1 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,992 THE SOUTH 2 00:01:23,376 --> 00:01:26,546 Screenplay by... 3 00:01:27,005 --> 00:01:29,883 Based on a Story by... 4 00:01:56,576 --> 00:02:00,830 AUTUMN 1957 5 00:02:50,171 --> 00:02:51,673 Agustín? 6 00:02:59,180 --> 00:03:00,598 Agustín? 7 00:03:11,901 --> 00:03:14,028 Casilda! 8 00:03:14,404 --> 00:03:16,114 What is it, ma'am? 9 00:03:16,239 --> 00:03:20,368 My husband's gone. Sinbad won't stop barking. 10 00:03:28,793 --> 00:03:31,212 Agustín! 11 00:03:59,324 --> 00:04:01,075 Is this the hospital? 12 00:04:02,660 --> 00:04:04,537 Is Dr. Arenas there? 13 00:04:05,955 --> 00:04:07,749 This is his wife. 14 00:04:08,833 --> 00:04:11,419 Ma'am, Estrella's bicycle is gone! 15 00:04:11,586 --> 00:04:12,962 No. 16 00:04:13,087 --> 00:04:16,758 I just wanted to know if he dropped by during the night. 17 00:04:16,883 --> 00:04:19,093 Do you know where he might be? 18 00:04:20,511 --> 00:04:25,016 Yes, if he shows up, please tell him to call home right away. 19 00:04:27,310 --> 00:04:29,812 Yes, it's very urgent. 20 00:04:32,148 --> 00:04:33,608 Yes. 21 00:04:34,192 --> 00:04:35,693 His wife. 22 00:04:36,903 --> 00:04:38,613 Thank you. 23 00:05:33,668 --> 00:05:35,420 That day at sunrise... 24 00:05:35,962 --> 00:05:39,340 when I found his pendulum under my pillow... 25 00:05:40,008 --> 00:05:42,010 I felt that this time... 26 00:05:42,510 --> 00:05:44,595 everything had changed... 27 00:05:45,304 --> 00:05:48,099 that he'd never be coming home. 28 00:06:07,285 --> 00:06:08,786 Well? 29 00:06:15,710 --> 00:06:17,378 A girl. 30 00:06:18,671 --> 00:06:20,339 Are you sure? 31 00:06:20,590 --> 00:06:22,341 I'm sure. 32 00:06:23,384 --> 00:06:25,553 What will her name be? 33 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:27,889 Estrella. 34 00:06:32,643 --> 00:06:35,271 They told me my father predicted 35 00:06:35,688 --> 00:06:37,815 that I would be a girl. 36 00:06:38,941 --> 00:06:42,195 That's the first memory I have of him... 37 00:06:42,695 --> 00:06:44,906 a very vivid image... 38 00:06:45,364 --> 00:06:48,576 that in reality I made up myself. 39 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,305 Want some? 40 00:07:09,764 --> 00:07:10,764 Yes. 41 00:07:30,660 --> 00:07:34,455 I grew up as we moved from place to place. 42 00:07:35,414 --> 00:07:37,959 He was looking for a steady position. 43 00:07:38,334 --> 00:07:40,336 He found it in the north... 44 00:07:40,545 --> 00:07:42,797 in a walled city 45 00:07:43,089 --> 00:07:45,091 on the banks of a river. 46 00:07:51,472 --> 00:07:55,393 We lived outside of town in a rented house... 47 00:07:55,726 --> 00:07:57,311 "the Seagull." 48 00:07:58,980 --> 00:08:01,732 It was in a no-man's-land 49 00:08:01,983 --> 00:08:04,777 halfway between the countryside and the city 50 00:08:04,902 --> 00:08:07,572 on a road my father called 51 00:08:07,989 --> 00:08:09,657 "the border." 52 00:08:25,131 --> 00:08:29,135 - Let's continue the same treatment. - When can I go home? 53 00:08:29,343 --> 00:08:32,180 I'm fed up here. I have to get home. 54 00:08:32,346 --> 00:08:34,682 Very soon. 55 00:08:35,057 --> 00:08:37,810 But you must do what Sister Lucía tells you. 56 00:08:37,935 --> 00:08:40,479 And relax. 57 00:09:38,996 --> 00:09:43,000 - Will you take me for a ride? - Isn't it a bit late? 58 00:09:43,751 --> 00:09:44,919 No. 59 00:09:45,044 --> 00:09:47,338 Come on. One little ride. 60 00:09:47,964 --> 00:09:49,924 All right. Hop on. 61 00:09:58,766 --> 00:10:00,268 Faster! 62 00:10:00,810 --> 00:10:02,770 Faster! - All right! 63 00:10:15,032 --> 00:10:16,117 Estrella! 64 00:10:16,284 --> 00:10:18,286 Don't make so much noise! 65 00:10:18,411 --> 00:10:20,121 Your dad's upstairs. 66 00:10:20,621 --> 00:10:22,290 I didn't know. 67 00:10:22,415 --> 00:10:24,625 If you bother him, 68 00:10:24,750 --> 00:10:26,961 he can't do his experiments. 69 00:11:30,358 --> 00:11:32,193 What did I tell you? 70 00:11:32,526 --> 00:11:34,528 I dropped it. 71 00:11:44,580 --> 00:11:46,207 Mommy... 72 00:11:46,582 --> 00:11:50,336 why doesn't Daddy want anyone coming up into the attic? 73 00:11:50,461 --> 00:11:54,632 Because all the power he keeps in there would escape. 74 00:11:55,466 --> 00:11:57,551 So that's why he locks the door? 75 00:11:58,094 --> 00:12:02,473 Without that power he couldn't do any of the things he does. 76 00:12:02,598 --> 00:12:04,183 Where does he get it from? 77 00:12:05,184 --> 00:12:06,727 Nowhere. 78 00:12:07,728 --> 00:12:09,814 It's just something he has. 79 00:12:11,399 --> 00:12:13,067 Has he always had it? 80 00:12:13,901 --> 00:12:17,405 Yes, ever since he was born. 81 00:12:17,863 --> 00:12:20,408 Could I have it too? 82 00:12:21,534 --> 00:12:23,202 I don't know. 83 00:12:24,161 --> 00:12:26,330 Seeing you're his daughter... 84 00:12:27,248 --> 00:12:28,916 I imagine you might. 85 00:12:31,210 --> 00:12:32,795 Would you like that? 86 00:12:33,254 --> 00:12:34,588 Very much! 87 00:12:35,589 --> 00:12:37,258 And now... 88 00:12:37,591 --> 00:12:39,427 off to sleep. 89 00:12:40,594 --> 00:12:44,223 Good night, sweetie. - Good night, Mommy. 90 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,458 The first thing you must learn 91 00:13:10,624 --> 00:13:13,085 is how to hold the pendulum. 92 00:13:14,462 --> 00:13:15,963 Take it. 93 00:13:21,635 --> 00:13:24,263 Don't squeeze too hard. 94 00:13:25,890 --> 00:13:27,725 That's the way. 95 00:13:29,810 --> 00:13:31,312 That's it. 96 00:13:32,021 --> 00:13:33,481 Now... 97 00:13:35,191 --> 00:13:37,985 close your eyes... 98 00:13:39,236 --> 00:13:41,906 and let your mind go blank. 99 00:13:42,615 --> 00:13:45,659 No, don't squeeze the chain so hard. 100 00:13:45,826 --> 00:13:47,536 Let it hang loose. 101 00:13:47,786 --> 00:13:50,039 That's it. 102 00:13:51,123 --> 00:13:52,541 Now... 103 00:13:54,376 --> 00:13:56,712 all by yourself. 104 00:14:00,007 --> 00:14:02,676 Let your mind go blank. 105 00:14:05,095 --> 00:14:06,847 Slowly. 106 00:14:16,732 --> 00:14:18,651 Nice and slow. 107 00:14:20,152 --> 00:14:21,695 Nice and slow. 108 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:24,698 That's it. 109 00:14:25,324 --> 00:14:26,867 Just like that. 110 00:14:27,785 --> 00:14:29,411 Very good. 111 00:14:31,747 --> 00:14:34,708 Empty your mind completely. 112 00:14:37,378 --> 00:14:38,879 That's it. 113 00:14:39,713 --> 00:14:41,632 Very good. 114 00:14:49,056 --> 00:14:51,392 Daddy, it's swinging! 115 00:15:02,361 --> 00:15:03,779 Stop! 116 00:15:04,446 --> 00:15:06,198 Stop right there. 117 00:15:12,037 --> 00:15:13,914 It's swinging! 