I was able to put pressure on her,
break and play more aggressively.
LOOSELY BASED ON
AUGUST STRINDBERG'S 'MISS JULIE'
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Give me two seconds.
- Hello?
- Julie, stop it! Get going.
What are you doing to her?
Kindergarten!
You've got three days
to get her up to speed. Is that clear?
What is this?
An amateur?
Are you an amateur?
Are you an amateur?
Show me what you can do.
Get her!
Let me be!
Yes.
That shouldn't be a problem.
MISS JULIE
What is it with Julie?
- She is upset about Peter.
- He was useless.
- He wasn't useless.
- Yes he was.
Do you know why he left?
I saw it myself.
- Did you?
- I sure did.
- What happened?
- They played together.
Each time Peter lost a ball
he had to jump over Julie's racket.
When he had jumped over it
she slapped his bottom.
He went ballistic,
smashed his racket and left.
- Was that why?
- Uh-huh.
This is the deal with Mico. It applies
if she comes first, second or third.
1.9 for the first prize, 1.2 for
the second and 500.000 for the third.
- And if she gets ill and cannot enter?
- She's in top form.
Everybody can get unlucky,
eat something bad or twist their ankle.
Listen, I'll give you an extra 50.000
because I'm late with the payments.
You can have it right now.
I'll write a cheque.
With some white wine gel
it would have been top-notch.
Don't do that!
"Jan, do you take Kristine
for your lawful wedded wife?"
"I do!"
"Will you love and honour her
for better or for worse -
- according to God's holy ordinance -
- keeping only unto her
for as long as you both shall live?"
"I do."
"And do you, Kristine, take Jan
for your lawful wedded husband?"
You don't drink beer with foie gras.
It could do with a few degrees more.
- What is it you're cooking? It smells!
- Oh...!
Julie wanted it.
Something for Stella.
- Do you really have to cook dog food?
- Isn't that obvious?
Why don't you say no?
- What is it?
- Abortion soup.
She says there were
some male dogs in the offing.
- What's in it?
- Some liquor, calf's intestines...
That family is nuts.
Her mother would be shopping in fur
and Gucci, all dirty and messy-haired.
All the while,
the chauffeur was waiting in the car.
Do you want the last one?
How about watching a movie tonight?
- Hello?
- Sure, let's watch a movie.
- Do we have a deal?
- I said let's watch a movie, didn't I?
- Julie is drinking in the bar.
- She is what?
I saw her when I passed the reception.
She was making a pass at some idiot.
- She shouldn't be drinking. Get her!
- Soon. I need five minutes to myself.
- How can you just walk past?
- I'm tired of dancing to her tune.
I'll be back.
- So do you have any secrets?
- Are you curious?
It sure isn't 'Chanel no. 5.'
Wow, he knows about perfume.
- Pour it into the tub.
- It needs to cool off first.
Will you join me in the bar?
I don't mean to be impolite, but I
promised Kristine to watch a movie.
Can I borrow Jan?
Maybe you should not
be hanging out with your coach.
- What do you mean?
- You need some rest.
- Come.
- I'm not dressed for going out.
You look good.
We need to discuss tactics.
- One juice and then you'll go to bed?
- One juice and then I'll go to bed.
Hi, Eddie.
- Do you want some?
- No!
It's quite nice.
- When are you off?
- Thursday.
- How much will she get?
- Best case scenario: 2.8.
And commercials and sponsors
on top of that.
We would like to take over the hotel.
It's a loan.
I'm paying the instalments.
The latest instalment
has not been paid in yet.
After the tournament there'll be money
in the account again. It's temporary.
Haven't I always paid
my instalments on time?
What if she doesn't win?
She gets money for entering.
We take over the hotel.
Then we're quits.
Shall we watch a movie?
- Are you mad?
- Why should I be mad?
What kind of gentleman leaves his lady?
- And that is your boyfriend?
- Yes, isn't that what they call it?
Boyfriend?
- You had one yourself.
- He was my fianc.
- Isn't that the same thing?
- Were you not going to bed?
Go to your flat. Go to bed.
Read a magazine. Relax, Julie.
- Put this on.
- I'm not putting that on.
- I'm not putting on master's clothes.
- Put it on!
- I'll go outside.
- I'm not putting it on.
Just put it on.
- Ca vous plait, mademoiselle?
- So you speak French?
- Where did you learn that?
- In Paris.
- You're flattering me.
- Why would I do that?
