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Pirenaica Radio, the voice
of Independent Spain broadcasting.

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Spain, Argentina, 1936,

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I stumbled, sorry.

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The war has began.

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The Aguilar family is divided
between artists and politicians.

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Ones, yada yada;

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others, yada yada.

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So, I get here and do this.

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Action!

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Spain-Argentina, 1936.

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The Aguilar family...

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fucking Christ! Don't cut!

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The Aguilar family is divided
between artists and politicians.

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this division...fuck!

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Again?

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-One more time, OK?
-Okay.

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Of course. No problem.

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The combatants are artists,
and artists are left wing.

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I can't remember the lines,
but I'll say it anyway from here.

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How the fuck goes?

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"They all go into exile.

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Ones make a surrealist film,

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others take refuge
in the countryside."

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I can't believe it!

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No, no, no. I fucked it up
big time. Fucking shit!

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-Cut!
-The pain in Amparo's face!

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They all go into exile.

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Ones make a surrealist film,

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others take refuge
in the countryside.

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-Rolling.
-OK

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The first time I heard
about the Aguilars

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was when Paco told me
I had Elisa's eyes.

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I didn't think so,

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but I became aware

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there were others before us.

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My mother told me

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not to trust

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your treacherous eyes

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or your words.

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2010

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my grandmother Carlota dies.

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She used to say:

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"Lucky me,
when I die I won't be here

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to see you all
gouge out each other's eyes

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over the inheritance".

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During her last days, Carlota
caught a terrible conjunctivitis.

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Everyone, and when I say
everyone that's EXACTLY what I mean,

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went to her funeral
with our eyes ruined

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by the conjunctivitis she gave us.

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La Tara
(Defect)

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TARA (ES) Physical or psychological
defect, usually severe and hereditary.

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One morning, I burst into tears

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my son Juan, less than two years old,
is completely cross-eyed.

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"That's the conjunctivitis;

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the eye finds its path to see",
says my dad.

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Go look for me in the streets.

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Tararira
The only Argentine surrealist film.

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Produced in 1936; never released.

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When I was a film student,

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I was often asked
about the film "Tararira"

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This is how it was with Peña:

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Gonzalez Aguilar...

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Here!

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Are you related to The "Cuarteto"?
(The Quartet)

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Great-grandnieces and nephews.

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-"Tararira"?
-No.

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The film "Tararira”...
Nothing?

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Nothing.

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The only Argentine
surrealist film...nothing?

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I think it's lost.

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My family never talked about it.

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Are you sure?

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That's how I learned that
my great-granduncles,

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the Cuarteto Aguilar

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were starring actors and musicians

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of the only surrealist movie
ever filmed in the country.

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-Cuba...
-Come here!

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That's her attempt
of running, you see?

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Also by those days,

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I found out that my great uncle
Pepe had been a filmmaker.

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Now there were two
the dots in my timeline,

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linking me to filmmaking.

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I got sort of excited and even thought
Pepe might have had a copy of Tararira.

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But going through postpartum,
and feeling that it was a crazy idea

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since, in that case,

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Tararira wouldn't be lost,

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I turned to home life
and forgot about the topic,

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assuming that was a dead end
when instead,

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Tararira could have been
my golden ticket to filmmaking.

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Oh, Cuba...

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Also because I knew
that my grandfather Juan

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and his brother Pepe
had a bit of a quarrel.

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-Give it to me.
-I don't have it.

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-Give it to me.
-I don't have it.

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Along the way I learned
the myths around Tararira;

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that the film was burned,

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that it was made to please
Victoria Ocampo,

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that it was the starting point

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of one of the greatest
Argentine Film Studios...

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Hi!

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that its producer, Miguel
Machinandiarena,

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burnt it out of rage,

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that none of this nor the
Cuarteto Aguilar was really important,

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but rather the director
Benjamín Fondane,

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surrealist, Romanian-French
and Jew poet,

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murdered in Auschwitz...

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That in fact none of this was true,
and it was just a nitrate burn.

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As a result of this news,

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I get in touch with a family past
linked to the arts,

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which I wasn't aware of.

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The one peculiarity I did know
made me quite nervous.

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Among travels through Europe,

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quarrels between siblings,
aristocratic love affairs,

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political commitment
and so much more,

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my grandfather and his siblings,
grew up with Ernesto Guevara.

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The eye finds its path to see.

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Each one of them

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could give a whole different
perspective on the family.

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No.

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Well, this has a...

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-Are you about to break in?
-No, no...

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This is my grandma Carlota's ranch,

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she was not Aguilar
but married to Aguilar.

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It had its golden years,

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but by the time I knew it

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it was already a bit shabby
and abandoned.

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The plain has its magics,

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and if left alone it gets
full of small miracles.

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I'm not talking about visions
of the Virgin or witches,

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which also happen,

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I mean when in the bottom of a drawer,
a can with an odd title appears.

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In one of those wicker baskets.
Can you see it?

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-Yes.
-Do you see it?

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Yes. I see it.

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-This looks like a treasure.
-Let me see.

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-What's that?
-I don't know.

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This is a film...

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I think.

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What does it say, Juan?

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Tararirarai...

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You mean like music?

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Yes.
Tararirarai...

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Why don't you ask somebody?

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Amparo!

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Yes.

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In the ranch we found a tape
that says something like tararirarai.

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-Does it ring any bell?
-Are you sure it's not Tararira?

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Let's see...

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Ta ra rira.
Tararira. Yes.

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Yes, it might be.

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Fernando Martín Peña, please.

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1-Film critic and historian
2-Superb barbecue griller.

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We found Tararira.

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He says we should wrap it
with a blanket...

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that it's highly flammable...

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he says it's
the most important finding

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of national cinematography.

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When my grandfather died,
I got two presents as inheritance.

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Mahogany, edge, gold.

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A secret password?

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A super 8 camera
and his father's republican sash.

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I lost the camera.

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When my grandmother died,
this is what I got:

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a very, very, very ugly ring,

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a christening pendant
and a diamonds peacock.

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They say that peacocks
are bad luck.

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My grandmother loved them,

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she used to give us
peacock feathers frequently.

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We also got a copy of Tararira,
but that was unmeant.

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Finding Tararira was
my ticket to Happy People's Land.

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International Film Festival

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Suddenly my teachers;

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Peña,
Martínez Suarez, Cosarinsky,

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all these important gentlemen
pay attention to me.

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I guess I could travel.

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And hand by hand
with aunt Elisa,

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we'll be the champions once again.

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OK, enough.

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I don't want to be
my generation's Elisa.

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It's just the soundtrack.

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It is one of the most requested films
in the history of Argentine cinema,

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both here and abroad,

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it's the only lost film
known abroad.

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I think it's not good, honestly.

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You don't know that!

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You hear the audio

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and know it's a bad film, how come?
Are you a film critic?

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OK. But is that half important or not?

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If it's important...

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I think it's essential, huge,
an extraordinary finding,

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endless joy!

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I understand what Peña says,
but it's a pity anyway,

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because if we had found
the entire film,

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we would have restore it, screened it
and that’s that!

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But it's been years since
films are image and sound,

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and in the best case scenario,
we have just a half.

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Like right now, imagine.

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Forty something minutes audio
and not a single image.

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It's been 7 days...

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It's probably a birdie!

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Good morning!

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...when he said to Flora...

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It's time to get up.

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You are mean, really mean!

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Difficult, huh?

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Farewell life.

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Cut!

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2-Ichthyology. Blackish river fish
whose meat is highly valued.

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It inhabits rivers or lagoons
since it prefers calm waters.

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Almost a hundred years
after the beginning of this story,

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the family legacy had been linked
to science and politics.

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Hardly any artistic lineage.

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For the 2000s, the Aguilar family
was neither rich nor poor

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but part of that super weird thing
Perón invented for Argentina:

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middle class.

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A teacher, a doctor,
a very old car

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and the moral imperative
for their children

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to get to know Europe
as part of their education.

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Within that context I learned
the story of aunt Elisa,

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a strong, libertarian woman,

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who was part of a music quartet
in the 30s.

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"Girl, you have Elisa's eyes,"

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a great-uncle told me.

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And I returned to Argentina

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with a black and white picture
that must be somewhere.

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The years go by,

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and while my brothers become
sort of famous with their music,

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I take the most revolutionary decision
of my life:

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having kids.

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Two and being very young.

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Quite shocking
for an intellectual family.

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Too bad that I got bored
as a housewife,

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besides, I was super jealous.

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OK.

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2017. I've been

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going around in circles
with the film for a long time.

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I send questions to my family
as if they were spasms,

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secretly dreaming that the
image will appear in some trunk.

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Great-uncle Paco
sends me a message with my dad.

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If Amparo wants to make me
an interview, she'd better hurry.

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Paco is the only one alive
from my grandpa's generation.

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Mateo, didn't your father keep
anything from Tararira?

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I don't think so,
but I could check.

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Along the way I meet Mateo,
Pepe's son,

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my grandfather's brother.

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As I said, they were estranged.

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Apparently that was another
family habit.

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But his father had indeed
kept things from Tararira.

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1-Our uncle, Pepe’s son,
other Pepe’s brother.

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2-Acorn-fed ham taster
and beer lover.

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This is from the Cuarteto...

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Where was all this actually?

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At my mom's.
A ton of boxes full of stuff.

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And each thing was a finding
leading you to a new one...

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Did you have some
discipline of scanning?

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My main hurry
was to start with the Cuarteto.

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So, first of all,
the photo of Tararira.

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-And this is the famous book...
-Paco's book.

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I searched for it in old
bookstores here in Spain,

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and one of them had it.

