1 00:00:12,007 --> 00:00:16,364 - SWEET DREAMS - 2 00:01:53,807 --> 00:01:59,803 Oh! Oh! Finally! You're here! You made it! 3 00:01:59,847 --> 00:02:01,963 Is that where you showed the film? 4 00:02:02,687 --> 00:02:04,643 - But the screen is dirty! - No! 5 00:02:10,647 --> 00:02:14,242 Excuse me, we'll be quick: Michele has to go to another debate. 6 00:02:14,767 --> 00:02:17,600 So, how does Michele work? Without a script; 7 00:02:18,247 --> 00:02:21,603 with actors nonchalantly playing themselves 8 00:02:22,127 --> 00:02:26,120 totally identifying with the issues in the film 9 00:02:26,287 --> 00:02:28,118 or, if you like, of the "non-film", 10 00:02:28,607 --> 00:02:32,441 as we could define work that develops as it's being made, 11 00:02:32,527 --> 00:02:34,245 without a beginning or an end, 12 00:02:34,927 --> 00:02:40,559 where the characters use cinema as an instrument for self-analysis. 13 00:02:41,167 --> 00:02:43,158 And the next one? The next one? 14 00:02:43,207 --> 00:02:46,005 You've been taking it easy for three years. Three years! 15 00:02:46,047 --> 00:02:49,562 Always the same topics: Young people, 1968, school, family! 16 00:02:49,687 --> 00:02:52,121 After the first one you could tell you needed a change, 17 00:02:52,167 --> 00:02:55,045 but now it's mandatory! Mandatory! 18 00:02:55,687 --> 00:02:57,518 So what will you think up this year? 19 00:03:02,127 --> 00:03:05,676 Show this film to a laborer from Basilicata, a shepherd from Abruzzo 20 00:03:05,887 --> 00:03:08,720 or a housewife from Treviso. I'll take it to them. 21 00:03:15,087 --> 00:03:17,157 Listen, I wanted to say something. 22 00:03:17,287 --> 00:03:20,757 - You can come up here if you want. - No, no, here's fine. 23 00:03:20,807 --> 00:03:23,924 - There's a microphone here. - Yeah, but I prefer it here. 24 00:03:24,087 --> 00:03:25,839 They may not hear you from there. 25 00:03:26,447 --> 00:03:27,880 Yeah, but I'm shy. 26 00:03:30,887 --> 00:03:32,525 You want me to come closer to you? 27 00:03:33,087 --> 00:03:37,638 No, I just wanted to say... You made a lot of money with this film. 28 00:03:37,927 --> 00:03:42,000 How much did you make? Did you make a lot? 29 00:03:44,247 --> 00:03:50,595 Well... it's difficult to quantify. Too much. Too much. 30 00:03:55,847 --> 00:03:57,246 - Shall we start? - Please. 31 00:03:57,967 --> 00:03:59,116 OK. 32 00:04:04,727 --> 00:04:10,438 If there's someone who'd like to speak up... 33 00:04:12,727 --> 00:04:18,085 Sorry, but this film only shows rich villas, with fine books, paintings. 34 00:04:18,127 --> 00:04:20,482 Aren't there any young factory workers? 35 00:04:22,527 --> 00:04:24,199 Well, I prefer to... 36 00:04:25,367 --> 00:04:28,439 But you do realize that cinema is not your field? 37 00:04:29,207 --> 00:04:31,357 You wanted to make a film about young people. 38 00:04:31,407 --> 00:04:34,160 If the young are like that, well... You're like that! 39 00:04:34,807 --> 00:04:36,684 You speak about yourself, 40 00:04:36,727 --> 00:04:39,799 of your own personal, what's more, very limited, experience. 41 00:04:40,167 --> 00:04:42,886 But this film isn't representative of youth. 42 00:04:44,287 --> 00:04:46,960 In fact, I didn't want to represent them. 43 00:04:47,807 --> 00:04:50,241 I barely represent myself. 44 00:04:53,767 --> 00:04:58,841 Maybe we can understand your intellectual games, 45 00:04:58,887 --> 00:05:01,321 these linguistic experiments. 46 00:05:01,847 --> 00:05:03,644 But a housewife from Treviso, 47 00:05:05,207 --> 00:05:07,846 what does she understand of your new language? 48 00:05:08,007 --> 00:05:10,726 What does it matter to her after working all day? 49 00:05:10,767 --> 00:05:13,281 She's tired in the evening, and wants to enjoy herself. 50 00:05:20,807 --> 00:05:23,367 - So, see you tomorrow at the cinema. - All right. 51 00:05:23,447 --> 00:05:25,915 - A single room, right? - Yes. - Perfect. 52 00:05:26,047 --> 00:05:27,196 - Bye. - Bye. 53 00:05:36,007 --> 00:05:37,281 Second floor. 54 00:05:41,927 --> 00:05:45,442 I have a good memory for faces. I recognized you immediately. 55 00:05:51,407 --> 00:05:52,965 - It's ending, huh. - Michele! 56 00:05:55,087 --> 00:05:59,922 The manager, owner and cashier of the only cinema in town. 57 00:05:59,967 --> 00:06:03,243 How do you do? I never wanted to show your film. 58 00:06:03,287 --> 00:06:05,198 - Why not? - It never convinced me. 59 00:06:05,247 --> 00:06:08,205 Of course, today it's full, thanks! 10 films 3,000 lire. 60 00:06:09,087 --> 00:06:13,126 But, you, I've figured you out: You're not central enough. 61 00:06:13,847 --> 00:06:16,122 You have to make films for the general audience! 62 00:06:17,247 --> 00:06:20,956 I choose the films myself. Sunday there's always a full house. 63 00:06:21,487 --> 00:06:25,082 - Well, I'll give you my phone number. - Okay. 64 00:06:25,847 --> 00:06:28,566 In a year or two, when you've gone out of business, 65 00:06:29,047 --> 00:06:31,038 call me, I have to tell you something. 66 00:06:34,567 --> 00:06:39,721 My films may seem natural, spontaneous, improvised. 67 00:06:40,447 --> 00:06:44,360 You'll never see the tension and labor behind my work. 68 00:06:44,847 --> 00:06:47,566 Excuse me. It's me... 69 00:06:48,207 --> 00:06:49,481 Speaking of hard work, 70 00:06:49,607 --> 00:06:52,644 do you think a laborer in Basilicata, or a shepherd from Abruzzo, 71 00:06:52,687 --> 00:06:56,236 will want to see this great film of yours after a long day's work? 72 00:06:56,727 --> 00:06:59,002 Me, I didn't understand it at all. 73 00:07:00,167 --> 00:07:01,885 No, I... 74 00:07:03,487 --> 00:07:05,603 The working class recognizes me! 75 00:07:16,087 --> 00:07:19,284 Well, yes, actually I've been working for many years at the Hotel Pine... 76 00:07:39,807 --> 00:07:40,876 Hi. 77 00:07:41,407 --> 00:07:44,160 Sandro, Michele. He's the technician from Telenova. 78 00:07:44,247 --> 00:07:48,240 This TV thing is important for us, it's a cultural reference point... 79 00:07:48,847 --> 00:07:49,962 See you later. 80 00:07:51,367 --> 00:07:53,642 - Can I keep my coat on? - Yeah, yeah, sure. 81 00:07:55,167 --> 00:07:59,922 Tell us about the cinema? Talk about the young people. Okay? 82 00:08:02,207 --> 00:08:06,405 I know young people, I observe them. They are a barricade against reaction. 83 00:08:06,447 --> 00:08:10,998 They're vivacious, with an urge to do things, to understand, to build. 84 00:08:11,047 --> 00:08:13,436 I have a lot of faith in the young. Sixteen-year-olds... 85 00:08:13,487 --> 00:08:14,715 Sandro! Sandro! 86 00:08:27,247 --> 00:08:29,044 Sixteen-year-olds are a bit sad. 87 00:08:29,087 --> 00:08:31,601 Seventeen-year-olds, however, read a lot of fiction. 88 00:08:31,647 --> 00:08:32,966 Nineteen-year-olds... 89 00:08:44,727 --> 00:08:47,764 Nineteen-year-olds are rediscovering competitive sports 90 00:08:47,807 --> 00:08:50,958 and I noticed that twenty-year-olds have good family relationships. 91 00:08:51,047 --> 00:08:55,040 Twenty-one-year-olds... Help! 92 00:08:55,207 --> 00:08:58,244 Help! 93 00:08:58,647 --> 00:09:01,559 Help! 94 00:09:11,327 --> 00:09:12,919 - Who's there? - Who's there? 95 00:09:14,887 --> 00:09:16,286 - Who is it? - Hi! 96 00:09:16,367 --> 00:09:18,835 - How's it going? - Fine. And how are you? 97 00:09:19,207 --> 00:09:22,882 - I finally finished the debate tour. - Well done. 98 00:09:23,047 --> 00:09:24,639 - Well done? - Well done, well done! 99 00:09:24,807 --> 00:09:27,241 Now, you have to read this article about you. 100 00:09:31,647 --> 00:09:35,356 Look: "The Story of an Honest Young Man", that's the title. 101 00:09:35,407 --> 00:09:39,241 You can imagine what the article's like. You see how they exploit your film. 102 00:09:46,247 --> 00:09:50,525 Mmm. You could have waited a minute, I've only just got here. 103 00:09:50,567 --> 00:09:51,716 One minute! 104 00:09:51,887 --> 00:09:54,799 Well, a certain Nicola phoned, 105 00:09:54,927 --> 00:09:57,680 calling from a town outside Rome, I don't know where. 106 00:09:57,727 --> 00:09:58,921 A bunch of calls. 107 00:09:58,967 --> 00:10:03,643 The first: "Please, I want to work as your son's assistant on the film". 108 00:10:03,767 --> 00:10:07,362 "Please, I can't come to Rome, I don't know what to do". 109 00:10:07,447 --> 00:10:08,516 A quarter of an hour later: 110 00:10:08,567 --> 00:10:12,276 "This is Nicola from before, I want to be your son's assistant". 111 00:10:12,407 --> 00:10:15,319 "Now I wanted to tell you I might be able to come to Rome". 112 00:10:15,367 --> 00:10:18,245 "Anyway, please, you've always been so kind to me..." 113 00:10:18,287 --> 00:10:20,562 I couldn't see what had made him change his mind, 114 00:10:20,607 --> 00:10:22,006 or why he'd changed it like that... 115 00:10:22,047 --> 00:10:25,119 Sorry, what am I doing here? Talking to myself, how wonderful! 116 00:10:25,487 --> 00:10:27,682 He certainly didn't use that tone. 117 00:10:27,887 --> 00:10:30,321 "He certainly didn't use that tone". 118 00:10:38,767 --> 00:10:44,205 Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, who lives with his elderly mother. 119 00:10:46,647 --> 00:10:49,684 Freud, living with his elderly mother. 120 00:10:59,407 --> 00:11:00,396 Yes! 121 00:11:44,367 --> 00:11:46,562 I figured out who the guy from outside Rome is. 122 00:11:46,607 --> 00:11:50,839 Hello? The story you had me read is pathetic, forget the cinema! 123 00:11:50,887 --> 00:11:53,845 But it's Nicola, the one who phoned you several times before. 124 00:11:53,887 --> 00:11:56,799 I spoke to your mother, who was always very kind to me. 125 00:11:56,847 --> 00:11:58,246 Well, so what? 126 00:11:59,367 --> 00:12:04,077 I wanted to know if it was possible to work on your film, as an assistant. 