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(CLAPPING RHYTHMS)

(LIGHTNING CRASHING)

(BLOWING WHISTLE)

(GUN FIRING)

(LOUD BANG)

(SINGING IN FRENCH)

I am tired.

- We'll stop soon. - Come to the arms of your mother.

Finished?

Dead.

Hello.

CLAIRE: Maria, wake up, something's happening.

(MAN YELLING IN SPANISH)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

What is it, Paul?

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

- Tell me. What are they saying? - They're looking for a murderer.

It happened in the next town. He found his wife with her lover.

(MAKES POPPING NOISE)

Both of them.

(SINGING IN FRENCH)

We'll spend the night in that town. There's a hotel.

(POLICE SIREN WAILING)

I'd hate it. I'd hate for him to be caught.

Hurry, Paul. Maybe we'll see him.

Maria, what would you do,

if you came face to face with the murderer?

I would take him in my arms.

- Are there no rooms at all? - I am sorry, there are no rooms.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

- Having a good time? - Fine.

Sorry. Sorry.

Hello. Hello.

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

- Will we be able to have dinner? - Yes, a little later, please.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

We'll never get rooms, and the lights will never come back.

(SINGING IN FRENCH)

- What did you see? - You.

I'm hungry.

- I need air. I want to walk. - Maria, it will rain again.

Maria.

I swear.

(MAN SINGING)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(ALL CLAMORING)

(BOTH SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Emilio.

- Good evening. I can help you? - Thank you.

- Some small things to eat, little... - No.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

They're not so friendly.

Oh, no. But ladies doesn't come too much to these bars,

and tonight there was a murder.

- A man found his wife... - Yes, I heard about it.

Who was he?

Oh, a peasant, Rodrigo Palestra. The man he killed, his name was Amado.

He had a garage.

- How old was the wife? - Nineteen.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

He say is not the fault of Amado.

A woman wants you, you do not refuse, no?

It's not good manners.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Nineteen.

Did she love Amado?

She loved us all.

After six month married, she wants every man in the town.

So you have to kill her, no?

Good night.

- Lady, you want to come with me? - Where?

- Some place nice, quiet. - My husband is waiting for me.

And he lets you go drink alone?

It depends.

(PEOPLE SINGING IN SPANISH)

- Excuse me, your table is ready, sir. - Thank you.

Stay here. I'll be right back.

An Englishman married to a Greek. It makes a great couple.

The Greek drinks and the Englishman takes the blame.

How do you say "guilt" in Greek?

(SPEAKING IN GREEK)

You see? She taught it to you.

No, it won't work, Claire.

I'll go to my death saying you're not a bitch.

You didn't think I was talking seriously?

No. But I was listening seriously.

Thank you.

- You don't come back to the bar later? - Maybe.

Why the hell did she insist that I come with you?

Why the hell did you accept?

Maria.

If she wants so much to find me in your arms, it won't be in a doorway.

We've been waiting for you.

Excuse me. Sorry.

We can eat now, if you don't mind.

- No rooms? - No.

The storm will come back. Nobody will leave for Madrid tonight.

Maria.

- Where were you? - No. I did not drink too much.

- Hello. - Well, hello.

- The soup is cold. - Come along.

- And there are no rooms. - We'll sleep in the corridor.

(ALL EX CLAIMING)

You see?

You come back, and the light comes back with you.

- Magic. - I imagine there'll be rooms now.

- Or should we try for Madrid? - Yes. Yes, let's try.

Now that there is light, they'll find Rodrigo Palestra.

I have such a need to drink.

You always say that with such surprise.

It's true. I do.

(ALL EX CLAIMING)

Back to the corridors. Will you be able to?

Maria, will you be able to sleep on a hard floor,

surrounded by people you don't know?

We slept in a corridor once, Maria and I.

In Verona.

Was I there?

At the time you were nowhere.

As you know, there has been a crime. The Guardia Civil are making a search.

I am sorry you are disturbed.

- She was only 19 years old. - Poor kid.

- You know Rodrigo Palestra, don't you? - We all know him.

