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Shh!

Go, Peter.

Pink.

Rosa, come on, please come. Let's go.

Come on!

Go!

Peter, they played.

Peter?

Here they are!

How beautiful we are! Mamma mia!

Do you want to give me the backpack?

You said hello to grandma, huh?

Eh, love? What do you have colors in here?

Let me see a little bit.

- Where is grandfather? - He is studying.

Now he's coming. Let him study a little more and then....

- Wonders! - Here's grandpa.

Come to grandfather.

How are you doing?

Are you afraid that I will tickle you?

Come here! Come here!

Now, you are all my stuff.

I no longer exist!

- Hi. - Hi.

- How are you doing? - Good, you?

Good.

My property here, isn't it?

Here comes the monster that eats you!

I will tickle you madly!

I tickle like crazy, both of them!

Will you eat with us?

No, I have to go to work. I'll see you directly tonight.

Is there any hassle?

I don't know, I'm working on something about Dad.

- Something about dad? - Yes.

What?

I have to solve it.

You're mysterious, huh?

There is no school law on which he has not had his say.

He has always expressed himself.

Our house was a bustle of students who came and returned to thank him.

- And to ask him how he was doing. - I know, Emma.

Now I'll see what I can do with the list.

My father should not be listed with the others, but he must receive the prize.

- No. - Hi, Luisa.

No, I cannot guarantee that.

And then, if one today says Vella to me, I'll ...

- Hello. - I think of you, not Peter.

You know how much I struggle if I'm sure I'm on the side of right, don't you?

Yes, I know.

We have to go through an endless controversy, and then so much, in the end, you give in.

I believe that Peter does not qualify.

There are criteria for candidates to meet,

And I didn't write them.

- I'm going to turn them over to you now, okay? - Let's see.

- Absolutely. Did you turn them over to me? - Yes.

Here basically.

- Well? - Luisa, one minute and it's here.

- Come on, we need to get started. - I give the green light!

Here, it meets all the requirements.

Above all,

"A distinguished student who can come in the event of an award ceremony to praise him."

Does Teresa Quadraro ring a bell?

- Teresa Quadraro, the scientist? - Yes.

- But was she a student of his? - Is she illustrious enough?

Yes, we had nominated her two years ago as a Knight of the Republic,

But he politely declined the invitation.

He hasn't been to Italy for many years. Do you think he would accept?

- So? - Everyone valued my father.

Everyone would do anything for him.

Good.

Gentlemen, you may be seated.

The President of the Republic.

Good afternoon, everyone.

You must surely have observed very carefully...

- Should I talk to him? - ...the latest events...

No.

...who witnessed, a difficult passage of the country,

which, however, helped to highlight even more,

a key feature.

The ability to respond to difficulties,

united with great composure and with great determination.

Fidelity to constitutional dictate,

and respect for its role as a founding country of the European Community,

are and will be, the tracks on which our country's recovery will start.

The whole country united, from north to south, will know how to roll up its sleeves,

will be able to respond appropriately to the challenges with which we will be confronted,

especially will be able to cope with commitments that at the international level...

"Dear Professor Quadraro,

I hope the last name tells you something, to read this e-mail,

without the frowning expression Of one who is thinking,

'But who is this? What does she want?

Instead, in Italy,

no one could afford not to know who she is.

But in spite of that,

I have the impertinence To ask you a precious favor,

In the name of a person whom you know very well, my father.

The man who brought me to where I am.

He raised me By affection, by example,

Showing me what a good man is.

Peter Vella.

I know you are in Boston,

I know that his commitments and the magnitude of the results of his work

could legitimately prevent them from doing so.

But I will explain,

my father could receive a major award.

On love,

you are not the first, nor the last, to have been in love, in life.

Five thousand years of literature,

They come to us, give us a hand, when we talk about love.

Poets are people just like us,

they were trying to describe, in other words,

this strong and strange thing.

Exactly what we are trying to do now.

What do you really feel When you say you love.

If you think about it, actually, you experience a range of feelings,

several.

What? Am I saying crazy things?

If you think about it, anger, resentment, envy,

are all things that let you know that you are in love.

Pass it around.

- Fear... - I have love!

- Fear. Me, too. - Love.

- Poetry is a concrete thing. - Fear?

You, love? Go!

Yes, love.

Let's see what you have given birth to.

Then. "When I love, I'm always pissed off."

Who is this?

It makes you laugh that they said: "Pissed off."

"I have the urge, I do crazy things, like I forget everything."

Like you, when I question you. You are all in love!

"Fortunately, I have never loved, love sucks."

Indeed!

"It is never equal, it is always overpowering."

Who wrote this one?

All right.

Professor, but today weren't we supposed to have normal class?

Bell, what is this here? What are you from the ministry?

This is a normal lesson.

So now let's see what we have learned.

So Campana is happy.

"Love and Fear."

All right? So.

Let us try to understand what relationship there is between these two major themes.

Quadraro, do you want to add anything?

No, professor, it all sounds very good to me.

Ah, well.

"Dear Emma, I feel like I have known you for years.

Although her father spoke to me about her only once,

When she was still a child.

I'm glad you thought of me, however, I really don't know what to say to you,

because I have met a lot of interesting people in my life,

But Pietro Vella, my teacher in a suburban high school,

Is the only man I loved,

And that, to this day, I seem to continue to love."

Quadraro.

Do you want a ride? Where are you going, home?

- Come. - No, thank you.

I bring you...

So, see you tomorrow.

Rind!

- What shall we do? - No, I can't!

- I have Greco's question next. - Quadraro.

Quadraro, please come.

By the way, there is only a quarter of an hour left.

But I would like to know if Greco,

you allow yourselves to do the same things that you do with me.

Professor, I'm going to help you.

It is unbelievable!

Thank you, Quadraro, because here if not, there's no coming out.

We are going to review outside.

- Goodbye. - Are you all right?

Why did he want to walk me home yesterday?

I thought that was kind.

It doesn't.

What is the truth then, sorry?

