"The Anonymous Venetian" "Any similarities to real people or events... is pure coincidence." "ARRIVALS" "Express train from Bologna, Ferrara and Padua, gate 9." "Express train from Bologna, Ferrara and Padua, gate 9." " Thanks for coming." " My lawyer advise me to come." "You can leave in the next train." " If one hour is enough for you..." " No." "Then, here I am." " Where do you want to go?" " If you don't know..." " How's work?" " What work?" "You work at a hospital administration, don't you?" "No, not anymore." " Now I work with books." " You?" " What?" "You, an intellectual?" " Just work with books." "I have a publishing house exclusive... and opened a sort of an agency." "Today I close it for family reasons." "I'm deeply moved." " Couldn't tell the truth." " And what's the truth?" "Exactly, what?" "Mister, your the tickets." "Sometimes you go places and seems you've been there before." " Happens to everyone." " Why?" "Have you been back to Venice?" "Since then I've been back a couple of times." "And you never told me?" "I wrote, but you didn't answer." " If you say so, could be." " Not could be." "Is." "Okay." "Would you like to see Venice again?" "Is marvelous." "Also today." "Looks like a ship sinking in the sea." "She'll be beautiful until death." "Don't you agree?" "So?" " Venice will always be Venice." " Yes, and Pompeii is Pompeii." " Is really sinking?" " That's what they say." "Memphys, Nineveh, Babylon..." "all disappeared." "Why should Venice survive?" "Would you live here again?" " What do you mean?" " Nothing." "You close yourself like a sea urchin." "Be careful so you don't prick yourself." "Hey!" "Come here!" "The Foscari palace." "At what time did we met?" "Noon, eleven?" "At four o'clock we were already in bed, remember?" " When do you have to go back?" " I'll be home by sunset." " Home?" " Yes, how should I've say it?" " Does he knows you're here?" " Who is he?" "Who else but him." "Sure." "We tell each other everything." "We are always loyal." "Did he say something?" "Didn't he try to send a lawyer?" "He wanted to come instead of me." "A respectable Ferrara citizen would come to see... a less respectable citizen of Venice." "How much would he offer me?" " Ten million?" "Twenty?" " Don't mock him." "He's serious." "He has help me a lot." " Giorgio surely calls him father." " Of course." " Are you still living in San Samuel?" " No, in the Jewish quarter." "It's more peaceful and you can see the city." "But, does he know who his father is?" " Who?" "Ah, Giorgio." " And what does he do?" " Goes to school like everyone." " Hope is a good school." " It's public." " Is he in second grade?" " No, in the first grade." "Sure." "He's going to be 11 on October 26, isn't?" " Yes." " He must be really tall." "Have you called me because of Giorgio?" "What does your lawyer says?" " Answer me." "And if I would like to sleep with you?" "I'm in my right." "We're still married." "Before your hair... was down." " You didn't call me for this." " How do you know?" "I know, I'm sure." "You think you know me." "You understand nothing." " You didn't call me for that?" " Well, yes." "Haven't you found another woman?" "I need to live alone." "You should know." "I know." "You've cheated me many times." "Marriage cheated us." "Now I can see it." " What?" " That is permission to love." "Is alike for everyone, the herd." " The sacrifice..." " Please!" "The wife's sacrifice is to fake happiness with her husband." "Of course I don't mean you." "Our love was a fight even in our best moments." " We could have killed each other..." " If you haven't left?" "If you didn't force me to leave you." "I was always faithful while we were together." "You have little wrinkles here." "Didn't have them before." "They look nice on you." "Perhaps that's why you look so beautiful." "You can tell that money suits you well." " You scare me." " And you came only for this?" " Coming from you everything is possible." " Everything." "Yes, everything." "You're right." "Let's have a coffee." "I'm tired." "And you?" " Here or there?" " It's the same for me." " Shall we seat outside?" " It's cold." "Are you afraid?" "Afraid of gossip." "They know I just go out with whores." " You hate me, don't you?" " You make it easy to hate you." "Perfect." " Good morning, professor." " Hi." "Look who's here." " Two coffees outside." " Our great teacher." " How long?" " Could you give me a glass of water?" "Have read that a new orchestra was assembled." "Congratulations." "Are you the director, professor?" "No, not me, only when necessary." "Always the