1 00:00:11,916 --> 00:00:14,291 [instrumental music, something unsettling] 2 00:00:47,208 --> 00:00:49,500 [baroque music, Handel] 3 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:00,875 [Lúcio]Ten years in prison served 4 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,500 for a crime I didn't commit, 5 00:01:04,916 --> 00:01:08,458 and of which, however, I never defended myself. 6 00:01:10,375 --> 00:01:13,708 Dead to life and dreams, 7 00:01:16,083 --> 00:01:18,041 waiting for nothing, 8 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:21,375 and desiring nothing. 9 00:01:24,416 --> 00:01:28,291 I come to do, finally, my confession. 10 00:01:29,625 --> 00:01:30,833 That is, 11 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:33,708 to demonstrate my innocence. 12 00:01:36,208 --> 00:01:37,750 Maybe they don't believe me. 13 00:01:39,583 --> 00:01:41,625 I'm sure they don't believe me. 14 00:01:43,250 --> 00:01:44,583 But it doesn't matter. 15 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:48,500 I don't need to be rehabilitated. 16 00:01:50,625 --> 00:01:52,416 I only tell the truth, 17 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 even when it is unlikely. 18 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,541 Cherchez la femme. 19 00:02:02,125 --> 00:02:04,166 [birds chirping] 20 00:02:37,750 --> 00:02:39,166 [Lúcio] My dear! 21 00:02:39,250 --> 00:02:43,041 [Gervásio] My dear Lúcio, you missed the biggest party of the century! 22 00:02:43,125 --> 00:02:47,708 All of Paris was at the American's Palace yesterday! An unforgettable spectacle. 23 00:02:48,416 --> 00:02:52,500 Falls of light, electrifying flames! 24 00:02:52,583 --> 00:02:55,875 So much sensualism explored, absolutely unforgettable. 25 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,166 Impossible to describe. 26 00:02:58,708 --> 00:03:01,500 It's not me, ever, who own my lovers… 27 00:03:03,083 --> 00:03:07,041 - They are the ones who own me! - [Lúcio] False modesty, my dear. 28 00:03:07,125 --> 00:03:09,916 You know, Lúcio, what makes an artist a great artist… 29 00:03:10,208 --> 00:03:12,875 - [Lúcio] Say it. - It's not just the style of his work, 30 00:03:13,291 --> 00:03:16,000 It's also the way you dress, 31 00:03:16,208 --> 00:03:20,291 your gestures, the way you love, your entire way of being. 32 00:03:20,375 --> 00:03:23,416 All of this defines the genius of the great artist. 33 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,833 Why, my friend, call "genius" to an obese scoundrel like Balzac… 34 00:03:29,250 --> 00:03:31,625 It's not right. It's not fair, nor acceptable! 35 00:03:31,750 --> 00:03:35,875 But there are so many great artists out there, much inferior in terms of physical appearance. 36 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,500 Knowing how to steal a little of God's soul, that's a great artist. 37 00:03:41,166 --> 00:03:44,000 Here comes Ricardo de Loureiro. Poet of Embers! 38 00:03:44,875 --> 00:03:47,791 - Do you know Ricardo, Lúcio? - No, but I admire his work. 39 00:03:48,291 --> 00:03:50,000 It is essential that you know him, 40 00:03:50,083 --> 00:03:53,416 a brilliant man who levitates above mortals. 41 00:03:54,583 --> 00:03:58,166 [Ricardo] I'm glad I found him! I barely feared that I had come here in vain. 42 00:03:58,250 --> 00:03:59,708 [Gervásio] Now, come on! 43 00:03:59,791 --> 00:04:02,041 The writer and playwright, Lúcio Vaz, 44 00:04:02,125 --> 00:04:04,458 the poet, Ricardo de Loureiro. 45 00:04:05,458 --> 00:04:07,583 A privilege to meet you in person. 46 00:04:07,875 --> 00:04:11,291 I am a humble and dedicated reader of your poetry: 47 00:04:13,375 --> 00:04:15,000 "I look around me 48 00:04:15,250 --> 00:04:18,750 Everyone has an affection A smile or a hug 49 00:04:19,583 --> 00:04:22,625 Only for my cravings to be diluted And I don't have 50 00:04:22,750 --> 00:04:24,458 Even when I link 51 00:04:25,916 --> 00:04:27,583 Oh power 52 00:04:27,708 --> 00:04:29,708 Being able to suck one day 53 00:04:30,083 --> 00:04:31,125 Anyway 54 00:04:31,208 --> 00:04:34,541 The purple and macerated taste Of the mystery 55 00:04:35,708 --> 00:04:38,791 The mystery of writing! Let's sit down, gentlemen. 56 00:04:39,916 --> 00:04:42,041 Gervásio told me about you. 57 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:45,583 I know the volume of your novels. 58 00:04:45,916 --> 00:04:49,541 I especially like the story "João Tortura". 59 00:04:50,833 --> 00:04:54,125 It's rare to find such genuine melancholic prose. 60 00:04:55,750 --> 00:04:57,583 It gives me great pleasure to know. 61 00:04:59,041 --> 00:05:01,541 - And it’s curious… - What? 62 00:05:02,166 --> 00:05:03,916 Choosing this story. 63 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,000 It is by far my favorite among the poems I wrote, 64 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:10,208 and the only one that critics don't highlight. - Ah, critics! 65 00:05:10,291 --> 00:05:13,125 Do you want romance grocers to understand us? 66 00:05:13,208 --> 00:05:15,583 You know what we can expect from the Portuguese press. 67 00:05:15,708 --> 00:05:18,833 And it's never too late to find a soulmate. 68 00:05:20,375 --> 00:05:23,375 In the aesthetic and literary sense, well understood. 69 00:05:27,458 --> 00:05:29,000 If you'll excuse me. 70 00:05:32,784 --> 00:05:34,784 [background noise of people talking] 71 00:05:42,875 --> 00:05:44,875 [sound of horse pulling carriage] 72 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 For me, nothing new delights me anymore. 73 00:05:49,708 --> 00:05:51,416 Everything bothers me. 74 00:05:53,625 --> 00:05:57,541 My rare enthusiasms, when measuring them… 75 00:05:58,541 --> 00:06:00,625 … I find them petty. 76 00:06:02,083 --> 00:06:05,250 It's not just the things I own that bother me anymore, 77 00:06:07,083 --> 00:06:09,833 just as I am fed up with those I don't have. 78 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,208 Write. 79 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:16,208 Don't stop writing. 80 00:06:18,125 --> 00:06:19,916 Leave your work… 81 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,583 Let your work save you. 82 00:06:27,250 --> 00:06:30,166 I know we just met, 83 00:06:32,208 --> 00:06:35,541 but allow me to offer all the help you need. 84 00:06:36,083 --> 00:06:37,791 Think about the future, 85 00:06:38,125 --> 00:06:39,541 think… 86 00:06:39,875 --> 00:06:43,125 … in the world there is to conquer. - The future… 87 00:06:43,375 --> 00:06:44,791 The future… 88 00:06:45,416 --> 00:06:47,541 To this day I still haven't seen myself in it. 89 00:06:47,833 --> 00:06:51,125 And the things I don't see myself in, they never happened to me. 90 00:06:52,833 --> 00:06:55,708 I miss this future you talk about. 91 00:06:57,333 --> 00:07:00,875 [sighs] But I thank you for your encouragement, dear Lúcio. 92 00:07:03,708 --> 00:07:06,500 Maybe meeting you will help me change. 93 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:09,500 I'm sure yes. 94 00:07:16,458 --> 00:07:17,500 Lúcio! 95 00:07:21,041 --> 00:07:23,750 Do you have anything scheduled for tomorrow at 3pm? 96 00:07:26,125 --> 00:07:29,083 - Not that I remember. - Then you will. 97 00:07:30,250 --> 00:07:32,458 At the Robert Oudin Theatre? 98 00:07:33,208 --> 00:07:34,875 Combined. 99 00:07:36,375 --> 00:07:37,875 Goodnight. 100 00:07:40,833 --> 00:07:42,041 [sigh] 101 00:07:54,541 --> 00:07:56,541 [somewhat unsettling instrumental music] 102 00:08:07,583 --> 00:08:09,291 Tell me, Lúcio, 103 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:12,125 Are you not subject to certain inexplicable fears? 