All language subtitles for Mima (1991)HDTVRip

You used to take me everywhere
with you.

You'd take me hunting,
or to the cobbler's.

Now it's over.

I...

You're becoming a woman.

I can't keep treating you
like a little girl.

Now it's your mother's turn
to look after you.

So you love me less?

No. I love you just as much,
even more.

FOR MARTIN L.

Mima.

Mima.

-Your mother's calling.
-Go away.

Leave me alone.

Where were you?

I've been waiting an hour.

Hurry up before I come over there!

I need the iron.
Go get some from nonna.

You couldn't have told me there?

I don't want the whole neighborhood
knowing.

If not there, try Aunt Antonia's.

Right.

Next it'll be the whole neighborhood!

-I want to come with you.
-I don't need a baby around.

She's a bad seed. There's nothing
to be done.

I want to go.

22, 23, 24, 25,

26, 27, 28, 29...

-...36.
-36, 37.

You count your steps, too?

I pretend when I get there,
I'll get 1,000 francs a step.

If I get to an odd number
without cheating, my wish comes true.

-What's your wish?
-If I tell you, it won't come true.

-Where are you going?
-To my grandfather's.

See ya.

Bye.

92, 93, 94, 95,

96, 97, 98, 99...

101, 102, 103...

...107, 108, 109, 110...

111.

It's me.

Oh, Mima.

I think nonna put it
under the sink.

Are you cold without your coat?

No, I have a sweater.

Does Annunziata have to come
tonight?

Don't eat it all.

So...

What?

You're handsome.

I took a bath.

I take one almost every week.

-See you later.
-See you.

Now that Salvator is getting married,

we'll be like two fiances.

And you,

how did you meet nonna?

It's simple.

I was walking down the street,
and nonna was up at a window.

She was hanging out the laundry.

And a pair of boxers
fell right in front of me.

I picked them up and looked.

And I thought,
"isn't she beautiful."

Like a flower.

And I thought to myself,

"It's her."

Everyone told me he was a thug.

Then why'd you marry him?

Because one night,

he came to sing under my window.

And I thought,

a man who can sing like that

can't be bad.

What was the song?

So, have you decided?

Yeah. I'm gonna get that one,
but in white.

White? That's ugly.

-I thought you wanted red.
-I changed my mind.

Again? You always change your mind.

Ready to go?

So?

Did you fight with your mother again?

You don't look right.

I look just fine.

But I have studying to do,
and it's too loud inside.

-Can I go to nonno's?
-No, you were there last night.

-I'm sure you forgot my shoes.
-No, I didn't.

But I had so much work today.
I had 11 pair to resole.

Will you have time tomorrow?

Yes. Did you clean your room?

I cleaned up my half.

How many times have I told you?
And every day, it's the same.

You always say yes,
but I don't see anything.

Annunziata, not so close to the TV.

Look who's here!

Are you eating with us?

-He got in a fight with Antonia.
-Again.

-She's on her period.
-No, she's right.

He's my brother, but when he's wrong,
I tell him.

Alfredo, you're wrong!

Mima,

set the table.

The pasta's done.

Alfredo, pour me a glass of wine.

Let's eat.

One day, you...

I know!

-And she asks!
-OK, OK.

Are you staying?

He fought with Antonia.

-She's on her period.
-She's on her period.

Go get the wine.

Annunziata, dinnertime.

Salvatore, please, turn the TV off.

What do you mean, no?
This is the only time we get to talk.

-About what?
-Don't answer, just eat.

And listen.

Mima, sit down.

Don't pout.

I'll take you to school in my truck.

Pass the gravy, please.

And the cheese.

Here. This oughta cheer you up.

I'm not thirsty.

Say, speaking of the wedding?

Have it in spring.

Why spring?

If you get married in spring,
it's cheaper for everyone.

We can wear light dresses.

-Who are you getting married to?
-You, right?

I'm not going to get married.

You'll do as you're told.

And eat.

I have to write a letter to social
security. I need some help.

About what?

They never reimbursed me
for Antonia's teeth.

They barely pay anything for teeth.

Barely anything isn't nothing.

So?

