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This is the most important Public Theater in Barcelona.

By the way,

very good theater is done here in Catalonia

...really good.

And I am

the SOB critic

...you know.

In about a little more than an hour and a half

there will be a premiere here, in this theater.

The truth is that I didn't want to come here.

I wanted to stay home or go to the newspaper, for...

well, reasons that do not matter now.

But I couldn't concentrate, I was uneasy.

That's why I decided to come here.

You know...

I had something to do with tonight's premiere.

Maybe you'll like to know, how this story

about a mother,

Madame de Sevigne,

and her daughter, Mme de Grignan, made it here.

No, no...

if you are interested, if you are curious, me

well...

me, I'll feel good talking about it.

Really.

Lets take a look, just for a moment,

to the other visual world, the tv world

The director is Marina Ferrer-Amat

Madame de Sevigne's author.

No, what we have lost is the synchrony

check the synchrony and I'll be right back

Marina I can't pull you out of gastronomy

is that I can't, really.

Working on TV is selling your soul,

No, to me what's important is to do Sevigne,

but today nobody produces...

maybe, I just have not tried it...

Sorry Marina... don't be naive they wont produce this for you.

What you should do is move it,

take it to theaters see if they can produce it.

Do you know Ignasi?

Well, he is the Public Theater programmer.

You'll see how he will do something.

And you introduce them. And then you'll see that you'll have

pumpkin cream, beef and pears with wine

well then... that's all.

Try them and then send me your results, dear friends?

It wont work.

Why would it work now?

Is that ... I've already send it six times to the Public Theater

and they always say that their schedule is closed.

It wont work,

It cannot work...

Ignasi, they brought this envelope for Julia.

All right. I'll give it to her.

- Hey, Pol Duric called. - Okay.

Let me introduce you to Julia Berkowitz

the star director of the Catalan theater.

You're not working on the silences

Julia, began her theater career as an actress

until the unexpected death of her daughter Tanit

compelled her to retire.

The pauses, what are they for?

Much later, Julia went back to the theater, but...

as a director.

Excuse me, I'll be back.

- Terrible day, right? - Yeah...

- What's new? - Here, read this.

What is it?

A script from an author that works for television.

Okay... So, How's quitting smoking coming along?

Okay, very good, very good...

I see...

See you later, Ignasi.

No Pol, you have to come here and tell Julia

that you will cancel the play she's been staging. You're the one...

I'll call you, she's here.

You cannot allow this, Ignasi.

You are the Public Theater programmer. You cannot.

I can't, I can't... with your husband I can't!

If the play fails, is because of his reviews.

Now he demands the Public Theater to produce new talents ..

when last year he said the opposite.

With so many useless people

Gerardo is the only one that really loves theater.

Julia, Gerardo conspires behind your back.

Until today he has scared all the theater general directors...

and Pol is no exception.

Hi Pol,

yes, I'm with Julia.

Pol wants you to go to his office and decide what play to produce.

Do you have one in mind?

Because if you don't, he'll insist with "The Wise Women".

Changes a Junet for a Moliere... what kind of criteria is this?

So, what do you think about Sevigne, have you read it? How is it?

I'd rather die, than to do again "The Wise Women".

It's cheap ... only two characters, it's the cheapest. What?

I like it, but for next season Ignasi, the script has to be trimmed.

Marina Ferrer-Amat from TV.

Like the new talent would be great.

Why don't we produce this play?

I need time.

Yeah, time for you that I have to make.

Listen, listen... okay, you interview the author, right?

Her boss is a colleague, he is moving a program for...

Shall I set the interview?

Why don't we have dinner and finish deciding?

Yes... yes if I didn't have dinner with Gerardo.

It's been too many years with this program and I am very tired...

I need a little fresh air...

I grew up in the street...

and is not known...

Ok Gerardo, but there has to be an explanation

to what you wrote.

Yes, of course.

Yesterday I learned that they're preparing all those plays

similar to yours, but...

with a theme much more daring, more provocative...

more... more actual.

Yours compared to these two, will be nothing.

Do you understand... it's that clear. - Yes.

But there are actors, there is a crew...

I don't care about them!

I know that you'll never be an adult, but how about a little normal?

Near you, dear? Impossible.

Is a normal gastronomy program and we start to talk...

- What? - Nothing.

A woman that reminds me of Tanit.

How long do you have without speaking about it?

Tell me.

You like it, right?

Shall I order a box for Saturday's dinner?

Sorry, sorry...

Is that... Gerardo I admire you a lot, I agree with your critics

and... and with the cultural insert you direct... hmm

See, I hate to buy the newspaper, but I'm your fan

and I admire you a lot. Really.

- For me? - Yes.

Thank you very much.

Is that your intellectual capacity triggers my libido.

No, you take it easy that me with guys nothing, eh...

no, but for one I like, then...

No, really, I read you I follow you and...

you are right with everything, and more... eh...

- Is this for real? - Yes. Yes.

But I'm usually very discreet, very Catalan. I don't do this, see? Sorry...

- No, no. - What an honor. Incredible.

