0 00:00:01,710 --> 00:00:28,960 © anoXmous @ http://thepiratebay.sx/user/Zen_Bud 1 00:00:49,710 --> 00:00:50,960 Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. 2 00:00:51,085 --> 00:00:53,127 All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. 3 00:00:53,252 --> 00:00:56,002 Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. 4 00:00:56,127 --> 00:00:57,960 It goes from life to death. 5 00:00:58,085 --> 00:01:00,460 People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. 6 00:01:00,585 --> 00:01:01,960 It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. 7 00:01:02,085 --> 00:01:04,918 Littrè says so, and he's never wrong. And besides, anyone can do as much. 8 00:01:05,043 --> 00:01:08,002 You just have to close your eyes. It's on the other side of life. 9 00:01:08,127 --> 00:01:10,377 Louis-Ferdinand Cèline Journey to the End of the Night 10 00:01:14,710 --> 00:01:16,210 Fire! 11 00:02:41,585 --> 00:02:43,418 You're a real pain in the ass! 12 00:04:49,252 --> 00:04:50,668 Enough! 13 00:04:50,793 --> 00:04:53,752 They even have cocktails with cherries. Remember? 14 00:04:53,877 --> 00:04:56,335 Hey, jerks! 15 00:04:56,668 --> 00:04:58,085 I'll screw you! 16 00:04:59,502 --> 00:05:00,627 I'll screw you! 17 00:05:19,085 --> 00:05:20,960 Have you seen Ermanno? 18 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,418 - I'll screw you! Now! - Get lost! 19 00:06:57,918 --> 00:06:58,960 What the hell are you doing? 20 00:07:33,252 --> 00:07:35,085 My phone's been stolen! 21 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,127 I'm starring in two TV dramas... 22 00:08:23,335 --> 00:08:25,377 I'm playing a Pope in one, 23 00:08:25,543 --> 00:08:28,752 and a junkie on the road to recovery in the other. 24 00:08:28,877 --> 00:08:32,752 Impressive! No theatre work? 25 00:08:32,877 --> 00:08:36,085 I'm supposed to do Shakespeare with Pietro, but... 26 00:08:36,293 --> 00:08:38,335 it has to be at least three hours long, 27 00:08:38,502 --> 00:08:43,335 be an ambitious project, and no more small cities! 28 00:08:43,668 --> 00:08:47,668 I'm trying to write a piece for theatre, and the concept is... 29 00:08:47,793 --> 00:08:51,918 - What about you? - I might give up acting. 30 00:08:52,085 --> 00:08:55,460 In this shitty country there are never any good female roles. 31 00:08:55,627 --> 00:08:58,710 I'll write my first novel, a Proust-style piece. 32 00:08:58,835 --> 00:09:01,627 Really? Proust is my favourite writer! 33 00:09:01,752 --> 00:09:03,960 Along with Ammaniti... 34 00:09:04,918 --> 00:09:06,460 What a coincidence. 35 00:09:14,460 --> 00:09:15,960 Who is that woman? 36 00:09:16,127 --> 00:09:18,252 Don't you recognise her? It's Lorena. 37 00:09:18,585 --> 00:09:19,835 Who? 38 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:24,210 An ex TV showgirl, now in full physical and mental decline. 39 00:09:24,335 --> 00:09:28,543 Never seen her! But then I've never had a television. 40 00:09:28,668 --> 00:09:33,335 Viola, I know you don't have one. You tell me all the time. 41 00:09:33,502 --> 00:09:36,252 - What does she do now? - Nothing, of course. 42 00:09:38,293 --> 00:09:39,877 Happy birthday, Jep! 43 00:09:40,043 --> 00:09:42,293 Happy birthday, Rome! 44 00:10:28,127 --> 00:10:30,960 La Colita! 45 00:11:53,418 --> 00:11:56,752 To this question, as kids, 46 00:11:56,877 --> 00:12:00,377 my friends always gave the same answer... 47 00:12:00,877 --> 00:12:02,710 "pussy". 48 00:12:03,252 --> 00:12:05,043 Whereas I answered... 49 00:12:05,668 --> 00:12:08,085 "the smell of old people's houses". 50 00:12:08,835 --> 00:12:10,585 The question was: 51 00:12:10,710 --> 00:12:15,460 "What do you like most, really, in life?" 52 00:12:16,502 --> 00:12:19,793 I was destined for sensibility. 53 00:12:20,460 --> 00:12:24,127 I was destined to become a writer. 54 00:12:24,585 --> 00:12:29,710 I was destined to become Jep Gambardella. 55 00:12:39,710 --> 00:12:41,918 You paid no attention to me tonight! 56 00:12:42,127 --> 00:12:45,835 Romano, don't start moaning, we're not an item. 57 00:12:46,418 --> 00:12:49,127 - You liked that guy? - I like everyone and no one. 58 00:12:49,252 --> 00:12:52,252 But I wonder why you're always with me when it's no one's turn. 59 00:12:52,377 --> 00:12:56,210 - Will you take me to the airport? - Sure. What time are you leaving? 60 00:12:57,752 --> 00:12:59,627 - In three hours. - Three hours? 61 00:13:01,293 --> 00:13:04,085 Then I should crash on your sofa... 62 00:13:04,210 --> 00:13:08,627 Go home, I need to pack and I don't want anyone around. 63 00:13:08,752 --> 00:13:11,793 - But I live miles away. - See you at 8:00. 64 00:13:19,252 --> 00:13:21,168 Goodnight. 65 00:13:34,835 --> 00:13:36,793 Guys? 66 00:13:54,043 --> 00:13:56,002 Guys? 67 00:14:12,752 --> 00:14:14,335 Children! 68 00:14:43,168 --> 00:14:44,752 Run along! 69 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:46,710 Catellani? 70 00:15:48,835 --> 00:15:50,377 The best, of course. 71 00:15:52,793 --> 00:15:56,293 Did Catellani the tailor make your suit? 72 00:16:48,210 --> 00:16:51,210 There was no doubt about Malagna's shady intentions. 73 00:16:51,335 --> 00:16:56,002 The girl should be rescued at any cost, without loss of time. 74 00:16:56,752 --> 00:16:58,252 Sir, you drank! 75 00:16:58,377 --> 00:17:00,585 Just enough to forget my birthday. 76 00:17:01,252 --> 00:17:03,627 - You want infusion? - Heavens, no! 77 00:17:06,252 --> 00:17:07,918 - I got you a present. - How sweet! 78 00:17:08,043 --> 00:17:10,877 This is a lucky charm from my country. 79 00:17:13,460 --> 00:17:16,793 Good thing it's lucky, because it's pretty ugly. 80 00:17:16,918 --> 00:17:19,752 Keep it on your bedside and stop complaining! 81 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,793 I will! And thanks. Wake me up at 15:00, you rascal. 82 00:17:24,793 --> 00:17:26,793 You're funny when you call me that! 83 00:20:51,168 --> 00:20:53,460 I don't love you! 84 00:20:57,293 --> 00:20:59,085 Brilliant! 85 00:21:08,377 --> 00:21:09,627 Did you enjoy the performance? 86 00:21:12,668 --> 00:21:14,460 Parts of it. 87 00:21:14,585 --> 00:21:17,210 That violent head-butt made me understand many things. 88 00:21:17,335 --> 00:21:19,377 - Let's start from the beginning. - Or the end? 89 00:21:20,085 --> 00:21:22,377 You know, Talia Concept loves to provoke. 90 00:21:22,543 --> 00:21:26,168 Don't bother, there are more important things than provoking me. 91 00:21:26,335 --> 00:21:30,168 And this habit of speaking in the third person is unbearable. 92 00:21:30,335 --> 00:21:31,752 What are you reading? 93 00:21:31,918 --> 00:21:35,418 I don't need to read, I live on vibrations, extra-sensory ones. 94 00:21:35,543 --> 00:21:41,752 Extra-sensoriality aside, what do you mean by vibrations? 95 00:21:41,918 --> 00:21:44,377 The poetry of vibrations cannot be described 96 00:21:44,502 --> 00:21:47,252 with the vulgarity of words. 97 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,168 Well, try at least. 98 00:21:50,335 --> 00:21:52,377 I'm an artist, I don't need to explain jack shit. 99 00:21:52,585 --> 00:21:57,293 So I'll write: "Lives on vibrations, but she doesn't know what they are." 100 00:21:57,543 --> 00:21:59,668 I'm starting to dislike this interview, 101 00:21:59,793 --> 00:22:01,793 I sense conflictuality in you. 102 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,377 - Conflictuality as a vibration? - As a pain in the ass. 103 00:22:05,543 --> 00:22:08,335 Let's talk about my mom's abusive boyfriend. 104 00:22:08,543 --> 00:22:12,168 No! I want to know what a vibration is. 105 00:22:15,460 --> 00:22:17,877 It's my radar to intercept the world. 106 00:22:18,043 --> 00:22:20,127 Your radar... meaning? 107 00:22:21,210 --> 00:22:23,293 You're a pain in the ass. 108 00:22:23,418 --> 00:22:25,460 We got off to a bad start... 109 00:22:25,585 --> 00:22:28,460 Talia Concept wants to be interviewed by your paper, 110 00:22:28,585 --> 00:22:31,543 it has many readers. But you're biased. 111 00:22:31,668 --> 00:22:35,543 Write about how she has sex with her fiancè 11 times a day, 112 00:22:35,668 --> 00:22:37,543 he's a talented conceptual artist, 113 00:22:37,668 --> 00:22:40,835 he covers basketballs with confetti! He's sensational! 114 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,293 Talia Concept is talking about things that are meaningless to me. 115 00:22:44,418 --> 00:22:46,877 All I've heard is unpublishable fluff. 116 00:22:47,043 --> 00:22:49,502 You can't charm me with things like: 117 00:22:49,627 --> 00:22:52,502 "I'm an artist, I don't need to explain". 118 00:22:52,627 --> 00:22:55,210 Our paper has a core of cultured readers 119 00:22:55,377 --> 00:22:57,960 that don't want to be taken for fools. I work for that core. 120 00:22:58,085 --> 00:23:00,752 So let me talk about my eventful, 121 00:23:00,918 --> 00:23:03,710 difficult but necessary journey as an artist! 122 00:23:03,835 --> 00:23:05,543 Necessary for who? 123 00:23:05,668 --> 00:23:08,960 For heaven's sake, madam, what is a vibration? 124 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,877 - I don't know. - You don't know. 125 00:23:14,043 --> 00:23:16,502 You are an obsessive jerk! 126 00:23:16,627 --> 00:23:20,502 I'll tell your editor to send me a journalist of a higher stature. 127 00:23:20,627 --> 00:23:23,877 A piece of advice: when you speak to my editor, 128 00:23:24,043 --> 00:23:27,835 go easy on the stature business. She's a dwarf, you know. 129 00:23:29,543 --> 00:23:32,377 Jep, this interview is a hoot! 130 00:23:32,543 --> 00:23:34,668 Maybe, but don't send me 131 00:23:34,793 --> 00:23:36,627 to interview someone who head-butts walls again. 132 00:23:37,793 --> 00:23:40,835 - You know what the trick is? - Foam rubber. 133 00:23:41,002 --> 00:23:42,627 Amateur dramatics isn't dead. 134 00:23:42,793 --> 00:23:47,043 Did you get offended about the stature comment? 135 00:23:47,210 --> 00:23:50,835 Don't be silly! That's the funniest bit! 136 00:23:51,002 --> 00:23:53,252 I'm a dwarf, it's no secret. 137 00:23:53,418 --> 00:23:56,418 It's the first and last thing everyone says about me. 138 00:23:56,585 --> 00:24:00,085 You're a spectacular woman, Dadina. You've had the career you deserve. 139 00:24:00,252 --> 00:24:03,752 But you haven't had the career you deserve. 140 00:24:04,377 --> 00:24:06,460 Maybe I don't have much to say... 141 00:24:06,585 --> 00:24:10,335 Bullshit, you're lazy. You never leave Rome. 142 00:24:10,502 --> 00:24:13,168 Go to Giglio to do that report on the Concordia 143 00:24:13,293 --> 00:24:15,085 I've asked you to do 50 times. 