Bobby Deerfield.
How are you doing? What are you doing over here?
Do you like it?
I'll buy it for you.
May I buy it for you?
I never thought I would see you again.
I never thought I'd see you.
When do you race next?
When do I race?
- Ten days. - Between the races, what do you do?
I go on picnics.
And then you race again.
You don't have much fun, do you?
Sure, I have fun. What do you mean...
...I don't have fun? I have fun.
You spend your whole life trying not to die.
Why wouldn't you go with me for a weekend in the country?
Because you expected me to.
Because I don't have time.
And because...
Because you are not ready to spend a weekend in the country with me.
I'm not, huh?
No, you are not.
Are you difficult like your mother?
- Who told you about my mother? - Your uncle.
He was telling me that she was...
...very difficult.
- Very outspoken. - I'm told she was.
She died in the war. I never knew her.
- Your father? - He was as fat as a walrus.
But he is dead too. He died on a beach.
- In the war? - No, in the summer. When I was 13.
You picnic on my land, but you are welcome.
- What? - Would you like to hear the story?
- Sure. - Is that why you came to Florence?
- To hear the story of my life? - I'm just trying to figure you out.
Try that. I make it myself.
- Tomorrow I will fly... - Hello?
...from these hills in a balloon.
- What? - The day was hot...
...and the water was cold. - What day?
The day my father died.
- Your father died? - A long time ago.
What?
My father stood at the edge of the beach...
...put his toe in the water, and at the instant he did...
...he fell over dead. Just like that.
This is... What's your name?
- Carlos del Montanaro. - And this is Bobby Deerfield.
- Do you know Bobby Deerfield? - Oh, yes.
I am very honored. Bobby Deerfield.
Now I... I must go.
Have a good time, huh?
Be careful with snakes.
Who was that?
Carlos del Montanaro.
Where was I? Oh, yes, my...
My father's toe in the water, yes.
As soon as his toe touched the cold water...
...he fell over dead. Just like that.
And then the people ran to him...
...and they looked at him...
...this big walrus of a man.
Jesus, he was so enormous.
And...
Then someone put their ear to him and said:
"He is dead. "
And then someone said:
"There's a tiny hand. " And no one understood.
And the woman began to scream about this tiny hand...
...that was coming from under my father.
And they rolled my father over...
...and they found a little child under him.
With a pail and toys and a shovel.
And no one knew that when he fell...
...he fell on a tiny child...
...who was digging in the sand.
And it was so strange because...
...it was as if my father had died...
...and in dying, had laid this child like an egg.
Do you believe it?
What do you think?
Do I believe it?
- Yeah. - It's not true.
I made it up.
- You made it up? - Was it good?
Why did you make it up?
I mean, why would you make it up?
For my circulation. I don't know.
I think... I think I need a little surprise now and then.
Why don't you try it.
Who was that guy with the salami?
Carlos del Montanaro.
You know...
...you're playing with me.
You're trying to keep your distance...
...and you're playing with me.
You're trying to confuse me.
Perhaps.
Who was that guy?
Now it's your turn.
Tell me anything. A truth or a lie.
Even a lie is better than "Newark is fine. "
I don't wanna tell you a lie.
I don't wanna make up a story.
I don't wanna do it.
Perhaps you will learn.
It's very much like screaming.
Who's Carlos del Montanaro?
Come on, Lillian.
Who was the guy with the salami?
I don't know.
Who is Bobby Deerfield?
My apartment is near the river.
We could finish the wine there if you would like.
Okay?
Thank you.
My gallery, Bobby Deerfield.
Want some coffee?
I make some coffee for me.
Lillian?
Please, signora, don't smoke.
Don't smoke. Very dangerous.
We're leaving in a few minutes.
Hello.
- Deerfield, you found me. - I found you.
I thought you might have told me, you know, that you were going.
It's difficult to talk sometimes.
It is difficult.
To a good wind, Deerfield.
You know, Lillian, that I made a special trip.
I did. I came all the way down from Paris just to see you.
I really appreciate it.
You do?
And you show your appreciation by leaving me, so I wake up alone.
- That how you show it? - Please, don't pout.
This is a regatta. One doesn't pout at a regatta.
Pout? I'm not pouting.
We spend the day together, spend the night together...
...I wake up and you're gone.
You could've had the decency to wake me up and tell me you were going.
There's the guy with the salami.
- Into the gondola. - Lillian...
...you're not a very dependable person.
Why don't you come with us. No rabbits in the sky.
- Please come. - I'm the commander, Deerfield!