Sorry, is that I'm very interested in your plays.

Thank you.

They're always so precise, with nothing missing and nothing in excess...

You have an incredible easiness to find the middle ground

that I always miss, okay?

Alright, you wont see me anymore.

Excuse me if I do as Colombo that's always leaving...

but returns with something else.

Gerardo, I've to tell Julia or I'll explode.

- Listen, as an actress.. - Tell me...

I liked you a lot because you were the most natural,

- Thanks - You were as good as the American actresses, you get me, right?

You had what Stanislavski said...

Well, I hate Stanislavski.

No, no don't worry, here we all hate Stanislavski.

- Really... - We like better Colombo.

Well, you had what she said about the noble spirit, you know?

Like now seeing a play with the characters you did,

done by others, but it was you

is like seeing a color photo in black and white, see?

I don't know what to say...

May I kiss you? - No, wait! Stop! I'll get excited!

Guys no, but women ...

I like to please ...

that's the problem with intellectuals

by definition they are a disaster in bed.

- Who? Me? - No! not you, me!

- May I kiss this one? - Of course!

- Sure, no problem. - Don't move that with you

I need a ladder.

How do you manage to live with him, without a ladder.

Gerado darling, here I go!

- Sorry, but I'm very happy seeing you. - No, thanks to you.

Look at the price, is okay, is not too expensive...

Is that the woman that reminds you of Tanit?

You liked it, rigth?

What? Me?

The wine for Saturday's dinner.

- Good night. - Good night.

- Gerardo... - Yes?

Is that this weekend I read a play.

- Yes? - Nah, I'll tell you tomorrow.

Till tomorrow.

Marina Ferrer-Amat?

Hi, good afternoon.

This the Public Theater, I'm calling on behalf of Julia Berkowitz.

Julia got your play

and she is interested in meeting you.

Good morning Elena, I'm dropping this.

Julia... could you do me a favor.

What?

You have to interview an author.

Who?

It's an Ignasi commitment.

Elena, you know I am very busy, you know that.

Besides, I do not do interviews.

Please, Julia, is only 2 minutes.

Please, do it for me.

Just for me.

- Two minutes. Two! - Okay. Two minutes.

- Where do I have to go? - To the reception, she's waiting there.

- Alright. - Thanks.

No, this is hake and...

...is hake and trout from Navarra. Two fish.

Me too, but if you serve beef...

sure...

it would have more variety, understand?

It�s exactly the same to me if you wish do the Spanish potato

So you have written the Handbook of the...

Noble Art of Seduction

- That... - By the Most Instructed Madame Sevigne.

Well, we cannot say the title is short.

Why didn't you tell me at the restaurant?

No, because I approached you as a fan.

Then you don't say, look I have a play...

Hey, excuse me.

Is that the theater program is closed,

Anyway there is something that I like a lot about your play.

But the season is closed.

No, to me, morally, I mean...

that morally, it helps me a lot

that, that... you like it.

There is a new authors workshop that in theory

it should have started,

would you like to participate? Talk about your play, or whatever you want...

I have to speak in public?

- Yes. - Oh yes!

Follow me...

This weekend I read an unpublished play about Mme de Sevigne,

the characters are so well defined

that I would like the author to speak to you,

She is Marina Ferrer-Amat,

Marina, whenever you wish. They are all yours.

Hi. Have you heard about Madame de Sevigne?

No. Then first we have to learn who Mme de Sevigne is.

Sevigne was one of those wise women that

frequented literary lounges.

Her drama started when her daughter married.

The girl got married and naturally, left with her husband

to live in a small provincial town, Grignan.

Sevigne couldn't stand her daughter's absence and

started to write her letters

to convince her to come back to Paris.

Passionate letters, authentic love letters.

Letters full of seduction.

She used all her abilities over her own daughter...

They love each other by mail and when they were able to spend holidays together,

they fought till they were separated, otherwise...

they would kill each other.

Why... someone has a mother and a sister at home?

And how is it? The relationship is a Christ or a sanitary towels ad?

Is a Christ... is this.

Then in this literary story you can illustrate...

We're out of time.

You'll have to direct The Wise Women, that'll be your 4th time.

Ignasi, I am deciding right know if I shall propose Sevigne.

After you also have to think that Mme de Sevigne was excommunicated

because of the relation she had with her daughter.

To excommunicate, do you know what it means? Is like a fancy word to say banish.

There was depravation in those days...

followed by Jansenism that was an...

austere philosophy within Catholicism.

Is that me?

The clown, is okay.

How's your sister's self-esteem?

- Low, very low. - Very low, sure...

you have an abusive mother and then the daughter does not feel

ever... you know? at her mother stature.

What I really like from this play

is the circularity between mother and daughter

The relationship they have...

Love, hate, Love, hate

until they go to Provence and then they live happily together.

There's a possibility to do your play instead of the one we're rehearsing.

But, we need some changes, are you willing to do them?

If you do them, yes.

I just decided, we'll do Sevigne.

Okay. We'll eat together and work on the details.

I can't, I'm still with the author.

What's going on? why are you crying?

