"SILENT LIGHT Chihuahua" " Mexico" " Mennonite Country" "And now this." "Yes." "This is really hard." "Yes." "We'll leave one or two." "Great." "We should take them out." "Before taking them out," "I'd like to do one first." "You can take all the cows from one side of the house, but leave the others." "Let's see which side." "Wait one second." "Did you have coffee?" "Do you want a coffee or anything?" "In a minute." "I'll wash my hands." "What are those birds called?" "Do you know?" "Schproy, I don't know." "Schproy." "Are you going to the anniversary, the one on the radio?" "No?" "What will you do tomorrow?" "I don't know." "In the morning, church." "And in the afternoon?" "I don't know." "Yes, always." "I was born here in Mexico." "Not my parents, but I was." "Some days are really easy, and some days are not." "And why are some days not easy?" "Some days you're happier than others." "I can't speak Spanish." "I understand, but I speak just a little." "A little." "But you speak really well." "Not really well, but so-so." "All the restaurants have seafood." "Shrimp..." "Whole shrimp, shrimp cocktails, breaded shrimp." "Juanito: "A brave man is passionate about what he has, Zacarias." ""I have to be passionate about Esther, who is my wife."" "Zacarias:" ""Against yourself."" "What a story..." "Hang on, man." "You're doing great." "And I'll be helping you." "Now, if there is an obstacle, we can put a microphone in your ear." "And we'll tell you what to say." "As if we were with you." "Yes." "Exactly." "You're right, Cornelio." "You want to rehearse more or shall we do it?" "I don't think we need to know any more." "Like I was just telling him," "I remember, more or less." "Yes." "He just needs to say the second sentence more slowly." "Okay." "Is everything okay?" "If not, tell him, because I don't know." "It's, "Be brave"." "Or, "Be a man", if you prefer." "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "This guy..." "No, it sounds natural." "You've got it." "Don't get nervous." ""I don't want anything." "I made my decision." ""I'm a brave man, and I will stay." ""I only have one family and Esther is my wife."" "Exactly." "Cornelio, your turn." "If you want to be in the film..." "If I don't show up for filming, it'll be because he's broken my neck." "I think I've been telling it to you for half an hour." "Shit..." "Even my fingers hurt when he grabbed me from here." "I know exactly what I'm doing." "Perfect." "It's better in the 1 8th second..." "So Cornelio can come in." "He can't just say the first line like that." "Ready." "What's up?" "Hi." "How do they treat you?" "Well." "You'll be looking at the ground when she says it." "So you turn around to look and you say, "Who told you that?"" "And she answers." "You say, "Who told you that?" She says, "Grandmother Ruth"." "It has to be Grandmother Ruth, the other one." "What does that mean?" ""Grandmother Ruth." Wait." "Right." "Did you hear what he said?" ""Who told you that?" and..." ""Dad..."" "Alex, what's the name of this one?" "And after saying it, you feel like crying again." "Sit like this..." "And when you start to look as though you're going to cry," "Autghe comes up to you like this and says, "Don't cry, dad."" "And so you hold it in and you say, "Yes, yes."" "And then the car will go over there." "And Cuchara will do this." "You only do like this." "Like something is coming from over there." "Speak normally, Cuchara." "You don't have to speak loudly, just gently." "All right, perfect." "You could do a high-angle shot, Alex, or whatever you think it's better." "I'd rather lose the feet than Cornelio." "Okay." "Tell him to brake." "He has to brake." "You're a naughty girl." "It's a cut, isn't it?" "Look." "Okay, Maria, listen up for a moment." "We'll clean you up now." "The only thing she has to do is to sniff two or three times." "Nothing else." "Tell her not to move her mouth, not to touch herself, nothing, when I say action." "And the only time she can touch herself is when the children arrive." "Other than that..." "Twice." "Tell her to speak when she gets here." "Here, more or less." "All right, everyone, we don't have a lot of time." "Sound, please." ""Yes, son, you made a mistake."" "Okay?" "Because he made a mistake..." "We make mistakes in life and you say, "Yes, son, you made a mistake"." "And you say," ""It wasn't because of bad luck, it was my fault."" ""Everything was my fault."" "Position them all there if you want." "The battery..." "Don't you want to give the camera a little break?" "Yes." "Who has the battery?" "Jackob." "All right, everyone get ready when I say "water"." "Jerry, go in front, please." "In front of Jonathan." "Okay, Jonathan, a little more." "Okay, spray it." "Sound." "Rolling." "Rolling." "Rolling." "Siempre Te Amaré." "The time is 2 3:1 1 , and I have a very special dedication for Fehr, for Noemix." "And also a very special dedication for the tremendous Jerry from your wife." "Here it is, by Caballo Dorado," "Siempre Te Amaré." "This is Dulces corazones del rodeo on XEPL, the super station." "All right!" "A lot of things." "Carlos says," ""It has to be like this, like this, like this," and "I know you can do it."" ""So concentrate." "Go for it."" "So what I do in that case..." "The first thing I do when I'm doing a scene, especially if it's a tough scene," "is I get the camera out of my head." "The camera doesn't exist for me when I'm working." "They put you in your spot." "Of course they do." "But I don't suffer because of it." "I don't fight the fact that there's a camera next to me." "I try to do it as if it were real." "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "Like you'd see in the cinema, I do it as if I were alone." "The camera wouldn't be next to me in the cinema." "That's what you'll see." "That's what I try to do." "Period." "There." "Well done, guys." "Was that the idea more or