I will do everything. You would like to come with us?
Everybody's ready?
We are going to...
We are ready.
There's not many people that I wanna be with, Lillian.
What have you got to lose?
- With the wind! - With the wind!
I'm not going anywhere with any wind.
You and your split-second moves. What's the game? What's the game?
- It's not a game... - All your freedom, all your questions.
What do you care about anything? Do you care about anything?
What do you call this, a risk? Is that it?
Meeting a guy with a salami and getting in his balloon?
You call that a risk?
You and your questions. Your questions are driving me up a wall.
"Are there homos in Newark?" What do you care about homos?
What do you care about Newark?
You scream in a goddamn tunnel, you make up stories, lies.
That's right, lies. You write me notes.
"Take a chance. Everything's sweetened by a risk. " Risk, my ass.
Remember this: I'm the commander, here. You are nothing!
You are nothing, Deerfield.
- I'm in control here! - He is everything. We are nothing.
Oh, God. I'm going to fly. Do it, Bobby.
Do it.
On the track or off, time is important to all of us.
And if you're like me...
...you wanna know the correct time exactly, not a guess.
That's why I'm never without my Seiko.
Whether I'm driving a race at the Nürburgring...
...or going out to dinner with friends...
...my Seiko is here on my wrist...
...telling me precisely the time and date.
Information I need to know.
So whether you're a sportsman or not...
... if accuracy in time is important to you...
... try 24 hours with a Seiko.
You'll never take it off.
I'm Murray Trid, The Montreal Gazette.
If I could get a few comments...
- Can I get to you later, Bobby? - I said, let him alone.
Oh, God. Quick.
- You all right? - You all right?
I understand more than you.
You know that.
That's why you are here.
It's been good for you here.
And I know this woman is already hurting you.
This Lillian Morelli.
How do you know that name?
Dressmakers know everything, especially who pays for the dress.
How long have you followed me, Lydia?
I have never followed you.
Why would I have to?
I also know she has come from the clinic where Holtzmann is.
I also know how ill she is.
A woman who is dying...
...who is alone...
...is perhaps concerned about having a lover to be there at her death.
Surely I would be.
But the truth is that she has many lovers.
And I know she is very beautiful.
And I know she travels like a gypsy.
And her hands are small, Andrea said.
But could she make your clothes from memory?
Has she taken the briefest time to consider who you are?
Oh, God.
What?
Who told you that?
- What? - Who told you that she was dying?
How do you know that?
Oh, my God. I'm sorry.
Come in.
I have been to Rome...
...to Genova, Piombino...
...and almost Cortina d'Ampezzo.
- You know Cortina d'Ampezzo? - No.
It is so high, you must finally walk to the top.
But it's so steep, so...
...they all wanted to come back.
I wanted so much to reach the top...
...but they all wanted to come back, so we came back.
And you?
What have you been up to?
I raced.
Did you win?
No.
Is it your rabbits?
You found them?
No.
No rabbits.
What, then?
- What's on your mind? - What's on my mind?
Please stop answering questions with questions.
I ask what's on your mind, you say, "What's on my mind?"
I say, "How are you?" You say, "How am I?"
That's boring.
- I'm not trying to bore you, Lillian. - I know, but...
I have a headache.
- So don't shout back at me. - I'm not shouting at you.
I know, but don't.
I don't wanna be your boring friend.
What do you want to be?
Something better than that.
Who do I go to see about that?
Are you asking me to change your personality?
I'm not a magician.
What can I tell you?
If you don't want to be boring... I don't know.
Surprise me.
Surprise yourself.
Why didn't you go into the balloon? That damn fool invited you.
God, this is all so stupidly comical. And don't shout back at me.
- I'm not shouting. - But you are ready to.
- No, no. - Aren't you?
- I didn't come to shout. - Why did you come?
To figure me out?
Again?
I don't want to be figured out.
I don't need to be figured out.
I can do an imitation of Mae West.
What?
I said, I can do an impersonation of Mae West.
Who is Mae West?
- You don't know? - No.
She was...
...sort of a sex queen...
...in the U.S.
I can impersonate her.
Big boy...
...you say you're selling notions?
Well, what kind of notions have you got?
Come up and see me some time, big boy.
Mae West?
What do you think?
It surprise you?
No.
They call me Flower Belle.
Hello, Flower Belle.
Hello.
It's a beginning.
That's my aunt Martha.
That's a picnic in 1950.
And that's my uncle Frank...
...and my cousin Bonnie.
I like her face.
I remember she used to...
