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@film I couldn't find the clip with English subtitles, sorry.

An off-screen conductor is leading a rehearsal and addresses the musicians.

The off-screen singer complains that they are rushing.

The conductor alerts them that the master (/maestro) wishes to speak.

Depardieu, as an elderly Marais, says: "All the notes should finish by dying." He falls back asleep.

The conductor says, "You heard him: let them die."

It's a hell of an opening. 2/3