QUIET CHAOS
Sorry!
Why sorry?
It's my point!
- 9-7! - What do you mean, 9-7?
What's your rule for scoring? If in doubt, it's yours?
The rule is if you miss, the other person scores.
You want to win every time. Everyone knows that!
- What's the score then? - Eight all.
Help!
Eleonora!
Help!
What'll we do?
No, don't go in!
- What's happening? - It's dangerous!
- Oh, fuck off! - Wait!
Help!
Let go of me!
Keep still!
Don't let go of me! I'm dying!
You're not dying!
I'm dying! Don't let go of me!
Carlo!
What the fuck...!
Keep still!
- Don't let go of me! - Keep still!
Eleonora!
Lean on me.
Where's Carlo?
There you are!
- Know what the best thing is? - What?
We'll walk over there, and no one will thank us.
Because no one realised we're the ones who saved them.
- Don't be silly! - You'll see.
What a bunch of shits!
We rescued a couple of bitches on a beach full of shitheads!
But they're like that here.
I wonder why Dad bought a house here.
Shut up, Carlo, those poor wretches nearly drowned.
Poor wretches? A pair of bitches loaded with money.
Mine was disagreeable too, she didn't help...
What was yours like?
- What was yours like? - How do I know!
Was she pretty?
- Was she pretty? - I don't know. Stupid!
Stop laughing!
Did you fancy her?
Carlo, we almost drowned, all four of us!
I didn't look at her! I saved her!
You're crazy, you're a maniac!
What's going on?
Hello.
Your Dad is here.
Daddy!
Where were you?
I called you three times.
Why didn't you come straight back?
Mom fell.
Where were you?!
- Call me if you need anything. - All right.
Bye, sweetie.
The offer is more interesting than we thought.
- That's not the problem. - What is then?
This way we'll offer Steiner the monopoly of European Pay TV.
Think he's tougher than me? In two years we'll have the monopoly.
Don't start again.
Jean-Claude and I wanted to say, and I'm sure Pietro will agree...
The plan was to expand on our own,
and consolidate without the Americans.
After the merger, we can't go back.
Know how much shares will rise the first day? 18%.
We won't get the chance again.
And if you don't see that, I won't repeat it!
Yes.
Paladini, have you any comments?
No, sorry.
Pietro, what do you think?
I really can't work out what the problem is.
I'll be outside.
Good morning.
- How are things? - Fine, thanks.
Good morning.
Samuele! Hello!
You are here then? Where were you?
- With the bosses. - Will the merger take place?
It appears so.
From what I could make out... it sounds like it.
- You do know it's stupid? - No, because...
I haven't made my mind up about it.
I'll have to sack people!
Claudia's here too!
- Hello! - Darling!
- How are things? - Fine.
These are the other telegrams, sir.
- Yes, I'll read them later. - All right.
- Annalisa? - Yes?
Can you help me find the red shoes?
We have to go.
- I want to finish this. - Here they are!
You've found the shoes. Come on!
- You do the border... - That's easy!
It's green.
- How's it going? - Fine.
Claudia!
- Claudia, are you ready? - I'm coming!
Come on, we'll be late.
Can you tie my pony-tail?
Yes, are you wearing tights?
What do I do?
Twist it round twice.
Once!
Twice!
Well... maybe your hair looks better loose.
Okay, I'll get Benedetta to do it.
Let's go. Where's your school-bag?
It's light. Haven't you packed it?
There are no books in it. The school gives them to us.
Here we are, come on.
Ready?
- Please, Dad! - Can't I hold it?
No, I don't want you to.
- I'm really sorry. - Thank you.
- Hello, sweetie. - Hello, little one.
The headmistress would like to talk to you.
Some other time, maybe.
The teachers have put us together.
- Bye, Benedetta, bye, Claudia. - Bye!
Hello, Pietro. How are you coping?
Call me any time you need. If you go away on business...
You know Claudia and Benedetta are close.
- That's true. - Promise?
- Bye. - Bye, have a good day.
Claudia.
Listen, sweetie, I'll wait here for you.
- Yes, all right. - What do you mean?
I tell you what. I won't move until you come out.
Yes, okay.
- I'll be here. - All right, bye.
- I'll be here. - Yes, I heard. Bye.
Bye.
- Are you leaving? - No, I've only just got here.
Annalisa, it's me.
Listen... I won't be in this morning.
You have an appointment at 11 with Anica.
And one at midday about the live broadcast of the festival.
Cancel them both. I might have to go to the solicitor.
Do you need anything?
I'm not going to the solicitor's. I'm in front of my daughter's school.
I told her I'd wait here until she came out.
