Garbo Talks Page #2

Synopsis: Estelle is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won't cross a picket line for her son's wedding. She also loves Garbo films: when she learns she has a brain tumor and six months to live, she decides she must meet Garbo. Her dutiful son Gilbert, a Manhattan accountant named for Garbo's co-star, hires a paparazzo to show him Garbo's flat, stakes it out, gets a job delivering food there, seeks her on Fire Island, and tracks her to a Sixth Avenue flea market. As his obsession distances him from his wife, he's drawn to a struggling actress he meets at work. Can he find Garbo; if so, will she talk?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
17%
PG-13
Year:
1984
103 min
160 Views


There, in the drawer.

- Your cork?

- Yes, please.

Thank you.

Now is the time for all good men

to come to the aid of their country.

a deepens the voice.

An actress must exercise

a lot of her voice.

And now is the time for all good men

to come to the aid of their country.

a comes from my first

bottle of champagne.

You help me to get up?

Thank you.

You want to try?

No thanks.

- Was there anything else?

- It was everything.

Can I see this picture of

Garbo in your shop window?

- a comes from "Grand Hotel".

- From "Mata Hari".

- "Grand Hotel". This is my shop.

- No, it's "Mata Hari".

The scene in the cell

where she meets Rosanoff

just before being taken

to the firing squad.

Look at the costume,

it's "Mata Hari".

It's $ 35.

It is not uncommon.

I have already seen it.

He had to buy it.

This is the frame.

- I take it without the frame.

- I do not sell it without it. $ 35.

It's "Mata Hari".

Go see the movies.

- It's beautiful and it smells good.

- Wilshire shrimp.

I saw a in an article

about California cuisine.

- It's delicious.

- The best I've tasted.

Your father loves shrimp and

I try to make him happy.

I spoke to my parents.

They send their greetings.

Thank you.

My dad is dying to

go to Los Angeles.

He offered Gilbert

a fantastic job.

Lisa.

- He does not want to take it.

- I have a job.

Often in life, one must do

what makes the other happy.

We call it to give and take.

Do you know my philosophy?

There is nothing to give

the other a little joy.

Bravo.

How is your mother?

She had headaches.

- She was arrested again.

- How did you know?

We always know the same people.

Flight to the summer.

It was not really

flight to the bay.

How would you call a?

She was caught with

beans in her bag?

Zucchinis.

Why does she need to do this?

She has money.

She still has home in Flushing.

She speaks of an injustice.

Do you know that Claire and I are

having a birthday in a month?

Ten years.

Is it a long time?

- Dad...

- Yes.

What made you fall in love?

Claire?

Mom.

The way she danced.

How did she dance?

I met her at a party.

We were teenagers.

How was she dancing?

She danced everywhere.

His whole body, all his

being, everything.

When she was dancing, she did

not think of anything else.

She's still watching her weight?

Yes.

She always watched her weight.

My God, we had fun.

Wedding day,

we went to the courthouse

to get the certificate.

They sent us to a cleric.

His name was...

William Albert.

She did not want to let him

write the certificate.

She did not trust

men with two names.

My God, we had fun.

Two names...

I do not know why we

started to go away.

Always indignant by

this or that thing.

She could not take

life as she comes.

And I got tired, that's all.

I worked very hard, I wanted

peace and tranquility.

And she did not want to

give me, that imbecile.

If she had changed a little,

take a step towards me...

Clear...

She is a good person,

a good wife.

She lays the ground under my feet.

What more can you ask for?

She still wears

orthopedic shoes?

She has always had ugly feet.

I will take a sandwich.

You want to come?

I have to tell you, Jane.

I am married.

I just invited you

to eat a sandwich.

Elevators are very sexual, right?

I have this fantasy, in a

single lift with this man

that I have never met in my life and

who does not stop looking at me.

All of a sudden, he reaches

out and touches my chest.

I think it is very much

moved, but I do not stop it.

The elevator goes up very slowly,

we are at the World Trade Center,

and he continues to touch me.

We are on the 30th floor

and it takes me the size,

the elevator continues to rise,

and his hands keep coming down.

Arriving at the 70th

floor, we are making love

and he leaves me without

even giving me his name.

Gilbert, we are there.

Do you like working in

this dark little room?

It's not so bad.

I would be claustrophobic.

I study at the theater next door.

I'm counting until

something happens.

I need this job.

People like you should

not have to work.

You are prehistoric.

Actually, I'd like to

be interviewed, but...

It's not my type.

I would like to, but I

do not have the money.

One day, when I'll

be very, very rich,

I'll stay at home all

the time, study Molire

and order veal with oysters

from Fraser-Morris.

Moliire make me laugh,

and Fraser-Morris, that's

where the very, very rich

buy all their tomatoes.

Lisa, it was very good.

This is the first

time I cook Chinese.

It took me 3 hours.

Go to the living room,

I'll serve the coffee.

3 hours.

She could have read "War and Peace".

Where's my bag, Gilbert?

Look on the table in the room.

Bring me a glass of water, too.

Mom, how are you?

Yes... I'm just a little sore

at the head, that's all.

Gilbert Rolfe.

Dr. Cohen. How are you?

What is it?

You can not operate?

There is no way.

You may have other opinions,

but there is nothing to do.

It's an attitude she

will not understand.

Why did not Dr. Cohen

tell me himself?

He thinks I'm made of butter?

Estelle Rolfe.

Not Estelle Rolfe.

I know everyone must die,

but I really thought I

was the first exception.

Dr. Cohen wants you to

go to the hospital.

Lisa's dad knows a

neurosurgeon in Beverly Hills.

I have Dr. Cohen.

It is a shoe size in his field.

He does miracles.

I do not believe in miracles.

You must have hope.

Yes, I have hope.

I do not believe in miracles.

We work with what we have.

We do not always win.

I have always accepted the objective fact.

Yes? Okay. One minute, please.

He could have you a room at Murray Hill.

He wants to know...

I'm not going to Murray Hill.

Dermaticians are not unionized.

- Mom!

- No.

Could you find another

place for him?

She does not like Murray Hill Hospital.

Why? I do not know why.

Yes OK.

No, we'll be there.

Dr. Cohen wants to start

cobalt treatments.

I know everything about cobalt.

You do not...

You will not feel anything.

No, that's not what I mean.

My hair.

They may fall.

I just dye them.

Look at it.

- How much time do I have?

- Hard to say.

You can resist for a while.

Do not tell me a story.

How much time do I have?

Four to six months.

I'm coming back tonight.

I called Mr. and Mrs. Kozinski,

they want to know

if you want visits,

I told them it would be

better to wait a few days,

the time you settle down

and feel comfortable.

They were great. They will monitor

the house and open the eye for you.

Gilbert, I want to meet Greta Garbo.

Yes, I want to meet Garbo.

- Mom, are you kidding?

- No.

It's impossible.

It is not impossible.

She lives here, in New York.

Can not you just focus

on improving your state?

I want to meet Garbo.

Why?

Why not? I will die.

She wants to meet Garbo.

It's like a last wish.

This is not my last wish.

I have lots of others.

It's just a little short.

And if we had lunch?

I'm sorry, I can not.

Oh ok.

- Gilbert.

- Mr. Plotkin.

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