104 00:08:13,416 --> 00:08:14,875 Like what? 105 00:08:15,541 --> 00:08:17,875 I'm afraid of those dancers. 106 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:22,000 - [Lúcio] Are you kidding? - [Ricardo] Look carefully. 107 00:08:22,750 --> 00:08:25,166 All dressed in the same suits, 108 00:08:25,458 --> 00:08:29,208 the same bare legs, the same faint features, 109 00:08:29,291 --> 00:08:32,000 the same gentle air, all the same. 110 00:08:32,083 --> 00:08:34,458 We cannot assign them a life, 111 00:08:34,541 --> 00:08:37,000 a lover, a past, 112 00:08:37,500 --> 00:08:40,375 habits or ways of being. 113 00:08:40,583 --> 00:08:43,083 We cannot separate them from the whole. 114 00:08:43,166 --> 00:08:45,875 It's terrifying. Dreadful…! 115 00:08:46,333 --> 00:08:49,458 [sighs, sound of the projector, groans] 116 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 - Richard! - Oh! 117 00:09:12,375 --> 00:09:14,041 My dear. Dear Lúcio! 118 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:16,916 How I bless the hour in which we meet. 119 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:21,125 Ah... "La Bocca della Veritá". 120 00:09:21,208 --> 00:09:24,000 I don't know if you know the legend of this statue. 121 00:09:24,458 --> 00:09:26,833 A real lie detector. 122 00:09:26,916 --> 00:09:29,916 Legend has it that if you're lying, 123 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:33,541 the statue tears off our hand. 124 00:09:35,500 --> 00:09:37,125 Do you accept the challenge? 125 00:09:38,875 --> 00:09:42,791 It would be good if it were possible to ascertain women's fidelity. 126 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:45,166 [Ricardo lets out a little laugh] 127 00:09:45,916 --> 00:09:50,000 And does Lúcio find it easy to make new friends? 128 00:09:53,708 --> 00:09:57,250 These good people who come here, live, don't think. 129 00:09:58,333 --> 00:10:01,875 Most of them are happy, normal. 130 00:10:03,291 --> 00:10:05,791 As for me, I don't know how to have affection. 131 00:10:07,451 --> 00:10:10,118 I see how women look at you. 132 00:10:10,458 --> 00:10:13,041 They do not seek anything other than these affections. 133 00:10:13,645 --> 00:10:16,853 I always felt like a social outsider, you know? 134 00:10:16,916 --> 00:10:19,875 Really? It doesn't seem like it. 135 00:10:20,791 --> 00:10:24,458 I am an isolated person who knows half the world. At least, that's how I feel. 136 00:10:28,083 --> 00:10:30,583 Can you believe I can't conceive of myself in my old age? 137 00:10:30,750 --> 00:10:33,208 If there were no absolute certainty that we all die, 138 00:10:33,291 --> 00:10:36,541 I, not seeing myself dead, I wouldn't believe my death. 139 00:10:38,208 --> 00:10:41,916 And you don't aspire, like any artist, to immortality? 140 00:10:42,208 --> 00:10:44,708 Thus escaping death? 141 00:10:45,041 --> 00:10:47,541 Everyone believes me to be a mysterious man, 142 00:10:47,625 --> 00:10:50,916 for not falling in love, not have lovers. 143 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 I can't be friends with anyone. 144 00:10:54,250 --> 00:10:57,166 Don't protest, I'm not your friend. 145 00:10:58,375 --> 00:11:02,083 To be someone's friend, It would be necessary for me to own it first… 146 00:11:02,166 --> 00:11:04,583 … whoever I cherished, woman or man. 147 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,375 But a creature of our sex, we cannot possess. 148 00:11:09,250 --> 00:11:12,791 I could only be friends with a creature of my sex 149 00:11:12,875 --> 00:11:16,166 if this creature, or me, would change sex. 150 00:11:18,791 --> 00:11:21,875 In respect of all the people for whom I feel tenderness 151 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,625 there is this desire that I feel in my soul, to kiss them. 152 00:11:27,458 --> 00:11:28,875 Give back, 153 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:31,375 narrow, possess. 154 00:11:31,708 --> 00:11:35,500 Don't think I feel this in my flesh. No! I feel it in my soul. 155 00:11:36,583 --> 00:11:39,125 Everything in this city is liturgical to me… 156 00:11:40,541 --> 00:11:42,500 My religion is Paris! 157 00:11:44,250 --> 00:11:46,250 Paris, Paris… 158 00:11:46,333 --> 00:11:47,833 [Ricardo sighs] 159 00:11:48,041 --> 00:11:50,750 We profess the same faith, my dear. 160 00:11:52,250 --> 00:11:56,333 Come with me tomorrow to the Saint-Croix exhibition at the Grand Palais. 161 00:11:56,500 --> 00:11:59,916 They say he is the most exciting sculptor of this century! 162 00:12:01,833 --> 00:12:05,166 I would love to, but unfortunately I won't be able to. 163 00:12:05,916 --> 00:12:08,166 I have a meeting with a lawyer. 164 00:12:08,250 --> 00:12:11,500 Documents to sign, because of my father's inheritance. 165 00:12:11,583 --> 00:12:14,541 I'm sorry you go through these worries. 166 00:12:15,125 --> 00:12:17,791 I would be happy to have you for company. 167 00:12:24,583 --> 00:12:26,416 To tell me what you think. 168 00:12:28,875 --> 00:12:31,791 I wrote last night, after we met. 169 00:12:35,916 --> 00:12:37,708 I don't know what to say. 170 00:12:38,750 --> 00:12:40,250 Don't say anything. 171 00:12:40,916 --> 00:12:43,000 Grant me this pleasure. 172 00:12:51,083 --> 00:12:53,083 [soft instrumental music] 173 00:12:57,708 --> 00:12:59,875 [Ricardo off the record] Love is a flame that kills 174 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,708 They all say it rightly 175 00:13:02,750 --> 00:13:04,500 It's a malaise of the heart 176 00:13:04,583 --> 00:13:06,541 And with it one goes crazy 177 00:13:08,583 --> 00:13:10,916 Love is a smile 178 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,875 Smile that fades 179 00:13:14,458 --> 00:13:17,875 Lock that comes undone They also call it 180 00:13:19,291 --> 00:13:21,583 Love is not a good 181 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,083 Whoever loves always suffers 182 00:13:25,916 --> 00:13:28,375 Love is a perfume 183 00:13:29,041 --> 00:13:30,791 Perfume that fades 184 00:13:43,708 --> 00:13:44,750 [bell] 185 00:13:58,791 --> 00:14:00,875 - Yes sir? - Good morning. 186 00:14:00,958 --> 00:14:04,833 I'm Lúcio Vaz. I have a meeting with Mr. Ricardo at 10 am. 187 00:14:04,916 --> 00:14:07,041 One moment, please. 188 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:11,833 This is for you. 189 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:15,833 - Thanks. - You're welcome. 190 00:14:19,041 --> 00:14:22,041 [footsteps moving away and soft instrumental music] 191 00:14:25,541 --> 00:14:27,625 [Ricardo off the record] My dear Lúcio. 192 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,500 I had to urgently return to Lisbon. 193 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,875 I found my destiny. 194 00:14:33,625 --> 00:14:38,750 I look forward to seeing you again and sharing so much happiness with you. 195 00:14:41,625 --> 00:14:44,625 [serene and contemplative instrumental music continues] 196 00:15:47,250 --> 00:15:49,083 [Lúcio in narration] Dear Ricardo, 197 00:15:49,333 --> 00:15:52,541 we were apart for a year. 198 00:15:54,791 --> 00:15:57,833 Our correspondence was null. 199 00:15:59,333 --> 00:16:02,125 Three letters from me and two from you. 200 00:16:04,333 --> 00:16:06,208 In December, I return to Lisbon. 201 00:16:07,583 --> 00:16:10,041 A big, big hug, 202 00:16:10,458 --> 00:16:11,500 Lúcio. 