The Souvenir: Part II

My period's late.

Hello. Can I come in?

Hello.

- Here we are. - Hello.

There's a nice little scene.

Dogs waiting for lunch.

Ah.

You had any rest?

Poor old you.

What a shock.

Terrible shock. Sorry.

Did you know what was going on with this chap?

What's wrong with that?

You're the boss.

Is she coming?

Darling?

Here we go.

- You ready for this? - Hello.

I like the pajamas.

- They're not pajamas. - Oh.

Well, they're very nice anyway.

What are you doing?

Oi, stop it.

They want to go for a walk.

That's what they're doing.

Help yourself.

Hello there.

I hope you're gonna stay for a very long time.

Long as possible, my darling.

Absolutely.

You want some?

You grow green grass above me...

...with showers and dew drops wed.

And if thou wilt remember,

and if thou wilt forget.

Marland...

We've got it, we've got it.

Just... Just come round to Julie at the moment.

She's going to be explaining it as we go over the...

I think we'll...

Thank you for coming to see us.

I brought you the last of his things.

Oh...

I mean, you know, I'm just reading this book. Um...

Jack Pincher book and, you know,

all these people that have led double lives.

And, you know, I...

You know, I'm just hoping that I can find a reference

to a friend of his or something in there

that will give me a little hope that...

That there is some involvement at the foreign office.

I mean, it would...

I can't seem to find out anywhere

in the foreign office to talk to even, you know.

I mean, he was...

He didn't talk to us about his work, did he?

Was he worrying about anything,

do you know? No?

No.

James had to identify him.

It just... It just didn't look like him. I...

I... I found it very hard to accept that it was him.

There's a little present for you.

He looks exactly the same.

- Bye-bye. - Bye-bye.

- Hello, Julie? - Yes.

- Do come in. - Thank you.

Seems to me he was quite dark

in his nature anyway.

Uh, I would wager that you two had more disagreements

than you had had for the period of time.

Let's go six months back.

You'd had more disagreements.

Not necessarily battles royal, but disagreements.

And in that time, while he was struggling,

he was working on a thought. A conscious thought

that he didn't know how to go forward with life

in this deception that had become his life.

Uh, and as I'm sitting here talking to you,

the way I'm getting this information

without invading anybody's privacy

is I'm asking myself,

what do I know about his last days?

What happened to his moods?

Did he have a reason to go on at all?

And I have the sense

that at the end, he had no reason to go on.

He wanted to stop what was going on in his own life,

so he just did that.

He let his life go.

Action background!

Yeah. Just a rehearsal.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight... One...

- Yeah, there's a... - Graham...

...you know, there's a challenge in that. Um...

But also, it's just trying to find a character that,

you know, is layered. Um, and...

It's not necessarily about the darkness,

it's about why this person is the way he is.

You could say that it's also a very political film.

- Yes. Yeah. - Right.

Okay, I just...

Uh, pause for a minute.

Just to check something on the camera.

Julie's here.

Hi, Julie.

Carry on. I don't wanna...

- Sorry. - It's okay.

Good to see you! Good to see you.

- Great! - Uh, Julie, Jim.

- Hi. Jim. - Hello. Julie.

- We've met before. - Nice to meet you. Oh, really?

Um... Knightsbridge.

Um, it was brief.

Um...

Sorry about your loss.

Thank you.

I, um...

I'd met Anthony a few times,

and, uh, he had a beautiful mind.

He did.

Julie, ready?

Be careful of all these cables, okay?

- Okay... - Thank you.

One, two, three, four...

Okay, lets hold it there.

Cut! Cut! Cut!

Okay, good. Let's get it in pieces now.

Jim, it's not linear.

Jim, it's... It's not linear, in terms of the action...

No, but I'm just getting marking...

...so you don't need to repeat it.

And I look like a... I look like a fucking idiot.

Just a minute to reload.

So, guys, just a minute while we reload camera.

Is there any chance of getting,

say, another half dozen people around this monitor?

Okay, stand by.

Each shot we can use. Even if it's not the same.

As long as you have the same emotion.

And roll playback...

And one, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight. Again!

Up, up... Look at him.

Okay, coming back.

Five, six, seven, eight... One...

Continuing on after the fixed point.

And now come back. Come back.

Just straight back, straight back. Right.

I wanted to ask you

why you decided to do a musical today.

Look at us. We're in the pissing rain.

Wouldn't you want to be

on a sound stage in widescreen,

rather than here

like every other fucking English film ever made

where it's drizzling?

That's why.

You know, to... To show the kids some kind of life.

To use the form, to use movement,

music, montage,

rather than... Blegh...

That's why.

Right. Um...

Would you say it's a political musical?

Everything's political. Everything's political.

Right. Done.

You can see it's not a good time.

- Sorry. - Yeah.

- We'll wait. It's fine. - No. It's broken now.

- Can I just have five minutes? - Go on.

I just wanted to ask you a few questions about Anthony

- and his work. - Bad time.

It's a bad time.

You can go.

Lydia, could you... Could you...

Make a memorial for him.

Well, then, also to imagine

that Black men are sort of like some sort of animals.

Then we see this girl,

and suddenly we're like, we turn into...

Like lunatics and we're just, like, obsessed with a woman.

Yeah, the White guys are the same though.

Yeah, but it's... Yeah, but I dunno... For me...

It's more about the question, I think, and, uh...

Yeah, the colors of the costume as well.

They look like cartoon characters.

But you wanna contribute to cinema, right?

You wanna be something...

I think... I really think

he is contributing to cinema. He is.

Yeah, he's contributing shit, is what he's contributing.

Let's be real about it...

I like when you're like that.

- Yeah, me, too. - I'm just being honest.

That bit of feistiness.

I've bitten my tongue for that entire day.

- I was laughing. - Oh, yeah?

I was laughing along. I thought... I said...