Fuori (2025) Movie Script
[clanking]
[sound of footsteps]
[guard] Does he wear a wig?
No, they are my own.
Do a split-legged push-up.
[groans]
[crying]
Yes, I read that you are looking for
a housekeeping person in the hotel.
You have already found, I see.
But I can leave you my number
in case you need -- I mean....
No, I have no experience
in a facility like yours, however....
55 years.
Ah.
All right, thank you. Thank you anyway.
[man] I'm sorry,
but I don't see any references here.
She has never done this work.
And she's not even a little girl,
but who guarantees me?
But I can also just do, um.
What's his name? The assistant cook.
I can do everything in the kitchen.
Ma'am, we are full.
- Do you want coffee?
- Yes.
Romolo, make the lady a coffee.
- [female voice] Yes?
- Hello?
[hesitating] If you're looking for mom...
Is not there. Mom is gone.
No, I was not looking for Mrs. Brandi,
I was looking for Roberta.
[Roberta] I am Roberta.
My goodness, you've gone off the deep end,
I recognized you right away.
What the fuck do you want?
Roberta, what's wrong with you?
[Roberta gasps]
Roberta, are you there?
[Roberta] No, I went out.
I went out.
Look, Roberta, don't joke. Come on.
Will we see each other?
[Roberta] No, look, don't...
I don't have time,
because I have a lot of things to do.
- Ah.
- You just happened to catch me today.
I'll tell you what, Goliarda,
when I can, I'll call you back. Okay?
- All right.
- [Roberta] Okay?
Okay, all right, I got it.
Bye, goodbye, all right.
- Goliarda. How are you?
- Goliarda] Lace.
It's been a long time since we've seen you around.
The day before yesterday we were at Lotto's house.
- Ah!
- I thought I would meet you.
But was there a dinner? I didn't know.
[Lace] Oh, sorry.
[plays "Round Midnight"" by Robert Wyatt].
[phone rings]
- Hello?
- Roberta] Hello, Goliarda.
Where were you? You disappeared.
But how? I called you this morning.
[Roberta] What are you doing?
Ah, I was sleeping.
[Roberta] Then what?
Also,
I'm always out looking for a job.
[Roberta] Ah, you still believe that?
I have an eviction notice, I don't have
a lira. I don't want to lose my house.
[Roberta] Whatever, it's useless anyway.
I told you it is useless.
Goliarda, where are you? Can you hear me?
Yes, yes, Roberta, I can hear you.
I'm giving you a date, do you understand?
Ah, not really.
[Roberta] Goliarda, here we have to get a move on
a move or it's the end.
[Goliarda laughs].
Of course.
So, you absolutely must be
tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. at the North Rome bar,
two steps away from you. Understand which one?
Yes, yes, I understand. Yes.
Mmm. At the subway bars, you understand?
And don't sit at the tables.
But how do you know that.
I sit at the tables?
[Roberta] I know all about you, you cunt.
Then at 11:00, okay?
[laughing] Okay.
[Roberta] How ugly this church is.
- Hi.
- Hi.
I get it, you need coffee.
Me too for the truth,
who's been hanging around all morning.
Let's make it quick, I'll pay.
- Here we go. Two coffees.
- Good morning.
Thank you.
You carry the wind.
[inaudible dialogue]
[Roberta] Come here.
[Goliarda] Where are we going?
[Roberta] You will see.
Who was that guy?
He longed for you.
I believe that.
Three years of abstinence.
He got out of prison yesterday.
- I would never have said that.
- I know.
You can see that he has not lost his balance
And that he moves well in traffic.
Good for him.
But do you like it?
I like.
Yes.
One should not take them for starvation, though.
Too easy.
And then, if it doesn't work,
you create messes for them, poor people.
But.
If I hadn't called you,
Would you have looked for me anyway?
Of course I would have looked for you.
Why?
What the fuck do I know why, Goliard.
- Why?
- I don't know.
I told you I don't know.
You nasty beast!
I don't know.
This is ours.
I was born there, I grew up there,
all you want, however one day
that I was alone, I came here,
And here, I here realized.
I was living in Rome.
I cried, but with tears.
But I was crying alone like this.
People were passing around me,
bumping into me,
he didn't understand,
he would ask me if I needed help.
- Was it the first time you saw him?
- No, it wasn't.
How was it the first time?
It was the first time I realized.
- Would you bring me two whiskeys, please?
- Man] Sure.
- With lots of ice.
- Now.
Excuse me? Okay, thank you.
- That's good, isn't it?
- Yes, yes.
Now what?
Now we wait for Albert.
- Do you have an appointment with him?
- Yes.
Approximate date,
within three hours.
[laughing]
Oh.
Albert has to earn his keep
as well as being my machine.
- As a driver.
- No.
Driver would be humiliating.
He is really my outlier,
glazed, powerful.
- Are you in love with him?
- With Albert?
What are you, crazy? No.
No, it is useful to me.
But he knows.
Oh, will you stop with all these questions?
To love someone
who is also necessary to you
doesn't fit into the categories of love
for you?
- But yes, of course.
- Eh! So.
- Thank you.
- You are welcome.
[laughing]
[Roberta] Ah!
[Roberta laughs].
Exaggerated!
Now we get another one. Check.
What did I do?
I fell asleep.
Dreaming.
You don't like to be seen naked, huh?
[Goliarda laughs].
But how does it come to you?
How the fuck do you get it? Explain to me
How is it possible that you always ask me
such strange questions.
I don't even know what to call them,
I have a statistic on your questions.
There was one
That has to do with reality.
I get out of prison,
we meet by chance,
You call me, I call you back, you don't ask me
How or why I went out,
Or that I do now that I'm out.
Also today,
I did it on purpose to show you
That guy was passing something to me,
And you no questions. And if I didn't want to,
you would never have noticed.
Did you get it, yes or no?
Yes, I understood that.
Understood.
Do you want another one?
[Goliard] Yes.
Boy, bring me two more whiskeys,
please?
- Of course.
- The ice especially was fabulous.
- And I mean.
- Huh?
Did you have it all figured out?
But if you understand so many things,
how is it that you don't realize
that it looks like a tactic
To win trust?
That you pose as an intellectual scatterbrain,
in the clouds?
He is a character
who no longer enchants anyone today.
Why do you suspect me?
You want me to believe that you are interested in me like this,
just as a person?
Out of context?
Maybe you're not an insider, that's fine.
Or maybe you're someone who likes to talk
About me, about my political shit,
- Of my comrades in the drawing rooms.
- But what lounges?
But what are you talking about?
I am sick and tired of these living rooms.
In fact, they are fed up with me.
This little judgmental jail.
Better your own jail.
Your context interests me
Because it is you,
Because it is your context, the way you are.
But do you understand that my context
and my business can become
Of the traps for you and for me if I were
such a jerk to tell you too much?
- Do you understand that?
- Yes.
No, I don't think so.
Do you know that I have four trials,
including one for armed gang?
Do you suspect me? Don't tell me shit.
- All right? Don't risk it.
- Fuck off.
Here it is, with lots of ice.
Alby.
"Al by- L
I ask her for the chair for a minute.
- I'll give it to them right away.
- I'm sorry, we're waiting for someone.
[Albert] Just a minute! I'll go first.
So what?
Ma'am.
Albert.
[Albert sighs]
- Roberta] Hi.
- Hi.
But how beautiful is this girl?
Huh?
And he is smart as well.
Madam, you are a writer.
Can you tell it is smart or not?
- Can you say that? Heh.
- Sure.
Good thing you came.
How beautiful you look with these curls.
Where are we going, where are you taking us?
I go.
- I have a shitload of things to do.
- Roberta] Why are you leaving?
Now that we have the car
all to ourselves, there goes the bitch.
Madam, I am your Mercedes.
But knock it off with "ma'am."
"Ma'am" is just fine.
Waiter.
I would like to pay.
- Attention.
- I pay, I pay, I pay.
- Are you sure?
- No, I take offense, Ms. Goliarda.
[Roberta] Goliard!
Goliarda, where are you going
That you do not stand?
[Goliard] Hi.
[laughing] Taxi!
Crepe indigence.
Denza Street.
But who is he?
The blue angel?
What about that Albert?
Chicchirich!
But fuck you.
That's enough, I never want to see her again.
This is the lady's necklace.
Guard!
[Goliarda laughs].
[woman] Open air!
Open air!
Are you the new one? What the fuck are you laughing at?
Are you laughing at me?
Come out, come to the yard.
That I'll smash that ass face
you've got going on!
[indistinct voices]
[woman]
It wasn't enough to have gone to jail.
Even the torment of reminding you
how ugly and old you are.
What do you say, ma'am?
For me, they imprison them on purpose
To torment us.
It is an indecency!
- I'm going to report!
- [woman 2] That's it, good, go!
Go and report! Ugly as you are,
maybe they'll even accept it.
I am honest with you, ma'am.
I was told you were a snitch.
In Rebibbia we have a special phone,
wireless.
Better than those on the outside.
Now everyone knows that you are not a snitch.
Oh, yeah?
- And how?
- Eh, and how?
Because ever since
you have been sitting next to me,
I didn't get up.
In fact, I even talked to you.
Wake up, madam! That on the contrary,
I only needed to turn my gaze,
I would get up and leave, right? What do you think?
Lady, you're a little strange.
As if I had a fixation.
You are not infamous, though.
Smoke, smoke.
- May I?
- Smoke.
[woman 1] For me it arrived last night.
pants still have a crease
And the hands are clean.
Can't you see that the pants are made of silk?
Silk does not crease.
- But what is his name, Hope?
- Woman] No, Wisdom.
- Wasn't his name Goliard?
- No.
- Her first name is Goliard.
- Ah, that's good.
You stay here, huh?
- Come with me.
- [Goliard] Ow! Ow!
You like to laugh, huh?
[woman 2] But you see, oh!
That's it, that's right, punch her!
So he stops attacking
at the drop of a hat!
[detentions incite]
Thank you.
[Man] It is long.
It was not easy in one week.
It is a great text, I gladly did it.
He foresaw all the mistakes
of the union.
But if he had not died,
you would never have published him.
- But that's not true.
- [Goliarda laughing] Yes.
Only from a dead man do Italians
accept being contradicted, come on.
I guess I have to croak too.
- But why are you always so argumentative?
- I'm not argumentative, I'm realistic perhaps?
The worst thing.
