03x04 - Cold w*r

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"Before leaving the city for good"

"I decided to go
and see Mrs. Galiani"

"I called her"

"She was unsurprised and invited me
over for the following morning adding"

"Why don't you bring your friend?"

"That request annoyed me
I hoped Lila would decline it"

- You sure I should come?
- She invited you too.

"Instead she pulled
a long face and said"

"All right, I'll go with you."

It's you.

We're here to see your mother.

She's not here.

She'll be back later.

Come in here, if you like.

She's in her underpants.

- What are you doing here?
- What are you doing here?

We have an appointment
with Mrs. Galiani.

- Have you recovered?
- Enough

- I'm glad.
- She's only just recovered.

We taught the sausage
factory a lesson.

They paid her everything
they owed her.

Yes...
You hear that?

- Miss Greco taught Soccavo a lesson.
- Really?

- No, not me.
- No, not her

God Almighty did.

I only tried to help Lila.

That means that
in factories, on worksites

whenever the workers are in peril
we'll call Elena Greco.

She'll call her friends

Guardian angels in high places
and solve everything!

After your article
what did they solve?

- What's changed?
- Nothing.

It's all gone back to how it was and
those who spoke up are in trouble.

My brother was
beaten up by fascists.

The doctor?

Yes, the doctor, my brother.

Those who keep quiet
get money on the side.

What did you think you'd solve?

You don't abandon your comrades.

You don't win in there with
pamphlets or fighting fascists.

- Then how?
- Mobilizing the bosses' children

Not giving a sh*t about others!

Cut it out
that's not what happened.

- Be quiet.
-Drop it, they're right.

- Hello.
- Hello.

I'm sorry, I'm running late
let's go in there.

Let me know
when you have visitors.

Hello.

I can't bear rudeness.

Please, sit here.

I wanted to drop in
before to say hello.

I'm sorry I haven't been
in touch, I've been swamped.

the book...

- I'm about to get married.
- Congratulations!

Are you getting married in church?

You having a large reception?

No, no reception
we're having a civil ceremony.

- How did you get married?
- In church.

- Are you a believer?
- No, but that's what you did.

One shouldn't do things
only because others do them.

We do it all the time.

Are you going
to Elena's wedding?

- She hasn't invited me.
- It's not true.

- It's true, she's ashamed of me.
- What are you saying?

We haven't even
invited my siblings

I wanted to give you this.

Thank you, I already have it

What does your husband do?

He holds the Latin
Literature chair at Florence.

- So, he's older than you?
- No, he's 27 he's just very bright .

- What's his name?
- Pietro Airota.

Is he related to Guido Airota?

Yes, he's his son.

A good marriage.

We love each other.

Have you begun
writing your new book?

I'm thinking about it.

I know you contribute to L'Unità.

A few things.

I don't write for that
paper of bureaucrats anymore.

I heard you did remarkable
things at the factory.

- I didn't do anything.
- It's not true.

I only lost my job.

Nadia told me that these
are the things that you said.

- No, it isn't.
- Water under the bridge.

They're important things
well done.

Shall I sign it anyway?
Of course.

- To Mrs. Galiani or...
- Mrs. Galiani.

Did you see
how the old bird treated you?

She can't bear that you write books
and articles

or that you're about to marry well

She especially can't bear
the idea that she raised Nadia

to be the best
and she's with a bricklayer.

And she acts like
a slut in front of her.

You're wrong to care, screw them.

You shouldn't
have given her the book

you shouldn't have asked her
if she wanted a signature.

These are people
who need their ass kicked.

Your flaw is that you're too good.

When you speak to someone
who's taught you

you should listen as if only they
have a brain and it's not the case.

Get married
have a great honeymoon.

You worried about me too much.

"I helped her any way I can
but she sided with Pasquale and Nadia"

"who criticized me so much"

"She praised her to humiliate me"

"and now it's out in the open"

"she added salt to the wound
to make it deeper"

"and now, I can't disregard
all that's happening"

"I wished the cardiologist was wrong"
"that she was indeed sick, dying"

"after all, we haven't
seen each other in years"

- Anyway, it's illegal.
- Don't exaggerate, Pietro

It's sold in pharmacies

you just need a prescription
and to be married.