118 00:16:05,424 --> 00:16:07,718 - He found it. - Now for the depth. 119 00:16:59,436 --> 00:17:01,063 Count them. 120 00:17:04,566 --> 00:17:07,736 - Did you find it? - The water's right here. 121 00:17:07,861 --> 00:17:08,987 ...two... 122 00:17:09,697 --> 00:17:11,031 three... 123 00:17:11,573 --> 00:17:14,868 - How far down do we dig? - Each coin is one meter. 124 00:17:14,993 --> 00:17:17,871 The total equals the depth you have to dig. 125 00:17:18,163 --> 00:17:20,416 ...seven, eight. 126 00:17:20,541 --> 00:17:22,543 - How many coins? - Eight. 127 00:17:23,460 --> 00:17:26,338 You have to dig down eight meters. 128 00:17:26,463 --> 00:17:30,384 - Now we know what to do. - That's not very deep. 129 00:17:31,176 --> 00:17:34,054 My dad could do things 130 00:17:34,179 --> 00:17:36,473 that others considered practically miracles. 131 00:17:36,765 --> 00:17:39,560 But to my eyes, coming from him... 132 00:17:40,018 --> 00:17:43,188 nothing could have seemed more natural. 133 00:17:44,898 --> 00:17:47,443 My mother was one of the teachers 134 00:17:47,568 --> 00:17:49,987 who suffered reprisals after the Civil War. 135 00:17:50,112 --> 00:17:52,865 She taught me to read and write. 136 00:17:53,657 --> 00:17:56,410 Gentle going up... 137 00:17:57,661 --> 00:18:00,080 and harder going down. 138 00:18:00,456 --> 00:18:01,957 A bit more. 139 00:18:02,332 --> 00:18:04,251 Wet the pen. 140 00:18:07,171 --> 00:18:09,089 Another blot! 141 00:18:09,214 --> 00:18:11,592 It doesn't matter. Go on. 142 00:18:16,430 --> 00:18:19,099 We'd spend almost the entire day together, 143 00:18:19,558 --> 00:18:25,105 yet I have only a few clear memories of her from that time. 144 00:18:26,607 --> 00:18:29,777 I remember her sitting next to a window 145 00:18:29,943 --> 00:18:33,530 in the afternoon sewing my dresses... 146 00:18:33,697 --> 00:18:36,700 in the greenhouse looking after her flowers... 147 00:18:37,367 --> 00:18:41,455 on the patio varnishing old furniture she got from God knows where. 148 00:18:42,915 --> 00:18:44,458 And at night 149 00:18:44,875 --> 00:18:48,128 reading the novels she enjoyed so much. 150 00:18:51,882 --> 00:18:53,467 How is it? 151 00:18:54,426 --> 00:18:55,969 Really good. 152 00:19:04,353 --> 00:19:09,107 My father's origins were always a real mystery to me. 153 00:19:10,734 --> 00:19:13,237 I knew nothing of his past... 154 00:19:14,238 --> 00:19:16,490 but that never bothered me. 155 00:19:20,244 --> 00:19:21,745 What's that? 156 00:19:22,329 --> 00:19:23,872 Mint. 157 00:19:24,498 --> 00:19:25,999 It smells so good! 158 00:19:26,166 --> 00:19:28,669 We'll take some to Mommy for the soup. 159 00:19:29,002 --> 00:19:31,797 With him at my side... 160 00:19:32,339 --> 00:19:34,883 all my cares vanished. 161 00:19:36,844 --> 00:19:39,221 The mystery of his past 162 00:19:39,596 --> 00:19:42,057 was revealed to me bit by bit 163 00:19:42,224 --> 00:19:44,560 through my mother's words. 164 00:19:45,185 --> 00:19:46,687 In the south... 165 00:19:47,145 --> 00:19:49,147 it almost never snows. 166 00:19:50,607 --> 00:19:52,526 What a strange place! 167 00:19:53,527 --> 00:19:57,531 Mommy, how come we've never gone there? 168 00:19:59,116 --> 00:20:03,203 Your dad left when he was young and has never wanted to go back. 169 00:20:04,037 --> 00:20:05,539 Why did he leave? 170 00:20:06,874 --> 00:20:09,334 He never got along with your grandfather. 171 00:20:10,419 --> 00:20:14,131 I heard they fought like cats and dogs... 172 00:20:15,007 --> 00:20:19,011 that your dad was a rebel and your grandpa was an ornery coot. 173 00:20:19,428 --> 00:20:22,347 So you can imagine what happened. 174 00:20:27,060 --> 00:20:29,062 From the very beginning... 175 00:20:29,187 --> 00:20:32,190 these stories lent themselves to fantasies... 176 00:20:33,358 --> 00:20:38,030 and I filled them with images I collected from all over the place. 177 00:20:39,197 --> 00:20:41,909 Not knowing the real distances involved... 178 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,329 I situated it all on the other side of the globe, 179 00:20:45,454 --> 00:20:48,665 always with palm trees in the background, somewhere in the south. 180 00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:50,852 There, something I never understood clearly 181 00:21:51,144 --> 00:21:53,522 had happened to my father... 182 00:21:54,147 --> 00:21:58,110 something that made him leave and never return. 183 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,264 One May afternoon... 184 00:22:27,389 --> 00:22:31,727 the day before my First Communion, two women arrived from the south. 185 00:22:32,811 --> 00:22:34,896 The seagull! There it is! 186 00:22:35,022 --> 00:22:36,982 You see it? - Where? 187 00:22:37,107 --> 00:22:40,193 On top of that house. It's like it's really flying! 188 00:22:40,610 --> 00:22:42,529 Milagros, I don't see a thing. 189 00:22:42,696 --> 00:22:45,699 Pepe, stop! This must be it. 190 00:22:45,866 --> 00:22:47,784 Are you sure, Milagros? 191 00:22:47,909 --> 00:22:49,911 We don't want to be wrong. 192 00:22:50,037 --> 00:22:52,706 I said stop the car, ye of little faith! 193 00:22:58,045 --> 00:22:59,921 I think they're here. 194 00:23:01,131 --> 00:23:03,050 Run and open the gate. 195 00:23:11,391 --> 00:23:14,728 What a racket you're making! 196 00:23:14,853 --> 00:23:16,396 I'm coming. 197 00:23:20,192 --> 00:23:22,235 Mommy, they're here! 198 00:23:23,570 --> 00:23:25,363 I hope you behave. 199 00:23:25,572 --> 00:23:27,074 Where's Daddy? 200 00:23:33,205 --> 00:23:35,957 - Come here a second. - What for? 201 00:23:36,374 --> 00:23:39,086 - To comb your hair. - I'm fine! 202 00:23:39,252 --> 00:23:41,838 Please. Come on. 203 00:23:42,089 --> 00:23:44,424 Does Agustín Arenas live here? 204 00:23:44,549 --> 00:23:46,259 Yes, we've been expecting you. 205 00:23:46,426 --> 00:23:49,262 Pepe, you can unload the luggage. 206 00:23:51,515 --> 00:23:54,643 I don't like the part on that side. 207 00:23:54,768 --> 00:23:56,770 That's how you always wear it. 208 00:23:57,771 --> 00:23:59,689 It looks terrible! 209 00:23:59,815 --> 00:24:03,276 It's better like this. Stop fidgeting! 210 00:24:05,028 --> 00:24:08,323 Don't forget to give your grandmother a kiss. 211 00:24:08,615 --> 00:24:10,617 Fine. 212 00:24:10,784 --> 00:24:12,702 Because I know you. 213 00:24:33,932 --> 00:24:36,643 My little Agustín! 214 00:24:42,190 --> 00:24:44,151 It's been so long... 215 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,862 and so much sadness all around. 