127 00:12:04,247 --> 00:12:06,636 No, no, no, no. No! 128 00:12:06,767 --> 00:12:09,964 But I just want to see, I want to learn. 129 00:12:10,047 --> 00:12:12,880 Uh, well! What do I care? So long, good-bye. 130 00:12:21,567 --> 00:12:23,717 So, Freud is working, 131 00:12:24,007 --> 00:12:27,283 he's dictating his notes to his daughter, Anna. 132 00:13:06,407 --> 00:13:07,476 Yes. 133 00:13:07,847 --> 00:13:13,205 Even in the classicism of the Italian Enlightenment and Alfierian tradition 134 00:13:13,487 --> 00:13:16,206 Leopardi holds a leading position. 135 00:13:22,247 --> 00:13:23,999 In him, we reach the highest level 136 00:13:24,127 --> 00:13:27,085 of that tension between progressivism and pessimism 137 00:13:27,607 --> 00:13:29,882 largely implicit in the theory 138 00:13:30,447 --> 00:13:33,041 and literature on which he had been nourished. 139 00:13:34,407 --> 00:13:37,046 Already in the great Enlightenment thinkers of the 1700s... 140 00:13:38,127 --> 00:13:40,436 I wrote this poem this morning. 141 00:13:41,367 --> 00:13:42,720 You know, friends? 142 00:13:42,887 --> 00:13:45,924 In my life, I have passed with indifference through 143 00:13:46,047 --> 00:13:47,958 male bodies and female bodies. 144 00:13:50,007 --> 00:13:51,235 So get out. 145 00:13:58,527 --> 00:14:00,040 You too, right. 146 00:14:08,567 --> 00:14:11,286 Already in the great Enlightenment thinkers of the 1700s 147 00:14:11,767 --> 00:14:16,397 hints of pessimism surfaced... OK, chess players get out. 148 00:14:19,487 --> 00:14:25,005 Not only historical-social pessimism, but also cosmic. 149 00:14:27,367 --> 00:14:30,245 Not only historical-social, but also cosmic, 150 00:14:30,607 --> 00:14:31,642 relative, that is... 151 00:14:34,567 --> 00:14:36,285 Those who are eating, get out. 152 00:14:53,807 --> 00:14:59,120 Relative, that is, to the man-nature relationship, you really make me sick, 153 00:15:00,047 --> 00:15:01,958 and to some inalterable facts. 154 00:15:05,487 --> 00:15:08,843 You're really enjoying yourself? You really enjoy yourself, right? 155 00:15:09,807 --> 00:15:10,922 Tolerably well. 156 00:15:11,127 --> 00:15:13,197 It's convenient for you, even easy. 157 00:15:13,327 --> 00:15:17,115 You calmly come here, no problems, do your lesson and then you go. 158 00:15:18,087 --> 00:15:21,363 So how are you different from those who are 30 years older than you? 159 00:15:21,567 --> 00:15:23,797 Not at all, I guess. 160 00:15:23,967 --> 00:15:26,879 Aren't you interested in anything that's outside your room? 161 00:15:26,927 --> 00:15:29,316 What's happening in the world, how people live? 162 00:15:29,767 --> 00:15:31,598 You're only concerned with yourself. 163 00:15:32,247 --> 00:15:34,966 You have no hope, no illusions, no passions. 164 00:15:35,727 --> 00:15:39,640 You are cold, your life is useless and I despise you. 165 00:16:06,047 --> 00:16:07,162 Three flasks of wine! 166 00:16:12,367 --> 00:16:15,677 No, I'm just saying this to goad you. 167 00:16:19,687 --> 00:16:21,484 You know everything about me, right? 168 00:16:23,727 --> 00:16:25,638 I have to work on your film. 169 00:16:26,287 --> 00:16:28,562 I really need to work on your film. 170 00:16:30,767 --> 00:16:32,917 I'm doing a show for schools. 171 00:16:33,887 --> 00:16:36,242 Theater. Ionesco. 172 00:16:37,527 --> 00:16:39,324 For a certain type of audience. 173 00:16:42,887 --> 00:16:45,401 When does this film of yours start? 174 00:16:48,447 --> 00:16:51,837 What does that mean? I need to know when you're starting. 175 00:16:52,167 --> 00:16:55,682 - I'm... - What are you doing? - I'm writing. 176 00:16:56,727 --> 00:16:58,558 Everyone always says the same thing. 177 00:16:59,767 --> 00:17:02,201 But I'm going to do this, I'm sure of it! 178 00:17:04,327 --> 00:17:05,646 You're surprised, huh? 179 00:17:07,207 --> 00:17:11,485 Surprised to see Marco and me here, talking so calmly, 180 00:17:12,047 --> 00:17:13,446 like old times. 181 00:17:13,807 --> 00:17:17,004 Yeah, actually, I thought you two... 182 00:17:17,367 --> 00:17:18,482 I'll be right back. 183 00:17:21,487 --> 00:17:25,924 You know, we ran into each other a few days ago 184 00:17:26,927 --> 00:17:28,519 and we made love. 185 00:17:28,927 --> 00:17:32,556 It was something... intense. 186 00:17:35,247 --> 00:17:37,636 We didn't even think about it at the beginning. 187 00:17:38,767 --> 00:17:41,918 Then I moved closer... 188 00:17:42,047 --> 00:17:45,756 - It's not necessary to go into... - No. 189 00:17:47,767 --> 00:17:49,086 Excuse me. 190 00:17:52,327 --> 00:17:55,444 Look, you know Marco: He's very proud. 191 00:17:56,207 --> 00:17:58,562 Anyhow he's a truly exceptional man. 192 00:17:59,407 --> 00:18:02,399 Sometimes our relationship is exciting 193 00:18:02,767 --> 00:18:04,485 and sometimes heart-rending. 194 00:18:06,487 --> 00:18:09,365 But there is a relationship, it exists. 195 00:18:13,247 --> 00:18:14,362 Yes, it's true. 196 00:18:15,647 --> 00:18:20,562 I frequently went to that bar because I had a good chance of being known. 197 00:18:21,847 --> 00:18:24,407 Nobody knew the horrible secret. 198 00:18:34,767 --> 00:18:37,679 - Have you seen Don Siegel's latest film? - No. 199 00:18:38,367 --> 00:18:42,758 Full of clich�s, banality, stock characters... 200 00:18:43,967 --> 00:18:47,642 It's disgusting, a dreadful film. 201 00:18:47,927 --> 00:18:51,397 - Pardon me, I know nothing about cinema. - Then keep quiet. 202 00:18:52,007 --> 00:18:55,682 Listen, I didn't see the film because cinemas are too expensive. 203 00:18:56,367 --> 00:18:59,996 Then they told me it was like the first one, but not as funny. 204 00:19:01,087 --> 00:19:04,079 And young people aren't like that, the way you describe them. 205 00:19:05,287 --> 00:19:08,085 - But did you see Don Siegel's latest film? - No. 206 00:19:08,127 --> 00:19:10,118 Now, that's something! 207 00:19:10,207 --> 00:19:15,327 It's all based on clich�s, banality, stock characters... 208 00:19:15,527 --> 00:19:19,520 It's a real gem. American cinema is great. 209 00:19:20,047 --> 00:19:22,277 But I don't care for intellectuals. 210 00:19:22,487 --> 00:19:27,003 - I do. I adore them. Bye. - No! No! 211 00:19:27,327 --> 00:19:28,919 I have to say "Bye" first, 212 00:19:29,207 --> 00:19:32,756 or it looks like you want to dump me. Let's start over, come back here, 213 00:19:33,247 --> 00:19:34,999 talk to me, you're talking... 214 00:19:35,967 --> 00:19:38,003 Talk. Bye. 215 00:19:46,607 --> 00:19:50,646 - What were you doing? - I'm finishing a screenplay. 216 00:19:51,887 --> 00:19:54,162 My God! Another one! 217 00:19:54,327 --> 00:19:57,239 Yeah, I'm waiting for an answer from France about one. 218 00:19:57,447 --> 00:19:58,436 For the other one 219 00:19:58,487 --> 00:20:01,365 the TV station's Board of Directors hasn't decided yet, 220 00:20:01,407 --> 00:20:02,681 but it feels like... 221 00:20:02,887 --> 00:20:05,117 Then I have a project for a country in the east. 222 00:20:05,887 --> 00:20:09,482 I don't want to tell you about it, just in case, but it's there. 223 00:20:11,127 --> 00:20:13,083 I haven't made a film in six years. 224 00:20:19,407 --> 00:20:22,365 - Good morning, Director. - Good morning. 225 00:20:23,327 --> 00:20:24,680 Perhaps you don't remember me. 226 00:20:25,407 --> 00:20:27,602 No, I really don't think so. 227 00:20:27,807 --> 00:20:30,241 My film was at this cinema for months. 228 00:20:31,127 --> 00:20:35,518 Ah, yes! But you're so drawn! What's up? Aren't you making films? 229 00:20:35,887 --> 00:20:37,115 Why did you quit? 230 00:20:38,127 --> 00:20:39,799 I want to show you something. 231 00:20:48,327 --> 00:20:53,526 These enormous theaters are so sad when they're empty! 232 00:20:54,167 --> 00:20:57,477 But this way, the audience no longer feels alone. 233 00:20:58,287 --> 00:21:00,847 People are starting to get out of the house again 234 00:21:01,167 --> 00:21:04,364 and the cinema once again becomes a place where you meet people. 235 00:21:06,767 --> 00:21:11,682 Hello, how's it going? We're starting in five minutes. 236 00:21:15,927 --> 00:21:17,042 Do you know each other? 237 00:21:18,127 --> 00:21:19,480 He's the director of the film. 238 00:21:20,487 --> 00:21:23,047 He does exactly what you used to do some years ago: 239 00:21:23,607 --> 00:21:28,158 He comes, checks who's here, watches the audience reaction. 240 00:21:42,967 --> 00:21:44,844 Michele! Michele! 241 00:21:45,487 --> 00:21:46,476 I'll wait for you there, 242 00:21:46,527 --> 00:21:49,564 I can't support your snobbish ways. 243 00:21:50,687 --> 00:21:52,359 Well, what do you say, huh? 244 00:21:52,527 --> 00:21:55,963 I think very highly of you, I respect your opinion. What do you think? 245 00:21:58,367 --> 00:22:01,882 Hey, you can't deny that at a certain point the film grows. 246 00:22:02,447 --> 00:22:04,119 The tedium of the story grows. 247 00:22:05,247 --> 00:22:08,603 - But this is my first film. - So what do I care? 248 00:22:09,287 --> 00:22:12,484 Okay, you were the instigator, you cleared the way, 249 00:22:12,527 --> 00:22:15,678 but now there's a whole new cinema coming out, from the younger crowd. 250 00:22:15,727 --> 00:22:17,365 Anyway you were the first. 251 00:22:17,487 --> 00:22:20,718 I wasn't the first. I'm the only one. 252 00:22:21,807 --> 00:22:26,119 Well, there are more of us, you'll feel less alone, with less responsibility. 253 00:22:26,927 --> 00:22:30,476 Basically, you and I make very similar films. 254 00:22:30,647 --> 00:22:33,286 Well, I wouldn't say so. 255 00:22:33,567 --> 00:22:35,239 Uh, yeah. 256 00:22:46,327 --> 00:22:47,442 Hello? 