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So I was up to buy it
no matter the price

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"it's my great uncle's book"
and such,

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"I wonder how much it costs"...
€3.

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Fortunately my father was
very tidy,

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almost obsessive,

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so he filed most of it

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and wrote it down in this notebook.

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Get in frame, please.

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I have no idea what
we're doing now.

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You are ambassadors!

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It's like handing over the check!

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I honestly can't see
what I'm recording.

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But it's amazing how much that cape
resembles Cabo Corrientes.

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My family crossed this ocean
so many times

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that I can't tell anymore if I belong
in the middle of the sea

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or a little bit here
and a little bit there.

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I start the trip
in the opposite direction.

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I'm going to Spain.

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I start from Uruguay,

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the place that took in many
members of the Aguilar family.

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The circumstances around these
migrations were not always happy.

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The founding crossing took place
during the Spanish Civil War.

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On the boat came:

00:16:35.598 --> 00:16:38.040
my great-grandmother Paquica,
her four children,

00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:39.640
her mother, and Tati.

00:16:39.800 --> 00:16:41.840
Three women fleeing
the war in first class.

00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:44.440
The investors?

00:16:44.640 --> 00:16:48.240
A quartet of bohemian musicians
waiting for them in Buenos Aires.

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If you find it difficult,
let me tell you that

00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:58.520
I spent years trying to assemble
the family tree with some clarity.

00:16:58.880 --> 00:17:00.760
We learned the story
of Cuarteto Aguilar,

00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.640
that of the brother, the friend,
my great grandfather.

00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.160
the brother's children
living in Argentina,

00:17:06.320 --> 00:17:07.800
among them my grandfather,

00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:09.800
and much later, us.

00:17:11.120 --> 00:17:12.600
Amparo, speaking;

00:17:12.840 --> 00:17:14.840
Mateo, my older brother,
musician;

00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:17.080
Manuel, my younger brother,
also musician;

00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.080
and my cousin Lucas, journalist,

00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:23.480
a super sweet only child who makes
our sibling fights seem lame.

00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:33.880
Good morning.

00:17:34.040 --> 00:17:35.360
Good morning.

00:17:35.600 --> 00:17:37.280
Did you sleep well?

00:17:37.760 --> 00:17:38.680
Three hours.

00:17:38.840 --> 00:17:41.060
Our generation,
my brothers and I,

00:17:41.222 --> 00:17:43.753
stoically resisted the first world
siren song

00:17:43.915 --> 00:17:45.880
during the 2001 crisis in Argentina.

00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.140
Almost 20 years later
the first of us crosses the pond,

00:17:49.320 --> 00:17:51.480
as the average Buenos Aires
inhabitant likes to say,

00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:53.790
to look in Spain for a horizon

00:17:53.952 --> 00:17:56.240
which here
looks increasingly dark,

00:17:56.422 --> 00:17:57.880
medieval and hungry.

00:18:10.600 --> 00:18:13.675
Today crossing the ocean
means taking a plane for middle class,

00:18:13.837 --> 00:18:16.760
a dinghy for the poor
and for the rich...a rocket, I guess.

00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:22.320
-What day is it today
-Sunday.

00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.120
-How do you know it?
-It's been 7 days since we ate meat.

00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:28.720
Aha. But it's been more than
7 days since we ate meat.

00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:33.560
Of course, but before that we spent
more than 7 days without fish...

00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:45.000
Let's listen to something
from Cuarteto Aguilar.

00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:47.320
This is called "Granada".

00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:49.480
They were good,
and really prestigious.

00:18:51.360 --> 00:18:53.068
If you try to play the lute,

00:18:53.230 --> 00:18:56.600
you'll see that doing what they do
is very difficult.

00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.040
I have no idea.
I can't even ring a bell with a tempo.

00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:02.520
The quartet spent years on tour;

00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:04.520
Europe, North America,
Latin America...

00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:06.800
the played everywhere a lot.

00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:08.215
They played for Roosevelt,

00:19:08.377 --> 00:19:10.002
Stravinsky wrote
lute reductions for them,

00:19:10.163 --> 00:19:11.400
they were the real deal.

00:19:34.520 --> 00:19:37.040
It was odd having a woman
among them,

00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:42.720
but since 1932, in Spain
women could hold public office,

00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:45.728
get divorced, school and religion
were separated

00:19:45.890 --> 00:19:47.640
and girls could go to school.

00:19:47.800 --> 00:19:50.240
They also achieved the right to vote.

00:19:51.800 --> 00:19:53.415
Still, the conservative vote

00:19:53.577 --> 00:19:56.160
of women educated by priests,
was a hazard.

00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.080
In Murcia, southern Spain,
a well established family

00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:02.520
inspired by these libertarian winds,

00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:06.800
allows one of her daughters
to be part of a Spanish lute quartet.

00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:12.800
OK, straighten your back please.
Look into the camera...

00:20:13.280 --> 00:20:17.280
Please, the gentleman with glasses,
again, move a little to the left...

00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:21.280
OK, you move a little
to the right, please...

00:20:21.520 --> 00:20:23.520
that's great...

00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:28.640
so, there we go:
3, 2, 1...

00:20:29.040 --> 00:20:31.360
Cuarteto Aguilar.

00:20:31.760 --> 00:20:34.550
There were other two women
in the family;

00:20:34.712 --> 00:20:37.993
Lola, who will stay at home
taking care of her mother,

00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:40.120
and Tati, the maid.

00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:44.320
Elisa is the quartet's one.
She's my favorite.

00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:47.800
Look at her here,
smoking and wearing pants in1936.

00:20:48.080 --> 00:20:51.080
I love her.
She was also openly lesbian.

00:20:51.520 --> 00:20:53.480
Lola doesn't look so superb.

00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:55.880
You do your maths.

00:20:58.120 --> 00:21:02.415
In an epistolary exchange,
Carmen vVeja tells our aunt María

00:21:02.575 --> 00:21:05.560
about the first
big fight among Aguilars.

00:21:06.080 --> 00:21:07.360
El amigo (The Friend).

00:21:08.080 --> 00:21:09.040
He was handsome...

00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:13.200
I think we need a Spanish voice.

00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:16.200
Carmen!

00:21:20.320 --> 00:21:22.120
OK.

00:21:22.360 --> 00:21:23.400
El amigo.

00:21:23.600 --> 00:21:25.440
He was handsome,

00:21:25.600 --> 00:21:27.360
smart, authoritarian and
very confident in himself.

00:21:27.520 --> 00:21:29.360
And as Tati used to say,

00:21:29.520 --> 00:21:31.440
"communist, anarchist
or worse".

00:21:32.320 --> 00:21:34.320
He came with the nickname
when Soledad was born.

00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:36.190
He said he didn't want to be
his grandfather,

00:21:36.352 --> 00:21:37.440
but he'd always be his friend (amigo).

00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:38.400
OK.

00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:43.040
His relationship with music
began when he turned 6.

00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:46.240
His father, also a doctor,
was a true melomaniac,

00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:50.200
who would take his children
to listen to opera when they turned 6.

00:21:50.360 --> 00:21:54.520
All but the women, Lola and Elisa,
were college graduates;

00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:56.870
Paco was a pharmaceutical chemist,

00:21:57.032 --> 00:21:59.400
Pepe was economist
and Ezequiel was a doctor.

00:22:00.280 --> 00:22:03.600
I don't know at what point
they began to study music for real,

00:22:03.800 --> 00:22:07.280
but I do know they were
a sextet at first

00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:10.143
because Lola, fifth sibling,
played the mandolin,

00:22:10.320 --> 00:22:12.080
and my father played the guitar.

00:22:13.320 --> 00:22:15.317
I've always heard
the quartet members say

00:22:15.478 --> 00:22:18.760
he did the arrangements for the
repertoire they would later on play.

00:22:19.080 --> 00:22:20.280
Unverifiable.

00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:22.960
The sextet played several times
in public,

00:22:23.120 --> 00:22:25.320
but just for charity
or private events.

00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:30.600
When Paco, Pepe, Ezequiel
and Elisa decided to go professional,

00:22:30.760 --> 00:22:33.440
my father put up against it with rage,

00:22:33.760 --> 00:22:35.617
and since they didn't pay
any attention,

00:22:35.778 --> 00:22:37.400
he never played an instrument again.

00:22:37.760 --> 00:22:40.680
We've only heard him
knock on the door.,

00:22:40.840 --> 00:22:42.160
but throughout his life

00:22:42.322 --> 00:22:45.160
he'd be listening to music
when he wasn't working.

00:22:58.080 --> 00:23:02.280
Mateo, you're going to be
El Amigo González Aguilar.

00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:05.320
You are Paco, from the Cuarteto.

00:23:29.600 --> 00:23:32.800
Outcasts! What's with the artist’s life?
What were you all thinking?

00:23:33.040 --> 00:23:34.217
This is a buffon move!

00:23:34.378 --> 00:23:37.480
Grow a pair
and earn your living for real!

00:23:37.800 --> 00:23:40.560
Jesus fucking Christ, Juan!
That life is not worth living!

00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:42.680
Or are you planning to be
a marine for good?

00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:45.880
Well, apparently he does
want to be a marine!

00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:48.520
They seem quite fine, don't you think?

00:23:55.280 --> 00:23:56.280
This is Santander,

00:23:56.520 --> 00:24:00.520
the last city were the Aguilars lived
before leaving Spain.

00:24:00.840 --> 00:24:03.600
It truly resembles Mar del Plata,
our home town.

