"Citizens of Israel, 4 days ago" "I took it upon myself to inform you that Egypt and Syria..." "Beautiful surroundings, there's the smell of corpses in the air." "No doubt, there's a war going on here." "Egyptians 200 meters ahead." "Their shooting has decreased." "We're sitting in an open ploughed field." "The Egyptians continue their defensive." "Our advance continues." "We are 3.5 kilometers from Ismaelia." "It seems that this will be the final line... during the cease-fire." "The last hours also take their toll." "The land is shaking." "The time is 6:52." "Many of the wounded are critical." "If this is what a cease fire looks like..." ""Perlov"" ""Safed" " Israel"" "If one says "Do this," he won't understand." "But if one is patient, gentle and understanding, he might understand." "It's the same with cinema." "If the director says "I want it this way!"... people will run away." "I don't want to!" "Come on, Yael." "Look at her!" "See you, Dad." "I'm closing the door." "The question is what part do I play in..." "It was a long time ago." "Yes, it was, but don't you remember?" "I was very young, 17 years old." "Very young." "That's why I sang." "I'll try to remember it." "Painter of churches" "Paint some little black angels." " What now?" " Something about white angels." "You who paint little white angles" "Painter of saints and alcoves" "Paint little black angels" "Why did you never remember to paint a little black angel?" "If you paint from the heart" "Why do you despise their color?" "If you paint from the heart" "Why do you despise their color?" "If you know that in heaven" "God wants them too." "I don't remember any more." "I told you there was too much white in the world." "The dark colors are missing." " Well, it's an appeal." "That day in Kfar-Joshua the flood came for only 4 hours." "At the end, the rainbow did not appear in the sky, and the dove did not return." "I became aware of these suicides when I was filming here." "Many of those buried here committed suicide." "There, for instance." "He was from Kibbutz Tel-Yoseph." "When I told someone about it he asked:" ""Were they buried outside the fence?"" "I said: "No, this is a Kibbutz, nothing to do with religion."" "This one here committed suicide and he's buried next to one who didn't." "They left religion behind and they wouldn't bury a friend outside the fence." "They came with grand expectations of creating a new nation." "Suddenly they had to plough fields, milk cows, all this hard work." "Some couldn't cope with it." "There was a gap between expectations and reality." "Bella Lifshitz." " Yes, I know the name." "There's another..." "no, this one was killed." "You've got a "snake" here." "To the right..." "Upwards..." "Very good..." "A little downwards." "Now look straight at me." "You said "snake"?" "What is that?" " "Snake" means... mucosa from the conjunctive enters the cornea and covers a part of it and during the years it may slowly trickle inwards in some of these cases." "With others, like yourself, the situation remains unchanged." "In my left eye?" "Look to the left." "No, here you don't have it." "Will I need an operation?" " Yes." "It's a minor operation which takes about 5 minutes." "A tiny scar remains but after 2 weeks you hardly notice it." "Sometimes the "snake" tends to return." "It's difficult to tell." "It doesn't depend on how the surgery's done." "Regarding the "snake"?" " Yes." "Is it hereditary?" " No." "People who work in rural areas tend to suffer from it." "Those who work outdoors, in the open:" "Farmers, lorry drivers." "But it can also happen to people who work in an office as in all other diseases." "It is not hereditary." "You say that only a third of all these operations succeed?" "In two-thirds of cases, the "snake" may return... regardless of who performed the operation." "That's usually the percent of success... with regard to most surgeons." "That's why they sometimes hesitate to operate." "The fewer surgeries in life, the better." "But eye surgery is a real pleasure." " For whom?" "Primarily for the patient." "I often come across cases of people who cannot see..." "I operate on them... and the next morning, they can suddenly see." "It's like birth." "It's a wonderful feeling for patient and doctor alike." "To pull him out of darkness or blindness... and suddenly he can see well... he can walk around, and above all work properly." "I was suddenly stricken " "The reason remains a mystery" "Her body was the color of ebony" "And I couldn't restrain myself" "My heart turned to stone" "It was that Black Magic..." "The color