I don't even feel like writing anymore.
Do you have anything else for me to correct?
In the immediate term, no. Then tomorrow we close.
September.
[plays "Memories" by Robert Wyatt].
[woman] I am Marr.
Habitual offender.
Marr is the last name.
Marr Teresa.
How about you?
What is your name?
Goliarda Sapienza.
[Teresa] Wow.
And what is the last name? Goliarda?
No, Wisdom.
And why do you say the first name before the last name?
Is it not that you are a politician?
No. I stole.
I didn't ask you what you did.
I just wanted to know if you were a political
and that was it.
- Why?
- Why? Because they break.
You ask them for some wine,
and not only do they not give it to you,
They also want to convince you
with their ideas.
They are fanatics.
[woman] Goliarda.
But if you put a lot of sugar in the wine,
is it true that you get drunk first?
[laughing] Yes. I think so.
[Teresa] But do you drink wine?
No.
Then do you see that you are a politician?
You in Marr
you have to tell the truth.
I told you the truth.
- Are you deaf?
- [Teresa] Oh, yeah?
And in the milk,
why don't you put sugar in it?
It is free sugar here. You don't pay for it.
I don't like milk with sugar.
Ah, mother Rome!
Come, come and sit
next to us!
Move over, ma'am.
This is a famous magician.
Now he looks inside you.
[Goliarda] She looks like Marilyn Monroe.
Have they never told you?
Really she... If Marilyn were alive,
Would be like her today.
I communicate with needy souls,
ma'am.
Marilyn was a little girl
whom others made sick.
Do you know that it is others
who make us sick?
- Yes.
- No, you don't have to answer me.
It is his hands that must answer me.
- But see her, oh!
- And shut up, Teresa.
That I am in communication with Marilyn
Through the lady.
You are not suffering, ma'am, because you are staying here.
She is haunted
by suicidal mania.
That's why he saw Marilyn in me.
Can you feel how my hands are frozen?
Marilyn tells me.
That she must endure, she must live,
Because there is a person, a living being,
Who needs her.
His hands are now very hot.
[Goliard] And here's me.
at four, five years,
In a muddy space,
dragging an immense piece of wood.
There are no trees or houses around.
Just the sweat from the effort of dragging
that hard body
And the sharp burning
Of palms wounded by wood.
I sink into the mud up to my ankles,
but I have to pull.
I don't know why, but I have to do it.
We leave this first memory as it is.
I don't feel like making assumptions
Or to make things up.
I want to tell you what it was,
without altering anything.
Unpublishable.
Too long. Too traditional.
[laughs]
They refused me before,
let alone now.
I did the impossible, really.
I mean, I asked anyone for help, and...
I can't.
[phone rings]
I can't make him love me.
[voicemail] Leave a message
after the beep, thank you.
[Roberta] Whatever, nothing, you don't answer me.
I see that I have succeeded
to make you afraid,
Is good for you.
I miss you a little bit.
Patience.
I won't bother you anymore.
Hello.
[beep end of recording]
[woman] I have a love
waiting for me outside, and instead I'm closed
Rotting in here.
I go crazy, get me out of here.
Get me out of here.
- Get me out of here.
- [whispering] I have everything.
- Mm-mmm.
- Are you ready? Good.
So you've been to Beijing?
Yes.
Think. me ever.
- And how I wish.
- Teresa] Do you remember Cinzia and Marina?
They fell in love,
they were always together.
And Marilu's love for Oliva.
do you remember it?
Is that not also a love worthy
Of cell 33?
She has already been released twice.
She always manages to get back in.
I, however, do not understand love between women.
Because you have never been
for so long in here.
- woman] No, I understand it instead.
- Look, I had never seen
Narrative and Annunciation
Getting attached to someone.
But how did you do it?
I didn't do anything.
You said a very Chinese thing.
Suzie Wong has been in here three years
and has never fallen in love with a partner.
- Suzie Wong is an exception, can't you see it?
- And don't you, Suzie?
Oh, me? Poor Suzie Wong, never!
[laughing]
I have been doing this ceremony for three years,
Every Sunday.
It allows me to live without going crazy.
Are you here for politics?
No, I stole.
Ah!
You know, I deal international drugs.
They are very strict with us Chinese.
But you stole, it's nothing now.
Barbara, get a plate, come on.
I'm not hungry.
[women sing]
S Every day I think only of you S
Is I made you cry I don't know why $
S My love I miss you so much S
" Sorry if I made you suffer $
Is today that you are not here with me
I want to be near you $
Everything is ready.
Anytime.
[woman laughs]
[indistinct voices]
Of course, I saw right.
Mama mia.
- This is for you.
- Thank you, Suzie.
If you were not there,
we would forget what food tastes like.
We should set fire
this kitchen of bastards!
Don't be impressed.
And violent, but it doesn't bite.
Mother Nature made her unrestrained,
but look at the little face she put on it.
[laughing]
Roberta.
Goliarda.
[woman] Barbara cut her wrists!
Barbara slit her wrists!
He has to go to the hospital! Get out of here!
[woman] In the hospital!
[together] Hospital!
[clamor]
Help her!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[alert]
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
- Roberta] Hello?
- Can you meet me?
[indistinct voices]
[Roberta] Hi.
[Goliarda laughs].
- Are you afraid of the dark?
- YES.
Come. Come with me.
Look there.
Did you see how beautiful it was?
- Do you like it? Yes?
- Yes, I like it.
Me too.
I wonder who wrote it because ...
Been there since before I went into prison.
the last time, almost two years ago.
The first thing I did was
run over here to see if it was still there.
Oh, look, there's a cab.
Don't worry. I'll pay for it!
Cab!
Quick, Goliard!
Via di Acqua Bullicante, 251.
I despoiled
One of my mother's sisters.
- Did you steal from the house?
- No.
There is no need. Just terrorize them.
The first one I get
Of the four sisters,
I yell a little and the one out of fear disbands.
- I take revenge.
- Of what?
- About what?
- My mother's...
That whole life covered my father,
Who is like me, spic and span, identical.
Delinquency, everything.
It never covered for me.
With my father, my brother,
only with boys. To me nothing.
Then I retaliate.
Just like that, without pleasure.
Revenge of love.
[indistinct voices]
And then you should have seen
how he insisted.
I had to put him at the door.
I told him, "Don't ever come back.
It is not what.
I'm fed up with you. Do you understand?"
And I slammed the door.
[laughing]
[they speak indistinctly]
- Come with me.
- But where?
Ssh, ssh, ssh!
Iuzza, where?
Oh God. Where are we?
Tell him to stop, that I have to get off.
- Please stop.
- [man] Yes.
- Are you not well? Huh?
- No. No.
- You pay for it. I have the money in the bag.
- Yes.
Ah...
- Everything... Yes.
- No, eye.
I'm fine. I'm better.
- Excuse me, Goliarda.
- No.
[straining, laughing].
What are you laughing at? Laugh on this cock!
[Roberta] Uh!
Good evening, carabinieri.
[laughing]
You scared the hell out of me, dummy.
Goliarda.
[Goliarda laughs].
[Goliarda] How nice to see you.
Thank you for coming.
- Barbara dear.
- You look well.
So, do you like or dislike
my perfumery?
You knew what an infamous hole it was before.
- Did you do it all by yourself?
- Yes.
Look at this velveteen.
Doesn't it look like alcantara?
It's nice, huh?
It cost me an arm and a leg,
however, it was worth it.
What about the bamboo?
It takes my breath away.
I wanted my first little store, though.
To be the most beautiful in Rome.
[Roberta] What is this?
Do you look at that stain?
- It's mold. Tomorrow...
- And indeed.
- I feel.
- Yes, but they will fix it tomorrow.
It's nothing, it's a small thing.
Do people come here?
Well, at first no one was coming there.
Where had they ever seen it
such a swank
in Bullicant Water?
Then a goldsmith friend of mine ...
Whatever, fence, honest though,
said to me, "Throw it all down
And remake it suitable for this township."
I am stubborn, though.
And then with all the local
first-class
Where my man took me,
I would lock myself up in a sad little hole?
I might as well have stayed with you in Rebibbia!
How is it going now? Is it going well?
All right, they come in droves!
It's not that it's okay.
You have to see how they dress.
They seem to go to the theater.
The more they tan, the more they spend.
Barbara, you don't give a damn
about this store.
- Do you think I've gone too far?
- Eh, yes.
Like when you want to like what
other people like, but you don't care.
Don't get jailed again.
At least for a while,
stay with us if you can.
Closing.
- Roberta] Hi.
- Hi.
This is Goliarda, do you remember her?
No, I don't remember it.
- Whatever, he's with us now.
- Yes.
[Roberta laughs].
[Barbara] Why don't you say anything?
Tell him that I locked in prison
I have a love that is a fairy tale.
And that I have to be outside fighting
to get him out.
And to jail I don't want to go back.
One time was enough for me
And I was about to get myself killed.
Do you know what this thug did to me?
Then for what?
To come out one month, at that price?
You have to explain to me why you come and propose
certain things in front of a stranger,
sorry, don't be offended,
things I don't want to repeat.
I'll tell you why you did it.
You enjoyed giving me air.
And now you want to have fun
To get me back inside, beautiful friend.
To get you back in?
You don't measure up.
You had a year
And you had a lot of strange ideas,
Like kids in military service.
What are you doing here?
Build this nest, this little store
for Tano? That one grew up in prison,
do you think that when he goes out, he's here doing
accounts, serving, following schedules?
Blessed are you who grew up in prison,
But I don't want to go back.
- And Tano is happy that I'm here.
- And of course, I would be glad too.
This is one way to keep you busy
Honestly during his detention,
so he knows where you are.
This is the guarantee of finding you
Where he left you.
- What are you laughing at?
- In fact, you are right.
You can't understand the letters he writes to me,
he is jealous.
- He doesn't understand anything. He is suffering.
- I believe that.
You're right, I'm fucking young.
What if I started dating
with certain men, right?
Like, do you know what I mean?
[Roberta]
You're a genius, I hadn't thought of that.
You are really in love.
[Barbara] So much.
- Let me see these terrible wounds.
- Stop, you're hurting me.
Let me see.
Look what the fuck you did to me,
I guess I have to get plastic surgery!
But when I gave you the first cut,
you didn't even look scared,
you were saying, "Go with the other one."
Look at those scars,
I think I have to get plastic surgery!
