"We are born, then we die." "And in between we study, we work, we get married, we have children... we exercise, we get sick..." "No one escapes this script." "When I paint, I don't think about becoming a celebrity." "My painting is to outline what's loose in me... what doesn't fit the canvas." "This is me." "My name is Mercedes." "I'm Mercedes." "I have an appointment with doctor..." "Please come in." "Do you accept any healthcare plan?" "I'm sorry, we don't." "You may go in." "Do I start or do you?" "I start." "Since I've never been in therapy, I don't know." "How do I start?" "Do I speak chronologically or...?" "What cones to my mind?" "Whatever." "Well, then I have to think." "Well, Lopes..." "Do I say Lopes or Dr. Lopes?" "I choose?" "It's all up to me?" "This is the thing, Lopes..." "I think I rushed into this..." "Maybe my case is not that serious, maybe it's not for therapy... because I'm not depressed, I don't have panic disorder..." "I'm not addicted to drugs nor I'm a kleptomaniac." "Can I tell you the truth?" "I'm not even sad." "Well, I think I must be going." "I am married, yes." "I'm married to Gustavo." "And Gustavo and I married the first time we saw each other." "I didn't marry a boyfriend." "Gustavo had been my husband for a long time." "I don't know why he was so tense at the altar." "I've been here for ten minutes but it feels like an hour." "Women always get late." "When I got married, your aunt was so late I started hoping she'd quit." "Jesus!" "Why is everybody whispering?" "Is that normal?" "They want this circus to end so they can go to the party." "It's really good to have your support." "Thanks!" "I was twenty minutes late because I was at the dressmaker... buttoning the thirty tiny buttons on my gown." "Hurry, Mrs. Eulália!" "I'm almost done, wait." "Twenty-seven, twenty-eight..." "Hurry!" "My God!" "What, a button fell off?" "No, there's one too many." "I counted it wrong and it's out." "I'm starting all over." "Shit!" "What did you say?" "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." "I meant... shit indeed!" "Shit indeed!" "Where is Mercedes, Gustavo?" "Don't ask me, Monica." "My!" "You're so elegant in that suit!" "I'm afraid of catching some skin disease, it's borrowed." "Relax." "Everybody's so anxious!" "Yeah." "Look how happy my husband is." "Wait." "Who's that woman talking to him?" "Oh, it's his sister." "Jesus!" "Don't be so jealous." "Mercedes keeps telling you that." "She's seeing things." "Who's that woman talking to Carlos Ernesto now?" "Stop, Dad!" "It looks like you're taking me to the gallows!" "My daughter... you say this because you never married a child!" "It was hard to step into the church with dad like that." "He cried throughout the ceremony." "You're so cute as a groom!" "And you're a gorgeous bride." "What's with your father?" "People will think he's having a stroke!" "Don't start." "Look, your mother." "Thank God!" "I thought she'd wear black!" "No, she's in purple." "Very appropriate for the occasion." "We always hear that story that we're two halves of an orange... and that life is only meaningful when you find your other half." "I don't know anybody who wants to be an orange." "Have you ever asked anyone what their dream was... and they answered, to be a whole orange?" "We are here in the house of the Lord..." "If his wig falls off, you grab it and make it your bouquet." "Stop that, I feel like peeing!" "In this happy day, Father, please receive... your children, who engage in matrimony today." "Gustavo and I exchanged the rings, danced the waltz, cut the cake... we did everything bride and groom do, all the way." "When we got to the hotel and he closed the door... we knew our marriage wouldn't be like the others." "He didn't say "alone at last"." "He said..." "Together at last." "And I was sure that if I had problems one day... it wouldn't be out of unhappiness." "Not really." "I'm a Math teacher." "I worked in two schools for many years... but now I only teach private classes." "I'm a very good teacher." "My students love me." "I earn more as a private teacher... and I have more time to dedicate myself to my true calling." "Nice painting." "You like it?" "The fine arts." "Looks better." "At least I think that's my true calling." "My family is normal." "Typical, I'd say." "Kids, husband, house chores." "Today I decided to cook something special." "Thiago, go change that shirt." "It's clean, Mum." "I can smell it from here." "I love roast beef!" "It's chicken." "Dad, the chicken is breathing." "Great!" "Roast beef?" "It's chicken." "We're fucked." "You haven't eaten yet?" "Let's start." "Let's start..." "Looks good." "Is it good?" "I don't know what to say about me." "I'm authoritarian, I'm also stubborn..." "I'm rational, I'm hardworking... and I'm a disaster in the kitchen." "Maria!" "Maria, you forgot the glass!" "Is it good?" "I think I'm promiscuous, doctor." "I'm so many women in one..." "Some men, too." "Prepare yourself for a group therapy!" "I'm just kidding, alright?" "Of course it hurts to be nice, Gustavo!" "I don't like bingos, I hate bazaars, I loathe charity tea parties... and Monica brought me to a bingo-bazaar tea party!" "Only killing!" "I'm gonna kill her." "I don't know where she is." "I tried her cell." "I don't know." "I'm gonna kill Monica!" "Don't hang up, Gustavo." "While Monica is not here you can save me." "If I'm having a good time?" "A lot!" "I just feel like slashing my wrists." "There's a woman nodding at me." "I don't know her." "I really don't." "She's throwing kisses." "No, she's not flirting." "That'd be the day!" "Now she's coming my way and I can't escape." "Don't hang up!" "Don't hang up!" "Don't hang up, Gustavo!" "My dear!" "How are you?" "I'm fine." "So tell me, what's new?" "Only this friendship of ours." "Did you know your husband works with mine?" "Isn't that wonderful?" "Yeah." "May I sit down?" "Sure." "That's right." "Grown kids, doubled work." "As I always say, to be a mother is to age in paradise." "Sexual harassment is only a crime when the man is ugly." "Am I wrong?" "The last ones will the first..." "to complain." "Yeah?" "As my grandfather used to say... a German who eats sausage knows his sauerkraut." "I think I need a drink." "So do I." "It's