of ebony?" " Yes, the Black Magic!" "Yes, but I don't want to talk about him." "I met him in Florence, an Italian." "I'd rather not talk about him." "I'd rather talk about this other boy." "Who?" " Jean-Marc." "Jean-Marc?" "Not an Italian?" "No, he's French." "I met him in Rome, but he's French." "It was Christmas, and there was a kind of students' exchange." "All the French went to Rome, and the Italians went to Paris." "There was this nice exchange." "So that's how I happened to meet, in Italy, a Frenchman from Paris..." "A student at the "Beaux Arts"." "So that's why you're learning French?" " Yes." "Obviously." "By the way, he's studies architecture." "I asked both Jean-Marc and the Italian boy... who their favorite artist was." "Both answered:" "Piero de la Francesca!" "For students of architecture... this artist represents both the beginning of accurate, scientific perspective." "That's why they both liked this painting by Piero de la Francesco:" "The flagellation of Jesus." "They all say this painting is a landmark... the beginning of scientific perspective." "They all admire Piero de la Francesca." "They regard him as an innovator." "He's the master." "You admire him too?" "So do I." "So does Yossi." "And Liora..." "Everyone does." "He's the greatest." "That's all..." "We could go on and on, but..." "I think that's betrayal!" "He's going out with her - a girl who served with me in the army." "Two hard years which were supposed to bring out loyalty, things like that." "But there was something deceitful about her." "That's a betrayal." "Before I left, he told me:" ""You're going to Europe, to Paris..." ""...to the big wide world, to the beautiful Europe"." "I asked him if there was anything wrong with that." "He said "No!"" "I hesitated about traveling with somebody else." "I come to Paris." "I get this letter, I'm in a cafe." "I open it - a typed letter!" "I could feel the rhythm, the tension;" "This was his revenge - in the typing." "Nothing personal about it..." "no handwriting, just typing." "A creative person expresses himself in typing!" "I could see how he laid out his paragraphs... how the letter was meticulously planned, like an attorney's letter." "It was constructed in neat little cubes, paragraphs..." "It opened, of course, with "I'm with Her." ""This is why I'm writing, to tell you I'm with her" ""and I'm fine"." "End of paragraph!" "And finally... well, then he says:" ""You said you wanted to work with your father " ""your highest aspiration"" "He used the sort of language I can't stand even in literature... let alone in daily life - "Your highest aspiration!"" ""I'm surprised that's not the case any more" - three dots!" "Three dots - he's wondering!" "Then he adds "I'd like to ask you another question:" ""What is it that you have there, that you don't have here?" ""What is it you can understand there, but wouldn't understand here?" ""No, this is a rhetorical question, don't answer me"." "Full stop!" "Again at the end: "I'm doing fine, writing as usual..."" "And to end it with even more pathos... he drew himself with his curly hair - which was our mutual trademark... and her, this slim beauty with long straight hair... and he's looking at her in this drawing that he sent me." "Later I said to him:" ""What an elegant revenge you chose." ""You didn't do it face to face, but instead sent me a letter..." ""in such a formal and evasive manner."" "I said to him: "Those drawings were a very sophisticated trick..." ""Clear meanings but subtly conveyed."" "So he said: "That's simply what I felt at the time."" "It's not just what he felt, it's a revenge." "That's where the revenge is - at the very end." "Before I left, I wanted so much to..." "I was, after all, very sad, no matter how things turned out... so at the last minute, I said to him:" ""I know you're going to be unfaithful to me."" "I accused him, I said I knew he'd do it, and he smiled." "Then I said: "And I know with whom - with my girl-friend", and he smiled again... because she asked me for his number, and I gave it to her." "But I knew that once I gave her the number, they'd conspire against me." "I expected this letter telling me he's with her..." "I know this would happen." "I can just see him sitting there at his tiny and noisy typewriter." "He's proud of its noise, it has this 'artistic' effect." "Before I left, to show that all was fine and that he was not like young Werther... he gave me a book of poems by Yehuda Amichai:" ""Great Peace, Questions and Answers."" "At that time I no longer appreciated Amichai that much... so I exchanged