But when I gave you the first cut,
you didn't even look scared,
you were saying, "Go with the other one."
If by pain you went mad
And said it was me,
Those were asking:
"How did you do it? Who helped you?"
If I was wrong? If you were an infamous
Under this goddess-like appearance?
Do you know how many I saw?
I used to get charged with attempted murder!
- That's all we needed.
- Poor Roberta.
But where do you find a friend
Who exposes herself to so much for your sake?
[plays "The British Road" by Robert Wyatt].
[laughs]
[Roberta] And you have the courage to deny
such a friend a small favor?
Whatever, I do.
Enough, though, don't ask me any more.
Bravo!
- Come on, whatever.
- I have to get high, but I don't have the stuff.
You have one out here for sure that ...
- I'm not helping you.
- Please, I need to celebrate for a moment.
[Barbara] I am morally opposed
to heroin. And you know it well!
- Don't start being self-righteous that ...
- How beautiful you are now
- That you are lucid like this.
- Ah, like now, you say?
This asshole goddess.
But if it's from the very night I went out
what am I going to do to myself?
Now you don't say anything anymore?
You're taking the piss too. But do you
do you know that more kids are dying in the streets?
No fucking way they're outlawing
motorcycles, smoking.
Then there is a way and a way of drugging,
look at politicians or businessmen.
- I'm not helping you.
- Whatever, bye. Great, great.
- Just find me a safe one.
- Yes, yes.
- I didn't ask for anything much.
- It speaks for itself.
[Roberta] Mamma mia, oh.
She takes the moral high ground.
- Here it is.
- I told you.
What do you have to laugh about?
But nothing, we didn't understand where you ended up.
We got scared
And we entered without knocking. Sorry...
And why did you have to knock?
Ah, of course,
you don't like to be seen naked.
- Oh, again!
- [Goliard] Yes.
- You don't like it.
- But what does that mean?
You wanted to knock because you treat me
like your moms and aunts.
Because you know my age,
But this is not fair.
It is unfair at best.
But unfair what?
You rather are aggressive,
you are obsessed with this fucking age.
- I have no problem with being seen naked.
- Here.
I have no problems.
Oh, you know what?
I'm going to take a nice shower now.
- Tell you what.
- Get it cold while you're at it.
So you get the bitchiness out of you.
Oh, let's do it together.
Come on. Let's shower together.
Oh, Barbara, come on.
Please, you did so well
to fix everything.
It is so beautiful here. We would have had
in Rebibbia this personal bathhouse....
Huh?
Come on, come on, come on. Goliarda is already naked.
- Please, Barbara!
- I'm almost dry.
[Roberta] Come on, come on, let's pretend
that we're still there.
Along with dreaming, come on.
But on the fly, we shower
and then we eat.
- Roberta] Come on, come on, come on.
- When he wants something...
What the heck, oh!
Look at how hot she is.
[Roberta] What are you saying?
That you are public danger number one.
But shut up.
Which then, come to think of it, I don't understand
Why I like a little girl like you.
I have never liked women.
They never had an effect on me.
Well, with all the time
we spent in the cell in Rebibbia,
It's a shame we didn't have a story.
Do you like it too, Goliarda?
No, here, stop. No.
I don't want to know if Goliarda likes me,
nor whether I like her.
You just want to prevent
anything arising between us,
- Typical wife terrorism.
- No.
I just wanted to know if he felt
what I feel.
Stop, shut up.
Will you stop being male? Stop.
First the wife, then the male,
are you going crazy?
We need to stop going
from macho attitudes
To womanly attitudes,
That they are the same thing.
First you regret not fucking me,
Then you suspect that she did it,
then investigate.
These things happen if they have to happen.
All right?
Stop, look, I'm hungry.
Everything is wet.
- Who will dry it for me?
- Who will dry it for you? Your wife.
Dumb.
[indistinct voices from the street].
Don't be sad, Goliarda.
Look I don't suspect you anymore.
Does it hurt?
No.
[Goliarda cries]
They smell of the sea.
[Goliarda laughs].
Don't cry.
Don't cry.
Gnegnegn. It's ready.
I'm going to get the shoes.
Wow, what a table!
Not even Suzie Wong's, good.
Oh, Barbara.
I'll see you tomorrow night, huh?
I'm counting on it, I need the money.
Because comrades know
I'm on the loose, they expect help.
I also have to pay the Chilean's lawyer.
How many times do I have to say yes to you
And when do I ever say no to you?
- Never.
- Let's do this.
Tomorrow we go to the Hilton
And meet the pianist.
But let's be clear,
If it's a matter of making small talk,
it's no problem for me, otherwise ...
Don't worry, this is.
- Are you sure?
- Well, yes.
- Am I quiet? Mmm.
- YES.
I don't feel like it either.
What do you think?
[Barbara] All right.
Good yes,
they are from the deli next door.
[Roberta] Thank you.
- Coupons. Oh, there it is.
- Good ones yes.
But how do I eat this ham?
With pizza.
- Mmm. Good.
- Goliard.
Come, sit down.
But I was expecting noodles,
honestly.
- I don't have a stove.
- Eh...
You put it there, sorry.
There was in Rebibbia, can't you have it here?
- Yes, indeed.
- Also a nice bunk bed.
Yes? What about a nice grate?
- Locked.
- Pass the bologna.
How nice that you were with me tonight.
Even for you the memory of there
Has not been lost.
This meeting will never end.
Or only when they run out of supplies,
water, light,
All three of us will die...
[laughs]
...And after centuries, when they make up their minds.
To break through this temple of friendship,
it will take archaeologists
To know who those three mummiette were.
found intact
In a pre-nuclear war store
Via dell'Acqua Bullicante, 251.
[plays "The British Road" by Robert Wyatt].
[indistinct voices]
Here I am.
Hi, girls!
Hi, Barbara!
Hello.
Now what?
I'll drive you home now.
[Goliarda smiles].
I wonder if they are really asleep.
All besieged in those rooms.
I, at night, when I'm awake
And I can't write,
I set out to spy on the sleep of the city.
[Barbara] And why do you write?
[Goliard] To "crush me."
- Like you do with heroin.
- [Roberta] Ah.
"Stronarmi" I had never heard of.
[Goliarda laughs].
What kind of car do you like?
I don't understand much about cars.
Then I decide.
Ssh, ssh, ssh!
Get in!
This car is beautiful.
What a chick you are.
Aren't you going to say anything?
Don't you protest?
Because you are a criminal.
You are a criminal.
Exactly the same as me.
[plays "Blues in Bob Minor"
by Robert Wyatt]
Oh, shit. Hold on.
[Goliarda laughs].
[Roberta]
Good thing they stopped that other one.
We missed this one tonight.
Come for a moment.
I live in there.
Will you take me there someday?
Never.
Oh, come on, girl!
["Blues in Bob Minor" continued]
I'm going to get two beers.
Pass me the bag. Otherwise.
[Roberta laughs].
Listen.
If one day I couldn't take it anymore
Of this world
And wanted to get out of it,
would you help me?
Would you inject an overdose to help me?
Of course.
If I really wanted to, of course I would.
You need a horse dose, though.
I guess.
[Goliarda laughs].
[Roberta] How were you discovered?
[Goliard] Well...
Because, I don't know how,
ended up at a jewelry fair.
[laughing thunderously]
Here in Rome.
And her maid, poor thing,
Who knows why, she had gone to see it,
And clearly he recognized them...
[Roberta] No!
No, please! What a bummer!
You, too, what a dummy, though, Goliard.
Next time I'll take you
to a safe one.
This is driving me crazy, though.
Maybe he would bring me
In the most expensive restaurants,
he would take me on vacations.
Then he refused me the 100,000 lira
that I needed for...
Make a few copies of my book,
To send it around, to have it read.
That book is me!
There are years of work in it.
That's all I did.
- I got it for you.
- Thank you.
A beautiful bitch, your friend.
Yes.
Maybe I was even a little bit in love with it. Mmm.
Eh, yes.
When she realized
I had no money left,
started to treat me badly.
Like a slave.
It is always in the loves for women
I lose myself.
With men...
Is simpler. Huh?
I stole her jewelry
To put it to the test.
And you got caught.
[Goliarda laughs].
I'm sorry, I have to go home.
I have to make myself.
Then when you get a good night,
you feel like ending it with drugs.
It binds you,
takes away all the good things in life.
Damn,
otherwise we'd be together all day,
We used to do the 24 hours of friendship.
Yes.
What do you do with the car?
I leave the car a few blocks
from my house, we give it back to the owner.
Some time ago I used to leave
a thank-you note,
Now for Article 1,
I am a habitual offender.
I can't risk it.
Big kiss. See you soon.
Big kiss.
[man] luzza.
[laughing] Angel.
- Do you get scared?
- I didn't expect you to come.
Neither did I.
Never make surprises.
But no.
I just didn't expect it.
But what happened?
And nothing, we had to stop
the filming,
- And all because of me.
- Ah.
This is the scene: isolated countryside,
American super production,
money down the drain,
Impressive sets, lavish costumes.
My time comes with the main character,
the one has to finish his monologue.
He has to say, "Where is Don Jaime?"
And I run, "Coming, my lord!"
Were you a servant?
[laughing] Yes, I used to be a servant.
Small role, but nuanced,
as usual.
[Goliarda laughs].
Whatever, nothing, that interrupts,
he looks at the horse,
look at me, look at the horse again
And collapses to the ground lying
with all his armor, crumbling from the heat.
But can you imagine?
If all goes well,
we will resume in two days.
So here I am.
My husband and the Borgias.
Your husband laid them out the Borgias.
I'm going to make some coffee
and we'll have it in bed?
Yes.
Muah!
Are you asleep?
No.
How are you?
Good.
I can see that.
Are the thugs
that make you feel good?
Yes.
Were you with them tonight?
Yes.
Me when I'm with them,
I still feel inside.
What a chick you are.
[Goliarda smiles].
But yes.
With those women in Rebibbia,
it seemed to me...
Of having crazy freedom,
unthought.
They stay inside
even when they are outside.
They don't come out, you know?
And so.
When we are together,
I feel inside too, free.
What are you doing?
- I wanted to propose a cut.
- Angelo.
Come on, let it be.
We've been going at it so hard, I can't take it anymore.
It will never be published anyway.
I should just set it on fire.
Iuzza, what are you talking about?
I would rather set myself on fire.