- You're exaggerating. Same thing.
- Take it off.
How come you speak so peculiarly?
Is it true that you're from Rungsted?
- I often saw you.
- Really?
- I remember one time especially.
- Go on. Tell me.
Maybe some other time.
- Is it that bad?
- It's embarrassing.
Sit down.
- I thought we were leaving?
- Not yet.
If your father sees you out and about
rather than in bed...
He won't.
Sit down!
Can you get us a drink?
- There's beer.
- Beer it is then.
I'm not keen on beer,
but if you insist.
I don't insist at all.
Are you shy?
Julie, you should be in your bed.
You can't drink beer with your coach.
You're not taking it seriously.
- Kristine is here.
- You shouldn't be drinking beer.
Kristine, are you asleep?
Stop it! She's been working for you
all day. She has a right to be tired.
You need to respect sleep.
Do you think I'm in love with you?
No, but people will think so,
if we're seen in the bar.
I'm just being realistic.
- I'll stoop down to you.
- Don't.
Sometimes I dream
that I'm sitting on a pole.
I need to get down
but I do not dare to jump.
I can't hold on to it.
I feel like falling, but I don't do it.
When I finally get down,
I want to ram myself into the ground.
Have you ever dreamt things like that?
- Shall we go?
- We'll stay here a while.
You can keep the flat
at a monthly rent of 20.000.
You take my hotel and want another
20.000 a month, is that what you say?
With the coach and the masseuse
it's another 12.000.
- How did it come to this?
- I guess you spent too much money.
You can have my money,
but not my hotel.
We take over the hotel
for what you owe in arrears.
That's it!
I'm bored.
- Keep still.
- Yes.
Do as I say.
- Julie...
- Jan?
- I'm only a man.
- Keep still.
That's it. Say thank you.
- Julie, listen to me.
- Kiss my hand first.
- Julie!
- Kiss my hand.
- It's at your own risk.
- Of what?
Of what? Don't you know
it's dangerous to play with fire?
- I'm insured.
- No, you're not.
- There's flammable material in here.
- And that's you?
Not because I'm me,
but because I'm a man.
I think you're a boring fart.
- Think?
- Yes, I fear so.
- Is this for fun?
- No, it's serious.
Was it also serious before?
- I need to fix your racket.
- You must come swimming with me.
First the bar. Now swimming.
I'm your coach, not your playmate.
I know.
Can I just ask you one thing?
Have you ever loved?
Have you?
Have you ever loved?
I was once really ill
because of impossible love.
- III in what way?
- I couldn't eat or drink.
Who was it?
- Who was it?
- It was you.
Was it me?
It was my father who looked after
your private tennis courts.
Was that your father?
He was caretaker at the club
and looked after your courts, too.
- Where did you live?
- In the red houses.
- In the red houses.
- My mom worked at the baker's.
- Do you recall the green Kermit cakes?
- They still have them.
- Where did we meet?
- I was with my father at your house.
I sneaked into the pavilion
to admire the cups.
I heard a sound,
got scared and ran off.
I ran through the raspberry hedge
and across the strawberry bed.
And on the porch I saw you.
I hid in a pile of thistles.
The gardeners had dispersed
cow manure. It was really smelly.
Then I saw you walking around.
I thought why...
why can't I just say hello?
- Do all poor people think like that?
- Of course they do.
- It must be awful being poor.
- It's beyond your comprehension.
You've always been loaded.
A dog is allowed
on the manager's couch.
A horse is patted by the princess.
But a caretaker...
There, there.
Sometimes a person makes his way up,
but how often does that happen?
There, there.
Suddenly I panicked and ran.
- I stumbled and landed in the pool.
- Was that you?
When I got home, I crept inside
a storage bench and wanted to die.
I wet my pants. The pee went on
the floor, so my father discovered me.
- He was so mad.
- So you didn't die in the end.
I had found out that you were going
to a confirmation at the church.
It was my friend's confirmation.
My mum didn't want me to get confirmed.
I was in the chancel looking at you.
I don't know what you signified to me.
You were a symbol.
You reminded me
of how difficult it is to break free.
You tell a good story.
- I have overheard many conversations.
- Are you spying?
Once I also overheard you
talking to a friend on the porch.
- What did you hear?
- Two men in a portacabin...
- It's all talk and no action.
- Do you want me to believe that?
Peter was a jerk.
- They always say that.
- Always?
- Why did you go for him?
- What do you mean?
- This fianc of yours.