257 00:22:48,887 --> 00:22:51,242 No, I'm working. Yeah. 258 00:22:53,727 --> 00:22:57,037 Yes, the feminists protested because you put 259 00:22:57,367 --> 00:22:59,676 some naked women on the cover, right. 260 00:23:01,767 --> 00:23:05,203 But I can't get my picture taken nude as well... 261 00:23:05,967 --> 00:23:08,925 Yeah, to demonstrate that you also show men. 262 00:23:10,927 --> 00:23:16,001 But no, yeah, yeah, I'm a witty man... Yeah, yeah. 263 00:23:17,487 --> 00:23:25,280 But no, no. No, no, no... Huh? No. Let's forget it, okay? 264 00:23:25,607 --> 00:23:28,121 Yeah, no, no, let's forget it. No. 265 00:23:28,567 --> 00:23:32,845 I know. Uh, fine, I'll make a bad impression... Yeah, I know. 266 00:23:33,087 --> 00:23:37,160 Yeah, not just shyness. Yeah, uh... Good-bye. Yes. 267 00:23:40,767 --> 00:23:42,200 Hurray! 268 00:23:45,287 --> 00:23:49,519 Heard the latest? They asked me to join in the alumni dinner. 269 00:23:49,647 --> 00:23:52,115 And how much does it cost? 20,000 lire? Right! 270 00:23:52,167 --> 00:23:54,123 I said: "For you I'm not spending 20,000 lire". 271 00:23:54,167 --> 00:23:56,476 "Ah, but we'll lose money", says Violante. 272 00:23:56,527 --> 00:23:58,916 Sorry, I'm so sorry that you are going to lose out. 273 00:23:58,967 --> 00:24:01,765 This year we even gave a contribution to the Alumni Association, 274 00:24:01,807 --> 00:24:03,479 next year they can forget it. 275 00:24:04,487 --> 00:24:09,880 For all he cares! As long as he's there, with his job. 276 00:24:10,327 --> 00:24:13,125 Because it's always me and the others who make a fuss. 277 00:24:13,487 --> 00:24:17,162 No, I said I'm not going. In fact, I said I'm not going. 278 00:24:37,367 --> 00:24:39,437 Anna, dear, are you ready? 279 00:24:39,847 --> 00:24:41,565 Schreib mal. Write. 280 00:24:42,727 --> 00:24:47,437 Like dreams, daytime fantasies are wish fulfillment, comma 281 00:24:48,807 --> 00:24:52,243 like dreams they are largely based 282 00:24:52,367 --> 00:24:56,838 on impressions from childhood experiences 283 00:24:57,647 --> 00:25:01,117 like dreams they enjoy a certain level of relaxation. 284 00:25:01,807 --> 00:25:03,206 Am I going too fast? 285 00:25:04,567 --> 00:25:07,445 Of relaxed censorship. Punkt. 286 00:25:08,207 --> 00:25:12,200 Their connection to the childhood memories they originate from 287 00:25:12,727 --> 00:25:14,604 is quite similar to the connection 288 00:25:15,887 --> 00:25:19,436 that joins some Baroque palaces in Rome 289 00:25:19,967 --> 00:25:21,366 to the ancient ruins. 290 00:25:24,167 --> 00:25:25,600 To the ancient ruins. 291 00:25:30,647 --> 00:25:32,603 Sorry, I can't seem to concentrate. 292 00:25:43,967 --> 00:25:45,116 Just a moment. 293 00:25:59,887 --> 00:26:02,003 I don't know what to tell you, dad. 294 00:26:03,367 --> 00:26:07,246 - Did you book the call to Jung? - Yes, I booked it. 295 00:26:08,127 --> 00:26:09,162 In Zurich. 296 00:26:11,687 --> 00:26:13,086 Jung is sorted out. 297 00:26:22,167 --> 00:26:23,600 Life is difficult. 298 00:26:25,087 --> 00:26:29,126 Life is very difficult, especially these days, my dear. 299 00:26:32,527 --> 00:26:33,642 What can you tell me? 300 00:26:33,727 --> 00:26:37,925 "What can you tell me"? I don't know what the female characters should say! 301 00:26:59,567 --> 00:27:01,159 What do we want to talk about? 302 00:27:03,487 --> 00:27:04,886 We're getting nowhere here. 303 00:27:07,927 --> 00:27:08,962 Improvise! 304 00:27:09,447 --> 00:27:12,803 Oh, no! Lmprovisation is not for Freud! Out of the question! 305 00:27:13,327 --> 00:27:15,966 Anna, let's go! It can't be! 306 00:27:16,007 --> 00:27:17,042 Let's go! 307 00:27:22,807 --> 00:27:27,119 No way! What's this half an hour? A film should be seen from start to end! 308 00:27:27,487 --> 00:27:29,045 Even on TV. 309 00:27:32,087 --> 00:27:33,486 I took the phone off the hook. 310 00:29:02,767 --> 00:29:03,756 Silvia! 311 00:30:02,407 --> 00:30:03,886 Silvia! 312 00:30:06,127 --> 00:30:08,800 Silvia! 313 00:30:11,607 --> 00:30:13,723 Silvia! 314 00:30:20,727 --> 00:30:21,796 Hello? 315 00:30:21,887 --> 00:30:26,802 It's Nicola. I'm in Roma. Just joking, I wish I were there. 316 00:30:26,887 --> 00:30:29,196 Look, right now you'd be a little in the way 317 00:30:29,247 --> 00:30:32,444 and then you coming to Rome just for me, it's embarrassing! 318 00:30:32,607 --> 00:30:36,316 Tonight I need to go to the cinema with a friend worthy of the name. 319 00:30:36,447 --> 00:30:38,005 I'll call you from Rome at 10:00. 320 00:30:38,047 --> 00:30:41,437 Okay, I'm happy to, but this is also coercion, it's blackmail! 321 00:30:41,527 --> 00:30:43,563 The world is not at your disposal! 322 00:30:51,247 --> 00:30:54,637 - I don't know, it seems like such a fascinating story that... - No, no. 323 00:30:55,127 --> 00:30:56,116 No? 324 00:30:56,687 --> 00:31:00,316 We're looking for a youthful treatment, fresh, in contact with reality, 325 00:31:00,447 --> 00:31:04,406 with actors taken off the street, no script, improvised, new, 326 00:31:04,447 --> 00:31:06,961 low budget, but especially funny. 327 00:31:07,007 --> 00:31:11,125 - Well, my film could fit in... - No. Your film doesn't interest us. 328 00:31:14,767 --> 00:31:16,041 Dear me, what a harsh tone... 329 00:31:18,167 --> 00:31:19,680 I would like more warmth. 330 00:31:22,047 --> 00:31:24,607 I can't take it anymore! I can't take it anymore! 331 00:31:24,727 --> 00:31:27,161 If not power, at least give me warmth! 332 00:31:27,367 --> 00:31:30,803 They all reject me: Producers, women, television! 333 00:31:30,887 --> 00:31:32,479 Here I am! 334 00:31:32,647 --> 00:31:36,162 I was one of those kids who were never invited to parties! 335 00:31:36,287 --> 00:31:40,519 - You're laughing at me. I saw you! - Where you going, Sandra? Come here. 336 00:31:40,647 --> 00:31:44,879 Sorry, you made an enormous mistake by leaving me, and you'll regret it! 337 00:31:44,927 --> 00:31:46,679 I feel sorry for you, but you'll regret it 338 00:31:46,727 --> 00:31:50,356 because my film will be the greatest in the last 30 years! Got it? 339 00:31:50,487 --> 00:31:54,685 Well yes, I work in television. I'm not afraid of words, not I. 340 00:31:54,967 --> 00:31:58,277 Elevator! Elevator! 341 00:31:58,367 --> 00:32:02,599 You hear that noise? It's my script burning. 342 00:32:03,407 --> 00:32:04,681 Yeah, burning. 343 00:32:19,527 --> 00:32:21,245 Primarily, he's a troublesome man, 344 00:32:21,287 --> 00:32:23,881 who always has something to reproach his colleagues for, 345 00:32:23,927 --> 00:32:28,239 his producers, the actors, politicians, the whole of Italy. 346 00:32:29,047 --> 00:32:30,560 He says he won't make any more films, 347 00:32:30,847 --> 00:32:33,407 he doesn't want to see himself exploited by the system. 348 00:32:33,807 --> 00:32:37,800 But after a long silence, here he is, re-surfacing as determined as ever. 349 00:32:38,087 --> 00:32:39,566 Troublesome, but essential. 350 00:32:41,567 --> 00:32:45,116 Pardon me, this film has been mistakenly described as a comedy, 351 00:32:45,287 --> 00:32:47,357 yet, instead, it's rather dramatic. 352 00:32:49,167 --> 00:32:53,479 Yes. I'm pleased you noticed that, because... 353 00:32:53,687 --> 00:32:56,281 I don't think 354 00:32:56,407 --> 00:33:01,800 a laborer from Basilicata, a shepherd from Abruzzo, a housewife from Treviso 355 00:33:01,927 --> 00:33:05,078 could really be interested in this 356 00:33:05,367 --> 00:33:09,246 unpleasant, vulgar, insipid film, 357 00:33:09,847 --> 00:33:12,839 a film about incommunicability, about boredom, 358 00:33:12,967 --> 00:33:14,844 difficult relationships with women. 359 00:33:16,207 --> 00:33:20,359 By the way, tell us one thing: You like men? Right? 360 00:33:23,287 --> 00:33:25,357 Well, I would say it's significant 361 00:33:26,287 --> 00:33:28,198 that my film, which isn't calculating, 362 00:33:28,727 --> 00:33:32,561 went over well, not only in big cities, but also in small villages, 363 00:33:32,687 --> 00:33:34,962 in small towns, on the islands! 364 00:34:01,607 --> 00:34:02,642 It's good! 365 00:34:03,407 --> 00:34:08,197 - Have some chicory, too. - But that's not real chicory, real chicory is Roman. 366 00:34:09,247 --> 00:34:10,999 By the way, I wanted to ask you: 367 00:34:11,567 --> 00:34:13,000 You identify with young people, 368 00:34:13,567 --> 00:34:16,206 so nowadays is religion a widely regarded issue? 369 00:34:16,567 --> 00:34:18,717 Well, not really, no, in short... 370 00:34:18,927 --> 00:34:21,964 So many, at least in my situation, are a bit indifferent. 371 00:34:22,367 --> 00:34:25,120 Anyway, I myself am not a believer. 372 00:34:27,047 --> 00:34:30,926 However, for some years now there's been a return to religion, 373 00:34:31,247 --> 00:34:35,035 this new interest in the person of the Pope. - Yes. 374 00:34:37,207 --> 00:34:38,401 In any case... 375 00:34:43,607 --> 00:34:47,520 This year's been terrible: A lot of people unemployed, no one working, 376 00:34:47,647 --> 00:34:49,478 it's a crisis for us... - Here I am. 377 00:34:51,207 --> 00:34:52,435 Sorry I'm late. 378 00:34:53,447 --> 00:34:55,881 - Who was first? - Me. 379 00:34:58,167 --> 00:34:59,680 - This is it? - Yeah. 380 00:35:04,607 --> 00:35:07,121 - Are you ready? - Here. - Do you have the list? 381 00:35:08,087 --> 00:35:09,202 Let's start. 