The Spanish Apartment English Subtitles

00:01:02,411 --> 00:01:05,♪♪ (MIXTURE OF MUSICAL STYLES)

00:01:24,798 --> 00:01:28,♪♪ (MEN SINGING IN SPANISH)

00:02:36,596 --> 00:02:38,(JET PLANE ROARING)

00:02:38,934 --> 00:02:42,(MAN NARRATING IN FRENCH)
It all started here. At takeoff.

00:02:42,111 --> 00:02:46,No, this isn't a story
about taking off.

00:02:46,097 --> 00:02:48,Yeah, that's the real beginning.

00:02:51,461 --> 00:02:54,My appointment with
Jean-Charles Perrin.

00:02:54,898 --> 00:02:57,It begins where it ends.
Right here!

00:02:57,505 --> 00:03:00,(MAN SPEAKING FRENCH)
I have an appointment
with Mr. Perrin.

00:03:00,313 --> 00:03:04,(SPEAKING FRENCH)
He's in building F.

00:03:04,438 --> 00:03:07,On the 6th floor, room 6024.

00:03:07,236 --> 00:03:09,(SOUND EFFECTS
HIGH-PITCHED, SPED UP)

00:03:20,882 --> 00:03:22,(SPEAKING FRENCH)
Sir?

00:03:22,620 --> 00:03:24,(FRENCH)
I have an appointment...

00:03:24,548 --> 00:03:26,with Mr. Jean-Charles Perrin.

00:03:28,514 --> 00:03:29,Someone to see Mr. Perrin.

00:03:31,152 --> 00:03:32,Bonjour.

00:03:32,850 --> 00:03:36,I have an appointment
with Mr. Perrin.

00:03:36,117 --> 00:03:37,Follow me.

00:03:45,577 --> 00:03:47,Ah.

00:03:47,895 --> 00:03:50,Xavier!

00:03:47,895 --> 00:03:50,(SPEAKING FRENCH)
Hello, Mr. Perrin.

00:03:50,163 --> 00:03:53,(FRENCH)
Call me Jean-Charles.
I'm so pleased!

00:03:53,190 --> 00:03:56,Come in!
This is where I work.
My painting.

00:03:56,776 --> 00:03:59,View of Paris.

00:04:00,043 --> 00:04:01,Sacré coeur.

00:04:02,011 --> 00:04:05,The Eiffel Tower. Jussieu.

00:04:05,777 --> 00:04:07,I've known your father since--

00:04:09,393 --> 00:04:13,we were at the ENA
back when it was still
in Paris--

00:04:13,489 --> 00:04:16,I remember it's been--

00:04:16,586 --> 00:04:18,(SPEAKING FRENCH)

00:04:18,884 --> 00:04:22,(XAVIER NARRATING IN FRENCH)
My father understands
these things.

00:04:23,619 --> 00:04:26,(SPEAKING FRENCH)
Go see him.
What've you g***t to lose?

00:04:26,366 --> 00:04:28,He's great.
I've known him since--

00:04:28,904 --> 00:04:30,(XAVIER)
So, that's my dad.

00:04:30,432 --> 00:04:32,He's right in your field.

00:04:32,830 --> 00:04:34,You like double malts?

00:04:35,018 --> 00:04:37,Know Donohugue?
It's Scottish. A marvel!

00:04:39,863 --> 00:04:42,It really started here,
when he said:

00:04:43,499 --> 00:04:45,All I know is...

00:04:45,367 --> 00:04:49,with the new
European directives,
jobs will create themselves.

00:04:49,194 --> 00:04:54,Get your MS in a subject that
addresses Spanish economics...

00:04:54,588 --> 00:04:56,and I can find you a job.

00:04:56,696 --> 00:04:59,There's sure to be prospects.

00:04:59,593 --> 00:05:04,But you have to
speak Spanish and
know the Spanish market well.

00:05:04,958 --> 00:05:08,(SPEAKING SPANISH)
Do you speak Spanish?

00:05:08,344 --> 00:05:10,(SPANISH)
A little.

00:05:12,270 --> 00:05:14,(FRENCH)
Been to Spain?

00:05:14,988 --> 00:05:17,(FRENCH)
I went to Ibiza once.

00:05:17,885 --> 00:05:21,(XAVIER NARRATING)
So I decided to go
to Spain for a year.

00:05:21,621 --> 00:05:24,(MAN ON RADIO)

00:05:26,486 --> 00:05:29,As a kid I was blond
and wanted to write.

00:05:29,183 --> 00:05:32,I changed.
We can change, can't we?

00:05:32,151 --> 00:05:36,To make a long story short,
let's say my mom's a hippie.

00:05:36,666 --> 00:05:39,And hippies, alas,
always tell the truth.

00:05:39,633 --> 00:05:43,(SPEAKING FRENCH)
No bulgar, no tofu!
I can't make you anything!

00:05:43,329 --> 00:05:46,You'd rather gorge
on fast-food s***t...

00:05:46,366 --> 00:05:51,full of pesticides, toxins--
Well, be my guest!
I won't stop you.

00:05:51,961 --> 00:05:55,(XAVIER)
First, I wasn't sure.
On second thought,

00:05:55,427 --> 00:05:57,I knew I had to
get out of there.

00:05:59,993 --> 00:06:01,España!

00:06:01,391 --> 00:06:05,So I looked into the
European exchange program.

00:06:05,078 --> 00:06:08,It's called Erasmus.
What an unspeakable mess!