amazing how we're alike!" "When I set my eyes on you I thought, Mercedes is just like me!" "Look, the same way about you, the sane tastes, the sane lifestyle." "I'II introduce you to my friends." "Every Wednesday we meet for a card game." "You wanna play cards?" "It was a pleasure." "Mercedes, I'm so admiring of you!" "Gustavo, you have no idea what happened to me!" "You won't believe it!" "How cone a lady in a pink scarf think she can be my friend?" "Just because her husband works with you!" "Besides, does a friend say "I'm admiring of you"?" "Does a friend say that?" "She does not!" "Does she?" "I'm completely different from her, aren't I?" "Completely different." "It's u-hu?" "Just u-hu?" "I am completely different." "So much I told her..." "I can't play cards every Wednesday because, unfortunately... on Wednesdays I work as a whore in a strip club downtown." "I work as a whore in a strip club downtown!" "You told her that?" "Of course I didn't!" "I felt for her boring chat as if I was enjoying it." "I don't believe I didn't say anything!" "I'm turning into one of those women, I'm sure I am!" "I'm a fool!" "Mercedes, can you stop talking now?" "How cone your crises always happen during the championship finals?" "They just do!" "But they always do!" "After we got married I was never able to watch a final in peace!" "Can't you set another date for your speech?" "What about the Feast of St. John?" "For years I've felt like a kermis guinea pig." "That's all I needed to experience after 20 years of marriage." "I'm here discussing with a guinea pig during my soccer game!" "That's exactly it!" "The guinea pig here ran into the first hole." "I wonder if it was the right one." "What do you think?" "Do you think I entered the right hole?" "What was in the others?" "What am I missing?" "I don't know about you, but I'm missing the game!" "And it'll be your fault if my team loses!" "You're so insensitive sometimes." "Did you know that?" "What happened?" "I also have a pink scarf." "So it wasn't just an impression, I really stepped into the wrong story." "I've been living the wrong story for years." "My marriage is not in a crisis... we have normal arguments, nothing serious... you know, these problems we blame our mother for." "But I don't have a mother." "My mother died when I was eight." "An aneurysm." "Our Lord is with thee, blessed are thou among women... and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus." "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners... now and at the hour of our death." "Amen." "Hail Mary, full of grace..." "After I lost my mother, nothing bad could ever happen to me." "But then something strange happened." "If they expected me to suffer..." "I surprised everyone becoming precociously mature... to avoid burdening my Dad." "I have missed my mother to this day." "Even thought I hardly remember her face." "No, no, no." "My father was so caring... so caring!" "I didn't cry for my mother that day." "And after that day I didn't cry for anyone." "You see?" "Why did I come here if everything's fine?" "A quest for self-knowledge?" "No, that's not a good answer for a good question." "What if I told you I'm afraid of being happy forever?" "What would you say?" "I love you too, Gustavo." "What was the name of that car... that had the switchgear on the steering wheel... it was real high and the front seat ran long like a sofa?" "You remember, Gustavo?" "That one where we could cuddle without sitting on the handbrake?" "Do you remember?" "Stop, César!" "Please stop or I'II..." "Let me do it, Mercedes." "Just at the door." "No, the door is locked." "Unlock this shit, Mercedes." "Don't you remember drama class?" ""Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."" "Stop it, César!" "Can't you be a little more romantic?" "You don't know shit." "You wear training trousers with moccasin... and you say "poblem"." "And what's the "poblem", Mercedes?" "I don't wanna see you again." "Mercedes!" "I miss César so much!" "Aero Willys!" "Where's the sports page?" "Did you see it?" "Look for it and you'll find it." "Some people say that sex with love is very good... but without love it's even better." "It's your fault you dated him for a year and a half and married a virgin." "This is a demerit now?" "It was normal to marry as a virgin." "You didn't do it because you wanted to... but if your mother found out you were not a virgin she'd kill you." "And she would." "You say that because you mother had died when you net Gustavo." "That's why I gave up my cherry." "But you know what's going on?" "Gustavo and I are in a phase when everyday feels like Sunday." "Really?" "I love Sundays." "I mean the bed feels like Sunday, so uninteresting, uneventful!" "You must do something to change that." "You." "But I do!" "You do?" "I do." "When I'm alone, I turn to self-help." "Self-help?" "You mean you...?" "Are you paying with a credit card?" "Yes, please." "What?" "It's good, you know?" "Nothing that'd justify a confinement." "It's just normal." "Normal?" "It is normal." "Is it?" "It is normal!" "Why that look?" "Mercedes, do you...?" "What?" "You never did it?" "Never." "You sexual life must be tedious for you to need that." "You're mistaken." "The more I fuck, the more I'm excited." "Monica, I'm alone on my bed, my hands are idle... the imagination runs away!" "First, it walks around the block... there's no one in sight, then I'm in Hollywood with Mel Gibson!" "You really go far!" "Even in my imagination, if I went around the block I'd find my husband!" "Monica, you're so predictable." "What?" "You think it's not normal to have pleasure with your own husband?" "You think we can only have pleasure with our husbands?" "Mercedes!" "Cone on!" "It's because of this idea you make of your husband... that he's the hotshot, the player, the Iast romantic..." "Mercedes, I like him." "But I get angry because he's made you suffer many times." "You know what?" "I don't feel the need to..." "Masturbate." "Say it." "It sounds like a dirty word, but it's not." "Say it." "I don't masturbate." "I said it." "Are you happy?" "Wasn't our body made to feel pleasure?" "Then it doesn't matter how I touch it." "Okay, so next tine I'm at your house and answer the phone I'II say:" "She's