When you have a masterpiece on your hands,
You have a masterpiece on your hands.
So I don't...
I cannot understand
why this rancor, this...
this... Why?
For a different political view?
Philosophical?
Because.
No, if you have a masterpiece on your hands,
you have a masterpiece on your hands.
Come here.
Shall we dance? Shall we dance?
Come on, let's dance. Shall we dance?
[sotto voce] Let's dance.
[sotto voce] I don't know how to dance.
[plays "In a Sentimental Mood"
by Duke Ellington]
[smiling]
It is you, the joy.
Just for you.
That's fine with me.
[music continues]
[Barbara screams]
[inaudible dialogue]
Hey!
Can't you see me? You've gone out!
You are out.
[Suzie] Thank you, thank you.
Bella mia.
Suzie.
[Goliard].
This is James Dean's limousine.
- Did you see that fireball?
- Thank you.
[Roberta] Girls, it was not for us.
[laughing]
[they speak indistinctly]
James Dean.
Oh, easy!
[laughing]
[they speak indistinctly]
[Barbara] Wait!
[shouting]
- Wait.
- Mamma mia!
- Goliard.
- You are quick!
- [Roberta] Come on!
- [Suzie] You are fast.
S Love, love, love S
s My love ;
Is In your arms I forget all pain $
s Let me stay with you or else I die S
s Let me stay with you or else I die S
[woman]
S Don't cry, love, don't cry S
[women] S My love +
s Don't cry, be quiet S
S On this heart s
Is But if it makes you suffer S
S Tell me $
+ What you need to tell me S
S Tell me $
[talking and laughing indistinctly].
- [Barbara] Goliard!
- Huh?
- Come, I'll show you something.
- Here I am.
[phone rings]
- Hello?
- Roberta] I need to talk to you.
Tomorrow. We will meet at 6 p.m. at the
luggage room at Termini station. Okay?
All right.
But what's going on, Roberta?
Nothing. A surprise. Hi.
Hello.
[indistinct voice from speaker].
Oh.
Hello.
But you're right on time.
What?
- It's hot.
- Mmm.
You preferred to rest in Parioli.
No, no, no.
- If there is time, a good coffee will suffice.
- Sure.
It all passes.
There is time. Your friend knows you.
He is cautious.
Let's go to the bar so we can talk for a while.
Come.
[indistinct voices]
[Roberta] Rocco.
- Rocco. Hi.
- Bye, beautiful.
- Will you bring me two coffees and mineral water?
- Right away, I'll fly.
What are you looking at? I've known him all my life.
It is useless for you to open wide
Those thieving eyes, mamma mia.
Convicted thief.
Not of jewelry.
Of stories, of lives.
Well, story thief I am.
I have to tell you something.
Tell me.
That night I slept over
That I had to leave early in the morning,
I woke up
And I became madly curious
For your chest full of papers.
I opened it. But in a rapture.
How much did you write?
Have you never published anything?
No, something I published.
Years ago.
If you want, I'll let you read it.
And then there were-the letters from your mother.
And your mother loved you all your life.
He chose you, protected your freedom.
It's beautiful, isn't it?
And the thief would be me?
Yes, it is true.
I, on the other hand, hate my mother.
Ever since she rejected me
For my brother, I hate her.
The trouble is that I realized
That hatred was love.
Absolute dependence.
I no longer want to love anyone
in that way.
Roberta.
Enough about families.
I haven't had one since I was 13 years old.
Here are the coffees.
Eh, yes.
Enough.
- Roberta, let me do something.
- No.
Or is it?
- Yes.
- [Roberta] Are you leaving?
Available.
Now I also lose my other family.
I told him yesterday to his face
That I was disassociating myself.
This they do not forgive.
They take revenge,
especially if you get caught in jail.
How the fuck can I lie?
It's all going wrong, dick actions,
people you think are in jail
And it turns out to be in Nicaragua.
What should I do?
I have to disappear, Goliarda. I have to go away.
"I have to," I say.
I have to, then I know I won't.
But what's going on?
After coffee,
we have two whiskeys on the rocks.
- Rocco, will you bring me two whiskeys?
- Here it is!
- Sure.
- A double one.
- Doubles?
- Doubles.
- With a lot of ice.
- All right. Coming.
I love you, Goliarda.
So much.
Me too.
I dreamed about you, you know?
That night I slept over.
F...
practically...
I'm ashamed to talk to you
Of certain erotic things.
Me who did everything,
if they knew it in Rebibbia,
I would lose all the authority I have.
Whatever.
I dreamed of you and realized
That there is nothing more exhilarating
Of that love relationship
they call incest.
Ah, fuck, I don't want to.
You don't want it because incest is possible
Only with one's carnal mother.
And I did not give birth to you, Roberta.
Don't forget.
What do you want from me?
Peace.
All right. You will have it, peace.
That's enough now,
we are giving a funny show.
I don't give a damn.
Peace.
[Rocco] Roberta, what are you doing?
Do you leave forever that you stick like this
To the lady's neck?
Rocco, why don't you mind your own fucking business?
I know, you are right.
It is that it is instructive to see the affection
of a daughter for a mother.
Today then! Is the ice okay like this?
Or maybe it's not mom?
[Goliarda laughs].
It's not leaving.
It's just that we had a discussion,
Before, and now,
Is like this because we made up.
You know how it is, how children are, mommies.
Blessed are you who have a mother
so beautiful and good.
Mine, if I answer her wrongly,
she turns around with a knife in her hand,
And if I don't run away,
he cuts me up for stew.
With what meat costs today, then ...
You are of a confidence,
of beastly arrogance.
- Why?
- Why?
Any woman would have been offended
to be called a mother.
- I'm 30 years old. Fuck you, yes.
- I'm not.
- Yes, yes. You are unbearable.
- Why?
- Your security!
- You are unbearable
With these crappy dates
you give me!
In short,
what would be this surprise? Huh?
What did you announce to me?
To come and drink bad whiskey
in this bar, as usual?
It is a free time yours,
Is a prison time!
I'm busy.
Yes, laugh.
- Oh, look, I'm leaving.
- What do you have to do?
Damn you bitches,
Spoiled by the pain of imprisonment!
Because if you think you are blackmailing me
With that poor fate of yours
Of a forced drug addict, you are wrong!
And that one because she grew up in boarding school,
the other in an orphanage,
And that other one, poor thing,
in the midst of too much wealth!
Is it always the parents' fault?
Is it always society's fault?
- All we needed was you.
- You are beautiful when you get pissed off.
Why that you don't do it more often?
You are beautiful...
You're beautiful when you're being beaten, too.
Goliarda, stop. Be still, be still!
Oh!
Take back the money, which you don't have.
- It's on me.
- The hat.
[Roberta]
What are you looking at yourselves? Don't you have a life?
[laughs]
[speaker] ...134 of 6:30 p.m.
for Palermo Central,
departing from platform 8.
Courage, beautiful,
that we are heading for the surprise!
Do you know what I care about the surprise?
- With what you put me through.
- Eh, don't get pissed off.
To me, the station has always had
the effect of a soul detector.
I always understood a lot of things
at the station.
However, I at home alone with you
I don't have to stay there anymore.
Let's go.
[indistinct voices]
Let's go.
Now what is this?
Do you know that to make me
take me 50,000 lira a day?
Imagine if you could stop doing that.
I could support you.
You could write the novels in peace.
Would you accept it?
Of course I would accept it.
And I would be very proud of you.
But now, you have to speak up, though. Enough.
What's in here?
- Drugs?
- No.
Does it have anything to do with the armed gang?
Are you in danger?
Who was the one you looked at
In the hallway? I saw you!
- Nobody.
- How not. No one.
From Rebibbia I would have liked to have understood something
Of all this madness.
I should have talked to the policies.
But instead?
I ended up running after you.
Look I am the top brigade.
So do you remember that time
on the subway,
that guy
who handed me that thing?
- Yes, I remember that.
- It was a letter.
Letter.
There are ten years of letters in here,
and not only of political prisoners,
But also of the municipalities, which then
are the most beautiful, the most political.
And I keep in touch
between the parents and the children,
I bring out
the testimonies of the abuse, the beatings,
sudden transfers,
punishments, everything.
This is my work.
The one I consider to be such,
the only worthy one, at the end of this story.
The money I collect is used
to pay the lawyers.
To defend prisoners. See the thief.
Look, look, look.
They change your eyes.
They are for you.
Thief, they are for you.
Why?
Why for me?
Because I can't keep them at home.
And if I end up inside
And they find them for me, they burn them.
For them it is a disgrace
To have a daughter like me.
What do you want me to do?
Write.
Write.
[laughs]
This -- this is Marcella's.
[whispers]
Listen to this.
Roberta?
Roberta.
Roberta.
[laughs]
[shouting] Roberta!
[plays "Memories" by Robert Wyatt].
Ms. Goliarda Sapienza. Writer.
She also saw prison from the point
perspective of undergraduate and graduate school,
wrote "The University of Rebibbia."
result of his own experience.
What did he learn at this university
That he didn't know before?
Meanwhile, I learned, which I already knew,
That very little has been done
in our country...
- Biagi] Everybody knows that.
- YES.
But by going there you touch it.
When I entered,
I still had this false concept
And that it was to cover my conscience
Of person who stands outside and says:
"I will never enter prison."
Because he will grab the weakest,
He will grasp the weakest,
Will grasp those who are delinquent.
When I went in there,
I ascertained
Who are the strongest.
I got out, my greatest friends
are now in and out of prison.
Because there is also the problem
That they become attached to the prison.
In this world
Where everything is given easy,
Where everything is just propagandized
For consumerism, as it's now called,
this whole push to have...
- Biagi] Need for excitement?
- It is also this.
You are not offended if I have
some misgivings about this gladness.
- [Goliard] Like everyone.
- Does nothing humiliate women in prison?
Everything humiliates women, everything.
- And they are happy...
- They get used to it.
Because the woman
Coming from a great repression,
fits more easily.
This is also why in the women's prison
there is less violence.
What have I learned?
I learned again, you will not believe it,
Because when I talk about the prison,
never anyone believes me...
- Why should I not believe you?
- No one believes me.
It is a point of view
that leaves me a little puzzled.
Yes. But I don't say
That prison is beautiful.
There are many ways to be happy.
Of course, but I don't say
that prison is beautiful.
I never said that.
However, the prison is like the outside ...