203 00:16:11,708 --> 00:16:13,458 [car approaching] 204 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,333 Every other week, I have to take the car to the workshop! 205 00:16:20,416 --> 00:16:21,458 Oh! 206 00:16:22,333 --> 00:16:24,625 Do you know who I met yesterday at Brasileira? 207 00:16:24,750 --> 00:16:28,458 Our "Rodin do Chiado": Gervásio Vila-Nova! 208 00:16:28,791 --> 00:16:30,791 - He came back a month ago! - Yeah. 209 00:16:30,875 --> 00:16:33,208 His sister is sick, as far as I know. 210 00:16:33,291 --> 00:16:36,000 - Did it look good? - The usual, 211 00:16:36,083 --> 00:16:38,750 more full of himself and would exploded. 212 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:42,625 And you, what do you tell me? 213 00:16:45,166 --> 00:16:47,625 My father's house needs care. 214 00:16:48,208 --> 00:16:50,500 I couldn't delay coming any longer. 215 00:16:55,375 --> 00:16:57,250 [birds chirping] 216 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,500 My dear Lúcio… 217 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:12,500 It's good to have you here. 218 00:17:12,708 --> 00:17:14,791 It's good to be back. 219 00:17:15,166 --> 00:17:19,125 Every Thursday there is a small soirée at the house. 220 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,416 We welcome friends, fun people. 221 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:23,541 You will see! 222 00:17:23,916 --> 00:17:25,583 Did you say "we received"…? 223 00:17:27,125 --> 00:17:28,541 Ricardo? 224 00:17:29,833 --> 00:17:31,458 Am I missing something? 225 00:17:31,541 --> 00:17:34,041 You are going to dinner at my house today. I make a point of honor, 226 00:17:34,125 --> 00:17:36,875 we have to celebrate… 227 00:17:37,208 --> 00:17:39,833 …your arrival! - Hum-hum. Very good. 228 00:17:52,833 --> 00:17:55,750 [housekeeper] Doctor Ricardo asks to wait a little. 229 00:17:55,833 --> 00:17:57,208 For sure. 230 00:18:08,750 --> 00:18:12,208 It is possible that Doctor Ricardo will still take a while. 231 00:18:15,041 --> 00:18:17,375 Do you want to drink something? 232 00:18:17,750 --> 00:18:19,750 No, thanks. 233 00:18:21,541 --> 00:18:23,541 [footsteps moving away] 234 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:00,500 [hear muffled sounds in the distance] 235 00:19:07,916 --> 00:19:10,083 [instrumental music, ethereal and suspended] 236 00:21:20,625 --> 00:21:22,625 [put away the lipstick] 237 00:21:40,125 --> 00:21:42,625 [sound of footsteps below] 238 00:22:01,916 --> 00:22:05,250 Doctor Ricardo is ready to welcome you. 239 00:22:06,375 --> 00:22:07,750 Lúcio! 240 00:22:08,541 --> 00:22:10,250 [Lúcio] My dear! 241 00:22:10,750 --> 00:22:13,500 - You are nicely set up! - Let's go. 242 00:22:27,416 --> 00:22:29,250 Are you sure you don't want one? 243 00:22:29,625 --> 00:22:31,458 I thank you. 244 00:22:32,791 --> 00:22:34,416 [sound of glasses] 245 00:22:38,166 --> 00:22:39,541 [sound of water running] 246 00:22:41,625 --> 00:22:44,291 [Lúcio] It seems like just yesterday we saw each other in Paris. 247 00:22:46,041 --> 00:22:48,208 It all happened so fast. 248 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:52,500 [Ricardo] It's true, my dear. 249 00:22:56,125 --> 00:22:57,708 It is true. 250 00:22:57,916 --> 00:22:59,500 Please. 251 00:23:04,083 --> 00:23:07,166 But I see you happy. That's what matters to me. 252 00:23:08,416 --> 00:23:09,541 And I am. 253 00:23:10,750 --> 00:23:12,500 You can't imagine how much. 254 00:23:21,833 --> 00:23:23,250 And Paris? 255 00:23:24,875 --> 00:23:29,083 [Lúcio] As always: not giving us a damn, but offering us everything. 256 00:23:29,208 --> 00:23:30,500 [they both laugh] 257 00:23:31,875 --> 00:23:33,833 Does Marta know Paris? 258 00:23:34,291 --> 00:23:36,125 Marta knows everything. 259 00:23:37,500 --> 00:23:42,000 At least, all that matters to men of our appetite and nature. 260 00:23:44,375 --> 00:23:45,875 [Lúcio] Forgive my boldness. 261 00:23:46,833 --> 00:23:48,500 Where did you meet? 262 00:23:51,375 --> 00:23:54,166 [Marta] And where would you like us to have met? 263 00:23:55,416 --> 00:23:57,875 [everyone laughs, releasing the tension] 264 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,875 In a way, even before I was born, Ricardo was already dear and familiar to me. 265 00:24:04,166 --> 00:24:07,458 It's as if, even without us knowing each other, 266 00:24:07,541 --> 00:24:09,458 we had never separated. 267 00:24:10,458 --> 00:24:12,208 [Lúcio] I understand. 268 00:24:12,833 --> 00:24:16,541 There are those who go their entire lives without finding this complicity. 269 00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:20,791 It's more than complicity. 270 00:24:22,250 --> 00:24:24,708 Have you finished the new play, Lúcio? 271 00:24:25,291 --> 00:24:27,083 Well, actually… 272 00:24:27,166 --> 00:24:29,583 - I have doubts about the piece. - [Ricardo] Nonsense! 273 00:24:29,708 --> 00:24:31,166 Lúcio… 274 00:24:32,208 --> 00:24:35,291 The excerpts he sent me are superior to Oscar Wilde's "Salome." 275 00:24:35,375 --> 00:24:35,991 - Ricardo... 276 00:24:36,063 --> 00:24:38,296 - Do you believe that I read some passages to Marta, 277 00:24:38,375 --> 00:24:42,291 and that she memorized the text immediately? Especially the verses! 278 00:24:43,708 --> 00:24:45,458 [everyone laughs] 279 00:24:47,583 --> 00:24:49,750 [Marta recites poem] "Purple Insomnia 280 00:24:52,708 --> 00:24:54,750 The light turning into fear 281 00:24:54,875 --> 00:24:57,500 Dead moonlight More soul than the moon 282 00:24:58,125 --> 00:25:00,583 She dances It creaks 283 00:25:01,416 --> 00:25:02,916 The meat 284 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,583 Naked alcohol 285 00:25:04,791 --> 00:25:08,000 It spreads to me In a spasm of secrecy" 286 00:25:10,708 --> 00:25:13,583 [Lúcio] I've never believed my own words so much, Marta! 287 00:25:13,708 --> 00:25:16,416 - Bravo! Bravo! - Bravo! 288 00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:18,833 [everyone laughs] 289 00:25:19,458 --> 00:25:20,625 Bravo! 290 00:25:22,916 --> 00:25:24,500 [sound of conversations and soft music] 291 00:25:27,375 --> 00:25:28,708 Good night. 292 00:25:34,458 --> 00:25:36,041 Very cool. 293 00:25:36,125 --> 00:25:37,500 I'm glad you think so. 294 00:25:37,791 --> 00:25:38,833 [Ricardo] Lúcio… 295 00:25:39,125 --> 00:25:42,416 I present to you Count Sergei Warginski, 296 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:46,708 now commercial attaché at the Russian embassy in Lisbon. 297 00:25:47,041 --> 00:25:49,000 Nice to meet you. 298 00:25:49,833 --> 00:25:51,500 De Loureiro! 299 00:25:52,333 --> 00:25:53,791 You… 300 00:25:54,041 --> 00:25:57,375 You are truly a man of good taste! 301 00:25:59,375 --> 00:26:02,208 Don't think you can keep her all to yourself. 302 00:26:02,291 --> 00:26:04,708 That never crossed my mind. 303 00:26:04,791 --> 00:26:07,791 In this regard, Marta and I are also similar, she… 304 00:26:08,916 --> 00:26:11,541 She do as she pleases. 305 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,583 So, if you'll excuse me. 306 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,083 I don't know how you can handle it... 307 00:26:29,125 --> 00:26:30,500 What a shame! 308 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,708 Jealousy is the poison of the weak, my friend. 309 00:26:37,125 --> 00:26:39,708 Well I know it's none of my business, but if she were my wife, 310 00:26:39,791 --> 00:26:42,125 I wouldn't let anyone get close to her. 311 00:26:43,041 --> 00:26:44,333 Ricardo… 312 00:26:44,708 --> 00:26:48,500 I ask you to forgive me, I wasn't trying to be inconvenient. 