Seems like crying, but is an allergy a terrible allergy

the mites.

Listen, I've been thinking... tomorrow is Saturday,

I don't have TV work.

Then,

I have no TV, then those small changes you have to do

we can do them tomorrow and that's it.

No, no, not tomorrow. Saturday I have to go

have to go to Montseny to check the work been done at my house.

- To Montseny? - Yes.

It's nearby... you take me and that's it.

Okay. Perfect... perfect.

A cavern... can you stop? You know,

before Mme de Sevigne daughter's castle there's a cavern like this one.

Is it true that mother and daughter used to go eat at a stone table?

Yes, there is a huge stone table.

Now what we will do is... lets see...

if a scene doesn't have action, cut it out.

Does this one advances action?

Marina, you shouldn't fear conflict.

Conflict makes the scene.

Does this one has conflict?

Yes, one moment, lets see...

I got it, yes

yes, what I can do is send it by Sarfa to Figueres, eh?

How's mom?

At my parent's home, there is a book with Tanit Berkowitz's picture.

your mother.

- The Slovak congresswoman. Slovenian.

Where were we?

In mass, Mme de Sevigne goes to mass.

A, sure!

Do you know how many times Mme de Sevigne goes to mass in 2hrs?

Seven.

Each time Mme de Sevigne goes to mass

the action stops.

Madam!

Excuse me.

Yes?

This house will be the perfect location for a movie.

What I still don't know is if it will be Visconti or Gore.

Hey, is the girl in the photo your daughter?

Yes is Tanit.

I like the way she hugs you.

Thanks...

Why?

Because working with you today has been like getting a Master degree.

You're exaggerating.

- Hey, why didn't you say something? - About what?

We haven't eaten.

- Yeah, well! Bye. - Bye.

The monkfish and me watching time passing by!

And Julia wasn't coming back.

The two of us, the monkfish and me knowing that

a) Julia was at Montseny's house with some bricklayers.

b) Julia was not alone

as they told me at the theater

she was with an unknown author to review her play

and c) the play was about Mme de Sevigne

a case of feminine Oedipus, that there are some, eh!

So, at 7 pm the monkfish and I were clearly visualizing

an enraged unknown author

trying to kill the mother, meaning Julia

trying to kill her by hammering her head with

that instrument.. what's call? The one San Salonia bricklayers use

with the hammer in her head in defense of her own play!

You should see the monkfish face!

He was really scared, poor fish!

Gerardo, the author is not quite unknown...

Do you remember that woman that came to our table

the day we discovered this wine?

Colombo?

I hadn't told you anything about Sevigne because

is not yet officially approved.

You should have consulted me.

Truth is that I was afraid that you wouldn't agree.

And I want to do this play.

Afraid?

Julia...

how could I scare you?

By the way...

they loved the wine.

Pol, this is not clear.

You don't see it clear..

I understand you, but actually the risk is low.

A small show, low budget 2 characters...

But who knows Sevigne here?

Nobody, nobody... but...

new authors, wasn't about that?

And with this story we definitively shut up Gerardo.

That's not my problem. My problem is to have a full house.

How many people will come? Who would make them come?

Listen, family, that is the theme, the relationship between mother-daughter.

- Alright. - It'll work for sure.

I'll take the risk again.

Hey, how's the play? The one that Julia is going to direct?

But, have you read it?

Yeah...

send me a copy without Julia knowing, of course,

so she wont think I'm checking on her. Bye.

Bye.

I was going to call you.

Sevigne has been approved.

Listen, I been thinking that...

I should withdraw it.

Okay, okay, okay...

If you hadn't say anything it wouldn't be normal.

Look, this is the play that is about to open.

This is yours.

See, you take the play...

take out everything we have cut, you read it

and then we talk.

Ask for some days off

you read it, and me, I'll read the letters.

There are three volumes, eh...

Marina, I have insomnia, I can read day and night.

There is one very good thing, the Priorat wine,

because now there is Priorat wine, one of those very good

that you know there are many people that is steal...

I mean that Priorat wine is very good, eh?

See, I would like to be off today and tomorrow.

No, no. Really is impossible, work is overdue.

Sorry, no, we'll have to tape double time, really...

The emergency will come next month and before

I'll ask 3 days off and will be sick, very sick

Let me speak, you always come with problems

Yes, yes, problems and problems.

- Hi. - Hi.

Marina, I wish everyone was like you, you never give me problems.

No, really, now I like the play a lot more

than before, without the cuts.

See...

It says a lot more.

What's going on?

You've read the letters and when you compare them to my play, it's not good enough, right?

No, no, no... is not that...

let's see, the Sevigne conversion to Jansenism is not very...

- Hey, hi.. - Excuse me Marina

- They are waiting for me at the TV station - ... no, no is not important

when you have a moment, we�ll see each other I'll wait for you downstairs.

They're waiting for me really.

Marina...

What can be worst than this?

How's going with Berkowitz?

Very good, she's saving the play, she's very smart.

Do you mean that everything isn't done by Gerardo?

No, not with us.

Gee, the Gerardo, well he's done!

