altas capacidades
One ten Mott street above a bakery
de un instante
mean streets
lo de Kelly: burning bridges
Le tigri di Mompracem
el puente de Alfredo y Poderosa
los trajes marrones
model shop
Estoy viendo cine de nuevo. Cine, películas, mediometrajes; no series. Y estoy viendo muy buen material. De las que me han dejado más epatado es la que sigue. Jacques es un tipo venido del hiperespacio (dirección y guion son suyos), un ser con una mirada artística -existencial- tan bella como hiriente. Todo en la película me parece superlativo; todo. Y de Anouk (la elegancia, la belleza y la fatalidad sin histrionismo) ni hablo.
Que Quentin se fije en esta película, en su trastornado conocimiento del cine, no me extraña lo más mínimo. Y que Larry hable de que L.A. es un personaje más -si no EL personaje-, tampoco es de extrañar.
la redención del teniente
La tenía pendiente hace más de tres décadas. Quién me iba a decir que caería en Soria.
Lo que imaginaba: difícilmente clasificable, dura, por momentos desagradable y cómica, Harvey inmenso, grano grueso, sexo, drogas, degradación moral y urbe. Se me había escapado en mi imaginería la religión; craso error el mío. Brutal todo. Zoë incluida.
Los últimos casi veinte minutos son para recordarle, a quien ruede y no sepa cómo acabar su obra, cómo hacerlo. De clase magistral.
speciality/specialty/even split personality
Godland de Sevilla a Soria
viernes de toros

tres horas después
Mary and Max
non ci sei più tu
as for the madness, trained himself
el trastorno de la mirada
- Who are you? Who are you!!
- Turn left outside the hotel. Take the first street on the left. Go to the end. I'll be by the church.
- I love you.
- I know.
- I think you've never seen much at all.
- Do?
- I have to leave Ingrid. There's no doubt about that. It's the right thing for everybody. I can't go on... not like this. What happened in Paris... The way I behaved. I've never had feelings like this. I have to get them into some sort of... order. I know it'll be hard for Martyn. He's fond of you.
- He loves me.
- I know, but he's young. He'll get over it.
- He's your son. He'd hate you.
- He'd hate me for a while, but...
- You'd lose him. You'd lose your own son? You'd also destroy the life you've made with Ingrid. It's a good life. What you say doesn't make sense.
- How come you're so sure?
- Because in your heart, you don't even want it. You want us to start
eating breakfast together?
- I'd like that.
- You'd like it if we lived in the same house... read the papers together? What would you gain if you left Ingrid?
- I'd gain you.
- You'd be gaining something you already have.
- When can you see me?
- Thursday.
- Thursday at five o'clock.
- Really?
- As a matter of fact, it wasn't. Perhaps... I don't know, perhaps it was... Perhaps it was too perfect... nothing was to disturb the surface of things. Everything was fine... no questions. It isn't healthy. That's all I'm saying. It's not a big issue. But it's good to have roots. But roots aren't that great... unless something else comes with them.
- Like what?
- I don't know. Warmth, I suppose. Passion.
- It was probably my fault.
- It came more from Dad, if I have to name anyone.
- Told us?
- About the brother she had. Of course, it strikes me. It had to strike me, looking at Martyn. He does look so like Anna's brother. I don't know if you realized that. Not, of course, that Aston was as handsome.
- I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
- I think you do. I watched you throughout the meal. You can't even look at her.
- Do you think I would have married Martyn... if I couldn't be with you?
- Why didn't you kill yourself? You should have killed yourself when it began. Didn't you know? You thought you could go on?
- Yes, yes!
- Every day into the future? Go on betraying us both every day? You are not an evil man. You should have killed yourself when you first realized... and then I would have been able to mourn. It would have been hard, but I would have buried you. And I would have wept.
- I want him back! I want my son back! I want Martyn! Give me my son!
- Martyn is dead. Your son is dead. Give his death to me. Give it to me. Give me his death. Give it to me.
- It's true, isn't it? What a pity we ever met.
- Good-bye. We shan't meet again. Thank you. She's here, isn't she? She's here!
- I saw her once more only. I saw her by accident at an airport, changing planes. She didn't see me. She was with Peter. She was holding a child. She was no different from anyone else.
Damage 1992.
El guion es de David Hare, que no es asunto menor. Aquí hay una crítica que se hace corta, de buena que es.