the book for another - one by Conrad... about a journey to Africa." "That's what I wanted:" "To escape, to go on adventures," "I wanted to go "To the Heart of Darkness", Africa!" "So before I left, he gave me Amichai's poems." "And it was painful for me to leave him for someone else." "So I said to him:" ""I want to give you this record," ""I'm sure you'll like it..." "I know you well enough" ""and I know it's for you and I want you to have it"" "I gave it to him and said "Listen to it"." "And I thought:" "This way we'll exchange presents." "I have the record here." "It's not this..." "It's a woman singing, a woman!" "It's a kind of remorse, isn't it?" "It's begging for forgiveness." "It's so full of faith." "It's a plea to remain faithful." "It's asking for forgiveness." "Because that's how it is, it just happened." "And he betrayed me." "He betrayed me." "He wrote to me that he'd been listening to the record." "It's a betrayal!" "I try some questions but I feel that my questions are meaningless." "I know, but I want to be loved by everybody." "By all." "It's a weakness, but one needs..." "It's a real plea... to go on loving in spite of all because that's how it is, that's how I am." "Things happen as they do, but certain things must remain intact." "A woman is singing, what more can you want?" "It's sentimental perhaps, but it works!" "With such a voice, it expresses it all!" "True, it's a religious song, but then religion is faith." "It's knowing that this is the end, and yet..." "Zero hour!" "10... 5..." "That's it." "According to our latest TV prediction the Labor Party has won the Parliamentary elections by a narrow margin of 1 or 2 seats." "Begin!" "Begin!" "To document the everyday, the commonplace." "New paragraph." "New paragraph, Yael." "Next." "No more made-up stories, comma." "No plots." "Nothing artificial, comma." "Not even what I like so much:" "Artistic manipulation." "New paragraph." "Man must eat." "He wants meat." "If you want meat, you must slaughter an animal." "Cut off its head and drain its blood." "You can't have meat unless there's an animal to begin with." "There's a cycle in nature." "You breed cattle, knowing that one day the animals you've bred will be slaughtered." "That's what the film is about." "If you can whistle while doing it, all the better." "That's the whole idea." "It is terrible, but that's our daily reality." "If you don't slaughter animals, you'll have no meat and then you'll be sorry." "But people can't bear to see the slaughter." "So what's the sense of it?" "What I liked was that for the workers it was just routine." "The man has to slaughter the animal, so he picks up his knife and - chop!" "Off with its head!" "Because his job is to produce meat." "That is, food!" "It's a skill." "And skill is vital in any kind of work." "Whatever you do must be done well." "I mean, you have to be professional." "In the film, I was aware of their skill." "There's a technique in any profession, like in dance." "You need technique to attain perfection, though it's also a question of talent." "If you have the talent, and you combine it with study, acquire the technique, put it to use, that's great." "Otherwise, forget it." "It's hopeless, even rather tragic, I think." "Once again." "5, 6, 7... straighten up." "Straight back!" "And one more time." "1, 2, 3, 4." "Don't bend your back!" "Pull up!" "Hold it, now, and that's it." "Good!" "Come in, sir, come in." "It's over here." "I was inside, and all of a sudden I saw a body tumbling down, tumbling..." "That's how it is." "What can one do?" "The poor man!" "That's how it is." "11 million go hungry in America!" "Wheat is rotting in our fields!" "Hunger march in America!" "Hunger march in London!" "A bit more." "Okay, that's it." "No change of focus?" "Shall I talk to you or the camera?" "A film editor must be well dressed." "It sounds silly, but it's a must." "Even if this is my bedroom, or at least used to be my bedroom," "I mustn't feel too much at home." "I mustn't go in wearing my dressing-gown, for instance." "You must be well dressed!" "You must look neat and pretty." "When you feel you look good, when you're tidy and your hair is combed," "it helps your thinking." "When you feel neat and tidy, you also tend to think clearly." "That's about it, editors mustn't look sloppy." "Precisely because the kind of work they do is, in fact, quite menial." "That's why the editor himself mustn't look sloppy." "He must be neat!" "Because the work itself is messy, splicing, taping, handling sticky tape, machine oil, nuts and bolts, that sort of