[sound of footsteps]
[guard] Does he wear a wig?
No, they are my own.
Do a split-legged push-up.
[groans]
[crying]
Yes, I read that you are looking for
a housekeeping person in the hotel.
You have already found, I see.
But I can leave you my number
in case you need -- I mean....
No, I have no experience
in a facility like yours, however....
55 years.
Ah.
All right, thank you. Thank you anyway.
[man] I'm sorry,
but I don't see any references here.
She has never done this work.
And she's not even a little girl,
but who guarantees me?
But I can also just do, um.
What's his name? The assistant cook.
I can do everything in the kitchen.
Ma'am, we are full.
- Do you want coffee?
- Yes.
Romolo, make the lady a coffee.
- [female voice] Yes?
- Hello?
[hesitating] If you're looking for mom...
Is not there. Mom is gone.
No, I was not looking for Mrs. Brandi,
I was looking for Roberta.
[Roberta] I am Roberta.
My goodness, you've gone off the deep end,
I recognized you right away.
What the fuck do you want?
Roberta, what's wrong with you?
[Roberta gasps]
Roberta, are you there?
[Roberta] No, I went out.
I went out.
Look, Roberta, don't joke. Come on.
Will we see each other?
[Roberta] No, look, don't...
I don't have time,
because I have a lot of things to do.
- Ah.
- You just happened to catch me today.
I'll tell you what, Goliarda,
when I can, I'll call you back. Okay?
- All right.
- [Roberta] Okay?
Okay, all right, I got it.
Bye, goodbye, all right.
- Goliarda. How are you?
- Goliarda] Lace.
It's been a long time since we've seen you around.
The day before yesterday we were at Lotto's house.
- Ah!
- I thought I would meet you.
But was there a dinner? I didn't know.
[Lace] Oh, sorry.
[plays "Round Midnight"" by Robert Wyatt].
[phone rings]
- Hello?
- Roberta] Hello, Goliarda.
Where were you? You disappeared.
But how? I called you this morning.
[Roberta] What are you doing?
Ah, I was sleeping.
[Roberta] Then what?
Also,
I'm always out looking for a job.
[Roberta] Ah, you still believe that?
I have an eviction notice, I don't have
a lira. I don't want to lose my house.
[Roberta] Whatever, it's useless anyway.
I told you it is useless.
Goliarda, where are you? Can you hear me?
Yes, yes, Roberta, I can hear you.
I'm giving you a date, do you understand?
Ah, not really.
[Roberta] Goliarda, here we have to get a move on
a move or it's the end.
[Goliarda laughs].
Of course.
So, you absolutely must be
tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. at the North Rome bar,
two steps away from you. Understand which one?
Yes, yes, I understand. Yes.
Mmm. At the subway bars, you understand?
And don't sit at the tables.
But how do you know that.
I sit at the tables?
[Roberta] I know all about you, you cunt.
Then at 11:00, okay?
[laughing] Okay.
[Roberta] How ugly this church is.
- Hi.
- Hi.
I get it, you need coffee.
Me too for the truth,
who's been hanging around all morning.
Let's make it quick, I'll pay.
- Here we go. Two coffees.
- Good morning.
Thank you.
You carry the wind.
[inaudible dialogue]
[Roberta] Come here.
[Goliarda] Where are we going?
[Roberta] You will see.
Who was that guy?
He longed for you.
I believe that.
Three years of abstinence.
He got out of prison yesterday.
- I would never have said that.
- I know.
You can see that he has not lost his balance
And that he moves well in traffic.
Good for him.
But do you like it?
I like.
Yes.
One should not take them for starvation, though.
Too easy.
And then, if it doesn't work,
you create messes for them, poor people.
But.
If I hadn't called you,
Would you have looked for me anyway?
Of course I would have looked for you.
Why?
What the fuck do I know why, Goliard.
- Why?
- I don't know.
I told you I don't know.
You nasty beast!
I don't know.
This is ours.
I was born there, I grew up there,
all you want, however one day
that I was alone, I came here,
And here, I here realized.
I was living in Rome.
I cried, but with tears.
But I was crying alone like this.
People were passing around me,
bumping into me,
he didn't understand,
he would ask me if I needed help.
- Was it the first time you saw him?
- No, it wasn't.
How was it the first time?
It was the first time I realized.
- Would you bring me two whiskeys, please?
- Man] Sure.
- With lots of ice.
- Now.
Excuse me? Okay, thank you.
- That's good, isn't it?
- Yes, yes.
Now what?
Now we wait for Albert.
- Do you have an appointment with him?
- Yes.
Approximate date,
within three hours.
[laughing]
Oh.
Albert has to earn his keep
as well as being my machine.
- As a driver.
- No.
Driver would be humiliating.
He is really my outlier,
glazed, powerful.
- Are you in love with him?
- With Albert?
What are you, crazy? No.
No, it is useful to me.
But he knows.
Oh, will you stop with all these questions?
To love someone
who is also necessary to you
doesn't fit into the categories of love
for you?
- But yes, of course.
- Eh! So.
- Thank you.
- You are welcome.
[laughing]
[Roberta] Ah!
[Roberta laughs].
Exaggerated!
Now we get another one. Check.
What did I do?
I fell asleep.
Dreaming.
You don't like to be seen naked, huh?
[Goliarda laughs].
But how does it come to you?
How the fuck do you get it? Explain to me
How is it possible that you always ask me
such strange questions.
I don't even know what to call them,
I have a statistic on your questions.
There was one
That has to do with reality.
I get out of prison,
we meet by chance,
You call me, I call you back, you don't ask me
How or why I went out,
Or that I do now that I'm out.
Also today,
I did it on purpose to show you
That guy was passing something to me,
And you no questions. And if I didn't want to,
you would never have noticed.
Did you get it, yes or no?
Yes, I understood that.
Understood.
Do you want another one?
[Goliard] Yes.
Boy, bring me two more whiskeys,
please?
- Of course.
- The ice especially was fabulous.
- And I mean.
- Huh?
Did you have it all figured out?
But if you understand so many things,
how is it that you don't realize
that it looks like a tactic
To win trust?
That you pose as an intellectual scatterbrain,
in the clouds?
He is a character
who no longer enchants anyone today.
Why do you suspect me?
You want me to believe that you are interested in me like this,
just as a person?
Out of context?
Maybe you're not an insider, that's fine.
Or maybe you're someone who likes to talk
About me, about my political shit,
- Of my comrades in the drawing rooms.
- But what lounges?
But what are you talking about?
I am sick and tired of these living rooms.
In fact, they are fed up with me.
This little judgmental jail.
Better your own jail.
Your context interests me
Because it is you,
Because it is your context, the way you are.
But do you understand that my context
and my business can become
Of the traps for you and for me if I were
such a jerk to tell you too much?
- Do you understand that?
- Yes.
No, I don't think so.
Do you know that I have four trials,
including one for armed gang?
Do you suspect me? Don't tell me shit.
- All right? Don't risk it.
- Fuck off.
Here it is, with lots of ice.
Alby.
"Al by- L
I ask her for the chair for a minute.
- I'll give it to them right away.
- I'm sorry, we're waiting for someone.
[Albert] Just a minute! I'll go first.
So what?
Ma'am.
Albert.
[Albert sighs]
- Roberta] Hi.
- Hi.
But how beautiful is this girl?
Huh?
And he is smart as well.
Madam, you are a writer.
Can you tell it is smart or not?
- Can you say that? Heh.
- Sure.
Good thing you came.
How beautiful you look with these curls.
Where are we going, where are you taking us?
I go.
- I have a shitload of things to do.
- Roberta] Why are you leaving?
Now that we have the car
all to ourselves, there goes the bitch.
Madam, I am your Mercedes.
But knock it off with "ma'am."
"Ma'am" is just fine.
Waiter.
I would like to pay.
- Attention.
- I pay, I pay, I pay.
- Are you sure?
- No, I take offense, Ms. Goliarda.
[Roberta] Goliard!
Goliarda, where are you going
That you do not stand?
[Goliard] Hi.
[laughing] Taxi!
Crepe indigence.
Denza Street.
But who is he?
The blue angel?
What about that Albert?
Chicchirich!
But fuck you.
That's enough, I never want to see her again.
This is the lady's necklace.
Guard!
[Goliarda laughs].
[woman] Open air!
Open air!
Are you the new one? What the fuck are you laughing at?
Are you laughing at me?
Come out, come to the yard.
That I'll smash that ass face
you've got going on!
[indistinct voices]
[woman]
It wasn't enough to have gone to jail.
Even the torment of reminding you
how ugly and old you are.
What do you say, ma'am?
For me, they imprison them on purpose
To torment us.
It is an indecency!
- I'm going to report!
- [woman 2] That's it, good, go!
Go and report! Ugly as you are,
maybe they'll even accept it.
I am honest with you, ma'am.
I was told you were a snitch.
In Rebibbia we have a special phone,
wireless.
Better than those on the outside.
Now everyone knows that you are not a snitch.
Oh, yeah?
- And how?
- Eh, and how?
Because ever since
you have been sitting next to me,
I didn't get up.
In fact, I even talked to you.
Wake up, madam! That on the contrary,
I only needed to turn my gaze,
I would get up and leave, right? What do you think?
Lady, you're a little strange.
As if I had a fixation.
You are not infamous, though.
Smoke, smoke.
- May I?
- Smoke.
[woman 1] For me it arrived last night.
pants still have a crease
And the hands are clean.
Can't you see that the pants are made of silk?
Silk does not crease.
- But what is his name, Hope?
- Woman] No, Wisdom.
- Wasn't his name Goliard?
- No.
- Her first name is Goliard.
- Ah, that's good.
You stay here, huh?
- Come with me.
- [Goliard] Ow! Ow!
You like to laugh, huh?
[woman 2] But you see, oh!
That's it, that's right, punch her!
So he stops attacking
at the drop of a hat!
[detentions incite]
Thank you.
[Man] It is long.
It was not easy in one week.
It is a great text, I gladly did it.
He foresaw all the mistakes
of the union.
But if he had not died,
you would never have published him.
- But that's not true.
- [Goliarda laughing] Yes.
Only from a dead man do Italians
accept being contradicted, come on.
I guess I have to croak too.
- But why are you always so argumentative?
- I'm not argumentative, I'm realistic perhaps?
The worst thing.
I don't even feel like writing anymore.
Do you have anything else for me to correct?