382 00:35:12,247 --> 00:35:13,282 No! 383 00:35:19,007 --> 00:35:19,996 Yes. 384 00:35:21,887 --> 00:35:23,002 No. 385 00:35:27,207 --> 00:35:28,322 No. 386 00:35:32,367 --> 00:35:33,436 Yes. 387 00:35:34,727 --> 00:35:35,842 No. 388 00:35:40,287 --> 00:35:41,436 No. 389 00:35:45,287 --> 00:35:46,322 No! 390 00:35:48,807 --> 00:35:50,957 - Is that you? - Yes, last year. 391 00:35:51,807 --> 00:35:52,922 This one. 392 00:35:54,247 --> 00:35:58,001 I like it, a different kind of cinema. But I haven't seen your film yet. 393 00:35:58,127 --> 00:35:59,526 It's not compulsory. 394 00:35:59,807 --> 00:36:03,846 - I don't know if acting is my real ambition. - What is it? 395 00:36:04,007 --> 00:36:07,397 Well... For now it's fine to say: "Okay, acting suits me". 396 00:36:07,607 --> 00:36:10,405 And then my boyfriends say I have a really sensuous voice. 397 00:36:10,447 --> 00:36:11,675 Next, come in! 398 00:36:15,407 --> 00:36:17,602 - You know me. - No. 399 00:36:18,047 --> 00:36:19,400 You know me! 400 00:36:19,767 --> 00:36:23,760 No. Maybe I saw you in some flick. Are you an actor? 401 00:36:24,247 --> 00:36:27,239 I'm Nicola and this is Claudio, my brother. 402 00:36:30,487 --> 00:36:34,560 We gave ourselves five years to learn. During that time we can do any job: 403 00:36:34,607 --> 00:36:36,916 Be assistants, extras, grips... 404 00:36:37,287 --> 00:36:40,245 However, we eventually have to make a film, as directors. 405 00:36:40,447 --> 00:36:42,915 Until a couple of days ago I taught in a school. 406 00:36:42,967 --> 00:36:45,720 - But I chose to leave. - What? Are you crazy?! 407 00:36:45,767 --> 00:36:49,203 Leave a job to come here and play the fool! What do you want from me? 408 00:36:49,247 --> 00:36:51,681 I can't do anything for you! Good-bye. 409 00:36:56,607 --> 00:36:57,960 - Hi. - Hi. - What are you up to? 410 00:36:58,007 --> 00:36:59,645 I'm making a film with the same producer. 411 00:36:59,687 --> 00:37:02,281 - Here? - Yes. - I don't think so. - It's almost certain. 412 00:37:02,407 --> 00:37:04,841 - I'm working on a musical about '68. - Oh. 413 00:37:04,887 --> 00:37:07,845 Yeah, the student struggle, the fight for housing, the repression, 414 00:37:07,887 --> 00:37:10,845 but seen in a much more mysterious light. 415 00:37:11,047 --> 00:37:14,005 - A musical. - Yeah. - You'll see, you'll like this one. 416 00:37:14,447 --> 00:37:18,201 Sure, I'm not someone who frets over a topic for years, like you. 417 00:37:18,247 --> 00:37:20,841 - You're much more superficial. - Listen, I was thinking, 418 00:37:20,887 --> 00:37:24,118 if our films came out together, there could be conflict, 419 00:37:24,167 --> 00:37:26,635 basically we have the same type of audience. - Well... 420 00:37:26,687 --> 00:37:27,676 - Yeah. - No. 421 00:37:27,727 --> 00:37:29,126 It's better if we stagger the dates. 422 00:37:29,167 --> 00:37:31,806 - Let's have a press conference... - See you. - Bye. 423 00:37:36,447 --> 00:37:39,405 Great. Tell me, how far have you got with the preparations? 424 00:37:39,647 --> 00:37:41,717 You know, I leave you completely free, 425 00:37:41,807 --> 00:37:45,436 I'm not the kind of producer who's checking up on you all the time. 426 00:37:45,487 --> 00:37:47,045 Good. It's better like that. 427 00:37:47,087 --> 00:37:49,362 Yes, but I'm worried the public might forget you, 428 00:37:49,407 --> 00:37:52,365 a lot of time has gone by since your last film came out. 429 00:37:52,407 --> 00:37:55,444 I'd like this to be ready for the period when... 430 00:37:55,487 --> 00:37:57,398 I ran into that stupid director out there. 431 00:37:57,447 --> 00:38:01,076 If you're making crap films on the youth, I won't make mine with you. 432 00:38:01,807 --> 00:38:06,961 But I have to work, I have to do other projects. 433 00:38:07,087 --> 00:38:10,159 - I'm a producer. - Exactly, mine. 434 00:38:18,967 --> 00:38:20,923 - Did you finish that job? - Which one? 435 00:38:21,127 --> 00:38:23,243 That change in the script, scene 91! 436 00:38:24,207 --> 00:38:27,677 - Scene 91, the key scene! - The key scene? 437 00:38:29,847 --> 00:38:32,566 I'll think about it for a moment. 438 00:38:32,767 --> 00:38:35,406 - You keep putting it off! - No, no... 439 00:38:51,727 --> 00:38:52,842 91. 440 00:39:04,007 --> 00:39:06,646 Silvia! 441 00:39:08,807 --> 00:39:12,686 Silvia! 442 00:39:14,407 --> 00:39:16,841 I don't like these freshmen pranks. 443 00:39:17,007 --> 00:39:18,679 These guys aren't joking around. 444 00:39:18,927 --> 00:39:21,999 Nobody says anything, you're happy because you're not in school, 445 00:39:22,047 --> 00:39:24,641 the professors watch the spectacle from the window, 446 00:39:24,687 --> 00:39:26,040 the dean enjoys it. 447 00:39:26,847 --> 00:39:28,519 Enough already, I'm going in. 448 00:39:32,567 --> 00:39:34,603 No admission! Go home! 449 00:40:03,287 --> 00:40:04,800 No admission! 450 00:40:11,047 --> 00:40:13,880 Where are you going? You should leave! 451 00:40:15,167 --> 00:40:16,316 Get away from here! 452 00:40:20,167 --> 00:40:25,241 Go on! You're disgusting! Vile worm, go on! Clown! 453 00:40:26,887 --> 00:40:29,799 Go home! Get away from here! 454 00:40:31,327 --> 00:40:33,557 Beat him up! Beat him up! 455 00:40:34,287 --> 00:40:35,402 Go away! 456 00:40:45,407 --> 00:40:47,125 Michele, let's choose? 457 00:40:51,167 --> 00:40:52,566 - I'll be right back. - OK. 458 00:41:06,567 --> 00:41:07,636 Hello? 459 00:41:08,087 --> 00:41:09,918 Nicola and Claudio, I told you... 460 00:41:10,527 --> 00:41:13,837 I'm not busy, I wasn't doing anything. Where are you? 461 00:41:14,687 --> 00:41:15,881 All right, come on up. 462 00:41:20,967 --> 00:41:25,802 For example, the headmaster at my school isn't interested in anything. 463 00:41:25,967 --> 00:41:27,002 If it weren't for me 464 00:41:27,127 --> 00:41:30,881 and two or three of my very active colleagues, who stir things up, 465 00:41:30,927 --> 00:41:33,760 are maybe even a bit hotheaded, nothing would happen. 466 00:41:33,807 --> 00:41:38,119 Today students aren't interested in anything except passing. 467 00:41:38,887 --> 00:41:42,357 I mean, it's a very different matter from years ago. 468 00:41:42,407 --> 00:41:44,159 There used to be a political stance as well. 469 00:41:44,207 --> 00:41:46,880 Your mother's right, it's not like in our day. 470 00:41:47,087 --> 00:41:49,840 Well, he knows that. You remember, right? 471 00:41:51,247 --> 00:41:54,876 Yeah, look, he gets the paper, looks at the front page headlines, 472 00:41:54,927 --> 00:41:58,158 then goes right to the entertainment section to look at cinema program. 473 00:41:58,207 --> 00:42:00,767 He's not interested. Or not interested any longer. 474 00:42:02,087 --> 00:42:03,281 Well... 475 00:42:04,247 --> 00:42:05,316 Anyway, 476 00:42:05,687 --> 00:42:09,316 in 30 years of government, they've lorded it over everyone. 477 00:42:09,447 --> 00:42:12,519 And we've had to "grin and bear it", as they say in Rome, right? 478 00:42:13,367 --> 00:42:15,198 They were... like that... 479 00:42:15,967 --> 00:42:20,040 They've ruined what they could of this country, its institutions. 480 00:42:20,927 --> 00:42:25,682 But who are "they"? What does it mean? What's with the bus conversation? 481 00:42:25,967 --> 00:42:28,162 Mom, why do you have to make such a bad impression? 482 00:42:28,407 --> 00:42:33,640 You're so dreary, predictable! Dammit! 483 00:42:37,087 --> 00:42:38,076 What is this? 484 00:42:38,247 --> 00:42:46,677 Nothing. Cocoa, sugar, ricotta cheese, milk, nothing fancy, but it works. 485 00:42:46,927 --> 00:42:52,365 Yes, because his other interest is dessert, I was forgetting. 486 00:42:52,527 --> 00:42:56,839 No. No. No. 487 00:42:56,967 --> 00:42:59,925 488 00:43:00,687 --> 00:43:05,556 489 00:43:05,847 --> 00:43:11,524 - but to me... 490 00:43:12,647 --> 00:43:19,723 What nonsense are you talking?! 491 00:43:19,807 --> 00:43:21,320 What nonsense are you talking?! 492 00:43:21,367 --> 00:43:23,403 - Enough, speak softly. - Why? 493 00:43:23,447 --> 00:43:26,723 Because the whole building will hear? Are you worried about those things? 494 00:43:26,767 --> 00:43:28,803 Stop with the mother scenes from your films! 495 00:43:28,847 --> 00:43:31,566 - Leave my films out of it! - No, I can't stand them anymore! 496 00:43:31,607 --> 00:43:35,236 - Why don't you move out of the house? - I'll never leave this house! 497 00:43:35,287 --> 00:43:38,120 I don't want to get over my Oedipus complex! 498 00:43:38,167 --> 00:43:41,079 - You... You... - Shut up! 499 00:43:42,727 --> 00:43:46,276 - Don't talk nonsense, got it? What do you say? Nonsense! - Oh! 500 00:44:09,407 --> 00:44:13,446 Listen, don't call me anymore. You make me too sad. 501 00:44:14,287 --> 00:44:16,642 For me you are a script that's already been written. 502 00:44:20,887 --> 00:44:22,206 I'll pay for the cinema. 503 00:44:38,567 --> 00:44:40,762 - Hello? - Hi, did I wake you? 504 00:44:41,607 --> 00:44:43,325 So, any news? Nothing? 505 00:44:44,127 --> 00:44:46,960 At least, tell me about someone who hasn't managed to make a film! 506 00:44:47,007 --> 00:44:50,204 I'll read you the review of a wretched film that just came out, 507 00:44:50,247 --> 00:44:52,078 I went to get the paper expressly. 508 00:44:52,687 --> 00:44:55,804 This film is a delicate, tender first effort 509 00:44:56,047 --> 00:44:59,323 which reveals the style and maturity of this young director 510 00:44:59,447 --> 00:45:01,244 who has the cinema in his veins. 511 00:45:01,447 --> 00:45:04,996 No, for pity's sake, let it be! I beg you, no! 512 00:45:05,167 --> 00:45:06,395 Okay, bye, enough. 513 00:45:12,207 --> 00:45:16,166 New elements enrich the panorama of Italian cinema... 514 00:45:25,647 --> 00:45:26,762 A pan... 515 00:45:33,727 --> 00:45:35,763 Zurich, 34452? 516 00:45:36,487 --> 00:45:38,762 Is Professor Carl Gustav Jung there? 