thing." "I'll continue in the editing room." "Well, this is the editing table." "The picture is here, and that's the sound." "The editing pencil is held at an angle so it's easy to mark the picture." "This is the splicer." "My father prefers it off the table so we have a clear space here." "Besides, the splicer is rather primitive." "It's heavy and clumsy." "Then we have the brush - extremely important." "You use it to dust off the film, so you get a clean picture." "That's the stop-watch, essential for timing the film when you're editing." "You place it like this." "I hold the pencil in my mouth - that way I never lose it." "I always know where to find it." "Some editors keep it behind their ear, like this." "Another thing:" "Once you've finished editing, you should watch the whole film from a distance." "Push your chair back - as if you were in the cinema, watching a real screening." "Another thing my father told me:" "Get to know your film when it's running backwards." "Like a painter inverting his painting." "If it still looks interesting, even upside down, then it's a good painting." "The same with a film:" "It must be seen backwards." "But just during editing - that's an editing room secret." "Oh yes, one more thing." "Editors have all sorts of mannerisms." "Each one handles the splicer differently." "Some do it like this." "Others do it like this." "Some do it elegantly." "Especially women." "What else?" "Come to see us, O venerable, O magnificent!" "Come, O divine." "Father is facing me, camera in hand." "He asks me to light a cigarette - my coat looks nice with it very Parisian, and he wants to put it in his diary." "The Parisians look at me, at my white coat, and I'm very happy." "That's for me, Jean-Marc!" " That's mine!" " Wait a minute." "It's not fair." "I want mine, you have yours!" "My trousers, they're mine!" "The blue with the blue." "Look, Jean-Marc, my pants!" "I put my shirt on backwards." "Look at me!" "Now start dancing." "Wait, there's the white!" "Father is filming me now." "He films me first, before anyone else." "That's it:" "Father and daughter." "I don't like her," "I know he finds her attractive." "I'll go to Italy tomorrow, alone," "I won't go with him." "She brings out my weaknesses." "I don't like her." "I know he has a weakness for her." "I'll go to Italy on my own, and we'll..." "Perhaps I'll go to New York alone, and we'll break up." "I know jealousy is a weakness, it's mean - but I'm jealous." "She's a real female, submissive." "But she has her charm, that's the problem." "Once I'm back from Italy..." "I'll go straight to the flat - I'll see... if I haven't calmed down by then, I'll go to New York alone." "I can't concentrate, I keep hearing what they say." "And I'm jealous." "Right, I'll begin" "I..." " I faint." "You faint." "He faints." "We?" "We faint..." "We faint into faintness." "They?" "I faint and you run away!" "Let's go." "I faint..." "Let's stop." "I still don't understand French." "Once more." "From the beginning!" "Continued recording downstairs." "No more murder in Lebanon!" "Down with the government!" "There's no special feeling." "This is the first time we've done such a thing." "We don't know what to expect." "Whether it'll be hard or easy, I don't know." "Are you anxious?" "Everyone feels a bit anxious the first time." "The time is now 10:53." "An Israeli armored force entered 50 minutes ago." "This is in fact the start of the operation." "Behind us we see Israeli artillery." "155 millimeter guns... weakening the enemy's positions... in preparation for the armored forces." "No one can predict the development of a military operation... just as no one can predict how a snowball will roll." "Go on, Raphool and Sharon, get out of Lebanon!" "On the way from Tzor, near the Rashidya refugee camp... sounds of gunfire rise from the camp." "They're wiping out the terrorists." "Families have been moved to a nearby orchard." "The purge is taking place at the end of the path." "From the roof, our soldiers are shooting at the surrounding buildings." "Those who were left behind to guard the families are disappointed." "Do you feel bad about it?" " Very." "We went through all the difficult training in the army... and now that we finally see a bit of 'action'..." "The 'action' is happening inside the camp... our gunfire, mostly." "A woman comes out of a house where she's been hiding for two days." "It must be said, our boys are trying very hard to be humane... to be fair, at peace with their consciences." "They're holding hands." "Leave her alone." " She's scared to death." "She's