Nathalie Granger (1972) Movie Script
She cooked up
that you didn't feed her...
that you were very poor, and so on...
She beat another pupil...
For nothing, a missing eraser.
There were always good
and bad pupils...
this is nothing new for us.
But...
this violence...
from a very little girl...
They shot 4 times,
killed 3 times.
"Seize them if you find them,
shoot them if they resist'.
Invitation for a man-hunt
which every police station received
at 9.30 a. m. At this time indeed,
Mme Marie Bastide
biked in Dreux woods and saw
the two young killers asleep
near a black car
at the Tower crossroad.
As this tesetimony
accorded with the other ones...
a vast police plan was organized
to seize the madmen...
who've terrified the region,
for 12 days.
"Kids", said Mme Bastide...
"One dark, one fair,
both exhausted".
The boys were ordered
to surrender.
A single shot at 1.30
was the only answer...
to a command of the Chief of Police.
This race against time is very painful...
considering their youth.
Only kids could do it...
making a bull's eye.
Blind-shots, that's it.
They were first seen
at the garage.
Is it far, Dreux?
The woods are near Bordires...
the road crosses them.
Hurry!
Tell the school Nathalie leaves.
Tell Datkin she'll come on Monday.
I'll insist on piano lessons.
After, it's too late.
Yes, after 8 years...
No chance she can stay in school?
Not a chance.
If she doesn't study piano,
she's finished.
At home, how does she seem?
Unhappy.
Touchy.
- Do you know her well?
- No.
What does Nathalie like?
I think she likes music.
Give me 24 in Lignon...
About my daugther's piano lessons...
I phoned once.
The teacher told us...
We're sorry,
our principle is to leave
the child free to learn or
not to learn.
Only Nathalie will choose piano or not.
I can't hear you anymore.
Lignon is not far from home.
I'll see her,
I'll take her on Saturdays.
We have to phone to the Mayor
about Maria.
That's true.
"This is Nathalie's
Don't touch it"
Many branches fell down.
- From the wind?
- Yes.
I want to make a fire.
The Town Hall in Versailles, please...
Portuguese, yes...
That's the point... I phoned once.
The bailiff just told her to sing.
He told her it was nothing
important, a simple formality.
And she signed.
She signed her own expulsion.
Nothing to do?
But she does not understand our language.
Nothing?
Thanks.
Sometimes,
Nathalie wants to kill everybody...
She told Laurence.
She wants to be an orphan,
a Portuguese maid.
She says we're very poor...
Little by little,
they're closer to them.
They go on carefully
to seize the 2 killers
of the suburbs
who committed several murders
without a financial motive...
just for violence,
with the same blind rage...
as Whitman- the student in Austin.
The most horrible thing is that
they are below the penal age.
It seems likely they are
Christian M. and Pierre G.,
aged 16 and 17...
who left home a month ago.
This violence,
from a very little girl...
She tears her note-books, blotches...
her writing exercises.
There were always good
and bad pupils...
this is nothing new for us.
But...
this violence,
from a very little girl...
Police research in
Dreux forest has stopped...
...given the time and nervous exhaustion
of the men who have been scouring the area
for 7 hours...
Two shots were just heard
in the woods.
It seems they are afraid
to be forgotten
by their pursuers.
It's for the delivery
of the fuel. It's late.
It's cold here.
What? Is it a wrong number?
- There's no phone here.
- Oh, sorry...
We'll settle her in Datkin School.
Very well.
Very well. When?
Next week.
Very well.
In her case, that school
is far better than ours.
Piano is so good for her.
She must study it again.
It's impossible.
That's a pity. If you insist...
- Nathalie will refuse.
- That's a pity...
We'll put the bundle together.
The woods are quiet now.
There's a deep mist.
The young killers seem to sleep
from exhaustion.
- Can I do something?
- No.
I need a bag for her wool clothes.
Is it cold there?
It's in the mountains.
with snow till March.
Without piano, she's finished.
Forget Nathalie a while.
I can't speak to her anymore.
I must hide from my child.
Yes.
What do you want?
Sorry, the door was open.
No we need nothing... Thanks.
We're not interested.
Oh, sorry.
It was open.
- Do I disturb you?
- No.
Come in.
It was open.
- What do you want?
- Oh, nothing...
Nothing...
I am...
Sit down.
I represent the brand Vedette Tambour.
