La Fiancée Noire / Actress in Silent Film
クレオ(コリンヌ・マルシャン)はブロンド髪の美しい娘。が、最近クレオは悩んでいる。体の具合が悪いのだ。もしガンだったら……と思うと、いてもたってもいられない。先日、彼女は病院で精密検査を受けた。結果の出るのは今日の夕刻。クレオはその時刻の来るのがこわかった。五時。クレオは女占師の前に腰をおろす。占師は彼女が病気であることを見透した。
La fiancée noire
A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.