We haven't gotten there yet With the program to the truth.

Quadraro, shall we do this question?

Tell me about it, come on.

What do we want to talk about?

Um.

Poena cullei?

The punishment of the sack, go.

It was the punishment reserved for parricides.

The condemned man was locked inside a sack,

after being flogged with blood-colored rods,

And after wearing a wolf's head, or a womb of a she-wolf.

- Oh, yeah? - Yes.

And I found it particularly fascinating.

I didn't know that.

He was locked in the sack with four animals,

a monkey, a dog, a rooster and a viper.

Each animal had a different meaning.

The rooster, for example, was considered the most ferocious animal,

And it was thought to eat vipers,

So, in the bag was to create a kind of concatenation of killings.

The dog was considered the most unfaithful animal.

The monkey was a kind of caricature of the human being.

Instead, the viper, in my opinion, is the most interesting.

Then it is extraordinary, we talk about these animals

only after the second century CE, thus after the killing

- Caesar's... - All right, Quadraro, come on. Thank you.

Always a pleasure.

At least we raise a little bit the class average

Come on, you got promoted, though, didn't you?

Come on, will you knock it off Michele?

- How did it go for you, good? - Just 45.

- Come on. - At least I didn't get sawed off.

Correct.

So, Quadraro.

- Professor. - It seems to have gone well.

It seems so.

Take care.

She, with the skills she has, can do whatever she wants.

- Maybe, professor. - Remember that!

Thank you. Thank you for all what you have taught us.

- Have a good vacation. - You too, indeed.

Goodbye professor, I'm going to say goodbye.

So have you guys, have you decided what you are going to do in college?

How many engineering?

- Hi. - How many?

Are you happy?

- You engineering as well? - I Philosophy.

- Philosophy? - Philosophy.

Quadraro.

- Professor. - Hey! Bravo!

- You're going to take math, right? - Yes, and.

- What about you? - Me?

But I am doing well in Letters at the moment.

A few more years I'll do it, then we'll see.

However, guys, whatever you choose is fine,

You always have a way to be able to change anyway.

Try to do what makes you feel good, try to be happy.

Meanwhile, go on vacation and rest.

Then it will be taken care of. All right? You have made a good effort!

Thank you, professor.

Thank you.

All right, I'm going to go.

- Hi. - Hello everyone.

- Hello! - Hello!

- Bye. - Happy vacations.

- Same to you. - Happy vacations.

Let's hear it for the professor!

Vella.

Palace!

- It's still here! - Who can be seen!

How you have grown!

- Return to the scene of the crime? - Let's go to the professor.

Okay, bye.

- Of course they are small! - Yes.

Yes.

No. We sure prettier, cooler.

- Yes. - Can it be?

Good morning!

- Morning. - Hey.

How are you doing?

- Well? - Everything okay?

- How are you? - What a pleasure! Look who's back!

So, you are in touch with everybody.

- Yes. - The others?

Franceschelli is enrolled in medical school, and Guerrazzi is doing physical therapy.

- Ah! You see? - Yeah.

What about Quadraro? You didn't tell me about her.

I guess he was wrong about her.

Mica came, professor.

She is a waitress.

The more brilliant they are, the worse they are.

Cotenna has already made her car.

Yes, but I pay it in installments. I have the fixed place.

Which then if it wasn't for her, who knows by now?

Come on!

Sorry, tell me a little better about Quadraro.

Heh!

She is lost.

Yes.

- Hi. - So?

What are you doing here?

Eh, I had passed...

How are you doing?

Good.

Everyone came by to see me, minus you. You disappeared.

So I said, "I'll go."

- You did well. - Teresa.

If the gentleman wants to eat, there is room here.

Thank you very much.

- Are you calling me by my name now? - You're not my professor anymore, are you?

Do you want to eat something?

In fact, I had stopped by to have a chat.

Do you have some time?

I don't know, because he is kind of breathing down my neck.

- I say after working hours. - Especially after working hours.

- Whatever, then I'll leave. - No, whatever.

- Stay. - What is the specialty of the house?

I am the specialty of the house.

- Are you free? - Please.

- Thank you. - Have a good evening.

- Welcome. - Thank you very much.

- Would you bring us the bill, please? - Yes.

Free?

And the daughter who had the flu, And the wife scolding him.

- So. - So.

You can tell me now, finally, what are you doing at the fish restaurant?

It's fun.

But what about the university?

What do you know, you?

I know you would have been the best.

And they told me it's a year that you don't hang out anymore. Right?

You know I'm easily bored, right?

Even now I'm about to get bored, because you are about to give a boring speech.

You were the best at it.

You were the one forcing us to be good.

What does that mean? Meaning?

How could I force you to be good?

You loved us.

That doesn't seem like a big deal to me. What's wrong with it, excuse me?

For others, nothing.

Only, with me, you also put some love into it....

And I was not used to it.

Beer?

Health.

What?

You know.

That it wasn't right to want someone my age, was it?

- In what way? - We were not equal.

Sincerity?

Huh? Two minutes.

Okay. So, hand on heart.

I wanted you.

I, however, have never been ambiguous.

I always treated everyone as equals.

Meaning.

I have never been ambiguous with you.

Letters cheats, and Math tells the truth.

Thank you, professor.

And thank you for not tipping me, I would have felt a little uncomfortable.

Will you promise to think about college?

You are in time to go back.

You have as much time as you want.

Do you now continue the tour Of former female students?

Come on, please.

But do you live here?

- Back there. - Just home and store.

I was pleased.

He fell, shh! Who cares!

Wait, just a moment.

- Give me two minutes. - Yeah, okay.

2 minutes.

Sorry.

Shh!

What is it?

- Huh? - I don't know, nothing.

Like nothing? She felt...

It's not like anyone goes up, right?

No.

Sorry, it's awful, I know.

However, then everything is more fun.

- Morning. - Hey.

Good thing you woke up! If not, I was in danger of not saying hello.

I have to leave.

The coffee is ready.

And then, I made a pattern for you, this morning, to catch up.