00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:09.705
"El Sardinero" is the beach
accessed

00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:12.720
from the private garden
of "Villa Piquío", the family house.

00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:15.507
This house, particularly, was rented,

00:24:15.668 --> 00:24:19.023
but as most Republicans,
rich ones in this case,

00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:22.320
the family lost
its entire estate in the war.

00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:24.440
-Camera not working.
-Oh, no!

00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:34.800
The orphans?

00:24:35.120 --> 00:24:37.240
They will be here any minute,
Madame Duchess.

00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:41.680
In their misfortune,
the poor forget about punctuality.

00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:46.520
Near Santander are the ruins
of Pedroza Maritime Sanatorium,

00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:50.240
the public hospital where
El Amigo was director until...

00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:52.440
well, it all screwed up.

00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:55.760
4-Noun.
Denoting disbelief or distrust.

00:24:57.440 --> 00:24:59.440
Hi, Cantabrian!

00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:02.400
A new sea, I didn't know!

00:25:07.120 --> 00:25:10.443
Once I read a novel where
the living and the dead

00:25:10.605 --> 00:25:13.520
met in imaginary islands
and lived together.

00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:17.520
I sometimes fantasize
about an impossible place

00:25:17.840 --> 00:25:20.040
in the Atlantic ocean,
called Aguiland,

00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:22.080
where bombs, lutes and party sound,

00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:25.480
where we eat barbecue, sobrassada
and acorn-fed ham,

00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:28.200
we drink lots of wine,
and the dead live.

00:25:28.360 --> 00:25:30.552
Nobody was tortured
by the military,

00:25:30.713 --> 00:25:33.600
and those murdered
had actually gone swimming.

00:25:33.760 --> 00:25:36.320
Ampi...that would be Heaven, dude,
and we're atheists.

00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:37.240
I got carried away.

00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:38.160
They shall not pass!

00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:40.640
I arrive in Germany to see
grand uncle Paco.

00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:43.200
Of course I search for information
about the Cuarteto and Tararira,

00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:45.045
but I also want to know

00:25:45.207 --> 00:25:48.160
why the artistic history of the family
is almost hidden

00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:50.800
and what's with the habit of arguing.

00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:53.880
Every generation has
huge fights among siblings.

00:25:54.040 --> 00:25:56.280
Correct me, Dad,
if I say something wrong.

00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.480
Paco is very ill
and we decided not to record him.

00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:05.800
The conversations we had,
you'll excuse me, I'll keep to myself.

00:26:06.320 --> 00:26:10.325
Upon arriving, they ask me
a lot about the film

00:26:10.485 --> 00:26:13.920
and then put me to knead
for the party that night.

00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:17.320
Knowing how to knead
"Empanada Gallega"

00:26:17.482 --> 00:26:18.965
according to the Aguilar recipe,

00:26:19.127 --> 00:26:21.000
establishes my belonging
to the family.

00:26:21.320 --> 00:26:22.240
Mission accomplished.

00:26:22.600 --> 00:26:25.520
For the record, making
Empanada Gallega is really easy.

00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:34.160
Wake up,
it's time to get up.

00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:37.880
and let's get dressed quickly;
today it's Sunday.

00:26:38.280 --> 00:26:41.320
Good morning, to you,
Sir Birdie!

00:26:41.760 --> 00:26:43.920
Did the bird fly away?

00:26:44.080 --> 00:26:45.920
Good morning, good morning,
good morning!

00:26:47.520 --> 00:26:49.920
Good morning, birdie,
good morning!

00:26:54.840 --> 00:26:57.000
Along the way I gather
cousins and siblings.

00:26:57.160 --> 00:27:00.280
Who wouldn't feel like
starting a quartet?

00:27:01.320 --> 00:27:03.960
I’ll try to speak to
the camera.

00:27:06.320 --> 00:27:08.960
...it was the Spanish flag,

00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:13.160
and when Franco won
they took a color off it.

00:27:14.840 --> 00:27:17.080
This is the Nationalist,
fascist Spain,

00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:19.080
and this is the other one.

00:27:20.080 --> 00:27:22.080
Apparently this was the sash...

00:27:24.120 --> 00:27:27.360
Something like this
but complete.

00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:30.400
Do you feel an Aguilar?

00:27:36.320 --> 00:27:38.480
Good question...yes.

00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:40.800
Maybe.

00:27:52.040 --> 00:27:56.520
Intuitively we are making
Tararira, you see?

00:28:01.280 --> 00:28:04.640
“Manuel changes from a
bathing suit and open linen shirt,

00:28:05.120 --> 00:28:06.920
holding a glass of whisky
in his hand,

00:28:07.320 --> 00:28:09.960
to Marx Bros. T-shirt
and flowery cap”.

00:28:13.280 --> 00:28:14.880
A hipster, right?

00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:17.600
This is how you see me?

00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.480
When news arrived
facts had already changed.

00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:38.520
Of course!

00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:40.920
The war was over and
two guys stayed here...

00:28:41.080 --> 00:28:42.120
No one told them.

00:28:48.600 --> 00:28:51.037
We visited Molina
de Segura and Murcia,

00:28:51.198 --> 00:28:53.120
where our ancestors were born.

00:28:53.280 --> 00:28:57.520
And we met Antonio, historian
specialized in Cuarteto Aguilar.

00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:01.880
Thanks to you, Antonio,
we learned things

00:29:02.040 --> 00:29:03.200
about our own family, that we
barely knew

00:29:03.360 --> 00:29:05.200
1-From Molina de Segura.
2-Specialized in Cuarteto Aguilar.

00:29:05.360 --> 00:29:06.200
3-Paella and sobressada lover.

00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:07.760
Excellent!

00:29:15.520 --> 00:29:18.000
What do you know
about the film I'll make?

00:29:19.840 --> 00:29:20.880
Nothing.

00:29:21.080 --> 00:29:24.680
It's about the film
your uncles made...

00:29:25.280 --> 00:29:27.960
not your grand uncles,
your grand...

00:29:29.560 --> 00:29:31.400
Great-granduncles.

00:29:31.760 --> 00:29:34.440
It's something about
an abandoned film.

00:29:34.600 --> 00:29:37.840
-Right! In a fire...
-What?

00:29:39.040 --> 00:29:45.000
Wasn't it in a can, which
burned in a fire?

00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:48.400
No...it was sort of lost

00:29:48.560 --> 00:29:52.080
so no one continued with it...

00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:54.840
at least with that part, and...

00:29:55.520 --> 00:30:01.440
and now you're sort of...resuming it.

00:30:02.120 --> 00:30:04.840
Do you know where was
the can they found?

00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:06.320
In a ranch.

00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:07.800
Which one?

00:30:08.560 --> 00:30:10.560
-Here?
-Any conclusion, Juan?

00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:11.520
-Here!
-Here!

00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:17.480
We tried to figure out what
we could do with this for years.

00:30:17.800 --> 00:30:19.600
We thought of many things,
many.

00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.320
The new Cuarteto Aguilar +
The new Argentine cinema, present

00:30:25.560 --> 00:30:29.920
We could make a film about Tararira,
or about Cuarteto Aguilar,

00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.840
or about the lute,
or about Falla,

00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.320
or about the history
of Spanish music,

00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:39.000
even about the mistakes
of Civil War,

00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:41.240
vicissitudes of
the revolutionary struggle,

00:30:41.520 --> 00:30:44.440
we could make a film about
the wonderful life of the Aguilars

00:30:44.600 --> 00:30:48.160
in Santander, Murcia,
Alta Gracia, Mar del Plata,

00:30:48.320 --> 00:30:49.560
Buenos Aires, Cuba...

00:30:49.760 --> 00:30:51.120
but all of that is a lot.

00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:54.800
Just because.
Why not?

00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:57.920
Just in case, we decided
to take baby steps.

00:31:00.560 --> 00:31:03.840
What I know,
about why the film is here,

00:31:04.013 --> 00:31:09.160
is that they had to flee Spain
because of a war or something.

00:31:11.360 --> 00:31:12.760
The war

00:31:13.040 --> 00:31:14.760
Spain, 1936,

00:31:15.040 --> 00:31:19.120
a faction of the army raises against
the government of the republic.

00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:21.600
The people defend it.

00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:24.800
And just like that,
the Spanish Civil war is shaped.

00:31:28.520 --> 00:31:31.840
El Amigo González Aguilar
volunteers to serve in the Navy

00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:34.720
and is designated member
of the Navy Health Board.

00:31:43.600 --> 00:31:46.920
Ever since, he follows the Republican
government along the front.

00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:51.920
Air force! Air force!

00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:57.800
Well...wherever the government would go,
I'm not sure that was the front...

00:31:57.960 --> 00:31:59.638
I guess not.

00:32:15.760 --> 00:32:17.560
In Chiclana I was raised...

00:32:17.760 --> 00:32:19.520
5-From Tarara.
Fun, joy with noise and voices.

00:32:22.840 --> 00:32:25.400
We have to stage four generations.

00:32:26.120 --> 00:32:26.882
Manuel,

00:32:27.042 --> 00:32:28.000
you will be...

00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:29.880
our grandfather,
Juan González Aguilar,

00:32:30.600 --> 00:32:32.440
and Paco Aguilar,
from the Cuarteto.

00:32:34.760 --> 00:32:37.800
Mateo; Pepe Aguilar,
our great-granduncle,

00:32:38.040 --> 00:32:40.040
and Pepe, from
the Cuarteto.

00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:43.720
Lucas; our uncle,
Juan González Aguilar.

00:32:46.040 --> 00:32:47.800
What is the young lady saying?

00:32:48.360 --> 00:32:51.040
She's talking about her family,
they are a lot.