313 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,166 - It's just because... - No, no. Don't worry, Lúcio. 314 00:26:52,458 --> 00:26:55,708 It was one of the most flattering things you ever said to me. 315 00:26:56,625 --> 00:26:58,458 [sound away from piano] 316 00:27:04,625 --> 00:27:08,291 Have you noticed this piece, here, in the living room? 317 00:27:10,625 --> 00:27:13,333 [Stronger, dramatic piano] 318 00:27:14,625 --> 00:27:17,750 I have very rare pieces here at home. 319 00:27:18,458 --> 00:27:20,458 I see. I see. 320 00:27:29,541 --> 00:27:31,750 [piano continues] 321 00:27:45,625 --> 00:27:48,000 [more intense and dramatic music] 322 00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:11,833 [clap] 323 00:28:13,041 --> 00:28:16,000 This Narciso do Amaral is extraordinary, didn't you think so? 324 00:28:16,291 --> 00:28:21,000 I had the impression that my soul dissipated for a moment in the music. 325 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:37,000 Lúcio…! 326 00:28:41,708 --> 00:28:44,291 - I'll get your things. - It is not necessary. 327 00:28:48,375 --> 00:28:51,791 I'm glad you protect me from the Count's advances. 328 00:28:53,375 --> 00:28:56,541 I would have preferred Ricardo not to have told you anything. 329 00:28:57,875 --> 00:29:01,000 He doesn't need to tell me for me to know. 330 00:29:32,250 --> 00:29:34,958 What an exceptional night you gave us, Maestro. 331 00:29:35,041 --> 00:29:37,875 - [Narciso do Amaral] I'm not the conductor. - I'm sorry. 332 00:29:38,291 --> 00:29:41,958 - But I confirmed that you are an excellent pianist. - You do what you can. 333 00:29:42,041 --> 00:29:44,875 And the sonata, exemplarily chosen. 334 00:29:45,333 --> 00:29:48,416 To match the unusual beauty of the hostess. 335 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:51,500 Hostess? And who is the hostess? 336 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,375 Mrs. Marta, the wife of Ricardo de Loureiro. 337 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,750 I'm sorry, but I don't know what you're talking about. 338 00:30:05,208 --> 00:30:07,208 [unsettling instrumental music] 339 00:30:20,166 --> 00:30:23,750 I have never written so much and so easily. 340 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:26,458 I envy you... 341 00:30:27,416 --> 00:30:30,500 I haven't written a single line since I returned to Lisbon. 342 00:30:30,583 --> 00:30:32,875 Rest, rest! 343 00:30:33,416 --> 00:30:36,958 In great talents, inspiration is like contagious diseases, 344 00:30:37,041 --> 00:30:38,416 always come back! 345 00:30:39,708 --> 00:30:43,000 It is true that we need to be careful with some aspects of our health… 346 00:30:43,541 --> 00:30:45,541 How has Lúcio been? 347 00:30:46,041 --> 00:30:47,708 Why? 348 00:30:49,166 --> 00:30:51,041 Do you think I'm not okay? 349 00:30:51,250 --> 00:30:53,000 Do you think I'm sick? 350 00:30:53,125 --> 00:30:54,625 My dear Lúcio! 351 00:30:54,750 --> 00:30:56,875 You need to be careful with your nerves! 352 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,333 My dear. 353 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,625 [birds chirping] 354 00:31:04,625 --> 00:31:08,583 You disappeared from Paris overnight, you know? 355 00:31:09,125 --> 00:31:12,583 You invited me to go to an exhibition at the Grand Palais, 356 00:31:12,750 --> 00:31:14,500 and suddenly… 357 00:31:14,625 --> 00:31:16,291 … silence! 358 00:31:17,541 --> 00:31:20,833 Your melancholy made me fear the worst. 359 00:31:22,208 --> 00:31:25,875 Then I found out, through your message, 360 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,750 that you left for Lisbon, 361 00:31:29,458 --> 00:31:30,833 and… 362 00:31:31,375 --> 00:31:34,041 Finally, after a year of silence, 363 00:31:34,125 --> 00:31:36,166 when I meet again in Lisbon, 364 00:31:37,625 --> 00:31:41,291 your life changed like overnight. 365 00:31:42,041 --> 00:31:44,500 You got married, imagine! 366 00:31:46,333 --> 00:31:48,083 So Ricardo, 367 00:31:48,166 --> 00:31:52,916 who has never shown any belief in love, much less marriage. 368 00:31:55,041 --> 00:31:57,041 And yet, 369 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,416 I see you with a woman… 370 00:32:03,416 --> 00:32:05,083 unique… 371 00:32:06,166 --> 00:32:08,125 Extraordinary, indeed! 372 00:32:09,250 --> 00:32:12,166 But not a word about such a meeting! 373 00:32:12,625 --> 00:32:16,500 You never told me about your romance, never told me where she came from, 374 00:32:17,006 --> 00:32:19,038 Where did you meet her, if she has a family… 375 00:32:19,114 --> 00:32:21,407 You never talked about anything at all! 376 00:32:21,516 --> 00:32:24,076 Not all of us have a family, memories, a past... 377 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,791 And for Marta to radiate light as she does, I must remain in the shadow. 378 00:32:27,875 --> 00:32:31,375 But why, my dear? My question is exactly that! 379 00:32:31,625 --> 00:32:33,625 If she is your wife... 380 00:32:34,416 --> 00:32:36,541 - and forgive me if I offend you, Ricardo - 381 00:32:36,833 --> 00:32:38,541 because if she is your woman, 382 00:32:40,166 --> 00:32:43,500 It doesn't bother him that everyone looks at her, 383 00:32:44,083 --> 00:32:45,750 that address her, 384 00:32:46,291 --> 00:32:48,208 try to touch her? 385 00:32:50,250 --> 00:32:51,375 Oh! 386 00:32:51,750 --> 00:32:53,625 Drosophyllum lusitanicum! 387 00:32:59,916 --> 00:33:02,000 [Ricardo] The dewy pine. 388 00:33:02,833 --> 00:33:06,000 It's one of the rare Portuguese carnivorous plants, did you know? 389 00:33:06,708 --> 00:33:08,625 It is extremely sensitive. 390 00:33:09,333 --> 00:33:12,541 Same cultivation methods suited to other carnivorous plants 391 00:33:12,625 --> 00:33:14,458 are lethal to this specimen. 392 00:33:15,458 --> 00:33:17,750 Just one change at the root and they die. 393 00:33:18,708 --> 00:33:23,791 But they are capable of attracting large insects with the liquid they secrete. 394 00:33:26,125 --> 00:33:28,500 Males go crazy 395 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,375 with the brightness and color of these glands, 396 00:33:31,458 --> 00:33:33,833 and they are eaten, very slowly. 397 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,250 The dewy pine is neither male nor female. 398 00:33:40,541 --> 00:33:42,125 It's just sex. 399 00:33:44,208 --> 00:33:48,333 How about your entrecôte? They say this sauce cures all diseases. 400 00:33:48,833 --> 00:33:52,375 [Lúcio] That cures hunger, is confirmed. It's perfect! 401 00:33:58,083 --> 00:34:00,041 Next time the waiter ignores you, 402 00:34:00,125 --> 00:34:03,333 I will try to warn him about his lack of education. 403 00:34:05,708 --> 00:34:07,500 Marta chose grouper. 404 00:34:08,250 --> 00:34:13,208 I certainly didn't expect to be served an entrecôte accompaniment. 405 00:34:13,791 --> 00:34:14,833 [Martha laughs] 406 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:18,583 Our Lúcio is always trying to defend me. 407 00:34:25,333 --> 00:34:27,375 Well, it's late. 408 00:34:28,333 --> 00:34:29,500 [put down the cutlery] 409 00:34:29,583 --> 00:34:30,791 How so? 410 00:34:30,875 --> 00:34:34,166 I have an unpostponable meeting with my editor. I thought I told you. 411 00:34:34,250 --> 00:34:36,958 - No, Ricardo, you didn't tell me anything. - Don't be offended. 