144 00:24:19,668 --> 00:24:23,127 Re-heated rice is always tastier than freshly cooked rice. 145 00:24:23,293 --> 00:24:25,710 The old is better than the new. 146 00:24:26,543 --> 00:24:28,377 Plans tonight, chèrie? 147 00:24:28,543 --> 00:24:32,252 As the great De Blasi, my predecessor, said: 148 00:24:32,418 --> 00:24:36,252 "Tonight I'll do two things, eat soup and have a shag." 149 00:24:36,418 --> 00:24:38,835 Two things that contradict each other. 150 00:24:39,002 --> 00:24:42,085 That's what I'd say too, and she'd reply, in a serious tone: 151 00:24:42,252 --> 00:24:46,543 "No, Dadina, they don't, because they're both hot." 152 00:24:48,918 --> 00:24:52,293 There's a publishing house in Ancona, it's not that small, 153 00:24:52,502 --> 00:24:54,543 they want an interview book about you. 154 00:24:54,668 --> 00:24:58,710 Another interview book? We're obsessed with interviews! 155 00:24:58,835 --> 00:25:02,085 Can't you hear them? "As I always say"... to who? 156 00:25:02,252 --> 00:25:03,710 Forget it! 157 00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:06,543 And honestly, who'll buy a book called: 158 00:25:06,668 --> 00:25:09,877 "Visions and revisions. Jep Gambardella's Galaxy"? 159 00:25:10,043 --> 00:25:11,877 It's a serious title! 160 00:25:12,043 --> 00:25:14,877 Unfortunately in this country, in order to be taken seriously, 161 00:25:15,043 --> 00:25:17,210 you have to take yourself seriously. 162 00:25:17,377 --> 00:25:21,877 I only wrote one novel, 40 years ago. Impossible to find too... 163 00:25:22,043 --> 00:25:25,002 Bullshit, "The Human Apparatus" was a masterpiece! 164 00:25:25,168 --> 00:25:27,168 It even won the... what was it? 165 00:25:27,335 --> 00:25:30,002 - The Bancarella prize. - Shit, the Bancarella prize! 166 00:25:30,168 --> 00:25:33,627 You're very kind, but forget it... it'd be too pompous. 167 00:25:33,752 --> 00:25:37,293 I can't, you'll put me in an awkward position. 168 00:25:37,502 --> 00:25:40,710 I've agreed and I've even accepted an advance... 169 00:25:40,835 --> 00:25:42,335 - How much? - 1,500 euros. 170 00:25:42,543 --> 00:25:45,085 Give it back, I'll give you 1,500 euros. 171 00:25:45,252 --> 00:25:48,543 By the way, I spoke to the theatre people. 172 00:25:48,668 --> 00:25:51,877 They'll give you three nights but you pay for the lights. 173 00:25:52,043 --> 00:25:53,877 Who cares about that! 174 00:25:54,043 --> 00:25:56,085 Jep, this is great news. 175 00:25:56,502 --> 00:25:59,293 It's really great news. Thank you! 176 00:26:05,210 --> 00:26:09,252 Are you still up? It's time to go to bed. 177 00:26:09,418 --> 00:26:11,502 That's Viola Bartoli, Bartoli's widow. 178 00:26:11,627 --> 00:26:14,293 The guy who was killed, the actual Bartoli. 179 00:26:14,502 --> 00:26:18,752 Viola has a 50 metre yacht that belonged to Himmler, the Nazi. 180 00:26:19,043 --> 00:26:21,085 You know what I call Viola? 181 00:26:21,252 --> 00:26:23,877 - No, what? - "To-good-to-poo". 182 00:26:24,043 --> 00:26:27,668 - I don't understand. - Because she's pernickety. 183 00:26:27,793 --> 00:26:30,210 Usually pernickety people don't poo. 184 00:26:30,377 --> 00:26:33,543 When I introduced Trumeau to my family, my father said: 185 00:26:33,668 --> 00:26:37,293 "Miss, before marrying my son, have you ever seen him poo?" 186 00:26:37,502 --> 00:26:39,877 - How gross! - It's not as bad as you think. 187 00:26:40,043 --> 00:26:44,710 Actually, my wife and I are the only couple in Italy who are in love. 188 00:26:44,835 --> 00:26:46,877 Orietta, watch out for Lello. 189 00:26:47,043 --> 00:26:48,668 Yes, I know. 190 00:26:48,793 --> 00:26:51,710 He's the world's greatest salesman, he cons everyone. 191 00:26:51,835 --> 00:26:53,793 In no time he'll get you to spend every penny 192 00:26:53,918 --> 00:26:55,085 on whatever he's selling. 193 00:26:55,252 --> 00:26:56,585 You always flatter me. 194 00:26:56,752 --> 00:27:00,543 Just because I express myself well doesn't mean I'm always working! 195 00:27:00,668 --> 00:27:02,752 - What do you do? - I sell toys. 196 00:27:02,918 --> 00:27:04,835 Not just in a shop, 197 00:27:05,002 --> 00:27:08,502 he's a wholesaler on a global scale, he even sells to the Chinese! 198 00:27:08,627 --> 00:27:09,918 What about him? 199 00:27:10,085 --> 00:27:14,377 Don't you know him? Sebastiano Paf, perhaps Italy's greatest poet. 200 00:27:14,543 --> 00:27:20,085 He wrote: "Up with life, down with reminiscence." 201 00:27:21,043 --> 00:27:23,918 He's on the Dukan Diet, so Dadina won't leave him. 202 00:27:24,252 --> 00:27:25,127 Is he with her? 203 00:27:25,252 --> 00:27:28,085 - He is, but she... - Like at high school. 204 00:27:29,210 --> 00:27:31,085 Why doesn't he ever talk? 205 00:27:31,252 --> 00:27:33,293 Because he listens. 206 00:27:35,377 --> 00:27:38,627 - Stop sniffing up with your nose? - Bugger off. 207 00:27:38,752 --> 00:27:43,335 Jep's found a theatre for me. Do you want the lead role? 208 00:27:43,502 --> 00:27:46,502 I'm no longer an actress, I'm a writer now. 209 00:27:46,752 --> 00:27:48,585 Maybe... 210 00:27:49,418 --> 00:27:51,418 Maybe I'll direct a film. 211 00:27:51,585 --> 00:27:55,668 - Viola, darling! - Help me, I'm worried about my son. 212 00:27:55,835 --> 00:27:58,877 - What can I do? - Why don't you talk to him? 213 00:27:59,002 --> 00:28:01,502 You always say you're good with strangers... 214 00:28:01,627 --> 00:28:03,668 That's the problem, I'm too good. 215 00:28:03,835 --> 00:28:08,252 - Is he seeing a therapist? - Yes, but he wants to stop going. 216 00:28:08,418 --> 00:28:13,043 Take him to a psychiatrist, they're Ativan, Prozac and so on. 217 00:28:13,210 --> 00:28:15,043 That stuff makes him feel worse. 218 00:28:15,210 --> 00:28:18,918 Relax, he's always been odd, he is what he is. 219 00:28:19,043 --> 00:28:22,252 By the way, have you tried this rascal's endive quiche? 220 00:28:22,418 --> 00:28:26,043 It's the first time she's made it and it's better than my mom's, 221 00:28:26,210 --> 00:28:29,668 please, you must try some! 222 00:28:35,293 --> 00:28:37,168 You changed your hair colour. 223 00:28:38,543 --> 00:28:41,335 I feel Pirandello-esque lately... 224 00:28:42,918 --> 00:28:45,877 - Great jazz, no? - Not really. 225 00:28:46,002 --> 00:28:50,668 The Ethiopian jazz scene is the only interesting one today. 226 00:28:50,835 --> 00:28:54,168 I'm from Milan, to be honest... I find Romans... 227 00:28:54,710 --> 00:28:55,918 unbearable! 228 00:28:56,085 --> 00:28:58,835 The best people in Rome are the tourists. 229 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,418 Take Italy... 230 00:29:00,585 --> 00:29:04,002 What are we famous for overseas? Fashion and pizza. 231 00:29:04,168 --> 00:29:06,668 A country of weavers and grocers. 232 00:29:06,835 --> 00:29:10,877 How can someone who sells toys, bringing joy to the world, 233 00:29:11,002 --> 00:29:14,252 be such a pessimist and a defeatist? You're dark. 234 00:29:14,418 --> 00:29:16,043 - Dark? - Yes. 235 00:29:16,210 --> 00:29:19,043 I heard Gisella Montanelli went to loans sharks 236 00:29:19,210 --> 00:29:20,960 to pay her hairdressing debts. 237 00:29:21,127 --> 00:29:22,793 Jep says I'm dark! 238 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,543 Gisella's really sunk that low? 239 00:29:24,668 --> 00:29:29,918 Rome is the only city in the world where Marxism has truly existed. 240 00:29:30,085 --> 00:29:33,085 You can't excel over others for more than a week, 241 00:29:33,252 --> 00:29:36,502 you're immediately brought back to mediocrity. 242 00:29:36,627 --> 00:29:39,877 Rome is pure collectivism. 243 00:29:40,043 --> 00:29:43,418 Pure collectivism. Stefania, what utter nonsense! 244 00:29:43,585 --> 00:29:47,002 Do you know that Flaubert wanted to write a book about nothing? 245 00:29:47,168 --> 00:29:50,543 If he'd met you, we'd have had a great book, what a shame! 246 00:29:51,793 --> 00:29:53,418 You're a misogynist. 247 00:29:53,585 --> 00:29:57,668 It's not all about you, I'm not a misogynist, I'm a misanthropist. 248 00:29:57,835 --> 00:30:00,043 When hate's involved, one must aim high. 249 00:30:00,210 --> 00:30:03,168 You're a dark man. 250 00:30:03,335 --> 00:30:05,710 I'm a transparent person, without a doubt! 251 00:30:54,877 --> 00:30:56,585 Lello! 252 00:30:56,877 --> 00:30:58,668 Aren't you stopping tonight? 253 00:31:12,168 --> 00:31:14,710 Mom! When I see you I blush! 254 00:31:15,835 --> 00:31:17,502 Andrea... 255 00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:21,418 - You're crazy. - No, mom, I'm not crazy! 256 00:31:22,835 --> 00:31:24,627 I've got problems. 257 00:31:26,043 --> 00:31:29,252 "As the light flashed, love sat down in the corner. 258 00:31:29,418 --> 00:31:32,252 Shy and distracted as it was. 259 00:31:32,418 --> 00:31:35,502 This is why we could tolerate life no longer." 260 00:31:35,627 --> 00:31:38,502 Gosh, no one's quoted me for years! 261 00:31:38,627 --> 00:31:41,543 I read your book as a teenager, I've never forgotten the end. 262 00:31:41,710 --> 00:31:45,960 Stop right there, you're stroking my ego in a dangerous way. 263 00:31:46,085 --> 00:31:50,918 You must've been deeply in love when you wrote it. 264 00:31:53,668 --> 00:31:56,502 Moravia made the same comment, more or less. 265 00:31:56,627 --> 00:32:00,043 Even though he worded it a bit better. 266 00:32:01,543 --> 00:32:04,335 I once saw Piazza Navona covered in snow. 267 00:32:04,543 --> 00:32:06,918 Really? What was it like? 268 00:32:07,752 --> 00:32:09,543 White! 269 00:32:11,918 --> 00:32:14,085 When I come to Rome I live there. 270 00:32:14,668 --> 00:32:16,668 Deep in the outskirts... 271 00:32:18,418 --> 00:32:20,168 What job you do? 272 00:32:20,335 --> 00:32:22,543 Me? I'm rich. 273 00:32:22,668 --> 00:32:24,710 Great job. 274 00:32:51,835 --> 00:32:53,668 You didn't enjoy it. 275 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,252 I know I'm not very good. 276 00:32:56,418 --> 00:32:58,252 Why do you say that? 277 00:32:58,752 --> 00:33:03,918 Plus it's so sad being good, you risk becoming deft. 278 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,168 It didn't seem like you cared much. 279 00:33:09,543 --> 00:33:13,002 You're very beautiful, Orietta, very, very, very beautiful. 280 00:33:13,127 --> 00:33:16,002 I take photos, you know. Of myself. 281 00:33:16,127 --> 00:33:19,168 At all times of the day, to get to know myself. 282 00:33:19,335 --> 00:33:23,002 - With the self-timer, with my phone... - Interesting. 283 00:33:23,168 --> 00:33:26,543 My Facebook friends say I take great photos. 284 00:33:26,710 --> 00:33:29,293 I bet there are some of you naked... 