00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:53.760
Apparently all have the same name.

00:32:54.040 --> 00:32:56.160
Anything important?

00:32:56.560 --> 00:32:59.240
No, I think it doesn't matter.
She's thinking out loud.

00:33:00.560 --> 00:33:04.200
Also, who are we to pass judgment?

00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:10.760
A dime for this poor blind man!

00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:22.600
OK. But the surrealist Argentine film
made in 1936. yada yada...

00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:28.880
It's more interesting the messy
family story, trips, exile,

00:33:29.080 --> 00:33:31.912
the arts and politics thing,
than Tararira.

00:33:32.073 --> 00:33:34.160
We had huge expectations and...

00:33:34.520 --> 00:33:38.480
Take all that and use the family
story to tell Tararira.

00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:41.560
Or the other way round;
the family story through Tararira.

00:33:41.760 --> 00:33:43.240
Won't that be too much?

00:33:43.840 --> 00:33:46.600
That's your problem,
but I think, that's the path.

00:33:46.760 --> 00:33:49.320
It's somehow the history
of the entire century, right?

00:33:49.840 --> 00:33:51.880
-Who are we?
-Figure it out.

00:33:53.600 --> 00:33:57.560
All good with Peña's proposal...
a bit megalomaniac though.

00:33:57.720 --> 00:34:01.040
I'll take it easy and see
how it goes.

00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:02.882
So far we managed to get

00:34:03.043 --> 00:34:05.760
photos, soundtrack
and 2 unreleased films.

00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:08.732
If I can't make a film
out of all that,

00:34:08.893 --> 00:34:11.720
I rather focus on
selling Empanada Gallega.

00:34:12.160 --> 00:34:14.200
7-Trumpet call.

00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:21.040
When I see your black eyes

00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:25.280
as black as my luck

00:34:25.600 --> 00:34:31.960
I feel totally worn out
worn out like I'm gonna die.

00:34:32.560 --> 00:34:39.200
When I see your black eyes
as black as my luck

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:43.160
I start shaking from deep inside,

00:34:43.680 --> 00:34:47.840
shaking like I'm gonna die

00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:50.640
shaking like I'm gonna die...

00:34:52.560 --> 00:34:54.320
Theater

00:34:59.680 --> 00:35:00.680
Second letter.

00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:03.040
María:

00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:07.200
I have no choice
but to go back to 7/18/1936,

00:35:07.560 --> 00:35:09.360
or rather, to the 17th.

00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:11.760
Since the beginning of July
we were back

00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:13.840
living in Pedroza,
our lost paradise.

00:35:15.080 --> 00:35:17.328
Villa Piquío is the typical palace

00:35:17.488 --> 00:35:20.520
indianos built for themselves
if they came back rich.

00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:23.118
It's in a beautiful spot
of El Sardinero,

00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:25.240
between the first
and the second beach.

00:35:26.080 --> 00:35:28.400
You can still see it if you ever go.

00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.813
Back to 7/18/1936;

00:35:31.973 --> 00:35:35.440
Paquica had left to Murcia,
to see her mother

00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.630
and they would meet in Madrid
that weekend

00:35:38.792 --> 00:35:41.200
since Dad was giving a lecture there.

00:35:41.720 --> 00:35:43.880
The 16/7 is the feast day of
Virgen del Carmen.

00:35:45.080 --> 00:35:47.920
At home we celebrated
both birthdays and saints.

00:35:48.560 --> 00:35:51.240
They gave me a lady's briefcase.

00:35:51.680 --> 00:35:55.360
I was 8, and traveled with Dad
the 17th to use it for the first time.

00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:58.520
At 5 p.m.we stopped
in Burgos to grab a bite.

00:35:58.680 --> 00:36:00.080
At 7 p.m. Burgos rose up in revolt

00:36:01.160 --> 00:36:04.960
The following day we knew
we've had a close call.

00:36:05.640 --> 00:36:09.240
On the 18th, you probably know,
the revolt spread all over Spain.

00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:12.080
My father immediately came forward
to volunteer,

00:36:12.520 --> 00:36:15.168
and since he had been
in the Navy years ago,

00:36:15.328 --> 00:36:17.520
he was appointed
Chief of Health of the Navy.

00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:18.800
Unverifiable.

00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:21.920
Communications with the Santander
were cut off,

00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:25.960
Paquica, Mamena, Lola and I
spent days next to the radio,

00:36:26.120 --> 00:36:27.645
because we did not even know

00:36:27.807 --> 00:36:30.880
if Santander was under
Republican or Franco's control,

00:36:31.040 --> 00:36:32.200
and the three boys were there.

00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:35.400
Of course Tati was with them,

00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:37.800
but anguish was awful.

00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:39.920
Finally some night really late,

00:36:40.120 --> 00:36:42.120
we heard on the radio:

00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:44.440
"Urgent message for Dr. Aguilar...

00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:45.640
Long live the Republic!

00:36:46.160 --> 00:36:49.173
His sons and all the staff
of Pedroza Hospital

00:36:49.335 --> 00:36:50.600
are perfectly fine.

00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:52.720
Long live the Republic!"

00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:54.600
I think it was the one time
in my life

00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:56.560
one of those
"long live" moved me.

00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:59.280
We knew the war was going to last...

00:36:59.720 --> 00:37:01.520
maybe not as much as it actually did,

00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:04.720
and we had to figure out
how to rescue the 3 boys and Tati.

00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:08.840
After several months wondering
what to do,

00:37:09.120 --> 00:37:10.447
Dad and Paquica decided

00:37:10.607 --> 00:37:15.040
she and I would go to Santander
via France to bring the boys and Tati.

00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:21.280
On November 7, the day Franco's troops
besieged Madrid, we were in Pedroza.

00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:23.920
Paquica gave the house keys
to a girl called Laura

00:37:24.080 --> 00:37:29.840
and told her she and the military
could use whatever was there.

00:37:31.040 --> 00:37:33.240
Not Laura neither the military
touched anything.

00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:36.333
Who did take it all in trucks,
even the toys,

00:37:36.493 --> 00:37:37.890
was Franco's Health Minister

00:37:38.050 --> 00:37:40.040
when Santander
fell to the fascists.

00:37:40.520 --> 00:37:44.320
I'm sorry, Miss, I didn't mean
to bother the young lady.

00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.622
Of course. And tomorrow
you will repeat it.

00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:51.320
You are mean, really mean.

00:38:04.680 --> 00:38:06.640
-Careful with the photos...
-Take care of my photos, babe.

00:38:07.080 --> 00:38:09.920
There's a huge fight
in each generation.

00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:12.320
In the Cuarteto's one,

00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.920
somehow there was no chance
for everyone to go on tour.

00:38:16.600 --> 00:38:19.732
In the next one the ones
screwing it big time

00:38:19.892 --> 00:38:23.120
are our grandpa Juan
and Pepe, Mateo's dad,

00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:24.760
who had the entire family file.

00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:28.000
Our grandfather was
quite judgmental

00:38:28.620 --> 00:38:30.840
about Pepe's way of life.

00:38:31.560 --> 00:38:33.560
Same thing withPepe,
but in opposite direction

00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:36.120
-Juan was a doctor...
-Bourgeois...

00:38:36.680 --> 00:38:38.400
he had a family,
six children...

00:38:38.560 --> 00:38:42.720
and together with Carlota
they had this super aristocratic plan

00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:45.640
of traveling Europe
endlessly...

00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:46.560
What's the order?

00:38:46.720 --> 00:38:49.360
Carmen, Paco, Juan, Pepe.

00:38:49.520 --> 00:38:52.600
They died in the opposite order;
Pepe, Juan, Paco...no.

00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:55.080
They screwed up....
the youngest died first.

00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:58.718
Pepe was film director in Cuba,

00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:05.307
assistant director in Argentina,
where he worked with Fernando Ayala,

00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:10.560
Birri, Cohen...
all the New Argentinean Cinema.

00:39:11.160 --> 00:39:12.240
Unverifiable.

00:39:12.640 --> 00:39:15.720
So he leaves with Che
to Cuba,

00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:19.120
they were friends, but he suddenly
is there doing things,

00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.040
and his films as a director,
which are apparently 3,

00:39:22.200 --> 00:39:25.360
but we just know about 2;
"Por cuánto" and "Guernica",

00:39:26.040 --> 00:39:27.800
are made in Cuba and Spain.

00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:29.240
He shoots there.

00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:30.800
That's after Cuban Revolution?

00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:34.320
During it. They had already
came down from the mountains.

00:39:35.560 --> 00:39:37.560
And Juan, our grandfather,

00:39:37.722 --> 00:39:38.600
was like...

00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:42.720
“everything's cool here,
we're left wing,

00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:44.602
but things will get pretty ugly

00:39:44.762 --> 00:39:47.640
and I don't want anything
to do with this.”

00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:48.600
-Right.
-At all.

00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:51.120
From this picture on,
they start to grow apart.

00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:53.200
Pepe moves to Cuba,

00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:55.440
Juan is the only one
staying in Argentina,

00:39:55.680 --> 00:39:57.720
at some point Carmen
moves to Cuba too,

00:39:57.880 --> 00:39:59.480
and due to neurobiology,

00:39:59.642 --> 00:40:02.640
Paco lives in different
parts of the world.

00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:06.200
Many will go back to Spain
during the dictatorship in Argentina,

00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:08.880
except for Juan, who stays
and moves to the countryside.

00:40:09.040 --> 00:40:11.000
-They lie low.
-They lie low in the ranch

00:40:11.160 --> 00:40:13.560
and there's where they find
the soundtrack of Tararira.