412 00:34:37,041 --> 00:34:39,583 See you soon. You will be in for a surprise. 413 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,500 Thanks. 414 00:34:42,041 --> 00:34:45,500 The crème brûlée is to die for, you have to try it. 415 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,083 [footsteps moving away] 416 00:34:58,250 --> 00:35:02,750 I didn't realize they had taken away Ricardo's plate, did you? 417 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,541 No. 418 00:35:07,041 --> 00:35:10,125 - Strange… - Are you telling me I'm weird? 419 00:35:12,041 --> 00:35:14,250 You certainly are unique. 420 00:35:14,708 --> 00:35:18,458 In fact, Ricardo's wife could only be unique. 421 00:35:19,166 --> 00:35:22,500 Is that how you see me, Lúcio? "Ricardo's wife"? 422 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,125 Isn't that your public and… 423 00:35:25,708 --> 00:35:27,083 … private condition? 424 00:35:27,291 --> 00:35:29,833 And who told you we got married? 425 00:35:30,541 --> 00:35:32,750 Why? Didn't you get married? 426 00:35:44,583 --> 00:35:46,750 [festive and bright instrumental music] 427 00:35:58,041 --> 00:35:59,541 Jealousy… 428 00:35:59,750 --> 00:36:02,166 … is the poison of the weak. 429 00:36:03,750 --> 00:36:06,916 And there's no reason for Ricardo to be jealous of us, right? 430 00:36:07,708 --> 00:36:09,333 No… 431 00:36:10,083 --> 00:36:11,791 Of course not. 432 00:36:13,291 --> 00:36:17,250 - Are you nervous, Lúcio? - It's very hot in here. 433 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,416 Don't you think so? 434 00:36:20,500 --> 00:36:21,875 Hot? 435 00:36:22,541 --> 00:36:25,166 I think it's actually pretty cool. 436 00:36:30,916 --> 00:36:35,208 [Ricardo off camera]For my friend Lúcio with a thousand hugs from all soul 437 00:36:35,583 --> 00:36:37,916 from his Ricardo. 438 00:36:43,875 --> 00:36:45,875 [Count Warginski] Choose a card. 439 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,416 - Any? - Any! 440 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,750 - That. - That! 441 00:37:00,833 --> 00:37:02,541 Place wherever you want. 442 00:37:03,916 --> 00:37:05,500 Like this? 443 00:37:13,333 --> 00:37:15,000 Blow. 444 00:37:17,541 --> 00:37:19,000 [Marta blows] 445 00:37:20,708 --> 00:37:22,500 Your letter. 446 00:37:22,708 --> 00:37:25,000 [Marta stifles an exclamation and then laughs] 447 00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:31,375 Wonderful! 448 00:37:31,708 --> 00:37:33,208 Magic. 449 00:37:33,458 --> 00:37:36,041 - Magic! - So it is. 450 00:37:42,333 --> 00:37:44,333 [unsettling instrumental music] 451 00:37:46,083 --> 00:37:48,750 I already noticed that you can't take your eyes off her. 452 00:37:51,166 --> 00:37:54,500 Nobody knows who she is, nor where she comes from, 453 00:37:54,583 --> 00:37:57,500 nor where they met, 454 00:37:58,500 --> 00:38:00,500 if they are a couple. 455 00:38:00,708 --> 00:38:03,500 It's all a mystery, indeed. 456 00:38:03,875 --> 00:38:07,750 The first time I saw them together was about a year ago, 457 00:38:08,333 --> 00:38:12,166 when we made the Sud-Express journey, Paris-Lisbon. 458 00:38:13,125 --> 00:38:15,083 They traveled on the same train. 459 00:38:15,708 --> 00:38:18,583 But at the time I didn't have the opportunity to talk to them. 460 00:38:18,750 --> 00:38:20,458 Did he bring her from Paris? 461 00:38:21,875 --> 00:38:23,083 Good… 462 00:38:23,166 --> 00:38:27,708 I never met her in Paris, I can guarantee you that. 463 00:38:28,291 --> 00:38:30,000 I would remember! 464 00:38:32,208 --> 00:38:35,916 In fact, he never told me the reason for his return to Lisbon... 465 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:39,208 But why would he come? 466 00:38:39,291 --> 00:38:41,458 Crazy about Paris like him… 467 00:38:59,458 --> 00:39:02,708 [Gervásio] Paris is on fire, my dear! 468 00:39:02,791 --> 00:39:05,000 New exhibitions, 469 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:09,166 Cubo-futurist painters scandalizing the world… 470 00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:11,833 Life is there, and it calls us. 471 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,291 Why don't we leave tomorrow? 472 00:39:14,375 --> 00:39:16,250 I have the text of a play to finish. 473 00:39:16,333 --> 00:39:19,125 Come on... Shouldn't that be close to the end by now? 474 00:39:19,208 --> 00:39:21,291 - If only it were. - Hmm… 475 00:39:21,625 --> 00:39:23,833 Sit there. So tell me. 476 00:39:27,333 --> 00:39:30,125 Haven't you been with Ricardo de Loureiro? 477 00:39:30,208 --> 00:39:31,833 Maybe he can help you. 478 00:39:33,791 --> 00:39:36,125 I haven't visited him in over two weeks. 479 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:37,833 Oh man! 480 00:39:39,125 --> 00:39:40,458 You look awful! 481 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,083 Cheer up. 482 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,416 You need to be distracted, There's something blocking it. 483 00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:49,708 I sense a bitterness in you, a sadness. 484 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,625 Ricardo asked for you. 485 00:39:52,750 --> 00:39:55,375 Tere will be a party tonight, Why don't you come by? 486 00:39:55,791 --> 00:39:59,916 I appreciate your concern, but I really have to finish this piece. 487 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,333 Okay, I won't say anything more! 488 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:03,541 Hmm…. 489 00:40:04,125 --> 00:40:05,375 Drink! 490 00:40:13,208 --> 00:40:14,875 [clock ticking] 491 00:40:23,750 --> 00:40:25,916 Are you sure you don't want one? 492 00:40:26,125 --> 00:40:29,333 They are creamier than the pralines at La Mère de Famille! 493 00:40:29,416 --> 00:40:30,708 [Lúcio laughs] 494 00:40:30,791 --> 00:40:32,125 I agree. 495 00:40:32,583 --> 00:40:35,541 Does Marta know "La Mère de Famille" in Paris? 496 00:40:37,291 --> 00:40:39,000 I know it very well. 497 00:40:39,250 --> 00:40:42,458 In all the cities that Ricardo has been to, I have also been to. 498 00:40:42,541 --> 00:40:44,375 Every place. 499 00:40:44,708 --> 00:40:46,166 All. 500 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,416 Our Lúcio… 501 00:40:50,416 --> 00:40:52,625 I was thinking that you would never come back. 502 00:40:53,416 --> 00:40:56,208 You know this house is yours too, Lúcio. 503 00:40:56,416 --> 00:40:58,875 You are too kind. 504 00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:05,625 Between people who love each other, there are no pleasantries, only tenderness. 505 00:41:08,708 --> 00:41:09,958 [Lúcio] So... 506 00:41:10,041 --> 00:41:14,583 …you think you should change the tone of the third act, is that it? 507 00:41:14,833 --> 00:41:16,166 Do you want to know? 508 00:41:16,750 --> 00:41:19,541 I thought it was too festive, sunny. 509 00:41:20,250 --> 00:41:22,125 That joy of the protagonist…. 510 00:41:24,333 --> 00:41:26,125 Forgive my frankness. 511 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:28,500 But you shouldn't lose sight of the title: 512 00:41:28,833 --> 00:41:30,041 "The Flame"… 513 00:41:31,041 --> 00:41:33,458 There's a key there, it seems to me. 514 00:41:33,708 --> 00:41:36,083 But Lúcio is the author, not me. 515 00:41:37,083 --> 00:41:39,583 As for your poem, "The Recreio"… Ah! 516 00:41:40,208 --> 00:41:41,500 Remarkable. 