Do you know with whom he had an affair?

Yes, they used to go to hotels and destroyed the rooms...

with that cute gallery woman, Nuria Rivas

Nuria Fruitchbandavadal?

- The same. - Gee... but she is very smart.

- And very attractive. - I can see them together...

See, that I have to learn by Radio Catalonia

that my daughter has a premiere in the Public Theater,

is unbelievable? Unbelievable.

See, every time I speak about the theater, you start to tremble.

Because a is fake world and that's not for us.

We're not like that.

What are you missing at the TV station? Weren't you happy?

I don't like the TV station, mother, I don't like it.

Listen Marina to what I am about to say, listen carefully

be careful with Berkowitz, watch-out and be alert.

Since her daughter died in the car accident, this woman

has never done anything good.

Besides, another thing.

When you were with Joanne you were more centered.

What are you looking for? Who's she?

Ah! yes, it's Berkowitz mother

there's another one... bad example this woman.

Is a very feminine woman.

- Yes... yes.. - You always liked femmes.

Sure, a lot of resistance, putting yourself in front of Soviet tanks,

but her daughter had to go with her father.

If that's to be a mother explain it to me...

What?

How's it going?

What?

Sevigne, everything.

Good.

And you?

Well, very well.

You are killing me, do you know?

- In Cadaques we had a... - A good time.

But it is not my style, not since I'm with Gerardo.

Don't mention him. Honestly I don't know what are you doing with him.

Well, I don't know what are you doing with Pol,

until when you'll be his puppet? Can't you see it?

I don't like to see you like this.

And I don't like to see you with Gerardo.

Well, I've never met someone that knows about theater as much as he does.

- What? - You're extraordinarily cute.

How's Romy?

Hi.

Is this what you want to direct?

This script has an excess of at least...

40 pages, we have counted them.

Who gave you this copy?

What do you want? Send your career to hell.

I'm interested in the play and is brilliant.

Oh sure, sure. You're interested and is brilliant, very well.

Open it, open it and you can start taking out zero's from

your next contract check, as your value wont be too expensive.

Julia, don't you see it?

Alright, you have done possible my transition

from actress to director, I don't doubt it.

But that doesn't give you the right to closely follow what I do.

Truly, Gerardo sometimes...

Julia...

Julia!

Sorry, hmm, I didn't want to be so rude.

Talk to the author, tell her to add more characters

You can't leave two women alone in that huge Public Theater stage. You can't.

Tell her to dramatize more the plot, make it more spectacular...

I don't know... the complete royal court, King Sun flying the gardens... whatever!

If she allowed you to cut 40 pages, she could do this, right?

You're right. I have been thinking to ask for those changes.

Either Colombo rewrites fast...

Or I see you directing Monologues dot com among the alternatives.

I'm just asking you to make it more accessible, more spectacular.

I'm not asking for a profound change.

No, just to transform an intimate play with two characters,

into a circus with musketeers, whores and whory Jesuits.

Marina, if I think that the changes will change your play, I wouldn't ask for them.

It's the same, forget all I say and...

we leave it as it is. That's it.

I know, sometimes I rush into things.

What happened to you yesterday?

Nothing.

Hey...

there is a lot of humidity here.

Upstairs, I have a group of students that shower a lot.

He has stopped smoking.

I notice it, when someone stops smoking, I can see it.

See, Nuria Fruitchbandavadal has come.

That's what I say, behind a great fortune hides a super simple idea.

You know what her family did?

Ragmen.

Have you read the play?

What do you think? Did you like it?

You're referring to the Manual of the Noble Art

of Seduction by the Illustrious Mme. de Sevigne?

Or that play, the one you gave green light?

Well, has a beginning, a middle and an end.

For the current times, is a lot, isn't it?

Easy Pol, take it easy, it will work.

How far is it?

Seven hours.

In the freeway driving how fast?

Hundred and ten.

No, five hours at 140 km/hr.

But, is France...

Hey, is this the mother's room?

And this is the daughter's room.

Yes, mother and daughter.

But you won't tell me, what's going on with you...

Much humidity, much Chateau and... see this is from Grignan.

Lavender... careful, okay!

That's it... enough.

No, no sorry but in all the companies they say the same.

What do they say?

They call me and say...

Sorry but the sponsorship budget is now for the forum.

Even if they say...

Yes, but every year is the same, if not the forum is the Olympics,

I am about to close the office and go to Africa.

To Africa? To do what?

Is that I love Africa.

All kind of cars, foreign, national...

not only the same kind but all together,

and the paintings that have a certain relationship with you,

that you will bring some paintings

that could make things go better

and then I would like...

You are a politician, right?

No, madam, I'm only a SOB critic that writes about theater.

Pol, do you have a moment please?

Listen, before I didn't want to go deep so I wont damage Julia interests, but...

there is something in that play that worries me, you know?

See, Sevigne could work and become a success I'm sure,

if Julia and that girl author could have the necessary time to

to do some changes to rewrite some scenes, but...

I think they don't have it.

The best you could do is to suspend this project, just for the time being.