in the bathroom masturbating." "Can you call in ten minutes?" "It's twenty." "Is it twenty?" "It's twenty." "Is it twenty?" "Yeah, it takes me a while..." "What?" "Is it credit or cash?" "Cash." "You see!" "I'm so ashamed!" "It's okay, relax." "But if you get hone and your husband is asleep, Mel Gibson night be busy." "The King of Rome heads for Madrid" "I think he did it!" "I think he did it!" "Mercedes, isn't that the woman from the soap opera?" "What did she say?" "She said it right" "She's old." "Don't tell me she's singing again." "Jesus!" "What a pain!" "She's singing again." "What did you say?" "Nothing." "I don't believe that I came to the theater on a Saturday!" "That can't be it!" "I've been here half an hour... but it feels like I've been here since Tuesday!" "When I leave here, I'll drink 'til I drop!" "And you'll get on my nerves saying my liver is not good anymore." "Now she only talks about my liver." "In the beginning she used to talk about my legs, my smile... my ass, my eyes." "Now it's the liver, the pancreas." "I'll tell you, that's loving someone's inner self!" "It's yours." "The King of Rome heads for Madrid" "I love Mercedes, the mother of my sons... so predictable!" "Will I be strong until the end?" "Bravo!" "Excellent!" "I love it!" "Encore!" "Beautiful!" "Beautiful!" "Did you really like it?" "Did I?" "I loved it." "I really did." "It's a shame it ended." "Gustavo?" "Your cell phone!" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hung up again." "The second time today." "Oh yeah?" "I'II take it to the bedroom and answer it there." "It's an unknown number." "What?" "Do you know all the numbers in my book?" "No, it was just written "unknown number"." "Do you know who it was?" "If it's an unknown number, how would I know?" "You said you'd answer it, I thought you were expecting a call." "I'm not expecting anything." "I don't want to disturb you." "Beautiful painting." "Gustavo is having an affair?" "He is, Monica... but that doesn't mean our marriage is over." "It just means that sometimes he goes out with another woman." "You know what I think?" "You don't think anything." "Gustavo is a typical man who loves soccer." "But sometimes he surprises me." "He loves the theater." "Other than that he's just like the others." "A good father, a good son, a great lover." "Only now he's some other woman's." "Do you suspect of anyone?" "I have no idea." "It's so lame to suspect your husband!" "Mercedes, stop it!" "There's a limit for your act." "I don't let Carlos Ernest look to the side." "If we're in the car and he adjusts the rear-view mirror..." "I ask him, what's going on?" "And does it do any good?" "It does." "It does not." "Gustavo is not mine, he's just part of my Iife." "Don't you know that saying, "People don't belong to us"?" "He night not belong to us, but he won't belong to anyone else!" "Can I be honest?" "It doesn't hurt me at all to think Gustavo has a lover." "While this is just a thought, it's all right." "You're so modern!" "I'm not Iike that." "I call him all the time, I search through his pockets..." "I smell his shirt, his underpants." "Monica, Gustavo is not being disloyal, he's just being unfaithful." "And you're a fool." "Why?" "Because I'm being rational?" "You are rationally irrational." "My friend, get real." "I know myself." "I know I can surprise myself any tine now." "That phone will still ring many times." "Let it ring." "You are crazy." "I almost envy Gustavo." "I can't think that he's wrong." "It's good to have a little danger to spice up our lives." "Who is it?" "It's Mercedes, Mariana's teacher." "And who's talking?" "I'm her brother." "Just a minute, please." "I'm going down there." "Ju!" "Ju!" "Hi, aunt Mercedes!" "I was shopping with your mother." "What are you doing here?" "I'm waiting for my boyfriend." "We're going to the movies and we'll meet here." "I know, that cute blond boy!" "Hi, Nordic Prince!" "How are you?" "Nice to meet you." "Diogo." "The next in the line, aunty!" "Bye." "Hi, Mercedes." "I'm Theo, Mariana's brother." "Theo?" "Yeah, Theo." "She said she can't have class today." "She's down with a cold." "Who?" "Mariana." "She tried to call you, but..." "Not, it's okay." "Tell her I'II call her on Thursday." "Today is Thursday." "On Friday." "To see if she's better." "You said you're her brother?" "I am." "But her brother doesn't live here." "No, I live in Europe." "I'm just visiting her." "You're her archeologist brother?" "That's me." "Weren't you motor-crossing in Patagonia?" "I was." "And weren't you going underwater fishing in the Caribbean?" "I will, next month." "Do you believe now that I'm Mariana's brother?" "I'm sorry." "You know, you must be careful these days." "You don't want to cone inside?" "Mari would love that." "AII right, just a little kiss." "On her." "I don't know if I agree that every love becomes a friendship... and wishing more than that is just immaturity." "I don't think so." "I need to know if I am someone..." "desirable." "Or if I provoke some gratuitous enchantment." "Although I love Gustavo and he loves me... we don't flirt anymore." "He looks at me with accustomed eyes, you know?" "I don't even know if he finds me beautiful or not." "And that makes no difference for him." "But it does for me." "These old elevators are slow, huh?" "Yeah." "We just forgot to press the floor button." "The other day, Lopes, I was parking my car in front of a construction." "When I was crossing the street, one of the workers shouted..." ""Look!" "That chicken is old but she makes good broth!"" "What are you laughing at?" "I have nothing to tell you." "Yet." "I forgot the glasses." "It's okay." "Are you dreaming?" "Yes, I am." "Don't dare wake me up." "Spike it, Renê!" "Are you sure?" "Yes!" "Spike it all out!" "Look, I'II make you regret it!" "Do it!" "Spike it all out!" "What happened to Mercedes?" "She looks like Rod Stewart." "Well, that's exactly what you see." "Mercedes has had her hair cut here for ten years..." "I've been here for 15 years myself... and today she cones here asking me to spike her hair." ""Spike it all out, Renê!"" "I said, spike, Mercedes?" "Are you sure?" "Tell me what's going on." "But she won't tell me, she just smiles and says "spike it!"" "When I saw she meant it, I spiked it." "You think my friend's gone crazy?" "No, it's just that the older they get, the more they love the spikes." "Oldies love spikes." "Really?" "That's funny..." "I thought they got blonde. 