In the immediate term, no. Then tomorrow we close.
September.
[plays "Memories" by Robert Wyatt].
[woman] I am Marr.
Habitual offender.
Marr is the last name.
Marr Teresa.
How about you?
What is your name?
Goliarda Sapienza.
[Teresa] Wow.
And what is the last name? Goliarda?
No, Wisdom.
And why do you say the first name before the last name?
Is it not that you are a politician?
No. I stole.
I didn't ask you what you did.
I just wanted to know if you were a political
and that was it.
- Why?
- Why? Because they break.
You ask them for some wine,
and not only do they not give it to you,
They also want to convince you
with their ideas.
They are fanatics.
[woman] Goliarda.
But if you put a lot of sugar in the wine,
is it true that you get drunk first?
[laughing] Yes. I think so.
[Teresa] But do you drink wine?
No.
Then do you see that you are a politician?
You in Marr
you have to tell the truth.
I told you the truth.
- Are you deaf?
- [Teresa] Oh, yeah?
And in the milk,
why don't you put sugar in it?
It is free sugar here. You don't pay for it.
I don't like milk with sugar.
Ah, mother Rome!
Come, come and sit
next to us!
Move over, ma'am.
This is a famous magician.
Now he looks inside you.
[Goliarda] She looks like Marilyn Monroe.
Have they never told you?
Really she... If Marilyn were alive,
Would be like her today.
I communicate with needy souls,
ma'am.
Marilyn was a little girl
whom others made sick.
Do you know that it is others
who make us sick?
- Yes.
- No, you don't have to answer me.
It is his hands that must answer me.
- But see her, oh!
- And shut up, Teresa.
That I am in communication with Marilyn
Through the lady.
You are not suffering, ma'am, because you are staying here.
She is haunted
by suicidal mania.
That's why he saw Marilyn in me.
Can you feel how my hands are frozen?
Marilyn tells me.
That she must endure, she must live,
Because there is a person, a living being,
Who needs her.
His hands are now very hot.
[Goliard] And here's me.
at four, five years,
In a muddy space,
dragging an immense piece of wood.
There are no trees or houses around.
Just the sweat from the effort of dragging
that hard body
And the sharp burning
Of palms wounded by wood.
I sink into the mud up to my ankles,
but I have to pull.
I don't know why, but I have to do it.
We leave this first memory as it is.
I don't feel like making assumptions
Or to make things up.
I want to tell you what it was,
without altering anything.
Unpublishable.
Too long. Too traditional.
[laughs]
They refused me before,
let alone now.
I did the impossible, really.
I mean, I asked anyone for help, and...
I can't.
[phone rings]
I can't make him love me.
[voicemail] Leave a message
after the beep, thank you.
[Roberta] Whatever, nothing, you don't answer me.
I see that I have succeeded
to make you afraid,
Is good for you.
I miss you a little bit.
Patience.
I won't bother you anymore.
Hello.
[beep end of recording]
[woman] I have a love
waiting for me outside, and instead I'm closed
Rotting in here.
I go crazy, get me out of here.
Get me out of here.
- Get me out of here.
- [whispering] I have everything.
- Mm-mmm.
- Are you ready? Good.
So you've been to Beijing?
Yes.
Think. me ever.
- And how I wish.
- Teresa] Do you remember Cinzia and Marina?
They fell in love,
they were always together.
And Marilu's love for Oliva.
do you remember it?
Is that not also a love worthy
Of cell 33?
She has already been released twice.
She always manages to get back in.
I, however, do not understand love between women.
Because you have never been
for so long in here.
- woman] No, I understand it instead.
- Look, I had never seen
Narrative and Annunciation
Getting attached to someone.
But how did you do it?
I didn't do anything.
You said a very Chinese thing.
Suzie Wong has been in here three years
and has never fallen in love with a partner.
- Suzie Wong is an exception, can't you see it?
- And don't you, Suzie?
Oh, me? Poor Suzie Wong, never!
[laughing]
I have been doing this ceremony for three years,
Every Sunday.
It allows me to live without going crazy.
Are you here for politics?
No, I stole.
Ah!
You know, I deal international drugs.
They are very strict with us Chinese.
But you stole, it's nothing now.
Barbara, get a plate, come on.
I'm not hungry.
[women sing]
S Every day I think only of you S
Is I made you cry I don't know why $
S My love I miss you so much S
" Sorry if I made you suffer $
Is today that you are not here with me
I want to be near you $
Everything is ready.
Anytime.
[woman laughs]
[indistinct voices]
Of course, I saw right.
Mama mia.
- This is for you.
- Thank you, Suzie.
If you were not there,
we would forget what food tastes like.
We should set fire
this kitchen of bastards!
Don't be impressed.
And violent, but it doesn't bite.
Mother Nature made her unrestrained,
but look at the little face she put on it.
[laughing]
Roberta.
Goliarda.
[woman] Barbara cut her wrists!
Barbara slit her wrists!
He has to go to the hospital! Get out of here!
[woman] In the hospital!
[together] Hospital!
[clamor]
Help her!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[alert]
[together] Out! Out! Out!
[together] Out! Out! Out!
- Roberta] Hello?
- Can you meet me?
[indistinct voices]
[Roberta] Hi.
[Goliarda laughs].
- Are you afraid of the dark?
- YES.
Come. Come with me.
Look there.
Did you see how beautiful it was?
- Do you like it? Yes?
- Yes, I like it.
Me too.
I wonder who wrote it because ...
Been there since before I went into prison.
the last time, almost two years ago.
The first thing I did was
run over here to see if it was still there.
Oh, look, there's a cab.
Don't worry. I'll pay for it!
Cab!
Quick, Goliard!
Via di Acqua Bullicante, 251.
I despoiled
One of my mother's sisters.
- Did you steal from the house?
- No.
There is no need. Just terrorize them.
The first one I get
Of the four sisters,
I yell a little and the one out of fear disbands.
- I take revenge.
- Of what?
- About what?
- My mother's...
That whole life covered my father,
Who is like me, spic and span, identical.
Delinquency, everything.
It never covered for me.
With my father, my brother,
only with boys. To me nothing.
Then I retaliate.
Just like that, without pleasure.
Revenge of love.
[indistinct voices]
And then you should have seen
how he insisted.
I had to put him at the door.
I told him, "Don't ever come back.
It is not what.
I'm fed up with you. Do you understand?"
And I slammed the door.
[laughing]
[they speak indistinctly]
- Come with me.
- But where?
Ssh, ssh, ssh!
Iuzza, where?
Oh God. Where are we?
Tell him to stop, that I have to get off.
- Please stop.
- [man] Yes.
- Are you not well? Huh?
- No. No.
- You pay for it. I have the money in the bag.
- Yes.
Ah...
- Everything... Yes.
- No, eye.
I'm fine. I'm better.
- Excuse me, Goliarda.
- No.
[straining, laughing].
What are you laughing at? Laugh on this cock!
[Roberta] Uh!
Good evening, carabinieri.
[laughing]
You scared the hell out of me, dummy.
Goliarda.
[Goliarda laughs].
[Goliarda] How nice to see you.
Thank you for coming.
- Barbara dear.
- You look well.
So, do you like or dislike
my perfumery?
You knew what an infamous hole it was before.
- Did you do it all by yourself?
- Yes.
Look at this velveteen.
Doesn't it look like alcantara?
It's nice, huh?
It cost me an arm and a leg,
however, it was worth it.
What about the bamboo?
It takes my breath away.
I wanted my first little store, though.
To be the most beautiful in Rome.
[Roberta] What is this?
Do you look at that stain?
- It's mold. Tomorrow...
- And indeed.
- I feel.
- Yes, but they will fix it tomorrow.
It's nothing, it's a small thing.
Do people come here?
Well, at first no one was coming there.
Where had they ever seen it
such a swank
in Bullicant Water?
Then a goldsmith friend of mine ...
Whatever, fence, honest though,
said to me, "Throw it all down
And remake it suitable for this township."
I am stubborn, though.
And then with all the local
first-class
Where my man took me,
I would lock myself up in a sad little hole?
I might as well have stayed with you in Rebibbia!
How is it going now? Is it going well?
All right, they come in droves!
It's not that it's okay.
You have to see how they dress.
They seem to go to the theater.
The more they tan, the more they spend.
Barbara, you don't give a damn
about this store.
- Do you think I've gone too far?
- Eh, yes.
Like when you want to like what
other people like, but you don't care.
Don't get jailed again.
At least for a while,
stay with us if you can.
Closing.
- Roberta] Hi.
- Hi.
This is Goliarda, do you remember her?
No, I don't remember it.
- Whatever, he's with us now.
- Yes.
[Roberta laughs].
[Barbara] Why don't you say anything?
Tell him that I locked in prison
I have a love that is a fairy tale.
And that I have to be outside fighting
to get him out.
And to jail I don't want to go back.
One time was enough for me
And I was about to get myself killed.
Do you know what this thug did to me?
Then for what?
To come out one month, at that price?
You have to explain to me why you come and propose
certain things in front of a stranger,
sorry, don't be offended,
things I don't want to repeat.
I'll tell you why you did it.
You enjoyed giving me air.
And now you want to have fun
To get me back inside, beautiful friend.
To get you back in?
You don't measure up.
You had a year
And you had a lot of strange ideas,
Like kids in military service.
What are you doing here?
Build this nest, this little store
for Tano? That one grew up in prison,
do you think that when he goes out, he's here doing
accounts, serving, following schedules?
Blessed are you who grew up in prison,
But I don't want to go back.
- And Tano is happy that I'm here.
- And of course, I would be glad too.
This is one way to keep you busy
Honestly during his detention,
so he knows where you are.
This is the guarantee of finding you
Where he left you.
- What are you laughing at?
- In fact, you are right.
You can't understand the letters he writes to me,
he is jealous.
- He doesn't understand anything. He is suffering.
- I believe that.
You're right, I'm fucking young.
What if I started dating
with certain men, right?
Like, do you know what I mean?
[Roberta]
You're a genius, I hadn't thought of that.
You are really in love.
[Barbara] So much.
- Let me see these terrible wounds.
- Stop, you're hurting me.
Let me see.
Look what the fuck you did to me,
I guess I have to get plastic surgery!
But when I gave you the first cut,
you didn't even look scared,
you were saying, "Go with the other one."
Look at those scars,
I think I have to get plastic surgery!
