The Hunger-Lakme-Léo Delibes (excerpt)

I've been having incredibly lucid dreams lately featuring the music from the Hunger. Here is Lakme by Léo Delibes the other song in my dreams. I bought the vinyl to the soundtrack as well as the opera simply because I fell in love with "Viens, Mallika, les liens en fleurs" (The Flower Duet) in Act 1" which is played by Catherine Deneuve on the piano and the rest of the song comes in during the seduction scene. Below is the French and it's translation.

"Viens, Mallika, les liens en fleurs" (The Flower Duet)

Sous le dôme épais, où le blanc jasmin
À la rose sassemble
Sur la rive en fleurs, riant au matin
Viens, descendons ensemble.

Doucement glissons de son flot charmant
Suivons le courant fuyant
Dans londe frémissante
Dune main nonchalante
Viens, gagnons le bord,
Où la source dort
Et loiseau, loiseau chante.

"Under the thick dome, where the white jasmine
Gathers with the rose,
On the riverbank in bloom, laughing in the morning,
Come, let us go down together.

"Gently let us slip from the pleasant rising flow,
Let us follow the fleeting current
In the shimmering stream,
Without any care,
Come, let us reach the bank,
Where the spring waters slumber
And the bird, the bird, she sings."

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• Viens
• Mallika
• Lakme
• Léo Delibes

[marc2789]

Great movie! Catherine Deneuve was amazing at that rolle

[tkondaks]

Back in the early '90s, Premiere Magazine voted this scene the best lesbian scene in the history of movies.

I agree...that is, until the "This bed is big enough for the two of us" scene with Naomi Watts in "Mulholland Drive".

[deckard97]

the whole film is a seduction-2 gorgeous women,cool David Bowie,the understated acting and those visuals...and i like the mood...it is just so. sudden..though you sense "something" is occuring between these 2 ladies and when it does..wow

[dianah3]

(Trio in E-Flat -Franz Schubert )

I know how you feel. LOVE that song and i found today, hope it help you somehow :)))

[filmbuff87]

deneuve is so sexy.

[dontmiss]

where was that ? where did you lived at that time?

just wondering

[DameVeraLynn]

Please, help me! What was the name of the other song on chello or violin? I cannot remember very well, because I saw it many years ago. Thank you..

[Lynvild]

Fantastic film..my fave...and this scene and the next and the next are fab

[aames666]

oh i always loved this scene i think is the best from the movie breath taking :-D

[Buzzinko]

That was one of my favourite best movies of the 80's ... I liked the film and the soundtrack, yet so many people walked out of the cinema before the end..