Hey, I'm thinking...

that I could find a sponsor to do Catalan theater in Gambia.

Like Merce Rodoreda, for example.

Gambia?

Or in Morocco.

Have to be from an untouched sector

that doesn't give money to the forum.

There is people that hasn't screwed for a long time

and has it written allover the face...

No, not you! Not you.

is clear that has been a long while since you did it yourself.

You need a couple weeks far away from Barcelona

go to the West end or the Westside... but go away.

Tony! I leave you, have to say hi to Tony. I want to exhibit his work this season.

Is this sensation of...

not being able to do what you want to do, of...

never doing what you need to do.

There is life and everything goes well, no?

Or seems that everything goes well.

But, you know,I don't remember the last time I dreamt?

Or what I dreamt?

All can be summarize in one phrase from Mme de Sevigne to her daughter. One.

Framed by life without my approval.

Now I found myself saying yes

to the changes that a few hours ago, I said no.

and placing her 'framed'

as the play's central idea.

I have fallen in love with Berkowitz.

Very strongly.

Wouldn't it be impulsive?

Julia, Pol is dropping Sevigne.

First he killed "The Janete" and now he kills Sevigne.

And for once in his life he's right.

The play is not ready.

Look, direct "The Wise Women"

then, take a semester off. You go to Tuscany,

in autumn it is spectacular.

Hey Ignasi,

no one, much less you

has to tell me what to do.

You'll excuse me, eh...

but I was behind Pol at the party

and it was Gerardo who killed Sevigne.

Thanks Elena, but for Julia,

her altruist husband isn't capable of doing something like that.

Sorry...

but it was Gerardo who said that there wasn't enough

time to rewrite Sevigne.

I can't Julia, I can't.

Seven days, I only ask for seven days, please.

Let me rewrite it in seven days.

Let me do it.

Have I ever failed you, Pol?

Yes, okay...

Only seven days.

Thanks Pol.

Why are you boycotting Sevigne?

Julia is not a boycott. I told him what I honestly think...

for your own good and the good of the play.

With the script like it's now, is a clear failure.

Why are you doing all this behind my back, Gerardo?

Perhaps because I love you... perhaps.

Perhaps I'm crazy about you.

What are you doing here? What's going on?

They were going to kill Sevigne for reasons that now don't matter.

The thing is that Pol...

has accepted my proposal to rewrite Sevigne in seven days.

But when?

Now. But listen one thing,

I have some ideas that you'll love them.

Yes, but I have the TV station, I tape two shifts.

So, when do you want me to rewrite?

Listen one thing...

I have a hidden card... listen

there's a solution.

I have a hidden card I'm going to try something.

They can't say no.

Start the car and wait for me...

you'll see it will work.

Careful with Berkowitz, careful and be alert.

Always has been the same

for outsiders, everything,

and for locals, nothing.

What, very good!

Why didn't we ask before, you have to cooperate and...

Cesca, I have to cancel today's taping, something came up and...

No, no, I'm okay, why do you say it?

This... is only a thing,

A few days ago I saw Gerardo

Girl, it's been three days that I've been looking for you, and I can't find you.

Where are you?

I miss his sense of humor

and those feelings that...

because behind this big man those feelings are hidden...

sorry to say but we are mistaken,

this is not closed,

there is an unfinished affair with Gerardo

and who has taught me that

a mature person is the one that

confronts her feelings

Give me a call. A Kiss.

Hey, you know what?

wait for me, eh?

I can't use it... look, look...

I take one of this and I wont sleep for the whole night.

- Where you able to sleep? - No.

Hey, why are you so fast?

You have done the 7 days work in 5 days.

And have you found any problem to the work done in 5 days?

Well, there are 10 pages in excess but we will solve it later.

Let's see, you let each one to do their own

interpretation of what happens between mother and daughter.

But, what do you think it really happened there?

Love.

See, take every scene,

introduce some physical actions

and that will allow you to cut the dialogue.

Yes, but with what criteria?

I do not know, have them fight, bite each other, touch each other...

whatever.

That way you'll be able to eliminate the ten to twelve excess pages.

I don't find my letters so pleasant as when they leave my hands.

I believe they become pleasant when they go by your hands.

What does this suggest to the daughter?

And the mother...

Finish it.

Okay, is this.

- But, does it go this way? - Yes, yes.

You take pills?

Want to know why I ask?

Is because people I like... the cool people

always

drink too much alcohol or coffee, smoke pot

and as I see, you don't do anything not even food

or whatever, well then only one thing is left, pills!

I haven't heard from you any sexual perversion

that will make you at least interesting,

then I say... is that. Well, do you take pills or not?

No, I don't take pills,

but about sexual perversions...

you'll have to do better with your sources of information.

- Ah really? - Yeah.

You may have someone really interesting near you

and you won't notice it.

Don't you miss acting?

No, not at all.

Why not?

With all the roles you have played when you started to cry and the comedies...

I was terrified, Marina.

Terrified? Why?

Terrified.

There is a woman that reminds me of my daughter Tanit.

This again?

How long since the last time you talked about this?

She imagines the daughter comes into the room

and they tenderly kiss. But, what type of kiss?