confused." "The woman is scared, leave her alone." "Three terrorists who gave themselves up." "They're just kids, yet they still managed to wound an officer." "Was he armed?" " No, he wasn't." "Tomorrow, when we interview them again, they'll already be more mature, older." "One day older." "O Lord, how great are Thy works" "Thy thoughts are very deep." "No brutish man..." "nor fool can understand..." ""Mr. Prime Minister, you can't bring my son back to life" ""but don't add to the misery." ""Don't restore order in Lebanon by force over our sons' dead bodies." ""I repeat my son's words:" "'Stop the killing!"'" ""We have lost faith in government," ""especially in the Minister of Defense."" "1976, 1974, 1975... until now, 1982." "We still have 1982." "This one is more important." "Let's not forget the latest material, especially last week's." "I'm ready." "It's funny, but filing became an important thing..." "That's all there was to do:" "Filing... nothing else." "Sometimes you had a letter to type, but that only took 10 minutes." "Out of 8 hours, I'd do 10 minutes of typing and then just sit... and watch the people around me." "I look to the right, to the left - No one is doing anything." "The girl in the next office never stopped working." "I envied her... because she had something to fill her 8 hours." "She typed, ran errands, answered the phone." "When the phone rang I'd be so happy." "At last, something to do!" "It was a change:" "The phone's ringing!" "It was like a vast wilderness." "Time didn't move." "8 hours that went on forever." "Filing was good." "I looked forward to filing day!" "Then you weren't aware of the time passing... only of the stamping." "Very fine paper, easy to miss a page." "An irritating job, yet I actually started to like it." "Reading was impossible." "So there was nothing to do but wait for the day to end." "You look at the sky and you realize:" "It's noon already!" "You say: "Two more hours to go - the day is almost over"." "Just one more hour - one hour is nothing... compared to the 8 hours or more I had to face in the morning." "One day..." "I must tell you this " "I heard a noise outside - "Great!" "Something is happening..." ""now the time will pass quickly." Suddenly everything was different." "I saw the girls rushing out... as if there'd been an accident." "Everyone rushed out." "The atmosphere changed all of a sudden." "There was this new excitement." "Suddenly, today wasn't like yesterday or tomorrow." "I went out and saw... in the middle of this great big lawn, where they have all the parades..." "I suddenly saw what?" "A monkey!" "Incredible, but there it was - a monkey, in a kind of cage." "People didn't know what to do - it was wonderful." "This hour when people stood around and watched the monkey... was one of the best moments I had during my two years in the army." "A sight I can't forget." "It was a white monkey." "He kept screeching because he was confused." "All these people standing around him, and that tiny cage..." "He wasn't small - some kind of chimpanzee." "I have no idea how he got there." "A big monkey squeezed into a cage exactly his size." "He couldn't move or stretch, so he just shook the bars." "Of course it was symbolic..." "It's clear that it was." "But no one realized it." "They were just excited to see this monkey." "He had a huge bum, just like you see at the zoo." "Suddenly all the army commanders were behaving differently." "They were as confused as I was." "All the clerks kept coming out, completely at a loss." "No one knew how to act." "No more of the endless hours." "Funny, I can't even recall how it ended." "I only remember the people... standing there, not knowing how to deal with this situation." "Well, after the monkey incident..." "I still had a long time to serve, and I kept waiting for another monkey... for another incident that would interrupt the emptiness... the time that was nothing." "But it never happened again." "During the war, as well?" " World War 2." "Wonderful things here..." "Here..." "Karl Marx." "I was afraid he would see how excited I was." "I spent two hours in the store." "You've only got one about women in Israel." "During negotiations, the shooting resumes." "This time in the Hazamiah district, in the center of town." "Another one of the numerous cease-fires has been violated in less than 24 hours." "The fighting in South Beirut is meant to show the terrorists... what might happen if the political negotiations fail." "I don't understand." "That rounded house over there... 