'Cause Women don't age, they get blonde." "Now we must find out what's behind Mercedes' spiked hair." "The way she is, plainer than white tiles... she now wants me to spike her hair?" "Something hot must be going on." "But what can that be?" "She'll visit the celebrities' castle." "You keep talking about it, huh?" "Do I?" "That's because of a man." "M-A-N." "So gays think like that, too?" "Of course we do." "Gays love spiked hair." "It's in our blood." "Mine is." "I see..." "Don't dare say it isn't." "Spike it, Renê!" "You see that she's not kidding." "Now she'll have it." "Yes, I had many girlfriends." "I liked some of them, I was even in love, but... there was always the hurry, the obligation to marry..." "That put a little stress on me." "Some people think I'm gay." "Really?" "I'm almost in my 40's and I've never been married." "Either the man doesn't like women... or he likes then so much he can't decide on one." "But my Iife is complicated." "I travel a lot, I'm always abroad." "That's not easy when you're married." "That's why I never got married." "Love is... impossible in my Iife." "It is totally impossible." "Oh, an impossible love!" "Women can't resist an impossible love!" "Who knows you're not the one to change my destiny?" "If I feel guilty?" "Oh, I do." "The unbearable guilt I feel!" "I didn't feel guilty at all." "Cone on, Lopes!" "I'm just giving myself a bonus for all my years of service." "That's all." "Look, it will be a quick affair, I'm not terribly in love with anyone." "It won't change what I feel about Gustavo... nor what I have built with him." "What about my mother?" "In every session we talk about my mother!" "Leave my mother alone." "Forget her!" "Hold it up when you inhale it." "I see." "Joints should cone with a filter." "Mercedes, you don't have to choke." "So...?" "It's interesting, but..." "I don't feel a thing." "Yeah?" "I must be resistant, right?" "So far... no effect at all." "Nothing?" "No." "Funny, huh?" "Wait." "Easy, 'cause this is strong." "It is?" "Give it to me, 'cause..." "I still haven't felt a thing." "It didn't hit you?" "It didn't hit me." "Wait." "I don't feel anything!" "A little more..." "Wait, I haven't..." "Funny, huh?" "It hit you now?" "No, it hasn't!" "It has, crazy woman!" "No, give it to me..." "I'm almost there." "My life has been really spiced up." "Put it away." "Why?" "It's so good!" "Put it away." "And I feel I'm prepared... to be this new person." "Documents, please." "Of course." "And the question I keep asking myself is: why not?" "Say it, Mercedes." "You sounded terrible on the phone." "Stop cleaning and tell me what's going on." "It's Theo." "What?" "He doesn't want you anymore?" "He left ne a message saying he wants to talk." "And...?" "He wants to talk, you see?" "And talking is a bad thing?" "It's a terrible thing." "When someone has something to say, they just say it." "But when someone says he needs to talk, it's not good." "And when they say "we need to talk", prepare yourself for the worst!" "Jesus!" "So that panicking, panting voice on the phone... was just because of the verb "to talk"?" "No, because of the tone on his voice, too." "Listen to it." "Maybe someone from his family died." "Hence the baritone voice." "I hate woman's intuition." "Mine has never born good news." "I don't fancy this bachelor's life anymore." "I don't feel like being all around anymore." "I feel like settling down, you know." "I've never dreamed of being that guy drinking a dry martini... with a towel around his waist." "I want to have a wife, kids, a home... an adult life." "I'm married, Theo." "It's been twenty years." "I have my husband, my sons." "I can't change my Iife like that." "Mercedes..." "I net this girl... she's single, free... she's crazy to have a child." "What could I say after that?" "What argument could I have?" "I didn't love that guy, I'm sure of that." "It wasn't love." "But what was it?" "I was happy, I was calm, I was focused... and I was hit real hard." "It's an awful feeling." "It wasn't love." "No, it wasn't love, it was... it was luck, an escapade... a kinky deal." "Two cell phones off." "No, it wasn't love." "It was winter, it was fearlessness." "It wasn't love." "It was better." "What's this mush you're preparing?" "This is to hydrate Mercedes' hair and unspike it." "That's her thing now." "You know what?" "She's doing a good thing." "You spike it once, you'll always do it." "She'll be back." "It's okay to have an affair." "I'm all for it." "No, of course I'm not." "I'm just changing my concepts." "But you must be discrete." "The way Mercedes was... it was just like putting on an outdoor billboard:" "Gustavo is being cheated." "Yeah, but this is nine and it's expensive." "You didn't notice I was here?" "It seems no one can see me." "Then get this 60-inch plasma TV off your face." "Is it a giveaway?" "But it's my eye shadows." "When I woke up this morning, they were under the eyes... now they're over my chin." "Don't exaggerate it." "But yeah, you look awful." "Why didn't you blush it or something?" "I don't want to get my tears all made up." "You've never been the crying type!" "What's the story now?" "Now I cry." "I cry all the time." "I think it was all restrained." "I've even cried out a tumble when I was ten years old." "So cry it all out, Mercedes!" "This not-crying business is for samurais, cowboys..." "Me, as a..." "You're gay, huh?" "I wasn't saying gay, I was saying as a Brazilian..." "I'm sorry." "Me as a softhearted Brazilian man..." "I cry, too." "Recently, I have cried." "Me too." "You have?" "I have cried all the time!" "I was at the supermarket and saw the chicken on sale... and I burst into tears!" "I understand you." "The chicken price is rocketing." "But listen, the guy says that you're beautiful, you're sexy... if you're a fool who's been married for 20 years, don't you believe it?" "Of course you do." "And if he lived in Amsterdam, you go to bed with him." "Of course you do." "But it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?" "While it