PALACE OF CRYSTAL
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scene 1
A black screen. On the left-hand side of the screen, light delineated by the sharply delineated outline of a window slowly appears. Contrast of the blackness of the night with the brightness of the day. The dawn is filtering into the room through the window.
A black screen. On the left-hand side of the screen, light delineated by the sharply delineated outline of a window slowly appears. Contrast of the blackness of the night with the brightness of the day. The dawn is filtering into the room through the window.
It awakens a delicate young girl who remains for a few moments sleepily in bed. Then she gets up and, following her daily routine goes off to the bathroom and prepares her herself to go out.
Young, modern, well dressed girl with her handbag thrown casually across her shoulder. Her movements, her gait reveals a casual habitual course of events. We see her in the train with other people, then in a nursery surrounded by children, smiling. The haziness of the picture denotes the passing of a certain period of time.
The picture then becomes sharp again. The girl is on her way back to her little flat. She calls in at a supermarket, stops for a moment in front of the displays, waves to someone. She is completely nonchalant in her actions. It is dusk as she goes to her flat, switches on a tape recorder from which are heard the strains of Albinoni's Adagio in G- minor*. She returns from the bathroom in her nightclothes, lies down on the bed. Then she hears footsteps emanating from the street, at first barely audible, keeping time with the tempo of the music. The footsteps become louder until theme dominate all other sound, until finally they fade into the strains of Albinoni's music. This is the girl's first encounter with the footsteps. The musical theme ends. Darkness and silence.
scene 9
A black screen. On the left-hand side of the screen, light delineated by the sharply delineated outline of a window slowly appears. Contrast of the blackness of the night with the brightness of the day. The dawn is filtering into the room through the window.
A black screen. On the left-hand side of the screen, light delineated by the sharply delineated outline of a window slowly appears. Contrast of the blackness of the night with the brightness of the day. The dawn is filtering into the room through the window.
It awakens the girl whose face wears an expression of relief. She remains lying there for a moment longer contemplating the chair at the end of the bed upon which is lying the jacket position like a butterfly larva. The girls gets up calmly, prepares her herself to go out.
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From the people that the camera meets in the corridors, it is clear that this is a mental hospital.
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a. In one corner, on the edge of a chair, a girl with a blank expression is rocking from side to side in rhythmical movements.
b. In front of a window in a long hospital gown a man with his back towards us. He is gently caressing the shadow of a tree on the windowpane, scarcely touching it.
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"WILL THE SUN FORGET TO STREAK" (HANDEL'S SOLOMON) - KARINA GAUVIN
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