So I'm staying here.
The president has asked about you. What shall I tell him?
Tell him that...
Tell him the truth, I'm outside the school...
That I'm not coming in today, I'll see him tomorrow.
All right?
Listen...
It's a nice day today, I can do some work in the car.
- All right? Bye. - Goodbye.
"Rats live... on no evil star"
This sentence is a palindrome.
What's a palindrome?
It's a sentence or a word you can read back-to-front.
So...
Shall we try it together?
Rats...
live on a no evil...
star.
Reversible things are those you can... turn round.
Shall we have some examples?
- Eating. - Why's that?
Because you can throw up afterwards.
- Livia! - Get dirty...
Because you can wash it off.
- Get dressed. - Score a goal.
No, when you've scored, you can't unscore it.
In that case it's irreversible,
because you can't turn it around.
Let's carry on.
Now you try to write a word
that can be read back-to-front. All right?
Get to work then!
A list of the airlines I have flown with:
Excuse me,
do you make anything else besides sandwiches for lunch?
My wife cooks for a few customers, but you have to tell us beforehand,
then it'll be ready for you.
- All right, thank you. - You're welcome.
Annalisa?
What airline did I fly to Canada with in March?
United. Thanks.
Goodbye.
Yes, but don't say we have to help Italian films.
Because I know...
Everyone knows, it's all we ever think of.
Yes, everyone...
All right.
Know how many weeks it takes Wenders to shoot a film? Six.
Ma'am!
Gloria!
I was wondering how Claudia got on today.
Fine, she was calm and attentive.
She has a strong character.
But we have to keep an eye on her, because...
It doesn't take much to trigger off...
I know, it doesn't take much.
Don't worry, we're being careful, and we have your number.
Which are your classroom windows this year?
Those two on the third floor.
- The middle ones. - Those two?
Look outside, darling, now.
Look out of the window. Claudia.
Look out.
I don't think anyone's there...
We usually take them to the playground after lunch.
- I'll be going then. Don't worry. - Goodbye.
Hello.
- How's it going? - Fine.
I could take Claudia home and bring her back later.
Let's see what they want to do.
I can take her to the gym too, you only have to call.
I said I can take her to the gym...
It's kind of you, Annamaria,
but we'll see... maybe they're coming out...
No, they're the younger kids.
Give me a kiss.
- How did it go? - Fine.
- Are you tired? - No.
- Hello, Benedetta. Nice blouse. - Thanks.
- You only have to ask. - Yes, okay.
Benedetta's Mommy's called Annamaria, right?
Maria Grazia.
I've forgotten everything.
Be careful!
"And the answer is... Pizzano Pizza's secret mission
consisted of not telling anyone he was on a secret mission.
And now I bet you're asking:
'How come you've told us now and not before?
What's changed?"
"Rats live on no evil star".
- "And this is a good..." - Rats live on no evil star.
What's that?
What's so funny?
- What's all this about rats? - Do you give up?
Yes, I give up.
It's a palindrome.
"Rats live on no evil star".
Get it? You can read it back-to-front.
- How do you know about palindromes? - It's reversible.
The teacher explained that some things are reversible...
and others are irreversible.
"Sator..." I know one too.
"Sator arepo tenet opera rotas".
But yours doesn't make sense.
Yes, it does, it's Latin!
It means...
The sower...
holds, lifts...
...the wheel...
...with care, with great care!
"And that, children, is a good question, so good..."
How's that lady whose life you saved?
How do you know about that?
I know.
I think she's okay...
"It's such a good question...
that it's perfect for ending the first chapter with."
- Bye, Daddy! - Claudia!
Listen...
I really did wait outside all day yesterday.
- Really? - Yes.
And I'll stay here until you come out today.
So look out of the window at break, then we can wave.
- What if it rains? - If it rains...
I'll stay in the car, I might be able to see you from there too.
Bye.
Thanks.
Goodbye.
They blamed him for taking the Gormiti cards.
There's no harm in that. He'll only play with them.
But, Rosaria...
My son brings things home sometimes too.
- He plays with them... - His mother says it wasn't him.
List of the homes I've lived in.
Viale Bruno Buozzi. 341. fifth floor.
Via Chiana. 22.
Viale Giotto. 14. Second floor.
Via Valla, 37. Top floor.
Via San Tommaso d'Aquino.
Then Via Chiana again, Piazz a Crati...
and after Piazz a Crati. Via Miani.
then Via delle Isole... No. Via delle Isole...
that was my first home with Lara. That's enough!
That's enough, I can't bear it.
End of the list.
- Which little boy? - Guido.
- The one... - The chubby one.