As friends, as a mother or as lovers?

Let's do it, okay?

- What? - The kiss.

But me I don't know, eh... don't know the technique

You do nothing, I'll do everything,

Stay still, I'll do it.

What's with you Marina?

Absolutely nothing.

Well, lets kiss, okay?

Hey, just one thing... is that...

me, I don't know technique... if I kiss, I kiss!

You see more a hug than a kiss in Mme de Sevigne's dream?

Always been a kiss... want a hug?

Let's see, can you hug me or you also can't hug me?

No, I do quite well hugging.

Shall I hug you from behind or facing you?

What I want is to make love to you.

What's Marina? What's it?

What?

Is that is not you, is the sun.

You're sleeping in the car and I am not your daughter.

Wake up.

I had to buy it because you can't work with

Mme de Sevigne without lavender.

Here, it's for you.

Do you see a hug more than a kiss in the dream scene?

Is that I don't see it.

What's what you don't see?

The scene is the summing up of the play

mother and daughter loved each other,

but how?

See, in paper the ambiguity is perfect,

but on stage it's impossible.

How did they kiss? How did they loved each other? Show me.

If I can't understand that, no...

Come on Marina,

Mme de Sevigne was excommunicated

because of the love she felt for her daughter.

Was there incest or not?

No, I know you don't like labels,

but I need to know what type of relationship was there, between mother and daughter.

- But, are you serious about all this? - Yes!

Well, I think that love there is only one type

and thousands of silly people that label the types.

Very good...

as a phrase is just brilliant,

but it happens that this silly person has to direct the play

and I need to know what they do.

Julia, you are a very creative person,

you can't make these mediocre questions.

You can't!

I prefer mediocrity to be full of complexes,

inhibitions and dialogues that don't show their true face.

Hey, do you have an idea of what I'm risking with this play?

I lost my job

to be here all this week

I cut it, I rewrite it as a circus.

Now, what do you want? To include an incest?

See, this is over, label it as you wish.

I'm leaving.

It's the same what Mme of Sevigne felt for her daughter,

what I'm interested in knowing

is what i felt for mine.

Julia...

I'm okay.

I think that if we talk...

Talk about what?

What happened? Were you in love with your daughter?

I'm not conscious of loving her like that.

But I can't take her out of my head.

Marina, I can't sleep, I have no life.

Never mind, I'm okay...

Well, you don't look too good.

I can't, I can't...

Julia, you're hurting yourself.

I can't take it no more, Marina no more...

Calm down, calm down...

Before reaching this point why don't you cry?

I can't...

I can't cry...

Since Tanit died, I can't Marina, I can't.

- Go to sleep, Marina - No.

I'm alright...

I have a full coffee pot.

Well, but they send it on time, eh?

Yes, yes... I agree it was sent on time...

and dialogues are great,

but I need results.

Gerardo, I need to fill the theater

and what do I have?

Nobody knows Madame Sevigne,

or her author.

I just have Julia as my trump card.

Julia acting.

Why don't we convince Julia

to reappear in this play?

Julia, I've been thinking

that Mme de Sevigne conversion to Jansenism

never convinced you.

There is another possibility.

Forget Jansenism, cut it out.

Mother and daughter loved each other in Grignan, in Provence

when the daughter noticed

that her role was to be mother of her own mother

Can you be more visual?

Excuse me Marina, there's a car.

We decided with the figures in our hands.

Either you star in Madame Sevigne

and we fill the theater,

or there's no play.

Just like that.

Julia, it's the large hall.

I don't understand.

I don't understand Ignasi, why are you part of such a low maneuver.

That you sell yourself and have nor respect for you is one thing, but...

I wont go into personal allusions.

Aren't you disgusted for doing this work for Pol?

Again. It was predictable.

Well, the truth is that after the shock, I thought it was a good option.

If you act again, you could be independent from Gerardo,

To whom Pol asked and Gerardo didn't answer.

- Very skillful. - What are you saying?

Nothing, that is very easy to criticize me for my work.

But, you?

Or isn't it a very low maneuver that Gerardo totally controls

your life the way he does?

See Julia,

behind your attitude and mine there is the same,

a very human thing

fear.

Fear to cut, to fly to live... is the same.

The difference...

is that I'll never will reproach you the way you do with me.

Don't dare do Sevigne.

Never thought about it.

You want to see your play on stage?

Julia, I care a lot more for you

than for Sevigne.

Besides, it will be as it has to be.

Yes?

Thanks for coming... bull...

Is that I believe that what you are doing to Julia is awful.

Shush by parts, Colombo by parts eh? By parts.

And more, when there are important things at risk, by parts.

First the script... I read it.

I don't care. There will be no Sevigne.

Do as you wish, but don't kill it, continue working.

Only with a good script you'll get to any theater.

- Something else? - Yes.

That shit of Jansenism doesn't work not even with lubricant

But who will believe that astute Sevigne will become an austere Jansenist?

Sevigne being an orphan since childhood only wanted to find a mother.

- Of course. - And on the other side Grignan

spends her life giving birth. Only when the two woman, do you follow me?