In a way that you do exam after exam.

You have all the time, day by day, every exam.

Meanwhile, for the first session.

You have the whole house to yourself.

I put the books on you, and everything you need.

Understand? If you work, steadily, slowly, slowly...

You...

Whatever.

Take your time, eat breakfast, do whatever you want, just study.

Little by little, and you will see that everything is easy.

Do you understand?

Come on.

Ah, though!

Didn't you like my little programs?

You can tell that you do Humanities.

Coming, excuse me!

What's the problem?

- Did you get everything? - Yes, I think it's the last one.

Give me.

I'm on it.

- Excuse me just a moment. - Yes.

Here I am!

For education.

We did not introduce ourselves.

- Hi. - Marcello.

Bella. Peter.

Do you know that she is an orphan?

Yes. I also lost parents as a boy...

You also know that you are taking away her independence, don't you?

I think if he continues to study, he will be able to have...

Would you let go of my hand, please?

Sorry...

Thank you both for this tearful moment, let's go, come on!

- Sorry, you hurt me! - Come on, let's go.

- It hurt me, it squeezes me.... - Go, go...

Just because she told me she esteems you, And she never esteems anyone.

- You don't have to give me permission, you know. - I know that, love. Bye!

I know how they used to catch unicorns in the Middle Ages.

They were basically sending into the woods the maiden and they thought

That the unicorn would be attracted by her virginity.

Cool, isn't it?

The unicorn.

Do you want to?

With that brown tie!

- Oh, God, not that tie! - But it was looking at you in a way!

Yes, it was ugly as hell.

- What's up? - Wait a minute.

There are some people I know.

- But it's Peter! Peter? - But why?

- Hi! - Good evening!

- Hey! - Peter!

- Hey! - Hi!

- So? Sorry. - Go and say hello, won't you?

Go!

Good evening.

- Good evening. - How are you doing?

Good.

- Hi. - Hi.

- So? - We are about to have dinner.

- How are you doing? - Good, everything is fine.

I am with a former student who has just graduated.

Congratulations, best wishes!

- Humanities? - No, Math.

- Math? - Yes. Among other things, a mathematical...

Then, in a very short time, with a...

In short, tell about it.

Complicated?

Yes.

Among other things, in a very short time.

He put the theory of the... What is the name of the thesis you did?

- Node theory. - The theory of knots. Of the.

It is a branch of Topology.

Another geometry of equity.

It will be so difficult!

Yes, the nodes are intertwined curves in space.

- In short, a far cry from us! - Indeed!

Guys, come on, I'll let you eat, that way we can go celebrate.

- All right. - Have a good evening and best wishes again.

- Thank you. See you later. - No, instead I think we stay here.

- Meaning? - You care that your friends like me.

- What do you mean, sorry? - I'm not your trained dog.

Hi, I'm Teresa.

- Giovanna. - Hello, Giovanna.

I don't give a shit about what's between you and Joan.

No.

I swear, I don't care if you fuck.

Truly.

The only thing that hurts me is If you are ashamed to be with me.

No, sorry!

It is that this former student has been sleeping in her bed for two years now.

Joan, I'm not mad at you.

Bye, Peter, see you at home.

- Let's have dinner. - Bye.

I guess we don't!

Can you explain what you do?

Will you tell me what you are afraid of?

Were you afraid of me? Of them?

We are free people.

You are a free person, so am I.

We can invent new rules, Peter.

You love me, I love you, let's make love.

You hate me, good morning, love, good night, love.

Everything is beautiful, only I want more than that.

All right.

- Right. - Do we tell each other everything?

Let's say it all.

- Really everything? - Yes, everything.

Do you want to start?

Do we tell each other something that we have never told anyone?

Meaning?

Secret.

- Why, do you have a secret? - Yes, do you?

How, yes?

How about you?

- I don't. - This is a yes.

What? Who told you that?

Are you ready?

Is that such a bad thing?

No bullshit, though, okay?

This is serious, Peter.

Come on, you start.

So?

This is a bad thing.

So, is it my turn?

Are you sure?

You know you won't like it, yes?

You know, it's to bind us forever. I am ready.

In my opinion, we fuck up.

However.

It is.

Excuse me.

Do you realize that this thing, if known, would destroy you?

But I love you.

- I so much. - So what?

Come here.

Teresa?

- Good morning. - Good morning.

Good morning.

He missed the seminar on drugs, professor.

Good morning.

Good morning, professor.

Do you think I am limited?

You think I wouldn't have noticed!

And according to you, a limited person, gets a degree in Mathematics with 110 cum laude!

But you have no idea of the effort that has to be made to...

Oh, sorry. But am I at B?

- We have class... - On the third.

On the third one! Sorry!

But don't you tell us anything?

- Did you write it? - Yes.

It is a commentary on the union statement.

It is very good. Did you agree it with the Section?

But no, what an arrangement!

I felt it was only fair to point out some things.

This is great, you should get it published.

And who publishes it for me? It's two lines.

There were more little things like that.

Thank you.

- Thank you for earlier. - You're welcome.

I had never heard you like this And I allowed myself...

- What are you doing, going to the coffee shop? Coffee? - Yes.

Of course the school, the union, the refresher courses, but how do you do it?

I have a lot of free time.

And then I just got out of a story recently, so, I have even more.

Was it an important story?

Story.

How about you? What do you do in your spare time? Do you manage to have some?

Yes.

I am attending the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Florence.

- Ah! - You're welcome.

how come?

Free work.

But I'm aiming for research; I'm almost there.

Ah, well.

And do you live with someone or are you alone? If you don't mind me asking.

I am engaged.

- Ah. - Since I was 16 years old.

Of course, not with the same person.

And I'm finally getting married.

Come on!

Fall.

How envious!

About me?

About him.

What a pity.

I can have your article read,

to a person who is in charge of a magazine of school things?

Yes, of course.

- But do you play sports? - What kind of question is that?

Because you have muscular arms, for a math one.

- No. How? - Huh?

- They look regular to me. - You have nice arms.