00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:16.960
-It doesn't matter.
-Irrelevant.

00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:22.543
The Spanish Republic

00:40:22.720 --> 00:40:25.320
as a major international
political movement,

00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:27.680
stifled by the inaction of the Allies,

00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:30.000
sends its message to the world
through art.

00:40:30.160 --> 00:40:32.080
They ask Pablo Picasso
to make a painting

00:40:32.240 --> 00:40:35.120
illustrating the atrocity of
fascist bombings

00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:38.840
to exhibit as central work
at the Paris International Exposition.

00:40:39.600 --> 00:40:43.000
Needless to say, it was not
a foreign policy success.

00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:49.067
What we are seeing is a
work of video art

00:40:49.228 --> 00:40:51.440
made by Pepe Aguilar
and Rafael Alberti...

00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:54.800
Dude, I know this,
why the blank?

00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:58.560
These catering thingies are great!
I'm super glad!

00:40:58.720 --> 00:41:01.760
Looks like I'm not a natural
explaining things.

00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:03.440
t's more a gentlemen's thing.

00:41:03.640 --> 00:41:04.620
As I was saying,

00:41:04.782 --> 00:41:08.680
Pepe Aguilar and Rafael Alberti
made this video art in '91.

00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:11.400
I guess they tried to draw
the world's attention

00:41:11.560 --> 00:41:14.120
on the nonsense we were living
with Fukuyama's End of History,

00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:17.440
the fall of The Wall,
and the end of utopias.

00:41:17.600 --> 00:41:21.358
But I wonder who would listen to them
in a Spain which danced to raves

00:41:21.520 --> 00:41:24.400
and an Argentina where
one peso was worth one dollar.

00:41:24.640 --> 00:41:26.480
Maybe if they used
an electronic base...

00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:29.600
Locks, keys, doors

00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:31.880
open up at late hours,

00:41:32.040 --> 00:41:34.200
and frozen blinds
grow in the night,

00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:36.200
stretching,

00:41:36.520 --> 00:41:38.520
burning,

00:41:38.680 --> 00:41:40.520
lasting.

00:41:40.680 --> 00:41:41.602
I know you,

00:41:41.762 --> 00:41:45.120
I remember you, useless candle,

00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:47.223
livid halo,

00:41:47.385 --> 00:41:49.160
dead limbo,

00:41:49.520 --> 00:41:53.600
I know you even though you attack
thinned into the wind.

00:41:58.720 --> 00:41:59.600
What's that?

00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:01.600
Mass graves.

00:42:05.600 --> 00:42:06.920
Dead people.

00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:14.520
Mama’s letter!!

00:42:14.680 --> 00:42:16.040
-Mama’s?
-Mama’s?

00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:17.560
No. It's from Papa!

00:42:18.680 --> 00:42:20.215
While in Argentina Paquica tried

00:42:20.375 --> 00:42:23.040
to move her children away
from Buenos Aires Bohemia,

00:42:23.200 --> 00:42:24.320
which was around making films,

00:42:24.600 --> 00:42:27.530
El Amigo González Aguilar
refuses to repatriate them

00:42:27.692 --> 00:42:30.080
in a letter where
he talks about himself

00:42:30.240 --> 00:42:32.600
with so much praise
for his manhood and courage

00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:35.200
that would make me feel
a little embarrassed.

00:42:36.560 --> 00:42:39.800
Brussels. 18/9/1938

00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:43.680
My Paquica: no one here
knows for sure what's going to happen,

00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.400
but we all think it will be big.

00:42:46.720 --> 00:42:49.360
And relating this with our
particular situation,

00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.547
when I denied you the authorization
to move to France,

00:42:52.720 --> 00:42:56.400
the war in Spain was like today;
this situation can't last long.

00:42:56.560 --> 00:42:59.920
What would be the faith
of our children in Europe?

00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:05.480
It's the war, Paquica, with unknown
cruelty and unsuspected betrayal.

00:43:05.720 --> 00:43:07.450
Under those conditions, in March,

00:43:07.612 --> 00:43:10.092
I started to receive
your most dramatic letters

00:43:10.252 --> 00:43:11.720
full of urgent demands.

00:43:15.720 --> 00:43:20.000
You talked about humiliation,
insults, very serious situations,

00:43:20.720 --> 00:43:23.520
yet small for someone who had seen
3000 corpses

00:43:23.682 --> 00:43:26.480
after 48 hours of constant
bombing on Barcelona.

00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:29.000
I can clearly see just 2 things:

00:43:29.160 --> 00:43:33.240
It's our responsibility to keep
our children away from the war,

00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:38.788
and as long as our war lasts,
it's good for us and for our children,

00:43:38.950 --> 00:43:41.760
that I am alone and completely free.

00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:46.080
Serenity, courage and love for all;
your Juan.

00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:48.560
PS:

00:43:49.600 --> 00:43:51.000
Belgium is much more
expensive than France

00:43:51.160 --> 00:43:52.640
what made you think otherwise?

00:43:54.200 --> 00:43:55.680
Some letter, uh?

00:43:56.160 --> 00:43:56.960
Terrible.

00:43:57.120 --> 00:43:58.480
And what would Paquica say?

00:43:59.160 --> 00:44:02.040
She'd say she was
completely lost in Argentina...

00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:04.160
-With 4 kids.
-with 4 kids...

00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:06.360
She had all her money stolen...

00:44:07.120 --> 00:44:09.120
and the guy was with someone else.

00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:13.200
Anyway, none of these situations
was easy.

00:44:14.040 --> 00:44:17.440
I put myself in their shoes,
any of them, and...

00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:20.600
have nothing to reproach them for.

00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:24.960
Right.
I'm going to my hole.

00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:35.400
We've played "Granada",

00:44:35.560 --> 00:44:37.840
composed by maestro Isaac Albéniz.

00:44:38.120 --> 00:44:38.932
I play the lute,

00:44:39.093 --> 00:44:40.620
and there's also a bass lute,

00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:43.720
which Paco plays
since he is the oldest brother.

00:44:44.600 --> 00:44:46.600
And because he is grumpy.

00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:48.640
I'm not allowed to play
the bass lute.

00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:50.160
Why not?

00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:52.480
Because I'm a girl.

00:44:52.640 --> 00:44:53.720
None of your siblings allow you?

00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:57.280
Lola would have allowed me,
but she wasn't allowed to come.

00:44:57.480 --> 00:44:59.640
Really? Why not?

00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:02.600
Poor Lola, she's had
to take care of our mother.

00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:05.640
Naturally, she was chosen by lot...

00:45:06.120 --> 00:45:07.720
by lot among women.

00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:11.800
-But they went to college...also.
-Shut up, spoiled kid!

00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:13.720
I didn't, because I'm a girl.

00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:15.640
We're having a serious conversation.

00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:16.600
It's not women's talk.

00:45:17.040 --> 00:45:19.640
Is that so?
Then I'd rather you didn't talk.

00:45:20.120 --> 00:45:23.880
At least, when we're playing
we are all equal.

00:46:02.160 --> 00:46:05.080
...the world's most famous tenor.

00:46:06.160 --> 00:46:07.600
I'm going to sing...

00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:09.997
From the famous opera

00:46:10.158 --> 00:46:13.800
by the famous composer
Francesco Giuseppe Puccini,

00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:22.880
the ballad from Tosca, called:
"Farewell life".

00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:42.560
We only knew 2 things about
El Amigo and his great grandchildren;

00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:43.840
he hated the war

00:46:44.002 --> 00:46:47.013
and was proud
to be the one who had brought

00:46:47.175 --> 00:46:50.680
Antonio Machado and his mother
safely out of Spain.

00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:00.720
Legend says, Machado crossed
the border in France

00:47:01.120 --> 00:47:03.200
while writing his last verse.

00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:06.775
It is also tells that his mother,
raving due to her age,

00:47:06.937 --> 00:47:09.600
constantly asked if they had already
arrived in Sevilla.

00:47:10.640 --> 00:47:15.720
So much courage to rescue an artist
and so little to protect a lost film.

00:47:18.080 --> 00:47:19.920
How are you, Antonio?

00:47:21.680 --> 00:47:23.680
Well...

00:47:24.640 --> 00:47:25.560
And you?

00:47:28.040 --> 00:47:31.000
What can I say?

00:47:34.160 --> 00:47:36.160
-Same thing.
-Right.

00:47:41.560 --> 00:47:42.840
How are you doing, Mother?

00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:50.360
Have we arrived yet?

00:47:51.160 --> 00:47:52.960
Not yet.

00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:57.400
Awful rescue, honestly.

00:47:58.200 --> 00:48:00.520
If not awful, partially successful.

00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:03.478
I mean...they crossed the border,

00:48:03.640 --> 00:48:06.920
settled in France,
but died 1 1/2 moths later.

00:48:08.200 --> 00:48:10.080
Like the Moncloa Pacts, you know.

00:48:11.640 --> 00:48:14.920
Not so awful, was the rescue
of pieces of art during the Civil War.

00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:17.640
After we turned the world upside down

00:48:17.817 --> 00:48:19.880
the Guernica,
Republican art par excellence,

00:48:20.040 --> 00:48:21.697
ends up repatriated by Franco

00:48:21.858 --> 00:48:24.438
and exhibited in a museum
named after a queen.

00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:34.840
Momma am I pretty?

00:48:35.560 --> 00:48:37.280
Momma am I pretty?

00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:39.600
Momma am I pretty?

00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:41.360
Momma am I pretty?