You see it every where.
It's entire automatic,
super automatic, if I may say so.
A real space-saver.
Vedette has horizontal axes
on two levels.
Something new:
it is automatically inverted...
which increases by 50%...
logical, isn't it?
...the efficiency of the Vedette.
The best space-saver:
It's the record in France.
No washing-machine in Europe...
is so space-saving.
Vedette Tambour.
It's motor...
has two speed...
It's biphase.
I think the voltage is 200 here?
Because...
You buy a new house...
It's easy. And space-saving.
- You're no salesman.
- What?
instead of 2 in 007.
- You are no salesman.
- I am indeed.
I've a license...
I've a license.
No.
A license given by the authorities...
- No.
- Yes.
One special washing
for light clothes...
one normal, and one, of course,
for heavy washing.
The drier is graduated,
but this is normal.
Of course, the trial is free.
You promise nothing.
A demonstrator shows you how it works.
He can take it back...
Nothing lost, nothing gained...
I mean, it's simple.
You've heard about
Vedette Tambour 008?
I'm surprised.
It's everywhere.
The advertising of Vedette is so...
Oh, I forgot...
This was never done before.
Usually they are white.
White, white...
nothing but white.
Why?
Tell me why...
It's a habit.
But the colour is so pleasant.
You're no salesman.
- I am indeed.
- No.
But... Why?
Ah, ladies...
No.
No... I don't know...
One has to work... you know.
Thinking of buying it?
Do you want a trial?
If it's no,
I won't take up your time...
nor lose more of mine.
And it's late.
And I have many people to see...
If you want to...
I'll be back next week,
or next month...
If you want to.
But I'll ask you this,
if you don't mind...
don't buy another machine...
before testing 008,
because it is so...
That's a promise?
A trifle, but it is important...
Vedette takes you old machine.
Maybe you have one?
Which brand?
It's over there.
You know the brand?
You've got a Vedette Tambour 008.
We can't help it...
I'll see other people.
Laurence...
Nathalie...
While the research was thought to have
stopped as night was falling
the two murderers
from Dreux forest have been arrested.
Lesson is over.
Who are they? From where?
The older escaped from penitentiary.
The younger is the first born of 9.
His mom, a drunken whore, just died.
Is this Datkin School?
I am Isabelle Granger.
My daugther won't come.
I've changed my mind.
You came back?
I came back.
I thought you were out.
No, I'm home.
Not a single sale...
No lights yet?
- It's no use.
- You're right.
I'll give it up.
I can't sell.
Some say who they are,
and it's in the can.
That's not me.
I don't like it.
Sure, I tried. I...
Deep down. I don't like it.
It's not pleasant.
I just don't like it.
I'll take back my first job...
in a laundry.
I worked 7 years there...
as an apprentice.
I'm a real landerer.
I didn't like it.
I was through with
the boss...
the regular hours,
the boss always on my heels...
Wet clothes are heavy...
Wasn't fun.
I tried another job.
Being a salesman...
is worse,
being kind with people even if...
Then I worked in a garage...
in a department store as a loader...
in a printing house.
You know how it is...
I tried to become someone...
So I worked for
a real-estate agent.
I showed houses to people.
I stole money from him.
I left with a client's check.
They caught me. I don't mind.
I managed quite well.
I paid back in 2 years.
Yes, life was fine.
It lasted 15 days.
It was the first time.
Where's the light from? The terrace?
What do I hear?
Is it a piano?
It's a child, no?
Nat's going to a boarding-house?
No, she's not going.
What will she do?
Nobody knows.
Music, maybe...
She cooked up
that you didn't feed her...
that you were very poor, and so on...
She beat another pupil...
For nothing, a missing eraser.
There were always good
and bad pupils...
this is nothing new for us.
But...
this violence...
from a very little girl...
They shot 4 times,
killed 3 times.
"Seize them if you fin them,
shoot them if they resist".
Invitation for a man-hunt
which every police station received
at 9.30 a. m. At this time indeed,
Mme Marie Bastide
biked in Dreux woods and saw
the two young killers asleep
near black car
at the Tower crossroad.
As this testimony
accorded with the other ones...
a vast police plan was organized
to seize the madmen...
who've terrified the region,
for 12 days.
"Kids" said Mme Bastide...
"One dark, one fair,
both exhausted".
The boys were ordered
to surrender.
