Plot
In Abitibi, in 1948, Richard Bombardier, a miner,dies tragically on Saint-Valentine's Day night. The entire mining community believes it was Mathilde his wife, who killed him, which is not true. To avenge herself, Mathilde seduces Robert Sincennes and Roch Devos, the town's union leaders and husbands of Anita and Marguerite, who started the rumour. She becomes pregnant, not knowing if it was Roch or Robert who is the father! This vengeance does not help Mathilde who obliterates herself with alcohol. Anita does not forgive Rober, who exiles himself in the foreign legion to please his son Louis, who dreams of becoming a soldier like his childhood hero, Simon le Légionnaire. Robert brings Roch with him after Marguerite Devos throws herself at the mining boss, Iram Walker, whom she marries without love and lives a life of luxury and decadence with her artist friends. Anita lives alone and works as the night operator for the telephone company and where she follows the conversations between Maurice Duplessis and his moral advisor, Monseigneur Madore. Liam Hennessy is a political exile from Ireland who sells Irish lottery tickets in Northern Quebec. His best buyer is Mathilde's father, Amedee Marechal, who often loses at poker. To keep an eye on him, Liam establishes himself in Sullidor where he teaches Nemesis, Mathilde's 9 year old daughter, Gaelic. Having refused all her life to speak a single word outloud, she willingly adopts Liam's native tongue. The film is narrated by 14 year old Louis Sincennes, in 1958. Louis goes to Ireland with his possible half-sister, Nemesis and falls in love with Elen, a beautiful Irish girl his own age. As for Nemesis, she meets others who speak Gaelic within the gaelstach.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, accidental-death, adultery, catholic-priest, death-of-husband, electroshock-therapy, gossip, hypocrisy, male-frontal-nudity
Abbé (from Latin abbas, in turn from Greek αββας = abbas father, from Aramaic abba) is the French word for abbot. It is the title for lower-ranking Catholic clergymen in France.
A concordat passed between Pope Leo X and Francis I of France (between 1515 and 1521), gave the kings of France the right to nominate 255 Abbés commendataires for almost all French abbeys, who received income from a monastery without needing to render a service.
Since the mid-16th century, the title abbé has been used for all young clergymen with or without consecration. Their clothes consisted of a black or dark violet robes with a small collar; they were tonsured.
Since those abbés only rarely commanded an abbey, they often worked in honourable families as tutors, spiritual directors, etc.; others became writers.
L'Abbé Pierre, GOQ (born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès; 5 August 1912–22 January 2007) was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP). He founded in 1949 the Emmaus movement, which has the goal of helping poor and homeless people and refugees. Abbé means abbot in French, and is also used as a courtesy title given to Catholic priests in French-speaking countries. He was one of the most popular figures in France, but had his name removed from such polls after some time.
Henri Grouès was born on 5 August 1912 in Lyon, France to a wealthy Catholic family of silk traders, the fifth of eight children. He spent his childhood in Irigny, near Lyon. He was twelve when he met François Chabbey and went for the first time with his father to an Order circle, the brotherhood of the "Hospitaliers veilleurs" in which the mainly middle-class members would serve the poor by providing barber services.
Put that gun to my temple
Put that gun on my heart
Throw my head out the window
& see semen see semen my feet in the dark
A-I-D
H-I-V
Cannot wait to die
Can't you tell
Can't you tell
Can't you tell
Never finish my degree, cha-chi
Never play with the pogues
Always walk off the plank chi-cha
All always, always into the dark
A-I-D
H-I-V
I cannot wait to die
Can't you tell
Can't you tell
Muthafucker.
I'm not ashamed of anything.
I've ever done.
This is gonna be a great day.
This is gonna be a Cassius Clay day.
You got the notion that I'm a loser.
Well little monkey you missed it all.
'Cause where there is music and there are people and they're young and alive.
Well I made it all.
This is gonna be a great day.
Back and forth was killin' me
I'd call you too much, 'cause I worry
Been sweet on you since that first talk
I said it so loud, maybe too loud
Chorus
Oh, when you write you're still crazy about me
Then I thank God 'cause my prayin' has come true
I think so hard about how to reply to you
So you can feel I'm still crazy about you
Drop it off on your door step
The reasons why I like you
Even though it was too much
Shook us up a bit but they're still true
Oh, when you write you're still crazy about me
Then I thank God 'cause my prayin' has come true
I think so hard about how to reply to you
So you can feel I'm still crazy about you
So you can feel I'm still crazy about you too
So then it's friends, well deep friends
Yeah I'll wait around, happily
Till we suss it out like drag queens
And trust enough to say I love you
Oh, when you write you're still crazy about me
Then I thank God 'cause my prayin' has come true
I think so hard about how to reply to you
So you can feel I'm still crazy about you
Maybe a flick that I don't know
Just what to say to you
Could be a losing seducer
Look at me I am cuckoo
Sing the song that breaks your heart
Chronically.