3 stories high, on the corner of a long, long street..." "By Saturday morning, the reporters already know there's been a massacre." "Entire families - father, mother and children - amid the ruins of their homes." "On many bodies you could see gashes on the chest in the shape of a crucifix." "Later we'll be told by the Falangists:" ""We killed many more Palestinians," ""but their bodies will never be found." ""We buried them deep in the ground."" "A couple of days after the massacre we met Michael." "He admitted to me, before we started filming:" ""I participated in the massacre." "I murdered 15 Palestinians."" "I don't think it's a massacre;" "it's a war." "And in a war, at the frontiers... it's not a massacre when people get killed." "Anyway, we're not talking about thousands dead... only 200-300." "They make too much noise for nothing." "Here is the President's statement:" "We condemn with all our being this ruthless and savage assault." "Let the government and the Prime Minister account at once for these murders." "MP Shimon Peres mounts the pulpit and starts with a question:" ""Why did we get involved in Lebanon in the first place?"" ""The nation is facing its conscience."" "They want me to resign." "But it's not only you who want me replaced." "The Americans want it too." "That's right, they do." "But you want to see me replaced... because you want these seats, the seats around this table." "But you won't get them!" "Where were the Israeli officers on The day of the massacre in Tel-Zatar?" "Were you appalled then?" "Were you appalled that day?" "You know where they were." "Everyone knows." "Were you appalled?" ""The eternal glory of Israel will not fail."" "A close-up of a great big smile for the Sabbath." ""100 Years of Solitude" - a fragment." ""Ursula had to make a great effort..." ""to fulfill her promise to die when it cleared." ""The waves of lucidity which were so scarce during the rains..." ""became more frequent during August."" "Dad!" "What a surprise!" "What a beautiful table." "Just a minute, I'm limping." "How beautiful it is here!" "Is everything all right, Dad?" "This thick coat... wait, I've got to take it off." "Those windows!" "It's beautiful!" "I want to see the sea." "Can I have a look at the sea?" "Fantastic!" "Daddy!" "How you ran to me just now!" "The inquiry committee into the massacre at Sabra and Shatila... recommends the dismissal of the Minister of Defense." "The committee accuses the Prime Minister of indifference... to what happened in the camps." "It therefore holds him responsible but does not recommend any action against him." "It holds the Chief of Staff gravely responsible for what has happened." "Finally, the committee acquits the Head of the Mossad... and the Defense Minister's deputy." "The committee holds the Minister of Defense responsible... for ignoring the danger of revenge atrocities by the Falangists... upon the inhabitants of the refugee camps... and disregarding this danger, allowing the Falangists into the camps." "Furthermore, the Minister of Defense is responsible... for failing to take measures to prevent or reduce the danger of a massacre... as a condition for the Falangists entering the camps." "The committee found no reason to acquit the Prime Minister, Menachem Begin of his indifference to the Falangists' actions in the camps." "It claims that he was well enough informed to suspect possible acts of revenge." "The committee found that personal responsibility rests upon Minister Sharon." "The minister of Defense is expected to draw personal conclusions... concerning the flaws in the performance of his duties." "As the helicopter landed, the Defense Minister emerged from the Hilton Hotel... where he had been studying the report in private." "It seems that the PM is waiting for the Defense Minister to resign, sparing him the decision of whether or not to dismiss him." "Good evening." "The Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, does not intend to resign from his position..." "I love the sea." "We've turned the dream of peace with Egypt into a reality." "There are problems and difficulties, but the peace does exist." "We promised peace in the Galilee and, thank God, we have peace in the Galilee." "Blessed are those taken to the Lord." "They are the Lord's sheep." "It's all arrows, marking the turnings to the right and to the left." "And red, and green..." "Come, see the colors." "My characters are a bit funny, they're not real dancers." "If you read the names on this board, you come across the same five names." "The film is a sort of puzzle, really." "One tries to fit things together and it's not