A single shot at 1.30
was the only answer...
to a command of the Chief of Police.
This race against time is very painful...
considering their youth.
Only kids could do it...
making a bull's eye.
Blind-shots, that's it.
They were first seen
at the garage.
Is it far, Dreux?
The woods are near Bordires...
the road crosses them.
Hurry!
Tell the school Nathalie leaves.
Tell Datkin she'll come on Monday.
I'll insist on piano lessons.
After, it's too late.
Yes, after 8 years...
No chance she can stay in school?
Not a chance.
If she doesn't study piano,
she's finished.
At home, how does she seem?
Unhappy.
Touchy.
- Do you know her well?
- No.,
What does Nathalie like?
I think she likes music...
Give me 24 in Lignon...
About my daughter's piano lessons...
I phoned once.
The teacher told us...
We're sorry,
our principle is to leave
the child free to learn or
not to learn.
Only Nathalie will choose piano or not.
I can't hear you anymore.
Lignon is not far from home.
I'll see her,
I'll take her on Saturdays.
We have to phone to the Mayor
about Maria.
That's true.
"This is Nathalie's
Don't touch it".
Many branches fell down.
- From the wind?
- Yes.
I want to make a fire.
The Town Hall in Versailles, please...
Portuguese, yes...
That's the point... I phoned once.
The bailiff just told her to sign.
He told her it was nothing
important, a simple formality.
And she signed.
She signed her own expulsion.
Nothing to do?
But she does not understand our language.
Nothing?
Thanks.
Sometimes,
Nathalie wants to kill everybody...
She told Laurence.
She wants to be an orphan,
a Portuguese maid.
She says we're very poor...
Little by little,
they're closer to them.
They go on carefully
to seize the 2 killers
of the suburbs.
who committed several murders
without a financial motive...
just for violence,
with the same blind rage...
as Whitman- the student in Austin.
The most horrible thing is that
they are below the penal age.
It seems likely they are
Christian M. and Pierre G.,
aged 16 and 17...
who left home a month ago.
This violence,
from a very little girl...
She tears her note-books, blotches...
her writing exercises.
There were always good
and bad pupils...
this is nothing new for us.
But...
this violence,
from a very little girl...
that you didn't feed her...
that you were very poor, and so on...
She beat another pupil...
For nothing, a missing eraser.
There were always good
and bad pupils...
this is nothing new for us.
But...
this violence...
from a very little girl...
They shot 4 times,
killed 3 times.
"Seize them if you find them,
shoot them if they resist'.
Invitation for a man-hunt
which every police station received
at 9.30 a. m. At this time indeed,
Mme Marie Bastide
biked in Dreux woods and saw
the two young killers asleep
near a black car
at the Tower crossroad.
As this tesetimony
accorded with the other ones...
a vast police plan was organized
to seize the madmen...
who've terrified the region,
for 12 days.
"Kids", said Mme Bastide...
"One dark, one fair,
both exhausted".
The boys were ordered
to surrender.
A single shot at 1.30
was the only answer...
to a command of the Chief of Police.
This race against time is very painful...
considering their youth.
Only kids could do it...
making a bull's eye.
Blind-shots, that's it.
They were first seen
at the garage.
Is it far, Dreux?
The woods are near Bordires...
the road crosses them.
Hurry!
Tell the school Nathalie leaves.
Tell Datkin she'll come on Monday.
I'll insist on piano lessons.
After, it's too late.
Yes, after 8 years...
No chance she can stay in school?
Not a chance.
If she doesn't study piano,
she's finished.
At home, how does she seem?
Unhappy.
Touchy.
- Do you know her well?
- No.
What does Nathalie like?
I think she likes music.
Give me 24 in Lignon...
About my daugther's piano lessons...
I phoned once.
The teacher told us...
We're sorry,
our principle is to leave
the child free to learn or
not to learn.
Only Nathalie will choose piano or not.
I can't hear you anymore.
Lignon is not far from home.
I'll see her,
I'll take her on Saturdays.
We have to phone to the Mayor
about Maria.
That's true.
"This is Nathalie's
Don't touch it"
Many branches fell down.
- From the wind?
- Yes.
I want to make a fire.
The Town Hall in Versailles, please...
Portuguese, yes...
That's the point... I phoned once.
The bailiff just told her to sing.
He told her it was nothing
important, a simple formality.
