Hello Hemingway

---

To Alfonso,

my father.

The writer Ernest Hemingway

lived over

than twenty years in the

country estate Viga,

located in San Francisco de Paula,

a town in the outskirts of Havana.

The action in this movie

took place in 1956.

The Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria

Cinematogrfica presents

Come on, Flora, come on, hurry!

Come on!

Flora, hurry!

Hurry, come on!

Come on, Flora, come on!

Come on, hurry!

Hello, Hemingway

First voice in our hearts

that tells us that love has come,

first beat of our sweet sixteen

looking for love.

Nothing in the world can be better

that listening to that happy beat...

... for heaven's sake,

I lowly beg you to listen to me

as well as your only-Begotten

assisted the good thief...

oh... oh...,

it was really,

oh... oh...,

happiness.

Ill be able to return to that sweet...

Hurry, Larita;

your lunch will get cold!

St. Dimas give me back my earring, thief.

Give me back my earring, thief!

Come on, girl, finish up.

Hey, Larita, hurry

or I won't wait for you.

oh, cousin, you think I can still

do with this blouse?

- Look at that...

- Let me see.

Gee...

Look, like that youre trendier

and you hide the patch.

oh, but if its the Elvis Presley style.

I think you care more about self-love

than about your studies.

oh, no, of course not, Aunt Rosenda,

if it were so, I wouldnt

go to high-school.

Mom, Im leaving.

- Be careful, sweetie, yes?

- Yes.

Lalita, Im leaving;

Im not waiting for you.

- oh, wait for me.

- Im leaving. Bye, grandma.

- Girl, but...

- oh, no way, bye family.

Girl, eat,

that you cant live on studying alone.

- No way, Josefa, I have no time.

- Just a moment...

May St. Lazarus, the Virgin

of Regla, Charity

and your guardian angel

be with you, sweetie.

Praise be to God, Josefa,

what I have in tow is a procession.

- Hey, uncle... uncle, wait.

- okay, okay, okay... eh?

Hey, whats wrong with this girl

that shes always in a rush.

Flora...

Wait up, cousin.

A man can be destroyed

but not conquered.

Grammatically, we can see

a passive voice in that sentence.

Which is the passive voice?

Underline it, Marisabel, please.

Can be destroyed...

You know the passive voice

is formed with the verb To BE

and the participle of the main

verb in the sentence.

Tomorrow I want you to bring me

three sentences in the passive voice

with the verbs that are

on the left of the blackboard.

Hey, the three Maras,

and the one in the middle is mine.

Hey, and who told you Im yours?

- Adela told me...

- Y if she passes Ill kill her.

Hey, Larita, arent you coming

to the ice-cream parlor?

- No, I cant now.

- I treat, serious, I treat.

- I cant.

- Victor.

Remember we have to draft

the association rules.

okay.

See you tonight at your place.

Hey, but for the nth time.

Are you drafting the rules or what?

Larita.

Come on, the ice cream will melt.

No, I cant.

I have to see Dr. Martnez.

Thank you very much

for lending it to me, Doctor.

Thanks to you it got an award.

I put a new cover on it.

And thanks to your

studying, Hilaria,

otherwise, the loan would

have been useless.

In fact, you can have it.

- oh, no, Doctor, I cant accept it.

- Why not?

I don't know, Im embarrassed.

Embarrassed that youre given a gift

for your outstanding grades.

oh, thank you, Doctor.

By the way, Hilaria,

how about the other subjects?

Any flunks?

No.

The best I have are:

first yours...

A great 1oo...

and literature.

Great.

Doctor, I wanted to ask you a favor.

Yes, lets see.

on the bulletin board theres

an announcement

of scholarships to

study in the U. S.

And you applied for one?

But what I need is a letter

of recommendation

from a teacher at the school.

to be able to present at the embassy.

By all means, my best student.

Hildelisa, I was clear

and said it in class.

Come along.

This is not a composition,

this is a political pamphlet

or I don't know what.

If you want to do politics,

you do it

on zulueta Street and beyond,

not in my class.

Come here.

No libels or demonstrations of any kind

are allowed here.

Do you know that I can

expel you from school right away,

without ceremony?

Now you go home and return

with your parents tomorrow.

Well look at the way

youve behaved.

Hey, Toms, how many marvels

you have here!

- Few can appreciate it.

- Do you want some?

oh, Id like to have

a library like this at home.

Im sorry but

I cant give them all to you.

If you guys are buying something,

choose quickly, its almost time to close.

Hey, Victor, tell Doctor Martnez

I already got her the book

I was looking for.

Give it to me, Toms,

Ill give it to her tomorrow.

To you?

Id rather not.

Its the Prncipe Edition of

The old Man and the Sea.

Hemingways novel?

oh, I know him; were neighbors.

Yes, really. I live quite close to him

there in San Francisco of Paula.

one thing is to be neighbors

and another,

quite different, is to

know a writers work.

Lets see, do you know

The old Man and the Sea?

Have you read Farewell to Arms,

''For Whom the Bell Tolls''...?

Well, neither have I. The truth is

Im not very fond of novels, you know?

Logically; these are adult readings.

Jeez! the old fisherman.

Be seated.

Have you been to Cojmar?

No.

I have spent whole Sundays

there gazing at the sea

and Ive seen Hemingways old hero

fighting tooth and nail to save his fish.

Beautiful story!

Beautiful story.

Maybe Im just a sea book fan

and this is one of my favorites,

Hemingways best.

I mean, to me.

Listen up.

''It was an old man that

was fishing alone

in a boat in the Gulf Stream

and he hadnt caught a fish

in 84 days.

A boy had been with him,

over the first 4o days,

but after 4o days

without fishing anything,

the boy's parents had told him

that the old man was definitely

and altogether wretched,

which was the worst form of bad luck.

Did you see what a beginning?

And the whole story is like this,

simple and clear.

But behind all this simplicity,

there is a world.

If you like it so much,

as well as Doctor Martnez,

it ought to be very good.

Give her one, Toms.

Dear diary, I have two big

pieces of news for you.

one, I might go on a long journey.

How crazy, huh?

Two, today Victor gave me the first kiss,

and I felt like giving him one back.

Don't worry; I can control myself.

Keep it a secret.

Love.

Larita.

Ah... he also gave me

''The old Man and the Sea.''

Think of me,

and at this moment youll...

- Where will I get the

money from, sweetie?

oh, I don't know if mommy does,

but I need clothes to be able to study,

shoes... and for the interview

with Miss Amalia at the embassy.

Mommy knows this is my only opportunity

to continue to study.

Larita, help me. Help me to find

that earring, for four eyes

see better than two.

oh, Josefa, I cant now, I have to take

a bath before going to school.

Ill look for it later.

Flora...

oh, grandma,

youre still messing around

with that earring?

That earring won't appear anymore.

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