216 00:24:48,989 --> 00:24:51,074 You've changed so much. 217 00:24:51,491 --> 00:24:54,161 Are you happy? - Yes. 218 00:24:54,327 --> 00:24:56,163 You're not trying to fool me? 219 00:24:57,873 --> 00:25:00,792 - Where's my mother? - In the car. 220 00:25:00,917 --> 00:25:03,879 She's not too well. She had an attack four days ago. 221 00:25:04,004 --> 00:25:07,507 A terrible thing. We almost had to stay home. 222 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:10,093 Go on. Go welcome her. 223 00:25:16,057 --> 00:25:17,517 Is that little Estrella? 224 00:25:25,984 --> 00:25:27,694 You're Estrella, right? 225 00:25:27,861 --> 00:25:30,113 - Yes. And you're Milagros? - Yes! 226 00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:32,073 Hello, son. 227 00:25:34,034 --> 00:25:35,327 How are you? 228 00:25:35,535 --> 00:25:38,205 A bit weak, but all right. And Estrella? 229 00:25:38,747 --> 00:25:41,625 She's grown a lot. You won't recognize her. 230 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:46,129 This beard makes you look very old. 231 00:25:46,963 --> 00:25:48,548 Shave it off. 232 00:25:50,217 --> 00:25:51,885 And your wife? 233 00:25:52,219 --> 00:25:54,346 She's fine. Let's go inside. 234 00:25:54,471 --> 00:25:58,350 I can't believe how far away this place is. 235 00:25:58,516 --> 00:26:01,144 I thought we'd never get here. 236 00:26:04,731 --> 00:26:06,399 Good afternoon, ma'am. 237 00:26:06,608 --> 00:26:08,777 - What's your name? - Casilda. 238 00:26:08,902 --> 00:26:12,656 Would you kindly get my cane from the car? 239 00:26:15,242 --> 00:26:17,285 "The Seagull." 240 00:26:17,410 --> 00:26:19,829 Did you give it that name? 241 00:26:19,955 --> 00:26:22,749 No, it was called that before we arrived. 242 00:26:30,257 --> 00:26:31,424 You remember me? 243 00:26:31,549 --> 00:26:33,093 That's your grandmother. 244 00:26:33,343 --> 00:26:35,136 The last time I saw you, 245 00:26:35,262 --> 00:26:37,597 you were just a baby. 246 00:26:40,141 --> 00:26:41,726 Julia. 247 00:26:44,437 --> 00:26:48,066 - How are you feeling? - So-so, my dear. 248 00:26:48,191 --> 00:26:51,736 But I wanted to see my granddaughter on her First Communion, 249 00:26:51,861 --> 00:26:53,446 and here I am! 250 00:26:53,613 --> 00:26:56,116 You must be tired, and it's getting chilly. 251 00:26:56,283 --> 00:26:57,659 Let's go inside. 252 00:26:57,784 --> 00:27:01,496 - The lady's cane. - Help Pepe with the luggage. 253 00:27:01,788 --> 00:27:04,958 You know who I'm thinking of now? 254 00:27:05,083 --> 00:27:07,168 - Who? - Your father. 255 00:27:07,836 --> 00:27:10,463 If only he were here. 256 00:27:13,258 --> 00:27:17,679 Milagros had looked after my father ever since he was a little boy. 257 00:27:17,804 --> 00:27:19,973 She had a way about her 258 00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:23,601 that made her seem extraordinary to me, 259 00:27:23,727 --> 00:27:26,646 different from anyone I'd met before. 260 00:27:27,147 --> 00:27:29,441 That night we shared a room. 261 00:27:30,734 --> 00:27:33,486 When does it warm up here? 262 00:27:33,653 --> 00:27:36,197 It almost never gets warm here. 263 00:27:36,364 --> 00:27:39,617 It doesn't? What a strange world! 264 00:27:40,368 --> 00:27:43,538 Some people roast from the heat, 265 00:27:43,663 --> 00:27:45,999 while others freeze from the cold. 266 00:27:46,166 --> 00:27:49,669 But God's old enough to know what he's doing. 267 00:27:50,086 --> 00:27:53,423 - Is it very hot where you live? - Very. 268 00:27:53,548 --> 00:27:57,344 - How do you stand it? - With patience and lots of shade. 269 00:27:57,844 --> 00:28:00,513 Are there really lots of Moors there? 270 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,017 There are still a few, but they're well-disguised. 271 00:28:05,018 --> 00:28:06,561 What's so funny? 272 00:28:06,686 --> 00:28:09,439 The way you talk. My dad doesn't talk like that. 273 00:28:10,023 --> 00:28:12,067 Because he's a gentleman, 274 00:28:12,192 --> 00:28:16,529 besides being a renegade who turned his back on his hometown. 275 00:28:16,654 --> 00:28:18,698 But pay no attention to me, 276 00:28:18,823 --> 00:28:21,534 or I'll start prattling and never stop. 277 00:28:21,701 --> 00:28:23,703 But it's a crying shame 278 00:28:23,870 --> 00:28:27,707 that he never returned to the house where he was born. 279 00:28:28,208 --> 00:28:31,711 And it's been so many years since he left. 280 00:28:31,836 --> 00:28:33,213 I know. 281 00:28:33,713 --> 00:28:35,632 How would you know, child? 282 00:28:35,965 --> 00:28:40,178 He never went back because he quarreled with my grandpa. 283 00:28:41,346 --> 00:28:43,056 Your father told you that? 284 00:28:43,390 --> 00:28:45,350 No, my mother did. 285 00:28:45,475 --> 00:28:47,727 Is Grandpa really a bad man? 286 00:28:48,395 --> 00:28:51,815 Nonsense! People like to exaggerate. 287 00:28:52,065 --> 00:28:54,067 And you know what? 288 00:28:54,192 --> 00:28:57,195 Even wild beasts grow tame with age. 289 00:28:57,821 --> 00:28:59,906 Your grandfather has changed. 290 00:29:00,073 --> 00:29:03,326 All the things that have happened, 291 00:29:03,451 --> 00:29:06,079 and all the people who've died... 292 00:29:06,454 --> 00:29:08,665 all over some silly ideas! 293 00:29:11,334 --> 00:29:15,130 It's true, your grandfather's ideas were the worst. 294 00:29:15,255 --> 00:29:19,342 And since your dad always thought just the opposite, he couldn't take it. 295 00:29:19,592 --> 00:29:23,221 Your grandfather was a cantankerous man, 296 00:29:23,430 --> 00:29:26,433 and your dad wasn't one to hold his tongue. 297 00:29:26,558 --> 00:29:28,351 Just the opposite. 298 00:29:28,476 --> 00:29:32,730 So they were at each other's throats all the time. 299 00:29:32,856 --> 00:29:35,275 They had no respect for each other, 300 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,153 and one day your dad just left. 301 00:29:38,278 --> 00:29:40,905 Or he was kicked out. That's never been clear. 302 00:29:41,364 --> 00:29:43,867 And that's how it's remained ever since. 303 00:29:44,117 --> 00:29:47,829 They both wandered into a tunnel with no way out, 304 00:29:48,204 --> 00:29:51,458 and they're still trapped in there today. 305 00:29:54,127 --> 00:29:56,421 But Grandpa was with the bad guys, right? 306 00:29:56,546 --> 00:29:59,716 Bad guys... good guys. 307 00:30:01,176 --> 00:30:02,677 Look. 308 00:30:03,219 --> 00:30:05,430 Just so you understand. 309 00:30:06,473 --> 00:30:09,934 When the Republic — Anyway, before the war, 310 00:30:10,059 --> 00:30:14,147 your grandpa was with the bad guys, and your father was with the good guys. 311 00:30:14,314 --> 00:30:16,316 But when Franco won, 312 00:30:16,483 --> 00:30:18,693 your grandpa became a saint 313 00:30:18,818 --> 00:30:21,112 and your father a devil. 