- Are you hiding him? - No.

- And his wife, did you know her, too? - Yes.

Oh, is it so difficult to understand that she loved Amado?

It was difficult for Rodrigo to understand.

(THUNDER CRASHING)

(SCREAMING)

It's the end of the world.

MAN: Rodrigo! Rodrigo Palestra!

Rodrigo!

MAN 2: Rodrigo!

(MAN SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

MAN ON LOUDSPEAKER. : Rodrigo! Rodrigo Palestra!

(MAN SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

- They think he hides on the roof. - Rodrigo.

I once watched a man call a dog in that way, friendly.

When the dog came, he...

Oh, Maria, stop carrying on. Your Palestra is beginning to be a bore.

What a shame. I am sure, if he knew it, he'd be sorry.

I don't think I'm hungry.

- She didn't mean it. - I did.

(SINGING IN FRENCH)

(DOOR CLOSING)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

I am sorry. The police want the street cleared.

If you give me the key, I'll have the boy put your car in the garage.

Thank you.

Have you got a place for us to sleep? Anywhere? If only for the child?

The best we could do,

we have put mattresses and blankets in the corridors upstairs.

- May I see? - Of course.

I can't eat, Mommy.

Nor I.

- Claire. - No, really. I've had enough.

Oh, look. Senor. I haven't seen a loveseat in years.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Oh, Mommy.

(SINGING)

Claire, please, you know I adore you.

It's just the way they called his name.

Palestra, Palestra.

It got on my nerves.

- Forgiven? - Forgiven.

- You look marvelous tonight. - You don't?

You change from one minute to the other.

Before, when Paul talked about Verona, you changed.

You get angry with me, you're ugly.

- Click. - Enough.

Things that go through my head...

Once, I saw a couple making love.

It was a strange experience. Exciting.

- Shocked? - No.

Claire...

Here. Shall we play?

All right. I'm thinking about somebody. Who is it?

- Somebody we all know? - Somebody we all know about.

- Man or woman? - Man.

If he were a color, what color would he be?

If he were a color, he'd be black with a touch of purple.

If he were an animal?

If he were an animal, he'd be a black leopard.

A cat.

A bird?

A raven.

He's all dark.

If he were a means of destruction?

Bitch.

If he were a means of destruction, he'd be a flame.

- Fire. - Palestra.

I should have known.

(PHONE RINGING)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

What?

"In an hour."

"With the extra men you're sending me, he hasn't got a chance."

"At the first light of day, we've got him."

(IMITATING LAUGHTER)

"Like a rat in a trap."

Well, I've inspected our corridor. We've got company, but it's dirt cheap.

(WHISTLES)

- Time for bed, Judith. - I'll take her.

No. Me.

First turning to the right.

- Good night, Claire. - Good night, Judith.

We'll wait for you, Maria.

She does everything to leave us alone.

WOMAN 1: Oh, no, with these storms the light doesn't come back all night.

MAN: You know, I hear that girl was a little bitch, a hot little bitch.

I feel sorry for that poor Amado.

WOMAN 2: They say that if the police take him at all, they'll take him dead.

WOMAN 3: The bodies of Amado and the girl are in the town hall.

(HUMMING)

(HUMMING)

MAN: Oh, gee, it's raining and it's hot.

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

(MAN SHOUTING IN SPANISH)

JUDITH: Mama.

Mama?

Mama.

(SINGING IN GREEK)

PAUL: We waited for you.

I was tired.

And I didn't want to leave Judith alone.

I'm going to sleep.

I...

went back to the bar.

- Oh, Maria. - I did.

I saw a friend of Rodrigo Palestra.

- Really? - Yes.

And this friend, what did he say?

He said Palestra was somewhere on the rooftops.

Well, in that case he's drowned and that's the end of that.

Now, I must sleep.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

- Aren't you tired? - No.

Try and go to sleep.

Paul, there's wine in the dining room.

Bring me a glass of wine.

- Maria. - Please.

It's too hot in this town.

The rain is stopping.

Paul, what time does the dawn come?