Do I wait to eat or no?

Look.

Don't wait for me.

I thought he told you.

When I went out,
she should have realized.

You're making your sister
not like me.

-Like it's my fault.
-Yes, it is.

Can we at least know
why you had an argument?

Because he wants to force her
to hang out with French girls.

I just told her
she shouldn't live like a savage.

Be sociable, Christ.

She doesn't talk to anyone.
Not even her neighbor.

With all the babies you make,
how can she find time?

She only sees Italian women.

Because French women are puttane.

You, with your big ears!

Look at your plate and eat.

Want to, Mima?

No.

-Come on.
-No.

Please!

OK, but quick.

Here, take one.

Keep it.

Want to know what I asked for
for Christmas?

I know...

-What?
-A white bicycle.

No.

A red bicycle,
because I changed my mind.

What do you want?

Nothing.

Mom's making me a dress.

Auntie's knitting me
a yellow sweater.

And nonno will give me
100 new francs.

Are you happy?

Yeah. With the 100 new francs,
I can buy a diary with a key.

What's a puttane?

If I tell you, you have to pretend
not to know.

I swear.

First of all, it's "a puttana."

A puttana is a woman who...

Who lets men flirt with them
for money.

So Mrs. Jacqueline gets paid money?

That's right.

Enough chit-chat, girls!

It's bedtime.

Tomorrow,
clean your half of the room.

OK.

Mima.

Be quiet and go to sleep.

Can I give you a kiss?

Yes.

Hurry up, lassies.

We don't say good morning anymore?

Can we go fast?

Mima.

The old dirty man,
that was your grandfather, right?

Stop it. Get in line.

I'm sick of going to Sunday school.

I already barely manage with the
homework, so with this, too...

Won't you tell Mom?

OK.

But yesterday,

why didn't you come say hello?

I brought a snack.

Yesterday?

When, yesterday?

I didn't see you.

Hurry up or we'll miss the news.

You know Belmondo
does his own stunts?

You slept the whole time.

You slept, too.

Andiamo!

Why'd he try to kiss your hand?

He's a Calabrese
who just came over from Italy.

Over there, young men kiss the hands

of old men when they see them.

It's a mark of respect.

But you didn't let him.

I'm not that old, am I?

I'm sure you were as strong as
Belmondo when you were young.

Belmondo...

What's wrong?
You're making a funny face.

If you fall with that in your mouth,
you could hurt yourself.

There are so many things
I'd like to show you and teach you,

but I won't have time.

Sure we have time.

Just tell Dad that...

That the movie ran long.

You're right.

Come on.
Let me show you something.

-I know!
-No you don't.

-Yes I do.
-No lo sai.

-Yes I do.
-No lo sai.

-Yes I do.
-No lo sai.

I'm cold.

A long time ago,

I came here with nonna

on a boat like that one.

I know.

You've told me a hundred times.

We lost Alfredo.

He was stuck in the toilets.

And a bunch of people
were waiting on the dock, I know.

Look.

I'll make you a keyring.

Don't forget you promised to take me
there for my 15th birthday.

And that you'd show me everything.

The endless olive trees.

Eating fresh ricotta.

And everyone will see
how beautiful you are.

I istruita.

What time is it?

You know,

since we've been married

I never wanted to know anything...

But for the love of God, be careful.

For what?

Last night,

I had a bad dream.

Those are women's dreams.

Don't worry.

I have to get up.

WOOD AND COAL

What are you here for?

I wanted to ask you something.

There's a soccer game on TV tonight.

And a movie on the other channel.

Dad will probably watch the game.

Can I come watch the film?

Don't touch that.

What's the film?

Beauty and the Beast.

It'll be the second time I miss it.

OK.

Tell your mother you have my
permission.

That way, you'll keep nonna company.

Why?

You won't be there?

Why not?

That's none of your concern.

Now go.

Hurry up. I'm busy.

Can we come in?

Don Vincent, we're here!

OK! Wait for me outside.

I have to get changed.

An important man

wouldn't live like this.

Ciao, Nonno.

I'm worried about Nonno.

He should have been home yesterday
or this morning.

Why are you worried?