285 00:33:30,877 --> 00:33:33,377 - A few. - I knew it! 286 00:33:33,543 --> 00:33:36,085 Do you want to see them? 287 00:33:36,210 --> 00:33:39,127 - Of course. - I'll get my computer. 288 00:33:51,835 --> 00:33:58,002 The most important thing I discovered a few days after turning 65 289 00:33:58,793 --> 00:34:03,085 is that I can't waste any more time doing things I don't want to do. 290 00:34:32,168 --> 00:34:36,835 When I came to Rome, at the age of 26, 291 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:43,210 I fell pretty swiftly, almost without realising it, 292 00:34:43,585 --> 00:34:48,418 into what might be defined as the whirlpool of the high life. 293 00:34:49,085 --> 00:34:54,835 But I didn't just want to live the high life. 294 00:34:55,377 --> 00:34:57,210 Sacconi should be in charge. 295 00:34:57,377 --> 00:35:00,252 Antonini's a fucking pain in the ass! 296 00:35:03,168 --> 00:35:07,210 I wanted to be the king of the high life. 297 00:35:07,585 --> 00:35:10,002 And I succeeded. 298 00:35:14,877 --> 00:35:19,418 I didn't just want to go to parties. 299 00:35:21,585 --> 00:35:25,835 I wanted to have the power to make them a failure. 300 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,293 Gambardella? 301 00:35:57,585 --> 00:36:01,210 Sorry for showing up like this, without warning... 302 00:36:01,793 --> 00:36:03,793 I'm Alfredo Marti. 303 00:36:04,002 --> 00:36:07,168 Nice to meet you, I'm Jep, but my house is this one. 304 00:36:07,377 --> 00:36:09,418 I don't want to bother you. 305 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:12,752 How can I help you? 306 00:36:13,377 --> 00:36:15,585 I'm Elisa De Santis' husband. 307 00:36:22,002 --> 00:36:24,002 Did you have children? 308 00:36:24,168 --> 00:36:25,835 No. 309 00:36:26,335 --> 00:36:28,502 I couldn't. 310 00:36:29,543 --> 00:36:31,335 But I could. 311 00:36:33,710 --> 00:36:35,168 I could. 312 00:36:37,127 --> 00:36:38,710 I'm sorry. 313 00:36:39,543 --> 00:36:41,210 Forgive me. 314 00:36:42,210 --> 00:36:44,752 She could too. 315 00:36:45,918 --> 00:36:47,960 Elisa died. 316 00:36:49,335 --> 00:36:51,043 Yesterday. 317 00:37:19,585 --> 00:37:22,752 Alfredo, if you need anything, you know where I live. 318 00:37:30,835 --> 00:37:33,960 Don't leave me alone, please. Don't leave me. 319 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,793 We were married for 35 years... 320 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,627 but Elisa always loved you. 321 00:37:55,752 --> 00:37:57,835 What are you saying? 322 00:37:58,585 --> 00:38:01,627 Elisa and I went out together when we were kids. 323 00:38:02,752 --> 00:38:06,252 She left me, I think, it was so long ago I don't remember. 324 00:38:06,418 --> 00:38:10,668 Yes, she left you. On September 8th, 1970. 325 00:38:10,835 --> 00:38:12,377 Exactly... 326 00:38:14,585 --> 00:38:17,543 You're distraught now, that's normal. 327 00:38:17,710 --> 00:38:19,710 I'm not distraught. 328 00:38:19,835 --> 00:38:24,210 Elisa only ever loved one man. 329 00:38:24,335 --> 00:38:27,252 - You. - How can you say that? 330 00:38:27,418 --> 00:38:30,377 I never saw Elisa again, you were together for a lifetime! 331 00:38:30,543 --> 00:38:33,960 I found a diary of hers, with a lock. 332 00:38:36,835 --> 00:38:38,252 And I broke the lock off. 333 00:38:41,252 --> 00:38:44,127 I write for a living, believe me... 334 00:38:45,210 --> 00:38:49,668 when you write, you give life to fantasies, imagination, lies... 335 00:38:49,835 --> 00:38:53,335 I was only a good companion. 336 00:38:54,502 --> 00:38:57,627 That's all she wrote about me. 337 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,502 35 years together... 338 00:39:02,627 --> 00:39:07,127 and I'm mentioned in two lines as a good companion. 339 00:39:13,210 --> 00:39:14,877 Here, Alfredo. 340 00:39:23,210 --> 00:39:25,377 What'll you do now? 341 00:39:26,793 --> 00:39:28,085 What I've always done. 342 00:39:30,210 --> 00:39:32,585 I'll live in adoration of her. 343 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,710 What's he doing? 344 00:40:11,877 --> 00:40:13,460 Stop! 345 00:40:14,835 --> 00:40:16,377 Jep! 346 00:40:40,752 --> 00:40:42,293 Well done! 347 00:40:44,918 --> 00:40:46,585 He made it! 348 00:41:02,668 --> 00:41:06,168 - Have you seen my daughter? - Your daughter? No. 349 00:41:11,293 --> 00:41:13,002 Francesca! 350 00:41:34,252 --> 00:41:35,668 Who are you? 351 00:41:37,793 --> 00:41:39,543 Who am I? 352 00:41:40,918 --> 00:41:43,960 - I am... - No, you're nobody. 353 00:41:46,543 --> 00:41:48,377 Nobody? 354 00:41:49,293 --> 00:41:50,877 But I... 355 00:42:16,502 --> 00:42:18,168 Francesca, where on earth are you? 356 00:42:18,335 --> 00:42:20,418 I've been looking for you for over an hour! 357 00:42:29,460 --> 00:42:32,252 - Are you sad, sir? - No. 358 00:42:32,627 --> 00:42:35,002 Sir is strange. 359 00:42:35,210 --> 00:42:38,127 I don't like that, I prefer you to be sad. 360 00:42:38,460 --> 00:42:42,710 - Are you going to bed? - Last night I went to bed at 22:30. 361 00:42:43,210 --> 00:42:45,460 Now I don't know what to do. 362 00:42:45,585 --> 00:42:48,668 Morning is an unknown object to me. 363 00:42:48,793 --> 00:42:49,793 Unknown. 364 00:42:49,918 --> 00:42:53,335 Sir can help me clean the house then. 365 00:42:53,752 --> 00:42:57,710 - Sir can't, sir feels strange. - Sir is a rascal. 366 00:42:57,918 --> 00:43:01,460 "Is there a new nation struggling within the walls of the city? 367 00:43:02,252 --> 00:43:06,168 From the crevices of that soil a feverish vapour ascends like smoke 368 00:43:06,377 --> 00:43:10,543 and works like a magic philtre in the blood of some men 369 00:43:10,877 --> 00:43:16,627 producing a form of heroic madness unlike any other." 370 00:43:20,168 --> 00:43:23,335 What do you think? Shit, it's powerful, don't you think? 371 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,335 Why the hell do an adaptation of D'Annunzio for the stage? 372 00:43:27,543 --> 00:43:30,377 D'Annunzio has always been paradigmatic... 373 00:43:30,502 --> 00:43:34,960 You think that certain intellectual feats give you dignity, 374 00:43:35,127 --> 00:43:38,043 and that others are better than you, but you're wrong! 375 00:43:38,335 --> 00:43:42,335 Try and write something of your own, like... 376 00:43:43,043 --> 00:43:45,085 a feeling, or sorrow... 377 00:43:45,210 --> 00:43:47,918 I've known you ages but you've never been here. 378 00:43:48,127 --> 00:43:51,418 Don't get big-headed, you've got a room in a student flat... 379 00:43:51,668 --> 00:43:54,918 Are you going out with that gloomy girl you're always with? 380 00:43:55,085 --> 00:43:57,585 I wish! I've tried it on 7,000 times. 381 00:43:57,710 --> 00:44:00,085 I've never even had a kiss, not one! 382 00:44:00,252 --> 00:44:02,960 - She's a bitch. - No, she's not. 383 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,418 - She's complicated. - She's a bitch. 384 00:44:06,543 --> 00:44:08,460 Trust me, you're too kind. 385 00:44:08,585 --> 00:44:12,627 I can tell her type from a mile off, I don't even need to meet them. 386 00:44:12,835 --> 00:44:16,043 - What are you doing with that hat? - My morning exercise. 387 00:44:16,168 --> 00:44:18,502 - That's exercise? - Yes! 388 00:44:19,085 --> 00:44:21,460 Do you know how many women you've been with? 389 00:44:21,710 --> 00:44:23,585 No, I'm rubbish at maths. 390 00:44:23,793 --> 00:44:25,960 I've always been good at maths. 391 00:44:26,085 --> 00:44:29,793 It's six, I introduced you to them. 392 00:44:30,668 --> 00:44:32,585 Seven. 393 00:44:32,752 --> 00:44:34,377 - Seven? - Seven. 394 00:44:34,877 --> 00:44:37,710 - When did number seven happen? - Last summer. 395 00:44:37,835 --> 00:44:41,127 A friend of my sister's back home when I went to see my folks. 396 00:44:41,710 --> 00:44:43,252 She runs a shop... 397 00:44:45,502 --> 00:44:48,210 - She's nice. - That means she's a dog. 398 00:44:48,502 --> 00:44:51,043 What about you and Orietta? 399 00:44:51,293 --> 00:44:53,502 - Who's Orietta? - Don't you know? 400 00:44:53,585 --> 00:44:56,877 She was at your house... A real beauty. 401 00:44:57,002 --> 00:45:00,835 At my age, a beauty isn't enough. 402 00:45:14,543 --> 00:45:16,377 I might take up writing again. 403 00:45:17,460 --> 00:45:20,043 That's great news! 404 00:45:20,918 --> 00:45:22,377 Has something happened? 405 00:45:27,252 --> 00:45:28,668 Why? 406 00:45:28,835 --> 00:45:33,752 You want to write again after all these years, something's happened. 407 00:45:36,210 --> 00:45:39,252 Something always happens in Rome. Nothing's happened. 408 00:45:44,627 --> 00:45:46,543 What are you looking at? 409 00:45:47,710 --> 00:45:50,002 Come here. 410 00:45:57,252 --> 00:46:01,043 They met at university 10 days ago. 411 00:46:01,293 --> 00:46:05,793 They haven't stopped kissing for 10 days. 412 00:46:15,168 --> 00:46:17,752 This generation of youths horrifies me. 413 00:46:18,085 --> 00:46:22,168 Supported by this state for years, when they realise they're smart, 414 00:46:22,293 --> 00:46:24,293 they go study or work in America or London, 415 00:46:24,418 --> 00:46:25,960 forgetting about the support. 416 00:46:26,127 --> 00:46:28,168 They have no civil vocation. 417 00:46:28,335 --> 00:46:30,335 As a young girl, in the occupied arts department, 418 00:46:30,460 --> 00:46:31,835 I oozed civil vocation. 419 00:46:32,043 --> 00:46:34,752 - Is that so? - Yes, why? 420 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,127 - Come off it... - What do you know? 421 00:46:37,293 --> 00:46:40,835 In those years you were in Naples being a loafer with posh girls 422 00:46:41,002 --> 00:46:42,960 and writing your only novelette. 423 00:46:43,168 --> 00:46:45,002 I didn't notice that history was being made. 424 00:46:45,168 --> 00:46:50,043 Novelette? It was a masterpiece of Italian literature! 425 00:46:50,210 --> 00:46:53,252 I confirm that Jep and civil vocation never got along, 426 00:46:53,460 --> 00:46:55,585 he was lazy and the other hyperactive. 427 00:46:55,710 --> 00:46:59,460 Romano, stop sucking up to your idol, you're pathetic! 428 00:46:59,918 --> 00:47:03,127 "The Human Apparatus" was a narrow-minded, frivolous book 429 00:47:03,293 --> 00:47:06,377 and pretentious too, like its title. Jep knows that. 430 00:47:06,502 --> 00:47:10,627 - That's why he stopped there. - Sorry, what about you then? 431 00:47:10,752 --> 00:47:12,835 I tried changing things with literature. 432 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,210 I wrote 11 novels, and a book about the Party's official history. 