Paul Gauguin

00:00:03 This short film was made

00:00:11 Today, he is considered to be

00:00:37 Directed by ALAIN RESNAIS

00:00:54 Music by Darius Milhaud

00:01:07 lying to himself.

00:01:15 and after twenty years of poverty

00:02:11 But his obsession became more and more demanding

00:02:24 as only a free man can be.

00:02:37 And the terrible thing about poverty

00:02:53 Paris is a wasteland for the poor man.

00:03:36 I go by the name of Savage.

00:04:02 I hear the muffled, dull, powerful sound

00:05:02 all that I have left is the howling of Paris

00:05:47 cursed by all who know me

00:06:10 after 63 days of feverish anticipation

00:07:04 on the other, the mountain.

00:08:12 Pleasure is the only passtime

00:08:58 and that will come with the night.

00:11:08 These long nights without sleep

00:11:18 My suffering is such

00:11:31 Would not death be preferable, a hundred times over?

08:19:00 the painting remained unfinished.