same." "Before we used to export talent." "Today the few that remain hardly do something." " Who's directing?" " Themselves." " They haven't finished studying." " They are ready." "Here they're coming." "And those pills?" "Nothing, I've a headache." "Must be the weather." " How many have you take?" "2,000, why?" "Here you have professor." "Miss." "Thanks and good luck with the orchestra." "About what orchestra is he talking?" "Nothing, some conservatory kids... have assembled a chamber orchestra here." "And what do you have to do with it?" "They want a record with a rare piece." "An ancient oboe concert." "We're rehearsing." "So you still play at the Fenice?" "Of course." "I'm the first oboe." "For one that dreamt to be Von Karajan... is not a great outcome." " How's your mother?" " My mother?" " Yes, is she dead?" " You're charming as always." "You haven't change." "What do you care about my mother if you couldn't stand her?" "Yes, she's okay." " Wanted to speak about Giorgio and recalled your mother." "Are you surprised that I ask about Giorgio?" "Or I have no right to ask?" "He's always off key, if you're interested to know." "There's a chorus at school." "The teacher told him to open his mouth but not to sing." "He's doing okay in Sciences, but he's terrible for Grammar." "Writes awfully." "Reads too many comics." " What does he says about me?" " What do you want him to say?" " Knows that the other is not his father." " That's true." "But we don't talk about it, maybe he forgot about it." "He was only 3-years-old." " But he never mentions me or..." " He used to until recently." "When praying at night he used to say" "Bless my real father." "Very edifying." " And now he does not say it at all." " He doesn't pray anymore." "Children have stages with high religious fervor." "It's better to respect his freedom." "I used to be obsessed with an idea." "Used to repeat to myself..." " If now that he's one year-old I would die, he would not remember his father." "Perhaps it happens to all parents." "You have forgotten Venice." "And if we open a window?" " Walk by the middle." " What?" " You have two children, careful." " I can't hear you." "You really inspire true tenderness." "How old are you?" "19." " Me 23, almost 24." " Is this your house?" " No, I rent a room." " Are you ashamed?" " No." "It's that me... never..." "Have you ever make love with a stranger?" "No, haven't done it before." "It's the most beautiful thing in the world." "Wont last long, is too strong." " Where do you want to go?" " Again?" " Yes?" " Yes." "Why did you ask me to come?" " Again?" " You haven't answer me." "Are you in a hurry?" "There's a train at 12." "Bye." "Why you always answer like this?" " You already made me suffer a lot." " You also did the same to me." "Okay, I understand." " What?" " Everything." " How old is you other son?" " Four." "Time flies." "What's his last name?" "His father's." "I don't figure as his mother." "That's the best." "For your son, as his father is wealthy." "With the divorce everything will be easier." "Or perhaps something better will happen." " What?" " Give time to time, darling." "Have you notice how much water stinks?" "Have spoken to my lawyer." "You know that if you denounce me for adultery, I wont be convicted." "Who knows?" "You will not get custody." "Always frequenting whores." "What a father!" " I have a home." " No, you live in concubinage." "I have a home, work." "I knew it was about this." " We could share." " Share?" "Quite simple." "My son for me." "And yours for you." "Just try it!" "Ladies and gentlemen." "I know that this is not common." "But with your permission, I dedicate this symphony... to the person that always have been next to me." "She believes in my talent, has taken me... all the way through the glory path" "My wife." "Wait for me here." "I got offers for concerts in Italy and overseas." "You'll be always with me." "At the theater... they'll see you and will say" "Look, that's his wife." "Have I done it right?" "I think things that scare me." " What things?" " That I'm guilty... for you not being a great director." "That's silly." "We have 7 years apart and I haven't achieved a thing." "I have nothing inside." "And is better like this." "Why?" "Never mind." " Your most illustrious!" " How are you, lawyer?" "We shouldn't complain let's leave it to the Divine Providence." "I'm also are sentimental sometimes." "Let's go to see the house." "It was our love nest." "You say it like that, isn't?" "There we loved and we hated each other, our son was born.." " Everything