No one had ever told me that.

Make a little muscle.

Heh!

Eh! Eh...

That's dumb.

Every once in a while, a dumb thing happens.

Dumb things are just dumb.

Don't you want to?

I'm not telling you.

Mm...

Not even in the ear?

Who is there?

Hey.

I told Carlo everything.

Everything, what?

Everything.

I'm not getting married anymore.

Are you done with your ex?

Me with him...

I don't want to be unfair to you exactly.

Don't you want to get married anyway?

Huh?

Is it really over with your ex?

Peter Vella!

You are still alive, damn you!

You swore That you would love me forever

And after one year you have already forgotten me?

I didn't recognize you in this hood.

How are you doing, then?

Good.

- Going up? - How? No.

- Come on, get in! - No, I'm busy.

I know there is a new deli that makes crazy supplì.

- I know, but I can't. - Five minutes and then I'll take you home.

- It's here, come on! - Okay, five minutes, though.

- Yes. - I'll close the machine.

Nothing, the usual.

Lately, I have been writing articles on the state of schooling in Italy,

But it's a small little thing.

Let alone if it wasn't small And if it wasn't a little thing.

And, won't you tell me anything about yourself?

There would be one thing.

- Another little thing? - Actually, a big thing.

Are you ready?

Not this Sunday, next, I'm getting married.

Do you know with whom?

With Labaro, from Math.

Do you remember it?

Is that so?

- Nadia, yes. - You're getting married to Labaro, really?

Yes.

You chose my aged copy.

- Give me a break! - You always liked math, huh?

- But what? - However, I also have news.

- Meaning? - Departure.

Where are you going?

I got a scholarship scholarship to America.

Ah!

I had a boyfriend, a colleague, who said, "It was either me or America."

I said, "America."

You did well.

You were born right With a fucking shirt on, you!

Did you really manage to find a jerk who didn't notice who you are?

Will you finish it, please?

Do you love her as you loved me?

I don't even answer you.

- Are you serene with her? - Yes, Teresa, I am very peaceful.

With me you weren't?

Would you please stop?

- Does she know? - Enough of this. Enough!

Professor?

- Excuse me. - No, sorry you.

- Do you remember me? - As if I don't!

- Scarlett, right? - Yes.

I saw her, and I wanted to thank her for the advice she gave me years ago.

I followed it, and I did well. So.

- Sure. - Thank you.

- Thank you, I was glad to hear that. - Me too.

- Good things. Bye, guys. - Have a great day!

I had to answer...

But what advice did you give her?

What the fuck do I know! It's bad enough that I remember what his name was!

I also thought you were God.

Then, you told me you didn't exist.

Can you not trust God?

What the fuck are you saying? I didn't understand.

- What the fuck do I know. - Ah, here.

However, you have a lot of good qualities.

Who knows if Nadia is, the lucky one.

Hopefully!

I think so.

Are my five minutes up?

No, what about it! Eat.

Have fun in America.

And you play nice with Nadia.

And don't wear her out like you did me.

But if I have loved you more Than anything else in my life.

Yes, just more than anything else!

You could have done better, you know?

- I could have done even worse. - There is no doubt about that.

Be good.

Look I also know Terrible things about you,

That could ruin your life.

But I have nothing to lose.

If you turn my life upside down, I always fall back on my feet.

You don't.

All right.

Hello.

Be careful.

- Hi. - Hi.

You watch out for you.

I can't do it.

But what?

I am an Easter egg without a surprise.

Expired.

You deserve more.

Come on.

Come on.

Today, March 15, 1991, at 3:48 p.m,

at the Hall of Honor of the Arts and Folk Traditions,

authorized for the celebration marriage by civil ceremony.

In a room open to the public, ahead of me, Massimo Tribeschi,

Civil Status Officer of the City of Rome,

to give the receipt dress in official form,

Have personally appeared,

Pietro Vella, born in Rome on July 22, 1948,

and Nadia Labaro, born in Rome on January 17, 1951.

What?

Both residents Rome...

Blood is coming out of your nose.

- Where? - That way.

They submitted the document under prescribed and from the examination of this...

- Do you have a handkerchief? - No.

- Did you bring it? - No.

Excuse me, do you have a handkerchief, please?

Does anyone have a handkerchief?

That way, thank you.

Sorry.

- Would you open it for me, please? - Yes.

Sorry.

Wait...

Okay, come on, can you do it?

- Excuse me. - There are other newlyweds.

Sorry, also not to make it dirty, isn't that...

- You're welcome. - It never happened.

I read to the bride and groom Articles 143...

...and Articles 144 and 147 of the Civil Code.

So, I asked the groom,

Whether he intends to take for his wife, Nadia Labaro here present,

And to this one, if she intends to take her husband, Peter Vella here...

Emma, come on, get a move on!

Mom, why did you get me the cookies chocolate chip cookies? I don't like them!

Because Dad likes them.

Why didn't you take both?

When you earn your money, you will buy the cookies you want. Okay?

Go.

- Do you see how beautiful daddy is? - Beautiful!

- Are you sure it's not too much? - No.

- It looks like I'm going to a wedding. - No, it looks like you're going to the ministry.

- Wish dad good luck. - Break a leg.

- Hello, love. - Hello.

Hi, honey.

You take her, go!

- But it's heavy! - You have to get used to it.

We used to call each other on the phone, didn't we? I'm Itro.

Good morning. Yes.

Here we are.

You know, here in the ministry,

they want me to be an undersecretary with a tie, with a jacket,

calling her a lei...

What a wonderful place.

- Do you like it? - Eh!

So, Peter, I envisioned a series of meetings

And a small volume on your theses ...

...Let it also become the official position of the ministry.

Ah! That much?

- I didn't know that. - I'm telling you now.

In a little while, there will come a person who cooperates with us, who knows everything about you.

But really everything.

If you now make a good impression, I mean, if she likes you,

your career can really change...

Take care.

Hello.

Where do we start?

Good morning.

Tilde Pacini follows up with us for publications.