Hey, hey, hey K. M. and K.
So, so scared of being loony
Hey, hey, hey my man B.J.
She won't marry me 'cause I'm too crazy.
Jumpin' around all hectic
Fallin' down on demand
Heir to a life that's icky
Prostrate at your reprimand
Tappin' away at my dream
Do you believe in me
Blowin' my horn, it's over
Do you believe in me
Sing the song that breaks your heart
Chronically.
Hey, hey, hey K. M. and K.
So, so scared of being loony
Hey, hey, hey my man B.J.
Say yeah, you wanna kiss her
Say yeah, you wanna kiss her
Say nah, you can not.
Say yeah, you wanna kiss her
YOU JUST DO WHAT I TELL YOU!
Yeah, no kissy kissy kissy kissy kissy!
This is my down house.
Say yeah, you think your mouth is your mouth,
Sleepy boy
Wish upon my eyelids
Sleepy girl
Dream about where you live
Sleep i matter enough
Sleep i dream of you enough
Come on you fairy come on
Come on do me right
Dear fatigue
Licking me forever
Sleep i matter enough
Bring your wicked wing my way
Sleep i matter enough
For you to do me right
Sleep i matter enough
Bring your wicked wing my way
Sleep i'll pay for you tonight
For you to do me right
Sleep i dream of you enough
Sleep i matter enough
For you to do me right
Sleep i matter enough
Come on you fairy come on
Sleep i matter enough
Sex so evil
Been living oh so evil
I's a bad man
Yeah yes i is bad [x 2]
Little jim
Now i'm an evil
He's jerk
Let's break his heart round his face
Sweet sweet christ
Sex so evil
Been living oh so evil
I's a bad man
Yeah yes i is bad [x2]
Work so hard
Laughing in the face of the deadly
Laugh so hard he got nothing on you
Spit right on her ass and you feel like an evil man
Yeah yes
Sex so evil
Been living oh so evil
I's a bad man
Killing is the way to salvation
Smiling at them until the dark
She won't sell your ass up the river
Shouting out, "hey man, keep your freaking shirt on!"
La la la la la lalala la la la la
La la la la la lalala la la la la..
Lining up behind her computer
You read all her work until the dawn
Like a boy a dog
Shouting out, "be happy the whole week long"
La la la la la lalala la la la la
La la la la la lalala la la la la..
She ain't no monkey!
Kiling the man
Now girl you listen!
She ain't no tuna, baby!
So just you relax
Riding in the car to my grandma's house
Hair hair hair hair on her mind
She won't sell your ass up the river
Because she ain't no tuna, baby!
I am a pervert
Making you like it
I am a pervert
Bow down on my knee
I am a pervert
I am a pervert
I am a pervert
To forget the women i've known
And i never loved you
when you break me down again, again
i will hate your indifference
your laughter it cries
when you break me down and again
with that glitch in your eye
when you lie
i want to turn away my eyes
i see your fire burning dim
i have to turn away my eyes
before i plead my case
before we start again
do you know your place?
do you understand who started this?
have you thought this through?
are you prepared and sure of you?
did you think that i care too?
from your gentle heart so pure and true
my sympathies
for you mean nothing
your words mean nothing
cause it means nothing
it's got nothing to do with me
it's got nothing to do with me
i feel it so violently
it's got nothing to do with me
so before i plead my case
before we start again
do you know your place?
do you understand who started this?
have you thought this through?
and who is it you answer to
do you think i still care too?
The night seems to fade,
But the moonlight lingers on
There are wonders for everyone
The stars shine so bright,
But they`re fading after dawn
There is magic in kingston town
(chorus)
Oh kingston town,
The place I long to be
If I had the whole world
I would give it away
Just to see, the girls at play
Ooh, ooh, ooh
And when I am king,
Surely I would need a queen
And a palace and everything, yeah
And now I am king,
And my queen will come at dawn
She`ll be waiting in kingston town
(chorus)
And when I am king,
Surely I would need a queen
And a palace and everything, yeah
And now I am king,
And my queen will come at dawn
Since the day u were born
The beginning
U were told how to do things
U don't think what u feel
Or say what u think
U don't feel u say
To love and maybe to blink
Society couldn't take them away...
chorus: When the last time it's the first
It's the first when the last time it's the first
We've conluded to late
In this matter
But we act like before
We can make it so real
Eat all the crap
We don't feel what we say
To love and maybe to blink
Society couldn't take them away...
Words around you are beautifull
Favourite roads now I'm riding
Counting lifes of my soul
Seek experience
It returns to nothing...
Here's what I'm asking
chorus:All I need is a friend,just a friend,all I need is a friend...