happened there." " It was a nightmare." " You too?" " You?" " Am I a nightmare?" " You just hurt me." " So, why did you come?" " Because you called me." "And still don't know what for." "But I'm willing to face everything." "You'll not take away anything that belongs to me." " I will defend everything." " Including money?" "It's about money..." "There it is." "Have you seen the kitchen?" "Is large and comfortable." "We eat out." "How much is the rent?" " Let's go to bed." " The piano will go here." " In winter is a little bit cold." " We will heat it." "There will be a good bed." "It's the most gorgeous room in the house." "I have lived here 30 years." "I also got married here." " Can we see the channel?" " Yes, madam." "Has a marvelous view." "Silent, clear..." "Look, look." " Let's go to bed now." " Wait." "Are you just married?" "Do you remember the window?" "Yes." "It was the third." "They have painted them." "How many times we asked them to paint them." " Where're you going?" " Want to see it inside." "Mrs. Gemma will let us in." " No, our situation..." " What would she know?" "Who is it?" " Is this Mrs. Gemma house?" " What do you want?" "We used to live here." "This is a tailor shop." " Can we come inside?" " Now is closed." "What do you think?" "That you should settle down." "Excellent advise." "I'm almost there." "Stay still." "Don't move." " What's going on?" " So sorry that you moved." "I saw you as you were before." "All eyes..." "Do you recall how I called you?" " Stick." " And what else?" "Bony." "I always was hungry." "Didn't do much else but eat." "A passionate wife." "With a big desire to make love." "Truth is that you always desired me." "And we lost everything." "But no one has made love as we did." "Perhaps that's why everything ended so badly." "It was too beautiful to last." "Saw your friend in Ferrara." " What?" " From afar, he was leaving his factory." " How could you do it with him?" " That's my business, not yours." "Sure." "And you sleep only with him?" "Or there is another?" "It's my own business!" " If you wish go back to the train station." " No." "Not now." "I was a model." "And school teacher substitute." "You left us penniless, remember?" "Only I know what I had to live." "True hell." "And always alone, in every sense of the word." "When I met Emilio, my friend," "I was in despair." "He was starting to develop a good rank." "Is not what you think." "He's a self-made man." "Working 14 hours a day." "And continues to fight." "Even now that he's the boss." "If I tell him..." "tonight come back sooner, or, I wish to travel..." "You will just laugh, but unlike you, he does it." " Hello, master." " Goodbye." "Money is not what matters." "Is all about respect." "About sincere feelings." "The peace he brought to me." "He also loves Giorgio." "And Giorgio is pleased." "We could have married... if you had agree to the annulment." " Don't go out like this, Benedetto." "Comb your hair!" "You pretend disregarding him because he's wealthy." "But you hate him because he's successful." "Why did you wanted to see him?" "Those baskets are filled will small crabs." "700, 800 whatever fits." "After some months they take them out, and sell whatever crabs are left." "Some get fat thanks to the weaker ones." " What did you want from Emilio?" " I don't care about Emilio." "Not even you, or Giorgio, or the money." "So, what do you want?" "Why did you make me come?" "Go." "Go if you have the courage." "Go if you feel so strong." "If you think that I can't do a thing, go!" " How much I hate you!" " I also hate you!" "Your bourgeois mentality disgusts me and your fear." "When you arrived you said, "I have spoken to my lawyer"." "And that I couldn't take away anything." "Have I ask you for something?" "Go back to him and make love with him." "I'm also here." "No, here, here." "Brute." "Brute!" "You always played me." "With my fears." "Looking to be the strongest." " How I hate you!" "Brute!" " Shut up." "I shouldn't have come!" "I shouldn't have come!" "Well, it's enough." "Wipe your eyes." " Come, I know where to go." " Where?" "Come and you'll see." "Come." "Be strong." "What sense does this stroll has?" "Not everything has to make sense." " Shall we sit outside?" " Okay." " Adriano, we will sit outside." " Yes master." "Did the master and you had a fight?" "Ask him, not me." "I'm going to ask for the rehearsal call." " In the meantime order." " What do you want?" "Don't know, the same as you." " What first dish do you want?" " What do you have?" "Calamari rice, fish soup spaghetti, fettuccine, lasagna" " Spaghetti