Early. Why?

- I have something to tell you. - What?

What? What, Maria?

Give me a cigarette.

We were lucky to find this hotel. Lucky.

Maria, you know that I love you.

- Yes. - You are my love.

Oh, yes, I know.

Maria, you believe that since Verona

nothing has happened to us, don't you?

Don't you?

Nothing, Paul.

Try to drink less.

Oh, no.

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

Paul, it's mad, but I saw Rodrigo Palestra.

He's here on the rooftop.

Come with me.

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

(MEN SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Palestra.

Rodrigo Palestra. Trust me. I'll help you.

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

Rodrigo. I want to help you.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

I'll stay here.

I won't move.

Then you'll understand I'm not going to the police.

(MARIA SINGING IN GREEK)

(HUMMING)

Oh, yes.

I have a car.

I'll go all the way around to the other side of the hotel, past the church.

The roof is low.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(MAN SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(CAR BRAKES)

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

Jump.

(POLICE SIREN WAILING)

(MAN SPEAKING SPANISH ON RADIO)

(SHIVERING)

(WHISPERING) Palestra.

Palestra.

Rodrigo.

(SOBBING)

Listen.

Try to understand. We must go back.

I'm not alone.

I have a child at the hotel.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Rodrigo.

Rodrigo, I will come back. I will take you wherever you want to go.

The frontier is not too far. We could try.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

I'll be back.

Look, I'll be back at noon.

I'll be back. 12:00.

(BELL TOLLING)

The next time you come, senor, the best room will be yours.

- Thank you. - Thank you, sir.

- The bill, please. - Yes, sir.

Maria.

Maria.

It's late.

- What time is it? - Hey, quarter to 1 1:00.

How are you feeling?

- How do I look? - Terrible.

Really? I feel marvelous.

Judith's in the courtyard, playing.

- Claire? - Gone to take a shower.

I'll go, too.

I have something very interesting to tell you.

Again?

Later.

Let me wake up first.

Get the car.

- Claire. - Morning, Maria. Did you sleep well?

Fine.

What? What now?

White, white, white is the color of my true love.

Come, keep me company.

I woke up for a moment in the middle of the night. I couldn't see you.

I wasn't there.

I went to the bar. I drank Manzanillas with a policeman.

Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria.

Maria, what shall I do with you? I'll share the shower with you. Come on.

(SINGING)

(SINGING IN FRENCH)

(MARIA SPEAKING IN FRENCH)

(SINGING IN FRENCH)

(SPEAKING IN FRENCH)

- Claire. - What?

Listen, Claire.

Claire, last night...

You will be furious, but you would have done the same thing.

What? What did you do?

- Maria, why do you drink? - I don't know.

- What time is it? - It must be about 1 1:00. Why?

There he is.

Oh, not bad looking, your Palestra.

PAUL: Young. MARIA: Actually, he looks better than that.

In life, I mean.

Last night, it may interest you to know, I saw Rodrigo Palestra.

When?

A little before you came to join me in the corridor.

Just a little before.

You know the side of the hotel where the balconies face the rooftops?

I saw him from there.

Later, when you were asleep, I got the car

and I took him about 10 kilometers from here.

- You made it all up, Maria. - Why would I make it up?

Just to be a nuisance. You were drunk.

Where did you take him?

No. He won't be there. Why would he wait? Let's turn back.

- Come on. - Where? Where are they going?

There's a friend of ours. He'll be coming in the car with us.

- For how long? - Forever.

- I'll always love you, Claire. - Come on.

Maria.

There.

There. Rodrigo, Rodrigo Palestra.

Go back to the car.

Oh, Paul, I'm sorry.

So sorry.

Maria.

- He's dead. - How?

The sun, maybe.

JUDITH: I'm hungry.

PAUL: There's a parador close by. We'll lunch there.

(BOTH SINGING)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

(PAUL SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

How's that little beast going to turn out?

(WHIMPERS)

- She's going to be like you. - Bite your tongue.

I got through to Madrid.

Got rooms at the Palace.

The heat is so intense you can see it. Not a car on the road.