314 00:30:21,905 --> 00:30:24,657 See how things are in this world? 315 00:30:24,824 --> 00:30:27,577 Just words and more words. 316 00:30:29,037 --> 00:30:31,498 But why did they put Daddy in jail? 317 00:30:31,706 --> 00:30:35,835 Because that's what the winners in a war always do. 318 00:30:36,169 --> 00:30:38,671 But you're just a little girl. 319 00:30:39,380 --> 00:30:42,175 Who told you all this? - My mother. 320 00:30:42,509 --> 00:30:44,010 Good Lord! 321 00:30:44,135 --> 00:30:48,056 Couldn't she have found more pleasant topics? Or waited a bit? 322 00:30:48,181 --> 00:30:51,476 You have plenty of time to learn about all that. 323 00:30:53,937 --> 00:30:56,648 Look, Estrella... 324 00:30:57,148 --> 00:30:59,234 you're just a little girl. 325 00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:01,444 Forget about all that 326 00:31:01,653 --> 00:31:04,989 and think about your First Communion tomorrow, 327 00:31:05,114 --> 00:31:07,992 one of the most wonderful days of your life, 328 00:31:08,201 --> 00:31:10,203 just like you were getting married. 329 00:31:10,370 --> 00:31:12,789 That's what the priest says, but I don't understand. 330 00:31:12,956 --> 00:31:15,208 I don't either, but no matter! 331 00:31:15,375 --> 00:31:18,378 You get to dress in white just like a bride. 332 00:31:18,586 --> 00:31:20,964 I'm not getting married when I grow up. 333 00:31:21,297 --> 00:31:22,715 And why not? 334 00:31:22,924 --> 00:31:26,719 Brides always have that stupid look on their faces. 335 00:31:27,053 --> 00:31:30,139 Just look at wedding pictures in shop windows. 336 00:31:30,265 --> 00:31:33,059 That's enough chitchat now! 337 00:31:33,309 --> 00:31:35,019 Go to sleep. 338 00:31:40,483 --> 00:31:43,570 - Don't turn it off yet. - What do you want? 339 00:31:44,112 --> 00:31:47,574 You think my father will come to church tomorrow? 340 00:31:47,699 --> 00:31:49,909 Why, of course! 341 00:31:50,118 --> 00:31:51,744 He never goes to church. 342 00:31:51,911 --> 00:31:54,914 I know that, but don't you worry. 343 00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:58,084 I'll drag him there myself if I have to! 344 00:31:59,419 --> 00:32:02,297 Go to sleep now. 345 00:32:02,505 --> 00:32:04,507 Good night, Estrella. 346 00:32:05,008 --> 00:32:06,884 Good night, Milagros. 347 00:32:17,937 --> 00:32:20,773 Mom, these shoes are too tight. 348 00:32:21,024 --> 00:32:23,610 I told you that in the store. 349 00:32:23,776 --> 00:32:26,404 That's just at first. They'll stretch. 350 00:32:26,529 --> 00:32:29,449 Julia, use a little talcum powder. 351 00:32:30,867 --> 00:32:32,243 And now... 352 00:32:32,368 --> 00:32:33,911 the veil. 353 00:32:36,914 --> 00:32:39,125 Dear Jesus! What was that? 354 00:32:39,292 --> 00:32:41,377 Agustín is out shooting. 355 00:32:41,961 --> 00:32:43,796 What an idea! 356 00:32:44,964 --> 00:32:47,800 My son's only happy if he's making a scene. 357 00:32:47,925 --> 00:32:51,804 There's no excuse for going out shooting on a day like today. 358 00:32:51,971 --> 00:32:54,432 He's always doing what you least expect. 359 00:32:54,557 --> 00:32:56,643 I'm getting used to it. 360 00:32:59,896 --> 00:33:04,150 Will he come back soon? Mom, will he? 361 00:33:04,275 --> 00:33:06,110 I don't know. 362 00:33:08,321 --> 00:33:10,740 Just like a bride! 363 00:33:11,115 --> 00:33:14,327 Milagros! The things you say! 364 00:33:15,620 --> 00:33:18,539 Am I right or not? 365 00:35:19,118 --> 00:35:23,498 Girls, now that you have received Our Lord, 366 00:35:23,623 --> 00:35:25,583 go and greet your parents. 367 00:35:41,849 --> 00:35:43,810 - He came. - Where is he? 368 00:35:43,935 --> 00:35:45,645 In the back. 369 00:36:12,338 --> 00:36:16,676 If you get bored, go outside, but don't leave, okay? 370 00:36:17,802 --> 00:36:18,928 All right. 371 00:36:41,492 --> 00:36:43,369 He did it for me. 372 00:36:43,828 --> 00:36:45,746 He did it for me. 373 00:38:41,862 --> 00:38:44,156 They left when the party was over, 374 00:38:44,281 --> 00:38:45,825 late in the afternoon. 375 00:38:46,659 --> 00:38:50,037 From that day on, whenever I thought of the south, 376 00:38:50,162 --> 00:38:54,625 the image of those two women always came to mind. 377 00:38:58,421 --> 00:39:00,965 I don't remember clearly now... 378 00:39:01,590 --> 00:39:04,093 but I think it was around that time 379 00:39:04,677 --> 00:39:07,930 that I discovered that in my father's imagination 380 00:39:08,055 --> 00:39:10,224 there was another woman. 381 00:39:50,222 --> 00:39:52,558 Who could Irene Ríos be? 382 00:39:53,267 --> 00:39:55,061 Did she really exist? 383 00:39:55,227 --> 00:39:57,605 Or was she an imaginary figure? 384 00:39:58,981 --> 00:40:02,902 Why had Dad written her name over and over? 385 00:40:07,740 --> 00:40:10,618 Mom, do you know Irene Ríos? 386 00:40:10,743 --> 00:40:12,828 No. Who's that? 387 00:40:13,746 --> 00:40:15,331 No one. 388 00:40:16,082 --> 00:40:18,584 A new girl in my class. 389 00:40:19,376 --> 00:40:22,922 I lied for the first time when I spoke of Irene Ríos. 390 00:40:23,130 --> 00:40:26,759 The fact my mother didn't know her made me suspect 391 00:40:27,218 --> 00:40:29,762 that behind that woman's name... 392 00:40:30,096 --> 00:40:33,349 my father was hiding some unknown secret. 393 00:40:33,974 --> 00:40:36,769 So almost without realizing it... 394 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,064 I became his secret accomplice. 395 00:40:44,985 --> 00:40:48,030 A few months later, when I least expected it, 396 00:40:48,614 --> 00:40:50,825 something extraordinary happened. 397 00:40:51,283 --> 00:40:54,620 I discovered that Irene Ríos really did exist. 398 00:40:55,538 --> 00:40:58,791 It was a winter afternoon, just after school. 399 00:41:28,571 --> 00:41:31,824 A FLOWER IN THE SHADOWS 400 00:42:45,064 --> 00:42:46,899 May I have a program? 401 00:42:47,358 --> 00:42:49,401 It's not allowed, you know. 402 00:42:49,568 --> 00:42:51,362 Yes, I know. 403 00:42:52,404 --> 00:42:54,031 Here. 404 00:42:55,532 --> 00:42:58,035 - Who is Irene Ríos? - Who? 405 00:42:58,410 --> 00:43:01,455 Irene Ríos. She's in the movie. 406 00:43:03,332 --> 00:43:04,875 You're right. 407 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,585 It's true. 408 00:43:07,002 --> 00:43:09,838 Is she the blonde or the brunette? 409 00:43:10,089 --> 00:43:12,675 Carmen Alonso is the brunette, 410 00:43:13,259 --> 00:43:16,428 so Irene Ríos must be the blonde. 