00:48:42.520 --> 00:48:44.573
my blonde hair,

00:48:44.735 --> 00:48:46.520
my pretty face

00:48:46.680 --> 00:48:48.253
ugly girl,

00:48:49.040 --> 00:48:50.440
my pretty face

00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:52.960
I wanna be in a Velázquez painting.

00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:55.200
Momma, why doesn't Velázquez paint me?

00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:57.360
Why is it always you and papa?

00:48:57.720 --> 00:48:59.480
Momma maybe I'm really not that pretty?

00:48:59.640 --> 00:49:01.000
-Tell me pretty,
-Pretty.

00:49:01.160 --> 00:49:02.600
-Tell me I'm pretty
-Pretty

00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:04.760
Tell me you haven't seen
a prettier princess

00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:07.760
Velázquez, do you think I'm pretty?

00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:10.920
The war...well, it was a war.

00:49:11.680 --> 00:49:14.680
Destruction, hunger
and disaster everywhere.

00:49:15.040 --> 00:49:17.725
Fascists were particularly
fond of bombing,

00:49:17.887 --> 00:49:20.120
another coincidence with Argentina.

00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:23.323
Here and there, bombing civilians,
museums,

00:49:23.485 --> 00:49:25.640
basically anything,
was really popular.

00:49:26.080 --> 00:49:27.703
The point is, the Republic set out

00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:30.000
to safeguard Spain's
artistic treasures.

00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:33.800
They took Velázquez', Greco's,
Goya's works, in little trucks,

00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:36.360
until they got to take them
out of Spain.

00:49:36.520 --> 00:49:39.520
Thus, the Spanish artistic treasure
entered France

00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:43.440
through the same border over which
400000 refugees made they pilgrimage,

00:49:43.600 --> 00:49:45.560
my great grandfather among them.

00:49:45.720 --> 00:49:48.792
The story goes that Azaña,
president of the Republic,

00:49:48.953 --> 00:49:51.225
ordered a group
of militiamen off a truck

00:49:51.387 --> 00:49:53.600
to cross Velázquez's
paintings instead.

00:49:54.600 --> 00:49:56.600
Quite some nerve, right?

00:49:56.800 --> 00:50:00.840
Miss Margarita,
I'm just following orders

00:50:01.040 --> 00:50:05.240
But here's a secret:
it's you that I'm painting.

00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:08.920
Did you notice that in the picture
a picture is being painted?

00:50:09.120 --> 00:50:13.480
Actually, madam,
it's you that I'm painting!

00:50:13.720 --> 00:50:14.600
What?

00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:18.763
The work I'm doing is groundbreaking
call me Velázquez a.k.a amazing.

00:50:18.923 --> 00:50:21.080
The boy from Sevilla
came to raise the bar

00:50:21.242 --> 00:50:23.080
to show the fools
how it's gotta be done.

00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:25.520
-So, am I pretty?
-Yes.

00:50:26.080 --> 00:50:28.080
Momma am I pretty?
Momma am I...

00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:33.800
6-Tararira. Showing complete dissent
with something proposed by another.

00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:38.680
-All good?
-All good.

00:50:40.680 --> 00:50:42.680
We just have to wait.

00:50:45.160 --> 00:50:47.160
Are you tired?

00:51:07.040 --> 00:51:09.040
Fidel again.
Turn up the volume.

00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:20.975
Therefore: The Cuban Revolution
will not stop

00:51:21.137 --> 00:51:27.480
until the total and final
liberation of the homeland.

00:51:27.640 --> 00:51:32.893
Therefore: Cuba must be a luminous
and stimulating example

00:51:33.055 --> 00:51:36.320
for the fraternal peoples of America

00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:39.227
and all the developing
peoples of the world,

00:51:39.388 --> 00:51:41.613
in their struggle to free themselves

00:51:41.775 --> 00:51:44.320
from the brutal clutches
of imperialism.

00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:48.840
We therefore resolve:

00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:51.440
-First:

00:51:59.640 --> 00:52:05.360
all assets and companies located
in the national territory

00:52:05.520 --> 00:52:09.920
are awarded in favor
of the Cuban State,

00:52:10.080 --> 00:52:11.960
in full ownership.

00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:20.880
Comrades!

00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:23.960
Silence, please!

00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:26.237
The issue to address

00:52:26.398 --> 00:52:28.040
is the situation
we are going through,

00:52:28.202 --> 00:52:28.960
which is very hard.

00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:31.675
In case you didn't notice
when Fidel said it,

00:52:31.837 --> 00:52:33.412
this is "Por cuanto" (therefore),

00:52:33.573 --> 00:52:35.600
one of Pepe Aguilar's films
shot in Cuba.

00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:37.150
The core of the film
is the tension

00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:40.160
between the working class
and their political representatives.

00:52:40.720 --> 00:52:42.520
Except Fidel, of course.

00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:45.657
I don't think us workers
should just wait

00:52:45.818 --> 00:52:47.750
until our problems are solved.

00:52:47.912 --> 00:52:50.560
And we need urgent
solutions, comrades!

00:52:50.720 --> 00:52:53.200
We are a bit shocked by the
comrades' proposal

00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:55.400
We think it's rather absurd,

00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:57.880
if not extreme and provocative.

00:52:58.240 --> 00:53:02.280
have the right to speak my mind
and you can all vote.

00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:04.400
I say let's put it to a vote!

00:53:04.560 --> 00:53:06.920
I'm really shocked
for the Secretary's attitude.

00:53:09.160 --> 00:53:11.160
Intervention...I wish!

00:53:11.600 --> 00:53:14.145
I still wonder why did my grandfather
keep the tape

00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:16.800
while his brother
searched for it non stop?

00:53:17.240 --> 00:53:18.600
-Give it to me.
-I don't have it.

00:53:18.840 --> 00:53:21.600
It's not yours, it belongs
to The Revolution.

00:53:22.200 --> 00:53:23.800
I don't have it.

00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:26.000
And if I did, I wouldn't
give it to you.

00:53:29.560 --> 00:53:31.680
At some point of the '60s

00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:33.680
a revolutionary dies in Bolivia.

00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:34.960
Pepe, from Havana,

00:53:35.120 --> 00:53:37.760
is in charge to tell
the family that the death is real.

00:53:38.600 --> 00:53:41.440
With little to do in Cuba,
he returns to Argentina.

00:53:41.680 --> 00:53:43.492
We were sitting
across from each other,

00:53:43.653 --> 00:53:47.600
looking at the terrace behind which
we could see the buildings,

00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:49.552
and the night sky of Havana,

00:53:49.713 --> 00:53:52.440
lit by the reflection
of the city lights.

00:53:52.680 --> 00:53:53.920
Fidel was silent.

00:53:54.080 --> 00:53:56.145
All along the conversation,

00:53:56.307 --> 00:54:00.360
these long, inextricable silences,
had taken place now and then.

00:54:00.520 --> 00:54:02.240
Each one with his thoughts.

00:54:03.160 --> 00:54:04.920
Hours went by.

00:54:05.120 --> 00:54:08.615
The Sun went down leaving
the room almost in shadows,

00:54:08.777 --> 00:54:11.800
just lit by the soft glow
that faded outside.

00:54:12.240 --> 00:54:13.640
There I sat,

00:54:14.040 --> 00:54:15.372
guarding
the silence of that man

00:54:15.532 --> 00:54:17.960
whose word the entire
world expected.

00:54:18.120 --> 00:54:19.738
Even for the enemy,

00:54:19.900 --> 00:54:23.595
after two and a half years
of slandering him,

00:54:23.757 --> 00:54:26.360
the only reliable word was his.

00:54:26.520 --> 00:54:28.960
Six thousand km away from the facts,

00:54:29.120 --> 00:54:32.280
Fidel had to confirm or deny them.

00:54:33.200 --> 00:54:35.120
Che was dead.

00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:37.440
A river of emotions
ran through me.

00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:41.280
The death of Che, Ernesto, Ernestito,

00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:44.080
and sharing those hours
alone with Fidel,

00:54:44.240 --> 00:54:47.160
an introspective, silent,
moved Fidel.

00:54:47.680 --> 00:54:49.840
Why did I have
that pathetic privilege?

00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:53.440
What terrible shocks had he
received in those days?

00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:55.560
How had it all happened?

00:54:59.080 --> 00:55:03.280
What does Pepe mean
when he says " it all"?

00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:07.080
Stone.

00:55:11.760 --> 00:55:12.880
Turn to the left!

00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:15.040
To the right!

00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:17.800
So, Amigo, are we winning or losing?

00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:21.840
Losing.

00:55:24.320 --> 00:55:25.200
What if we win?

00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:32.240
We seek for asylum
at an embassy.

00:55:42.720 --> 00:55:44.560
Nobody called Amigo "friend"
during the war, you know?

00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:46.840
-Really?
-Really.

00:55:48.280 --> 00:55:49.920
-And how did they call him?
-I don't know.

00:55:50.120 --> 00:55:51.160
Doctor.

00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:54.880
Doctor González Aguilar.

00:55:56.200 --> 00:55:57.880
Chief, I guess.

00:55:58.120 --> 00:56:00.280
-Boss?
-Master.

00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:04.440
Owner?

00:56:05.680 --> 00:56:07.040
Are you the master?

00:56:09.560 --> 00:56:11.662
We heard this anecdote
a thousand times,

00:56:11.823 --> 00:56:14.960
and after Elisa is the family
legacy that I like the most.

00:56:15.120 --> 00:56:16.640
The idea of the unruly.

00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:18.920
I think it's more art than militia.

00:56:22.240 --> 00:56:25.680
Pirenaica Radio,
Independent Spain broadcasting.