lasted it didn't bother anyone." "But now it's ended it's ruining my marriage." "Was it good?" "Which chair, Love?" "Straw or aluminum?" "Aluminum." "Then we'll get four straw ones." "Why did you ask my opinion, then?" "Because I love you." "What are you feeling, love?" "Why are you sad?" "No, I'm okay." "If I can do anything to cheer you up, let me know." "Thanks." "I need to go to the bathroom." "I'II be back." "What's up, my friend?" "It's the most humiliating thing..." "Gustavo drying the tears that aren't for him." "Comforting the pain caused by another man." "My friend." "Oh, my friend..." "Where's Carlos Ernesto?" "He's over there getting information with that..." "Very beautiful." "Tell me something, have you ever lived in Copacabana?" "In Copacabana?" "No." "Where have I seen you?" "...with that young woman there." "I'II be back." "We never forget." "Thank you." "So, what do you think?" "I think this bed is beautiful." "Changing the bed night be good." "Let's see if we fit." "It's comfortable." "It's roomy, huh?" "Very." "What if I'm reading and you're sleeping?" "I'm sleeping." "I can even have nightmares." "I can move about and not wake you up." "Yes, I'II keep sleeping." "What if I have a headache and you feel hot?" "I feel hot..." "Now my leg's hurting from soccer and you massage it." "Wait, wait." "Do it." "Is it good?" "It's wonderful!" "It's so good!" "Jesus!" "Gustavo, Mercedes!" "For God's sake, you're in a public place!" "You can't do it!" "What?" "We're just trying new positions to see..." "You wanna go to jail?" "That's one excited couple!" "You see, Love?" "Quiet, you're that hot too." "Guys, you can't try the Kamasutra in here!" "You are crazy!" "It's not what you're thinking." "It's not what I'm thinking?" "And what are the positions a couple practice in bed?" "Tell me." "Leave them alone." "Hello!" "You're crazy!" "Cone on, Gustavo!" "So, did you Iike it?" "Are you buying it?" "I Iike the ceiling." "So do I." "Let's buy the ceiling." "Gift wrap the ceiling, please." "Gustavo!" "Gustavo, the food is getting cold!" "I'II look for an apartment tomorrow." "I remember the last night Gustavo and I slept together." "Because we weren't obvious, like other couples... that, when they decide to separate, they move out of the bedroom... before they even move out of the house." "Not us." "Even without sex, we slept together... until the Iast night." "Do you believe that?" "Gustavo?" "Are you sleeping?" "No." "Why?" "What, Mercedes?" "Are you alright?" "I don't know." "Is everything alright?" "The end seems to be inevitable, right?" "It might be good." "The end is never good." "If it were good, it'd be the beginning." "Did you understand everything that I explained you?" "Yes, Your Honor." "Yes, Your Honor." "Mr. Gustavo, is there any possibility of reconciliation?" "No!" "No!" "No!" "My voice came out even louder than I wanted it." "No!" "No!" "I answered right on the spot." "I didn't want to hear his answer." "I will never know what he'd have answered." "We still Love each other." "We just don't want each other anymore." "How can that be?" "Wake me up when my session is over." "Mum, I'm gonna sleep at dad's house, okay?" "Bye, son." "Bye, man." "Bye." "Mum, I'm gonna sleep at Cacá's house, okay?" "Kiss." "Bye, son." "WEDDING VIDEO" "Are you happy?" "Yes, I'm very happy." "We are." "What about children?" "I'd like to have two sons and Botafogo fans!" "Flamengo fans!" "What do you hope for the future?" "A future with no shocks." "Me too!" "What now, Mercedes?" "Who are we, when separated?" "Are we ran out of air TV show... that nobody turned off and keeps hissing in the dark?" "Are we the memory of a kiss that didn't happen?" "If you didn't want to be unhappy with me... will you know how to be unhappy alone?" "I'd like to have two sons, and Botafogo fans!" "Flamengo fans!" "What do you hope for the future?" "A future with no shocks." "Me too!" "And I also hope for lots of love and complicity." "I know I'm in good hands." "Mercedes." "Gustavo." "Long time no see!" "We only talk over the phone now." "That's right." "Seven months." "Nine." "Nine months" "Nine months!" "Are you well?" "I'm fine." "Are you?" "I'm fine." "What about you?" "I'm fine." "Good." "You look well." "Do I?" "But I'm fine." "I'm great." "You look great, too." "You're different." "You are different." "Is your hair different?" "If I'm changing, so does my hair." "Look at this!" "85 bucks?" "!" "You never bought expensive wines." "You really changed!" "I just like wines better now." "And imported chestnuts as well." "You never likes chestnuts." "You didn't like jelly either." "They say jelly is good for the skin, so I decided to buy it." "And they say chestnut and wine is good for the heart, so I'm trying." "Good." "Good." "So you're well?" "I'm fine." "You too, right?" "I'm just like you." "Yes, we..." "What about us?" "We get used to it, huh?" "Listen, Gustavo, isn't anything troubling you?" "Haven't you cried?" "Don't you realize the mess we made?" "Don't you wonder day and night if we did the right thing?" "Don't you?" "Did you tell him that?" "Of course I didn't!" "Except for the retroactive hate, it's all right." "I've just found out divorce is only good for battered wives." "You wake up all happy and say, good morning!" ""Good morning my ass!" Bang!" "You know what I think?" "It's time you got yourself a boyfriend." "Get out!" "A boyfriend is trouble." "What are you laughing at?" "Nothing." "What do you mean, nothing?" "What is it?" "I'm gonna tell you, but you'll get mad at me." "Carlos Ernesto said you're a "sugar apple woman"." "What do you mean?" "It's harder to eat than it looks." "Will you do ne a favor?" "I will." "Tell your husband to fuck off." "Jesus, Mercedes!" "Gee!" "Isn't your exam ready?" "I had it last week, it must be ready." "Mrs." "Monica Vilela AIencar?" "That's me." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Look, it's here." "Is everything okay?" "Yes, it is." "Is it really okay?" "Yes." "I'm thinking about Carlos Ernesto." "He was so worried about this he didn't even have breakfast this morning." "He's worried and he's not here?" "He couldn't come." "I know." "You really don't get it, do you?" "Everything I ever wanted is connected to him." "I never dreamed of success, I never dreamed of a career..." "I just wanted this: to be his wife, to take care of our family... to have a beautiful house, with flowers on the vase everyday." "I'm old, Mercedes." "I was old even when I was young." "And from what I see, you'll be old until you age." "My dear friend!" "A sauna is relaxing, huh?" "It was a good idea." "It's great, it's good for your skin... it's even good for shaving." "Are you in?" "I'm not going to shave here." "What?" "Men shave their beard in the sauna, why can't we?" "First, because we have no beard." "Second, Carlos Ernesto night see me and attack me!" "Forget it!" "He's working." "Relax." "Mercedes, I forgot to tell you!" "Guess who I bumped into in the supermarket the other day?" "Monica!" "Gustavo!" "My God!" "Long time no see!" "Carlos Ernesto told ne you net." "I was with this girl." "Preferably a young, fit girl in a miniskirt!" "A young, fit girl in miniskirt..." "It's not womanizing." "Really." "You know what divorcees are like." "When you've been married for 20 years, you don't know who you are." "And you need a pretty girl to get to know yourself." "What?" "Forget it." "Mercedes told ne you're sailing with the boys." "We're gonna spend two weeks in a boat in Ilha Grande." "He never invited me to go to Ilha Grande." "Never!" "That's not fair with Mercedes!" "You never took her there." "When you were married, there was no Ilha Grande!" "Right, when we were married there was no Ilha Grande." "In fact, I invented Ilha Grande yesterday..." "I went to the notary and registered it:" "Ilha Grande!" "I'm telling you!" "Mercedes is afraid of the sea, of the wind!" "Are you afraid of the wind?" "No!" "I can picture her telling ne she's not afraid of the wind." "Her biggest sea dare was to go to Paquetá!" "You like Paquetá?" "Paquetá?" "Only the author of "A Moreninha" likes it." "I doubt it." "Mercedes hates Paquetá." "Okay, Monica." "Gustavo, now I see." "You're not wearing glasses." "Really?" "He must be handsome without then." "It was tine you noticed." "I had my myopia corrected." "Mercedes thinks you're handsome without then." "Okay, I must be going." "It was great seeing you." "Just one more thing..." "I'II never forgive you for your separation." "We're just trying to turn one boring life into two exciting ones." "And he left with that punch line." "I'm amazed." "Yeah, he tried to fake it, but his relationship is serious." "You know what?" "I don't care." "That's right." "Lying to yourself now is the best solution." "My!" "So much smoke!" "Is the house on fire?" "Smoky is modern." "Don't cough, you'll give away your age!" "A single's bar is for whores?" "Cone on!" "It's a classy place." "But the classy men have all gone away." "Let's beat it!" "No!" "My friend Tania was married eight tines... and she said I can't stay home watching TV." "Tania who?" "Otherwise I'II die alone." "That's bullshit." "Love will cone when you least expect it." "But I've been waiting too long." "I really wanted to find a handsome, charming man!" "You need it." "I do." "A man who isn't dumb." "Someone who kisses well." "Not that awful, hollow kiss you keep looking for the guy's tongue!" "That's right." "It's exhausting." "I kiss my husband a lot." "I know, the player." "Just last night..." "I looked and he was sleeping with his mouth open..." "I felt attracted for that man and I went for it!" "I almost choked him!" "You're crazy!" "I love this song!" "Let's dance!" "Mercedes..." "Let's dance!" "I haven't danced for years." "How many?" "Fifteen years!" "What?" "What happened?" "I hurt my back!" "It hurts!" "Mercedes?" "To make things worse, Theo's here!" "Who?" "Theo!" "Your ex-boyfriend Theo is coming our way." "Isn't that him?" "Dance!" "Dance!" "I need a drink." "How are you, Mercedes?" "How are you, Theo?" "To find you here!" "And to find you here!" "I thought you'd be busy with baby bottles." "Well, it didn't work." "It didn't?" "I can imagine..." "The girl wanted to marry and you jumped out?" "Yeah, more or less." "So Live up your dry martini phase." "Good Luck." "It really suits you." "Acupuncture for a month!" "I spent a fortune." "I almost didn't cone today." "But I called your secretary... and she said that it was okay, I could miss it but I'd have to pay." "I asked her if I had to pay, she said, yes, you do!" "Then I came." "By the way, two years ago when I started coming here... it wasn't that expensive." "What happened?" "It rose higher than gasoline?" "We must try to be happy." "That's why I got rid of 120 pounds of useless fat!" "How did you do that?" "I asked for a divorce!" "That's a good one!" "Listen, I want these four and those six pieces there." "You didn't like anything." "I don't know." "Cone on, we've known each other for years." "You know these are all original clothes." "I can see it." "In how many installments can I pay?" "Six installments." "Can it be sixteen?" "Cone on, you know I can't do that." "Cut it off, Mercedes." "Buy it, you'll be dressed to kill." "I'II kill my budget." "Monica, I'II use your bathroom, okay?" "What happened to her face?" "Was it an accident?" "Bioplasty." "They want to remain young and exaggerate it." "But she's very well." "You know how old she is?" "I have no idea." "Between 55 and dead." "Come on!" "She's 45." "That's crazy!" "When I net her, she was Brazilian, now she's a Japanese!" "Frozen." "Fear of aging, my friend." "Oh, this fear is awful." "By the way, does Ju say "man" or "guy"?" "I don't know." "Ask her." "She's in her bedroom studying Physics with a friend." "Won't I be inconvenient?" "No way." "Go in there, she'll love to have a break." "I'II go there, then." "Aunt Mercedes!" "Aunt Mercedes?" "Aunt Mercedes, what are you doing here?" "I'm not doing anything, unlike you." "I'II cone by later." "No, no, we're just having a break!" "Having a break?" "You're just having it!" "I don't want to disturb you, I just needed to consult you." "Okay." "What is it?" "I just wanted to know... when you meet someone, you call him "man" or "guy"?" "Man, I think I say "guy"." "What else do you say?" "Cone on, Aunt Mercedes!" "I can't come on." "Cone on!" "I can't come on, damn!" "Tell him he's got a good vibe." "A vibe?" "Yes, a vibe, aunty!" "You like his vibe!" "Just