00:06:10,192 --> 00:06:12,(CHATTERING)

00:06:16,836 --> 00:06:19,(WOMAN SPEAKING FRENCH)
Just a moment, please.

00:06:20,802 --> 00:06:22,(XAVIER)
Wondering who Erasmus is?

00:06:22,990 --> 00:06:24,(MODEM SQUEALING)

00:06:22,990 --> 00:06:24,I didn't know either.

00:06:24,968 --> 00:06:26,Frankly, I still don't.

00:06:27,036 --> 00:06:31,I think he was some sort of
Dutch traveler, circa 1500.

00:06:31,781 --> 00:06:34,Just registering
took me three months.

00:06:34,938 --> 00:06:36,(SPEAKING FRENCH)
That's next door.

00:06:39,443 --> 00:06:43,Have you been next door?

00:06:39,443 --> 00:06:43,I was just there.

00:06:43,529 --> 00:06:46,(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

00:06:43,529 --> 00:06:46,(XAVIER SPEAKING FRENCH)
I'd like an Erasmus file.

00:06:46,466 --> 00:06:49,(FRENCH)
And your registration form?

00:06:46,466 --> 00:06:49,I just g***t it.

00:06:50,492 --> 00:06:53,It's empty!
I can't do anything with that!

00:06:53,589 --> 00:06:57,They lost mine!
I have to fill out another.

00:06:57,205 --> 00:06:59,Right! You're all the same!

00:06:59,423 --> 00:07:02,You always wait
till the last minute!

00:07:03,030 --> 00:07:07,I did! They lost my file!
It's not my fault they lost it!

00:07:07,305 --> 00:07:10,I'd just like to know
what forms I need...

00:07:12,140 --> 00:07:15,for the file, so it's complete.

00:07:16,017 --> 00:07:20,Well, a postgraduate
Erasmus file isn't complicated.

00:07:20,382 --> 00:07:22,It's all listed
on the small form.

00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,You need the agreement
of your adviser here,

00:07:26,216 --> 00:07:28,the agreement
of your adviser there,

00:07:29,014 --> 00:07:33,agreements from your university
there and here,

00:07:33,219 --> 00:07:35,your student ID--
That's imperative!

00:07:35,687 --> 00:07:38,- You're under SMEREP
  or M.N.E.F.?
- M.N.E.F.

00:07:38,444 --> 00:07:42,Then, go to the M.N.E.F. Office,
building "D," ground floor...

00:07:42,950 --> 00:07:45,and ask for form E111.

00:07:45,247 --> 00:07:46,And don't go "pfft".

00:07:46,716 --> 00:07:52,Without it,
you can't be reimbursed for
any medical expenses, okay?

00:07:52,110 --> 00:07:54,So, fill out all those forms.

00:07:55,008 --> 00:07:58,This needs a résumé,
a letter of intent,

00:07:58,744 --> 00:08:02,the title of your thesis,
and all these things here!

00:08:02,710 --> 00:08:04,All that!

00:08:07,425 --> 00:08:11,(XAVIER)
I don't know why the world
became such a mess.

00:08:11,251 --> 00:08:14,I don't know
if it had to be this way.

00:08:14,758 --> 00:08:17,Complicated,
made like s***t, out of whack.

00:08:17,685 --> 00:08:22,Before there were fields,
cows, chickens.
It was much simpler.

00:08:24,968 --> 00:08:27,They had a direct
relationship with things.

00:08:27,435 --> 00:08:31,They had animals,
grew their own food,

00:08:31,171 --> 00:08:33,made their clothes,
built their home.

00:08:33,899 --> 00:08:37,On the farm,
life was simple for Martine.

00:08:37,195 --> 00:08:40,Why did we ever
leave Martine’s world?

00:08:40,732 --> 00:08:42,(SPEAKING FRENCH)
What a horror!

00:08:46,496 --> 00:08:49,(FRENCH)
What's a horror?

00:08:46,496 --> 00:08:49,It's so sexist.

00:08:49,263 --> 00:08:51,This putrefied vision
of women.

00:08:51,591 --> 00:08:53,Why do you say that?

00:08:53,729 --> 00:08:57,Because she feeds the chickens
and tends the cows?

00:08:58,024 --> 00:09:01,No, but-- Obviously,
that's your fantasy.

00:09:01,161 --> 00:09:05,A nice little girl
in a short skirt,
rosy cheeks.

00:09:05,357 --> 00:09:06,No, it's not!

00:09:06,995 --> 00:09:09,To think my parents
named me after her!

00:09:11,521 --> 00:09:13,That really bums me out.

00:09:14,918 --> 00:09:17,My mother used to read this.

00:09:17,925 --> 00:09:20,I think that's sweet.

00:09:20,922 --> 00:09:23,But, Martine,

00:09:23,249 --> 00:09:25,it's not important.

00:09:29,523 --> 00:09:31,Is it Martine that--

00:09:34,148 --> 00:09:36,I’m sad that you're leaving.

00:09:39,083 --> 00:09:41,I'm sad too.

00:09:42,010 --> 00:09:43,(JET ENGINE REVVING)

00:09:55,507 --> 00:09:57,(ALARM RINGING)

00:09:55,507 --> 00:09:57,What is it?

00:09:59,013 --> 00:10:02,(WOMAN ON P.A., IN FRENCH)
Air France flight to Barcelona--

00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:03,S***t!

00:10:10,102 --> 00:10:11,Come on, Martine!

00:10:27,805 --> 00:10:29,She's really sad.

00:10:29,363 --> 00:10:31,I'm sad too, you know....