Please.

Please.

Oh, well.

Palestra was not your exclusive property.

I was involved, too, up to here!

It's possible. But finders keepers.

(YELLING)

- Maria. - Maria.

(MARIA LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY)

Finders keepers.

Finders keepers.

We're going out tonight. Maria promised.

The three of us? All together?

You wouldn't, by chance, be tired of us?

Oh, no. A fourth might add a little variety to the game.

There was Palestra, but he was a bad loser.

Palestra was an idiot.

Anybody who refuses to understand

that love can change or be transferred

or just quit is an idiot, period.

Period.

Delicious.

I think I will never stop drinking.

You're not as strong as you think you are, Maria.

True.

You know everything about me, Claire.

But not now.

If I don't sleep, I'll die.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

MARIA: We'd have taken him with us.

He would have become our friend.

And maybe one day, I would have loved him.

I wanted so much to see him again.

With Paul.

Paul.

Faithful to our rendezvous.

Noon. On time.

Like the coming of a season.

All I gave him was a few hours sleep

before he died.

That's all.

- Claire. - I'll be back soon.

I am too tired.

I think I can fight against anything,

but this fatigue.

It's a fatigue that comes from way back, Maria.

Made up of everything.

Claire.

MARIA. : They're in a field behind the hotel.

Hiding, fumbling, awkward.

(MARIA LAUGHING)

They're where I put them.

They're locked in a room.

Finally, what patience.

Faithful to our rendezvous.

On time, like the coming of a season.

Help me to stand the pain.

How do you stand the pain?

The words. What hurts most are the words.

The things he's saying to her. The words that slip out.

The idiotic, lovely nonsense that lovers speak.

On the rooftop he rose up like a dark bird,

with dark wings against a dark sky.

Claire's body.

I never looked at her naked without seeing Paul with her.

Claire, the first time I saw you naked,

I thought of Paul with you and it never stopped.

The last months I never saw you without seeing Paul with you.

Paul!

PAUL. : Too long, Claire.

Maria knows we're here, I'm sure.

CLAIRE. : Of course she knows. Maria wanted me in that bed with you.

Maria needed me. I made the atmosphere erotic, exciting.

Verona was gone and alcohol couldn't replace it.

She needed me.

I accepted to play your game under any conditions because I love you.

Don't change the rules because some absurd peasant blew his brains out.

PAUL. : Yes, he is absurd.

He killed, he died, unaware that people like us could exist.

CLAIRE. : If the police had him now, he'd be alive.

The whole village said that he'd be free.

Oh, crime of passion! Love and honor betrayed.

They'd have let him free, and you know it.

(JUDITH LAUGHING)

One, two, three.

(JUDITH LAUGHING)

(BOTH SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

The approach to Madrid was lovely.

I'm sorry you missed it, but you refused to wake up.

MARIA: It's too bad.

What?

Look,

it's more than likely that if the police had caught him,

he'd have shot himself anyway.

They would have disarmed him.

- Don't let's talk about him anymore. - Please, never again.

Paul, give me a drink.

Just one, I promise.

I want to look well tonight.

And we mustn't be late. Claire is waiting.

Shut the door. Shut the door.

This afternoon at the parador I dreamed of you and Claire.

- We walked in the woods behind the hotel. - On the hill?

No.

Maria,

were you in the dream?

- I can't remember where I was. - Weren't you with us?

- Watching us? In the room? - What room?

Where we were, Claire and I.

Were you in a room or were you...

In your dream, remember, Maria, where were we?

In a room.

Paul.

I don't know what to do.

I don't love you anymore.

- PAUL: I won't believe that. - It's finished.

Finished.

PAUL: I won't believe you. There is nothing but you and I together.

- I won't believe it. - My Paul.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(SPEAKING IN FRENCH)

Maria.

(FLAMENCO MUSIC PLAYING)

(SINGING IN SPANISH)

Those two are in love!

- Maria wants everybody to be in love. - Everybody!

Maria is hopeless.

Maria?

Maria!

(ECHOING) Maria!