- Hello. - Hello, nice to meet you.

Pleasure. Pacini of Pacini Editions?

Yes, Vitaliano Pacini Editore is my father.

Sometimes I come to work here Ministry, who need it.

Congratulations!!! I am a great admirer of the whole editorial line,

especially the scholastic series, but also everything else.

Don't be offended, but I expected him to be older!

Could it be that I write a little bit like an old man?

No! It's just that it doesn't happen often

For a young man to write in school magazines.

There is no more boring thing. And he is also a handsome man.

I printed her here all the things that she has posted a little bit everywhere.

I have divided them by themes.

All my stuff? Ah, though!

Hadn't he noticed, in seven years of work?

No, frankly, I have to say.

In my opinion, working on it a little bit,

can pull out a small essay of a hundred pages. No?

Yes.

But really teaching means leaving a mark,

Or instead, maybe we need to think that we need to create free citizens,

Free to emancipate from us as well?

This is one of the reflections in this essay by Peter Vella,

Then there is much more.

Did your daughter make this cover?

- Yes. - It is beautiful.

Before the debate, I wanted to ask a question.

When did you start teaching, what principles was your work based on?

- No principles, I must say. - That's it!

- Should we believe it? - We do.

There is a question. Do you want the microphone?

No, thank you.

How closely do you monitor your students?

I try to leave great freedom.

I think they should feel free.

Of course, free to do whatever I want.

No, in the sense that there are ways always of.

I hold him in very high esteem.

Because it is absurdly modest.

Me too.

Do you also value it?

Yes, of course.

Or do you love him?

No need to respond.

Anyway, it's nice here, isn't it? I've never come.

Cute.

- Again? - We are here!

Ah!

- Hi. - Coming.

- It's down here. - Yes.

Drop the barrel.

- We don't stay that long, do we? - No.

If it goes bad, let's go eat something...

- The gate here. - Yes, the green one.

In Rome, I am the teacher of mathematics in high school.

And then, I run to Florence University,

And I become the unpaid assistant and unrecognized.

It's been years since the great professor has been making me write my thesis.

He makes me write it and rewrite it, I don't know why I listen to him.

Then why do you do it?

Thank you.

Because he ventilated a research grant.

How long has it been?

Consider that I started anteroom a few years ago.

And as you wrote And rewrote your thesis,

How many people have passed you by?

Whatever, but you know that the university has times...

Mamma mia how good this wine is! What is it called?

- Prince, an Amarone di Valpolicella. - Prince.

What a shame!

Sorry, I'm getting embarrassed.

- Emma! - Emma, get off!

Where are you going, excuse me?

- Leave her. - Are you jealous?

No, but sit in your seat.

You bother like this, sit down.

- If you're sleepy, let's go. - Come on, Emma.

Leave her alone.

I would immediately come and live here.

- Yes? - There is a tranquility! It feels good.

- Where do you live? - Downtown.

It is nice, but there is a lot of traffic.

It doesn't even feel like Rome here.

In fact, we are far from everything.

It is the center that is far from us, sorry.

Beyond everything, the schools downtown are better, unfortunately.

Then you have this little girl who is growing up.

You have to give her the right stimuli.

The stimuli in this neighborhood, I assure you there is no shortage of them.

- We have been teaching here for many years. - There are also a lot of difficult people.

There are also a lot of difficult people,

But that's exactly why it's challenging, even with respect to the work we do.

At least, you can leave your mark.

For example, there was a former student who wanted to leave her studies,

Is now at MIT in Boston.

- Teresa Quadraro. Maybe... - Yes.

And go to America too, since you are so good.

I would like to change the area.

- However. - Now.

You have three salaries in two.

Peter will not finish work tomorrow at the Ministry, right Marisa?

- Of course not. - It depends on whether I behave well.

All you can do is behave well.

There is a woman who is ready for anything to keep you straight.

Who would that be?

Wake up!

Love.

Wake up!

Emma, are you ready to set Dad straight?

Emma? But am I that boring?

- She fell asleep. - Did she fall asleep?

- Can I take her to bed? - Nadia, you take her off...

- No, you take her to bed. - I'll go.

- Do I have to carry it? - Yes, dad will take care of it.

Tilde, sorry, don't worry.

- Darn! I have to carry her! - Go!

- Never mind. - Okay.

Come.

- I'm going to go to the bathroom for a moment. - Sure.

Will you show them the bathroom?

- May I? - Sure.

- No, I don't smoke. - Ah.

But if there is more wine, gladly.

Next time I will bring three.

Better.

Good.

The smell of the cheeses reminded me of when I was a child.

My grandfather was a pastor.

Sardinian.

It's true!

But what?

Sorry, it's not for your grandfather.

I never laugh.

- Where was your grandfather from? - He was from Sardinia.

He would come home with these caciottas And he would fill the whole kitchen...

- Oh, God! I'm feeling sick! - Oh, God!

- Do you want some water? - No.

Sorry.

Ah, Luisa!

But you put the book Luisa's on the desk,

Because you know I discovered it And you wanted to make a good impression on me?

No, I am reading it. By the way, it is also very interesting.

Luisa is unbearable.

As a writer ça va.

I am strange,

Because if an author has a message for the world, I don't give a damn.

If, on the other hand, he has something about himself that is repulsive to him, a monster,

I come and make him write a book.

Rare are the writers Who do not like themselves.

- Sure. - Better to work with you professors.

Dear Teresa, how are you?

What is it like to live in America?

It may seem strange to you to read me after so many years,

But I wanted to tell you that the dam we built together,

To guard our miserable secrets,

holds.

I kept yours for myself,

Because I really care about your career.

And also to mine.

I am also finally making small steps forward.

You won't want to, so much. Thank you professor!

That's it!

Come on, Emma.

There is a lot of mail!

Alumni postcard,

Wedding invitation, former students...

- Marriage? - Mom, my stomach hurts.

Have you regained contact with your ex?

- Teresa Quadraro, Boston. - No.

Mom, my stomach hurts.

Can you go a day without me?