517 00:41:42,416 --> 00:41:44,500 I really like these verses: 518 00:41:45,250 --> 00:41:48,458 [Recite] "In my soul there is a swing That's always swaying 519 00:41:49,041 --> 00:41:51,000 Swing near a well 520 00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:54,250 - Very difficult to ride…” - [Lúcio] "Very difficult to ride…" 521 00:41:55,625 --> 00:41:57,000 I really appreciated… 522 00:41:57,083 --> 00:41:58,875 Well and swing. 523 00:41:59,708 --> 00:42:02,375 Together they give the necessary hallucination, 524 00:42:03,208 --> 00:42:05,041 and everything inside the soul… 525 00:42:06,333 --> 00:42:09,416 As you see, I read and memorize with delight. 526 00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:10,541 [everyone laughs] 527 00:42:12,208 --> 00:42:15,583 I leave you to the gods of dramaturgy. 528 00:42:16,125 --> 00:42:18,500 [Lúcio] Are you going, Ricardo? So early? 529 00:42:18,875 --> 00:42:20,083 It's not even ten o'clock. 530 00:42:20,166 --> 00:42:24,291 You're not the only one wrestling with the muses of inspiration, you know... 531 00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:28,500 I need to review the translation of the volume, "Diadema". 532 00:42:29,125 --> 00:42:31,458 It will be published in French, didn't I tell you? 533 00:42:31,541 --> 00:42:33,458 Delivery is soon. 534 00:42:34,416 --> 00:42:36,750 My dear. Dear friend. 535 00:42:41,625 --> 00:42:44,125 [footsteps moving away] 536 00:42:53,208 --> 00:42:54,291 And us? 537 00:42:55,833 --> 00:42:59,375 We continue with the life of fiction, or with the fiction of life? 538 00:43:01,166 --> 00:43:04,875 I confess that I distinguish one from the other less and less. 539 00:43:38,625 --> 00:43:40,208 [Marta] And my chest? 540 00:43:41,625 --> 00:43:44,375 Does it seem real or imaginary? 541 00:44:05,875 --> 00:44:08,250 [Eduardo Dantas] We need more blood. 542 00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:10,208 More tears! 543 00:44:10,500 --> 00:44:13,708 - [Lúcio] And more sweat, right? - [Eduardo Dantas] Absolutely! 544 00:44:13,791 --> 00:44:15,166 More sweat! 545 00:44:15,250 --> 00:44:16,916 We have or we don't have 546 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,875 two critical and public successes on our common CV? 547 00:44:21,833 --> 00:44:23,291 Well… 548 00:44:23,375 --> 00:44:26,583 He promised me "Vampires and Fado". 549 00:44:28,291 --> 00:44:30,041 What is this? 550 00:44:31,166 --> 00:44:34,000 I still understand the intrigue of the Hellenic philosopher 551 00:44:34,083 --> 00:44:37,583 lost in love with the sultan's odalisque. 552 00:44:38,291 --> 00:44:40,500 But the threat of a happy ending, 553 00:44:40,583 --> 00:44:43,375 in which they both share the concubine 554 00:44:43,458 --> 00:44:45,750 as reconciled brothers? 555 00:44:46,416 --> 00:44:49,458 Where is the sense of tragedy you always exhibited? 556 00:44:51,416 --> 00:44:53,458 I can see you didn't understand anything. 557 00:44:53,833 --> 00:44:55,250 I know what I'm worth. 558 00:44:56,333 --> 00:45:00,041 This sharing is precisely the darkest of epilogues. 559 00:45:00,714 --> 00:45:03,297 But it's not commercial, Mr. Vaz. 560 00:45:03,750 --> 00:45:05,500 It's not commercial! 561 00:45:12,416 --> 00:45:15,333 [traffic noise and people on the street] 562 00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:18,791 Good afternoon. 563 00:45:25,416 --> 00:45:26,625 Artists! 564 00:45:31,166 --> 00:45:33,166 [knock on the door] 565 00:45:38,791 --> 00:45:40,916 [they insist] 566 00:45:42,916 --> 00:45:44,208 Who is it? 567 00:46:05,208 --> 00:46:07,333 [shoes fall to the floor] 568 00:46:08,250 --> 00:46:10,500 [fluid, hypnotic instrumental music] 569 00:47:39,791 --> 00:47:41,291 [Marta sighs with pleasure] 570 00:47:46,583 --> 00:47:48,125 [Lúcio kisses her] 571 00:47:54,416 --> 00:47:56,000 [Marta groans] 572 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,541 Who are you? 573 00:48:11,166 --> 00:48:13,583 I am everything you ever wanted. 574 00:48:18,708 --> 00:48:21,250 How can I want what I don't know? 575 00:48:22,750 --> 00:48:25,458 You know me much better than you know. 576 00:48:35,416 --> 00:48:37,416 [energetic and majestic baroque music] 577 00:49:32,041 --> 00:49:35,041 [returns to previous fluid, hypnotic instrumental music] 578 00:49:55,375 --> 00:49:57,208 [clock ticking] 579 00:50:06,333 --> 00:50:09,166 [Ricardo] That's what it's like to sleep like a log, my dear! 580 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,041 I had an urgent poem to show you, forgive me. 581 00:50:16,458 --> 00:50:18,291 I couldn't wait any longer. 582 00:50:20,875 --> 00:50:22,125 Dear Lúcio... 583 00:50:22,916 --> 00:50:25,250 Today I had a voracious night… 584 00:50:26,416 --> 00:50:27,833 … inspiring! 585 00:50:37,458 --> 00:50:39,125 [Ricardo recites] "I wanted to be a woman 586 00:50:39,791 --> 00:50:42,833 So I can extend Next to my friends 587 00:50:42,916 --> 00:50:45,000 At café banquets 588 00:50:45,916 --> 00:50:47,791 I wanted to be a woman 589 00:50:48,458 --> 00:50:51,291 So that they would be good to me These entanglements 590 00:50:51,916 --> 00:50:55,083 That in a man Frankly 591 00:50:55,625 --> 00:50:57,500 You can't apologize" 592 00:50:58,166 --> 00:50:59,375 Thanks. 593 00:50:59,833 --> 00:51:01,166 [birds chirping] 594 00:51:07,375 --> 00:51:10,375 [Ricardo] Do you know when was the last time I saw you in such a good mood? 595 00:51:10,458 --> 00:51:12,791 [Lúcio] I'm sure you'll tell me. 596 00:51:13,750 --> 00:51:17,000 Sorry, Richard, it was a lapsus linguae. 597 00:51:17,375 --> 00:51:20,875 I didn't... I didn't mean to call you... 598 00:51:21,250 --> 00:51:24,500 [Ricardo] You don't need to get all hesitant about addressing me informally. 599 00:51:24,583 --> 00:51:26,541 It's ridiculous, between us. 600 00:51:27,250 --> 00:51:29,291 From now on, formal "you" is over. 601 00:51:31,791 --> 00:51:35,208 [Lúcio] It's a great pleasure to see us like this. Together. 602 00:51:35,625 --> 00:51:36,916 [Marta] Yes. 603 00:51:38,541 --> 00:51:40,250 Together. 604 00:51:41,416 --> 00:51:45,833 Do you know that this Tuesday I had the most bizarre hallucination? 605 00:51:47,500 --> 00:51:49,083 It was afternoon. 606 00:51:49,625 --> 00:51:51,333 About four in the afternoon. 607 00:51:52,208 --> 00:51:55,500 It was raining a lot, I had just written my last verse, 608 00:51:55,583 --> 00:51:58,041 I left the office, I went to the room 609 00:51:58,416 --> 00:52:00,458 [voice-over] and, as I passed through the corridor, 610 00:52:01,041 --> 00:52:03,000 I looked in the mirror, 611 00:52:03,541 --> 00:52:04,916 by chance. 612 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,500 I looked at him and didn't see myself reflected in him. 613 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:11,708 The purest truth! 614 00:52:12,041 --> 00:52:13,958 I saw everything that reflected me, 615 00:52:14,041 --> 00:52:16,500 everything around me was projected in the mirror. 616 00:52:17,791 --> 00:52:19,416 I just didn't see my image. 617 00:52:22,041 --> 00:52:24,000 You can't imagine how suprised i was... 618 00:52:25,500 --> 00:52:28,750 The mysterious feeling that ran through me. 619 00:52:30,833 --> 00:52:32,333 I can't imagine. 620 00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:36,375 [Ricardo] But you know what? It wasn't a feeling of dread. No. 621 00:52:37,708 --> 00:52:39,791 It was a feeling of pride. 622 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,916 More Porto, Lúcio? 623 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,500 Yes, please. 624 00:52:51,750 --> 00:52:53,416 Thanks. 