You should be used to it, no?

Don't put too much garlic in.

Nobody eats enough garlic.
Garlic is good for your health.

When I dream of my mother,

it's always a bad sign.

Who's this blanket for?

Maybe for you?

For when you get married.

When I grow up,
I'll be an air hostess.

-An air hostess?
-Don't listen to her.

She changes it every day.

-Like mother, like daughter.
-Me?

I said one word out of line,
I got a smack!

If you don't go find a job,
there's no point coming home!

Those French folks upstairs
going at it again.

And yet they seem so nice.

French women don't know how to treat
a man.

They always want to be right.

I say, you have to make them think
they're right.

And pull the strings from below.

Why do you always talk bad
about French women?

I know what I'm talking about.

You better keep on the straight
and narrow, or else.

Yeah, yeah. You're always
threatening me.

She's going to drive me mad!

You never understand anything!

Wait for me.

That hurts.

Sorry, but we can't dilly-dally
today.

Hang on, I need to talk to her.
Say, little girl!

Tell your grandfather
I'm still waiting for my coal.

Tell him I've been freezing
for two days.

Why was his warehouse closed
yesterday?

I don't know, ma'am.

Tell him I want it today
at the latest.

OK, ma'am.

Why didn't you tell her
he's not there?

What's it got to do with me?

Annunziata, you never opened
the window today.

I only open it before bedtime.

Can I open it?

If you want.

Guess what?

-Tell me.
-No, guess.

Just tell her, Mima.

There's a green bicycle.

-No way.
-Way.

-Luigi Ponti?
-Yes.

Are you related
to one Vincento Macri?

He's my father-in-law.

Would you come with us, please?

Did something happen?

Come with us, please.

He's dead, right?

He's dead.

They killed him.

Mom, they killed him!

They killed him!

Come on.

Come on, Mima.

Auntie, why is everyone crying?

-Because...
-Because nonno is dead.

He's dead, right?

The police think he had an accident.

And he died?

Leave her.

I'll tell her.

What are you going to say?

You have nothing to say.

Go to sleep.

And nonno isn't dead, you hear?

He had an accident, that's all.

Mom said they killed him.

Your mother doesn't know anything.
No one knows anything.

Your father
went to the police station.

But until he comes back,
no one knows anything.

No one knows.

So really, no one knows?

Really.

So let's go to bed now.

You too.

Goodnight.

It's it true that
there was a green bicycle?

Yes.

It's good that Nonno isn't dead.

That way he can give you
the 100 francs.

You can buy your diary
with the lock.

Yeah.

Is he dead?

Yes.

What are you doing here?

We came to say goodbye.

Go to school, now.

I said go to school.

Ever since he came to France,

he know it was going to end this way.

He set this money aside

for his burial.

The men who killed him
will die like dogs.

My husband and brothers
will handle it.

They find them.

We'll kill them like dogs.

-No.
-Yes.

My husband and brothers
will do it.

They find them.

They must be killed.

Like dogs.

They'll take care of it.

-Who are they going to kill?
-No one.

Hurry up, we're late.

-I don't want other people to die.
-No one's going to die.

Mom's crazy, she's totally crazy.

I'm going to go home
and keep an eye on them.

And I'm going to be alone?

No.

You'll never be alone.

Whenever you think you're alone,

think about the painting

with the deer and the fawn.

OK?

I'm not hungry.

The Rosettis, with Francesca
and Luisa get here tomorrow.

Who told them?

Nino.

He send a telegram this morning.

Some say he should be buried
over there, at home.

His place is here.

She's here.

Mom,

are we not having Christmas this year
because nonno died?

We'll have it for you.

And for Mima?

For Mima, too.

But nonno was supposed to give her
100 new francs.

I'll give her the 10 francs.

You can't say thank you
to your uncle?

-Grazie Luigi.
-Grazie zio.

Do you want fruit?

Make some coffee instead.

Dad, can I watch a little TV?

No, it's bedtime.

Why? Tomorrow's Thursday,
there's no school.

Go play in your room.

I don't want to play.

Go to my place.

Anna's with the kids.
They must be watching TV.

Go, if you want.