You are always sick when you are with Father.

You'll get over it now, you'll see.

Let's go!

- My stomach hurts. - Yes.

Now you go to school and...

- The teacher doesn't let us go to the bathroom. - ...go to the bathroom.

He always gets angry.

It never makes us go.

In my opinion, he thinks we exchange notes.

Really, he gets angry and I don't know why.

"You're afraid, huh?"

Really.

- Huh? - Really.

Yes.

Dad, but am I going back to my school tomorrow?

How, honey?

- Am I going back to my school tomorrow? - Of course you go back to your school.

We all hope.

The school was flooded, they will put it back tomorrow,

And Dad goes back to regular class.

What's going on here?

He is copying.

- What? - He is copying.

Who is copying, love?

Are we copying?

We have the spies here. Copy well, at least.

Let's do one thing.

Copy well.

Hey, shall we play a game?

Huh?

Let's play the secrets game.

Is that okay?

Make room for me.

You think about it and tell me.

Watch me check you from here as well.

You wouldn't think so, but I'm still the professor.

Have you thought it through?

Eh...

- I won't tell anyone. - What about yours?

- My what? - Secret.

Ah, of course.

Is it ever possible,

That the ministry needs an assembly to learn from us what it already knows?

Even without convening assemblies so disparate and nonsensical.

Here we forgot one thing,

Or you didn't want to understand one important, very simple thing.

If the state gives teachers a shitty salary,

teachers have to return the favor With shitty performance.

Period!

Period!

May I?

Yes, yes, please.

Thank you.

My classmates and I finished high school four years ago,

And we read the essay discussed today.

Pietro Vella was one of our professors,

And we thought it was only fair to comment on what we had read.

But I prefer to put that aside for a moment,

And report something that to his colleague, the professor who challenged him,

might seem very peculiar.

Professor Vella loved us.

He has always been close to us,

When we didn't understand his subjects, when we did not understand ourselves.

And what he says in his book is true and works,

Why the pedagogy of affection works.

It worked with us, and it continues to work after years.

Miss, it is not that we are here To love or to be loved,

we are here to teach, we are professors!

In fact, I will tell you more.

If she as a student hates me, I am happy,

because it means I have done my job well.

That is, prepare you for the world.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

But teaching, doesn't that mean leaving a mark?

Because Professor Vella, has left a mark on us.

Did you on your pupils did you leave a mark on them?

Tell me, did you leave him?

What is the crime in changing us?

What is the crime of making us become what we are today, tell me!

Dad won today.

Are you Vella's daughter?

Yes.

You look like me, you know?

I said, when you switch to a game, put that one back first.

- Hey. - Hey.

So?

How did it go?

How did it go with the professor?

Hello?

But what happened?

Nothing.

You are not the only one who has had a hard day!

Emma did not go to school today, because it was flooded.

- She had to stay all day with me. - Not even one day a month, you make it.

What, excuse me?

What?

You always say that with the ministry you only do nonsense.

Do less of it And spend more time with your daughter.

First of all, I with my daughter seems to me I'm there long enough.

Especially at this time That I am doing such important things,

do you call them nonsense?

Nonsense I can call them, with deliberate modesty.

But they clearly are not,

otherwise the ministry would not be behind this.

Nonsense will be what you do in Florence Or where the fuck are you going to do this stuff!

Oh!

You hurt me!

Ouch!

Emma.

Emma.

Come here.

Come here.

Stop.

It's nice here, huh?

- Yes, so what? - There is a good air.

Eh.

So what?

Yesterday, I went to the professor.

Finally, after two months, he gives me an audience.

I thought he had read my work, But as I entered the room,

he says to me, "But how nice we look today! Come let's see together."

And I went around the desk To see the thesis that was on his side.

And as I get closer, he puts his arm around my side,

And he leaned a little bit.

And I of course left, because it was an absurd situation.

And he didn't say anything.

It's not that he did something to apologize, to make me go back,

But he let me go.

What? How did he...

I'm done with college.

Obviously, not because of what he did, because he was a jerk.

I don't mind anything, he didn't humiliate me.

I thought, though.

Than if I were good,

If he really believed in me, he would not have done so.

Accept it all.

The consultancies, articles, collaborations.

There is nothing wrong with it if you are okay with it.

That's what happened to me, patience.

Let's say, in this life, you are the one doing interesting things.

That is our new home.

- Come. - Huh?

Let's go!

Look, here is the garden.

Come on, come and see!

This is the entrance.

You still remember him this professor, huh?

Of course, it's not like they have Alzheimer's.

If it wasn't for him, I didn't speak Italian so well.

Then I had to try a little harder!

He is telling you that he loves you.

But they know me!

Yes.

I know. After school we had thought about of starting the club The Vella Widows.

The Vella widows?

- Vella widows. - Did you know?

- Rumors had reached me. - Oh yeah?

We knew he would become famous.

- The article in Panorama is beautiful! - Do you remember the arti...

- What article? - Why, has it come out?

- Yes. - Ah!

I gave it to you.

Don't you remember, a month or so ago, that I was interviewed ...

Yes, in fact I was wondering why it hadn't come out yet.

- I thought it didn't come out anymore. - Can I see?

- This one. - Thank you.

That's so good! Gosh!

Panorama is also important in the picture.

- Yes, it is beautiful. - How wonderful!

How good your professor is!

Did you not know that you were on the same number?

How did I know that, sorry?

Four pages!

- Was she your student? - Yes, ours.

- Do you know her? - Yes.

- Peter, can you help me? Sorry. - The credit is yours.

- Sure. - You're welcome.

Come here for a moment.

She was his teacher math teacher! Sorry.

- What's going on? - I forgot...

- What? - Hadn't you seen Panorama?

No, why?

What?

You didn't hide it very well.

- Can I explain? - But what do you want to explain?

We are not in the classroom.

Did you think I would get jealous And I was going to be crazy?

That I would have wanted to be there on the paper with you?

- It would have been normal. - No!

I am a grown woman!

And we are a couple.