...always sing a song called "Red Sails in the Sunset. "
How'd that go?
It's my uncle's dog.
I remember the day that dog died.
My uncle cried so hard he scared me to death.
Me.
- That's you. - Me.
This is my brother, Leonard, and his new bike.
He looks so skinny.
He's kind of a damn fool.
Except he tries.
There's my father.
He always wore pinstriped suits.
I remember...
...they were hard to patch.
My brother claims...
...that my father tap-danced.
But I never saw him tap-dance.
Perhaps you weren't home when he tap-danced.
I was home.
It's where I lived.
What's happened to him?
That's a question that's beat the hell out of everybody for years.
Although I think I saw him once...
...on a trolley car with a redheaded woman.
Wouldn't it be ironic...
...if I began to find you irresistible?
I'm gonna tell you something.
And I don't wanna scare you or anything.
But I find you irresistible.
Now that's the bridge.
And I don't know that too well.
In all your pictures, there was no picture of your mother.
Tell me about your mother.
My mother was an alcoholic.
What was she like when she was drunk?
She was superb when she was drunk.
She'd get good and drunk, she would be fantastic.
That's the truth.
Nobody knew her like I did.
One time, we took my bicycle...
...and we just went.
We got on a highway and we rode, and she was drunker than...
And, of course, it got dark before we got to where we were going.
And we had to call my father up...
...and he had to come down in the car and pick us up.
And we couldn't get the bicycle in the car...
...and my mother started laughing and I started laughing.
My father didn't like it much.
And then we'd get her home...
...and my father would put her to bed and she'd sober up...
...and it was over.
And I'd just have to wait for her to get drunk again.
One summer...
...my father...
...sent me off to visit my aunt for a couple of weeks.
And when I got back...
...my mother was in a hospital.
And they wouldn't let me see her.
I couldn't understand it. They wouldn't let me see her.
She died in her room.
I must have been about 11 or 12 at the time.
And a nurse...
...there, she told me my mother wrote me a note when I was away.
But my father took it...
...and he wouldn't let me see it.
I couldn't understand it.
I remember I tried to beat him up one time...
...just to get him to tell me what was in the note.
He wouldn't tell me.
I always wondered what it said.
I know it was something nice.
Some story, huh?
It's not true.
What?
It's not true.
I made it up.
- No. - Yep.
I made it up just now.
What do you think?
Was it good?
- It was superb. - Was it?
It's no good, my English.
I watch you run every day now.
I need it.
Are you training?
No. I just like to do it. It makes me...
- Are you English? - American.
You want water?
I just wanna be with somebody.
Are you all right?
I just wanna be with somebody. That's all.
I don't wanna talk.
I just want to be with someone.
I'm wondering about your friend Holtzmann.
What about him?
I think I would like to go back...
...and see how he is.
Excuse me.
Yes.
Are you American?
- Yes. - Oh, yeah? No kidding.
Where you from? We're from Detroit, the wife and me.
I'm from New Jersey, Newark.
New Jersey? We're not that far apart.
Hey, listen. Would you be...? Would I be too presumptuous...
...to ask you to take a picture of me and the wife together?
- No. Fine. - Thanks. Come on, Ellen.
- He's gonna take our picture. - Thank you.
Thanks.
- Anywhere you wanna stand? - Well...
With the valley at the background. What do you think?
Okay?
Oh, sorry. This the focus right here, and you just press that.
I think it's all set. Let me see. Yeah, it's set.
Yeah. Move closer together. I can't get it.
- Thanks a lot. - Thank you very much.
- Why don't we take one of them. - Sure.
Would you mind? Just for our book.
You know what it's like to look back at the faces you came across.
- Henry? - Yeah, sure. Do you mind?
No.
Okay. Why don't you stand where we stood.
Oh, it's gonna rain. Move over a little here.
Let's get it.
Okay. Hold it. Hold it.
There we are. Okay?
Got it.
Listen, why don't you give me your address...
...and I'll send it on to you. I'll have a copy made.
You won't get it until September or December. Who knows?
What's your name?
Robert Deerfield.
Robert...
- With two E's or E-A? - Two E's.
Deerfield. What's the address, Robert?
2162...
...Bank Street.
- It's in Newark. Newark, New Jersey. - Bank Street, Newark. Got it.
Okay, you'll get it in the mail. Be a big surprise.
You know, people forget about things like this.
- Thank you. - So long.
You went away?
No. I'm here.
Could you please leave us for a minute?
I'm here, darling.
Do you love me?
Oh, yes.
Bobby...
...what will you do tomorrow?