They sell medication
to regulate the cycle

it's not a contraceptive pill
You can't use it to obtain another

You know perfectly
well it does both

If a medication serves
to obtain a certain result

Medications are poison
you don't use them willy nilly

they can be very harmful.
let's go.

I want to take it

Must we be late
today of all days?

- Can we go?
- Did you hear me?

We're about to get married
focus on that.

- You get married to have kids.
- Can I write another book first?

You can write a book
while you're expecting.

It can be done.
Can we go now?

"According to article 147"

"Marriage is about
having a family"

and instructing and raising children
and to fulfill their aspirations

Signor Pietro Airota, do you take
Elena Greco to be your wife?

I do.

Signora Elena Greco

do you take Pietro Airota
to be your husband?

I do.

Further to your affirmative reply

by the power invested in me
by the City of Florence

I pronounce you legally married.

You may exchange rings.

Signora Greco, my compliments
your book is very good.

Thank you.

"Pietro wants nothing from life"

"and I want to prove I don't
belong to my mother's world"

"I convinced her to have
a simple wedding and then go home"

"But Adele didn't stick to the plan
and she didn't tell anyone"

Marcella has invited us
to her house for a toast.

You told me you weren't
having a reception.

I didn't know anything about it.
Tell them.

This is one of
my mother's improvisations

they're unpredictable.

- But it'll be quick?
- yes.

Pietro had nothing to do with it
it was Marcella's idea.

I knew nothing about it
you might have told us first

Isn't it lovely here?

I'm embarrassed
Button up your jacket.

- But it's a proper party!
- It's a surprise!

Hello, welcome.

She's beautiful! How did you
convince her to marry you?

- Thank you, Marcella
- Please, go in.

Hello, good day.

Thank you
Professor Antonioni!

- He's my literature professor.
- Marcella.

- Greco, my pleasure.
- Please, come in.

- May I?
- What a beautiful house!

Thank you.
It's an old family house.

Come, I'll introduce you.

Vittorio, Immacolata
a drop of champagne?

No, my head is already spinning.

If our son-in-law wants to celebrate
let's have a glass.

- All right then.
- What is it?

- Champagne
- How does it go?

May you live to be a hundred.

May you live to be a hundred.
I touch wood.

- Shall we leave together?
- Signor Vittorio, all right.

- Elena Greco in Airota.
- It's a pleasure, Bruno Santini.

- My pleasure.
- Norbert Leutshig.

My pleasure.

Marcella, you have introduced
her to these two rascals.

Yes!

You don't know
who's standing before you.

Come, Elena.

Let's go in
I'll introduce you to her.

- Where do you teach?
- no, no

Elena doesn't teach
she writes

She has just published a novel
and she contributes to L'Unità.

- Do you write about literature?
- No, I wrote articles

about conditions
for women in factories.

Thank goodness, the new generations
are pulling their heads out!

I read a very interesting
essay in Worker's World

about the state
of democracy in Italy.

It's a very serious text
with a lot of information.

Who wrote it?

A young professor of Economic
Geography, Saranno, I think.

- Sarratore!
- Giovanni Sarratore.

- Of course, we know him.
- Of course, Nino is a childhood friend

he's at the State University
in Milan now.

Adele, we were talking
about Nino Sarratore.

Of course, we know him too.

But I've come to take
our Elena away from you.

"I went with Adele
from one group to the other"

"I forgot mom, dad and Pietro"

I wanted to tell you that you have
written a marvelous book.

Thank you.

In Italy women
don't write like that.

Let's not exaggerate.

I'm not exaggerating
because you are...

essential, you don't follow the cult
of fine words, of sentiment...

you're pure energy.

Are you writing
something else?

- I've made a few notes.
- Really?

- Are you going to write later or...
- Don't listen to this hack poet!

Hi, Elena
it's a pleasure to meet you.

My name's Mario Gioia and I'm
a fish out of water in this context.

I'm an engineer, you're all people
of letters, I'll keep to myself.

- But I wanted to meet you.
- Weren't you busy?

I'm really embarrassed
but I haven't read your book.

I'm sorry but I've read all
your articles.

- He hasn't read anything.
- I really have read them

- and you're good, seriously.
- Thank you.

In fact, let's make a deal
you're the witness.

You've got to get busy
continue along this path.