Can I go to nonna's?

Nonna? No.

She's tired. She needs to rest.

I'd rather stay here.

Go to your room. We need to talk.

I don't want to stay here.

-No!
-Annunziata.

Later, take Pasqualina
and Maria and go home.

We'll find them.

Your father-in-law couldn't drive.

He couldn't have gone to his meeting
alone.

Men came to pick him up.
Someone must have seen them.

If no one talks,
we'll ask the neighbors.

But these things move slowly.

Why aren't you at school?

My English teacher is sick.

She's your daughter?

Yes. Mina.

Go make some coffee.

I'll stop by as soon as I get
the autopsy results.

Mima.

The night I was watching soccer,

you told your mother that nonno
said you could watch.

Yes.

When did you go to ask him?

After school.

What time?

Five o'clock.

Who was that man?

-A detective.
-Why did he come?

Listen, Mima.

Was he dressed to go out?

No.

He was supposed to meet people.

They came to get him.

Did you see them?

No.

I'm going to wash your hair.

That hurts.

Mom, that hurts!

Did you tell your father
the truth?

Huh?

You saw men come to get nonno?

I didn't see them.

You're lying.

-You saw them.
-No.

Why are you hiding the diary?

What's in it?

-Show me.
-No.

Show her. She'll get it.

COAL MERCHANT VINCENZO MACRI
EXECUTED

COAL MERCHANT VINCENZO MACRI
EXECUTED

What are you doing here?

Where'd you get this paper?

Anne-Simon was reading it
with her friends.

Come on.

I want to know.

Look...

Thirty years ago, in Calabria.

Your grandfather was the boss

of a group that collected money

for poor folks and found jobs
for them.

He would hide people if the
carabiniers were out to get them.

People trusted him.

And then one day,

for political reasons,
he had to leave.

He came here without a dime.

He worked hard.

And the Calabrians who came to France
kept coming to him, like he was...

He remained a kind of patriarch
whom you could ask for advice.

That's what the mafia didn't like.

He had a power over people

that they wanted.

That's why they killed him.

But if you know it was the mafia
that killed him,

why don't you tell the police?

Well...

"Mafia" is a word

that hides people we don't know.

No one knows who they are.

And the ones who know anything
never talk,

because they're afraid.

Understand?

There's no reason to be ashamed.

Nonna wasn't a mafia don
like it says in the paper.

He was a good man.

A man everyone loved.

Nadine is dumb as a doornail.

She won't believe about the deer.

She says you can't walk around
in a painting.

Isn't she dumb?

Don't worry about her. She's jealous.

It's a secret.

It's 'cause in class
my eyes were closed,

and the teacher said
it wasn't naptime.

And everyone laughed.

Nadine said her father said
nonno was a crook.

And us, too.

And that we're not French.

He said we should go back
to our country.

What business is it of hers?

Couldn't you have grabbed her hair?

What's wrong?

Mom still hasn't bought
the Christmas tree.

If you want,
I'll give you all my toys, OK?

I don't need them anymore.
I'm grown up now.

And your box of pearls, too?

Mima.

Tomorrow, at school, I'll draw you
a nice drawing for Christmas.

Can't you let me look?

Are you Mima?

Luigi Ponti's daughter?

Mima.

Look over there.

See those two men standing

by the gray car?

With their hands in their pockets.

Those two men

are the ones who came
for your grandfather

the night he died.

Do you recognize them?

Later,

they're going to go
to your grandmother's

to offer their condolences.

But before they go up,
they'll shake your father's hand.

Those two men, Mima,

are going to walk close to you.

Right by you.

Mima,

when they walk by you,

you'll pretend
that you never saw them.

Do you promise you'll do that
for me?

Grazie.

Good, Mima.

I can tell I can trust you.

Come on.

You can go now.

Marcello wants me to leave
after the funeral.

He's right.

The women should stay at home.

The kids and I

will go to my mother's.

I'm staying here.

May God protect them.

I want an explanation!

Take this!

It's the guy from the 4th floor.

He hits his wife.

Oh?

Mom told me

French women don't know how to
handle their husbands.

What about you?
Are you French or Calabrian?