And she signed.
She signed her own expulsion.
Nothing to do?
But she does not understand our language.
Nothing?
Thanks.
Sometimes,
Nathalie wants to kill everybody...
She told Laurence.
She wants to be an orphan,
a Portuguese maid.
She says we're very poor...
Little by little,
they're closer to them.
They go on carefully
to seize the 2 killers
of the suburbs
who committed several murders
without a financial motive...
just for violence,
with the same blind rage...
as Whitman- the student in Austin.
The most horrible thing is that
they are below the penal age.
It seems likely they are
Christian M. and Pierre G.,
aged 16 and 17...
who left home a month ago.
This violence,
from a very little girl...
She tears her note-books, blotches...
her writing exercises.
There were always good
and bad pupils...
this is nothing new for us.
But...
this violence,
from a very little girl...
Police research in
Dreux forest has stopped...
...given the time and nervous exhaustion
of the men who have been scouring the area
for 7 hours...
Two shots were just heard
in the woods.
It seems they are afraid
to be forgotten
by their pursuers.
It's for the delivery
of the fuel. It's late.
It's cold here.
What? Is it a wrong number?
- There's no phone here.
- Oh, sorry...
We'll settle her in Datkin School.
Very well.
Very well. When?
Next week.
Very well.
In her case, that school
is far better than ours.
Piano is so good for her.
She must study it again.
It's impossible.
That's a pity. If you insist...
- Nathalie will refuse.
- That's a pity...
We'll put the bundle together.
The woods are quiet now.
There's a deep mist.
The young killers seem to sleep
from exhaustion.
- Can I do something?
- No.
I need a bag for her wool clothes.
Is it cold there?
It's in the mountains.
with snow till March.
Without piano, she's finished.
Forget Nathalie a while.
I can't speak to her anymore.
I must hide from my child.
Yes.
What do you want?
Sorry, the door was open.
No we need nothing... Thanks.
We're not interested.
Oh, sorry.
It was open.
- Do I disturb you?
- No.
Come in.
It was open.
- What do you want?
- Oh, nothing...
Nothing...
I am...
Sit down.
I represent the brand Vedette Tambour.
You see it every where.
It's entire automatic,
super automatic, if I may say so.
A real space-saver.
Vedette has horizontal axes
on two levels.
Something new:
it is automatically inverted...
which increases by 50%...
logical, isn't it?
...the efficiency of the Vedette.
The best space-saver:
It's the record in France.
No washing-machine in Europe...
is so space-saving.
Vedette Tambour.
It's motor...
has two speed...
It's biphase.
I think the voltage is 200 here?
Because...
You buy a new house...
It's easy. And space-saving.
- You're no salesman.
- What?
instead of 2 in 007.
- You are no salesman.
- I am indeed.
I've a license...
I've a license.
No.
A license given by the authorities...
- No.
- Yes.
One special washing
for light clothes...
one normal, and one, of course,
for heavy washing.
The drier is graduated,
but this is normal.
Of course, the trial is free.
You promise nothing.
A demonstrator shows you how it works.
He can take it back...
Nothing lost, nothing gained...
I mean, it's simple.
You've heard about
Vedette Tambour 008?
I'm surprised.
It's everywhere.
The advertising of Vedette is so...
Oh, I forgot...
This was never done before.
Usually they are white.
White, white...
nothing but white.
Why?
Tell me why...
It's a habit.
But the colour is so pleasant.
You're no salesman.
- I am indeed.
- No.
But... Why?
Ah, ladies...
No.
No... I don't know...
One has to work... you know.
Thinking of buying it?
Do you want a trial?
If it's no,
I won't take up your time...
nor lose more of mine.
And it's late.
And I have many people to see...
If you want to...
I'll be back next week,
or next month...
If you want to.
But I'll ask you this,
if you don't mind...
don't buy another machine...
before testing 008,
because it is so...
That's a promise?
A trifle, but it is important...
Vedette takes you old machine.
Maybe you have one?
Which brand?
It's over there.
You know the brand?
You've got a Vedette Tambour 008.
We can't help it...
I'll see other people.
Laurence...
Nathalie...
While the research was thought to have
stopped as night was falling
the two murderers
from Dreux forest have been arrested.
Lesson is over.
Who are they? From where?
The older escaped from penitentiary.
The younger is the first born of 9.