433 00:47:17,460 --> 00:47:20,668 You're forgetting your contribution to that reality show... 434 00:47:20,793 --> 00:47:23,293 "Girl Farm". 435 00:47:23,418 --> 00:47:26,293 Television can be a very formative experience! 436 00:47:26,460 --> 00:47:28,460 I always go when I'm invited. 437 00:47:28,668 --> 00:47:31,293 I get my hands dirty, I try things... 438 00:47:31,418 --> 00:47:33,543 I don't spend my life being a snob. 439 00:47:33,668 --> 00:47:38,293 Are you saying that a socially committed writer is advantaged, 440 00:47:38,543 --> 00:47:41,377 and safeguarded, compared to a novelist 441 00:47:41,543 --> 00:47:44,043 who deals with, how can I say... with feelings? 442 00:47:44,168 --> 00:47:45,918 Of course she is! 443 00:47:46,127 --> 00:47:49,168 The cause someone commits their life to isn't secondary. 444 00:47:49,335 --> 00:47:51,418 Like creating a family, 445 00:47:51,543 --> 00:47:53,460 dedicating oneself with sacrifice 446 00:47:53,585 --> 00:47:56,377 to raising one's children day after day. 447 00:47:56,585 --> 00:48:00,460 Eusebio and I have four children, we plan the future together. 448 00:48:00,585 --> 00:48:03,168 I work hard to be both a mother and a woman, 449 00:48:03,418 --> 00:48:07,877 but at the end of the day I feel I've done something important. 450 00:48:08,085 --> 00:48:09,293 So if we don't have children 451 00:48:09,418 --> 00:48:12,918 we should contemplate the idea of suicide? 452 00:48:13,085 --> 00:48:15,960 - I don't mean you, of course. - She means me. 453 00:48:16,668 --> 00:48:20,335 Dadina, I admire you greatly. You're a badass. 454 00:48:20,460 --> 00:48:23,252 Do you use "badass" in any of your 11 novels? 455 00:48:23,377 --> 00:48:26,752 Yes, I do, I try to be modern. 456 00:48:26,918 --> 00:48:29,043 - Modernity is badass. - De gustibus. 457 00:48:29,210 --> 00:48:34,377 What great conviction! Should I envy you or be repelled? 458 00:48:34,502 --> 00:48:37,918 Yes, I have convictions. I'm 53... 459 00:48:38,043 --> 00:48:40,043 - You'd never know. - Never. 460 00:48:40,252 --> 00:48:42,960 I'm 53, I've suffered, I bounced back, 461 00:48:43,085 --> 00:48:45,168 and learned lots about life. 462 00:48:47,252 --> 00:48:49,918 Well, I can see you have nothing to say, at last. 463 00:48:50,043 --> 00:48:51,335 I was drinking... 464 00:48:51,460 --> 00:48:55,543 As we care about you, we don't want to embarrass you. 465 00:48:55,668 --> 00:48:58,543 You know, all this boastful talk, 466 00:48:58,752 --> 00:49:02,877 all this serious ostentatiousness, all this ego... 467 00:49:03,752 --> 00:49:05,835 These harsh damning judgements of yours 468 00:49:06,002 --> 00:49:08,502 hide a certain fragility, a feeling of inadequacy 469 00:49:08,668 --> 00:49:13,168 and above all a series of untruths. We care about you, we know you. 470 00:49:13,293 --> 00:49:17,335 We also know our untruths and for this, unlike you, 471 00:49:17,460 --> 00:49:20,418 we end up talking about nonsense, about trivial matters, 472 00:49:20,585 --> 00:49:23,710 because we don't want to revel in our pettiness. 473 00:49:23,835 --> 00:49:25,960 What untruths are you talking about? 474 00:49:26,168 --> 00:49:28,877 Everything I said is true, it's what I am, what I believe in. 475 00:49:29,043 --> 00:49:33,168 Please, I'm a gentleman. Don't destroy my only certainty. 476 00:49:33,252 --> 00:49:38,502 Tell me exactly what my lies are and what my fragility is! 477 00:49:38,752 --> 00:49:41,627 I'm a woman with balls, tell me! 478 00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,627 "Woman with balls" would be too much for any gentleman. 479 00:49:46,752 --> 00:49:50,210 All right, Stefania, you asked for it. In random order: 480 00:49:50,918 --> 00:49:54,460 Your civil vocation during your student days went unnoticed. 481 00:49:54,585 --> 00:49:58,627 But another vocation of yours is remembered by many, 482 00:49:58,835 --> 00:50:02,710 the one practiced by you then, in the university toilets. 483 00:50:03,460 --> 00:50:07,668 You wrote about the Party because you were its leader's mistress. 484 00:50:07,793 --> 00:50:09,835 And your 11 novels, 485 00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,543 published by a small publishing house subsidised by the Party, 486 00:50:13,668 --> 00:50:17,002 reviewed by minor Party-affiliated newspapers, 487 00:50:17,627 --> 00:50:20,168 are insignificant, everyone says so. 488 00:50:20,293 --> 00:50:23,585 I'm not saying my novelette was any better, 489 00:50:23,710 --> 00:50:26,127 I agree with you there. 490 00:50:26,293 --> 00:50:29,043 Your relationship with Eusebio... 491 00:50:29,793 --> 00:50:32,960 What relationship? Eusebio loves Giordano, everyone knows. 492 00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:36,085 He has for years. 493 00:50:36,460 --> 00:50:39,460 They lunch every day at Arnaldo's, under the coat rack, 494 00:50:39,585 --> 00:50:43,460 like sweethearts under an oak tree. You all know but turn a blind eye. 495 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:48,543 Your dedication to your children, with all the sacrifices entailed... 496 00:50:48,877 --> 00:50:51,418 You work all week in TV, you go out every night, 497 00:50:51,585 --> 00:50:55,960 even on Mondays, when popper dealers don't even venture out. 498 00:50:56,085 --> 00:50:57,710 You're never with your children, 499 00:50:57,835 --> 00:51:00,543 not even on the long holidays you take. 500 00:51:00,668 --> 00:51:04,543 And plus you have a butler, a waiter, 501 00:51:05,752 --> 00:51:09,877 a cook, a chauffeur who drives the kids to school, 502 00:51:10,043 --> 00:51:11,793 three babysitters, so... 503 00:51:11,918 --> 00:51:16,377 how and when exactly do you make any sacrifices? 504 00:51:17,002 --> 00:51:20,085 These are the untruths and fragility I'm talking about. 505 00:51:22,460 --> 00:51:25,210 Stefania, mother and woman. 506 00:51:25,418 --> 00:51:30,293 You're 53, with a life in tatters, like the rest of us. 507 00:51:31,377 --> 00:51:35,293 Instead of acting superior and treating us with contempt, 508 00:51:35,460 --> 00:51:38,585 you should look at us with affection. 509 00:51:39,377 --> 00:51:41,335 We're all on the brink of despair, 510 00:51:41,460 --> 00:51:44,127 all we can do is look each other in the face, 511 00:51:44,293 --> 00:51:48,335 keep each other company, joke a little... 512 00:51:48,460 --> 00:51:49,668 Don't you agree? 513 00:54:35,835 --> 00:54:37,960 Son of a bitch! 514 00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:40,418 Egidio, old chap! 515 00:54:40,668 --> 00:54:43,960 Bastard! I haven't seen you in 30 years! 516 00:54:56,543 --> 00:54:59,668 - I need to talk to you. - Later! I'm busy, can't you see? 517 00:54:59,793 --> 00:55:02,877 - Is this still your place? - Luckily not, I sold it. 518 00:55:03,043 --> 00:55:04,627 I'm still the manager though. 519 00:55:04,752 --> 00:55:09,043 You're famous! You're always in the gossip rags. 520 00:55:09,252 --> 00:55:11,877 You're at all the VIP parties, always with a girl! 521 00:55:12,043 --> 00:55:13,918 You never come here... 522 00:55:14,085 --> 00:55:17,585 Get lost, will you? We're having a serious talk! 523 00:55:17,793 --> 00:55:20,210 - Are you married? - Married, divorced. 524 00:55:20,335 --> 00:55:24,127 - I've got a daughter, Ramona. - Did you have to call her Ramona? 525 00:55:24,252 --> 00:55:26,502 You artists are all the same! 526 00:55:26,710 --> 00:55:29,752 I tell you I have a daughter and you complain about her name! 527 00:55:29,918 --> 00:55:31,835 What's wrong with "Ramona"? 528 00:55:32,043 --> 00:55:34,877 Nothing, it's a name that implies ambitions... 529 00:55:35,043 --> 00:55:37,085 There's my daughter, you see? 530 00:55:49,460 --> 00:55:52,293 She makes me so mad, I've told her a million times! 531 00:55:52,460 --> 00:55:54,418 You're too old for this! 532 00:55:54,543 --> 00:55:58,043 Now these hot young Polish girls rule the scene. 533 00:55:58,293 --> 00:56:00,752 They're experts at turning tricks. 534 00:56:00,877 --> 00:56:04,043 She's 42 and she wants to be a sophisticated stripper. 535 00:56:04,210 --> 00:56:06,793 But the world's no longer sophisticated. Right, Jep? 536 00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,502 I know, only you and I are. 537 00:56:09,668 --> 00:56:11,377 That's right, goddammit! 538 00:56:11,585 --> 00:56:15,210 But she wants to keep doing this job, for the money. 539 00:56:15,502 --> 00:56:17,127 I don't know why she always needs money 540 00:56:17,252 --> 00:56:18,668 and what she fucking does with it. 541 00:56:18,793 --> 00:56:22,710 - For drugs? - I wish, we'd have a common interest. 542 00:56:22,835 --> 00:56:24,585 She doesn't even drink beer. 543 00:56:24,835 --> 00:56:27,877 I don't know what she spends her money on, she's always broke. 544 00:56:28,085 --> 00:56:30,710 - Do I seem like a loser? - No, why? 545 00:56:30,877 --> 00:56:35,085 Because I can hear myself talk, I sound like a loser. 546 00:56:35,210 --> 00:56:39,043 I'm nearly 70 and I have to work till 6 in the morning every day. 547 00:56:39,168 --> 00:56:42,710 I swapped cocaine for heroin 15 years ago. 548 00:56:42,835 --> 00:56:46,668 What an asshole! A heroin junkie at 50! 549 00:56:46,918 --> 00:56:48,585 Could I be more of a loser? 550 00:56:48,710 --> 00:56:53,460 But I'm not important, it's her I worry about, I love her. 551 00:56:53,668 --> 00:56:56,252 And I'm no loser there, I'm a father. 552 00:56:56,377 --> 00:56:58,502 And like all fathers, I'm worried. 553 00:56:58,627 --> 00:57:00,460 What'll she do in a few years? 554 00:57:00,627 --> 00:57:02,752 She can't be a stripper at 50! 555 00:57:05,585 --> 00:57:07,710 - Why don't you fix her up? - Me? 556 00:57:07,835 --> 00:57:12,460 Don't you know any rich guys who want a beautiful wife? 557 00:57:12,668 --> 00:57:15,335 We could change her name, that's no problem. 558 00:57:15,460 --> 00:57:17,210 You'd do me a big favour. 559 00:57:17,460 --> 00:57:22,293 - I'm a writer, not a pimp. - Sorry, I was a bit vulgar. 560 00:57:22,418 --> 00:57:26,293 Daddy's little girl, this is my good friend, Jep Gambardella. 561 00:57:26,460 --> 00:57:29,460 I'll leave you to it, I need the toilet. 562 00:57:29,627 --> 00:57:31,168 Be right back! 563 00:57:32,418 --> 00:57:34,752 - Hi, I'm Jep. - Ramona. 564 00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:53,460 - If you want a girl, get a Pole. - Are you kidding? 