I dunno.

Anyway, I'm not getting married.

What's that?

That's Mrs. Pianeli,

on the second floor. She can't see.

She misses the sink half the time.

You know about everything.

Are you going to see my father?

Yes.

Where'd you come from?

Aunt Antonia's.

The women are all there.

But I'm going to my grandmother's.

Goodnight.

-It's the detective.
-Evening.

Detective Lebret.
He's handling the investigation.

He's from Paris.

Listen...

For fifteen years,
you almost became French.

And you made many sacrifices
to do so.

But I'm familiar
with your traditions.

Your code of honor.

And that's why I'm here.

I want to warn you

against reacting in any...

Calabrian way, let's say.

-Detective...
-You know what I'm talking about.

You might do something that would
be with you all your life.

Everything you've built here
would be wiped out.

There are some things

you can't understand, Detective.

I didn't have to come.

You'd have settled your scores,

and there'd be a few more funerals.

But I'm a police officer.

And as such,

it is my duty

to arrest guilty people so they can
be punished by the justice system.

The French justice system.

Not the Calabrian one.

Gentlemen.

Think about it.

Yeah.

Hang on.

What do we have here?

Hi.

Come in.

Shut the door.

Come have a seat.

Do you know someone here,
or did you come to see me?

I followed you.

Did you have something to tell me?

Are you coming back to see my father
tomorrow?

Maybe, why?

Are you afraid of something?

What's your name?

Mima.

Listen, Mima.

If you want me to protect

your father, tell me what
you're afraid of.

The men who killed my grandfather,

could they try to kill my father,
too?

Not if he doesn't know them.

So he can't find out.

But if he does know,
he should tell me.

That's how I can protect him.

Do you understand?

Do you believe me?

Grandpa didn't like the police.

I know your family
doesn't like the police.

What about you?

Aren't you cold with no socks?

I forgot them, but I'm not cold.

So you live here?

For now, till the investigation
is over.

Where the other killers are.

You have no house?

I have a house.

But no family.

So you're all alone.

I'd like to be all alone, too.

Why do you say that?

I wish I hadn't been born.

Or to another family.

With normal parents.

The kids at school
don't have problems.

When I was little,
I wanted other parents too.

When I wound up at boarding school,

I felt alone.

And I cried a lot.

And I felt like my I missed
my parents.

The other day,

grandpa came to school.

I pretended not to see him.

Because everyone makes fun of him.

I was ashamed.

Now he's dead.

Your father's lucky
to have a little girl like you.

And you're lucky to have a father
like him.

Your father's a great guy.

Really? You really think so?

I really do.

Come on.

I'll walk you home.

It's late for a little girl.

I'm almost a woman now, you know.

It's true, Mima.
You're almost a woman.

This is the first time
I've been to a hotel.

Don't say I came.

I promise.

It'll be our little secret, OK?

So?

It cost me,
but I got some information.

You were right.

The meet was a trap.

They killed him.

Right there.

If we bring the police in,

no one will look us in the face.

Keep Marcello and Salvatore calm.

Wait till after the funeral
to make a decision.

It's the Ventimiglia.

They'll be at the funeral.

If they don't show,
they'll betray themselves.

It's Luigi's decision to make.

Why Luigi?

It's not his father who died.

You're thinking about your father.

I'm thinking about our children.

We already said all this.

Let's not start all over again.

We know who the bastards are.

Let's get some guns
and settle this Calabria style.

They can't be far.

We should act now.

That's all just talk.

What are you doing?

So you know who killed him?

Yes, but there are some things
you can't understand.

But Dad...

If you die, what will happen to us?

Come on. The others are waiting.

At the funeral, stay here
and watch your sister and cousins.

Look! She's there.

The kids aren't coming
to the funeral.

We'll be long gone after it's over.

Dad!

Mom doesn't want us to go
in her room.

I know, but today is different.

-Can I count on you?
-Why?

I have to do something.
You have to watch your cousins.

-If I watch them, they'll obey me.
-OK.

Over there...

Mima.

I have to go home.
Annunziata's waiting.

Adam Lozier
Subtitling: Hiventy