Mia Madre Page #3

2 hours ago, you know who?

- Yes.

- The one in the next room.

- She wasn't any better than me.

- Being capricious?

' Yes!

Because it's fun!

Good! First you

have to finish physiotherapy.

Then we'll hear what the doctor says.

You haven't even opened my gift.

Sorry, but today

I'm a little on edge.

The physiotherapist

pushed and pulled me.

She's too energetic!

That's physiotherapy,

if it's not energetic...

You know what's funny?

The older you get,

the dumber they think you are.

Instead you understand more,

because you think.

Lessons on life.

Lessons on life!

- Do you have it'?

- How nice! No, I don't.

Hello.

This is my granddaughter.

Beautiful concert, thank you.

Livia? What are you doing?

Nothing.

- Would you come here, please?

- Just a minute.

Look what I found in the drawers.

Why are you wearing

your grandmother's robe?

- I had a shower and found it.

- Take it off, it bothers me.

- Why?

- It just does...

Look, pizzerias, Chinese food,

a kebab...

Japanese.

Thai and this?

Vietnamese.

- Does Grandma use these?

- I think so!

Just imagine Grandma!

In such a delicate moment

for our society,

do you think this film will

touch the country's conscience?

Today, audiences ask us

for a different commitment,

films which are not

just entertainment,

but which affect our reality.

That's why the task of cinema

is to give voice...

Yes, sure, the task of cinema!

Why have I been saying

the same things for years?

Everyone thinks I can understand

what's happening,

interpret reality, but

I don't understand a thing anymore.

- She refuses to go to the hospital.

- Refuses?

She can't, it's already been decided.

- Where is she?

- In her room.

There's no need to go,

I don't want to.

You spoke to the doctor too!

We have to go and that's that.

Please.

At gunpoint.

Yes, at gunpoint.

Your colleagues often take refuge

in a more intimate cinema,

more minimalist

but you've always set your stories

in the present.

You've always been coherent

with the idea of social cinema...

Mom! Mom, help me!

What?

Rhetoric bothers me.

Those banners

that friends and relatives put up.

Those words bother me.

They're not true

and they don't help anyone.

- Show me!

- Here, the gulet's beautiful.

I'd take a nice journey in a gulet,

you can even choose.

A gulet is a schooner

with two or three jibs.

- Rocky? Sinks?

- No, it won't sink.

- Show me.

- There are pictures.

You choose from the photo:

"I want this one!"

That one's beautiful.

Margherita, I'm ready!

Great director! Great!

Great, great, great!

Sensitivity!

MOW.!

Ma'am!

Where's my mother?

Ma'am!

No one's around.

Excuse me, the woman

in the next room is gone!

- My mother, know where she is'?

- No.

Oh, good! Where's my mother?

Don't worry, she's been moved

to another ward.

She had a slight respiratory crisis.

She'll spend a few days

in intensive care.

- Intensive care?

- These things happen, don't worry.

Hi.

Mom's here.

They did a tracheotomy

to give her more oxygen.

They inserted a small tube

directly in her windpipe.

It had to be done.

Did it hurt her?

They gave her a local anesthesia,

but it's done often,

it's the best thing for more oxygen.

Mom?

Are you still awake?

Mom?

I'm sorry, you could have

gone back to your house!

Don't worry. Look what I found!

The sweater patches Mom made for us.

What's wake-up time tomorrow?

I don't work tomorrow.

You're taking some vacation?

No, I've been on a leave of absence

for over a month.

- You didn't say anything!

- No.

Are you having trouble at work?

No.

I'm tired, I'm not up

to working right now.

I prefer things this way,

then we'll see.

It's your first time at the factory

since you bought it.

You look around,

but you still feel like an outsider.

I understand, thank you.

Observe the machinery,

the people working,

you know you'll have

to layoff a third of the workers.

- Am I glad to do that?

- No!

- I'm not glad to do that.

- No, but you have no choice.

I'm ready.

Margherita, we're ready.

Take positions, ready to roll.

Clapperboard...

Lucretius, Tacitus...

what will happen

to all those books afterwards?

They take up a whole wall

in my mother's house.

Where will all those years

of study, of work, go?

All those hours, every day...

every day!

I visit her,

but I never know what to do,

I don't know how to help.

I can't even distract her.

I'm just a burden for her.

Ready.

- Ready.

- Quiet!

Speed.

- Rolling.

- 35 - 1, take one.

Action.

"Livia I'm sorry"?

Mom, it's me, Margherita.

Sorry!

You're sorry Livia's not here?

You're sorry

you can't do Latin with her.

You don't want

to be seen like this, right?

Excuse me, five minutes.

Another five minutes,

then they'll kick me out.

Anyway, I don't know why,

but Livia's doing

a little better in Latin.

When you come home,

she wants to brush-up with you.

She can't wait.

"Letting you stay a little longer,

would be the best treatment".

I know!

Barry, listen!

I want to remind you

that in the previous scene,

the workers contested you,

shouted at you.

You're surprised, worried,

very nervous.

Yes, certainly, Margherita!

Good thing it's not raining!

Barry, excuse me...

I also want to remind you

that you play the character,

but you have

to stand next to the character.

Think he understood? Dunno...

How is it? The light stinks.

It's beautiful, just wonderful.

- Well, doesn't it look fake'?

- No, not at all.

C'mon, action.

Who was that gal? From the Union?

He never looks ahead!

Who was that gal?

Why's he doing this?

We're going straight

and he does this!

- Wait!

- I don't like it, it's fake!

He's on this clumsy barge...

Six months later

the factory would close,

sending everyone home.

Wait a minute, let him warm up.

Where have you taken me?

What's this place!

An Italian entrepreneur,

in my place...

No, dmon that's enough!

I don't like it, it's so fake. Cut!

Stop this thing.

I shouldn't do classical studies,

linguistics is better.

Just knuckle down and you'll recoup.

I can't do it!

Italian and Math

give tons of homework,

I'm too far behind in Latin.

What good is Latin anyway?

Tell me what good Latin is.

Latin is important,

it helps you reason,

create discourse,

write...

For instance, sentence structure

comes from Latin.

I don't know all of everything,

I know it's good for something,

but I don't remember what.

Today it's completely different.

It's more real, isn't it?

It's more real, more real...

I like it.

He's more relaxed.

It's better for Barry too, right?

Yes, yes...

Action.

Who was that gurl?

He's saying "gurl"?

He's saying "gurl".

Who let him say "gurl"?

Barry, the "girl"!

Now you tell him?

Who was that gurl?

From the Union?

- I don't think so.

- An Italian embrapreneur...

What's he saying?

He has four lines, just four,

you couldn't teach him

the words for these four lines?

He did it, five times.

What are you doing? Get inside!

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