- The next time I open L'Unità...
- When do you open L'Unità?

Don't be such a prick!

I want to find you there because
you're a breath of oxygen.

It's true, you are
a breath of fresh air...

"Everything was better
than expected"

"I loved him
more than I did before"

"but I didn't understand
I remembered Antonio"

"one touch was enough for me"

"France kept his ground
but not for long"

"Pietro confused me
he went all the way"

"and it was clear
he was struggling"

"he struggled
and I struggled with him"

"and I knew what happened
was not what he wanted"

What are you doing?

I have to finish some
work for tomorrow.

But you were asleep.

Go back to bed
I'll be right there.

"I got preoccupied with pregnancy"

"It was my own responsibility"

"I was happy
I hadn't spoken to Lila"

"But one day, I called her
I don't know why..."

- Finally. Are you mad at me?
- "No, why would I be?"

You didn't tell me anything.

Your mother's put up notices, even
the stones know you're pregnant.

I've only been sure
for a little while.

- "Weren't you taking the pill?"
- I decided I wouldn't.

- The book?
- I'll see.

"You have to do
the best you can"

I take the pill.

So it's going well with Enzo?

Well enough, but I don't ever
want to get pregnant again.

"So much pain
the body doesn't like changes"

Someone else's life clinging
to you in your belly

"that will hold you back forever"

"As if you're asking for pain"

"If you need anything, tell me"

You helped me
now I want to help you

"Lila wanted me to be like her
but I wasn't"

"it was totally the opposite
of what she said"

"For me, pregnancy was wonderful
I was very happy"

"I felt unstoppable
I felt so strong"

"No one could hurt me
or my child"

"We were the only constant truth"

Squeeze my hand.
Squeeze my hand.

Little puffs! Good girl
one more and we're there.

- I can see the head.
- Very good! Push!

Come in, it's out!
Keep it up!

Here she is!
It's a girl.

A beautiful baby girl

"She was a beautiful baby girl
and full of energy"

"When she was born
I felt so strong"

"and I haven't felt as good
and sweet yet"

- Has she eaten?
- Yes.

- How are you today?
- I'm fine.

Our darling!

She's so beautiful!
I brought you a little something.

I'll open it.
It's a notebook.

- If you want to start writing
- thank you.

I got the checked one
the way you like it.

- I'll put it here.
- Yes, put it in there.

- So you don't lose the habit.
- Thank you.

Adele...

How do you feel
calling her after your mother?

She's born, she's a girl.

- "What's her name?"
- Adele.

- Don't you like it?
- "It's an old lady's name"

My mother in law says so too.

- "How was it?"
- It was a beautiful experience.

"What was?"

The pregnancy, the birth
Adele is beautiful she's very good.

"Now you have to take care of her.
Why are you so on edge?"

- It's your turn now
- Why are you upset?

I can't take it anymore
I'm exhausted.

Are you saying it's my fault
that she won't sleep?

Maybe the baby can feel it.

I'm saying maybe
you unsettle her.

- Calm down and close the door.
- No, I won't calm down

I don't want to calm down
Seeing as I'm not able to

you get her to eat
you put her to sleep.

I've had it!

Lila's a witch
she has a terrifying power.

She casts spells
and kills the babies in her belly.

That bitch, your friend
has cast a spell on you.

Only you haven't realized it yet.

You must never see her
or speak to her again

Garlic is not good enough
for this spell

Guard her from the evil eye

and cast the spell
back to its caster

"I started limping
and I was so scared"

"I went to see a specialist"

"He said I'm fine, and the limp
is due to sciatica"

"He asked why I was worried
I lied and said I wasn't"

"but in reality
I knew very well why"

"I've always been worried
I would limp like my mother"

"Now I think this limp
is a reality I must live with"

"and that I will always limp
like my mother does"

You could ask your mother
to come and help you

With her in the house it would
be impossible for me to write.

If you like
I can call my mother.

It's the same.
I need to focus, to study.

And your friend Lila?

You helped her
will she do it for you?

How does Lila come into it?

We'll follow Adele's advice
we'll find help here in Florence.

No, I'd rather not.
I don't want slaves in my house.

So you think
I should be the sl*ve?

I wash and iron your clothes
I cook for you.

I clean your house
I raise your child.

And you?
You just write.