00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:28.040
Argentina, 1976.

00:56:28.680 --> 00:56:31.353
While Spain faces
the democratic transition

00:56:31.520 --> 00:56:34.440
towards a world of silence
and consumption feast,

00:56:34.600 --> 00:56:36.800
Argentina sinks into its darkest time.

00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:39.400
The Aguilar family takes
different stands;

00:56:39.560 --> 00:56:41.520
all of them lie low,
some go into exile,

00:56:41.680 --> 00:56:44.240
others are brutally persecuted
and eventually murdered

00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:45.400
by the dictatorship.

00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:50.200
Tati, creator of the Empanada Gallega
Aguilar style and, for some, grandma,

00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:53.200
will be the only one
to make it back to Spain,

00:56:53.360 --> 00:56:55.640
rescuing, together with Pepe,
two orphan nephews.

00:57:04.680 --> 00:57:09.785
When I see those little black eyes,
black as my luck...

00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:12.600
I'd feel totally worn out...

00:57:12.760 --> 00:57:15.220
At this point of the
family history,

00:57:15.382 --> 00:57:16.880
a tragic coincidence shows up.

00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:19.985
El Amigo didn't need
asylum at the embassy

00:57:20.147 --> 00:57:21.640
because the war was lost.

00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:24.240
Who did need it was Pepe,

00:57:24.520 --> 00:57:27.480
one of the stories my grandfather
told to picture him.

00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:31.137
Pepe returned to Argentina
to rescue the children of a nephew

00:57:31.297 --> 00:57:33.960
who had been murdered
by an ESMA Task Group.

00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:36.377
He wandered with the children
in hiding,

00:57:36.537 --> 00:57:38.920
until the Ambassador's wife
felt moved by them.

00:57:39.080 --> 00:57:41.120
Nothing politics related whatsoever.

00:57:41.600 --> 00:57:43.002
Perhaps the core
of the fight

00:57:43.163 --> 00:57:45.525
between my grandfather Juan
and his brother Pepe

00:57:45.687 --> 00:57:48.180
was that Juan couldn't
or wouldn't help his brother

00:57:48.342 --> 00:57:49.320
to flee the country.

00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:51.360
Verifiable!

00:57:51.520 --> 00:57:54.040
And fake.
Juan did help Pepe.

00:57:55.200 --> 00:57:56.880
What he avoided
to get involved with

00:57:57.040 --> 00:57:58.880
was the imprisonment of his nephew.

00:57:59.600 --> 00:58:03.480
Carmen had a much more
radical approach

00:58:03.640 --> 00:58:06.200
to life and politics.

00:58:06.560 --> 00:58:09.600
From a distance it's...

00:58:10.120 --> 00:58:12.360
-Understandable.
-But he was the adult.

00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:15.280
-I mean...he was the adult...
-Yes, but...

00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:18.627
his stance always was
not to get involved,

00:58:18.800 --> 00:58:23.360
he warned them several times
about the consequences it might have,

00:58:23.520 --> 00:58:27.160
and yet
they ask him to get involved...

00:58:28.680 --> 00:58:31.320
to fix this situation...
It was like...

00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:37.760
he felt reluctant, afraid...I get it.

00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.415
Mateo says maybe
he was just afraid.

00:58:41.575 --> 00:58:44.147
I'm shocked. It's not what I expected.

00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:47.440
I didn't know him,
yet he stayed at my place...

00:58:48.320 --> 00:58:51.320
-Give it to me.
-I don't have it.

00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:52.920
Give it to me.

00:58:53.080 --> 00:58:55.945
Another version says
that even though

00:58:56.107 --> 00:58:58.393
Pepe was
an impeccable militant

00:58:58.555 --> 00:59:01.760
and Juan was
a step away from public life,

00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:04.782
their big fight was due
to Pepe's insolvency.

00:59:04.943 --> 00:59:07.277
Juan couldn't stand
Pepe's incapacity

00:59:07.438 --> 00:59:10.880
or lack of will to cope
with family responsibilities.

00:59:11.560 --> 00:59:14.103
A family gossip tells that
aiming to help,

00:59:14.265 --> 00:59:15.893
Paco bought a car from Pepe;

00:59:16.055 --> 00:59:18.400
he bought it 4 times and never got it.

00:59:18.880 --> 00:59:20.560
-Did you sprain your ankle?
-Don't cut!

00:59:22.680 --> 00:59:23.440
OK, they cut.

00:59:24.040 --> 00:59:25.578
It is also known that the siblings

00:59:25.740 --> 00:59:27.658
donated
the Aguilar art treasure to Pepe,

00:59:27.820 --> 00:59:31.640
so that he could use it
in order to build a life in Spain.

00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:33.360
Apparently this actually happened,

00:59:33.520 --> 00:59:34.783
though it's hard to imagine

00:59:34.945 --> 00:59:37.360
two siblings drifting apart
just for a little money.

00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:42.840
However, from then on, Pepe
and Juan were separated;

00:59:43.200 --> 00:59:44.800
and so were the parts
of Tararira.

00:59:45.040 --> 00:59:47.040
I don't have it.

00:59:47.200 --> 00:59:50.120
And if I did, I wouldn't give it
to you.

00:59:55.160 --> 00:59:58.800
My grandfather thought Pepe
had squandered the family legacy.

00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:00.480
A bit harsh, honestly.

01:00:00.680 --> 01:00:02.770
And even though
the patrimonial dispute

01:00:02.930 --> 01:00:05.720
had its twists and turns
since Pepe did sell things,

01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:07.323
truth is that to this day

01:00:07.485 --> 01:00:10.178
Cuarteto Aguilar music
is still heard in Spain

01:00:10.340 --> 01:00:11.440
thanks to his sales.

01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:16.040
In the 80's a group of musicians
bought the lutes and the music sheets.

01:00:16.200 --> 01:00:19.320
Then they got the authorization to use
the name of Cuarteto Aguilar.

01:00:19.560 --> 01:00:21.138
If not for this movement,

01:00:21.300 --> 01:00:24.600
the war would have buried
everything related to them.

01:00:32.080 --> 01:00:33.960
9-Pennis.

01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:40.000
The musicians are not here either?

01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:42.880
They will be here any minute too,
Madame Duchess.

01:00:43.160 --> 01:00:46.440
Provided they don't run late
because they are rehearsing.

01:00:49.520 --> 01:00:51.028
Paco Aguilar, member of the quartet,

01:00:51.200 --> 01:00:53.800
wrote the chronicles of the artistic
life of the '30s in his book

01:00:53.960 --> 01:00:55.080
"A orillas de la música".

01:00:55.240 --> 01:00:58.440
In this passage, he recounts any
given day in the life of the quartet.

01:00:58.640 --> 01:01:01.840
They are sort of cute;
conflict as a way of life.

01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:04.160
Learning about a day
in their life is easy

01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:07.597
What is their habit
to perform in public?

01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:08.880
Rehearse.

01:01:09.040 --> 01:01:10.880
What are you going to do this morning?
Rehearse.

01:01:11.040 --> 01:01:12.600
And in the afternoon?
Rehearse.

01:01:12.760 --> 01:01:16.840
Do you rehearse at all times?
We'd like to, but it's not possible.

01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:19.320
One of our main duties
is to discuss.

01:01:22.200 --> 01:01:24.480
1, 2...

01:01:26.160 --> 01:01:27.240
Let's go to 3.

01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:29.480
And 3? What happened to 3?

01:01:30.720 --> 01:01:32.680
1, 2, 3, right?

01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:34.520
Here in Spain is the same, right?

01:01:34.680 --> 01:01:37.000
Yes.
1, 2, 3.

01:01:40.960 --> 01:01:42.960
1, 2, 3?

01:01:43.120 --> 01:01:45.760
Wait. Are we bowing on 3...

01:01:45.920 --> 01:01:48.800
or on 3 we bow, meaning, on 4?

01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:52.360
We bow on 3. Let's go.

01:01:52.520 --> 01:01:54.800
1, 2, and on 3 we bow right?

01:01:58.960 --> 01:02:00.160
Let's do it.

01:02:00.720 --> 01:02:01.920
1...

01:02:02.880 --> 01:02:04.480
2...

01:02:04.640 --> 01:02:06.360
-3!
-No! I'm late!

01:02:08.240 --> 01:02:13.480
Each note played by every sibling,
must be approved by the other three.

01:02:13.640 --> 01:02:15.997
You realize that getting there
takes great accuracy,

01:02:16.160 --> 01:02:18.040
and a thorough discussion
using a large

01:02:18.200 --> 01:02:20.360
and time-consuming
vocabulary of insults.

01:02:20.680 --> 01:02:24.360
Fuck your life!
You douchebaguette, leprous rat licker

01:02:24.640 --> 01:02:26.640
Eat my shit, you dickass
fucking twat!

01:02:26.800 --> 01:02:29.080
....Nature's mistake!

01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:34.720
Fartface snitch,
whistle fucking shitblower!

01:02:35.160 --> 01:02:37.800
Knobbshit fucking cumbrain!

01:02:45.200 --> 01:02:47.920
By the '70s, Cuarteto Aguilar
was history.

01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:51.280
Elisa was the only one alive.

01:02:53.240 --> 01:02:55.503
She lived in France
with Violeta, her partner,

01:02:55.665 --> 01:02:57.080
whose last name we don't know.

01:02:58.320 --> 01:03:01.272
The family' s progressivism
reached its limit

01:03:01.433 --> 01:03:03.240
with Elisa's death in 1972.