517 00:45:39,207 --> 00:45:41,675 It's Professor Freud calling from Vienna. 518 00:45:42,087 --> 00:45:44,999 Oh, it's you? I'll hand you over to my father, good day. 519 00:45:46,727 --> 00:45:48,558 Hi, Gustav. How are you? 520 00:45:49,047 --> 00:45:50,639 Did you get my letter? 521 00:45:51,087 --> 00:45:54,966 Stanley Hall wrote me again from Worcester. 522 00:45:55,167 --> 00:45:59,160 He wants us to go to that university together to do a conference 523 00:45:59,327 --> 00:46:00,555 on psychoanalysis. 524 00:46:00,967 --> 00:46:04,801 They're very kind. They'll put us up. Exquisite. 525 00:46:05,247 --> 00:46:07,636 And they don't know we're plague carriers. 526 00:46:08,127 --> 00:46:09,355 Yes, I'm working a lot. 527 00:46:10,367 --> 00:46:13,677 I'm working a lot, particularly on my mother. 528 00:46:14,167 --> 00:46:17,477 Yes, I still live with her, for a while. 529 00:46:18,127 --> 00:46:21,483 Self-analysis, Gustav, here we do some self-analysis. 530 00:46:22,487 --> 00:46:25,126 So all's well with the Americans? Are you available? 531 00:46:25,807 --> 00:46:26,922 Perfect. 532 00:46:30,207 --> 00:46:31,879 Wait a moment, Gustav. 533 00:46:58,247 --> 00:47:00,317 - Boo! - Idiot! 534 00:47:00,407 --> 00:47:05,242 Chubby! So radiant a mother, the most radiant in the world, like the sun! 535 00:47:05,487 --> 00:47:10,163 - I'll kill you! I'll kill my mother! - Enough! Enough already! 536 00:47:10,287 --> 00:47:13,962 - I'm joking! - Joking at your age! You're an idiot! 537 00:47:14,007 --> 00:47:15,645 - I'm what? - An idiot! 538 00:47:24,767 --> 00:47:27,406 We worked all morning, Anna, tell her, 539 00:47:27,487 --> 00:47:30,081 on child psychoanalysis! - There, exactly! 540 00:47:39,687 --> 00:47:41,405 Enough, Enough! 541 00:47:42,207 --> 00:47:45,643 Enough! What did you bring me? 542 00:47:45,727 --> 00:47:48,799 - Look. - Radiant like the sun! Thanks. 543 00:47:48,887 --> 00:47:50,400 Stop it, enough already! 544 00:47:56,527 --> 00:47:59,485 I'm tired, you know? I work, at my age. 545 00:47:59,687 --> 00:48:01,359 Look at the other mothers! 546 00:48:01,687 --> 00:48:04,724 - If I only had a son... - "If I only had a son" what?! 547 00:48:04,767 --> 00:48:07,679 A rich son, with piles of cash, who only thinks about money? 548 00:48:07,727 --> 00:48:09,683 - I'm not... - Oh! Stop! 549 00:48:13,967 --> 00:48:16,561 Why shout? Why shout?! 550 00:48:17,647 --> 00:48:18,716 What are you shouting for? 551 00:48:20,607 --> 00:48:22,563 Do you understand the meaning of this scene? 552 00:48:23,647 --> 00:48:27,037 Sorry, she confused me before, at the beginning. 553 00:48:30,487 --> 00:48:32,478 You're right, sorry... 554 00:48:55,287 --> 00:48:59,041 We filmed outside Rome. It was an American production. 555 00:48:59,247 --> 00:49:00,680 Piles of money then. 556 00:49:00,807 --> 00:49:04,083 We were saved by some fabulous pasta and beans. 557 00:49:04,207 --> 00:49:06,721 It was freezing cold, in Subiaco. 558 00:49:08,087 --> 00:49:10,806 If it weren't for the pasta and beans, we all would have died. 559 00:49:16,567 --> 00:49:17,886 A good scene. 560 00:49:18,407 --> 00:49:19,681 Yeah, it came out well. 561 00:49:20,367 --> 00:49:24,121 But I'd have used a different lens; the 32 doesn't work for me. 562 00:49:25,007 --> 00:49:26,042 Yeah... 563 00:49:27,687 --> 00:49:29,405 No, not the 32. 564 00:49:40,967 --> 00:49:43,640 - Silence! - Quiet, everyone! 565 00:49:46,287 --> 00:49:47,402 Action. 566 00:49:49,687 --> 00:49:51,962 I'm tired, you know? Tired! 567 00:49:52,087 --> 00:49:55,762 Working, at my age! Just look at the other mothers! 568 00:49:56,087 --> 00:49:59,841 - Oh! If I only had a son... - A son what? What do you mean? 569 00:49:59,887 --> 00:50:02,924 A son who earns lots, with piles of money, bourgeois?! 570 00:50:03,127 --> 00:50:05,561 I'm different, money doesn't interest me! 571 00:50:05,647 --> 00:50:08,002 I'm a poet, a scientist, a doctor! 572 00:50:08,127 --> 00:50:11,437 I'm a genius! You're the mother of a genius! 573 00:50:11,567 --> 00:50:14,286 What genius? Enough already! 574 00:50:14,407 --> 00:50:17,558 I discovered the unconscious! I'm Sigmund Freud! 575 00:50:17,887 --> 00:50:21,436 - Freud died 40 years ago! - No! 576 00:50:21,647 --> 00:50:27,722 That's not true! He's not dead! He's still living, understand? 577 00:50:27,807 --> 00:50:29,877 It's my tragedy, I'm a genius! 578 00:50:30,007 --> 00:50:33,283 To hell with this mother, she's killing me! 579 00:50:33,567 --> 00:50:35,922 It's impossible, I can't take it anymore! 580 00:50:36,247 --> 00:50:41,321 I can't take my mother anymore, I'll kill her! Mother! 581 00:52:24,607 --> 00:52:28,919 They'll say the film's manipulative, banal, predictable, facile. 582 00:52:29,207 --> 00:52:32,438 Everybody feels it's their right, their duty to talk about cinema. 583 00:52:33,007 --> 00:52:37,603 Everybody talks about cinema. Everyone talks about it! Everyone! 584 00:52:37,727 --> 00:52:40,287 - But we can talk about it because... - No! 585 00:52:40,447 --> 00:52:43,325 Do I ever talk about astrophysics? Do I ever talk about biology? 586 00:52:43,367 --> 00:52:45,278 You're inventing problems that don't exist. 587 00:52:45,327 --> 00:52:46,999 You shut up, I've got you pegged already! 588 00:52:47,047 --> 00:52:49,686 - In what way? - I figured out your interest! - What? 589 00:52:49,727 --> 00:52:52,116 - You'd better be quiet, let me talk. - No! 590 00:52:52,167 --> 00:52:55,921 Do I ever talk about neuropsychiatry? About botany? About algebra? 591 00:52:55,967 --> 00:52:57,685 You're making a great film. 592 00:52:57,727 --> 00:53:01,197 I don't talk of things I don't know! Do I ever talk about Greek epigraphy?! 593 00:53:01,247 --> 00:53:04,796 About electronics?! About dikes and bridges?! About highways?! 594 00:53:04,847 --> 00:53:07,805 - You're making a stupendous film! - I don't talk about cardiology, 595 00:53:07,847 --> 00:53:12,284 about radiology, things I don't know about! 596 00:53:12,327 --> 00:53:14,636 - Enough! - I don't talk of things I don't know! 597 00:53:14,687 --> 00:53:18,600 - Michele! - I don't talk of things I don't know! 598 00:53:20,367 --> 00:53:24,042 - Listen. - Get out of here! - Try to... - Go on! 599 00:53:26,167 --> 00:53:30,524 - Michele! - What? What do you want? Huh? 600 00:53:32,487 --> 00:53:35,479 I'll take you to an amazing place. Let's go. 601 00:53:41,487 --> 00:53:42,681 Almond paste! 602 00:53:43,927 --> 00:53:46,157 Chocolate and zabaione cream puffs! 603 00:53:46,807 --> 00:53:47,956 The Mont blanc! 604 00:53:48,687 --> 00:53:51,281 Blackberry, raspberry, blueberry tart! 605 00:53:51,607 --> 00:53:53,996 The Saint-Honor� with chocolate, zabaione and cream! 606 00:53:54,647 --> 00:53:58,003 And then... the Sacher-Torte! 607 00:53:58,767 --> 00:54:02,362 This is one of the few bakeries where they make Sacher-Torte. 608 00:54:05,167 --> 00:54:07,965 Scene 118 wasn't there last night, you didn't print it, 609 00:54:08,087 --> 00:54:11,397 it's a vital scene! Find it! That's not acceptable... 610 00:54:11,567 --> 00:54:12,556 Good morning. 611 00:54:14,367 --> 00:54:15,436 - Hello. - Hi. 612 00:54:15,527 --> 00:54:17,916 - How's it going? - The usual problems with nerves. 613 00:54:17,967 --> 00:54:21,596 Anyhow, now we're setting up the scene in the bedroom. 614 00:54:22,087 --> 00:54:24,123 - Michele... - Hi. - Hi. 615 00:54:24,207 --> 00:54:25,560 - See you later. - Okay. 616 00:54:26,127 --> 00:54:27,162 Let's go over there. 617 00:54:30,527 --> 00:54:33,246 So, Michele, do we want to finish this film? 618 00:54:33,807 --> 00:54:35,081 Of course, why not? 619 00:54:36,327 --> 00:54:38,636 Because I know there are some problems, 620 00:54:38,727 --> 00:54:41,719 that you're not happy, the actors aren't right, 621 00:54:41,847 --> 00:54:45,237 you didn't like some scenes... - No... 622 00:54:45,327 --> 00:54:49,843 You know, I hear things, it's not that they tell me. 623 00:54:49,887 --> 00:54:53,357 Then I don't come to see you, so I don't interfere with your work, 624 00:54:54,007 --> 00:54:56,805 but if I can be useful in some way, I'm here. 625 00:54:58,727 --> 00:55:02,481 - Tell me, is it true that...? - No. No. 626 00:55:20,647 --> 00:55:22,717 (Today I'm happy.) 627 00:55:42,967 --> 00:55:46,562 In South America? Why? 628 00:56:06,647 --> 00:56:11,801 I'm not washed up! I still have lots to say, you know? 629 00:56:12,007 --> 00:56:14,567 I still have lots to say! 630 00:56:29,327 --> 00:56:30,316 Bye. 631 00:56:38,247 --> 00:56:40,238 Michele, wake up! You ready? 632 00:56:40,407 --> 00:56:43,319 - We're ready when you are. - No, take a break. 633 00:56:43,367 --> 00:56:46,439 Do I keep the same vest on Freud as the previous scene? 634 00:56:47,167 --> 00:56:49,317 The ball of wool, Michele, the key scene! 635 00:56:49,647 --> 00:56:54,163 Michele! His relationship with his mom, the umbilical cord, the symbol! 636 00:56:54,247 --> 00:56:58,081 - No, no. It's awful, I got rid of it. - Michele! 637 00:57:00,047 --> 00:57:03,357 - Why didn't you tell me? - I've just decided. 638 00:57:09,367 --> 00:57:10,516 Break! 639 00:57:21,927 --> 00:57:23,997 If we don't develop these characters, 640 00:57:24,047 --> 00:57:26,117 we'll have problems going ahead. 641 00:57:26,287 --> 00:57:31,839 In my opinion, it should be a choral thing. Better yet, a jam session. 642 00:57:32,487 --> 00:57:34,637 - What? - Jam session. 643 00:57:36,687 --> 00:57:39,679 - But what are you doing here? - We're writing a treatment. 644 00:57:40,047 --> 00:57:42,356 - And then what? - We'll make a film of it. 645 00:57:43,207 --> 00:57:44,196 Follow me. 646 00:57:53,527 --> 00:57:56,485 Cinema isn't done like that, because you have some ideas... 