411 00:43:18,138 --> 00:43:20,391 When will the movie be over? 412 00:43:22,768 --> 00:43:24,853 In half an hour. 413 00:43:24,979 --> 00:43:26,981 Well, good-bye. 414 00:44:39,595 --> 00:44:40,596 You! 415 00:44:41,305 --> 00:44:43,140 Yes, it's me! 416 00:44:43,807 --> 00:44:45,309 Surprised? 417 00:44:47,436 --> 00:44:49,313 I thought you were — 418 00:44:53,942 --> 00:44:57,154 Go on. I dare you to say it. 419 00:44:58,030 --> 00:45:00,866 You're wrong. It's not what you think. 420 00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,119 You thought I was dead, right? 421 00:45:04,995 --> 00:45:07,623 That's not true. I swear. 422 00:45:07,831 --> 00:45:09,875 Don't swear. God can hear you. 423 00:45:10,542 --> 00:45:12,378 You're such a fool. 424 00:45:12,961 --> 00:45:14,421 You're right. 425 00:45:14,546 --> 00:45:17,883 I am a fool. That's why I love you. 426 00:45:21,845 --> 00:45:23,722 Give me a light. 427 00:45:40,906 --> 00:45:42,908 Well, why are you here? 428 00:45:43,075 --> 00:45:45,411 Hurry. I go on in a minute. 429 00:45:45,911 --> 00:45:47,413 I came to say good-bye. 430 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:49,957 You're leaving? 431 00:45:50,082 --> 00:45:51,917 No, I'm not leaving. 432 00:45:52,376 --> 00:45:53,877 You are. 433 00:45:54,336 --> 00:45:55,921 What are you talking about? 434 00:45:58,132 --> 00:45:59,341 You're crazy. 435 00:46:00,092 --> 00:46:01,927 It's true. 436 00:46:02,886 --> 00:46:04,513 I'm crazy. 437 00:46:27,453 --> 00:46:31,165 I stood outside the door earlier, listening. 438 00:46:32,624 --> 00:46:34,626 I heard you singing our song. 439 00:46:36,378 --> 00:46:38,630 We could have been so happy. 440 00:46:39,965 --> 00:46:40,966 Happy? 441 00:46:41,341 --> 00:46:43,218 Yes, happy! 442 00:46:45,179 --> 00:46:47,806 I never knew real happiness... 443 00:47:03,822 --> 00:47:05,240 I loved her! 444 00:48:15,852 --> 00:48:17,437 "Dear Laura... 445 00:48:18,021 --> 00:48:21,108 I'm sure this letter will surprise you 446 00:48:21,233 --> 00:48:23,235 after such a long silence. 447 00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:27,239 But I just saw a lover of yours on the big screen 448 00:48:27,364 --> 00:48:30,784 fire a few shots and send you off to the next world. 449 00:48:31,034 --> 00:48:32,619 Yes... 450 00:48:32,828 --> 00:48:36,164 I realize that what happens in movies isn't real... 451 00:48:37,499 --> 00:48:40,127 but I'm still hopelessly superstitious... 452 00:48:40,794 --> 00:48:45,173 and I wanted to make sure you're still walking this earth... 453 00:48:46,216 --> 00:48:51,179 if only lurking behind that stage name of yours. 454 00:48:52,306 --> 00:48:53,932 By the way... 455 00:48:54,057 --> 00:48:56,268 your killer wasn't bad... 456 00:48:56,643 --> 00:49:00,188 but the star and her leading man were terrible. 457 00:49:00,981 --> 00:49:05,569 Since I don't know where you are, I'm mailing this letter to Seville." 458 00:50:05,003 --> 00:50:07,964 I'll never forget my father's face when, 459 00:50:08,090 --> 00:50:10,759 sitting in the Café Oriental, 460 00:50:10,884 --> 00:50:13,220 he looked up from his writing 461 00:50:13,387 --> 00:50:16,223 and saw me outside the window. 462 00:50:17,974 --> 00:50:22,604 Now I understand that he reacted as if caught red-handed, 463 00:50:22,854 --> 00:50:25,982 but I didn't realize that at the time. 464 00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,736 I only knew that it seemed 465 00:50:29,861 --> 00:50:32,364 he'd been writing a letter. 466 00:50:36,493 --> 00:50:39,538 - Julia, listen to me! - You'll wake Estrella! 467 00:50:39,788 --> 00:50:41,498 Please listen! 468 00:50:41,623 --> 00:50:44,668 I don't want to hear a word! 469 00:50:44,793 --> 00:50:47,754 If you want to go talk to her, go! 470 00:50:47,879 --> 00:50:50,465 Do whatever you want! 471 00:50:50,590 --> 00:50:54,052 Just don't tell me about it! 472 00:50:54,511 --> 00:50:56,638 It's not that. 473 00:50:57,389 --> 00:50:59,224 You're wrong, Julia. 474 00:51:40,557 --> 00:51:44,144 A certain idea I'd had about my father up till then 475 00:51:44,770 --> 00:51:46,605 began to change. 476 00:51:47,606 --> 00:51:50,901 It was like opening my eyes and suddenly discovering 477 00:51:51,109 --> 00:51:53,487 that I knew almost nothing about him. 478 00:52:38,532 --> 00:52:40,200 "Dear Agustín... 479 00:52:40,867 --> 00:52:43,328 at one point eight years ago 480 00:52:43,578 --> 00:52:47,290 I decided never to expect anything from you. 481 00:52:47,415 --> 00:52:49,376 I was very lonely at the time... 482 00:52:49,584 --> 00:52:52,295 much lonelier than you could have guessed. 483 00:52:52,420 --> 00:52:55,882 It wasn't easy, but I gradually managed it. 484 00:52:56,341 --> 00:52:59,344 I never heard from you all that time. 485 00:52:59,845 --> 00:53:01,555 That was to be expected. 486 00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,766 Things between us had become very difficult. 487 00:53:05,016 --> 00:53:09,938 Besides, there were others around you who were more important to you. 488 00:53:10,522 --> 00:53:12,274 I understood that. 489 00:53:12,399 --> 00:53:15,193 I tried to accept it, and that helped. 490 00:53:15,694 --> 00:53:20,490 What I really don't understand is the letter I just received from you. 491 00:53:21,283 --> 00:53:23,910 Why, after all this time? 492 00:53:24,536 --> 00:53:26,288 Why write to me now? 493 00:53:26,454 --> 00:53:28,373 To see if I'm still alive? 494 00:53:28,623 --> 00:53:31,543 Yes, I am... but what of it? 495 00:53:32,127 --> 00:53:36,590 I can't believe it's because of the magic of cinema you allude to... 496 00:53:37,048 --> 00:53:41,803 a magic you may not realize I had to give up over a year ago. 497 00:53:43,054 --> 00:53:45,015 I've searched high and low... 498 00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,935 but I've never found that place. You remember? 499 00:53:49,352 --> 00:53:52,439 The place from which you never want to return? 500 00:53:52,564 --> 00:53:55,025 I wonder if it really exists. 501 00:53:55,567 --> 00:53:58,737 So here I am, back home again. 502 00:53:59,988 --> 00:54:02,824 The past doesn't move me like it once did, 503 00:54:02,949 --> 00:54:06,786 and more importantly, I don't want to keep thinking about it. 504 00:54:06,912 --> 00:54:09,080 I try to look ahead... 505 00:54:09,623 --> 00:54:14,002 and I'm afraid I've grown old at last. 506 00:54:14,586 --> 00:54:17,714 I was in four movies, but I never got my big break. 507 00:54:18,173 --> 00:54:22,052 In three of them I met an unpleasant end: 508 00:54:22,260 --> 00:54:24,554 in a hail of bullets, as you saw, 509 00:54:24,763 --> 00:54:28,099 or from some silk stockings, and even a straight razor. 