His mom, a drunken whore, just died.
Is this Datkin School?
I am Isabelle Granger.
My daugther won't come.
I've changed my mind.
You came back?
I came back.
I thought you were out.
No, I'm home.
Not a single sale...
No lights yet?
- It's no use.
- You're right.
I'll give it up.
I can't sell.
Some say who they are,
and it's in the can.
That's not me.
I don't like it.
Sure, I tried. I...
Deep down. I don't like it.
It's not pleasant.
I just don't like it.
I'll take back my first job...
in a laundry.
I worked 7 years there...
as an apprentice.
I'm a real landerer.
I didn't like it.
I was through with
the boss...
the regular hours,
the boss always on my heels...
Wet clothes are heavy...
Wasn't fun.
I tried another job.
Being a salesman...
is worse,
being kind with people even if...
Then I worked in a garage...
in a department store as a loader...
in a printing house.
You know how it is...
I tried to become someone...
So I worked for
a real-estate agent.
I showed houses to people.
I stole money from him.
I left with a client's check.
They caught me. I don't mind.
I managed quite well.
I paid back in 2 years.
Yes, life was fine.
It lasted 15 days.
It was the first time.
Where's the light from? The terrace?
What do I hear?
Is it a piano?
It's a child, no?
Nat's going to a boarding-house?
No, she's not going.
What will she do?
Nobody knows.
Music, maybe...
She cooked up
that you didn't feed her...
that you were very poor, and so on...
She beat another pupil...
For nothing, a missing eraser.
There were always good
and bad pupils...
this is nothing new for us.
But...
this violence...
from a very little girl...
They shot 4 times,
killed 3 times.
"Seize them if you fin them,
shoot them if they resist".
Invitation for a man-hunt
which every police station received
at 9.30 a. m. At this time indeed,
Mme Marie Bastide
biked in Dreux woods and saw
the two young killers asleep
near black car
at the Tower crossroad.
As this testimony
accorded with the other ones...
a vast police plan was organized
to seize the madmen...
who've terrified the region,
for 12 days.
"Kids" said Mme Bastide...
"One dark, one fair,
both exhausted".
The boys were ordered
to surrender.
A single shot at 1.30
was the only answer...
to a command of the Chief of Police.
This race against time is very painful...
considering their youth.
Only kids could do it...
making a bull's eye.
Blind-shots, that's it.
They were first seen
at the garage.
Is it far, Dreux?
The woods are near Bordires...
the road crosses them.
Hurry!
Tell the school Nathalie leaves.
Tell Datkin she'll come on Monday.
I'll insist on piano lessons.
After, it's too late.
Yes, after 8 years...
No chance she can stay in school?
Not a chance.
If she doesn't study piano,
she's finished.
At home, how does she seem?
Unhappy.
Touchy.
- Do you know her well?
- No.,
What does Nathalie like?
I think she likes music...
Give me 24 in Lignon...
About my daughter's piano lessons...
I phoned once.
The teacher told us...
We're sorry,
our principle is to leave
the child free to learn or
not to learn.
Only Nathalie will choose piano or not.
I can't hear you anymore.
Lignon is not far from home.
I'll see her,
I'll take her on Saturdays.
We have to phone to the Mayor
about Maria.
That's true.
"This is Nathalie's
Don't touch it".
Many branches fell down.
- From the wind?
- Yes.
I want to make a fire.
The Town Hall in Versailles, please...
Portuguese, yes...
That's the point... I phoned once.
The bailiff just told her to sign.
He told her it was nothing
important, a simple formality.
And she signed.
She signed her own expulsion.
Nothing to do?
But she does not understand our language.
Nothing?
Thanks.
Sometimes,
Nathalie wants to kill everybody...
She told Laurence.
She wants to be an orphan,
a Portuguese maid.
She says we're very poor...
Little by little,
they're closer to them.
They go on carefully
to seize the 2 killers
of the suburbs.
who committed several murders
without a financial motive...
just for violence,
with the same blind rage...
as Whitman- the student in Austin.
The most horrible thing is that
they are below the penal age.
It seems likely they are
Christian M. and Pierre G.,
aged 16 and 17...
who left home a month ago.
This violence,
from a very little girl...
She tears her note-books, blotches...
her writing exercises.
There were always good
and bad pupils...
this is nothing new for us.
But...
this violence,
from a very little girl...