565 00:57:54,252 --> 00:57:57,585 Who wants a girl? Not me. 566 00:57:57,710 --> 00:58:00,293 I really am an old friend of your father's. 567 00:58:00,835 --> 00:58:02,752 - Dad has no friends. - He used to. 568 00:58:02,918 --> 00:58:06,377 When I came to Rome, I'd wait for my friends to leave to come here. 569 00:58:06,710 --> 00:58:08,377 Your father was a nice guy. 570 00:58:08,543 --> 00:58:11,752 He taught me loads of things, such as: vodka is uncouth. 571 00:58:12,710 --> 00:58:14,210 How useful! 572 00:58:16,377 --> 00:58:18,168 He asked me to find you a husband. 573 00:58:18,293 --> 00:58:21,960 He's obsessed. I'm not looking for a husband. 574 00:58:22,210 --> 00:58:24,335 Well, you should be. 575 00:58:24,918 --> 00:58:27,752 - A family's a beautiful thing. - I know. 576 00:58:27,877 --> 00:58:30,377 But I'm not cut out for beautiful things. 577 00:58:46,043 --> 00:58:48,085 What's wrong? 578 00:58:49,043 --> 00:58:52,377 - I feel old. - You're no spring chicken. 579 01:00:40,168 --> 01:00:41,627 One. 580 01:00:45,585 --> 01:00:47,668 - How are you? - Very well. 581 01:00:47,835 --> 01:00:50,793 Just got back from India, I had amazing dysentery. 582 01:00:51,418 --> 01:00:54,668 Come to my divorce party, I'll have burlesque dancers there. 583 01:00:54,835 --> 01:00:57,918 Of course. What present would you like? 584 01:00:58,043 --> 01:01:01,252 One big wish: for the wars in the Middle East to end. 585 01:01:01,460 --> 01:01:03,043 - I'll do my best. - Two. 586 01:01:03,335 --> 01:01:04,752 700 euros. 587 01:01:04,877 --> 01:01:06,252 Thank you. 588 01:01:06,585 --> 01:01:07,793 Tell me, darling. 589 01:01:08,085 --> 01:01:12,793 Perhaps... I was thinking, my mouth... 590 01:01:13,752 --> 01:01:16,210 I'm scared, I've never done it before, professor. 591 01:01:16,793 --> 01:01:21,543 Don't call me professor. Call me "my friend" or "my love". 592 01:01:21,668 --> 01:01:23,543 We all need love. 593 01:01:24,377 --> 01:01:27,460 What star sign are you, deeply intense lady? 594 01:01:27,585 --> 01:01:29,377 - Aquarius. - I knew it! 595 01:01:29,502 --> 01:01:33,085 Want to go back 30 years, to when it rained at the end of August? 596 01:01:33,668 --> 01:01:35,918 - Done. - That's 700 euros. 597 01:01:36,460 --> 01:01:37,377 Three. 598 01:01:42,377 --> 01:01:47,210 - You've been to see Casagrande! - No, I don't even know him. 599 01:01:47,335 --> 01:01:48,335 You betrayed me, darling! 600 01:01:48,543 --> 01:01:52,543 We're undergoing a journey, and you've interrupted it. 601 01:01:54,002 --> 01:01:56,210 This is the last time. 602 01:02:00,418 --> 01:02:01,918 Go, go. 603 01:02:02,085 --> 01:02:03,710 Bye then. 604 01:02:03,918 --> 01:02:06,210 - Full price. - Five. 605 01:02:06,377 --> 01:02:07,710 1,200 euros. 606 01:02:08,752 --> 01:02:10,252 - How's your mom? - She's fine, thank you. 607 01:02:11,460 --> 01:02:13,502 - Seven. - 700 euros. 608 01:02:13,627 --> 01:02:14,960 Have you filled out, darling? 609 01:02:15,127 --> 01:02:16,668 You're always in my heart. 610 01:02:16,793 --> 01:02:18,085 700 euros. 611 01:02:18,252 --> 01:02:20,918 - As handsome as ever. - Ten. 612 01:02:21,127 --> 01:02:22,877 - You're my pride. - Thanks. 613 01:02:24,085 --> 01:02:25,710 Eleven. 614 01:02:30,418 --> 01:02:34,252 Professor, I'm here about my hyperhidrosis. 615 01:02:34,460 --> 01:02:36,752 Where does this undesired perspiration happen? 616 01:02:37,252 --> 01:02:39,168 On my hands. 617 01:02:43,293 --> 01:02:46,585 - Pray for me, sister. - You don't need my prayers. 618 01:02:46,710 --> 01:02:51,877 You don't know how much of my income I must surrender to the tax man. 619 01:02:52,043 --> 01:02:53,918 Go, sister, go. 620 01:03:03,085 --> 01:03:04,460 That's 700, sister. 621 01:03:06,085 --> 01:03:08,293 Fourteen. 622 01:03:26,668 --> 01:03:29,460 - Spying on me? - No, I was going to knock. 623 01:03:29,793 --> 01:03:32,085 - When? - When you were more relaxed. 624 01:03:46,168 --> 01:03:49,960 - What brings you here? - Nothing, I'm just curious. 625 01:03:51,252 --> 01:03:54,793 - I told you what I think. - I've no hidden agenda. 626 01:03:54,918 --> 01:03:59,585 Do you think every guy who comes near you wants sex? 627 01:03:59,752 --> 01:04:02,085 Perhaps they just want to talk, 628 01:04:02,252 --> 01:04:05,668 driven by simple and harmless curiosity. 629 01:04:05,793 --> 01:04:08,085 - That's never happened to me. - It has now. 630 01:04:10,252 --> 01:04:12,210 Wouldn't armbands be more comfortable? 631 01:04:12,335 --> 01:04:15,168 Yes, but they irritate my armpits. 632 01:04:17,293 --> 01:04:19,377 Any plans for lunch? 633 01:04:19,502 --> 01:04:21,543 I'm going to my mum's with my dad. 634 01:04:21,668 --> 01:04:23,877 So where's the dog? 635 01:04:24,668 --> 01:04:26,252 What dog? 636 01:04:26,377 --> 01:04:29,543 People buy houses like this so they can have dogs. 637 01:04:29,668 --> 01:04:34,377 I had a Labrador, but 9 years ago he got fed up and left me. 638 01:04:35,168 --> 01:04:37,085 Labradors are dumb. 639 01:04:37,502 --> 01:04:40,127 And Cocker Spaniels are dumb too. 640 01:04:47,752 --> 01:04:49,335 Hi, Jep. 641 01:04:50,043 --> 01:04:51,793 Hi, Antonello. 642 01:04:53,085 --> 01:04:56,085 - You know Venditti? - I know everyone. 643 01:04:56,877 --> 01:04:59,960 It must be very satisfying knowing so many people! 644 01:05:00,085 --> 01:05:03,835 - You're guaranteed to be unhappy. - Have people let you down? 645 01:05:05,543 --> 01:05:07,960 I've let them down. 646 01:05:09,252 --> 01:05:10,752 Andrea! Are you with your mom? 647 01:05:10,877 --> 01:05:12,710 - She's parking. - How are you? 648 01:05:12,835 --> 01:05:14,502 Not well. 649 01:05:14,627 --> 01:05:17,752 Proust says that death may come to us this afternoon. 650 01:05:17,877 --> 01:05:19,335 Proust is scary. 651 01:05:19,460 --> 01:05:22,627 Not tomorrow, not in a year, but this afternoon. 652 01:05:22,752 --> 01:05:25,752 But it's evening already so it'd be tomorrow afternoon. 653 01:05:25,877 --> 01:05:29,793 Turgenev said: "Death looked at me, noticing me." 654 01:05:30,002 --> 01:05:32,585 Don't take these writers so seriously! 655 01:05:32,710 --> 01:05:34,877 Who should I take seriously then? 656 01:05:35,002 --> 01:05:38,460 Nothing, apart from the menu, of course. 657 01:05:41,002 --> 01:05:45,252 Things are too complicated to be understood by one individual. 658 01:05:46,002 --> 01:05:49,668 Just because you don't understand doesn't mean nobody can. 659 01:05:53,252 --> 01:05:56,085 - Your reply? - My reply? 660 01:05:56,918 --> 01:05:59,293 - Jep! - Hello, Viola. 661 01:06:00,002 --> 01:06:02,543 - Good evening. - Viola. 662 01:06:02,668 --> 01:06:05,960 Darling, why don't you get a table for us? 663 01:06:09,210 --> 01:06:10,668 How did you find him? 664 01:06:12,168 --> 01:06:14,168 - He's better. - Good, very good. 665 01:06:14,418 --> 01:06:16,918 He's much better, I'm so happy! 666 01:06:17,043 --> 01:06:19,377 - Dinner on Thursday? - Of course! 667 01:06:19,502 --> 01:06:21,043 On Thursday I'm inexplicably free. 668 01:06:21,418 --> 01:06:26,710 Did you hear about Valentina Lemme? She's dating her personal trainer. 669 01:06:26,835 --> 01:06:29,002 Really? It doesn't show. 670 01:06:29,627 --> 01:06:32,460 - I invited her anyway. - Are you sure? 671 01:06:32,585 --> 01:06:36,252 She's nasty, you know. She's like the devil! 672 01:06:36,543 --> 01:06:38,335 Really? You think so? 673 01:06:38,460 --> 01:06:41,918 I see her at yoga twice a week. 674 01:06:42,043 --> 01:06:44,002 - You'll come? - Of course. 675 01:06:44,127 --> 01:06:46,710 - See you Thursday. - Okay. 676 01:06:47,252 --> 01:06:48,835 Goodbye. 677 01:06:51,460 --> 01:06:56,418 Watch that table carefully, but don't let them notice you looking. 678 01:06:58,502 --> 01:07:01,960 Waiter? Champagne, please. Cristal. 679 01:07:02,085 --> 01:07:04,835 You can't imagine how much one learns 680 01:07:05,085 --> 01:07:08,710 by living alongside a cluster of religious institutes. 681 01:07:23,335 --> 01:07:26,043 So that was your first time? 682 01:07:26,168 --> 01:07:31,210 Yes, he didn't think he'd been good, too quick, he said. 683 01:07:31,335 --> 01:07:34,627 So, out of anger or to let off steam, I'm not sure which, 684 01:07:34,752 --> 01:07:38,460 he got a football and played with it furiously! 685 01:07:38,710 --> 01:07:40,252 And you? 686 01:07:40,335 --> 01:07:43,418 I didn't enjoy making love with him, 687 01:07:43,502 --> 01:07:48,252 but seeing him with a football was an unforgettable thing! 688 01:07:49,252 --> 01:07:53,418 He became really good, he played on the national team. 689 01:07:57,418 --> 01:08:00,085 Your dad said you spend everything you earn. 690 01:08:00,168 --> 01:08:02,085 What on? You can tell me. 691 01:08:04,085 --> 01:08:08,002 Maybe one day. But why didn't you write another book? 692 01:08:08,127 --> 01:08:10,418 Because I went out too much at night. 693 01:08:13,377 --> 01:08:15,252 Rome makes you waste a lot of time. 694 01:08:15,543 --> 01:08:20,502 It's distracting. Writing requires focus and peace. 695 01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:23,210 That's not much of an answer. 696 01:08:23,460 --> 01:08:26,835 You have plenty of peace here, it's like being in the country. 697 01:08:27,002 --> 01:08:32,252 I wrote in short spurts. I was a sprint-style writer. 698 01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:39,668 I told you about my first time... 699 01:08:39,877 --> 01:08:42,918 but you've told me nothing. It's your turn now. 700 01:08:52,043 --> 01:08:55,418 On an island... one summer. 701 01:08:55,543 --> 01:08:57,252 I was... 702 01:08:58,335 --> 01:08:59,710 18, she was 20. 703 01:09:01,835 --> 01:09:03,627 At the lighthouse, at night. 704 01:09:06,502 --> 01:09:09,668 I went to kiss her, she turned away. 705 01:09:11,252 --> 01:09:13,210 I was disappointed. 706 01:09:15,502 --> 01:09:18,252 But then she turned to look at me. 707 01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,168 She brushed me with her lips... 708 01:09:22,085 --> 01:09:23,418 she smelled of flowers. 709 01:09:25,293 --> 01:09:29,460 I didn't move, I wasn't able to move. 710 01:09:33,335 --> 01:09:37,502 Then she took a step back... and said... 711 01:09:44,627 --> 01:09:45,877 She took a step back. 712 01:09:50,793 --> 01:09:52,627 And said... 713 01:10:08,168 --> 01:10:10,418 I'm going home, it's late. 714 01:10:10,585 --> 01:10:13,585 Want to come to a party tomorrow night? 715 01:11:02,252 --> 01:11:03,418 Outstanding! 716 01:11:05,210 --> 01:11:07,710 Did you want us to die tonight? 717 01:11:08,002 --> 01:11:11,293 You won't believe it, but I love knife throwers. 718 01:11:11,418 --> 01:11:14,168 A true likeness, especially the hips. 719 01:11:14,585 --> 01:11:18,835 A masterpiece, Geronimo. It'll look great on the mantelpiece. 