625 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,166 [Lúcio] Marta… 626 00:52:56,375 --> 00:52:58,500 Is your mother alive? 627 00:53:00,291 --> 00:53:01,750 Why the interest? 628 00:53:01,833 --> 00:53:05,541 Curiosity to know the origin of your grace, 629 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:07,166 of your intelligence. 630 00:53:07,500 --> 00:53:10,416 And the origin of so much beauty, doesn't it intrigue you anymore? 631 00:53:10,500 --> 00:53:12,125 [Lúcio] That's irrelevant to me. 632 00:53:12,208 --> 00:53:14,625 Because I have no idea what you're talking about. 633 00:53:15,750 --> 00:53:17,250 [Marta] Silly! 634 00:53:18,833 --> 00:53:21,166 So happy. 635 00:53:22,458 --> 00:53:24,000 As a punishment, 636 00:53:24,875 --> 00:53:26,791 you have to kiss me willingly. 637 00:53:32,833 --> 00:53:33,875 So be it. 638 00:53:59,500 --> 00:54:02,333 What a clumsy kiss! 639 00:54:03,583 --> 00:54:06,375 It seems impossible that you still don't know how to give a kiss. 640 00:54:07,500 --> 00:54:09,000 Aren't you ashamed? 641 00:54:10,291 --> 00:54:11,708 Go, Ricardo... 642 00:54:12,083 --> 00:54:13,541 You teach him! 643 00:54:20,375 --> 00:54:21,500 [dog barks in the background] 644 00:54:37,041 --> 00:54:38,458 [Martha laughs] 645 00:54:49,500 --> 00:54:51,500 [Marta laughs more heartily] 646 00:54:59,333 --> 00:55:02,333 [instrumental music in a nocturnal and enigmatic tone] 647 00:55:05,041 --> 00:55:06,083 [Lúcio pants] 648 00:55:10,250 --> 00:55:11,458 [Martha laughs] 649 00:55:12,250 --> 00:55:13,875 [Marta moans and laughs] 650 00:55:19,583 --> 00:55:20,833 [Marta seems to suffocate] 651 00:55:27,458 --> 00:55:28,791 I can't. 652 00:55:31,708 --> 00:55:35,041 I feel like I'm betraying myself. 653 00:55:39,500 --> 00:55:42,375 If I don't feel any guilt, 654 00:55:43,250 --> 00:55:46,291 Why should you feel it? - I can't, Marta. 655 00:55:47,750 --> 00:55:49,375 I can't. 656 00:55:57,791 --> 00:55:59,916 [Marta] I think it's more important to 657 00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:03,916 make the sentimental connection between two people I love 658 00:56:05,166 --> 00:56:06,750 than discuss 659 00:56:07,333 --> 00:56:09,041 about jealousy 660 00:56:09,833 --> 00:56:11,500 or belonging. 661 00:56:41,250 --> 00:56:44,333 [sound of fountain pen writing] 662 00:57:13,750 --> 00:57:15,708 [clock ticking] 663 00:58:02,166 --> 00:58:05,166 [restrained and introspective instrumental music] 664 00:58:27,291 --> 00:58:28,541 [Lúcio sighs] 665 00:58:44,125 --> 00:58:46,125 [cheerful, danceable instrumental music] 666 00:58:46,208 --> 00:58:48,833 [Marta laughs, Count Warginski roars] 667 00:59:24,375 --> 00:59:26,833 [muffled noise of wind or storm] 668 00:59:30,583 --> 00:59:31,916 [Lúcio sighs] 669 00:59:37,416 --> 00:59:40,125 [Eduardo Dantas] This climax in which the lovers annihilate each other 670 00:59:40,208 --> 00:59:42,291 in an explosion of violence… 671 00:59:44,083 --> 00:59:47,000 Now, yes, there is catharsis! 672 00:59:47,541 --> 00:59:49,500 I'm glad you like it. 673 00:59:50,416 --> 00:59:52,541 It's not your style at all. 674 00:59:52,625 --> 00:59:54,375 [horse trotting and other street noises] 675 00:59:54,458 --> 00:59:57,041 But also, what is style? 676 00:59:57,833 --> 01:00:01,500 Style is for fashionistas, my dear! This is what theater is: 677 01:00:02,791 --> 01:00:06,375 guts, emotions, spectacle! 678 01:00:07,750 --> 01:00:10,541 - I did what you asked. - And you did very well. 679 01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:16,500 [Eduardo Dantas] Now I'm sure it will be a success, 680 01:00:16,708 --> 01:00:19,500 public and critical. 681 01:00:20,708 --> 01:00:22,583 There's just one more question. 682 01:00:23,500 --> 01:00:25,791 I need an advance. 683 01:00:26,583 --> 01:00:28,416 How much do you need? 684 01:00:40,541 --> 01:00:41,583 [Lúcio closes the door] 685 01:00:43,291 --> 01:00:46,083 [the same fluid, hypnotic instrumental music] 686 01:00:58,750 --> 01:01:00,375 [Marta] Shh… 687 01:01:05,750 --> 01:01:07,000 [shoes fall to the floor] 688 01:01:45,291 --> 01:01:47,375 - [Lúcio] Who did this to you? - There is? 689 01:01:48,916 --> 01:01:50,833 Who did this to you? 690 01:01:52,500 --> 01:01:54,500 - Was it Warginski? - It's nothing, forget it. 691 01:01:54,583 --> 01:01:56,375 - It tells me. - It's nothing. 692 01:01:56,458 --> 01:01:59,375 - Who was it? Was it Ricardo? - Lúcio… 693 01:01:59,458 --> 01:02:00,875 Tell me. 694 01:02:05,375 --> 01:02:06,875 Lúcio! 695 01:02:07,791 --> 01:02:10,083 Lúcio! Lúcio, stop, stop, stop! 696 01:02:10,291 --> 01:02:11,833 Stop, stop! 697 01:02:12,625 --> 01:02:15,125 - Why? - Stop! 698 01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:17,291 Why? 699 01:02:17,375 --> 01:02:19,708 - Why do you torture me like that? - Enough. 700 01:03:57,916 --> 01:04:00,208 [soft, introspective instrumental music] 701 01:04:18,291 --> 01:04:22,875 [Marta narration] Eroticism with subtle but intense power. 702 01:04:27,416 --> 01:04:29,333 [paper sound] 703 01:04:48,208 --> 01:04:50,208 [accordion music for dancing] 704 01:04:51,833 --> 01:04:53,875 Hey, hey, hey! 705 01:04:59,250 --> 01:05:01,458 [Ricardo laughs] 706 01:05:01,833 --> 01:05:04,250 [Ricardo] This Warginski is formidable! 707 01:05:08,833 --> 01:05:10,166 Bravo! 708 01:05:10,458 --> 01:05:12,583 Bravo! Bravo! 709 01:05:13,041 --> 01:05:15,708 Bravo! If I may, 710 01:05:15,833 --> 01:05:19,416 I would like the Count to favor me now, 711 01:05:19,500 --> 01:05:22,333 with the reading of one of my poems! 712 01:05:22,875 --> 01:05:27,375 It's just that a poem of mine read by you, Dear Warginski, it is… 713 01:05:28,458 --> 01:05:31,291 It's a shine on a... 714 01:05:32,583 --> 01:05:36,416 … screen with a golden frame, not just for the feeling, 715 01:05:36,500 --> 01:05:38,083 but because of his Slavic accent, 716 01:05:38,166 --> 01:05:41,250 which gives a unique touch to my poems. 717 01:05:41,833 --> 01:05:43,000 [Warginski sniffs] 718 01:05:53,500 --> 01:05:55,625 "A Certain Voice in the Night, 719 01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:58,416 Redly", 720 01:05:59,291 --> 01:06:02,166 a poem by Ricardo de Loureiro. 721 01:06:05,458 --> 01:06:07,833 [recites] "Elusive spell 722 01:06:08,041 --> 01:06:09,541 That voice 723 01:06:10,125 --> 01:06:12,791 Opiated in sounds the color of amaranth 724 01:06:13,583 --> 01:06:15,916 On nights of uncertainty 725 01:06:16,541 --> 01:06:19,041 I remember I don't know where 726 01:06:19,791 --> 01:06:23,041 The voice of a Princess 727 01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,583 Dancing half naked Between sword flashes 728 01:06:28,583 --> 01:06:30,208 Leo 729 01:06:30,416 --> 01:06:33,125 She throws the purple flesh 730 01:06:33,875 --> 01:06:35,833 And drunk with it 731 01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:38,166 Breath of beauty 732 01:06:38,750 --> 01:06:41,333 Touches the bare breasts 733 01:06:41,875 --> 01:06:43,416 Discover the sex… 734 01:06:43,750 --> 01:06:45,041 Pray 735 01:06:46,208 --> 01:06:50,125 The spasm that shakes her In a copulated soul… 736 01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:54,333 But I never saw her In vision 737 01:06:55,500 --> 01:06:57,625 Only your voice 738 01:06:57,750 --> 01:07:00,458 The fulcrum of my remembering 739 01:07:01,583 --> 01:07:02,833 Like this 740 01:07:03,166 --> 01:07:05,166 I don't want your flesh 741 01:07:06,041 --> 01:07:08,208 The non-existent flesh… 742 01:07:08,791 --> 01:07:12,750 It's just voice-over The astral dancer 743 01:07:14,250 --> 01:07:16,416 And in that statue voice 744 01:07:17,416 --> 01:07:20,750 Oh! In this total voice 745 01:07:22,208 --> 01:07:24,708 It's just that I dream of disappearing 746 01:07:25,875 --> 01:07:28,083 In vices of ivory..." 