for two, plentiful." " And after?" " After we will see." " White or red wine?" "I cannot stay in Venice." " What is that couple drinking?" " Soligo." " It's a local wine, very good." " All right bring one." " Listen." " Tell me." " Adolfo is no longer here?" " Adolfo?" "No, he left many years ago." " Thanks." " Your welcome." "I entered the competition." "And when do you study?" " I do study." " I wish I could study for you." "Before you had your hair down." "We have a rehearsal at 8:15pm, can't take you to the train station." "Never mind." "I could go to Alaska, he does not trick me." "There's always a new couple that's just starting." "Is natural, isn't?" "You feel like telling them, "take advantage... go to my house there is a huge bed"." "A huge bed?" "Wasn't thinking what you think." "I just wanted to make fun of you." "Flaubert was a genius." "What Flaubert has to do with this?" " No, nothing." "Shall I drink for your happiness?" "Before tell me about Flaubert." "It's a writer that wrote Madame Bovary." "I know that." "So what?" "Bovarism is so natural in the female soul... that any women will betray her own lover... with her own husband." "Cheers for your happiness." "Wherever it is." "Who knows if ever I have stopped loving you." "Me, I know it." "What do you know?" "That you haven't stop loving me." "If you believe that I'll sleep with you... you're absolutely wrong." "I don't believe anything." "Excuse me." "Spaghetti." "A superb idea." "Do they suggest something to you?" "What I used to say to you with the spaghetti?" "Tell me, what did I say?" "You said, eat.." "And after?" "Come on, I said 'eat', and then?" ""That later we will make love"." ""That later we will make love... "" "Was it nice?" "Tell me." "Please." "I need to know." "Was it nice?" "With you... marvelous." "Are you ashamed of those?" "No." "Here they are!" "They are coming!" "Cheers for the bride and groom!" "Cheers." "Wish you're truly happy." " Thank you all." " Thanks." "Congratulations, madam." "Cheers!" "Get closer, closer." "You have married a musician." "You'll travel allover the world." "I was born in the Jewish quarter... and hardly know the San Marcos Plaza." "This union..." "Two beautiful souls." "Love." "Compassion." "Sacrifice." "You look beautiful." "You will follow your husband." "And you will take care of your wife and children." "I'll like to add something else... that will make you conscious of this lovely gift." "The most beautiful bride in Venice." "You let your hair down." "You're so beautiful." " When did you go to Ferrara?" " Last week." " I called you." " You wanted to see Emilio?" "It's hard to explain." "Once I was there I became curious." "But I went to see you." " And Giorgio." "Giorgio?" "I saw you in the afternoon." "Before five." "You took a taxi." "You were very elegant." "Today you're not as elegant as that day." "Were you afraid I was going to ask for money?" "And to Giorgio?" "I don't know if I saw him." "Around 2 o'clock three kids went into your house." "Probably coming back from school, they were 10 or 11 years-old." "One was the tallest." "Dark skinned." "Long hair." "He was wearing a blue turtle neck sweater." "Looked a little like me." "I was hoping to feel inside of me the voice of blood." "But it wasn't like that." "I felt nothing." "Only decent fathers could feel that." "Forget about us." "I beg you." "Our life is not to envy." "Perhaps we're not totally happy." "At least, I'm not." "But we don't miss anything and we have a peaceful life." "Giorgio is healthy." "Is growing." "He's serious." "I beg you, if you love him..." "forget about us." "How can you live in Ferrara with that man?" "How I hate you!" "I hate you when you say those things." "What did you want me to do?" "Look for clients at San Marcos Plaza?" "We have friends... that believe I'm Emilio's wife." "His spouse, as they say." "I have a ring, can you see it?" "Never would live in Venice again." "It's putrid." "The putrefaction is devouring her." "It's dying." "It will become the mud it was." "That's where it's beauty lays." "But you cannot understand it without feeling death." "Do you know that feeling?" " Since when?" " Perhaps since always." "You are a clown." "And nothing else." " Repeat what you said." " You're a clown." "A clown." "Maybe, but I'm dying." "What are you trying to say?" "We all are dying." "But I'll die very soon." "Five or six months." "Maybe less, according to the doctors." "But, what are you saying?" "The truth, my darling." "Is not a trap, isn't?" " A new lie." " No." "No." "This