But when I gave you the first cut,
you didn't even look scared,
you were saying, "Go with the other one."
If by pain you went mad
And said it was me,
Those were asking:
"How did you do it? Who helped you?"
If I was wrong? If you were an infamous
Under this goddess-like appearance?
Do you know how many I saw?
I used to get charged with attempted murder!
- That's all we needed.
- Poor Roberta.
But where do you find a friend
Who exposes herself to so much for your sake?
[plays "The British Road" by Robert Wyatt].
[laughs]
[Roberta] And you have the courage to deny
such a friend a small favor?
Whatever, I do.
Enough, though, don't ask me any more.
Bravo!
- Come on, whatever.
- I have to get high, but I don't have the stuff.
You have one out here for sure that ...
- I'm not helping you.
- Please, I need to celebrate for a moment.
[Barbara] I am morally opposed
to heroin. And you know it well!
- Don't start being self-righteous that ...
- How beautiful you are now
- That you are lucid like this.
- Ah, like now, you say?
This asshole goddess.
But if it's from the very night I went out
what am I going to do to myself?
Now you don't say anything anymore?
You're taking the piss too. But do you
do you know that more kids are dying in the streets?
No fucking way they're outlawing
motorcycles, smoking.
Then there is a way and a way of drugging,
look at politicians or businessmen.
- I'm not helping you.
- Whatever, bye. Great, great.
- Just find me a safe one.
- Yes, yes.
- I didn't ask for anything much.
- It speaks for itself.
[Roberta] Mamma mia, oh.
She takes the moral high ground.
- Here it is.
- I told you.
What do you have to laugh about?
But nothing, we didn't understand where you ended up.
We got scared
And we entered without knocking. Sorry...
And why did you have to knock?
Ah, of course,
you don't like to be seen naked.
- Oh, again!
- [Goliard] Yes.
- You don't like it.
- But what does that mean?
You wanted to knock because you treat me
like your moms and aunts.
Because you know my age,
But this is not fair.
It is unfair at best.
But unfair what?
You rather are aggressive,
you are obsessed with this fucking age.
- I have no problem with being seen naked.
- Here.
I have no problems.
Oh, you know what?
I'm going to take a nice shower now.
- Tell you what.
- Get it cold while you're at it.
So you get the bitchiness out of you.
Oh, let's do it together.
Come on. Let's shower together.
Oh, Barbara, come on.
Please, you did so well
to fix everything.
It is so beautiful here. We would have had
in Rebibbia this personal bathhouse....
Huh?
Come on, come on, come on. Goliarda is already naked.
- Please, Barbara!
- I'm almost dry.
[Roberta] Come on, come on, let's pretend
that we're still there.
Along with dreaming, come on.
But on the fly, we shower
and then we eat.
- Roberta] Come on, come on, come on.
- When he wants something...
What the heck, oh!
Look at how hot she is.
[Roberta] What are you saying?
That you are public danger number one.
But shut up.
Which then, come to think of it, I don't understand
Why I like a little girl like you.
I have never liked women.
They never had an effect on me.
Well, with all the time
we spent in the cell in Rebibbia,
It's a shame we didn't have a story.
Do you like it too, Goliarda?
No, here, stop. No.
I don't want to know if Goliarda likes me,
nor whether I like her.
You just want to prevent
anything arising between us,
- Typical wife terrorism.
- No.
I just wanted to know if he felt
what I feel.
Stop, shut up.
Will you stop being male? Stop.
First the wife, then the male,
are you going crazy?
We need to stop going
from macho attitudes
To womanly attitudes,
That they are the same thing.
First you regret not fucking me,
Then you suspect that she did it,
then investigate.
These things happen if they have to happen.
All right?
Stop, look, I'm hungry.
Everything is wet.
- Who will dry it for me?
- Who will dry it for you? Your wife.
Dumb.
[indistinct voices from the street].
Don't be sad, Goliarda.
Look I don't suspect you anymore.
Does it hurt?
No.
[Goliarda cries]
They smell of the sea.
[Goliarda laughs].
Don't cry.
Don't cry.
Gnegnegn. It's ready.
I'm going to get the shoes.
Wow, what a table!
Not even Suzie Wong's, good.
Oh, Barbara.
I'll see you tomorrow night, huh?
I'm counting on it, I need the money.
Because comrades know
I'm on the loose, they expect help.
I also have to pay the Chilean's lawyer.
How many times do I have to say yes to you
And when do I ever say no to you?
- Never.
- Let's do this.
Tomorrow we go to the Hilton
And meet the pianist.
But let's be clear,
If it's a matter of making small talk,
it's no problem for me, otherwise ...
Don't worry, this is.
- Are you sure?
- Well, yes.
- Am I quiet? Mmm.
- YES.
I don't feel like it either.
What do you think?
[Barbara] All right.
Good yes,
they are from the deli next door.
[Roberta] Thank you.
- Coupons. Oh, there it is.
- Good ones yes.
But how do I eat this ham?
With pizza.
- Mmm. Good.
- Goliard.
Come, sit down.
But I was expecting noodles,
honestly.
- I don't have a stove.
- Eh...
You put it there, sorry.
There was in Rebibbia, can't you have it here?
- Yes, indeed.
- Also a nice bunk bed.
Yes? What about a nice grate?
- Locked.
- Pass the bologna.
How nice that you were with me tonight.
Even for you the memory of there
Has not been lost.
This meeting will never end.
Or only when they run out of supplies,
water, light,
All three of us will die...
[laughs]
...And after centuries, when they make up their minds.
To break through this temple of friendship,
it will take archaeologists
To know who those three mummiette were.
found intact
In a pre-nuclear war store
Via dell'Acqua Bullicante, 251.
[plays "The British Road" by Robert Wyatt].
[indistinct voices]
Here I am.
Hi, girls!
Hi, Barbara!
Hello.
Now what?
I'll drive you home now.
[Goliarda smiles].
I wonder if they are really asleep.
All besieged in those rooms.
I, at night, when I'm awake
And I can't write,
I set out to spy on the sleep of the city.
[Barbara] And why do you write?
[Goliard] To "crush me."
- Like you do with heroin.
- [Roberta] Ah.
"Stronarmi" I had never heard of.
[Goliarda laughs].
What kind of car do you like?
I don't understand much about cars.
Then I decide.
Ssh, ssh, ssh!
Get in!
This car is beautiful.
What a chick you are.
Aren't you going to say anything?
Don't you protest?
Because you are a criminal.
You are a criminal.
Exactly the same as me.
[plays "Blues in Bob Minor"
by Robert Wyatt]
Oh, shit. Hold on.
[Goliarda laughs].
[Roberta]
Good thing they stopped that other one.
We missed this one tonight.
Come for a moment.
I live in there.
Will you take me there someday?
Never.
Oh, come on, girl!
["Blues in Bob Minor" continued]
I'm going to get two beers.
Pass me the bag. Otherwise.
[Roberta laughs].
Listen.
If one day I couldn't take it anymore
Of this world
And wanted to get out of it,
would you help me?
Would you inject an overdose to help me?
Of course.
If I really wanted to, of course I would.
You need a horse dose, though.
I guess.
[Goliarda laughs].
[Roberta] How were you discovered?
[Goliard] Well...
Because, I don't know how,
ended up at a jewelry fair.
[laughing thunderously]
Here in Rome.
And her maid, poor thing,
Who knows why, she had gone to see it,
And clearly he recognized them...
[Roberta] No!
No, please! What a bummer!
You, too, what a dummy, though, Goliard.
Next time I'll take you
to a safe one.
This is driving me crazy, though.
Maybe he would bring me
In the most expensive restaurants,
he would take me on vacations.
Then he refused me the 100,000 lira
that I needed for...
Make a few copies of my book,
To send it around, to have it read.
That book is me!
There are years of work in it.
That's all I did.
- I got it for you.
- Thank you.
A beautiful bitch, your friend.
Yes.
Maybe I was even a little bit in love with it. Mmm.
Eh, yes.
When she realized
I had no money left,
started to treat me badly.
Like a slave.
It is always in the loves for women
I lose myself.
With men...
Is simpler. Huh?
I stole her jewelry
To put it to the test.
And you got caught.
[Goliarda laughs].
I'm sorry, I have to go home.
I have to make myself.
Then when you get a good night,
you feel like ending it with drugs.
It binds you,
takes away all the good things in life.
Damn,
otherwise we'd be together all day,
We used to do the 24 hours of friendship.
Yes.
What do you do with the car?
I leave the car a few blocks
from my house, we give it back to the owner.
Some time ago I used to leave
a thank-you note,
Now for Article 1,
I am a habitual offender.
I can't risk it.
Big kiss. See you soon.
Big kiss.
[man] luzza.
[laughing] Angel.
- Do you get scared?
- I didn't expect you to come.
Neither did I.
Never make surprises.
But no.
I just didn't expect it.
But what happened?
And nothing, we had to stop
the filming,
- And all because of me.
- Ah.
This is the scene: isolated countryside,
American super production,
money down the drain,
Impressive sets, lavish costumes.
My time comes with the main character,
the one has to finish his monologue.
He has to say, "Where is Don Jaime?"
And I run, "Coming, my lord!"
Were you a servant?
[laughing] Yes, I used to be a servant.
Small role, but nuanced,
as usual.
[Goliarda laughs].
Whatever, nothing, that interrupts,
he looks at the horse,
look at me, look at the horse again
And collapses to the ground lying
with all his armor, crumbling from the heat.
But can you imagine?
If all goes well,
we will resume in two days.
So here I am.
My husband and the Borgias.
Your husband laid them out the Borgias.
I'm going to make some coffee
and we'll have it in bed?
Yes.
Muah!
Are you asleep?
No.
How are you?
Good.
I can see that.
Are the thugs
that make you feel good?
Yes.
Were you with them tonight?
Yes.
Me when I'm with them,
I still feel inside.
What a chick you are.
[Goliarda smiles].
But yes.
With those women in Rebibbia,
it seemed to me...
Of having crazy freedom,
unthought.
They stay inside
even when they are outside.
They don't come out, you know?
And so.
When we are together,
I feel inside too, free.
What are you doing?
- I wanted to propose a cut.
- Angelo.
Come on, let it be.
We've been going at it so hard, I can't take it anymore.
It will never be published anyway.
I should just set it on fire.
Iuzza, what are you talking about?
I would rather set myself on fire.