647 00:57:56,567 --> 00:57:57,920 Forget it for now. 648 00:57:58,407 --> 00:58:02,286 Look, we're determined. And you see such horrible films! 649 00:58:02,727 --> 00:58:05,116 I read some foolishness, then I write a novel? 650 00:58:05,207 --> 00:58:07,198 - Anyway, you want to make a film? - Yeah. 651 00:58:07,247 --> 00:58:09,556 Do it, but don't let me see you around here again. 652 00:58:09,687 --> 00:58:13,566 Michele, you make me sick and you're playing a nasty game. 653 00:58:13,607 --> 00:58:15,120 You know why you behave like this? 654 00:58:15,327 --> 00:58:19,002 One: You're going through a bad time; we don't care, that's your business. 655 00:58:19,047 --> 00:58:21,925 Two: Because unfortunately you really believe what you're saying. 656 00:58:21,967 --> 00:58:24,720 Three: Because you're such a twit that you're afraid of us. 657 00:58:27,087 --> 00:58:28,156 The break's over. 658 00:58:31,207 --> 00:58:34,597 - The break's over. - No, I'll say it: "The break's over". 659 00:58:34,887 --> 00:58:37,117 We wanted to tell you one last thing. 660 00:58:37,247 --> 00:58:40,205 I'll tell you one last thing: Watch your backs. 661 00:58:40,247 --> 00:58:43,557 You're getting yourselves into something that's bigger than you are. 662 00:58:44,087 --> 00:58:47,284 Dammit guys, don't throw yourselves away, don't wear yourselves out! 663 00:58:47,407 --> 00:58:48,726 My studies have shown 664 00:58:48,767 --> 00:58:52,316 that women's anxious neurosis shows a standard case history: 665 00:58:52,367 --> 00:58:55,404 Irritability, states of anxious waiting, phobias, 666 00:58:55,567 --> 00:58:59,958 fits of total anxiety or basic... - Smoking? Stop. - Stop. 667 00:59:00,727 --> 00:59:02,126 I wasn't smoking. 668 00:59:03,687 --> 00:59:05,643 - Irritability. - Irritability. 669 00:59:05,687 --> 00:59:08,247 - States of anxious waiting. - States of anxious waiting. 670 00:59:08,287 --> 00:59:09,925 - Phobias. - Phobias. - Silence! 671 00:59:12,367 --> 00:59:14,597 Again. Camera! 672 00:59:16,167 --> 00:59:19,876 - Rolling. Mark it! - 2, 9, take 12! 673 00:59:20,847 --> 00:59:23,839 - Remo, in 5 seconds. - Our relationship was different then. 674 00:59:23,887 --> 00:59:26,447 I don't know anything else about you, we never talk. 675 00:59:26,487 --> 00:59:29,285 - You're right, it's not easy to relate... - Stop! 676 00:59:29,727 --> 00:59:33,402 What do you want to relate? Shut up! 677 00:59:34,287 --> 00:59:35,436 Camera. 678 00:59:36,887 --> 00:59:40,960 - Rolling. Mark it! - 2, 9, take 13! 679 00:59:41,367 --> 00:59:42,356 Action! 680 00:59:42,647 --> 00:59:44,080 You're neurotic. 681 00:59:44,127 --> 00:59:47,278 Why don't you remarry? Why don't you get yourself a man, a life 682 00:59:47,327 --> 00:59:50,603 instead of making me suffer and pestering me with your obsessions? 683 00:59:51,287 --> 00:59:54,165 The son considered as a son, not as a person! 684 00:59:54,287 --> 00:59:57,518 - My studies have shown that anxious neurosis... - Stop! 685 01:00:09,927 --> 01:00:10,916 Camera! 686 01:00:12,287 --> 01:00:13,276 Rolling. 687 01:00:13,887 --> 01:00:15,366 No, I still don't like it. 688 01:00:15,927 --> 01:00:18,202 - Is the dolly all right? - Ready to shoot. 689 01:00:19,287 --> 01:00:21,517 Excuse me, I think there's a pause 690 01:00:21,567 --> 01:00:24,127 between the mother's line and Remo's reply. 691 01:00:24,607 --> 01:00:26,882 - I don't like that light! - Turn it off! 692 01:00:27,167 --> 01:00:31,285 But I didn't tell him anything. Luciano, get the grease. 693 01:00:31,967 --> 01:00:34,879 - You tired? - Huh! Since 7:00 this morning! 694 01:00:36,207 --> 01:00:39,677 Less exaggerated! Don't exaggerate, don't insist! 695 01:00:43,287 --> 01:00:45,517 - Don't you smell anything? - Something burning? 696 01:00:45,727 --> 01:00:48,195 Not burning, something else. 697 01:00:50,127 --> 01:00:54,086 We need to tone it down, to take away, we need... 698 01:00:58,807 --> 01:01:01,241 We need to eliminate. Let's start over. 699 01:01:01,287 --> 01:01:03,403 But, mom, my goodnight kiss? 700 01:01:21,127 --> 01:01:23,197 - But why? To bed without dinner? - Stop. 701 01:01:23,487 --> 01:01:27,924 What are you doing, getting angry? You're in character? Don't exaggerate. 702 01:01:28,127 --> 01:01:30,357 We have to take away. 703 01:01:31,247 --> 01:01:32,236 Camera. 704 01:01:32,687 --> 01:01:35,838 You see her? Once in a while we meet up... 705 01:01:36,167 --> 01:01:37,805 - She puts out. - No! - Yeah! 706 01:01:47,047 --> 01:01:48,321 But who is it? 707 01:01:50,967 --> 01:01:52,480 To bed without dinner, fine, 708 01:01:52,527 --> 01:01:54,882 but will you give me my goodnight kiss? 709 01:01:54,927 --> 01:01:57,043 What do I have to do to make you change? 710 01:01:57,247 --> 01:02:01,798 I'd like to see you settled down like other people, with a secure job. 711 01:02:02,007 --> 01:02:04,965 - I'm just joking! - You joke too much! 712 01:02:05,447 --> 01:02:07,278 I joke because I'm an artist, 713 01:02:07,447 --> 01:02:10,041 I'm a scientist who works with the imagination, 714 01:02:10,127 --> 01:02:12,277 with dreams that I interpret. 715 01:02:14,007 --> 01:02:15,918 Mom, do you remember when I was little? 716 01:02:16,007 --> 01:02:20,205 I talked like this, and we would go to the park, you bought us... 717 01:02:20,287 --> 01:02:24,360 You did love me then. But now... 718 01:02:25,007 --> 01:02:28,124 Now what? I have a mission to carry out. 719 01:02:28,207 --> 01:02:32,758 But I'd like to see you relaxed, serene, with a woman beside you! 720 01:02:33,887 --> 01:02:36,959 The man-woman relationship is very difficult nowadays. 721 01:02:37,047 --> 01:02:38,639 So says Sigmund Freud. 722 01:02:40,047 --> 01:02:43,323 Sing me a lullaby and I'll go right to sleep. 723 01:02:43,647 --> 01:02:46,923 Will you sing me a lullaby? I'll go right to sleep. 724 01:03:12,887 --> 01:03:15,959 Well, two days filming outside Rome and then you're finished. 725 01:03:16,607 --> 01:03:18,040 Shooting yes. 726 01:03:18,767 --> 01:03:21,725 I don't know if the film I'm making is any good. 727 01:03:22,287 --> 01:03:25,165 - Why? - Just because. 728 01:03:26,647 --> 01:03:29,115 What do the others working with you say? 729 01:03:29,447 --> 01:03:31,961 Nothing, what do you want them to say? That they like it. 730 01:03:32,087 --> 01:03:35,397 I tell everybody it's fantastic, a masterpiece, they believe it. 731 01:03:35,887 --> 01:03:40,278 - Or they pretend to. Are they faking? - No, I don't think so. 732 01:03:42,167 --> 01:03:43,441 I'll take a few books. 733 01:04:00,447 --> 01:04:01,562 Wait! 734 01:04:32,447 --> 01:04:33,436 Stop! 735 01:04:34,207 --> 01:04:35,276 Again! 736 01:04:56,447 --> 01:04:59,325 Here I am in the public square! 737 01:04:59,447 --> 01:05:02,519 Me, Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, 738 01:05:02,767 --> 01:05:08,205 veteran of grand successes in Berlin, Munich, Paris, London! 739 01:05:08,487 --> 01:05:13,561 This is a democratic sale, directly from the publisher 740 01:05:13,687 --> 01:05:17,805 to the consumer, this magnificent Italian audience! 741 01:05:18,207 --> 01:05:22,598 Enough with the anti-psychiatry and the feminist movement 742 01:05:22,807 --> 01:05:28,837 that want to make me into a filthy reactionary! 743 01:05:28,967 --> 01:05:33,916 I'll sell you these books at prices verging on madness! 744 01:05:34,247 --> 01:05:39,719 In the best shops downtown they ask 5-8,000 lire! Absurd! 745 01:05:39,927 --> 01:05:43,442 I'm licensed by the Italian Commerce Federation, 746 01:05:43,647 --> 01:05:47,401 thanks to which I can set up on any corner of the squares! 747 01:05:47,607 --> 01:05:49,802 May a plague strike me! May I spit up blood! 748 01:05:49,887 --> 01:05:52,526 May I never find my daughter, Anna, at home again 749 01:05:52,567 --> 01:05:55,320 if it's not true that I'm losing money, ladies and gentlemen! 750 01:05:55,367 --> 01:05:57,005 This evening I received 751 01:05:57,287 --> 01:06:00,404 a telegram from Vienna telling me to sell everything 752 01:06:00,567 --> 01:06:03,639 and set out this very evening for that very same place! 753 01:06:03,887 --> 01:06:06,447 Boy, move over there, let me work! 754 01:06:06,567 --> 01:06:10,276 I'm selling "Totem and Taboo" and other essays on anthropology! 755 01:06:10,647 --> 01:06:12,558 "Psychology of Love Life", 756 01:06:13,167 --> 01:06:15,283 "Psychoanalysis of the Genius", which is me, 757 01:06:15,647 --> 01:06:17,877 "Psychopathology of Everyday Life"! 758 01:06:18,367 --> 01:06:21,643 And here are the Freudian eyeglasses, gentlemen! 759 01:06:21,967 --> 01:06:25,880 For erotic nocturnal interactions with your beautiful women! 760 01:06:26,247 --> 01:06:29,045 When you're in the dark, you turn on a light 761 01:06:29,447 --> 01:06:32,086 and look at this magnificent face! 762 01:06:32,447 --> 01:06:34,961 Above all, you look reality in the face 763 01:06:35,087 --> 01:06:36,839 with these Freudian glasses! 764 01:06:37,087 --> 01:06:42,445 Boy, I'll even give you a nougat with dark chocolate and nuts! 765 01:06:42,567 --> 01:06:45,684 And to this young man who's taking out his money 766 01:06:46,007 --> 01:06:51,798 I'll add a beautiful double face tie that never creases! 767 01:06:52,007 --> 01:06:54,237 You could wear it to go out with your girlfriend! 768 01:06:54,407 --> 01:06:56,363 3,000 lire, throw the money in there! 