Huh?

Come on, we are a family!

- You don't mind? - No.

- It was an accident. - Let's go back to your students, come on.

- Sorry. - Come on, and yes yourself.

Come on, I was dreaming!

Oh, yeah huh?

Get back to sleep, come on.

And what happened?

Too bad, I would have gladly come to Turin, too.

- Hi! - Here they are! Hello!

- How are you doing? - Fine, thank you.

Hello!

- How are you doing? - I love you.

- Here we go. - I love you too.

But you are dressed alike!

- Hello, love. - Hello.

Hello, plague.

Hello!

- Have a good trip! - Next time come with us.

Yes, absolutely!

He wants to travel with you!

- Eh, thank you! - No! Sorry.

- Hello! - Hello!

- Hi, Emma! - Hello!

- Hello! - Even the tail says hello, hello!

Let's go.

- Papers. - Thank you.

- Here you go. - Thank you.

What room are you?

The same plan.

Good.

It is good to be out of the house.

What?

It bothers me a little that you know everything about me!

That's the whole trip I'm talking about.

You know all the most intimate things, my preferences...

If we had slept together five years, you would know a lot less.

And I still don't know anything about you, you haven't told me anything.

And what do you want to know? What should I tell you?

Huh?

But what about you?

What?

Do you want to let me know more?

There is the debate now.

Dear gentlemen, good evening.

I think you all know Professor Pietro Vella,

who wrote an essay on school reform,

And Dr. Pacini,

To whom I would like to give the microphone, to begin this talk of ours.

Dr.

Thank you, good evening.

Good evening and thank you for coming to the presentation of Vella's paper.

Meanwhile, to break the ice and get to know each other,

I make a short introduction.

She links her experience as a teacher

To a spirit of observation that is, simultaneously,

In and out of the teaching role.

You teach without observing yourself, observes himself teaching.

Question.

When she started teaching,

On what principles was his work based?

Yes.

Yes, let's say.

An issue obviously on which...

...so many colleagues ask themselves questions, they question themselves,

because there always seems to be a founding principle to be inspired by

As a lecturer or as a...

I think one should feel free even not to use any principle.

- You're welcome. - Thank you.

A few words to our guests.

I would like to remind the kind audience

that, as part of the international education,

the ministry participates with round tables, listening points

and gathers field opinions from 13 countries,

that have systems public school systems comparable to ours.

Before continuing the discussion, I would like to list...

- Thank you very much. Here we go. - Thank you.

Congratulations!

Kudos to her, because it was very inspiring!

- I thank you so much. - Also the people who were there.

Did he sign the book for you?

It was a great job, really. Congratulations, see you soon!

Goodbye!

And nothing, there is no no formal dinner, they are boors.

- Yes. - But better that way, let's have dinner together.

Better. I have something to do now, though.

- Yes, all right, I'm going for a ride. Come on. - Yes.

I'll see you later, right?

- Don't make me wait. - Don't.

Hi, Teresa.

Peter.

Hello.

- Congratulations, professor. - Congratulations.

Thank you. Thank you.

Nice place!

However, look at your feet.

- What do they have? - They are toward the exit. Do you want to leave?

What are these? Body marks according to mathematics?

- But what do you want? - Stop it!

Bah!

- You? - Me, what?

I did what you wanted.

This does not mean that I did what I wanted to do.

No. But stop it, come on!

- The one I wanted! - How are you doing?

- Good. - Really, Peter, how are you?

I'm fine. What's the matter? I'm just fine.

- Shut up! - What?

- How are you doing? - I'm great!

- How are you doing? - I'm great!

- Really, I say. - And what for pretend?

- But what do you want? - Have you cheated on her yet?

No.

What do you want?

In my opinion, yes, as you were betraying me.

No.

And did she cheat on you?

With whom?

Well, he might betray you With everyone who esteems you,

to make sure that they appreciate her more than you do.

And they might sleep with you, to be less humiliated by your success.

- What success? - Your success.

Or maybe she's screwing one of your colleagues or friends.

Maybe neither of them Because he has the curse of esteeming you

And it's a problem because you think you are the only one who can betray.

Shut up! Just stop it! What the...

All right, go away!

- I'm of a certain age. - You want to go, don't you?

No, I want to stay here.

You are fine, I am fine.

You have a family That works better than the Holy Family.

We do such interesting things that they put us in the newspapers.

Greetings and kisses!

To you they put in the newspapers, you have a much bigger space too!

Because I deserve it!

You are superficial.

Pietro Vella, you...

you don't stay in the same place Where your feelings are.

- But what does that mean? - Do you see that you are superficial?

Ouroboros.

But who are you, the Sphinx?

Let's do one thing.

One thing to bind us forever.

- Even more? We miss it... - It's never enough.

I want a wedding.

It's a little late.

Not a religious or civil marriage, I want an ethical marriage.

What the fuck does that mean?

It means that if one of us slips up,

the other can go to everyone, to Nadia, to your daughter, to say:

"Only I know who this man really is."

And you can say:

"Only I know who this woman really is."

What a fixation!

Again.

You know why,

I propose this marriage to you?

Do you know what's in it for me?

If you lost everything...

You would come back to me.

Deny it.

Try denying it.

So?

So?

I pronounce us husband and wife.

Watch out for you.

Fear.

Too much confidence.

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

Hey.

Forgive me.

Your wife called me, twice.

- Nadia? - She asked about you.

I told her you were not there.

- Unfortunately, they held me back... - You don't have to tell me, tell her.

Call her.

Have you had dinner?

Yes, for an hour. Have you?

- No, I don't. - Shall I have a toast made?

No, thank you.

- Hello. - Hey.

Here we go.

Peter, but what time is it?

I don't know, 00:10.

You know I'm asleep at this time.

It is to tell you that everything is all right, I know you had been looking for me.

Yes, I know.

I talked to Tilde earlier.

Why were you so late?

But nothing! You know, these teachers Who feel like chatting,

I was held inside a pizza parlor, and one thing and another ...

You, on the other hand, what did you do?