510 00:54:28,433 --> 00:54:31,978 Incidentally, which would you have used? 511 00:54:33,396 --> 00:54:35,523 Forgive me. I was just joking. 512 00:54:35,815 --> 00:54:38,234 I didn't mean me but the femme fatale 513 00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,195 who prompted you to write. 514 00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:43,073 Poor Irene Ríos, may she rest in peace. 515 00:54:43,323 --> 00:54:45,367 She can't answer you. 516 00:54:45,909 --> 00:54:48,286 And by answering for her, 517 00:54:48,662 --> 00:54:52,165 I fear I've fallen into a trap without knowing it. 518 00:54:52,791 --> 00:54:54,709 Here I am remembering the past 519 00:54:54,918 --> 00:54:57,671 and even joking about it in questionable taste. 520 00:54:57,796 --> 00:55:02,092 But it's your fault. I mean, the things you wrote! 521 00:55:02,217 --> 00:55:05,095 In a nutshell, what is you want from me? 522 00:55:05,637 --> 00:55:08,431 No, it's best you don't answer that. 523 00:55:08,682 --> 00:55:10,475 It's not worth it. 524 00:55:10,934 --> 00:55:12,894 Please forget I asked. 525 00:55:13,144 --> 00:55:15,981 I'd honestly prefer you didn't write. 526 00:55:16,147 --> 00:55:19,025 It's so terribly difficult to reply. 527 00:55:21,611 --> 00:55:25,490 Time is the most implacable avenger I've ever known. 528 00:55:25,865 --> 00:55:28,076 And though I'm older now... 529 00:55:28,284 --> 00:55:31,204 sometimes, especially at night... 530 00:55:31,496 --> 00:55:33,206 I'm afraid." 531 00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:09,117 Agustín! 532 00:56:34,517 --> 00:56:38,396 That was the first time Dad left in the middle of the night 533 00:56:38,563 --> 00:56:40,690 without a word to anyone. 534 00:57:51,719 --> 00:57:54,472 Wake up! The train's leaving! 535 00:59:26,940 --> 00:59:29,150 He came back the next morning. 536 00:59:29,275 --> 00:59:31,236 We didn't hear him come in. 537 00:59:31,736 --> 00:59:35,198 He must have snuck in the back door 538 00:59:35,782 --> 00:59:37,909 so he wouldn't wake us up. 539 01:00:39,387 --> 01:00:41,139 - Mom? - What? 540 01:00:41,306 --> 01:00:43,224 What's wrong with Dad? 541 01:00:43,349 --> 01:00:45,143 Why do you ask that? 542 01:00:45,310 --> 01:00:48,646 He's been acting strange. Haven't you noticed? 543 01:00:48,813 --> 01:00:50,940 Yes, a little. 544 01:00:52,817 --> 01:00:55,445 Ever since he ran away. 545 01:00:55,737 --> 01:00:57,447 He didn't run away. 546 01:00:57,655 --> 01:01:00,325 Honestly, the things you say! 547 01:01:01,159 --> 01:01:03,411 But it's true. He ran away. 548 01:01:03,536 --> 01:01:06,539 Please don't say that, you hear? 549 01:01:08,082 --> 01:01:09,667 Besides... 550 01:01:10,251 --> 01:01:12,337 what would you know? 551 01:01:15,548 --> 01:01:17,216 I do know. 552 01:01:17,467 --> 01:01:19,177 And so do you. 553 01:02:17,151 --> 01:02:19,112 From that day on... 554 01:02:19,404 --> 01:02:22,240 my father never used his pendulum again. 555 01:02:24,409 --> 01:02:25,952 One afternoon... 556 01:02:26,077 --> 01:02:28,579 tired of the atmosphere at home... 557 01:02:29,247 --> 01:02:31,833 I decided to protest in my own way. 558 01:02:31,958 --> 01:02:33,960 I hid under a bed, 559 01:02:34,419 --> 01:02:36,879 prepared to never come out again. 560 01:02:45,012 --> 01:02:47,098 When they noticed my absence, 561 01:02:47,265 --> 01:02:50,852 my mother and Casilda began looking everywhere. 562 01:03:03,030 --> 01:03:04,782 From my hiding place, 563 01:03:04,949 --> 01:03:07,201 I defied them with my silence. 564 01:03:07,910 --> 01:03:10,204 From their footsteps I could tell 565 01:03:10,329 --> 01:03:13,082 they were growing more and more worried. 566 01:03:28,139 --> 01:03:31,476 Little by little the night came on. 567 01:04:43,714 --> 01:04:46,467 I knew my father was home. 568 01:04:47,802 --> 01:04:51,055 I waited the whole time for him to call me... 569 01:04:51,556 --> 01:04:53,349 but he never did. 570 01:04:54,225 --> 01:04:58,104 He answered my silence with his own. 571 01:04:59,522 --> 01:05:01,899 Thus I suddenly understood 572 01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,527 that he was playing my game... 573 01:05:04,902 --> 01:05:06,862 accepting my challenge... 574 01:05:07,530 --> 01:05:09,782 to show me that his pain 575 01:05:10,324 --> 01:05:13,077 was much greater than my own. 576 01:05:45,318 --> 01:05:46,444 What? 577 01:05:49,447 --> 01:05:52,617 - Why are you crying? - 'Cause I like to! 578 01:06:43,292 --> 01:06:45,753 I began to wish with all my heart 579 01:06:45,878 --> 01:06:49,965 that I could grow and grow and suddenly be all grown up 580 01:06:50,174 --> 01:06:52,426 and flee far away. 581 01:07:32,550 --> 01:07:35,553 I grew up more or less like everyone else, 582 01:07:35,761 --> 01:07:38,055 growing accustomed to being alone 583 01:07:38,305 --> 01:07:41,225 and to not thinking too much about happiness. 584 01:08:19,847 --> 01:08:22,892 "Dearest Estrella, thank you for the lovely letter. 585 01:08:23,017 --> 01:08:24,560 I've read it many times. 586 01:08:24,769 --> 01:08:26,729 Is it all true? 587 01:08:26,854 --> 01:08:30,983 I hope you'll come visit someday. I might not even recognize you! 588 01:08:31,150 --> 01:08:34,236 The picture shows your grandmother and me in Rome, 589 01:08:34,361 --> 01:08:37,573 when we went to see the pope. Pretty, isn't it? 590 01:08:37,698 --> 01:08:41,702 Hugs for everyone, and a big kiss for you." 591 01:08:46,499 --> 01:08:49,960 Television will soon be here 592 01:08:50,127 --> 01:08:53,631 I'll sing for you and you'll see me 593 01:08:53,798 --> 01:08:56,842 Dress me up, Mother 594 01:08:56,967 --> 01:09:00,137 I'm going to be on TV 595 01:09:01,722 --> 01:09:03,766 Hi. What's for lunch? 596 01:09:03,891 --> 01:09:05,893 Soup and fried fish. 597 01:09:07,561 --> 01:09:09,980 You always make the same thing! 598 01:09:10,105 --> 01:09:12,441 It's your mother's condition. 599 01:09:12,608 --> 01:09:14,610 - Has she gotten up? - No. 600 01:09:14,777 --> 01:09:17,530 Did you see what someone wrote on the wall? 601 01:09:17,655 --> 01:09:19,031 No. 602 01:09:20,241 --> 01:09:22,076 What did they write? 603 01:09:30,876 --> 01:09:32,253 Again? 604 01:09:32,461 --> 01:09:33,754 Again. 605 01:09:33,879 --> 01:09:35,881 Don't laugh. It's not funny. 606 01:09:37,466 --> 01:09:39,385 I know who it was. 607 01:09:39,510 --> 01:09:41,095 So do I. 608 01:09:58,654 --> 01:10:01,866 - How are you doing? - Oh, the same. 609 01:10:02,783 --> 01:10:06,036 I tried to get up, but I got dizzy. 610 01:10:10,958 --> 01:10:12,710 Have you eaten? 