You see people you go to the university
take care of your career.

You're exactly the same
as every other man.

You don't want a wife
you want a faithful housemaid.

And then no one ever invites
us to a party, a concert.

Not even your father's friends
invite us anymore.

You know what?
I'm seriously fed up.

"Months went by
I forgot about the superstitions"

"My daughter and I went by well
she'd sleep well all night"

"Pietro agreed to getting a maid
to live with us"

"It's been a year and a half"

"and I'm sitting by the typewriter"

Signora? I'll take the baby out.
If you get hungry

I've left something
in the kitchen.

- All right, thank you.
- Say goodbye to Mamma.

- Goodbye
- Shall we go?

Mamma has to work.
Shall we go out?

"Despite the maid's help
I had no progress"

"I had to write something
good and relevant"

"I wrote 10 pages
without any substance"

"I couldn't accept that
Lila was still my role model"

"despite her
unbelievable stubbornness"

"and despite the distance
that separated us"

"Yet, I wanted to say and do
what I thought she would do"

"If she had the resources I have"

"if she wasn't shunned
at the neighborhood"

It's a form of sadism to think
of getting the same results

from people who have had
different opportunities.

- Who says so?
- You evaluate the students too harshly.

You have to be demanding
or you won't change the world.

That's not the point
It's not...

My colleagues indulge
the most arrogant students.

Let me speak, please.

And they're merciless
with the weakest.

They're not weaker
they're afraid of change

The ones you call aggressive
are trying to change the world

and maybe they're even workers.

- Do you have student workers?
- You're unbearable.

I agree with Pietro, a good
professor must be cordial

but also demanding.

A student has the tools to fill
in the gaps from the past...

You're more an engineer
than an assistant

I care a great deal
about my students.

- Mariarosa too!
- So I see.

I'm off, I have an
important article to finish.

So be indulgent
but not too much!

I'll see you later.

- Good night.
- Good night.

No, thanks.

It's not like we have
anything urgent to do

Let's sit on the sofa.

We'll have one last smoke

- I'm starting to feeling horny.
- Professor Airota!

Do you need to use these obscene
terms to make revolution?

Is that how it works?
What do you say, Elena?

I come from a neighborhood

where these words
have always circulated.

We've never found
an alternative to obscenity.

I haven't read you in L'Unità lately
aren't you writing anymore?

It's difficult to focus

writing in the kitchen with
the baby is complicated.

But you're very good
you mustn't stop

- Isn't there a study, a space?
- Yes, but only Pietro uses it

he's always holed up in there.

If you want, my studio
is not very far from here.

I'm almost always by myself

you could come and write
as much as you want.

- Really.
- I don't know...

- How's your sense of direction?
- I get lost everywhere.

I'll explain where it is.

This is Florence and this line
is the Arno embankment

and as you know
this is Piazza Santa Croce.

My studio is there
do you know it?

I know Piazza Santa Croce.

Perfect, then you know
how to get there, number 19.

Come and write
whenever you want.

Is it the studio
where you draw?

More than draw, I erase, but yes.

Shall we go?

Shall we go?

Let's go.

Elena, I'll be expecting you.

Let's go, Casanova.

- Elena?
- I'll see you out.

Will you give us our jackets?

I couldn't wait for them to leave.

Come.

- No, I don't want to.
- Come on.

- Wait. Put this on.
- Alright.

Is there a problem?

- Are you angry with me?
- No, Pietro.

I adore your intelligence
your education.

Dede's wonderful but
I don't want another child.

I want a more active life
I feel isolated.

I didn't study all my life to end up
stuck in the role of wife and mother.

I need to go out, to see people

I can't stay shut away
in here all the time.

I'm dying in here.

"I used this to reduce his sensitivity
and reach orgasm later"

"I was satisfied
but I was still getting bored"

"I wanted to leave everything
and run away"

"I wanted to get free
just like the rest of the world"

"I wanted to leave
I mean, everything in life"

"Everything I've ever
learnt or written"

"and whatever I'm writing now
and the child I brought to life"

"Marriage was a prison"

"I was suffocating"

"No one would believe
how tired I was"

"to the point where
nothing counted anymore"

"I wanted to do like my friend
Lila, who was brave"

"she risked everything
and left him at the end"

I've brought you another eraser.