- What has he done? - He took the Gormiti cards...
He stole the Gormiti cards from school, but...
We're making too much of a fuss about it...
- Benedetta would never do that. - No! No?
Would Claudia?
Hello!
- How are things? - So-so.
Here I am.
- It's nice here. - Yes, it's nice.
- This is the school then? - Yes, and this is...
Those are Claudia's windows...
The two middle ones. There she is. Claudia!
Jean-Claude!
Hello!
Come on.
- How is she? - Fine.
That is... I don't really know.
She seems fine.
Pietro, they've taken the plane off me.
I can't use the company plane any more.
Why did they do that?
It's called "spending cuts".
But you know what that means. It means it's all over.
All over? Come on!
- Know who signed the resolution? - Thierry.
- Yes. - He had to sign it, didn't he?
No, Thierry has betrayed me.
He's gone over to Boesson's side.
- Thierry's against this merger! - He was, not any more.
Listen, last year during the Venice Film Festival,
he called me from Paris saying we needed to talk.
He was on his way and I was to tell no one.
The merger... out of the question.
What merger?
I didn't know about it.
How could I imagine Boesson was joining forces with Steiner,
his greatest enemy?
And know what I was thinking? That I was happy.
That I was making a pact with my best friend.
The world is full of top managers having dinner together,
but they're not people with a twenty-year friendship like us.
He's a traitor.
The merger: never!
Now do you understand?
How's Francesca?
A little stressed out. She's always asking about you.
How are your wife and son?
It's a mess. Francesca and Sandrine can't stand each other.
So I don't get to see Jacques.
It's no use.
It's all over, Pietro. All over.
What do you intend to do?
I'll wait. My way of working will be not to work.
You do the same. Wait outside this school.
Stay as long as you can, okay?
Bye.
Ah, cutting out your uncle?
Just think...
What number is he in the eligible bachelor list?
BOESSON: AGREEMENT WITH STEINER CLOSE
How do you get glue off?
I don't know, it's glue. What have you done?
- Nothing, a bit of... - A bit?
Let's see...
27, 26...
23, 24...
You've glued all September together!
- Where will you note your homework? - In my exercise-book.
Then why did we bother buying a diary?
To stick pictures into.
It's your diary...
Daddy's a fool...
- Stop honking your horn, you idiot! - Get out of the way!
Get a move on!
Wait!
Do we have to wait all day? Hurry up!
Well?
Idiot!
I'll drive right over you!
There!
Just look at her!
What's going on?
Bastards!
I can't stay here all day!
- Wait! - I'll be late for work!
Wait a minute.
You'll have to wait anyway.
- Marta... - What do they want?
They don't want anything. Move out of the way.
- What do you all want? - Get stuffed!
- Marta, calm down. - Can you tell?
- Tell what? - They'll take the part off me.
- Cover yourself up. - I'll lose my job!
Everyone's staring at you.
- What are we talking about? - I'm pregnant!
You're pregnant... by whom?
The stage designer, he's younger than me, and married with a kid.
- What will you do? - We'll do nothing.
We've stopped seeing each other.
I'm not going to tell him I'm pregnant.
We debut in two months' time.
I'm sure you can't tell.
You're the only person who knows. I didn't even tell Lara.
I didn't have time.
- Who the fuck is she? - Who?
A girl with a dog, I don't know...
- Is she pretty? - Yes, she's pretty.
Prettier than I am?
- I wouldn't know, she... - Prettier than I am?
- No, she's not prettier than you. - Good.
Hug me.
I don't want to end up like my sister. I want to be loved!
Besides Claudia, you're all she had, Pietro.
And you didn't love her.
And maybe Claudia didn't either.
- What's up with you today? - You said she never cries.
That she falls asleep as though nothing had happened.
Lara dies and you're not even sad!
What do you know about it? Stop it!
She knew very well you didn't love her!
She was sick, I took her to see doctors...
She wasn't sick.
She was the one who took you to see doctors. You were sick.
- And you're in a worse state today. - Of course, you never noticed.
- What? - That she was sick!
Sure, I never noticed my wife was sick...
I only lived with her for 12 years, but I never realised...
And our daughter didn't love her either...
- Daddy! - And what's more, not even...
Hello, sweetie!
- I didn't love her either, eh? - Auntie Marta!
No one loved Lara.
- Bye, Marta. - No.
Wait!
Know what the last thing Lara and I did together was?
- No, I don't. - We went to a fortune-teller.
When?
When you took the kids to the waterpark.
She dealt out our cards...
But she didn't want to read Lara's.
But Lara insisted.
And the fortune-teller told her she would die, without a man...
the way she'd always been.