611 01:10:12,877 --> 01:10:14,545 Not yet. 612 01:10:15,212 --> 01:10:17,965 Don't wait for Dad. He'll be late. 613 01:10:19,592 --> 01:10:21,468 - What? - Telephone. 614 01:10:22,511 --> 01:10:25,347 Could you pick this up from the pharmacy? 615 01:10:26,765 --> 01:10:30,644 Don't forget. I could hardly sleep last night. 616 01:10:32,062 --> 01:10:34,815 - Coming! - Casilda will give you the money. 617 01:10:40,529 --> 01:10:43,616 - Who is it? - Who else? Same as always. 618 01:10:44,116 --> 01:10:45,701 "El Carioco." 619 01:10:45,868 --> 01:10:48,495 - Tell him I'm not here. - You tell him. 620 01:10:50,873 --> 01:10:52,291 Go away. 621 01:10:54,043 --> 01:10:55,502 What do you want? 622 01:10:55,628 --> 01:10:57,588 Nothing. Just to talk to you. 623 01:10:57,755 --> 01:11:01,008 I waited an hour this morning. Where were you? 624 01:11:01,133 --> 01:11:03,135 I went a different way. 625 01:11:03,510 --> 01:11:06,430 Why? Didn't we say we'd meet? 626 01:11:07,389 --> 01:11:09,391 Yes, but — 627 01:11:10,059 --> 01:11:12,311 You don't want to see me, huh? 628 01:11:13,020 --> 01:11:14,229 No. 629 01:11:14,355 --> 01:11:15,898 Why not? 630 01:11:19,652 --> 01:11:21,862 Because I'm tired of you 631 01:11:22,029 --> 01:11:25,074 and the stars you keep drawing on the walls. 632 01:11:25,449 --> 01:11:27,284 Who do you think you are? 633 01:11:27,451 --> 01:11:30,037 Whoever you want me to be. 634 01:11:30,162 --> 01:11:32,289 You invite me to the movies, 635 01:11:32,456 --> 01:11:35,960 you take me to the park, you give me a kiss... 636 01:11:38,963 --> 01:11:40,422 What of it? 637 01:11:40,547 --> 01:11:44,635 "What of it"? You're making a big mistake. 638 01:11:44,885 --> 01:11:48,973 You don't know me. I'm capable of doing anything. 639 01:11:49,890 --> 01:11:53,018 You know why the girls call me "El Carioco"? 640 01:11:53,894 --> 01:11:55,980 Well, you'll soon find out! 641 01:12:09,660 --> 01:12:11,620 I LOVE YOU 642 01:12:49,366 --> 01:12:51,410 - Hi. - Leaving already? 643 01:12:52,661 --> 01:12:54,705 Yes, or I'll be late. 644 01:12:56,165 --> 01:12:57,666 Bye. 645 01:12:58,542 --> 01:13:00,085 Bye. 646 01:13:05,132 --> 01:13:06,884 This is from Milagros. 647 01:13:07,051 --> 01:13:08,594 You can read it. 648 01:13:59,686 --> 01:14:01,355 After school... 649 01:14:01,980 --> 01:14:03,899 when the lights came on 650 01:14:04,024 --> 01:14:06,985 and a faint glow remained in the sky, 651 01:14:07,277 --> 01:14:10,447 I loved to stroll alone leisurely 652 01:14:10,739 --> 01:14:12,866 through the city streets. 653 01:14:32,344 --> 01:14:34,972 SHADOW OF A DOUBT 654 01:14:35,389 --> 01:14:38,142 I never forgot Irene Ríos. 655 01:14:38,934 --> 01:14:42,146 I kept looking for her name on movie posters... 656 01:14:42,688 --> 01:14:44,982 but I never found her again. 657 01:14:46,108 --> 01:14:49,987 It was if the earth had suddenly swallowed her up. 658 01:15:04,168 --> 01:15:08,130 I often passed by a photography studio. 659 01:15:08,297 --> 01:15:10,174 There in the window, 660 01:15:10,299 --> 01:15:13,302 among pictures of couples, schoolchildren, and soldiers, 661 01:15:13,510 --> 01:15:15,637 was my portrait. 662 01:16:15,906 --> 01:16:17,824 Can you give me a light? 663 01:17:26,268 --> 01:17:29,104 Most nights, before going to sleep, 664 01:17:29,313 --> 01:17:31,440 I'd write in my diary. 665 01:17:31,773 --> 01:17:35,861 Rereading those pages today... 666 01:17:36,361 --> 01:17:41,033 I see just how much I'd come to accept my father's crises 667 01:17:41,533 --> 01:17:44,494 as an inevitable part of daily life. 668 01:17:45,412 --> 01:17:49,166 Perhaps that's why almost nothing I wrote hinted 669 01:17:49,333 --> 01:17:51,668 at what would happen later. 670 01:17:52,627 --> 01:17:55,964 And yet one day my father had done something 671 01:17:56,089 --> 01:17:58,050 he'd never done before. 672 01:17:58,550 --> 01:18:01,762 He came to get me at school... 673 01:18:02,512 --> 01:18:05,682 and took me to lunch at the Gran Hotel. 674 01:18:07,142 --> 01:18:10,479 That autumn day, a wedding party occupied 675 01:18:10,604 --> 01:18:12,439 one of the dining rooms. 676 01:18:13,273 --> 01:18:15,859 Hurray for the band! 677 01:18:25,035 --> 01:18:27,662 Hurray for the wedding! 678 01:18:33,168 --> 01:18:35,587 Hurray for the bride and groom! 679 01:18:37,672 --> 01:18:40,550 - I saw you this morning. - Where? 680 01:18:41,718 --> 01:18:44,054 You passed by the Café Oriental with a boy. 681 01:18:44,554 --> 01:18:46,306 Yeah... Miguel. 682 01:18:47,182 --> 01:18:49,976 They call him "El Carioco." He's a little crazy. 683 01:18:51,812 --> 01:18:53,146 Is he dangerous? 684 01:18:54,064 --> 01:18:57,234 No, he just draws on walls. 685 01:18:59,027 --> 01:19:03,740 Ah, right. I believe I've seen some of his work. 686 01:19:03,865 --> 01:19:06,243 He's a pain in the neck! 687 01:19:07,661 --> 01:19:10,914 - Is what he wrote true? - I don't know. 688 01:19:11,415 --> 01:19:14,751 He says it is, but I think he just wants attention. 689 01:19:15,293 --> 01:19:17,254 But that's nice, isn't it? 690 01:19:17,379 --> 01:19:19,089 Wanting attention? 691 01:19:19,464 --> 01:19:22,926 Telling the whole world what you think. 692 01:19:23,468 --> 01:19:25,595 It depends. 693 01:19:25,929 --> 01:19:27,431 I'd like to. 694 01:19:28,890 --> 01:19:30,434 Then why don't you? 695 01:19:30,809 --> 01:19:33,270 Because I'm not "El Carioco." 696 01:19:34,438 --> 01:19:36,440 We never talk seriously about anything. 697 01:19:37,274 --> 01:19:39,776 And that's my fault, I suppose? 698 01:19:40,277 --> 01:19:41,778 I guess so. 699 01:19:44,906 --> 01:19:48,118 - Mind if I order another drink? - I don't care. 700 01:19:51,621 --> 01:19:55,041 Why do you drink so much? - Are you scolding me? 701 01:19:55,542 --> 01:19:57,461 It was just a question. 702 01:20:00,964 --> 01:20:02,466 Your coffee... 703 01:20:03,758 --> 01:20:05,093 and cognac. 704 01:20:05,218 --> 01:20:06,845 Thank you. 705 01:20:12,392 --> 01:20:15,479 - Why did you bring me here? - I don't know. 706 01:20:15,812 --> 01:20:18,482 I suddenly thought you'd enjoy it. 707 01:20:18,732 --> 01:20:20,984 I did... but why else? 708 01:20:21,610 --> 01:20:23,528 I wanted to patch things up. 709 01:20:24,696 --> 01:20:28,408 I know we didn't quarrel about anything this time. 710 01:20:28,992 --> 01:20:33,330 But the other night, when you got home late... 711 01:20:34,206 --> 01:20:36,166 I don't think I behaved well. 712 01:20:36,917 --> 01:20:40,253 - It wasn't to ask me something? - No. 713 01:20:42,130 --> 01:20:45,592 There are so many things I'd like to ask you. 714 01:20:47,052 --> 01:20:49,429 Very well. Ask away. 715 01:20:50,805 --> 01:20:53,975 - Forget it. - No, ask me. 716 01:20:54,851 --> 01:20:56,520 There's one thing. 