one more thing..." "What does "to score" mean?" "I'm gonna "score" today!" "So you're really going out with a younger man?" "Yes." "But I'm so worried." "But why?" "You're an attractive woman." "But what about my tits, my ass?" "Relax." "Younger men don't notice that." "Their high testosterone levels blind then for cellulites." "That's great, I feel very confident now." "I remember something a friend of nine told me." "She was dating a much younger man." "You know those anti-varix stockings that are very tight?" "So, she says the legs get firm, the ass gets firm it holds everything up." "Yeah, even your circulation." "I won't meet the guy with high-compression stockings!" "It's the only way." "After your 40's, it's all downhill." "I know." "Only your gun lifts." "I won't do it." "He'll look at my legs and think it's contagious." "Come on!" "When it comes to it, you take it off." "And how did you meet him?" "At the gyn." "People who go there are all almost the same age." "I loved it." "And where will you go?" "I don't know." "He'll take ne to a place called "gig"." "Is it a restaurant?" "No, it must be some bar with live music." "A romantic place." "Certainly a place for young but romantic people." "What's up, brother?" "Hey, Mercedes!" "You know it was the first tine I listened to the White Stripes?" "Really?" "Man!" "They kiss ass!" "I thought you've known then all you life!" "Really?" "Isn't my car sound a blast?" "Yeah, I'm practically deaf!" "Let's hit the dance floor!" "I love this DJ!" "My sons love him, too." "Your sons?" "!" "Shit, I mentioned my sons." "It's alright, babe." "You cool." "I feel the vibe!" "I feel the vibe!" "I feel the vibe..." "Are you better?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "I don't know why they keep bumping against us." "Must be the dark glasses, right?" "Yeah." "But are you enjoying it?" "Psyched!" "It's gay." "Who's gay?" "No, this is a gay club." "These are the best places, no stress, no problems, you know?" "It's cool." "Very cool!" "Very cool!" "Wanna hit it?" "Why?" "Let's do it!" "On the big cheese?" ""Big cheese"?" "Are you enjoying it?" "Yeah!" "What do you see from up here?" "A bunch of shirtless, muscular gays!" "What?" "I feel the vibe!" "I feel like making out." "What do you mean?" "In the bathroom." "In the bathroom?" "Yeah..." "Just a minute, I'II get ready for you." "A minute?" "Yeah, just a minute." "Alright." "It's busy, man." "Why did I put on these damn stockings?" "If I die today my soul won't slip away!" "Murilo?" "Are you alright?" "I'm alright." "Are you?" "I am." "I know what you were doing in there." "You do?" "One less thing I have to hide from you." "I see." "My hands are stiff!" "Both hands?" "Both." "It takes some sacrifice to get rid of some things." "Don't you think we should just dance?" "Now?" "No, I'm just warning up!" "What, Lopes?" "He's just a few years younger than me." "Murilo, how old are you?" "Nineteen." "I'm not telling you how old he is." "You night just turn me in to the authorities." "The important thing is that he's a nature young man." "If he hears ne saying "nature young man"!" "Are you hungry?" "I'm starving." "What about we order Japanese?" "No." "Japanese food sucks." "I don't like anything raw." "After being savaged by you..." "Me?" "I can cook for you." "What do you think?" "I'd love that." "What does the gourmet have to offer?" "Let's see what I have." "Just a second." "Hot cheese." "Why that face, Lopes?" "I'm not that omnipotent." "I know everything that will happen." "The relation will develop, I'II fall in love... then I'II suffer when it ends... because it will end one day." "One day he'll go away, I have no more illusions." "What about my mother?" "I don't have a mother." "Others have never had a great love, or haven't fulfilled their dreams..." "Each person has to live with his own unfulfilled dreams." "Isn't that right?" "Discharged?" "But why discharged?" "Just now I'm having some fun." "My mother, I don't know, but you..." "I'II miss you very much." "Mercedes, believe me." "They say this cream makes you Look 10 years younger in 20 days." "So you should be in your 20's, 'cause you've been using it for two months." "What is it made of?" "Cucumber, passion fruit pulp and redwood scrapings." "Cucumber, passion fruit and redwood?" "Funny, they're three wrinkled things." "What are you doing?" "Facial exercises." "Do it with me." "Three times each sequence." "That's witchcraft, not a treatment." "You'll thank me later." "You'll see the results tonight." "Tonight I'II have nightmares about my own face!" "It's burning a little..." "It's psychological." "If it burns, it heals." "But I'm not sick." "It's really burning..." "It is!" "It's burning, Monica!" "It's burning too much!" "It's burning!" "You're influencing me." "Now nine's burning, too." "Did I get the wrong cream?" "What was this thing doing in my nécessaire?" "Mercedes, take it off!" "This is urucun cream for treating boils!" "Boils?" "Boils." "Boils?" "Boils." "Who prescribed you this?" "Ernesto's proctologist, for the boils in his groins." "That's disgusting!" "How cone you're married to a man with groins?" "Relax, he's a very good doctor." "Give me some cloth, quick!" "My cheek is draining!" "My cheek is draining!" "Calm down." "At least our faces will be boil-free." "My pretty face looks like a textured wall!" "Come on!" "Looks like you've been to the beach." "It's just red." "I've been to the beach and scratched my face on the sand!" "I'm gonna kill you!" "I'm gonna kill you!" "Cone here!" "I'm gonna kill you!" "You look like a heron!" "Cone here!" "She was sick and I didn't know." "She didn't tell anyone." "When I knew, I thought I'd never forgive her for keeping this secret." "Then I realized I'd never forgive myself for not noticing it." "Hi, my friend." "This is crazy, huh?" "I was following my treatment." "Don't strain..." "Why did you do that?" "Everybody's worried." "Everybody is out there to see you." "I don't wanna see anybody before I talk to you." "Have you heard the news?" "Ju is going out with your son." "I know, of course." "I thought you'd be worried." "I've already made an appointment with the shrink for him." "Ju didn't take after her mother." "She did, my friend." "Mercedes... if