- I don't want to hear any more.
- We should be going to bed anyway.
- No, we're going swimming.
It's a bad idea.
I'm going to be with Kristine.
- Are you afraid?
- I'll get sacked with no references.
- I also have to think of Kristine.
- So now it's Kristine?
I think of you, too.
Do as I say. Go to bed.
- Must I obey?
- Yes, for your own sake. Go on, do it.
People love me.
Nobody wants to hurt me.
No, Julie, they don't love you.
They love your story.
If you keep surprising them. One
wrong step, and they'll spit at you.
You're exaggerating.
Come.
Have you got the keys?
- What if he tells on us?
- Then I'll shoot him.
- Do you promise?
- I swear.
- You don't have a gun.
- Yes, I do.
Show it to me.
You're lying. You don't have a gun.
What do we do now?
Go far away.
- Phi Phi Island.
- Where's that?
- Thailand.
- Is the weather nice?
- It's warm all year round.
- What will we do in Thailand?
- Start a tennis resort, of course.
- A hotel?
Yes, we'll make lots of money.
- What about me?
- You'll be the boss, a big success.
- What will I be doing?
- Teaching.
- What will you be doing?
- Signing the bills.
We'll get the first plane
to Thailand.
- Say you love me.
- I love you.
We have to move fast now.
- We're together now, aren't we?
- In this place we'll always be apart.
Before we have left,
I cannot give myself to you.
In Thailand only money counts.
I'll be the manager.
You'll be the manager's wife.
That's exactly what I don't want to be.
Say you love me.
I'll say I love you. But not now.
We cannot show our feelings.
- Are you that cold?
- I'm so hot, but I can control myself.
- You kissed my shoe.
- That was then.
- We have other concerns now.
- Don't talk to me like that.
Have you got any money?
I have professional knowledge,
experience and language skills.
- That won't buy you a ticket.
- I know. I need a business relation.
- Where do you find that?
- You'll find one. Then we're partners.
I own nothing.
My father handles all the money.
My prize money runs this circus.
- It pays your salary.
- That makes it easy. We'll stay here.
Do you think that I can
look my father in the eyes?
What have you made me do?
You should stop giving yourself to men.
- Do you know what love is?
- I think I've been there.
Why do you say it like that?
I need a drink. Stay here.
It's my father's burgundy.
Is it too good for the son-in-law?
- You're a thief, a little hotel rat.
- Are you going to tell?
- You're making me a handler.
- Ouch, better watch out.
I think I'm the most miserable
woman in the world.
Why are you miserable?
You've just pulled a wonderful man.
- And so what?
- Kristine has feelings, too.
An employee is an employee.
And a whore is a whore.
When I was lying in the manure
and saw you in that fine dress...
...I got really horny.
So horny you would die for me?
It's just something I made up.
- Was it a lie?
- I read it in a newspaper.
Are you really like this?
- I were to be the first tree branch?
- Yes, but sadly the branch was rotten.
- I were to be the hotel sign?
- And I the hotel.
- Get your customers? Forge your bills?
- I can handle that myself.
- You've got a dirty mind.
- Then cleanse it, would you?
- Stand straight when you're talking.
- Whore. Get lost!
Are you calling me crude? Nobody
behaves as crudely as you just did.
Kristine doesn't give herself to men.
Hit me. Hit me.
Would I have started anything
if you hadn't made a pass at me?
I'm shocked that you made a pass at me.
- And proud.
- In a way.
Though victory was so easy,
it's difficult feeling intoxicated.
Do you know what I see now?
All the things that dazzled me
in my childhood are fake.
- As if you're worth more than me.
- I am.
I can make everyone a star.
You can merely fade as a star.
But I'm born into the upper class,
which you'll never be.
- You don't love me.
- Are you sure?
Do you think you could ever
love me for real?
I could fall in love with you.
You're so beautiful.
You're so delicate, crude, lovely
and sweet... if you can be asked.
- You can't win me like that.
- Then how?
I don't know. I just know
that I hate you the way I hate rats.
Go away with me.
- I'm so tired.
- We're going away together. Now.
We need to talk first. Get the wine.
Get the wine.
What do you want to talk about?
My mother was a model.
She was very beautiful.
My father met her at a party
and fell for her. And proposed.
He could be her lover, she said,
but he wanted her.
Then they were married. And had me.
I was to wear boys clothes.
My mother didn't want to make
a difference between the sexes.
The only ting my father ever decided
was for me to play tennis.