717 01:20:57,270 --> 01:20:59,022 It may be silly. 718 01:21:00,398 --> 01:21:03,360 I've always wanted to ask but never dared: 719 01:21:07,239 --> 01:21:08,990 Who was Irene Ríos? 720 01:21:13,203 --> 01:21:16,206 The actress. You knew her, didn't you? 721 01:21:17,415 --> 01:21:18,875 No. 722 01:21:19,376 --> 01:21:22,671 I knew a woman who looked a lot like her. 723 01:21:22,796 --> 01:21:25,549 But Irene Ríos, no. 724 01:21:26,383 --> 01:21:28,051 What a letdown. 725 01:21:28,176 --> 01:21:32,013 Then why did you write her name over and over? 726 01:21:33,682 --> 01:21:35,058 I did that? 727 01:21:35,392 --> 01:21:37,018 Yes. You don't remember? 728 01:21:37,894 --> 01:21:38,895 No. 729 01:21:39,437 --> 01:21:41,731 Well, I do. 730 01:21:41,856 --> 01:21:44,901 I found an envelope of yours once 731 01:21:45,068 --> 01:21:48,405 on which you'd written her name over and over. 732 01:21:48,780 --> 01:21:50,574 It seemed sort of odd. 733 01:21:50,699 --> 01:21:54,119 I didn't know who she was, and neither did Mom. 734 01:21:55,036 --> 01:21:58,081 Then one day I saw her name on a movie poster. 735 01:22:00,417 --> 01:22:01,918 A Flower in the Shadows. 736 01:22:03,044 --> 01:22:04,337 I saw it. 737 01:22:04,796 --> 01:22:06,339 Was it good? 738 01:22:08,049 --> 01:22:09,759 I left early. 739 01:22:10,176 --> 01:22:11,553 I know. 740 01:22:11,678 --> 01:22:14,681 That afternoon I was walking by the theater 741 01:22:15,056 --> 01:22:17,100 when I saw your motorcycle. 742 01:22:17,601 --> 01:22:20,687 I thought, "I bet he's inside." 743 01:22:21,396 --> 01:22:25,775 I hid outside and waited. It was freezing cold. 744 01:22:26,776 --> 01:22:31,156 I saw you come out, and I followed you down the street... 745 01:22:31,865 --> 01:22:34,409 until you went into the Café Oriental. 746 01:22:34,784 --> 01:22:36,786 I saw you were writing a letter. 747 01:22:40,707 --> 01:22:43,084 Then I knocked on the window. 748 01:22:43,627 --> 01:22:45,795 You remember? You gave me a ride home. 749 01:22:47,505 --> 01:22:49,007 It's true. 750 01:22:51,176 --> 01:22:52,469 I'll be right back. 751 01:23:20,830 --> 01:23:22,165 Nothing for you? 752 01:23:22,666 --> 01:23:25,418 No, thank you. How's the wedding? 753 01:23:26,586 --> 01:23:28,505 Like all the others. 754 01:23:30,632 --> 01:23:31,800 Keep the flower. 755 01:23:32,926 --> 01:23:34,427 Thank you. 756 01:24:21,391 --> 01:24:22,809 I have to go. 757 01:24:23,685 --> 01:24:25,729 - So soon? - It's time. 758 01:24:26,146 --> 01:24:27,939 What class do you have? 759 01:24:28,398 --> 01:24:29,816 French. 760 01:24:29,941 --> 01:24:31,735 Why don't you skip it? 761 01:24:32,235 --> 01:24:34,404 You want me to cut class? 762 01:24:34,904 --> 01:24:36,740 - Yes. - Really? 763 01:24:37,115 --> 01:24:38,241 Yes. 764 01:24:39,701 --> 01:24:41,745 I don't understand you. 765 01:24:44,706 --> 01:24:49,252 When you were this high, did you not understand me then either? 766 01:24:51,504 --> 01:24:54,007 Dad, it's not the same thing. 767 01:25:03,558 --> 01:25:04,768 Listen. 768 01:25:18,782 --> 01:25:20,950 You remember that paso doble? 769 01:25:27,415 --> 01:25:29,125 You've forgotten. 770 01:25:36,341 --> 01:25:38,176 "En er mundo." 771 01:25:39,469 --> 01:25:41,471 We danced to it together. 772 01:25:44,474 --> 01:25:47,560 Yes, the day of my First Communion. 773 01:26:00,698 --> 01:26:01,825 I'm going. 774 01:26:05,328 --> 01:26:06,830 Are you staying? 775 01:26:08,164 --> 01:26:10,166 - Yes. - Bye. 776 01:26:12,001 --> 01:26:14,170 Be careful with "El Carioco." 777 01:27:12,979 --> 01:27:16,024 I left him there sitting by the window, 778 01:27:16,566 --> 01:27:18,943 listening to that old paso doble, 779 01:27:19,402 --> 01:27:22,822 all alone and left to his fate. 780 01:27:24,365 --> 01:27:28,745 Was there more I could have done for him that day? 781 01:27:30,079 --> 01:27:32,582 I've always wondered that... 782 01:27:33,499 --> 01:27:36,419 because that was the last time I ever spoke to him. 783 01:29:31,325 --> 01:29:35,538 He'd emptied his pockets before leaving the house. 784 01:29:36,247 --> 01:29:39,459 Among the things he'd left in a drawer... 785 01:29:40,126 --> 01:29:43,713 I found a receipt from a long-distance telephone call. 786 01:29:44,797 --> 01:29:49,052 That's how I found out that the last night of his life... 787 01:29:49,218 --> 01:29:51,637 my father had called down south... 788 01:29:52,305 --> 01:29:54,724 to a number I didn't recognize. 789 01:29:56,017 --> 01:29:58,061 I kept that slip of paper 790 01:29:58,227 --> 01:30:01,230 and never breathed a word of it to anyone. 791 01:30:39,936 --> 01:30:41,771 Why are you sleeping up here? 792 01:30:42,772 --> 01:30:44,440 I was cold. 793 01:30:45,566 --> 01:30:48,986 - Why don't you go to your bed? - It's not made up. 794 01:30:49,529 --> 01:30:52,448 - I'll make it up for you. - No, don't. 795 01:30:52,615 --> 01:30:54,283 It won't take a second. 796 01:31:06,963 --> 01:31:09,132 WUTHERING HEIGHTS 797 01:31:10,675 --> 01:31:13,553 I fell sick a few days later. 798 01:31:14,220 --> 01:31:16,973 Alone, shut up in my room... 799 01:31:17,515 --> 01:31:20,601 the hours seemed to drag on. 800 01:31:33,531 --> 01:31:35,783 Everything's always on the floor! 801 01:31:35,992 --> 01:31:38,452 - What time is it? - Almost noon. 802 01:31:40,121 --> 01:31:42,415 - I'm getting up. - Don't you dare! 803 01:31:42,540 --> 01:31:44,667 You know what your mother said. 804 01:31:44,792 --> 01:31:48,004 - I'm feeling better! - Stay there and don't move! 805 01:32:18,451 --> 01:32:22,205 The voice of Milagros came to my aid from down south. 806 01:32:22,455 --> 01:32:24,207 Having learned of the situation, 807 01:32:24,373 --> 01:32:26,792 she easily convinced my mother 808 01:32:27,043 --> 01:32:30,922 that I should spend some time down there to recuperate. 809 01:32:31,631 --> 01:32:33,799 Her reasons were valid ones. 810 01:32:33,925 --> 01:32:36,761 I needed a change of climate for my health, 811 01:32:36,886 --> 01:32:40,306 and neither she nor Grandma Rosario 812 01:32:40,431 --> 01:32:42,600 had seen me in many years. 813 01:33:16,926 --> 01:33:18,761 The night before I left... 814 01:33:19,178 --> 01:33:21,138 I could hardly sleep. 815 01:33:25,643 --> 01:33:28,771 Estrella, the taxi's here! 816 01:33:33,317 --> 01:33:35,319 Although I didn't show it... 817 01:33:35,611 --> 01:33:37,780 I was very nervous. 818 01:33:39,115 --> 01:33:42,285 I was going to see the south at last.