The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections Of The Silver Screen - Plot & Excerpts
Augustin. He was a small, thickset man with dark features and an Eskimo’s eyes. He claimed to be a Canadian and spoke a form of French that I had to translate mentally into the purity of my own tongue. His story essentially involved three people—himself, a man called McArthur, and McArthur’s niece, a twenty-year-old called Denise. Somehow—this was never fully explained—Cartier got wind of the filmmaker Werner Herzog’s decision to make the movie Fitzcarraldo and the three of them followed Herzog and his crew to the South American jungles, determined, clandestinely, to film the German at work. I ordered cognacs, before Cartier got too involved with his story, and we waited for a few moments, watching the Parisian passersby, until the drinks were on the table. I then signalled for Cartier to continue. “We pooled our money—all we had—and set off in pursuit of Herzog’s crew. It might seem, now, that taking Denise with us was a bad decision, but she absolutely worshipped McArthur and unfortunately most of the money came from her.
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