time... unfortunately, is not." "But something can be done." "No." "No." "What do you have?" "A pain..." "A pain here..." "I love you!" "I love you!" "I love you!" "The worst is to lose the personality." "And finish like this, little by little." "Are jokes that life plays on you when you stick to life." "So ironic." "I don't care about physical pain, even when I have it and I'm afraid." "But can be tamed with drugs." "Damn illness." "And people do not talk about it." "Like if it didn't existed." "If I forget something... or if I don't recognize someone... or if it seems that I've been in this place before... where I know I haven't been..." "Those are things that happen to everyone." "But when they happen to me is different." "It would be nice to know how to take it with resignation." "It's hard to accept to shut down like this, like a candle." "Without being able to do something." "But I always lacked something to be a man." "Even under these circumstances." "Silence!" " I wish you'll be already dead." " I know." "I want it." "But you have to accept it." "What do you want me to do?" "Absolutely nothing." "Come." "Is this concert very important?" "For me, yes." "Benedetto, Marcello or Alesandro." "It's not known." "We call it the Anonymous Venetian" "It was written 250 years ago when Venice was at its best." "A mournful pray for a city that is sinking." "We have recorded the allegro." "We are rehearsing the Largo." "It's wonderful." "If you wish I can go with you." "There's a train at 4 o'clock." "No." "Take me to your house." " Makes me mad that you think..." " I think nothing." " Is that one?" " Yes." " I like the place." " Really?" "Looks like a bachelor place." "As you can see, I changed everything." "There is nothing from before." "I can see that this photo remains." "This one is always here." "And the women that come what do they say?" "They do not believe you're my wife." ""She escaped with a wealthy man"" "And they answer, "yeah, has the face of a whore"" "Feel at home." "FOR MY WIFE" "Darling," "I'm writing so there will be no misunderstandings." "I'm committing suicide because an irreversible illness." "And I cannot stand dying day after day." "Wanted to call you and tell you face to face... but I didn't do it because..." " Would you like something to drink?" " No, thanks." "When the recording is over I'll get drunk." "Very often a drunk man falls into the channel." " Where are you doing the recording?" " In San Vidal." "A demystified church." "The kids rent it." "Has perfect acoustics." "In the 1700's they gave concerts here." "And if you leave everything behind and come to Ferrara?" "After you finish the recording." "Where?" "To your house?" "Wasn't thinking about my house." "To a clinic." "Where I can be near you." "You must be crazy." "No, I couldn't die..." "Never I couldn't die in another city." "Not because I was born here or is the most beautiful city." "But because Venice is dying." "As you have say it." "And I think we will die together." "You call me and I'll stay with you." "You'll leave in the 6:10 train." "No." " Then in the 9:35." "Is the last one." " No." "You'll be in Ferrara at 11." "You see the rehearsal and the you go." " Only 5 and a half hours." " 5 and half hours for you to go." "And four hours for the rehearsal." "Four hours for the rehearsal." "No, the blame... it's not yours." "You gave yourself when we were making love." "Fiercely." "We were young." "I'm still are." "Won't make it to be a man." "I could no more be a man." "I won't be able to say." "in a year, in a month... or in a week." "Sometimes I forget and think, in Spring" "Stop." " There'll be no next Spring." " Stop." "Why?" "If is me the one that is dying?" " If I can't even talk..." " Listen to me." "Do you know what will be the beginning of the end?" "My sight." "I wont be able to see." "Enough!" "Why do you say, enough?" " You have to listen until the end." " No." "I can hardly see the outline of things." "Have you recognized my eyes, my pupils?" "Have you notice how I see you?" "You're hurting yourself." "Now you know why I called you." "I needed someone." "Someone with whom suffer." "Because of that, do you understand?" "When something like this happens..." "Is to become crazy." "To become crazy." "And only could be you." "Irreplaceable." "Since you left I've been alone." "As only you will know how to suffer with me." "That's what I wanted." "And now is enough." "It's over." "Is this one?" "Don't tell Giorgio." "That he hears the concert when he's older." "I'll tell him that you were thinking about him