Nothing, Itro came by to see me.

We had a glass of wine.

- At home? - Yes, at home.

But I didn't understand, but proprio when I'm not here, you have to come?

Because, is there any...

I don't understand, does it bother you?

Whatever, Pietro, I'm sleepy.

Talk to you tomorrow, bye.

- I hear you a little strange. - Come on, Pietro! Hi.

You are welcome.

Don't you close the door?

Listen.

I was thinking.

Do we really need this thing?

That is.

As in.

We make love now and then after that what happens?

Nothing, if we feel like it, we'll do it again.

I don't know, I'm kind of ...

I'm a little discombobulated, then it feels so...

Yes.

- It's that we spoil something that ... - No.

It is so beautiful, we have a...

I would not like to...

- Enough. - Do you mind?

No, please.

- Are you sure? - Fuck off!

I have to answer, it's Itrò. All right, I'll see you tomorrow.

Good night.

Here I am, hello!

I'm not alone, wait a minute.

Don't tell him that I'm in as well.

Good night, bye.

Excuse me guys? Excuse me? Can you guys keep your voices down?

It is a hotel this!

It's 1:00!

You can't have this attitude! Already from under the piano, that's enough!

You guys broke the fuck up!

- We understand. - Grandpa, go to sleep.

Good night, bye!

- But look at this! - It's really sold out.

Who is the exhausted?

Well?

Go to sleep, go.

- Good night. - Huh?

Come on, it goes.

I guess I don't really want to to get around, you know?

I got tired of it.

What do you want to do?

I want to go back to teaching, to doing what I always do.

School, giving unheeded advice to the ministry as long as they ask.

I would like to stay here, at home.

Making the former life.

- Before what? - Before.

Mother, you have such a terrible secret,

That if it were known, no one would love you anymore?

No one has a secret like that, but who has a secret like that, Emma?

- Dad, yes. - What? I what?

- And what secret does dad have? - First you have to tell us yours.

No,

I want to continue to love you And to be loved,

So secrets must remain secrets.

Why, do you have it?

He has it!

Ah!

Huh?

- Eh! - What?

Dad, what? Huh?

What?

- But dad, what? - Shh, don't tell him.

- What did she tell you? - It's a secret between women.

- Are you going to tell me as well? - No.

- Huh? - Don't tell him. Shh!

So ticklish for you, too!

- My darling! - How are you doing?

- Good, you? - Good.

- What a surprise! - Did you see that?

- Mom's not here. - No?

No, he is doing his own thing.

Come, give me a kiss.

- What are you doing? - I'm standing here, watching a series.

They all look the same now.

They are not all the same.

What about you?

What?

Eh.

Huh?

- You get a prize. - A prize?

- Yes. - Why?

The prize is given to you the President of the Republic.

- Are you kidding? - No.

They award you along with with two other teachers,

For all the things you have written and that you have done for the school.

Ah, though!

- Are you in the middle of it? - Absolutely not.

And it's not over.

The president wants there to be a student to say good things about you, to talk about you.

And here is the problem, because to track one down!

There was a line, you know.

However, I looked for the best.

I got in touch with your most prestigious student.

And she...

assured me that he will come.

But who is he?

Huh?

Teresa Quadraro.

May I?

You are welcome.

Ah, though!

- How are you doing? - And you, how are you?

Good.

- You are always the same. - Recognizable.

Not equal.

And nothing...

I had come here to...

To talk to each other And see each other alone for a moment.

Before we...

No?

At least.

Have you come to know what will be my speech before the president?

- No. - I don't know, Peter.

I haven't written it down, and I think I will improvise.

Of course.

Are you still afraid That I might say something?

- Teresa, we are old now. - Not that old.

Oh, I do.

Let us leave each other alone.

Huh?

Let us leave each other alone.

I have to prepare myself, Peter.

See you later.

Mom?

Mom?

Here I am, so what?

Father?

Today they are spinning.

He went out early.

Maybe it has arrived or is due to arrive, I don't know.

- What do you mean, "They're spinning?" - They get turned around.

There is even a line!

- It's not queue, mom. - No, it's not queue.

- Slowly. - Yes.

Teresa.

- Emma? - Yes, Emma.

- Nice to meet you. - Bye!

Hello!

- Thank you. - And for what?

No, really.

Nadia, but how much life?

- Too much sport. - Get a hug.

And him, where is he?

- It's not here? - No.

It will come.

He always makes himself known.

- Always. - He is a little excited, but he comes.

Good.

Mr. President, cardiac surgeon, Sandro Partini.

Congratulations.

Mr. President, it is with great pleasure Dr. Teresa Quadraro.

Dr.

- I really valued your presence, thank you. - It is an honor.

Meet Mrs. Vella.

Math she taught me, but they reward the husband.

Welcome to the Quirinal, ma'am.

- What happened to her? - Tendinitis.

- All the best. - Thank you.

Good morning, President.

It's not that your daughter wants to convince me of an interview right now?

Absolutely not! I'm here for my father today.

I read it often.

The pedagogy of affection, a very interesting concept indeed.

Although, in my time,

we grew up with the pedagogy Of fear, for the truth.

- Eh! - Now, where is he?

- He is on his way. - You may be seated.

Please, Chairman, we can go. You're welcome, Minister.

Sorry.

"Professor Vella has been an excellent professor.

He has trained generations of students and I am among them.

It's my turn to say, too: 'If it weren't for you, Professor.'

There were perhaps better professors, better prepared,

But he never lacked passion.

Some times, he was naive.

And he didn't know it.

His methods were often naïve.

It was like this.

He was funny, he made people laugh.

However, if you got lost,

Was always coming after you."

I believe.

Peter?

My love.

I believe that, however,

the time has come to tell everyone who you really are.

I'm going to say something That no one will like to hear,

But he does.

Because, in fact, it has been waiting for this moment for a lifetime.

It was one day, after an evening at a pub,

we were...

We were angry, we were disappointed, maybe.

And this he confessed to me.

Goodbye, Dad.