When you have a masterpiece on your hands,
You have a masterpiece on your hands.
So I don't...
I cannot understand
why this rancor, this...
this... Why?
For a different political view?
Philosophical?
Because.
No, if you have a masterpiece on your hands,
you have a masterpiece on your hands.
Come here.
Shall we dance? Shall we dance?
Come on, let's dance. Shall we dance?
[sotto voce] Let's dance.
[sotto voce] I don't know how to dance.
[plays "In a Sentimental Mood"
by Duke Ellington]
[smiling]
It is you, the joy.
Just for you.
That's fine with me.
[music continues]
[Barbara screams]
[inaudible dialogue]
Hey!
Can't you see me? You've gone out!
You are out.
[Suzie] Thank you, thank you.
Bella mia.
Suzie.
[Goliard].
This is James Dean's limousine.
- Did you see that fireball?
- Thank you.
[Roberta] Girls, it was not for us.
[laughing]
[they speak indistinctly]
James Dean.
Oh, easy!
[laughing]
[they speak indistinctly]
[Barbara] Wait!
[shouting]
- Wait.
- Mamma mia!
- Goliard.
- You are quick!
- [Roberta] Come on!
- [Suzie] You are fast.
S Love, love, love S
s My love ;
Is In your arms I forget all pain $
s Let me stay with you or else I die S
s Let me stay with you or else I die S
[woman]
S Don't cry, love, don't cry S
[women] S My love +
s Don't cry, be quiet S
S On this heart s
Is But if it makes you suffer S
S Tell me $
+ What you need to tell me S
S Tell me $
[talking and laughing indistinctly].
- [Barbara] Goliard!
- Huh?
- Come, I'll show you something.
- Here I am.
[phone rings]
- Hello?
- Roberta] I need to talk to you.
Tomorrow. We will meet at 6 p.m. at the
luggage room at Termini station. Okay?
All right.
But what's going on, Roberta?
Nothing. A surprise. Hi.
Hello.
[indistinct voice from speaker].
Oh.
Hello.
But you're right on time.
What?
- It's hot.
- Mmm.
You preferred to rest in Parioli.
No, no, no.
- If there is time, a good coffee will suffice.
- Sure.
It all passes.
There is time. Your friend knows you.
He is cautious.
Let's go to the bar so we can talk for a while.
Come.
[indistinct voices]
[Roberta] Rocco.
- Rocco. Hi.
- Bye, beautiful.
- Will you bring me two coffees and mineral water?
- Right away, I'll fly.
What are you looking at? I've known him all my life.
It is useless for you to open wide
Those thieving eyes, mamma mia.
Convicted thief.
Not of jewelry.
Of stories, of lives.
Well, story thief I am.
I have to tell you something.
Tell me.
That night I slept over
That I had to leave early in the morning,
I woke up
And I became madly curious
For your chest full of papers.
I opened it. But in a rapture.
How much did you write?
Have you never published anything?
No, something I published.
Years ago.
If you want, I'll let you read it.
And then there were-the letters from your mother.
And your mother loved you all your life.
He chose you, protected your freedom.
It's beautiful, isn't it?
And the thief would be me?
Yes, it is true.
I, on the other hand, hate my mother.
Ever since she rejected me
For my brother, I hate her.
The trouble is that I realized
That hatred was love.
Absolute dependence.
I no longer want to love anyone
in that way.
Roberta.
Enough about families.
I haven't had one since I was 13 years old.
Here are the coffees.
Eh, yes.
Enough.
- Roberta, let me do something.
- No.
Or is it?
- Yes.
- [Roberta] Are you leaving?
Available.
Now I also lose my other family.
I told him yesterday to his face
That I was disassociating myself.
This they do not forgive.
They take revenge,
especially if you get caught in jail.
How the fuck can I lie?
It's all going wrong, dick actions,
people you think are in jail
And it turns out to be in Nicaragua.
What should I do?
I have to disappear, Goliarda. I have to go away.
"I have to," I say.
I have to, then I know I won't.
But what's going on?
After coffee,
we have two whiskeys on the rocks.
- Rocco, will you bring me two whiskeys?
- Here it is!
- Sure.
- A double one.
- Doubles?
- Doubles.
- With a lot of ice.
- All right. Coming.
I love you, Goliarda.
So much.
Me too.
I dreamed about you, you know?
That night I slept over.
F...
practically...
I'm ashamed to talk to you
Of certain erotic things.
Me who did everything,
if they knew it in Rebibbia,
I would lose all the authority I have.
Whatever.
I dreamed of you and realized
That there is nothing more exhilarating
Of that love relationship
they call incest.
Ah, fuck, I don't want to.
You don't want it because incest is possible
Only with one's carnal mother.
And I did not give birth to you, Roberta.
Don't forget.
What do you want from me?
Peace.
All right. You will have it, peace.
That's enough now,
we are giving a funny show.
I don't give a damn.
Peace.
[Rocco] Roberta, what are you doing?
Do you leave forever that you stick like this
To the lady's neck?
Rocco, why don't you mind your own fucking business?
I know, you are right.
It is that it is instructive to see the affection
of a daughter for a mother.
Today then! Is the ice okay like this?
Or maybe it's not mom?
[Goliarda laughs].
It's not leaving.
It's just that we had a discussion,
Before, and now,
Is like this because we made up.
You know how it is, how children are, mommies.
Blessed are you who have a mother
so beautiful and good.
Mine, if I answer her wrongly,
she turns around with a knife in her hand,
And if I don't run away,
he cuts me up for stew.
With what meat costs today, then ...
You are of a confidence,
of beastly arrogance.
- Why?
- Why?
Any woman would have been offended
to be called a mother.
- I'm 30 years old. Fuck you, yes.
- I'm not.
- Yes, yes. You are unbearable.
- Why?
- Your security!
- You are unbearable
With these crappy dates
you give me!
In short,
what would be this surprise? Huh?
What did you announce to me?
To come and drink bad whiskey
in this bar, as usual?
It is a free time yours,
Is a prison time!
I'm busy.
Yes, laugh.
- Oh, look, I'm leaving.
- What do you have to do?
Damn you bitches,
Spoiled by the pain of imprisonment!
Because if you think you are blackmailing me
With that poor fate of yours
Of a forced drug addict, you are wrong!
And that one because she grew up in boarding school,
the other in an orphanage,
And that other one, poor thing,
in the midst of too much wealth!
Is it always the parents' fault?
Is it always society's fault?
- All we needed was you.
- You are beautiful when you get pissed off.
Why that you don't do it more often?
You are beautiful...
You're beautiful when you're being beaten, too.
Goliarda, stop. Be still, be still!
Oh!
Take back the money, which you don't have.
- It's on me.
- The hat.
[Roberta]
What are you looking at yourselves? Don't you have a life?
[laughs]
[speaker] ...134 of 6:30 p.m.
for Palermo Central,
departing from platform 8.
Courage, beautiful,
that we are heading for the surprise!
Do you know what I care about the surprise?
- With what you put me through.
- Eh, don't get pissed off.
To me, the station has always had
the effect of a soul detector.
I always understood a lot of things
at the station.
However, I at home alone with you
I don't have to stay there anymore.
Let's go.
[indistinct voices]
Let's go.
Now what is this?
Do you know that to make me
take me 50,000 lira a day?
Imagine if you could stop doing that.
I could support you.
You could write the novels in peace.
Would you accept it?
Of course I would accept it.
And I would be very proud of you.
But now, you have to speak up, though. Enough.
What's in here?
- Drugs?
- No.
Does it have anything to do with the armed gang?
Are you in danger?
Who was the one you looked at
In the hallway? I saw you!
- Nobody.
- How not. No one.
From Rebibbia I would have liked to have understood something
Of all this madness.
I should have talked to the policies.
But instead?
I ended up running after you.
Look I am the top brigade.
So do you remember that time
on the subway,
that guy
who handed me that thing?
- Yes, I remember that.
- It was a letter.
Letter.
There are ten years of letters in here,
and not only of political prisoners,
But also of the municipalities, which then
are the most beautiful, the most political.
And I keep in touch
between the parents and the children,
I bring out
the testimonies of the abuse, the beatings,
sudden transfers,
punishments, everything.
This is my work.
The one I consider to be such,
the only worthy one, at the end of this story.
The money I collect is used
to pay the lawyers.
To defend prisoners. See the thief.
Look, look, look.
They change your eyes.
They are for you.
Thief, they are for you.
Why?
Why for me?
Because I can't keep them at home.
And if I end up inside
And they find them for me, they burn them.
For them it is a disgrace
To have a daughter like me.
What do you want me to do?
Write.
Write.
[laughs]
This -- this is Marcella's.
[whispers]
Listen to this.
Roberta?
Roberta.
Roberta.
[laughs]
[shouting] Roberta!
[plays "Memories" by Robert Wyatt].
Ms. Goliarda Sapienza. Writer.
She also saw prison from the point
perspective of undergraduate and graduate school,
wrote "The University of Rebibbia."
result of his own experience.
What did he learn at this university
That he didn't know before?
Meanwhile, I learned, which I already knew,
That very little has been done
in our country...
- Biagi] Everybody knows that.
- YES.
But by going there you touch it.
When I entered,
I still had this false concept
And that it was to cover my conscience
Of person who stands outside and says:
"I will never enter prison."
Because he will grab the weakest,
He will grasp the weakest,
Will grasp those who are delinquent.
When I went in there,
I ascertained
Who are the strongest.
I got out, my greatest friends
are now in and out of prison.
Because there is also the problem
That they become attached to the prison.
In this world
Where everything is given easy,
Where everything is just propagandized
For consumerism, as it's now called,
this whole push to have...
- Biagi] Need for excitement?
- It is also this.
You are not offended if I have
some misgivings about this gladness.
- [Goliard] Like everyone.
- Does nothing humiliate women in prison?
Everything humiliates women, everything.
- And they are happy...
- They get used to it.
Because the woman
Coming from a great repression,
fits more easily.
This is also why in the women's prison
there is less violence.
What have I learned?
I learned again, you will not believe it,
Because when I talk about the prison,
never anyone believes me...
- Why should I not believe you?
- No one believes me.
It is a point of view
that leaves me a little puzzled.
Yes. But I don't say
That prison is beautiful.
There are many ways to be happy.
Of course, but I don't say
that prison is beautiful.
I never said that.
However, the prison is like the outside ...