My mother had turned our fancy villa
into a hippie commune.
She had turned the park
into a biodynamic vegetable garden.
One day my father's
tennis career was over.
He came home and threw people out.
My mother couldn't do anything.
It made her ill.
I'm not sure what was wrong with her.
She was often hiding in the attic
or in the garden. Sometimes all night.
My mother had mortgaged the house.
My father was liable for it.
So there we were
with no roof over our heads.
My father then borrows money
from my mother's childhood friend.
He doesn't want any interest.
Strange, but what the heck.
He buys this hotel for the money.
- Guess who the childhood friend is?
- Your mother's lover?
Guess whose money it was?
It was my mother's. She was hiding
lots of money from my father.
Her lover handled it.
It was my mother's revenge.
Some say
my father tried to hang himself.
- I don't want to depend upon a man.
- Why were you with Peter then?
- He was to be my slave.
- And he objected?
- Of course not. I got tired of him.
- Yes, I saw that.
- What did you see?
- I saw him breaking up with you.
I broke up with him.
Did he say that he did it?
- So you hate men?
- Mostly, but sometimes I'm tempted.
- And you hate me?
- I could kill you like an animal.
- Like shooting a mad dog?
- Exactly.
Only you've got
neither a gun nor a mad dog.
- What do we do?
- We'll go away.
- Torturing each other to death?
- Living life to the full a day or two.
- And then die.
- Dying is stupid.
Starting a tennis resort is better.
Do you know why? Many love birds
rent a bungalow. That's good business.
They have a row, but they still have
to pay. Then you can let it again.
Do you want to die with me?
I love life.
- Besides, suicide is a crime.
- Do you believe in God?
- I want to go to bed.
- Do you know what you owe me?
We must go away and get married.
We can always divorce later.
- That's a very bad deal.
- Bad deal?
- There are no frauds in my family.
- How would you know?
Okay, granted,
my family has no pedigree.
Is that the punishment;
throwing mud at my family?
You should drink less if you let
your tongue run away with you.
You wouldn't say that if you loved me.
Do you want me to cry,
jump over your racket or kiss you?
Or trick you to go to Thailand
for three weeks? What do you want?
You have a good seeding.
With some effort you can win.
Yet you hate everything and everybody.
- You're sick.
- Be nice to me.
You have to be nice, too.
- What shall I do?
- If only I knew.
- What shall I do?
- Sleep. Tomorrow you'll be training.
- And you and me, that's a secret.
- Kristine knows.
She'll never expect it.
- It could happen again.
- It could?
What if I'm pregnant?
Then you'll have an abortion.
Is it just my responsibility?
Leave and tell it to your father.
But not that it was with me.
I'll only leave if you're coming.
"Julie escapes with her coach."
It will be in all the papers.
- It'll kill your father.
- I'm so tired.
Tell me what to do.
What shall I do?
Do you want an order?
Go upstairs. Pack your bags.
Get some money. Wait for me down here.
Come with me.
- Where are you going?
- To church.
Is it now?
Put some decent clothes on.
Does it have to be today?
- We need to hear his sermon?
- Do we have to?
You cannot choose a priest
before you've heard his sermon.
- What have you been doing?
- I've been talking to Julie.
All night?
There's something...
What?
- Have you both been drinking?
- Yes.
Have you been drinking!
Yes, we've been drinking.
- Are you jealous?
- Of Julie?
- Are you mad at her?
- No, at you. What are you thinking of?
It'll affect yourself if you behave
improperly. Don't you understand that?
If it had only been with a decent guy.
They're rich and famous, but no better
than us. Isn't that great to know?
What do you mean by a "decent guy"?
- I quit.
- To do what?
It's time you get a job, so we can
get married and have children.
- I've had it with this circus.
- I'll never get a better job.
- We could get by with less.
- I will not die for a wife and kids.
- I have bigger plans.
- You and your plans.
- You have responsibilities.
- They don't concern you.
I know exactly what to do.
Shall I come with you to church?
- Is master back yet?
- No.
- What's he doing?
- No idea.
No one has ever done this to me.
You'll get the money within 14 days.
Listen, Julie is in top form.
Don't stop us now.
I...
If I don't have that money within 14
days, you can add 50 percent interest.
I wouldn't say that
if I didn't expect to pay it, would I?
Give me some space!
I need some peace of mind
if this is to work.
I cannot handle this thing...
this thing you're doing.
It...
