La traviata

It's late. We expected you earlier.

We were gambling at Flora's.

A card game makes time fly.

Flora, my dear friends...

you bring new life...

and splendor to the evening.

Wine will liven the party.

Can you enjoy the festivities?

I want to.

I believe that pleasure...

is the best cure for what ails me.

Pleasure alone can brighten life.

In Alfredo Germont, madam...

you'll find someone who adores you.

Few friends match such devotion.

Dear Viscount...

I thank you for the thought.

My dear Alfredo!

Marquis.

As I said, friendship here...

is no stranger to pleasure.

Is everything ready?

Take your seats, my friends.

Let the pleasures of the table...

open everyone's heart.

Well said! And let the wine...

banish our most secret pain.

Let the pleasures of the table...

open everyone's heart.

Alfredo's always thinking of you.

You're joking!

While you were ill, he came by every day.

Don't say that.

I am nothing to him.

I'm not lying.

Is it true? I don't understand.

Yes, it's true.

I'm indebted to you.

You, Baron, never cared as much.

I've only known you for a year.

He just met me a minute ago!

You should have kept your mouth shut.

I dislike that young man.

Why?

I find him charming.

Aren't you saying anything?

Only our hostess can make him speak.

I'll be Hebe, cupbearer to the gods.

And I hope just as immortal.

Let's drink! Let's drink!

Baron, a toast...

for this happy occasion!

It's up to you, then.

Y es, yes, a toast!

I'm not inspired just now.

But you're so good at it.

Would it please you?

Yes? Then it's already in my heart.

Your attention, then.

Quiet. Let's listen...

to the poet.

Let's drink...

Iet's drink from this chalice of joy...

that beauty so enhances.

May the fleeting instant...

be given over to voluptuousness.

Let's drink to that sweet ecstasy...

that love arouses.

The power of piercing eyes...

straight at the heart is aimed.

Let's drink to love...

and our drinking...

will render our kisses more ardent.

With you all...

I'll learn to share...

my hours of leisure.

Life is folly...

and only pleasure counts.

Let's enjoy ourselves...

for love burns fast.

A flower that blooms and dies...

it was never meant to last.

So revel and rejoice...

bids an alluring voice!

Life means celebration--

If you have not known love.

Don't tell me. I never have.

That seems to be my fate!

Wouldn't you like to dance now?

What a lovely idea!

We'd love to, of course.

Let's go, then.

What's wrong?

Nothing... nothing.

Why do you stop?

Let's go.

Oh, God!

Again?

Are you ill?

Heavens, what is it?

I felt a chill.

Go on.

I'll follow in a moment.

As you wish.

I'm so pale!

Oh, it's you!

Is the spell over?

I feel better.

You'll kill yourself if you go on.

You must take care of yourself.

How could l?

If you were mine...

I would protect you...

and watch over you.

Why do you say that?

No one has ever cared.

Because no one really loved you.

No one--

But me.

It's true! I had forgotten this great passion!

You laugh!

Have you no heart?

A heart? Maybe.

Why do you ask?

If you had one...

you wouldn't laugh.

Is that true?

I'm not lying.

How long have you loved me?

It's been a year now.

One day...

so radiant and ethereal...

you suddenly appeared to me.

And from that day on...

I have burned...

with a secret passion.

With a love...

that is the heartbeat...

of the universe...

of the entire universe.

Mysterious...

mysterious and proud...

torment...

torment and delight...

delight of my heart.

If that is true, then run away.

For friendship is all I can offer.

I'm not able to love...

nor could I bear such heroism.

Love, mysterious and proud--

You have to be able...

to forget me.

Forget me.

What the devil are you doing?

Just chatting.

All right, then. Continue.

So no more talk of love. Agreed?

As you say.

I'll leave.

Is it that bad?

Take this flower.

But why?

Bring it back.

When?

When it withers.

Oh, God! Tomorrow!

All right. Tomorrow.

I'm so happy!

Then you still love me?

I love you so.

Are you leaving?

Good-bye.

I am overwhelmed.

Good-bye.

Good-bye.

Dawn awakens the day. It's time to say good-bye.

Thank you, kind lady, for such a splendid time.

The town is full of revelry.

The pleasure hour is over.

In sleep we'll find strength.

Tomorrow we'll begin again.

How strange.

His words are carved in my heart.

Will true love...

bring misfortune to me?

What do you feel, my troubled soul?

No man ever moved you so.

An exaltation...

Iike I've never known!

To love and be loved!

Could I turn such love away...

for this mad, sterile life of mine?

It must be him...

whose portrait my soul...

Iost in the whirl...

has often liked to paint...

in secret colors.

He, so modest and considerate...

came to my side...

awakening the flame of love.