747 01:07:28,416 --> 01:07:30,000 [clap] 748 01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:38,041 [Ricardo and Marta laugh] 749 01:07:38,125 --> 01:07:39,708 Bravo! 750 01:07:40,083 --> 01:07:44,583 Do you know that this poem was chosen here by our dear Marta? 751 01:07:44,708 --> 01:07:47,416 Ah, beautiful, beautiful choice. 752 01:07:47,541 --> 01:07:51,791 - It was a first reading. - Mainly the last two verses: 753 01:07:51,875 --> 01:07:56,250 "In that statue voice Oh! In that total voice!" 754 01:07:56,750 --> 01:07:59,416 - I need a drink. - For sure. 755 01:08:01,583 --> 01:08:04,125 [fluid and contemplative instrumental music] 756 01:08:36,791 --> 01:08:38,750 [clock ticking] 757 01:08:57,375 --> 01:08:58,916 It's curious... 758 01:08:59,750 --> 01:09:01,458 how it remind me… 759 01:09:02,041 --> 01:09:04,000 something I saw... 760 01:09:05,541 --> 01:09:06,875 The skin. 761 01:09:07,875 --> 01:09:09,875 Where, I can't say. 762 01:09:10,250 --> 01:09:13,250 Anyway, are you sure this is what you want? 763 01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:17,416 Hmm… 764 01:09:18,250 --> 01:09:21,000 No, no, no, Lúcio, in the end. No. 765 01:09:22,541 --> 01:09:25,041 No one leaves Paris of their own free will. 766 01:09:25,125 --> 01:09:27,875 Your sister is sick, various expenses. 767 01:09:28,541 --> 01:09:30,000 I insist. 768 01:09:32,166 --> 01:09:34,208 I earn more today with these commissioned portraits 769 01:09:34,291 --> 01:09:36,750 than I have already received for my sculptures. 770 01:09:38,833 --> 01:09:40,083 That's it! 771 01:09:40,916 --> 01:09:43,916 That's what this alabaster skin reminds me of. 772 01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:47,833 The Saint-Croix retrospective. You are now passing through Lisbon, Lúcio! 773 01:09:47,916 --> 01:09:49,833 You can't lose her. 774 01:09:51,416 --> 01:09:54,416 [the same fluid and contemplative instrumental music] 775 01:10:24,375 --> 01:10:26,041 [creaking wooden floor] 776 01:11:07,833 --> 01:11:11,041 [housekeeper] You can't come in like this, Mr. Lúcio! Wait! 777 01:11:12,500 --> 01:11:15,166 Doctor, I'm sorry, I couldn't stop him! 778 01:11:15,250 --> 01:11:16,708 [Ricardo] Don't worry. 779 01:11:20,166 --> 01:11:21,583 What did you do to me? 780 01:11:23,583 --> 01:11:25,916 - What did you do to me? - But what happened, Lúcio? 781 01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,875 I realized all your lies, your scheme! 782 01:11:29,375 --> 01:11:32,708 - I saw the exhibition, you understand? - What exhibition? You're upset! 783 01:11:32,791 --> 01:11:34,791 The Saint-Croix exhibition! 784 01:11:34,875 --> 01:11:37,875 The one you invited me to see days before disappearing from Paris! 785 01:11:37,958 --> 01:11:39,000 Calm down... 786 01:11:39,083 --> 01:11:41,250 Is that where you got your diabolical idea? 787 01:11:41,333 --> 01:11:43,708 - What are you talking about? - About Marta! 788 01:11:44,416 --> 01:11:46,166 I'm talking about Marta! 789 01:11:46,250 --> 01:11:48,500 Just like a Saint Croix sculpture! 790 01:11:48,583 --> 01:11:51,000 You went there to get your inspiration, right? 791 01:11:52,416 --> 01:11:53,791 How did you do that…? 792 01:11:54,791 --> 01:11:56,625 You looked for a model, 793 01:11:57,083 --> 01:11:58,416 a copy… 794 01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:02,083 and gave wings to your… perversion? 795 01:12:02,416 --> 01:12:04,416 - Stop it! - Tell me! 796 01:12:06,208 --> 01:12:07,250 Tell me! 797 01:12:08,375 --> 01:12:10,166 You ruined my life! 798 01:12:17,625 --> 01:12:19,083 [both panting] 799 01:12:32,500 --> 01:12:34,500 You didn't understand anything, Lúcio. 800 01:12:35,083 --> 01:12:37,312 [Lúcio] I'm waiting for you to explain everything to me! 801 01:12:40,333 --> 01:12:42,833 [Ricardo] Marta was your lover to bring us together. 802 01:12:43,750 --> 01:12:45,500 To bring us together? 803 01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:50,000 You have lost all decency. 804 01:12:50,083 --> 01:12:52,625 Don't you remember the martyrdom of my life? 805 01:12:55,875 --> 01:12:57,458 Have you forgotten? 806 01:12:57,750 --> 01:13:00,083 I couldn't be friends with anyone, 807 01:13:00,375 --> 01:13:01,625 I could not… 808 01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:04,708 … experience affection. 809 01:13:04,791 --> 01:13:08,458 And in the face of those who I sensed tenderness, I only had desires for... 810 01:13:08,541 --> 01:13:11,166 … caresses, desires for possession. 811 01:13:12,916 --> 01:13:14,333 I pretended not to understand. 812 01:13:14,416 --> 01:13:18,416 I wanted to vibrate with your affection, pay you back, remember? 813 01:13:18,500 --> 01:13:22,833 But it wasn't possible for me! Only if I kissed you, hugged you, possessed you... 814 01:13:22,916 --> 01:13:24,333 Ricardo… 815 01:13:24,500 --> 01:13:25,708 Stop it! 816 01:13:26,125 --> 01:13:29,250 [Ricardo] But that afternoon, at the exhibition, I found it. 817 01:13:31,458 --> 01:13:32,750 A dream. 818 01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:36,500 And then I created her, yes… I created her! 819 01:13:37,291 --> 01:13:39,208 It's as if Marta was my own soul. 820 01:13:39,291 --> 01:13:41,000 What are you talking about? Stop it... 821 01:13:41,083 --> 01:13:43,291 Since that afternoon I knew. 822 01:13:43,375 --> 01:13:44,750 I created it! 823 01:13:45,083 --> 01:13:46,916 I ordered her to be yours. 824 01:13:48,791 --> 01:13:51,541 It was as if my soul had materialized. 825 01:13:53,125 --> 01:13:54,833 Materialized… 826 01:13:55,541 --> 01:13:57,708 …to possess your affection. 827 01:14:00,333 --> 01:14:01,916 Marta is me! 828 01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:05,791 Don't you believe me? 829 01:14:07,083 --> 01:14:09,125 I smelled her. 830 01:14:10,500 --> 01:14:12,875 Her touch on my flesh. 831 01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:14,791 I need you to believe! 832 01:14:15,166 --> 01:14:16,833 May you understand. 833 01:14:19,291 --> 01:14:20,500 Come… 834 01:14:22,541 --> 01:14:25,708 For your affection, I reveal all my secret. 835 01:14:31,166 --> 01:14:33,166 [unsettling instrumental music] 836 01:14:40,958 --> 01:14:42,875 I created it just for you. 837 01:14:43,750 --> 01:14:45,250 Just for you. 838 01:14:47,458 --> 01:14:48,916 [unlock the gun] 839 01:14:49,458 --> 01:14:50,500 No! 840 01:14:50,583 --> 01:14:51,666 [shot] 841 01:15:13,791 --> 01:15:15,125 [gun falls to the floor] 842 01:15:15,708 --> 01:15:16,875 [footsteps moving away] 843 01:15:21,416 --> 01:15:22,750 [police in voiceover] Lúcio Vaz? 844 01:15:23,500 --> 01:15:26,500 You are suspected of the murder of Ricardo de Loureiro. 845 01:15:26,583 --> 01:15:28,625 Please follow us. 846 01:15:49,541 --> 01:15:51,333 [sound of footsteps on the gravel] 847 01:15:53,958 --> 01:15:55,000 Marta! 848 01:15:55,666 --> 01:15:56,708 Marta! 849 01:15:58,041 --> 01:15:59,333 Marta! 850 01:16:00,208 --> 01:16:01,375 Marta! 851 01:16:02,333 --> 01:16:03,500 Marta! 852 01:16:05,083 --> 01:16:06,333 Marta! 853 01:16:06,416 --> 01:16:08,375 - [stately instrumental music] - Marta! 854 01:16:09,833 --> 01:16:11,000 Marta! 855 01:16:12,125 --> 01:16:13,916 Marta! 856 01:16:20,820 --> 01:16:21,927 Subtitles by 1v0live