anything happens to me... will you take care of Ju... and not abandon Carlos Ernesto?" "Stop that." "Don't talk nonsense." "I will, but only if you promise me." "You're talking nonsense, I will fight with you." "Promise, Mercedes." "You're such a bore!" "And promise me you won't cry either." "Who's crying?" "You are." "Don't cry." "I won't cry." "Then get my makeup case... it's over the table... and tidy me up a little." "Carlos Ernesto has never seen ne without my mascara." "He'll find ne strange." "Cancer is a disease that makes us unpresentable." "You're exaggerating, my friend." "You know what you look like?" "That you haven't slept well, that's all." "I'm so ugly!" "I'm so ugly." "Get me a light lipstick." "It's more appropriate for the occasion." "The hair..." "I think it's best to tie it." "I didn't have time to have the roots retouched." "And the blush... is the orange one that's almost finished." "The eye shadow is new." "The colors are beautiful." "Mercedes, you choose the color you want." "Now be quiet." "You must rest, okay?" "Wow, the eye shadows are beautiful indeed." "Chanel, huh?" "Classy." "You know what I was thinking just the other day?" "Close your eyes for me." "So you rest a little as well." "We could travel just like the old tines... when we used to go to Búzios." "Remember the fun we had?" "Just the two of us, right?" "Carlos Ernesto stays with Ju, Gustavo stays with the boys." "It will be very good." "Another thing that I really need to do is to shop for clothes." "I can't do these things without you." "This shadow is really beautiful." "Open your eyes, Monica." "I'II smudge it under your eyes." "Open your eyes, Monica." "It was a rare type of cancer." "To die fast for me, Lopes, is a victory." "To reach the official goal without any extra tine." "I have talked about Monica so much in this room." "But I did it in the present tense." "It will be very difficult to talk about her in the past." "I miss her so much!" "You know what I miss?" "Her friendship." "Monica was so happy... with whomever she wanted, the way she wanted... with the womanizer who's not getting any now." "And she made me happy." "So I think... wherever she is, if she's well, in peace..." "I have no alternative." "I must be well, too." "Isn't that right?" "Chinese, Gustavo?" "Yes, Silvinha loves it." "I've learned to like it too." "It was my curse." ""Gustavo's next wife will love shark's fin, she'll hate barbecue... and will only sit at the table when the food's cold!"" "You got a problem?" "No, Carlos Ernesto dropped by yesterday." "Is he okay?" "How's he?" "He didn't even come up." "He just left an envelope and this picture." "Look." "My God!" "That's New Year's Eve in nineteen, eighty..." "Three." "Eighty-three." "Four teenagers, huh?" "Look at you with the black hair, still." "No, stop." "Look at Monica." "Monica, so beautiful." "It must've been hard on you." "I meant to call you..." "I know you meant it, and that's enough." "When I saw this picture, I thought..." "life rushes by us..." "and I was afraid, you know." "Fear of dying?" "No, not fear of dying... fear of letting life rush by and never say it." "Say what?" "The essential." "Because we never say the essential, right?" "And when Monica died..." "I realized I had so many things I wanted to tell her, and I never did." "What, for example?" "I never told her she was sweet... a great woman... and I thought about buying the ring she wanted... but the shop was too far away, so... well..." "But I really thought I don't want anything kept in here, so..." "I needed to thank you." "Thank ne for what?" "Everything." "Like what?" "The best things in my Iife." "Mercedes, I feel guilty." "I've never given you anything." "What?" "You found ne attractive, you showed me I could be beautiful... you wanted to marry me, you wanted to have children with me." "You laughed at the silly things I said... you wanted to travel with me... you wanted to share everything with me." "But you also gave ne all that, you don't owe me anything." "Yes, I do." "I even owe you our separation without lawyers." "You didn't want anything!" "I must thank you." "You know, Gustavo... that couple we were... will never cease to exist." "So, every time I see you with Soninha..." "Silvinha." "I'm sorry." "Every time I see you with Cidinha..." "Silvinha." "I got it wrong again." "Sorry." "So, every time I see you with little Missy..." "Sorry." "I'm kidding." "It's just I get a Little jealous, you know." "It's nothing serious, just this ex-wife thing." "A jealous ex-wife!" "No, you know what it's like?" "It feels like I got this very special dress, an Armani... and I lent it to a girlfriend." "And this girlfriend put on the dress... and it fit her much more beautifully... than it fit me." "Then she went for a big party, got the dress all dirty... spilled wine on it, dirty it, and the dress... is still much more beautiful on her... than it was on me." "Do you... regret having Lent that Armani to your friend?" "No, I don't." "But she must take good care of it to deserve it." "Or else...?" "I'II get it back." "We look for a therapist to find definitions... and then after three years together you realize that... there is no definition." "Life is lack of definition." "It's really transitory." "Now I get it." "There's no right hole, there's no nap for the nine." "The map is ever-changing... the nine can explode anytime and anywhere." "Isn't that so?" "I think I will discharge you." "Because I will never be ready." "AII I need is to live well with my mess, with my inconstancy... and with the surprises life brings us." "Talking about surprises, I'm loving my new paintings." "Yes, it's been a therapy for me." "As for the rest, Lopes, life goes on." "The sun keeps spotting my skin, my sons keep troubling me..." "Mel Gibson keeps rocking my imagination!" "Thank you, Lopes, for everything!" "You laugh?" "That means my life is amusing." "Because now I know, if I had problems one day... it wasn't out of unhappiness." "It really wasn't." "Lopes!" "I'm so glad you made it." "You smoke?" "Who would've thought!" "And you drink, too." "Who is she?" "Your girlfriend?" "Pleased to meet you." "You fuck too, Lopes?" "It's so good to see you're real!" "Subtitles By:" "Dan4Jem"