COLUMBIA PICTURES LOGO

BLACK SCREEN

On a black screen, the words (without capital letters in front of
the words) :

       columbia pictures
       presents

and then :

       a film by
       barbet schroeder

BATHROOM - INTERIOR

We don't know if it's day or night. We see a little girl, aged
around eight, putting lipstick on her lips. She is wearing
earrings and a ring on the middle finger of her right hand. She
moves forward and we see another girl about the same age.