720 01:12:17,502 --> 01:12:19,585 God bless you, Jep! 721 01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:21,418 This is Ramona. 722 01:12:21,543 --> 01:12:23,418 What a unique and marvellous creature. 723 01:12:24,002 --> 01:12:26,418 - Is he taking the piss? - It's hard to know. 724 01:12:26,585 --> 01:12:28,210 I was being honest. 725 01:12:28,377 --> 01:12:30,627 I'm just sorry you missed Geronimo D. 726 01:12:31,002 --> 01:12:35,043 - What a tragedy! - Come in, make yourselves at home. 727 01:12:35,835 --> 01:12:38,002 - Who is that asshole? - Lillo De Gregorio. 728 01:12:38,127 --> 01:12:41,418 The greatest modern art collector in this debauched country. 729 01:12:41,710 --> 01:12:46,168 - What's Jep's floozy friend wearing? - I don't know. 730 01:12:46,335 --> 01:12:49,627 Jep's proving to be a disappointment. 731 01:12:49,793 --> 01:12:52,960 - Good evening, countess. - Hello, you're looking well. 732 01:12:53,168 --> 01:12:57,543 I wish I could say that same about the count. Hello, ladies! 733 01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:00,960 Are you stupid? You're distracting my artist. 734 01:13:01,085 --> 01:13:02,543 Dad, we're having fun. 735 01:13:02,752 --> 01:13:05,293 Carmelina, come and do some work. 736 01:13:05,418 --> 01:13:07,293 Mom, I want to play here. 737 01:13:07,418 --> 01:13:10,627 - Has this human being gone mad? - We'll sort it out. 738 01:13:10,793 --> 01:13:14,127 - I'm not coming, I'm staying here. - You don't mean that. 739 01:13:14,252 --> 01:13:16,543 Europe's greatest gallery owners are outside. 740 01:13:16,668 --> 01:13:20,627 If you show them what you can do then ours will be a happy family. 741 01:13:20,752 --> 01:13:23,627 But I'm already happy, I want to be a vet one day. 742 01:13:23,793 --> 01:13:28,877 Get to bed, you two! My kids are going to bed. 743 01:13:29,043 --> 01:13:30,002 Come. 744 01:13:30,127 --> 01:13:32,668 I'll go to bed too. I'm a kid too. 745 01:13:37,877 --> 01:13:40,252 She blushes and says: 746 01:13:40,460 --> 01:13:44,793 "Forgive me, I didn't know you loved me so much. 747 01:13:45,210 --> 01:13:48,293 My ignorance is obscene." 748 01:13:48,793 --> 01:13:51,127 He looks at her, reassuringly, and says: 749 01:13:51,335 --> 01:13:54,668 "Let me defend our love". 750 01:13:54,835 --> 01:13:57,668 How's that for the start of the second act? 751 01:13:57,793 --> 01:13:59,877 You've written a pile of shit. 752 01:16:57,627 --> 01:16:59,627 That girl was crying. 753 01:16:59,710 --> 01:17:02,502 Nonsense! That girl earns millions! 754 01:17:03,668 --> 01:17:05,585 Excuse me a moment. 755 01:17:08,627 --> 01:17:11,627 - Hi, Stefano. - Hi. 756 01:17:12,293 --> 01:17:16,127 - The catering's gone downhill. - Rome's gone downhill. 757 01:17:16,210 --> 01:17:17,668 Steeply downhill! 758 01:17:21,293 --> 01:17:23,543 Do you have the case with you? 759 01:17:26,377 --> 01:17:29,002 - I always do. - You up for it? 760 01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:37,043 See that? 761 01:18:42,377 --> 01:18:46,793 Stefano has the keys to Rome's most beautiful buildings. 762 01:18:48,460 --> 01:18:50,043 Is he a doorman? 763 01:18:51,877 --> 01:18:54,252 No, he's not a doorman. 764 01:18:54,585 --> 01:18:57,127 He's friends with princesses. 765 01:19:00,293 --> 01:19:01,710 Are you ready? 766 01:19:02,710 --> 01:19:04,168 Come with me. 767 01:21:09,002 --> 01:21:11,293 Good evening, Princesses. 768 01:21:11,418 --> 01:21:13,668 Good evening. 769 01:21:26,918 --> 01:21:28,752 How come you have all these keys? 770 01:21:30,752 --> 01:21:32,460 Because... 771 01:21:34,043 --> 01:21:35,960 I'm a trustworthy person. 772 01:21:51,543 --> 01:21:55,918 Did you see? It looked huge, but it's tiny. 773 01:21:57,668 --> 01:22:01,002 Stay still, I'll take a photo of you. Don't move. 774 01:22:04,710 --> 01:22:07,085 That's no good. Laugh. 775 01:22:09,502 --> 01:22:11,043 Got it? 776 01:22:11,460 --> 01:22:13,710 Yes, that's good. 777 01:23:07,168 --> 01:23:10,252 Many think that a funeral, 778 01:23:10,377 --> 01:23:13,668 is a fortuitous event, without any rules. 779 01:23:14,377 --> 01:23:15,918 That's not true. 780 01:23:16,460 --> 01:23:20,293 A funeral is a high-society event par excellence. 781 01:23:21,835 --> 01:23:25,252 You must never forget that at a funeral 782 01:23:26,127 --> 01:23:28,335 you are appearing on stage. 783 01:23:32,752 --> 01:23:34,293 Nice. 784 01:23:35,252 --> 01:23:36,960 Nice, but try the other one. 785 01:23:38,918 --> 01:23:44,002 You must patiently wait for the relatives to disperse. 786 01:23:44,502 --> 01:23:49,585 Once you are sure that all the guests are seated... 787 01:23:49,793 --> 01:23:53,585 only at that point, may you offer your condolences to the family. 788 01:23:54,127 --> 01:23:58,210 In this way, everyone will see you. 789 01:23:58,460 --> 01:24:00,960 You take the mourner's hands, 790 01:24:01,127 --> 01:24:04,918 and rest yours on their arms. 791 01:24:05,335 --> 01:24:09,127 You whisper something to them, a comforting phrase, 792 01:24:09,335 --> 01:24:11,418 said with authority. 793 01:24:11,543 --> 01:24:14,002 For example: 794 01:24:14,127 --> 01:24:18,918 "In the days to come, when you feel the void, 795 01:24:19,627 --> 01:24:24,252 I want you to know that you can always count on me." 796 01:24:25,793 --> 01:24:27,752 The public will ask... 797 01:24:29,460 --> 01:24:32,460 "What's Jep Gambardella saying?" 798 01:24:45,668 --> 01:24:47,752 This is definitely the right dress. 799 01:24:53,043 --> 01:24:57,668 You're allowed to retire to a corner by yourself, 800 01:24:58,168 --> 01:25:01,502 as if contemplating your sorrow. 801 01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:07,627 However, another matter must be approached with shrewdness. 802 01:25:08,335 --> 01:25:12,918 The chosen place needs to be isolated 803 01:25:13,043 --> 01:25:15,168 but clearly visible to the public. 804 01:25:15,918 --> 01:25:22,293 Besides, a performance is good when it is devoid of any superfluity. 805 01:25:24,752 --> 01:25:26,585 So, the fundamental rule: 806 01:25:28,252 --> 01:25:30,752 one must never cry at a funeral. 807 01:25:31,918 --> 01:25:35,043 You must never steal the show from the family's sorrow. 808 01:25:35,168 --> 01:25:38,377 That is forbidden. 809 01:25:41,418 --> 01:25:43,252 Because it is immoral. 810 01:26:21,377 --> 01:26:23,127 Viola. 811 01:26:31,793 --> 01:26:36,502 In the days to come, when you feel the void, 812 01:26:37,793 --> 01:26:40,168 you can always count on me. 813 01:27:30,293 --> 01:27:36,043 Now I ask Andrea's friends to come forward, 814 01:27:38,002 --> 01:27:40,960 so that the coffin may be carried outside. 815 01:28:03,377 --> 01:28:04,502 Your back! 816 01:29:16,252 --> 01:29:18,627 It was nice not making love. 817 01:29:20,460 --> 01:29:22,418 It was nice loving each other. 818 01:29:23,252 --> 01:29:27,043 I'd forgotten what loving someone was about, I'd forgotten that. 819 01:29:34,043 --> 01:29:36,710 I spend all my money to cure myself. 820 01:29:45,835 --> 01:29:47,918 Your breakfast. 821 01:29:49,043 --> 01:29:52,210 Come on, I'm taking you to see a sea monster today. 822 01:30:13,918 --> 01:30:15,502 Your breakfast. 823 01:30:17,752 --> 01:30:19,835 Five more minutes. 824 01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:29,085 Can you see the sea? 825 01:30:36,127 --> 01:30:37,918 Where? 826 01:30:38,085 --> 01:30:39,835 On the ceiling. 827 01:30:46,168 --> 01:30:48,293 Yes, I can see it. 828 01:32:22,710 --> 01:32:25,585 Who's going to look after you now? 829 01:32:40,543 --> 01:32:44,627 I'm sorry about your daughter. My condolences. 830 01:33:11,043 --> 01:33:17,043 I spent all my summers making plans for September. 831 01:33:17,168 --> 01:33:18,835 Not any longer. 832 01:33:20,335 --> 01:33:24,627 Now I spend the summer remembering the good intentions 833 01:33:25,168 --> 01:33:27,168 which vanished. 834 01:33:27,752 --> 01:33:31,793 In part because of laziness, in part because of carelessness. 835 01:33:35,127 --> 01:33:38,085 What's wrong with feeling nostalgic? 836 01:33:39,668 --> 01:33:41,835 It's the only distraction left for those 837 01:33:41,960 --> 01:33:44,585 who've no faith in the future! 838 01:33:48,377 --> 01:33:50,252 Without rain... 839 01:33:50,710 --> 01:33:55,293 August is coming to an end and September isn't arriving. 840 01:33:56,710 --> 01:33:59,127 And I'm so ordinary! 841 01:33:59,835 --> 01:34:02,252 But there's no need to worry. 842 01:34:02,668 --> 01:34:05,752 It's all right, it's okay. 843 01:34:13,585 --> 01:34:15,043 Bravo! 844 01:34:30,877 --> 01:34:32,293 Thank you. 845 01:35:19,793 --> 01:35:22,252 What are you doing here? 846 01:35:23,168 --> 01:35:26,710 Arturo! Why are you here? 847 01:35:26,877 --> 01:35:30,335 Don't you see? I'm rehearsing my magic show. 848 01:35:30,460 --> 01:35:34,585 This is tomorrow's special number: the vanishing giraffe. 849 01:35:35,377 --> 01:35:37,168 You can make this giraffe vanish? 850 01:35:37,293 --> 01:35:40,377 Of course I can make the giraffe vanish! 851 01:35:41,960 --> 01:35:44,460 Then make me vanish too. 852 01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:51,918 Jep, do you think that if I could really make people vanish 853 01:35:52,335 --> 01:35:56,335 I'd still be here at my age playing these circus games? 854 01:35:57,627 --> 01:35:59,252 It's just a trick. 855 01:36:03,752 --> 01:36:05,460 It's just a trick! 856 01:36:15,252 --> 01:36:17,293 Romano, how did it go? 857 01:36:17,543 --> 01:36:19,543 Well, they clapped. 858 01:36:19,877 --> 01:36:21,710 I'm glad. 859 01:36:22,043 --> 01:36:24,835 - So why are you so sad? - I'm not sad. 860 01:36:25,127 --> 01:36:26,710 What's with the giraffe? 861 01:36:26,877 --> 01:36:29,752 For a magic show. I'll come and see you tomorrow. 862 01:36:29,918 --> 01:36:31,835 I'm not doing the show tomorrow. 863 01:36:32,752 --> 01:36:34,502 Why not? You said it went well. 864 01:36:34,627 --> 01:36:39,585 I'm leaving, I'm going back to my home town, for good. 865 01:36:39,835 --> 01:36:43,460 I won't even pack up my things, I'll leave it all. 866 01:36:45,918 --> 01:36:49,335 I've lived in this city for 40 years. 867 01:36:50,168 --> 01:36:52,460 And in the end I thought... 868 01:36:54,043 --> 01:36:56,835 the only person who deserved a goodbye 869 01:36:57,252 --> 01:36:59,168 was you. 870 01:37:01,252 --> 01:37:03,418 So you're leaving? 871 01:37:05,752 --> 01:37:08,793 Romano... why are you leaving? 872 01:37:09,293 --> 01:37:11,835 Rome has really disappointed me. 873 01:37:17,668 --> 01:37:19,377 Bye, Jep. 874 01:37:39,418 --> 01:37:41,043 See? 875 01:38:10,627 --> 01:38:13,793 - Want some coffee? - No, thanks. I know you're busy. 876 01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:15,710 I need to ask you something. 