easy..." ""Cold - violence (whip)"" "Because the aim of this film is..." "The truth always comes through on deeper and deeper levels but there are two histories." "10 Ukrainians, 5 Germans..." "I find in this film an absolute meeting, an absolute identification between morality and aesthetics." "If it is moral - it is beautiful." "If it is not moral..." "If we ever commit offenses against morality, it becomes outrageous." "To the right..." " "Mang", what does it mean?" " "Mang" means busy." ""How" means good, "ha" means bad." "Hamisi is somebody's name?" "That's right." "A person who was born on Thursday." "Thursday in Arabic is Hamis." "That's why they called him Hamisi." ""Jordan", not Joredan." ""I have my Kinneret..."" "Do you know this song?" "I'll teach you someday." "I was a refugee in a small French town in the southwest." "I had to go to the dentist." "He started pulling..." "At the time they used to pull out teeth with pincers." "He pulled and pulled and the tooth wouldn't budge." "There were no dentists' chairs then, they used plain chairs." "So he asked my father to hold me down tight." "My father had to do it." "So the dentist started to pull the tooth by hand." "He sweated... and finally..." "I felt something cracking in my head." "He had pulled out a part of my jaw." "That's how it was done then." "Was it as expensive as today?" "It depended on your means." "For my father it was expensive." "We tried to keep away from the dentist." "We were not rich." "It was nothing like the comfortable dental surgeries of today." "These days they play music for you!" "It doesn't bother me." "Today it doesn't bother me at all." "He's just doing his job." "You hardly hear a thing." "The only thing that bothers me, because I'm not used to it, is having my mouth wide open." "My mouth is usually shut." "You look for a branch to cling to..." "So you start by going for something familiar and with time, you learn to accept surprises." "We are weak but the Lord is great" "We are sinners, but the Lord is our saviour" "Bless those who are behind bars" "Bless our Catholic listeners" "Bless our Spiritualist listeners" "Bless our listeners of whatever creed they might be beloved Father." "Give your people solidarity" "Give strength to the weak" "Give words to the mute" "Give vitality to the depressed and to those who had a hard day" "You can come in" " Hello, David" " Hello" " It's been so long" " Yes, Fawzi" "How wonderful, David" "You haven't changed a bit." "As charming as ever" "Especially with this camera on me - it's a mask" "But you haven't changed at all" "What a compliment!" "I'm so excited" "That's good, David." "I'm very happy" "David, I would recognize you anywhere" "Honestly" ""A friend and companion of my grandson, Fawzi"" "And she would surely have added:" ""Allah will illuminate your thoughts"" ""Let Allah protect your future"" "She would repeat this several times." "You were very dear to her" "When your mother heard your grandmother to whom even I, a small child, had to bend down - ...she was so small..." "When did I first speak to you?" "I wouldn't remember" "I'll help you" " Let's see" "We used to take the tram together back home" "That's right" "Every day, we sat on a different bench in the tram" "We always took the same tram, the one that went to our neighborhood" "I think we became interested in one another riding together on the tram" "We knew that we both studied at the state school" "We were in the same class" "And we lived in the same neighborhood" " Right" "There was a moment when, almost simultaneously we started speaking to each other" "How interesting." "It's starting to come back to me, you know." "Remember?" "In the tram!" "Remarkable." "And, from then on..." "The rhythm is very Brazilian, typical of Brazilian music" "Is that what you've been working on?" "The composer is very famous here." "We even have a stamp in her honour" "Sociologically, she's regarded as a very advanced artist" "Especially famous for two works:" "'Abre Alas' and 'The Carnival March'" "You're a singer" "What's "karum, karum-nhe"?" ""The spring, the spring..."" "And "sirum, sirum"?" ""...is beautiful, is beautiful"" "And "tzef, tzef"?" "Oh, that's..." ""Little bird", perhaps?" "No, it has to do with a line at the end of the song which means this:" "People speak ill of a young woman but her lover should not believe them" "Every man has the dignity of God's son and of the brother of Jesus" "Jesus was a carpenter" "He worked with His own hands" "Jesus who gave His life so that we shall never die." "Long live those who came here today!"