less?" "No, you did really well." "Really well." "One, two, three..." "And on the fifth second," "Cornelio is the one that moves." "You're like this, you give him the opportunity, and since you don't want to be a bad person, you hug him." "But he's the one that gives you the hug because he's crying and he's sad." "Let's try it a couple times and see how it goes." "Hold him like this." "And look out the window." "It will be only one shot, even if the ground is wet." "It will be simple." "There won't be as much pressure as the time when the trucks got stuck." "There was some friction with Carlos." "He took my hose away because he didn't like the streams I was making." "Things like that." "I told him, "I'm a fire-fighter." "If you take my hose, I'll take your camera" ""because I don't like the take you're doing."" "We were just joking around." "It was all in good fun." "If I did it?" "You have done it?" "Did you see the pictures of Towell?" "They provided a lot of the inspiration for this movie." "To achieve that, the guy lived with the Mennonites for 1 0 years. 1 0 years." "And in 60% of his pictures, the Mennonites have their face covered." "They cover their face." "Okay, Irma, tell them we have to do one last shot and they can go play, but if they start eating, we'll have to do another one." "So they need to stay still and they can't move around." "The men sow the fields and work at the factory, and the women work in the house." "Some of them also work outside." "And some work in the house, like Mennonite women have always done." "I didn't want to let him use the house." "People ask me what they're doing or what they're doing it for." "They didn't say anything to me about it, but I know we shouldn't do it." "Can you give me the cloth?" "The cloth." "All right." "I'd like to take those off, because it makes this sound..." "Spread it." "It makes a pleat." "Do you have a bag?" "Fold it like that." "As they say in Venezuela, it's a "pleat"." "A pleat." "Thank you." "All right." "Give me five!" "So there are 1 0, right?" "1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9." "72 minus..." "Hi." "The sheet is a little short." "There it is." "Hold on a second." "Give it to me." "Grab this if you want." "I lost the ring again." "The little ring?" "Yes." "She makes me so happy" "It's on..." "There." "I like it there." "And..." "Yes." "A little more, Jerry!" "And after seeing a few things, you start to wonder how it'll turn out." "Well, they already told me it would be a happy ending, and I like that." "And it won't be one of those movies..." "I don't know what you call them." "Where they shoot guns and there are fights and problems." "I really don't like those." "That's what I like about this movie." "My understanding is that there's none of that in this movie." "We are covered in mud!" "Once, the water rose to bonnet." "The bonnet." "I'm not sure that cars can go by." "We go through here for safety." "Especially the cast." "This is like the Paris Dakar Rally." "You're just going to watch Alex as he goes down the stairs." "Watch him until that point." "First with your head, like this." "Then just with your eyes, like this." "Very slowly." "Watch him with your eyes only." "What do you think?" "All right, everyone, look as though you're at a wake, like if one of your aunts died." "So you'll be like this, sitting, looking down." "And you'll do this, and you're going to sing like this, without enthusiasm." "Exactly." "I will wait" "And I'll put my faith in you" "For gloria O, hallelujah" "Amen, amen, amen" "Yes, I liked it." "But I never thought they'd make me sing." "Never." "At least they made me sing something I knew." "If they'd chosen a song I didn't know, it would have been more difficult." "But it's fine." "Go over there to the exit." "Can you sit over that way more?" "And can you sit next to Agatha?" "Rolling." "Silence." "They've been here since July." "They already saw everything there is to see when the crops are harvested." "The cutting, the packing." "The only thing we have left is one sequence with the father of Cornelio Wall, the main character, and the other one is with the threshing machine." "That's what we have left." "But we won't be able to do it until the 2 3rd." "Not until the 2 3rd?" "Yes, because our friend will harvest on the 2 3rd." "The corn or the beans?" "The corn." "Corn?" "Oh, okay." "My favourite." "Yes, of course." "And we'll do it with the threshing machine." "Shell it, right?" "The corn stalks?" "No." "No, nothing will be left." "The only thing that will remain is when I'll turn around, when I'll go to that side because I have to be in the corn" "so I can be in there." "Yes." "So the corn will fall inside." "We'll have to pick up the corn stalks." "They're the only thing that will be thrown out." "Only that small section." "Yes, it's just a small section where the machine goes." "It's cold, isn't it?" "It's cold." "Let me take a look." "It goes up." "There it is." "And now we turn it." "However you want." "Shall I try?" "Yes." "Thank you." "The corn stays in there and the rest goes out here, as you can see." "Just the grain itself, like we have now from the yellow corn." "That stays in there." "Everything else is thrown out." "It's about a Mennonite family." "About what they do every day, and then our mother dies..." "I think that's it." "I'll remove the one on the hat." "Sit more to your right." "No, the other right." "As far as you can." "It's the hand you eat with, Patty." "And if you fall..." "No, that's too far." "As far as you can without falling." "Irma, sit next to Alfredo." "You're good where you are." "All right, let's do it." "Perfect." "A few last words." "I'll only say five." "I want to go sleep." "Next we'll take the beans with the straw." "And the plate." "Hang on." "I know how to do it." "All together!" "Applause." "There were 1 1 people on the Silent Light crew."