877 01:38:16,252 --> 01:38:17,793 Go ahead. 878 01:38:22,085 --> 01:38:24,460 Why did Elisa leave me? 879 01:38:27,668 --> 01:38:29,418 I don't know. 880 01:38:29,543 --> 01:38:33,585 Didn't she say anything about it in her diary? 881 01:38:34,210 --> 01:38:36,377 No, I don't think so. 882 01:38:39,502 --> 01:38:43,377 Would you be offended if I asked to read it? 883 01:38:43,543 --> 01:38:46,335 No, I wouldn't. 884 01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:49,335 In fact, I'd understand. 885 01:38:51,168 --> 01:38:53,543 But I'm afraid I can't let you read it. 886 01:38:53,710 --> 01:38:54,752 Why not? 887 01:38:55,752 --> 01:38:58,585 Because a few days after the funeral, I threw it away. 888 01:39:04,418 --> 01:39:06,585 May I introduce you to my girlfriend? 889 01:39:08,127 --> 01:39:10,543 Hello, my name's Polina. 890 01:39:13,668 --> 01:39:16,418 Like Polina in "The Gambler" by Dostoyevsky. 891 01:39:22,752 --> 01:39:24,668 What are you doing tonight? 892 01:39:26,460 --> 01:39:28,418 Nothing. 893 01:39:29,002 --> 01:39:30,960 Polina's going to finish ironing... 894 01:39:31,877 --> 01:39:34,210 then we'll drink a glass of red wine. 895 01:39:34,960 --> 01:39:38,710 We'll watch some television and go to bed. 896 01:39:39,918 --> 01:39:40,918 What about you? 897 01:39:42,627 --> 01:39:47,293 I'll have a lot of drinks, but not so many as to become unruly. 898 01:39:48,127 --> 01:39:50,335 And then... 899 01:39:51,377 --> 01:39:55,960 when you'll be getting up I'll be going to bed. 900 01:40:02,877 --> 01:40:06,168 What lovely people you are! 901 01:40:16,585 --> 01:40:18,752 I love doing the train! 902 01:40:23,293 --> 01:40:24,835 I'll screw you. 903 01:40:27,293 --> 01:40:29,377 "Who am I?" 904 01:40:31,085 --> 01:40:34,252 That's how one of Breton's novels began. 905 01:40:35,168 --> 01:40:38,377 And of course in the book there's no reply. 906 01:40:39,418 --> 01:40:41,835 - Did you hear about Viola? - What? 907 01:40:42,043 --> 01:40:43,627 She's donating everything to the church. 908 01:40:44,543 --> 01:40:49,210 She works in the parish and is going to volunteer in Africa. 909 01:40:49,502 --> 01:40:54,377 The trains at our parties are the best ones in Rome! 910 01:40:55,252 --> 01:40:57,335 - You think so? - I do. 911 01:40:58,918 --> 01:41:02,585 They're the best because they go nowhere. 912 01:41:13,793 --> 01:41:16,252 - Well? - It's wonderful, thank you. 913 01:41:16,377 --> 01:41:19,043 Come on, it's all gone. 914 01:41:19,168 --> 01:41:22,752 Tell me why you left me, please. 915 01:41:22,877 --> 01:41:25,293 I want an explanation, please! 916 01:41:26,168 --> 01:41:29,335 Go away! Get out! Get out! 917 01:41:55,210 --> 01:41:57,127 You see all these people? 918 01:41:58,210 --> 01:42:00,293 They can't do anything. 919 01:42:00,877 --> 01:42:03,627 But I know how to do something. 920 01:42:04,418 --> 01:42:07,210 We know how to do something. 921 01:42:08,543 --> 01:42:10,377 How sweet! 922 01:42:54,502 --> 01:42:58,918 They've been asking me for years why I don't write another novel. 923 01:43:00,127 --> 01:43:02,210 But look at these people. 924 01:43:03,252 --> 01:43:05,460 This wildlife! 925 01:43:06,460 --> 01:43:09,668 This is my life and it's nothing. 926 01:43:13,085 --> 01:43:15,918 Flaubert wanted to write a book about nothing but he failed, 927 01:43:16,043 --> 01:43:18,293 so could I do it? 928 01:43:25,252 --> 01:43:28,002 It's nice. Thanks, rascal. 929 01:43:42,002 --> 01:43:44,335 What inspired this exhibition? 930 01:43:45,335 --> 01:43:48,585 It wasn't my idea to do this photo exhibition. 931 01:43:48,710 --> 01:43:50,960 It was my father's idea. 932 01:43:51,835 --> 01:43:55,210 When I was born, he starting taking photos of me, every day. 933 01:43:55,418 --> 01:43:57,377 One photo per day. 934 01:43:57,960 --> 01:44:00,377 He never forgot, not even once. 935 01:44:01,127 --> 01:44:04,960 From the age of 14 upwards, I continued. 936 01:44:05,668 --> 01:44:08,918 I photographed myself every day. 937 01:44:13,377 --> 01:44:15,043 Go ahead. 938 01:45:58,585 --> 01:46:01,377 - Cardinal! - Your Eminence! 939 01:46:04,502 --> 01:46:07,085 Cardinal, when will The Saint arrive in Rome? 940 01:46:07,210 --> 01:46:10,627 On Thursday, but please don't call her The Saint. 941 01:46:10,752 --> 01:46:14,918 She is a Saint but not technically. 942 01:46:15,877 --> 01:46:18,793 Tell me something, who is that cardinal? 943 01:46:18,918 --> 01:46:21,335 - That's Bellucci. - Bellucci? 944 01:46:21,460 --> 01:46:23,293 - The one in line to be... - Exactly. 945 01:46:23,418 --> 01:46:25,502 The papal throne awaits him. 946 01:46:25,710 --> 01:46:28,418 I met him at Giada Ricci's carnival party. 947 01:46:28,543 --> 01:46:31,793 Rumour has it that he used to be Europe's best exorcist. 948 01:46:31,918 --> 01:46:33,710 - Are you pulling my leg? - No. 949 01:46:34,585 --> 01:46:36,418 I never joke about the devil. 950 01:46:36,960 --> 01:46:40,293 Do you know I'm very, very bored. 951 01:46:41,627 --> 01:46:44,460 We're having a great, great time. 952 01:46:45,168 --> 01:46:46,960 You cut up the duck. 953 01:46:47,085 --> 01:46:52,460 Cook it on a high flame for 15 minutes. 954 01:46:52,585 --> 01:46:54,335 At that point... 955 01:46:54,502 --> 01:46:57,418 Cardinal, do you remember me? Lello Cava. 956 01:46:57,543 --> 01:47:01,627 We met at Giada Ricci's party. I was dressed as an escort. 957 01:47:02,085 --> 01:47:04,710 Come, they're starting to serve lunch. 958 01:47:05,002 --> 01:47:08,585 I'd like you meet my writer friend, Jep Gambardella. 959 01:47:09,293 --> 01:47:13,918 A writer! This country needs writers. 960 01:47:14,043 --> 01:47:16,252 Actually I thought it was more in need of priests. 961 01:47:16,418 --> 01:47:17,252 Help. 962 01:47:17,377 --> 01:47:20,668 - May I ask you a question? - Of course, my dear man. 963 01:47:20,793 --> 01:47:23,835 Well, for some time now... 964 01:47:29,752 --> 01:47:32,668 from a spiritual point of view... 965 01:47:33,710 --> 01:47:38,210 - Skunk hunt? - Of course, I'll lead the way! 966 01:47:38,335 --> 01:47:41,710 I know the Tebaldi grounds well. 967 01:47:47,710 --> 01:47:52,002 Jep Gambardella, the king of socialites! You're losing it. 968 01:47:52,127 --> 01:47:57,543 I've been losing it for 40 years. It's a steady decline. 969 01:48:01,793 --> 01:48:07,585 Tell me something, Stefania. Have we ever slept with each other? 970 01:48:08,335 --> 01:48:10,752 Of course not! 971 01:48:15,335 --> 01:48:19,668 That's an awfully big mistake! We must make amends, immediately. 972 01:48:20,668 --> 01:48:22,752 Idiot. 973 01:48:25,418 --> 01:48:27,335 Thank goodness. 974 01:48:28,627 --> 01:48:31,835 We still have something nice to do together. 975 01:48:34,877 --> 01:48:38,085 The future is marvellous, Stefania. 976 01:49:13,627 --> 01:49:16,668 To be honest, Catellani hasn't had many brushed fabrics 977 01:49:16,793 --> 01:49:19,043 in recent years. 978 01:49:19,168 --> 01:49:22,585 In my opinion, Rebecchi's still the best tailor in Rome. 979 01:49:26,210 --> 01:49:29,210 - Who are you? - A hard-working man. 980 01:49:29,335 --> 01:49:34,335 One who, while you play the artist and have fun with your friends, 981 01:49:34,460 --> 01:49:36,835 keeps this country going. 982 01:49:36,960 --> 01:49:39,668 I keep this country going, 983 01:49:39,793 --> 01:49:42,585 but many people haven't understood that yet. 984 01:49:45,377 --> 01:49:50,085 Imagine that, Dadina, Giulio Moneta was my neighbour. 985 01:49:50,210 --> 01:49:55,793 One of the world's 10 most wanted men and I never noticed. 986 01:49:55,918 --> 01:49:58,793 You've changed, you're always thinking. 987 01:50:01,335 --> 01:50:03,710 Maybe I should do what Romano did. 988 01:50:04,627 --> 01:50:06,918 I'm not fit for this life or this city. 989 01:50:07,043 --> 01:50:11,710 Nobody's fit for shit, dammit. Take it from the queen of misfits. 990 01:50:13,085 --> 01:50:15,668 Everything around me is dying. 991 01:50:16,668 --> 01:50:19,918 People who are younger than me, things... 992 01:50:20,793 --> 01:50:22,043 All before my eyes and I... 993 01:50:22,168 --> 01:50:25,752 And you're suffering. And you don't understand. 994 01:50:33,793 --> 01:50:36,335 How's the soup, Little Jep? 995 01:50:39,002 --> 01:50:40,793 The soup's good. 996 01:50:43,085 --> 01:50:47,085 Why did you call me Little Jep? No one's called me that for centuries. 997 01:50:47,210 --> 01:50:49,585 Because a friend, every now and again, 998 01:50:49,752 --> 01:50:53,335 needs to make their friend feel like they did as a child. 999 01:50:55,377 --> 01:50:58,002 How can I make you feel like a little girl? 1000 01:50:58,127 --> 01:51:01,085 You don't need to, I feel like a little girl every day! 1001 01:51:01,210 --> 01:51:04,918 I've seen the world from their viewpoint for 60 years. 1002 01:51:06,252 --> 01:51:08,502 You know Sister Maria, the missionary, 1003 01:51:09,168 --> 01:51:10,710 the one they call the Saint? 1004 01:51:10,835 --> 01:51:14,835 Yes, she's coming to Rome to receive some honour. 1005 01:51:14,960 --> 01:51:18,377 Exactly. In all her life, she's only given three interviews. 1006 01:51:18,502 --> 01:51:22,168 - Yours will be memorable. - Yeah sure, think of Giulio Moneta! 1007 01:51:22,293 --> 01:51:26,252 This is different. She studied in Italy 1008 01:51:26,377 --> 01:51:29,418 and speaks Italian. She read your book and loved it. 1009 01:51:30,043 --> 01:51:31,418 She wants to meet you 1010 01:51:31,543 --> 01:51:33,835 so I organised a dinner party at your house tomorrow. 1011 01:51:33,960 --> 01:51:37,585 - Did I do well? - You did very well. 1012 01:53:40,502 --> 01:53:44,335 Tomorrow I'll have the honour of dining with her. 1013 01:53:44,460 --> 01:53:47,002 - At the Holy Father's? - No. 1014 01:53:47,168 --> 01:53:48,752 No, at Jep Gambardella's. 1015 01:53:49,543 --> 01:53:55,543 You see, the Pope even invited the enclosed nuns. 1016 01:54:30,710 --> 01:54:33,335 Sisters, sisters, sisters! 1017 01:54:34,293 --> 01:54:36,210 Sisters, sisters... Yes, perfect! 1018 01:54:38,710 --> 01:54:41,127 Ah, the Red Cross nurses! Well-toned! 1019 01:54:41,293 --> 01:54:44,210 Okay, great... What handsome young men! 1020 01:54:44,752 --> 01:54:46,085 Great! 1021 01:54:46,668 --> 01:54:48,127 Let's go! 1022 01:54:51,960 --> 01:54:54,002 The Saint's assistant called me. 1023 01:54:54,127 --> 01:54:58,043 The Saint would like Count and Countess Odescalchi to come too, 1024 01:54:58,168 --> 01:55:00,335 as they treated her like a sister when she lived in Italy. 