01:03:09.480 --> 01:03:13.002
They claimed Violeta and won
the succession rights

01:03:13.163 --> 01:03:16.120
over a summer house
they both shared in Uruguay.

01:03:21.560 --> 01:03:24.520
Was there a copy of Tararira
left in that house?

01:03:25.280 --> 01:03:27.120
Was it there left in France?

01:03:28.040 --> 01:03:29.400
Would Violeta hold it?

01:03:29.560 --> 01:03:32.320
Would this be a way of poetic justice?

01:03:40.200 --> 01:03:43.800
El Amigo managed to leave Spain
once the war was over and lost.

01:03:44.640 --> 01:03:45.672
He had a fleeting stay

01:03:45.833 --> 01:03:47.880
in a concentration camp
on the French coast.

01:03:48.080 --> 01:03:50.360
A bit like this place
where we are now.

01:03:50.840 --> 01:03:53.840
French could also tell the difference
between a peasant and a doctor,

01:03:54.010 --> 01:03:55.160
and he manages to escape.

01:03:55.680 --> 01:03:58.280
He travels to Argentina
on an ocean liner.

01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:06.080
What are you doing?

01:04:07.120 --> 01:04:09.640
I'm really cold.
Do you want a blanket?

01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:13.020
No, dude, nor you neither I, jerk!
Some people spent years here,

01:04:13.182 --> 01:04:15.720
shitting in a pit,
our grandfather for instance.

01:04:16.080 --> 01:04:19.120
And you can't stand
living the experience for one day?

01:04:19.520 --> 01:04:20.640
"Living the experience"?

01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:22.340
What's your problem, Manuel?

01:04:22.502 --> 01:04:25.160
Did you have a contemporary
artist for breakfast, asshole?

01:04:25.400 --> 01:04:26.920
I'm cold!

01:04:28.040 --> 01:04:31.120
You pretend to be so cool,
but you're asshole.

01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:34.720
It's too early to fight, come on!

01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:37.400
Have some, it'll warm you up.

01:04:43.640 --> 01:04:45.960
Let's kill the idols. Come on!

01:04:46.560 --> 01:04:48.120
Let's get Picasso, for instance.

01:04:48.280 --> 01:04:49.920
-Picasso?
-Picasso!

01:04:50.080 --> 01:04:52.615
Misogynist, torturer of his partners,

01:04:52.777 --> 01:04:54.440
but, Guernica, right?

01:04:54.600 --> 01:04:56.400
How much is Picasso's work worth
without Guernica?

01:04:56.560 --> 01:04:58.200
Mercantilist macho!

01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:00.040
Snob cowards!

01:05:00.720 --> 01:05:02.560
What's the purpose of art
without transformation?

01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:06.320
A spiritual purpose, I guess.
For a fucking thing to be useless.

01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:09.320
It's easy to refuse utility
when you don't have pressing needs!

01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:12.760
-And you, punisher?
-Are you talking to me?

01:05:12.920 --> 01:05:14.000
Yes, you!

01:05:14.200 --> 01:05:16.360
Burn Guernica. Engage in revolution

01:05:16.560 --> 01:05:18.560
-No, Ampi, you're out of line.
-Hey!

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Hey! Lucas!

01:05:21.560 --> 01:05:23.320
Lucas!

01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:26.267
8. Animal Kingdom.
Scientists discovered that at least

01:05:26.440 --> 01:05:29.440
7 different species of fish
are named Tararira in Argentina.

01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:34.920
Salvador de Madariaga wrote a poem
about the exile of the Cuarteto.

01:05:35.080 --> 01:05:36.600
It was something like this:

01:05:37.280 --> 01:05:40.000
Virtuous of virtues
leave sounding echoes

01:05:40.240 --> 01:05:43.400
four lutes,
a Velázquez and three Grecos.

01:05:43.680 --> 01:05:47.040
If their Spain is silent,
they must be silent as well.

01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:50.840
Although they were not
that silent.

01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:55.657
They shoot a film in Argentina,
played to benefit the Republic,

01:05:55.817 --> 01:05:57.920
and eventually, yes, they got tired.

01:05:58.080 --> 01:05:59.680
They had a scheduled tour in Japan,

01:05:59.880 --> 01:06:02.000
but the world war prevented them
from boarding.

01:06:02.160 --> 01:06:03.680
But that's a different story.

01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:07.400
People who knew Elisa tell
that exiled in France,

01:06:07.562 --> 01:06:10.720
she played the electric guitar
until the day she died.

01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:12.435
I think we'll never know

01:06:12.600 --> 01:06:15.200
why my grandfather kept
the Tararira soundtrack.

01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:18.560
But thanks to it, some magic happened;

01:06:19.360 --> 01:06:21.400
it gave the dead their voice back.

01:06:22.160 --> 01:06:24.240
That's the right...there you go.

01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:27.000
This is Tararira, what we found.

01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:31.720
There is no need of lutes for that.

01:06:31.880 --> 01:06:32.880
Let me know if it's too loud.

01:06:33.120 --> 01:06:36.600
If they want exciting music,
they'll get exciting music.

01:06:36.920 --> 01:06:38.320
Music with some mustard

01:06:38.480 --> 01:06:40.840
-What's in your mind?
-Just to play without instruments.

01:06:41.240 --> 01:06:42.960
-Are these them? Their voices?
-Yes!

01:06:43.120 --> 01:06:44.720
-And what are we playing?
-Whatever comes to our minds.

01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:46.390
No way!

01:06:46.560 --> 01:06:48.960
Either I play the lute or I'm out.

01:06:49.120 --> 01:06:50.920
Shut up, you little brat.

01:06:52.720 --> 01:06:54.720
I'll show them!

01:06:55.520 --> 01:06:56.537
Uncle Paco used to say

01:06:56.698 --> 01:06:58.593
there were no more artists
in the family

01:06:58.755 --> 01:06:59.760
and yet, here we are.

01:06:59.920 --> 01:07:03.360
Having found Tararira,
or at least part of it.

01:07:03.640 --> 01:07:06.245
Fondane brought to Argentina
a revolution in filmmaking,

01:07:06.407 --> 01:07:08.400
especially from the
technical point of view.

01:07:08.680 --> 01:07:09.972
It' s been 80 years,

01:07:10.132 --> 01:07:12.920
humanity is a bit lost,
I won't lie to you...

01:07:13.177 --> 01:07:16.520
today the world
is haunted by other ghosts.

01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:20.600
Trying to put together what we have,
we could tell that:

01:07:20.760 --> 01:07:23.245
A quartet of street musicians,
almost beggars,

01:07:23.407 --> 01:07:27.040
is recruited by a Duchess's butler
to play at her charity gala.

01:07:29.400 --> 01:07:32.600
The event begins as her guests arrive.

01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:38.640
Hey, Ampi!

01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:40.480
-Ampi...
-What?

01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:42.800
-Shh...
-What?

01:07:43.280 --> 01:07:45.760
-That's not how Tararira looked like.
-You're right.

01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:48.040
Sorry, I resume.

01:07:48.560 --> 01:07:51.110
The Duchess and El Cuarteto
have a conflict

01:07:51.272 --> 01:07:53.880
over the lack of interest
shown by the guests.

01:07:54.120 --> 01:07:56.090
I've been waiting for
half an hour,

01:07:56.250 --> 01:07:57.680
my party has to end!

01:07:58.280 --> 01:08:00.800
What has to end
is your guests' cough.

01:08:01.440 --> 01:08:03.767
In revenge, El Cuarteto offers,
at the request of the Duchess,

01:08:03.927 --> 01:08:06.600
"exciting music" and play
Ravel's Bolero

01:08:06.760 --> 01:08:11.120
with only one instrument
and parts of the furniture they smash,

01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:13.000
leaving the Gala in tatters.

01:08:13.320 --> 01:08:17.560
We need something, more...
upbeat, exciting...

01:08:18.080 --> 01:08:21.440
If they want exciting music,
they'll get exciting music.

01:08:22.040 --> 01:08:23.480
Mustard music.

01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:24.800
What’s in your mind?

01:08:24.960 --> 01:08:26.600
Just to play without instruments.

01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:30.040
No way! I play the lute
or I'm out!

01:08:52.880 --> 01:08:55.400
We don't know
how Surrealistic Tararira was.

01:08:55.560 --> 01:08:58.600
It could be a social satire
or a farcical piece.

01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:01.320
But then, what made it attractive?

01:09:02.120 --> 01:09:04.240
Just the fact that it is lost?

01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:08.277
The renown
and tragic end of its director?

01:09:08.437 --> 01:09:11.440
The Republican origin
of the protagonists?

01:09:11.880 --> 01:09:14.960
Would Victoria Ocampo have put up
with these characters

01:09:15.120 --> 01:09:16.840
if they were not European?

01:09:17.240 --> 01:09:20.840
After all, revolution is also
an aesthetic, isn't it?

01:09:43.560 --> 01:09:47.645
La Tara- Argentine film,
produced between 2017 and 2022

01:09:47.807 --> 01:09:52.200
starring the great-grandchildren
of the Cuarteto Aguilar.

01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:55.598
Directed by
Amparo Aguilar

01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:04.280
Psst! Ampi...

01:11:04.440 --> 01:11:06.520
-Ampi!
-Shh...

01:11:07.000 --> 01:11:09.800
-Ampi!
-Shhh! the film is ending.

01:11:10.240 --> 01:11:13.155
Okay, but I wanted to tell you,
the camera...

01:11:13.317 --> 01:11:17.020
What camera, Mateo? Cut it out...
The Super 8, Juan's one...

01:11:17.180 --> 01:11:18.800
You lent it to me a million years ago...