Shall we take the jacket off?
It's not cold.

The scarf too?

Stop.

I can't do this.

- Hi, Lenù.
- "How are you and Gennaro?"

- He's good at school
- and Enzo?

He's really good at his new job.

Now he earns 150,000 lire
a month and they hired me too

"I'm making 80"

You get it?
We're rich.

I'm glad it's good with Enzo
and things are going well.

Not everything's going well.

They k*lled Dario, you know?
Remember him?

- No.
- The unionist.

Who k*lled him?

No one knows anything yet, but
I'm convinced it was the fascists.

They're everywhere, like a black
hood over the neighborhood.

"They're attacking everyone
and they hit Pasqaule twice"

"They knocked his teeth out"

Gino att*cked Enzo
outside his house

- Holy Mother.
- "Things never change".

"These things are not new
You know when they started?"

Remember Don Achille fascist
and loan shark was stabbed to death?

Then as now, justice chose
the simplest path.

"Think about it"

Who truly benefitted
from that death?

Who ended up
controlling moneylending?

"Think about it"

Who began lending money?
Who got rich?

Manuela Solara?

You're saying she k*lled
Don Achille?

You think it's not possible
only because she's a woman?

Between his jaw
and his collarbone...

A s*ab wound.

The copper of the pot was so
shiny that the blood looked like

an ink stain with a black line
dripping from it.

- How do you know all this?
- I don't know.

I imagine things
and l say the words.

"It was a woman, Lenù"

Have you spoken
to your mamma?

Not recently, no.
Why?

It's been a month since
I sent her the book.

How come you sent it
to my mother and not to me?

If you'd wanted to read it
there was a copy in the living room.

You can call her.

Maybe she hasn't finished it.

Knowing her, I think she has.
If I were you I'd call her.

Papa's going to work, kisses.
You're beautiful.

- Goodbye, professor.
- Call me Pietro.

I can't.

So do you know
if she's read it?

I don't know, Elena.
I don't know anything.

I'll see you later.
Bye.

Let's go.

- Hello.
- Hello.

- You look beautiful.
- Thank you.

- Sorry for being late.
- Not at all.

Why didn't you come to us?
Dede would've been so happy.

Another time, today
I wanted to talk to you.

Too much work, today
I can't be a grandma.

How's that little beast
of a son of mine?

Fine.

- What can I get you?
- Tea for me.

- For me too.
- Perfect.

- So, have you read it?
- Yes.

You didn't like it.

No, the truth is that
I didn't like it.

Why?

The protagonist is unlikable.

The writing is mannered
it's chaotic.

Maybe you wanted to be modern
but the result is messy.

It wasn't easy.

I wrote the first novel
without awareness

with this one I tried a new way
of writing, blurred, even chaotic.

I really threw myself into it
I worked...

- Thank you.
- May I?

Go.

I worked, but then I realized
what I wanted to say.

I blended Florence with Naples
I worked on distant voices

on how I struggled to get out of
the neighborhood, my origins.

Your first novel was new
but this is old

It's so pretentious
that the words seem empty.

I understand what you wanted
to do, but it's not enough.

And the ending is so coarse

It's an insult
to your intelligence.

Maybe the others at
the publishers' will like it.

Send it to them.

But I'm more than certain that
they'll deem it unpublishable.

- Have you given it to Pietro?
- Yes, but he hasn't read it.

Maybe he could
give some advice.

I doubt it.

Do you want something?

No.

- Am I disturbing you?
- No.

- "Did you read it?"
- I read it.

- Well?
- It's good.

- "Good, how?"
- It makes you want to read it.

You're not being truthful

you don't speak
superficially like that.

I don't know how to
read anymore, I warned you.

You do one type of work
I do another

"You know how to write
better than me, you studied"

I need you and you don't care

I helped you
now you have to help me.

You shouldn't write
these things, Lenù.

That's not who you are.

Nothing of what
I read resembles you.

"It's a bad book"

The one before it
was bad too.

"I want you to do better"

Who am I
if you're not any good?

"Good and bad things that happen
aren't enough to write a book"

Without imagination
they're not even good

I'm sorry I'm crying like an idiot
I'm really sorry

I've got to go now
I have to put Dede to bed.

Yeah, take care.

"That night I dreamt of Elsa
our second daughter"