1025 01:55:00,460 --> 01:55:03,877 - Do you know them? - Of course, but they are not in Rome. 1026 01:55:04,002 --> 01:55:07,418 All the nobles are in London, at Philip's great-niece's wedding. 1027 01:55:07,543 --> 01:55:10,668 Let's call the Colonnas of Reggio. 1028 01:55:10,793 --> 01:55:12,668 The nobles for hire? They're dead. 1029 01:55:13,585 --> 01:55:15,377 Nonsense, they're immortal. 1030 01:55:15,502 --> 01:55:19,168 The Saint won't even notice, 70 years have gone by! 1031 01:55:19,918 --> 01:55:22,085 This piece of furniture looks great... 1032 01:55:22,252 --> 01:55:27,043 - Who would've thought! - It looks great, like a new bathroom! 1033 01:55:31,668 --> 01:55:33,835 Count Colonna speaking. 1034 01:55:34,460 --> 01:55:36,877 Yes, we are available. 1035 01:55:37,918 --> 01:55:39,543 For tonight. 1036 01:55:39,752 --> 01:55:43,418 Our rate is 250 euros per person for the evening. 1037 01:55:44,168 --> 01:55:47,418 Plus the cost of the car hire. 1038 01:55:48,543 --> 01:55:53,168 This would be somewhat humiliating for us... 1039 01:55:53,918 --> 01:55:58,460 We are willing to be hired as the Colonnas of Reggio. 1040 01:55:59,210 --> 01:56:03,460 But as for pretending to be the Odescalchis... 1041 01:56:03,835 --> 01:56:05,085 I don't know... 1042 01:56:06,418 --> 01:56:09,210 We were at war for two centuries. 1043 01:56:10,002 --> 01:56:11,877 I feel it's immoral. 1044 01:56:12,335 --> 01:56:16,710 Cut at least twelve pieces of rabbit! 1045 01:56:17,085 --> 01:56:20,668 Set aside the kidneys, liver, head... 1046 01:56:20,877 --> 01:56:22,835 Gently brown. 1047 01:56:23,710 --> 01:56:26,418 Don't forget thyme, laurel leaves, rosemary... 1048 01:56:26,543 --> 01:56:30,918 Then red wine, Ligurian olives... pine nuts. 1049 01:56:31,835 --> 01:56:34,918 And after an hour, you have Ligurian-style rabbit! 1050 01:56:35,627 --> 01:56:38,043 Sister Maria, what convent are you staying at? 1051 01:56:38,168 --> 01:56:42,127 Actually, we're at the Hassler Hotel at the Spanish Steps. 1052 01:56:43,127 --> 01:56:45,835 To be honest, Sister Maria finds it uncomfortable. 1053 01:56:45,960 --> 01:56:48,543 Never heard the Hassler described as uncomfortable! 1054 01:56:49,168 --> 01:56:50,668 It's very comfortable 1055 01:56:50,793 --> 01:56:54,085 but Sister Maria isn't used to sleeping in a bed. 1056 01:56:54,668 --> 01:56:57,918 She sleeps on the floor, in a cardboard bed. 1057 01:56:58,043 --> 01:57:00,127 Do you have any visits planned? 1058 01:57:00,252 --> 01:57:02,168 Sister Maria will climb 1059 01:57:02,293 --> 01:57:04,543 St John's Basilica's Scala Sancta on her knees. 1060 01:57:04,835 --> 01:57:07,460 - Have you? - I'd have liked to, but... 1061 01:57:07,585 --> 01:57:10,543 I have a bad knee... 1062 01:57:10,668 --> 01:57:13,252 Orthopedic problems are unimportant, 1063 01:57:13,460 --> 01:57:18,252 compared to the partial indulgence granted by the Scala Sancta. 1064 01:57:18,377 --> 01:57:23,085 That's true! Another speciality of mine is lamb with... 1065 01:57:23,210 --> 01:57:26,293 Does Sister Maria still help the sick? 1066 01:57:26,585 --> 01:57:29,668 22 hours a day, every day. 1067 01:57:29,835 --> 01:57:33,335 She washes them, feeds them... You ought to see her. 1068 01:57:33,502 --> 01:57:36,085 Despite her age, she doesn't walk, she runs. 1069 01:57:36,210 --> 01:57:42,460 Now she's tired, but that's because she's not with her patients. 1070 01:57:42,627 --> 01:57:44,210 How old is she? 1071 01:57:44,335 --> 01:57:46,335 She'll be 104 in October. 1072 01:57:46,502 --> 01:57:48,752 - That's impressive. - I thought she was older! 1073 01:57:48,918 --> 01:57:53,877 Longevity too, like all things, is not accidental. 1074 01:57:54,043 --> 01:57:56,668 About Sister Maria's interview with Jep... 1075 01:57:56,793 --> 01:58:01,960 Her interview? There must be a mix-up... 1076 01:58:02,085 --> 01:58:05,002 Sister Maria hasn't given any interviews since 1971, 1077 01:58:05,127 --> 01:58:07,877 after the reason for her mission in Chad, 1078 01:58:08,002 --> 01:58:10,752 was misunderstood by some. 1079 01:58:11,252 --> 01:58:14,377 Of course, but considering her admiration for Jep's work... 1080 01:58:14,543 --> 01:58:16,918 You told me she enjoyed "The Human Apparatus". 1081 01:58:17,085 --> 01:58:20,335 She found it beautiful and fierce. 1082 01:58:20,460 --> 01:58:22,460 Like the world of men. 1083 01:58:22,585 --> 01:58:25,293 Great! There would be no risk of any misunderstanding, 1084 01:58:25,460 --> 01:58:27,377 Sister Maria can review the text... 1085 01:58:27,585 --> 01:58:30,710 - No, I'm sorry. - Don't insist. 1086 01:58:30,877 --> 01:58:34,293 I don't wish to raise any false hopes, 1087 01:58:34,418 --> 01:58:38,002 there's absolutely no question of any interview. 1088 01:58:38,127 --> 01:58:41,085 Sorry, but why do you always answer? 1089 01:58:41,210 --> 01:58:43,335 Why not let Sister Maria talk? 1090 01:59:02,543 --> 01:59:04,960 Madam... 1091 01:59:07,752 --> 01:59:11,918 I took a vow of poverty. 1092 01:59:13,752 --> 01:59:18,252 And you can't talk about poverty... 1093 01:59:19,960 --> 01:59:21,710 you have to live it. 1094 01:59:33,043 --> 01:59:37,043 Such true and real words! Powerful words! 1095 01:59:41,168 --> 01:59:43,252 Do you need anything, madam? 1096 01:59:43,918 --> 01:59:46,293 - She needs the bathroom. - It's on the left. 1097 01:59:46,460 --> 01:59:49,252 The change of diet isn't good for her. 1098 01:59:49,377 --> 01:59:55,835 Sister Maria, in Mali, only eats 40 grams of plant roots a day. 1099 01:59:56,127 --> 01:59:59,543 Me too sometimes, in the evening, as a light meal, 1100 01:59:59,668 --> 02:00:03,252 I have some splendid roots with lemon. 1101 02:00:03,377 --> 02:00:06,627 You clean the roots by scraping them with a knife 1102 02:00:06,835 --> 02:00:10,293 and you cut them into small chunks... 1103 02:00:10,502 --> 02:00:13,835 Cardinal, remember when we met at that wedding? 1104 02:00:14,043 --> 02:00:15,793 You were there too... 1105 02:00:17,335 --> 02:00:22,585 I felt the need to ask you about matters close to my heart. 1106 02:00:22,835 --> 02:00:25,418 Matters regarding faith... 1107 02:00:25,752 --> 02:00:29,585 regarding the strength of spirituality... 1108 02:00:29,918 --> 02:00:32,002 But then you got distracted. 1109 02:00:32,168 --> 02:00:33,627 You can ask me now. 1110 02:00:35,585 --> 02:00:39,293 - No, I don't see the point. - Why? 1111 02:00:39,418 --> 02:00:45,252 I'd be very disappointed to discover that you have no answers. 1112 02:00:45,752 --> 02:00:48,460 I'm only saying it's a possibility... 1113 02:00:48,585 --> 02:00:50,543 I think that... 1114 02:00:56,960 --> 02:00:58,127 Never mind... 1115 02:01:03,627 --> 02:01:05,335 I apologize for earlier. 1116 02:01:05,543 --> 02:01:09,210 There is one question I really want to ask you. 1117 02:01:10,335 --> 02:01:13,002 Are the rumours about you true? 1118 02:01:14,085 --> 02:01:16,043 That you were a truly great... 1119 02:01:18,168 --> 02:01:19,918 exorcist? 1120 02:01:48,918 --> 02:01:50,835 Sister Maria... 1121 02:01:51,377 --> 02:01:52,918 Sister Maria! 1122 02:01:54,960 --> 02:01:56,585 - Sister Maria! - Saint... 1123 02:01:56,710 --> 02:01:58,627 - Have you seen her? - No, she's not there. 1124 02:02:01,085 --> 02:02:02,877 - Sister Maria! - Saint... 1125 02:02:03,002 --> 02:02:04,293 Sister Maria! 1126 02:02:04,418 --> 02:02:05,502 Saint! 1127 02:02:05,627 --> 02:02:08,418 She's called Sister Maria. 1128 02:02:08,543 --> 02:02:10,252 Sister Maria... 1129 02:02:10,377 --> 02:02:13,293 Where has that bitch got to? 1130 02:02:38,335 --> 02:02:40,252 Sister Maria! 1131 02:02:43,168 --> 02:02:45,210 Sister Maria! 1132 02:02:47,752 --> 02:02:49,168 My goodness! 1133 02:02:50,585 --> 02:02:52,418 My goodness! 1134 02:03:24,752 --> 02:03:27,710 Come, Elisabetta, let's go to bed. 1135 02:03:27,877 --> 02:03:30,877 You go ahead, I'm going upstairs for a moment. 1136 02:03:32,168 --> 02:03:34,335 Don't be late. 1137 02:04:48,877 --> 02:04:51,793 In this room, in 1930, 1138 02:04:51,918 --> 02:04:55,460 Princess Antonietta gave birth to her only daughter, 1139 02:04:55,585 --> 02:04:57,877 Elisabetta Colonna of Reggio. 1140 02:04:58,252 --> 02:05:01,418 The princess died after giving birth. 1141 02:05:01,543 --> 02:05:04,543 Young Elisabetta, in these opulent rooms, 1142 02:05:04,668 --> 02:05:07,543 had a happy and carefree childhood. 1143 02:05:07,668 --> 02:05:12,585 But shortly after, the financial hardship endured by Prince Erminio, 1144 02:05:13,210 --> 02:05:16,085 forced him to sell the property. 1145 02:05:53,002 --> 02:05:55,127 They're migrating west... 1146 02:05:55,293 --> 02:05:59,377 but now they are resting. 1147 02:06:13,210 --> 02:06:14,918 Did you know 1148 02:06:15,877 --> 02:06:20,335 that I know the Christian names... 1149 02:06:20,960 --> 02:06:25,085 of all of these birds? 1150 02:06:32,793 --> 02:06:33,960 Why... 1151 02:06:35,793 --> 02:06:39,377 did you never write another book? 1152 02:06:45,793 --> 02:06:47,627 I was looking for the great beauty, 1153 02:06:49,793 --> 02:06:51,502 but... 1154 02:06:54,752 --> 02:06:56,002 I didn't find it. 1155 02:06:57,918 --> 02:06:59,710 Do you know... 1156 02:07:00,543 --> 02:07:02,127 why... 1157 02:07:02,835 --> 02:07:05,877 I only eat roots? 1158 02:07:11,418 --> 02:07:13,085 No, why? 1159 02:07:20,293 --> 02:07:24,877 Because roots are important. 1160 02:10:00,252 --> 02:10:04,168 Now there's something I want to show you. 1161 02:11:05,460 --> 02:11:09,085 This is how it always ends. With death. 1162 02:11:10,335 --> 02:11:13,710 But first there was life. 1163 02:11:14,210 --> 02:11:18,252 Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. 1164 02:11:20,710 --> 02:11:25,668 It is all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise. 1165 02:11:26,502 --> 02:11:30,002 Silence and sentiment. 1166 02:11:30,502 --> 02:11:33,627 Emotion and fear. 1167 02:11:34,877 --> 02:11:40,418 The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. 1168 02:11:41,168 --> 02:11:46,460 And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. 1169 02:11:47,627 --> 02:11:52,210 All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world. 1170 02:11:57,627 --> 02:12:01,293 Beyond there is what lies beyond. 1171 02:12:02,335 --> 02:12:05,877 I don't deal with what lies beyond. 1172 02:12:07,002 --> 02:12:12,002 Therefore... let this novel begin. 1173 02:12:12,877 --> 02:12:16,877 After all... it's just a trick. 1174 02:12:17,877 --> 02:12:21,710 Yes, it's just a trick. 1175 02:12:23,877 --> 02:12:59,710 © anoXmous @ http://thepiratebay.sx/user/Zen_Bud