769 01:06:56,607 --> 01:06:58,359 What'll I do? I'll add 770 01:06:58,767 --> 01:07:00,723 "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", 771 01:07:01,087 --> 01:07:04,079 8 years of work, "The Interpretation of Dreams", 772 01:07:04,287 --> 01:07:05,925 "Freud", which is always me! 773 01:07:06,247 --> 01:07:10,240 I'll add 4 rolls of pink toilet paper 774 01:07:10,527 --> 01:07:12,836 and, as if it weren't enough, tear-resistant, 775 01:07:13,087 --> 01:07:15,555 a red horn to ward off jinxes 776 01:07:15,767 --> 01:07:19,521 and then this, perfect, this Jung monkey, 777 01:07:19,727 --> 01:07:21,445 made in fabulous Germany! 778 01:07:21,527 --> 01:07:24,997 Jung is an ex-colleague of mine, as you'll all remember, from Zurich! 779 01:07:25,207 --> 01:07:27,323 I think I'll sell it to the gentleman! 780 01:07:27,967 --> 01:07:29,923 I'll give you everything for 3,000 lire! 781 01:07:30,127 --> 01:07:35,042 This is a democratic sale by Sigmund Freud 782 01:07:35,167 --> 01:07:37,078 to the Italian proletariat! 783 01:08:00,527 --> 01:08:02,165 You want to be directors, eh? 784 01:08:03,327 --> 01:08:06,444 Now I'll show you what conditions you work under. 785 01:08:10,167 --> 01:08:12,044 I'll call a director friend of mine. 786 01:08:19,647 --> 01:08:21,239 Of course he's not at home. 787 01:08:22,207 --> 01:08:25,438 He goes around the city, wandering like a madman. 788 01:08:26,327 --> 01:08:27,840 He doesn't know how to be alone. 789 01:08:49,567 --> 01:08:53,037 Michele, it's time for your call. 790 01:08:54,967 --> 01:08:56,685 I won't fall for it this time. 791 01:09:15,567 --> 01:09:17,205 Look out, the police charged! 792 01:09:35,567 --> 01:09:38,479 Christina! Christina! 793 01:09:39,247 --> 01:09:45,356 794 01:09:45,487 --> 01:09:51,926 795 01:11:47,847 --> 01:11:51,476 796 01:11:51,607 --> 01:11:55,680 797 01:12:48,567 --> 01:12:49,602 Good evening. 798 01:12:50,967 --> 01:12:53,606 "Culture, spectacle, participation". 799 01:12:53,807 --> 01:12:55,399 That's our motto. 800 01:12:55,927 --> 01:12:58,043 Dueling protagonists the way you like it. 801 01:12:58,127 --> 01:13:01,403 An open encounter, fair, no tricks, broadcast live. 802 01:13:01,447 --> 01:13:02,436 Who will win? 803 01:13:11,287 --> 01:13:14,040 - Good evening. - Good evening. - Good evening. 804 01:13:14,447 --> 01:13:19,316 Michele Apicella. You know how disagreeable, unapproachable he is. 805 01:13:19,447 --> 01:13:23,565 He even physically rebuffs contact with fans and journalists. 806 01:13:23,647 --> 01:13:26,605 We've brought him here in flesh and blood. 807 01:13:27,247 --> 01:13:30,478 He's very badly behaved, and yet, he's made us laugh a lot 808 01:13:30,687 --> 01:13:34,282 telling us how the youth of today are alone and desperate. 809 01:13:34,687 --> 01:13:38,441 His challenger is Gigio Cimino, a director on the launching pad. 810 01:13:38,687 --> 01:13:41,884 He debuted years ago, very young, with an essay entitled: 811 01:13:41,967 --> 01:13:45,801 "The Comic Book at the Cutting Edge of American lmperialism". 812 01:13:46,407 --> 01:13:49,717 He went to prison for attacking the Israeli embassy 813 01:13:49,847 --> 01:13:51,644 during the Six-Day War. 814 01:13:52,087 --> 01:13:56,205 Now working on a musical about the struggle, hopes and loves 815 01:13:56,447 --> 01:13:58,199 of the '68 generation. 816 01:13:59,407 --> 01:14:00,556 Are you ready? 817 01:14:02,207 --> 01:14:04,163 I urge you to do your best! 818 01:14:17,167 --> 01:14:19,806 Nowadays, spectators have a different attitude 819 01:14:19,847 --> 01:14:23,044 toward cinema, this is also thanks to our films. 820 01:14:23,087 --> 01:14:25,999 - So many colleagues... - What colleagues? I don't have any! 821 01:14:26,047 --> 01:14:28,720 I'm the only one among new Italian directors to have any talent, 822 01:14:28,767 --> 01:14:30,803 you're insensitive, not knowing what cinema is, 823 01:14:30,847 --> 01:14:34,362 you're corrupted by your desire for power, an unjust desire, 824 01:14:34,487 --> 01:14:37,604 given that you're idiots! No, no, no... 825 01:14:37,767 --> 01:14:38,961 Time out, referee! 826 01:14:41,367 --> 01:14:44,006 - I can't stand it! - It's the only weapon we have! 827 01:14:47,607 --> 01:14:51,805 You bastard! Suck on this! Look at this oaf! Still talking? 828 01:14:51,847 --> 01:14:54,998 If you can't stand on your feet! You're tall as a dick and 2 tin cans, 829 01:14:55,047 --> 01:14:57,880 you'd drown in spit! Piss off! 830 01:14:58,007 --> 01:15:00,521 Look who you are? Dirty bastard! 831 01:15:01,207 --> 01:15:02,196 Vote. 832 01:15:03,767 --> 01:15:06,725 Red balloons by a crushing margin. 833 01:15:06,847 --> 01:15:09,884 Sadly, vulgarity has won the day once again. 834 01:15:10,127 --> 01:15:13,597 Michele Apicella is the winner of this first confrontation. 835 01:15:40,207 --> 01:15:42,243 836 01:15:42,607 --> 01:15:44,837 837 01:15:45,127 --> 01:15:51,566 Sweet dreams. Sweet... 838 01:15:51,607 --> 01:15:53,120 839 01:15:57,887 --> 01:15:59,240 Well done! 840 01:16:10,847 --> 01:16:15,477 from the sea at Posillipo, 841 01:16:15,727 --> 01:16:20,005 he hears me sing. 842 01:16:20,567 --> 01:16:25,357 these words are tears 843 01:16:25,687 --> 01:16:32,126 844 01:16:33,607 --> 01:16:39,876 oh, my lovely! 845 01:16:40,007 --> 01:16:45,604 846 01:16:45,727 --> 01:16:53,202 you left me! 847 01:16:53,407 --> 01:17:00,643 848 01:17:46,047 --> 01:17:48,197 An exchange of ideas, and exchange of bodies. 849 01:17:48,247 --> 01:17:51,717 You're used to weighing words, messages, political choices. 850 01:17:51,767 --> 01:17:53,200 We're offering you something more. 851 01:17:53,247 --> 01:17:55,522 Referee Mr. Ra�l Garc�a! 852 01:18:07,407 --> 01:18:11,764 I'm warning you: Fight cleanly, no low blows or swings at the neck. 853 01:18:12,807 --> 01:18:18,916 I'll split your head open! I'm the cinema, I'm the greatest! 854 01:18:19,607 --> 01:18:21,120 Mi-che-le! 855 01:18:21,327 --> 01:18:28,199 Mi-che-le! Mi-che-le! Mi-che-le! Mi-che-le! 856 01:18:28,327 --> 01:18:32,036 I'm the strongest and now I'll show you! 857 01:18:39,767 --> 01:18:42,725 Seconds out of the ring! Seconds out! Gong! 858 01:18:56,047 --> 01:18:58,686 These days it's become hard to satisfy the audience's taste. 859 01:18:58,727 --> 01:19:01,446 It's not enough that their heroes set the scene 860 01:19:01,527 --> 01:19:03,085 while the lights are on. 861 01:19:03,247 --> 01:19:05,636 They want to know what happens behind the scenes, 862 01:19:05,767 --> 01:19:09,157 in daily life, perhaps in the bedroom. 863 01:19:35,247 --> 01:19:37,681 Have you ever discussed the issue of fidelity? 864 01:19:37,967 --> 01:19:41,323 For example, how do you organize your sex life? 865 01:19:42,487 --> 01:19:47,242 Cimino, your opponent is not very well-versed in this subject. 866 01:19:47,487 --> 01:19:51,560 Don't let the chance for considerable plunder slip by. 867 01:19:52,007 --> 01:19:53,122 - Better! - We... 868 01:19:53,167 --> 01:19:55,806 We don't have any problems, we talk openly about it. 869 01:19:55,847 --> 01:19:58,645 It's been like that from the start, we tell each other everything. 870 01:19:58,687 --> 01:20:01,565 - If he has an affair, he tells me. - Alas! 871 01:20:01,807 --> 01:20:06,119 Does it happen often? Let's give some numbers. How many times? 872 01:20:08,087 --> 01:20:10,647 I haven't had an affair with anyone else so far, 873 01:20:10,687 --> 01:20:12,962 but probably I will in future. - No! 874 01:20:13,367 --> 01:20:14,800 - Sure. - Why? 875 01:20:15,127 --> 01:20:17,595 - It could happen! - But it's not compulsory. 876 01:20:18,567 --> 01:20:21,240 Anyway, he tells me, I'm awfully jealous. 877 01:20:21,287 --> 01:20:24,120 - He also says I'm possessive. - Of course you are. 878 01:20:24,167 --> 01:20:27,557 - I'd like to see you if... - Fine, I allow for the possibility. 879 01:20:27,767 --> 01:20:28,995 You accept in theory. 880 01:20:29,047 --> 01:20:32,642 Don't be banal, believe me or not. It's your business, do it. 881 01:20:32,687 --> 01:20:35,599 - No, it's a double-edged sword to me. - Do it, do it. 882 01:20:35,647 --> 01:20:37,763 Well, the confrontation is heating up. 883 01:20:38,927 --> 01:20:41,805 The discussion about sexuality between Gigio Cimino and his wife 884 01:20:41,927 --> 01:20:45,124 has clearly excited Michele Apicella, 885 01:20:45,607 --> 01:20:48,838 who's chafing at the bit to give his opinion 886 01:20:48,967 --> 01:20:53,199 in an area that, so far, has not been very kind to him. 887 01:20:53,847 --> 01:20:57,157 Is it a desire to match the points earned by his rival 888 01:20:57,407 --> 01:21:02,401 or has a new reality suddenly opened up before his eyes? 889 01:21:02,807 --> 01:21:03,876 Let's hear him out. 890 01:21:04,647 --> 01:21:09,198 Nobody contemplates making love out of joy, amiability, tenderness. 891 01:21:09,287 --> 01:21:13,360 Then you would become accomplices like two lucky bandits. 892 01:21:13,607 --> 01:21:15,802 An orgasm is not mandatory 893 01:21:16,007 --> 01:21:18,441 neither is penetration, the body is extensive 894 01:21:18,647 --> 01:21:23,118 and, if it weren't numb from repression, it would all be sensitive. 895 01:21:23,767 --> 01:21:25,962 I'll risk some hypotheses to work on. 896 01:21:26,567 --> 01:21:30,560 Remember, it isn't two sexual organs in bed, but two people, 897 01:21:30,807 --> 01:21:34,686 avoid rushing, overcome any aspect of sports, 898 01:21:34,847 --> 01:21:40,205 free yourself from your own ego not to give yourself away, as Catholics say, 899 01:21:40,407 --> 01:21:42,238 but because it takes two to make love. 900 01:21:47,647 --> 01:21:50,525 Zero applause, an unprecedented event. 901 01:21:50,567 --> 01:21:52,683 For Michele Apicella, a catastrophe. 902 01:22:06,327 --> 01:22:09,876 Our two thoroughbreds have come, exhausted, to the finish line, 903 01:22:09,927 --> 01:22:12,680 they are perfectly tied. A surprise ending. 