- Yes. - Only when they understand that

what is all about is exchange their roles

they can get to understand each other.

Also forget the Jansenism. - Yes that's what I said to Julia

Julia didn't see it clear.

And what does Julia know about mother-daughter relationships, eh?

Nothing, she has no idea.

By the way... how was it in the Montseny, Madame Ferrer?

Ah Madame Ferrer... was starving in the Montseny.

Because Julia takes half a leaf of lettuce and she calls it dinner.

You see... that's what I enjoy from you and what unarms me is

you're terribly seductive and you don't

want to acknowledge what we are talking about.

Me, me I just flirt with lost causes is safer.

Ah! There is where I wanted to get. Come on.

Come... Come...

Let's see. Julia is not a lost cause. Got it?

Julia is delaying her decision to reappear as an actress. You know why?

Because the dilemma is not in reappearing or not reappearing.

The dilemma is another.

I should say that your seduction is becoming successful... hmm.

You already chose between Sevigne and her. Am I wrong?

A noble decision can't leave indifferent the other person.

Julia... whatever others say I am not such a big SOB, eh?

I also want Julia to triumph.

Almost as much, as you want it.

See, I ask you to come, to make sure that the bullshit of Jansenism

will disappear from your Sevigne script.

So, come on go work on your play.

My God, Marina,

at your age and without work,

- I told you so. - Let's see mother

did you call me to cheer me up or to totally demoralize me?

And now, what are you going to do?

No, let's see, as AVID operator I could find work right away.

You'll always have food to eat.

Do you know that I can't hear you?

Mother, mother...

This will cut at any moment.

Can't hear you, mother... mother...

Have you made up your mind?

I suppose you're going to do Sevigne.

What?

Ah, you're right, sorry... is a professional decision that belongs only to you.

But between us...

let me repeat the question, have you made up your mind?

7 days at the Montseny are worth it, no?

And Colombo seems to be very fast

writing...

Look...

I don't know where do you want to go

But, if it is what I'm thinking... frankly is truly sick.

No, no, no. What's frankly sick is me having to pay for what happened at Cadaques.

One damn night in Cadaques, one in 9 years.

But who do you think you are to talk to me like this?

You're right, Cadaques was insignificant and Montseny is predictable.

No, more than predictable, it was necessary.

That's why I facilitated it.

Julia...

Since you're ending cycles, I propose we end this too.

Like this, we are getting nowhere.

Well, yes... directly to hell!

Gerardo, nothing happen.

Hmm! Then is more serious than what I thought.

You can't throw me away from your life, I love you.

You admire me. Which is not the same.

You admire me almost as much as I admire you.

What do you want? That we continue to admire each other until death do us part?

Be brave damn. Be brave and finish.

When you noticed Colombo, that night at the restaurant

it wasn't because she reminded you of your daughter... hmmm

Colombo looks like Tanit as much as a marsupial looks like a fly.

- Gerardo... - It's true.

You like her. You like her as much as I. Or maybe more.

You only have to convince her about how much you need her.

The poor woman nowadays has very low self-esteem.

Daughter of castrating mother for sure.

Play Sevigne, do as I say.

The alternative is to keep being buried alive.

Pol is having dinner at the theater. If you run to tell him

you'll be able to make him enjoy his dinner for the first time in many days.

And he will score a good win.

We have to make sure that this useless man

continues in the Public Theater.

If the theater goes back to the private enterprise

the little good we have will be over.

Do you know that I can't remember the last time I dreamt?

Or what was it about.

Be brave, damn. Be brave and finish.

Julia, I care for you much more than for Sevigne.

Everything is summarized in one unique

Mme. Sevigne phrase to her daughter... one...

framed in life without her consent.

Can I come in?

- Are you still unemployed? - Yes.

The humidity is bad, eh?

Is worst.

Will you come with me to Provence, Grignan?

You have precipitated there will be Sevigne.

I already told you, if it is for me, don't do it.

Can't you think that...

perhaps I'm doing it for me?

Hey, I have no car.

Hey Marina, I have to go...

to deliver a photo album to my mother,

Would you mind if we detour for 5 minutes?

I been thinking...

can you go alone to Grignan?

I don't want to do the play.

I will play Madame Sevigne.

But, you can't play the role, Julia

You don't like acting, you were serious when you told me.

I can see when you're acting and when you�re not.

You don't like acting.

And you, did you like cutting the scenes?

Have you liked that I cut them, and you have to rewrite them

that I cut them again, you wrote them again...

well, now is my turn to do what I don't like,

Don't you see it?

Don't you know what is happening to me?

I'm doing it for you.

What inspires me and gives me strength is you Marina.

And if you can't accept it then is your problem.

And do something about your allergy.

Why did you said that? Why can't I do the play?

Yes.. even being like that

Being how?

I have the perfect age for the role.

What's the problem?

You have to cry.

You can not cry and

Mme de Sevigne cried when she was happy, when she was sad...

she cried all day long.

Well, in theater there is no need to cry.