You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
If you think you can deliver it in
14 days... then you'll get 14 days.
Does she know anything?
- Nothing.
- I have the money.
- Enough money?
- Enough for a start.
It's time.
No luggage.
- What about that?
- Stella?
You cannot bring a dog.
Please, can I bring it?
- Give it to me.
- Then I'd rather have you kill it.
Give it to me then.
- Give it to me.
- Poor thing. Are you going to die?
- Are you leaving your mommy?
- Don't make a scene. Give it to me.
I hate you and the day
you became my coach.
Do you think screaming
and shouting will help?
Do you think I cannot bear
seeing a dead dog?
Do you think I'm that weak?
I wish I could see your brains
splattering the walls.
I wish I could see your dick
in a sea of blood.
Do you think I love you
just because I invited you?
Do you think I want to have your child
and take your name?
What is your name anyway?
I've never heard your surname.
Maybe you don't have one.
Should I be Mrs. Trash?
- Or Mrs. Caretaker?
- The plane leaves in a few hours.
I stay here. Even if my father gets
furious because I've taken his money.
Well done, Julie.
That's more like it. But take it easy.
What happened to the dog?
You have to listen to me.
You must listen to me.
I don't want to know.
I have nothing to do with it.
- But if you're eloping, I'll stop you.
- I cannot stay. Neither can Jan.
We'll all go to Thailand
and start a hotel.
I have the money.
I'll be teaching and you...
...you'll be looking after the guests.
Great, huh?
No more training.
No more people staring.
We'll go travelling,
partying and dancing all night.
Our bungalows will be the coolest.
14 Thai girls will work under you.
And with your looks...
You're bound to find a man.
A rich Englishman.
They... are so easy.
We'll get very rich
and build a house on Majorca.
If we get bored, we can always
go back or go somewhere else.
Do you believe that yourself?
- Do I believe it?
- Yes.
- So you're planning to run away?
- Run away? Not at all.
You just heard our plan.
It's a great idea.
- Am I to work for her?
- Speak nicely about your manager.
- Manager. Is that what it is now?
- What you're looking down at.
Have I perhaps been flirting with men
right in front of their girlfriends?
You despise everyone.
Have I dragged the hotel porter into
bed when he has brought up my bags?
- No, you've had me.
- So what? A guy steeling vintage wine.
What about all the sponsor
goodies you're nicking?
What are you talking about?
- Are you coming to church?
- No. Remember confessing your sins.
Yes... And I will bring
forgiveness to you, too.
For the Saviour suffered and died
on the cross for your sins.
Including your sponsor goodies sins?
- Do you believe in what you're saying?
- Yes.
If only I had your faith.
You can only have such faith
with God's particular grace.
- Not everyone gets that.
- Who gets it?
God doesn't give anyone special
attention. "The last shall be first."
- Then the last get special attention.
- Yes.
But a camel goes through
a needle's eye more easily -
- than a rich person
into God's kingdom.
I'll call master.
- Why did you have to bring that dog?
- Forget the dog.
- Should we be leaving at all?
- No.
- What am I to do?
- Don't you get it? We cannot leave.
If we're not leaving, then...
That's the difference
between you and me.
- What difference is that?
- I'm a man. You're a woman.
I don't dare.
- My father couldn't do it either.
- No, he wanted revenge first.
Do you hate your father?
I love my father.
I hate him, too.
It's his fault that I'm such a freak.
I have all my thoughts from my father.
I have all my feelings from my mother.
I've been training, making money
and making everyone happy.
How can it be my own fault?
Jan speaking.
Yes.
Julie. It's time.
- What did he say?
- He'll be here within an hour.
Talking to him on the phone
makes my hands shake.
If master were here and said:
Cut the throat -
- then I could do it.
Then I could do it.
You know what a hypnotist is, right?
Let's pretend that you're master.
And I'm you.
The hypnotist says to his medium:
Take that broom. The medium takes it.
The hypnotist says: Sweep with it.
The medium sweeps with it.
Aren't you supposed to sleep first?
The room is filled with smoke.
You look like a Weber grill.
You are wearing black clothes
and a high hat.
Your eyes are like two pieces of coal.
Your face is like a white spot.
It's as hot here as in Thailand.
Here's the broom.
Tell me to leave.
- Yes, come on. Tell me to leave.
- No, Julie, I cannot say that.
Tell me to leave.
Tell me to leave.
Leave!
Are you coming?
MISS JULIE
English text: Dorte Krogh
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