Constantin si Elena Page #4

Synopsis: A warm documentary about an elderly Romanian couple. Each day, they still manage to enjoy life and each other, but grieve over the finiteness of it all.
 
IMDB:
8.8
Year:
2009
102 min
36 Views


No, I didn't. Here it is.

Thanks a lot.

Good health!

Bye!

See if Vasile is at home...

- Oh, this is not good.

- Oh, poor thing! It's too large.

It won't stay.

You have to make just a small hole in it.

You spoiled it.

- Help me get this on, please.

- Yes, yes, right away.

- Those were really good...

- Which ones?

Those candles, in a sort of a glass...

Inside...

Understand, granny?

I don't know.

Take this one for the grave.

This one.

- Look! See?

- Oh, good job!

Take one egg. To say "Christ is Risen!".

They have plenty of eggs over there...

I won't carry an egg with me.

- For the grave?

- Yes. It's the kind that lasts longer.

- When I come back, should I wake you up?

- We'll see. I'll wake by myself.

- Then we'll say "Christ is Risen!", right?

- Yes, then.

- And what do you say now?

- Now you say "Good Night"

- Good night and forgive me.

- May God forgive you, old man...

A car is coming. Let's step aside.

We've made it through this year.

- Maybe we'll make it till next year...

- Only God up there knows.

We live with hope, right?

No one has a contract with God.

When Death comes, it finds you.

- You cannot hide from Death.

- No, it finds you anywhere.

My cow is sick, poor creature.

- Why?

- She can't put one foot on the ground at all.

- She might have something in her hoof.

- I checked. There's nothing there...

Come take the Holy Light!

Christ is risen from the dead...

Trampling down death by death...

Oh, Mother of God, pray for us...

- We messed it up.

- "Pray for us" is said twice. Only then this comes...

Yes, that's why.

You lead us, please, from

the "Pray for us"...

"Enlighten us, St. John and pray for us"...

Well, something like this...

- Won't you sleep a little?

- What?

Aren't you goin' to sleep?

- What?

- Aren't you goin' to sleep?

Oh, yes. Until sunrise...

Good.

- At least one hour or two.

- I forgot to look at the time.

Must be around four.

Four, ah?

Aha...

Was it nice?

It was, but after the

service, only a few stayed.

Did you sing?

Of course.

It was really nice.

- There must have been a lot of people.

- Yes, plenty.

People even came from

the city, do you know?

Summer

- Oh, you're handsome enough!

- Really?

- Do you really love me that much?

- No doubt about it.

Only you know how much you cried

when I married you.

I don't remember anything like that.

You must've been sorry. I'm sure.

You could have married a younger man,

not an old one like me.

- I think you weren't that old back then!

- No, I wasn't, but haven't I become?

- Haven't I also become a granny??!

- Should I take my hat?

I don't know...

I think I'm not going anywhere,

because I can't find my shoes.

Well, don't come...

I've seen them somewhere around here.

Oh my God, I've put them in the stove!

- Where were they?

- In the stove!

I must've really gone crazy.

I've looked for them so much...

Now, put the heel.

- That's it. Put the other one.

- I've done the other one.

- Do you have only one foot?

- Yes, only one. Come on!

Put the stick and lock the door,

We could leave and fear no more.

- God help us!

- Put the stick there, to let people know we are not home.

- "We're sorry, we've left for the church".

- Who do you ask forgiveness from?

May God forgive us all.

May you also be forgiven.

- Hello! Happy Name's Day, for both of you!

- Thank you.

The Social-Democrats...

"Vote Ion Munteanu, president

of the County Council"

"The best for the most!"...

So help us God!

This road looks much better now...

- They hauled the rocks all the way up from the river.

- Hello, Happy Name's Day!

Thank you, God bless you.

- We used to have a real swamp here.

- Fortunately they brought all these rocks.

Yes, they've done a great job.

You'll come to visit us, right?

- I don't know...

- And why don't you know?

A present without a visit?!...

- Is it a beer?

- You'll see at home.

May God give you good health

so you can be happy with the living ones.

May God give you strength so you can...

I forgot what I wanted to say. I always forget.

Every Constantin and every

Elena gets an apron!

It's very good at home.

You can put it around your neck...

Oh, right!

Long live the Mayor and

the Liberal-Democrats!

What do we have here? Look!

Oh, this is that kind that blows out.

- Wait, there is something else in here.

- There's nothing left.

Yes, there is!

Oh, dear!

It's a beer of some sort...

Pepsi.

It's a soda...

Let's change and get to work.

The cows are waiting.

Ioana.

Hello?

I have no idea what I've done here!

...Tomorrow I will be with

you again, don 't know how,

I didn't know what to do back

then, I will now know...

That's it.

- That's an old poem, from the time we were young.

- This one's not that old.

We can lick it from the outside.

Open it! You can do it,

if you have good hands.

- I can't. This is something I don't know.

- You can, look...

I knew it. And you said you couldn't...

Oh, look what you've done there.

Squeeze it!

Cheers! Long life!

I think that is Liviu coming.

I have work to do.

The cat sleeps here again,

because it's nice and tidy.

- Oh, my! I'll get so drunk!

- Right.

Oh my bro', I've been looking for you,

to tell you nothing but the truth:

I'd like to quit the cows

And join your Robin Hood band...

Forget it, go to the cows!

You can join my band,

If you swear you won't betray it!...

"Refreshing carbooo...

carbonated soft drink"

Contains caffeine. See?

What are you doing? What is there to read?

- I'm not allowed to talk.

- Who forbids you to talk?

You did.

That's just your impression.

Sometimes you imagine such things...

"Distributed in the Republic of Moldova"

Can you believe that?

- I read what this thing is made of...

- What?

What this is made of.

You said you'd feed the animals.

I have plenty of time.

"Bear's Valley"

We were once there, weren't we?

We were.

- What did we do there?

- At a wedding.

- Whose wedding?

- Of... Ion Pavel.

Precisely!

Yes, I remembered.

We all took the trouble to go there,

and in the end... they divorced.

Come on, babies, come to Mamma.

Come to Mamma. Where are you?

Bring your babies, come here!

Call all your kids. Very nice!

These are not all!

Keep calling them!

Can't you see these are not all?

Keep calling! That's it. Good job!

Duck, get away from there!

You dirty duck! Stupid animal!

Here comes another one!

Get away from there, you duck!

Oh, the hen will eat you!

You deserved that!

Alright.

You eat there, nicely.

"When your eyes behold the marvelous

lake-view, it takes your breath away"

Oh, dear! You don't breath anymore.

If you go to the lake, you stop breathing.

You can imagine how fresh the air is there!

That's true, but isn't it

fresh around here too?

When you have the forest

rising above your backyard,

what fresher air can you possibly want?

The pure evidence:

At 83 years old to mow, to carry on

your back, to breed so many animals!

Isn't this because of the air?

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