And if you do not cry after the dream scene

they will kill you alive

and all your good deed you'll tell me where it will be.

Oh! Is there!

I'll think about it.

If I think that I can't do it, then I wont do it.

But then there will be no Sevigne.

How are you?

Good.

You're beautiful. You know.

You have always been, but today much more.

Mother...

I'm splitting up with Gerardo.

I took this from the album, but if you wish I'll give it back to you.

Why have you done it?

Because it was the only photo of you and your mother together.

Really, your daughter Tanit acted as your mother, right?

Because she looks so mature and so protective.

She's always hugging you.

What, is not the first time someone tells you this, right?

Actually every time I'm at therapy and we reach this point...

curiously, I stop going back.

Of course, because is the beginning of the end.

The beginning of the end of what?

Salve Regina.

- What? - Is the Salve Regina...

Yes, Tanit's role was to be your mother

and that's what you miss since seven years ago. The mother's love

not your daughter.

But wait, the end of what?

Well this process, to cover the pain of not having a mother

and when you stop covering the pain, then you'll be able to sleep, to cry

and will start to live again.

Let me hear the Salve Regina.

Sometimes I think that I've loved Julia Berkowitz

even before meeting her.

Tanit's father was a British writer.

And what happen?

Well, it happen that two people, two careers,

are too many things at risk.

With my ex, with Joanne

we were so united

that we drown the relationship.

We were like...

if we were the same.

To me it seems that wanting things to last your whole life

is immature.

And what upsets me is that I loved Joanne very much.

I don't know if it was our living together.

Or it could be that

a relationship has to be open.

Yes, I believe that when you reach this age,

when a relationships starts and is not an open relationship

is because you haven't learnt much in your life.

I always sleep with

a Volent Formula 1

that you'll like very much.

Yes, I have seen it in a fantastic race.

Mme de Sevigne said that if at twenty years old

someone gave you a mirror

and you have the face that you'll have at sixty

you wouldl fall in your ass.

But if instead of a mirror they'd give you a digital camera

is totally suicide.

Where are you?

I'm thinking.

Is that I believe that where Mme de Sevigne has to cry is in the dream scene.

That's what I've been telling you.

She has to desperately cry.

I want to do it right now.

I want to know if I can cry.

Want to do it with me?

Would you help me?

- Me? - Yes.

Play the daughter.

Okay, the mother says...

- Any questions? - No.

The mother says...

daughter, is you, God has taken you.

And the daughter...

Mother I am willing to accept your tenderness

Marina, the daughter

for the first time

shows willingness

don't you think that...

Sorry, I'm sorry

Sorry, I'm sorry

Why are you sorry?

Have you noticed the most minimal rejection from me?

I should have say

shame that it was only a dream,

mother,

Then Mme de Sevigne goes back to reality,

to find herself alone, and that her daughter is not there

and starts to cry for a long while

and the servants can't stop her from crying.

Julia, let it be.

Don't do Sevigne.

You'll make the worst mistake of your life.

Okay, I wont do it.

I wont do it, okay.

Marina, if now leave right now

the one making the worst mistake of her life, will be you.

I thought that it would not open, will all the problems there were...

Now all in my life works perfectly.

My only problem is that I do not know what

have I done for everything to work so well, so suddenly.

Things resolved by themselves

or by a Divex machine.

She spends the whole day at the theater,

so if she's unfaithful I know with whom it is.

Now, if I find it

I remove the sponsorship like this, eh?

People that cares for the actress

is not welcomed at the dressing room,

the bureaucrats yes.

Stanislavski would not allow this.

I told you this morning, while he shaved I said:

I'm going to Gambia,

for a week, all expenses paid

Is that I found a sponsor

to tour Gambia doing plays in Catalan.

The Scrap Dealers

great, all in black.

Working as an Avid operator

allows me to pay the bills,

because theater is very insecure.

I have matured so much,

that I'm not worried

how long would it last with Julia,

at certain age,

when you start a relationship and is not open

is that you haven't learnt anything about life.

Is strange, used to be a small play, just women, something intimate

and has become like a Hollywood super production

because the scene with Louis IX in a balloon flying up, is too much.

- Where are you from? - From Colombia.

Ah! Colombia. Really beautiful Colombia.

- We can do many things in Colombia. - Many

But I have to mature more,

if not, why do I feel guilty about her reappearing on stage?

I love you, Berkowitz

Take it.

The program.

- No, no. - Open it up.

I had to fuck myself and go all the way to the airport

because I am unable to use Internet.

Go home and do the luggage.

Tomorrow in the flight I'll tell you how was the play.

I have a theory about love.

If you pretend to have a stable couple

is not wise to chose someone you love like crazy.

One cannot demand to be loved with the same intensity.

Is absurd... is naive.

Better someone with solid and irreconcilable differences.

Nuria Flushman de Abadal for example.

We will spend a week in the West Side

She'll spend the mornings from gallery to gallery

I'll spend the afternoons from theater to theater and...

Luckily none of the two has the strength to throw the dishes to the head

like 20 years ago.

That's something that you have to think.

Thank you very much for listening to me.

I really needed it.