Words around I'm cynical
Trough a hole now I'm sliding
Hate the guts of them all
Lack of confidence
Face the facts I'm not hiding
See you, breaking my life into million pieces
I'm used to all your poisoned kisses
I'll fight your guts untill you're down
Hey now, come closer, help me on this one
Supposed to pack your things and gone
It's the beginning of the end
My friend
Chorus: Now I have a sound, and I have a goal
I'm gonna break you down, you down
And I have a sound, and I have a goal
I'm gonna break you down, you down
I'm tired, sick of being loved by you ...
See you, breaking my life into million pieces
I'm used to all your poisoned kisses
I'll fight your guts untill you're down
Fool, I'll drain the life right out of you
You should think how you will get through
It's the beginning of the end
My friend
Simt cum imi zvacnesc tamplele
Si nu mai pot nici sa gandesc
De cateva ori ma uit numai la tine
Si toate aceste semne-ti arata
Cat te vreau, cat te vreau, cat te vreau, cat te vreau
Si caut un sarut si vreau sa te-ating
Ma las cuprins de tine-acum, de vraja ta
Si vreau din ce in ce mai mult
Sa pot sa intru-acum in lumea ta
Si toate-aceste semne-ti arata
Everything else now
The time may erase
But I just can't forget your face
I just can't forget your face
Never met you, and maybe never will
Something that never lived
You simply cannot kill
chorus: Is this another, is this another
Is this another game of mind
Bounded by something, I don't fear
Don't want to untie this
I want to get near
Near you hear, or better, near you there
As long as together it simply doesn't care
Kiss me, show me your eyes,
Feel me, come undisguised.
Will you smile, will you let yourself go?
Brace me now with your arms
Always, for always
Come again
Take me, take me with you
Right now, I'm falling into
Will you smile, will you let yourself go?
Keep me locked in your heart
Different horizons, understanding well
Opened minds in crisis
Every now and then...
Trusting will fulfill you
There is room for two
Ask me not for nothing
Things that I wouldn't do
chorus: Here you come,
Here you're over me
Like a friend, like my friend
Opposite reactions fueling up the hell
Making analises every now and then
Talents will creat you
From the best of you
Fight for your nature
Love the things you do
chorus:
Atit de simbata e astazi cit de departe este luni
Incerci din nou sa dilati clipa
Sa poti sa fii si sa ramii
Si focul care ploua
Secunda care cade
Mirosul orei arse
Realul ne desparte
S-ai o moaca de surprins
Chiar si-asa cind stai intins
In hol, in hol
In hol cu capul gol
In hol, in hol
In hol cu capul gol
In hol, in hol
In hol cu capul gol
Esti atit de plin de tine
Si atit de plin de gol
Incit nu mai stii de tine
Nu mai stii decit sa zbori
Si lumea ta e trista
Cuvintul tau e mut
Si fugi iarasi de tine
Imaginar drept scut
Si-ai o moaca de surprins
This is my litlle moan
It cuts deep inside
And it feeds the dark side of me
I'm going to change this, I'm against my will
Falling into this fight
I just can't say peace
I'm too willing to live 'cause I the got motives
This is what I give
chorus: Ash you have in your eyes
Your empire has fall
This has come to an end
Now that you're coming to me
I open my eyes just to see
All of my thoughts going free
A reason enough for to be
chorus: Hear you
When you barely just breath in next to my ears
You're whispering the magic words
See you
When you barely just step in next to my eyes
Searching on my soul
It's all but a craft all the way
Compel and burn out then I lay
Whay else is now left to say?
Follow the night
Follow your light
Forgetting that:
Somethimes you are not here with me
I often need you
And you're not around
I'm so fucked up
And I need you more
Don't you ever let me down
chorus:
I don't care what's with me
I will share it all for free
I just hate the good-byes
I despise...
chorus: Wouldn't I, wouldn't I, fell...
Something is missing
A part of you missing, again...
I won't dare to be seen
Tears falling on my chin
I'm afraid that if I will choose
I will loose
Give me all, give me faith
Evenless give me strenght
I just hate the good-byes
I despise...
Need for a change
I have no more dreams for now
I have things to trade, we will agree somehow
Strange but life will rearrange
For a second
chorus: You are the only friend I got
You are the only truth you have
You are the only...
It's all undefined, and I need a place to be
Call on squad
'Cause I am too blind to see
Strange but life will rearrange
For a second...
Skin, skin make me sin
Let me in
Take my mind and fly
Away
Haven't got a clue
Don't know what to do
No sense and nonsense,
I love to dance
But I'm gonna pass
Today
No more like before
Now that I have founded you
Chorus: If this is how you prefer,
I'll take all the blame
What do you need now?
All of your boats are off the shore
We have lost a dream,
I don't understand how ...
Knok, knock look who's here,
Have a beer
Take a sit than go
Away
Haven't got a clue,
Don't know what to do
Chorus: ...
Cleaning up the mess
You are stressed
Bad behaviour
Today
No more than before,
Now that I have founded you ...