904 01:22:12,807 --> 01:22:15,765 Focus. It's the last race, the decisive one. 905 01:22:21,207 --> 01:22:23,801 - Hit hard. - Come on, Gigio, I beg you. 906 01:23:16,727 --> 01:23:17,762 Come on, Gigio! 907 01:23:24,767 --> 01:23:31,206 908 01:23:35,367 --> 01:23:36,959 I won! 909 01:23:37,367 --> 01:23:45,524 Gigio! Gigio! Gigio! Gigio! 910 01:24:01,007 --> 01:24:04,283 A real apotheosis for Gigio Cimino. 911 01:24:04,767 --> 01:24:07,964 The cold touch of defeat for Michele Apicella, 912 01:24:08,167 --> 01:24:11,125 who wants to speak for perhaps the last time 913 01:24:11,327 --> 01:24:14,080 to the audience who once adored him. 914 01:24:15,127 --> 01:24:16,526 Shitty audience. 915 01:24:22,687 --> 01:24:24,325 Shitty audience! 916 01:24:30,047 --> 01:24:33,119 Shitty audience! 917 01:24:33,327 --> 01:24:35,443 Shitty audience! 918 01:24:35,687 --> 01:24:39,157 Shitty audience! 919 01:24:39,287 --> 01:24:43,485 Shitty audience! 920 01:25:52,687 --> 01:25:57,124 Hey, what are you doing there in the middle of the road? Out of the way! 921 01:25:57,407 --> 01:26:01,525 What are you doing there? Will you go on? Get out of the way! 922 01:26:02,407 --> 01:26:06,958 What are you doing there? Will you get out of the way? Go on! 923 01:26:07,407 --> 01:26:09,523 You're a bastard! Will you go on? 924 01:26:11,367 --> 01:26:12,641 Kill me. 925 01:26:22,847 --> 01:26:24,644 - FREUD'S MOM - 926 01:26:25,327 --> 01:26:29,081 This is the first street where I found a poster for the film. 927 01:26:29,487 --> 01:26:30,556 Not bad, huh? 928 01:26:31,447 --> 01:26:34,564 - It's nice. - Mmm. - Very nice. 929 01:26:37,167 --> 01:26:40,796 If I start shooting my film, I have a great idea for a poster. 930 01:26:45,007 --> 01:26:47,919 What's with the four copies of the same screenplay? 931 01:26:47,967 --> 01:26:50,800 - They're not the same. - No? - They're four different stories. 932 01:26:50,847 --> 01:26:54,317 - Four films? - Four films I'll be making, shortly. 933 01:26:57,687 --> 01:27:01,157 - Leo, where are you going? - To buy something. Be right back. 934 01:27:01,447 --> 01:27:03,085 - Good evening. - Good evening. 935 01:27:03,367 --> 01:27:04,402 I'm turning it off. 936 01:27:08,767 --> 01:27:10,678 In three days my film comes out 937 01:27:10,727 --> 01:27:13,287 and this theater isn't adequately equipped. 938 01:27:14,607 --> 01:27:17,804 A different lens from the one you use. 939 01:27:18,207 --> 01:27:24,885 Regulation masks: 1 at 33, 1 at 66, 1 at 85. Can they hear us? 940 01:27:25,887 --> 01:27:28,959 We'll restart it! Let's restart it. Try it. 941 01:27:36,887 --> 01:27:39,685 Come on... I didn't know. 942 01:27:48,167 --> 01:27:50,044 Give me my money back! 943 01:27:51,407 --> 01:27:55,286 This just shows that you don't respect the various film formats. 944 01:27:55,567 --> 01:27:59,765 You should respect the format and as such, the shot a director chooses! 945 01:27:59,927 --> 01:28:04,842 What do you do instead? Let's try it on you. I'll give you a nice close up. 946 01:28:06,087 --> 01:28:07,839 A really tight close-up. 947 01:28:08,447 --> 01:28:09,800 So what happens? 948 01:28:10,807 --> 01:28:12,445 You cut off the chin and forehead? 949 01:29:53,447 --> 01:29:55,677 Hi, Gaetano. It's Ciccolini. 950 01:29:55,847 --> 01:29:58,281 I got your screenplay the other day, 951 01:29:58,327 --> 01:29:59,885 but I didn't read it. 952 01:30:00,567 --> 01:30:03,035 I'm leaving and think I'll take it with me. 953 01:30:03,527 --> 01:30:06,758 Don't know when I'll be back. In any case, stay in touch. Bye. 954 01:30:09,967 --> 01:30:11,320 What do you think? 955 01:30:13,167 --> 01:30:17,843 He didn't advance me anything. It's a ploy, I know. 956 01:30:18,927 --> 01:30:21,122 He has great interest in me. 957 01:30:23,327 --> 01:30:27,400 It seems, I have a feeling that something new is happening. 958 01:30:28,207 --> 01:30:30,038 - To me! - Let's hope! 959 01:30:31,607 --> 01:30:33,962 I feel it. I'll make this film. 960 01:30:37,687 --> 01:30:39,723 - Shall we listen to it again? - Sure. 961 01:30:47,007 --> 01:30:48,804 Hi, Gaetano. It's Ciccolini. 962 01:31:24,767 --> 01:31:29,363 Candies, chocolates, sweets. Bon voyage. 963 01:31:33,167 --> 01:31:35,158 So, see you Friday at the premi�re. 964 01:31:35,287 --> 01:31:37,243 - Are you sure? - Sure. 965 01:31:37,687 --> 01:31:40,155 We just weren't up to going tonight, sorry. 966 01:31:41,007 --> 01:31:43,157 See you soon. We'll be back. 967 01:32:12,887 --> 01:32:14,206 Hi. 968 01:32:26,367 --> 01:32:28,927 - I don't know. - Which model do you prefer? 969 01:32:31,687 --> 01:32:32,802 That one, maybe. 970 01:32:34,247 --> 01:32:36,602 - When did you get back? - A few days ago. 971 01:32:37,127 --> 01:32:39,516 - You were gone two years. - Yeah. 972 01:32:42,327 --> 01:32:43,646 Some Super 8 film. 973 01:32:47,367 --> 01:32:48,686 That one, yeah. 974 01:32:51,927 --> 01:32:52,916 This is fine. 975 01:33:03,527 --> 01:33:05,643 Slowly, I'm tracking you, slowly! 976 01:33:07,527 --> 01:33:09,358 Oh, are you nuts? 977 01:33:27,447 --> 01:33:31,326 I don't know if the film coming out is any different, I don't think so. 978 01:33:31,487 --> 01:33:34,877 Anyway the characters in your films are such good guys. 979 01:33:35,007 --> 01:33:38,522 They don't take drugs, commit suicide, go to India, shoot guns. 980 01:33:38,567 --> 01:33:40,683 But what kind of life do they have? Who are they? 981 01:33:41,247 --> 01:33:43,966 Have you ever considered making a musical? 982 01:33:44,007 --> 01:33:46,805 Or a film with Indians, an adventure, a cartoon? 983 01:33:47,407 --> 01:33:50,126 You need to change, change, change! 984 01:33:53,087 --> 01:33:58,480 Excuse me, I have to go now, so go ahead. I'll think about it. 985 01:33:58,887 --> 01:34:00,639 Hurrah! Think about it! 986 01:34:00,767 --> 01:34:02,485 If someone wants to say something... 987 01:34:03,727 --> 01:34:05,160 Pardon me for insisting, 988 01:34:05,207 --> 01:34:08,836 but what do ordinary working people care about this film? 989 01:34:09,247 --> 01:34:12,444 A poor laborer from Basilicata? A shepherd from Abruzzo? 990 01:34:12,647 --> 01:34:14,558 A simple housewife from Treviso? 991 01:34:14,927 --> 01:34:19,398 What do they care about these intellectual, isolated themes, 992 01:34:19,607 --> 01:34:21,438 of mental masturbation? 993 01:34:24,487 --> 01:34:27,285 - I'm a shepherd from Abruzzo. - Ah... 994 01:34:27,407 --> 01:34:29,841 How do you do? Housewife from Treviso. 995 01:34:30,287 --> 01:34:34,724 - Laborer from Basilicata. - Pose for a photo. Sorry, move back a bit. 996 01:34:37,727 --> 01:34:38,716 Smile. 997 01:34:51,167 --> 01:34:55,285 - My goodness, critics! You want me to face them? - No, no. 998 01:34:55,687 --> 01:34:58,121 - Remember it's your finest film. - Huh? 999 01:34:58,247 --> 01:34:59,566 It's your finest film. 1000 01:35:00,287 --> 01:35:01,959 - It's my finest film? - Huh! 1001 01:35:02,647 --> 01:35:03,716 Yeah. 1002 01:35:13,607 --> 01:35:16,963 Good evening, it's my finest film. It's my finest film. 1003 01:35:17,327 --> 01:35:18,680 It's my finest film. 1004 01:35:19,087 --> 01:35:20,520 It's my finest film. 1005 01:35:20,847 --> 01:35:22,485 It's my finest film. 1006 01:35:22,767 --> 01:35:24,086 It's my finest film. 1007 01:35:24,527 --> 01:35:25,846 It's my finest film. 1008 01:35:26,167 --> 01:35:27,486 It's my finest film. 1009 01:35:27,967 --> 01:35:29,400 It's my finest film. 1010 01:35:29,727 --> 01:35:31,046 It's my finest film. 1011 01:35:31,207 --> 01:35:32,959 Good evening. It's my finest film. 1012 01:35:54,567 --> 01:35:57,240 - I am greatly changed. - Yes. 1013 01:36:12,167 --> 01:36:15,796 I took a journey that did me a world of good. 1014 01:36:20,207 --> 01:36:21,765 I have so many things to tell you. 1015 01:36:24,007 --> 01:36:25,725 I came back a changed person. 1016 01:36:32,047 --> 01:36:33,036 Yeah. 1017 01:36:34,167 --> 01:36:37,921 I am more sure of myself, I feel more serene. 1018 01:36:39,607 --> 01:36:42,883 I have a job now, and my independence. 1019 01:36:44,047 --> 01:36:47,437 I live in a handsome house, quite charming. 1020 01:36:48,527 --> 01:36:50,438 Don't you have my phone number? 1021 01:36:50,847 --> 01:36:53,077 - Ah, why not...? - No. 1022 01:36:53,847 --> 01:36:56,441 I live on my own now, no longer with my family. 1023 01:36:57,287 --> 01:36:59,243 And it's much better like that. 1024 01:37:01,247 --> 01:37:04,239 - Do you see the same old...? - No, no. 1025 01:37:04,567 --> 01:37:09,243 I don't see many people, different ones from before. 1026 01:37:09,767 --> 01:37:10,756 What? 1027 01:37:11,927 --> 01:37:14,646 - I see different people from before. - Speak up a bit. 1028 01:37:15,647 --> 01:37:18,400 - I see people... - Speak up, I can't hear you! 1029 01:37:18,607 --> 01:37:22,919 Tonight you're a stranger to me! You seem far away! 1030 01:37:25,967 --> 01:37:28,197 I've thought over my past. 1031 01:37:28,647 --> 01:37:30,239 I reflected on it a long time 1032 01:37:30,447 --> 01:37:33,723 and now I feel changed, completely different. 1033 01:37:34,127 --> 01:37:36,482 I think I see what... 1034 01:37:41,847 --> 01:37:43,519 - No! - Yes! 1035 01:37:43,647 --> 01:37:47,117 - No, no! - Yes! I'm a monster! 1036 01:37:47,247 --> 01:37:49,556 And I love you! 1037 01:37:49,687 --> 01:37:52,406 I love you! 1038 01:37:55,767 --> 01:37:57,678 I don't want to die! 1039 01:37:59,047 --> 01:38:01,436 I don't want to die! 1040 01:38:11,167 --> 01:38:13,601 I don't want to die! 1041 01:38:21,287 --> 01:38:24,279 Subtitles by STUDIO ASCI - Crema 1042 01:38:26,567 --> 01:38:30,879 - SWEET DREAMS -