.

What's he want?

Coffee?

Hey, dog!

Injustice! Dictatorship

Terrorism! Upheaval!

Penalty!

And the Gypsies?

Gone.

I want to feel your dick, I want it inside me.

I like to feel your dick.

I like to wet your clarinet.

My boot!

They stole my boot!

Who shtole your bota?

Fuck! It had half of what I got for all my stuff!

I don't believe it...

Fuck!

"Shoes-os"...

- "Sell-os to mi-o." - I don't understand.

"Shoes-os like those-os..."

- "Babuchas." - "Babuchas."

- Size? - 8.

- Men's. - 9.

For "brush-os?"

"Sell-os champano?"

How much?

- Money? - Yes.

Mosquitos.

I saw you!

Catch me, mosquito.

All night you stung me.

I'll be eaten by mosquitos.

I'm taking a swim.

- You coming? - I'm making a shower.

A shower?

I dreamed we got to Algeria.

There was blood on the road. Blood everywhere.

It was all red with blood.

What would you like most?

Your dick.

I'd prefer cold champagne.

To toast your birthday.

- How'd you know? - Your passport.

Watch! I'm about to do the impossible.

I'm wishing for champagne.

Bravo!

Oh! Flowers!

I'm getting a beer. Want one?

You from here? You look like a Gypsy.

I'm Algerian.

Algerian from France.

You been in Seville very long?

I just got here.

- Do you know Triana? - Triana? No.

It's historic.

Great flamenco. Great crowd.

- You know it? - No.

I invite you.

Why'd you do that to me?

A bitch.

You fuck like a bitch!

Where'd you learn that?

To fuck with anyone?

In porn films.

Like you.

Nice breakfast in bed.

Hey, man.

You were asleep.

You were asleep!

Why are you raging at me?

Go fuck yourself.

It's always just you!

You really are crazy!

I've really had it! We're through!

Unbearable, unreliable!

The kinda bitch who'd jump into any convertible.

Stop taking all guys for assholes!

Fuck! What happened to you?

Fuck you!

You don't know shit.

You were born rich. I've slaved since I was 14.

Here, there... with no home.

I need men for work.

We're going to France.

In Paris you can work with fake papers.

You like that?

Hey! Watch the fruit!

It takes a year to grow it and you spill it!

Be careful!

This bottle is for catching flies that bite oranges.

They enter through the holes...