when you played." "And in you." "Call Ferrara and tell them that you'll arrive in the last train." " Was going to call from the station." " Nobody is going to hear you here." "I do not exist." "Hello!" "Giorgio?" "Yes, hi is mother from Venice." "Yes, one moment." "Is Giorgio." "Would you like to speak with him?" "Giorgio, tell your father..." "Tell him that I'm not taking the rapid." "No, don't call him." "You tell him." "I'll be arriving in the last train." "I'll be there around eleven." "Yes." "Tell him not to worry, everything is all right." "No, go ahead and have dinner." "I'll eat something." "Bye." "A record player and a recorder." " By any chance do you have one?" " No, I'm sure." "Then this is for Giorgio and this for the other one." " What's the others name?" " Anna Maria." " It's a girl." " A girl." "I also wanted a girl." "Wouldn't been a better father." "This is for Giorgio and this is for Anna Maria." "It's easier to operate." "I'll take these two." " How much it is?" " I will tell you." " Shall I send it to your house?" " No, pack them together." " Thank you." " To you." "Shall I kill you?" "If it happened to me, what would you have done?" "I have seen your books." "There was a page." ""Suicide as men intervention... in life and death"." "We all think about suicide." "Life wants to deceive you." "But you anticipate." " You're the strongest." " But you haven't done it." "Not even finished the letter." " So what?" " Because you're not the strongest." "You cheat yourself." "You're dying and you're afraid." "Of course I'm afraid." "When I sleep, if I wont wake up." "When I see someone, why me and not him?" "When I play, because I think that never again will play." "How could I not be afraid?" " Did the test at the Fenice." " And?" "For now, as second oboe." "Later perhaps as substitute teacher." "Is provisional." "I don't want to stay here." "Now I'll buy you a queen's dress." "Like old fashion queens that, in the solemn ceremonies, dressed... with golden and silver fabrics." " No, I beg you not to, no." " You don't want it?" "Here they do the best brocades." "Yes." "But, what for?" "You have no sense of the superfluous, darling." "You think about the legacy." "Allow me to squander." "Is still open." "I'm always lucky." "They are not machine slaves." "Some textile mills have more than 300 years." "In the world there is too much poetry." "You're really beautiful." " Did you say something?" " Nothing." "They have prevented me." "You don't come often." " Hello." " Hi, how are you?" "We have little time." " Excuse me, my wife." " Your wife?" " Good afternoon." " Madam." " Show her some fabrics." " Go ahead." "This way, madam." ""In women's life, everything, including the greatest pain, ends when they try a new dress"." "Proust." "Do you remember when we read him together?" "And it makes total sense." " Are you ready?" " Yes." "The bill, and send it to the train station." " To the 21:30 train to Bologna." " All right." " Madam." " Thank you." " Goodbye." " Goodbye." " Come back soon." " Goodbye." "Hope you're happy." "Once they pull out a drowned dog." "It was awful." "Swollen, very swollen." "Who knows how much water he swallowed." "Looked like a rubber doll." "The eyes... they were open, serious." "Calm." "A sight... full of dignity." "I'm always the last one." "Let's say goodbye here." "I'll be back." "No way." " Wouldn't you like to..." " Have you near me until the end." "But I'm ashamed." "Yes, I understand." "I only hurt you." "Leave it." "You have the right to everything." "Because I'm your husband?" "Or because I'm dying?" "Because I love you." "Do you remember the first thing I told you?" "Thanks for coming." "Thanks for coming." "Ready." "Up." "No, no." "Come on guys." "Not in that tone." "I'm here." "Finally." "This time I'm also the last one." "So, now you have to pay the coffee." "Yes, but it's not only my fault." "My wife wanted to come with me." " Good evening." " Good evening." " She will stay if you don't mind." " Please do so." "I could start with a rehearsal." "As you wish." "But it will be better to record it." " All right." " Thank you." "When your ready." " Ready?" " Eager." "Ready, ready, ready, ready?" "Very good." "Ready." "The Anonymous Venetian" "Concert in do minor for oboe and strings." "Second movement." "Largo." "Test recording." "Excuse me." "Is better if you leave." "They're waiting for you." "Let's start again." "Ready." "The Anonymous Venetian" "Concert in do minor for oboe and strings." "Second movement." "Largo." "Test recording." "Oh!" "My God!" "Oh!" "My God!"