The Game of Love (Le Blé en Herbe)

THE GAME OF LOVE

Do not be afraid. I am here. Do not get nervous.

Ladies, 1, 2, 3...

- Give him back to me! - You cannot control him!

You neither! You clearly see that you must wait!

Faster! It is not so heavy!

Hurry up you...

Lisette!

Lisette! Come, Lisette.

- Where are they? - I do not know.

Phil and Vinca!

- They will manage! - I will call them!

Come, and March.

Forward, come along!

Forward, hurry up!

Vinca, where is Phil?

I do not know.

The sea is rough.

We are sheltered. They will tie themselves together...

Vinca!

Vinca!

Watch out, Simone. Do not move so much!

That way your rope comes loose! Do you hear me?

Vinca!

Oh! Well, have you ever!

Vinca!

It is a drowning man or a madman.

I tell you. Soon they will swim naked!

Do not exaggerate so!

When did I tell you.

Girls, it is finished! The bathing is over!

The bathing is over!

Look here! Understood?

Marguerite, I said that you must look here!

Marguerite, I forbade you to turn around!

We go, we go.

Marguerite, I forbade you to look!

Margot!

If you had seen him...

- It was shameless! - Stop. You will incite them!

We must not see it. He is so thin!

- Not so much. - What do you know about it? Oh, yes!

How was he?

Completely naked, with a miserable little hat.

Short trousers, a belt.

Was he cold?

I did not think to ask that!

What do you think about then?

- Also bare feet? - Completely naked, I told you!

Oh, idiot!

He could have drowned!

- A luck that you saw it. - Why?

Everyone knew it, from that gust of wind!

- He is not afraid. - He? Not more fearful.

- He wants to attract attention. - Where is he?

- He asked for me! - I would like to see that!

- Who did that? - The wind did that!

Hold for a moment. "The wind"?

"The wind"! Yes.

Today the wind has a broad back!

What is that?

Offense against modesty. He walked completely naked.

- On the beach? - On the road.

Too late, Margot. I have been summoned.

- And at the gendarmerie. - One should not have him!

- Why? - He has a criminal record.

- Do you know what that means? - They will condemn him?

I hope so!

There are other negligences than walking naked!

The kites, for example!

- He stood behind a tree. - The offense is obvious!

It is a shamelessness!

- But nobody saw him! - I fell at the Sacré-Cœur.

He showed himself completely naked.

Before the girls of the Sacré-Cœur.

Once a year they go bathing. No luck, eh?

- Come here. What is your name? - Philippe Audebert.

- Age? - 17 years.

- He is only 16 and a half. - Therefore a minor!

- Are you the father? - No.

- Where is he? - Fallen during the war.

Can you not leave him alone?

You, later. Do you not see that he is chattering his teeth?

Miss, we have asked you nothing!

To me, yes! In the sea, do you save yourself or your trousers?

You are disgusting!

Do not make it so difficult!

I do not make it difficult. I want to rub him warm.

They did not even think to give him a grog!

Yes indeed, we thought of that.

Thank you, mama.

Drink... Warm yourself, drink quickly.

We have been coming here already 15 years in the summers.

- We are known... - Yes. Since the birth of Vinca!

And now I take him along...

Turn around.

We have already seen you with a hat before your belly.

- What do you want that I should do? - That you call me!

I did it.

No. You called Margot.

- She happened to pass by there. - Dirty liar!

- I told her to go get you! - Liar!

I don't know what she did, Margot!

If you have something against her, then say it!

I have nothing against her.

- Well then? - Only against you.

Because you went into the sea without

warning me. Weren't you afraid? I'm sorry.

- Girls are complicated. - And Margot isn't then?

Ah, Margot! Only you, if you do that favor.

Tell me, Phil, is it true that you were about to die?

More than that...

How does that feel?

That feels nothing. One thing counts, swimming...

Whom had you thought of?

Of myself!

- That proves nothing, you are still alive. - Pity, eh?

- No jokes. - Finally a friendly word.

Don't sneeze.

I may die but not catch a cold. That's how gendarmes are.

- Life, is full of gendarmes! - Not me.

We shall see.

Despite everything I am satisfied!

- Vinca? - Yes?

Are you ready?

- Do you want to go like that? - Don't you like it?

Not at all...

That way I look less like a little girl.

Yes, but more like a grandmother. Hurry up.

- Good evening! - Good night!

- Where are you still going now? - To the cinema. It is Sunday.

Don't come home late.

The key is in the geranium pot.

With my short hair I am never well groomed!

- It is a matter of waiting. - Ugliness, is that the same for you?

Oh no, Phil.

- I like to look beautiful. - That may still come.

If you are disgusted by me, then find one who is better groomed.

- So that was it? - What "that"?

- Don't be so stupid. Come. - No.

Very well. But you will regret it.

We were not raised like that!

In the evening you never went out alone, nor with your cousin!

Then say what you want!

I don't like to see them walking in the evening.

You always exaggerate.

No reason that they are always together.

The cinema, that still goes, but that bicycle trip...

What do you have against the bicycle?

Good, you will get a bicycle-marriage.

Phil and Vinca?

That is absurd! Just as if brother and sister marry!

- Sir, this is taken! - Excuse me, miss.

Phil, this way!

Finally! I thought you had drowned!

- I knew she wasn't coming. - Why?

- Because of me. - You look chilled.

- Why? - Because I feel like hugging you?

Hugging me?

Don't shout so loudly.

- Are you surprised? - Well, I didn't think about it.

Me neither... until yesterday.

Well, that is nice!

Does it do nothing to you to see me?

I had other things on my mind. First of all, I am cold.

You haven't become much warmer, since.

Stay seated!

- Look, there is Vinca. - She certainly sticks to you.

Do you kiss Vinca?

- Of course. - You lie.

If you kissed her you would also kiss others.

Phil!

SIT! SIT!

Ah...

What a stupid people?

Come, Phil.

- No listen. We stay. - No, come with me.

I want my money back.

Big mouths, eh! Big mouths, those Parisians!

Let's go home.

You are crazy. It is not yet 22 o'clock, and it is Sunday.

Why do people laugh when they kiss each other?

That is strange.

- Why "strange"? - Because they don't think about it.

No, because they are mean. So they are jealous.

- There! - I swear it.

I may be mean but I am not jealous.

- And if I were to hug someone? - No. Because that would be me.

Beware, lovers, the tide is coming in.

Idiot! We are brother and sister!

What are you saying?

You see, Phil, if you had met me on the beach,

would you have fallen in love with me?

You are a fool, Vinca.

Are you really sure that you are not my brother?

Well, Vinca?

Well nothing.

It had to happen.

It has happened.

It is what I said... We kissed each other.