Now she's saying Lara went to see a fortune-teller!
That too. Lara having her cards read!
Go on, Claudia!
No. Do it again.
Keep your feet together... Tighten your buttocks...
Good girl...
- Let's see what Rheja's cooked. - I'm not eating any more flans.
Not eating...
We'll heat it a bit more.
- What is it? - It smells nice, I couldn't tell.
- It's a flan. - It's not really a flan.
What a pain in the ass.
Claudia!
What do I tell him then? What do you want him to make?
Chicken and potatoes.
Listen "chicken and potatoes", next time I come to the gym,
I'm bringing a videocamera.
- I'll film you... - What?
You're not bringing a videocamera to the gym.
It's only so you'll see you're good.
That woman's obsessed with your hips.
- It's not true... - Gaia's right.
She says I'm good at the splits, with the instep...
But I'm still not perfect at the handstand.
- What do you mean by perfect? - In the absolute sense.
A list of the things I don't know about Lara.
She went to see a fortune-teller because she was sick.
She had a lot of money in her current account.
She always told everything to her sister.
She'd booked an appointment with a plastic surgeon...
perhaps she wanted a nose job.
Or perhaps it was a nose job for me.
I don't know whether she too thought Claudia's handstand
wasn't perfect.
She had more shoes than I thought.
She had a subscription to "ltalian Recipes"...
She lived in Ravenna for two months after leaving school
with her friend Daniela.
She had just started reading Bret Easton Ellis's latest book.
She had coffee with the other mothers every morning.
And she exchanged e-mails with this "Gianni dot Orz an"
who just happens to be the guy who writes the stories Claudia loves.
And now I am about to read what the fuck they wrote.
Daddy!
What is it, darling?
Did you have a bad dream?
- Where were you going? - When?
- Before. - When you called me?
- Yes, where were you going? - Nowhere.
It was just a bad dream.
Go back to sleep.
It didn't feel like a dream.
Because bad dreams never feel like dreams.
You'll have forgotten it by tomorrow. Good night.
Daddy...
Know what the thing that shocked me most in my whole life was?
When I found out my grandma was also your mommy.
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Well done, you're right to stay here.
- Samuele! - Stick by her.
- Have you heard? - What?
Jean-Claude is out.
- Did you know? - Yes.
- How long have you known? - A couple of weeks.
A couple of weeks? He only resigned yesterday.
- What do you mean, he resigned? - He's walked out.
What do you think?
I don't know. We'll have to wait and see what happens...
I've written this paper, here.
You can read it later. You're not doing anything.
- I've written everything I know. - You're the personnel manager.
I explain what a merger means to the employees.
Listen to the beginning.
"A merger is a good thing for shareholders,
but not for the human beings
who suffer the worst work trauma that can be inflicted on them."
Understand? Human beings! You have to read it all.
It talks about the human factor, the psychology...
The devastating effect it has on the age group...
on the 40 to 50 age group,
which is the group that effects us directly.
The last bit at least...
Read it now. Here it is.
The last few lines.
- Shall I? - No, I'll read it.
"It is a particularly destabilising situation
which only three categories are able to bear,
the faithful, the traitors and the collaborationists."
- Now you read it. - I'll read it...
"That's why there has never been a single merger that hasn't failed,
Holy fucking Mary... ...in the first two years."
What's this? You're not handing it in like that?
- I already have. - And you said that?
Can you imagine? I'm a Catholic, you know?
My brother is a missionary in Africa.
I've never blasphemed in my life!
He's a big dog!
- Fog! - Nice name.
I'm sorry, but he always runs off if I let go of his lead.
- Hello. - Come on!
- Pretty girl, who is she? - I don't know her.
- You said hello though. - Yes.
- It's Thierry. - Don't answer it, come on.
Hello, Thierry!
- Did you hear about Jean-Claude? - I hear you took the plane off him.
Yes, and do you know why?
Spending cuts, I believe.
He gave his notice in yesterday.
I will manage Italy until the merger, but then...
we have to find a new chairman.
I came to ask if you feel like taking over Jean-Claude's job.
- Me? Jean-Claude's job? - Yes.
- Do you like it? - Yes, but what cheese is this?
Pecorino.
I've spoken to Boesson, he agreed.
I don't need an answer now, take your time.
No, I'm not going to,
because Jean-Claude didn't resign, you got rid of him.
And he's my friend, I can't do this to him. Okay?
Mario?
Ask your friend if they eat these things in Paris...
I don't know, but why did you put cheese on it?
The broccoli wouldn't taste of anything otherwise.
What? Broccoli should taste like broccoli!
You're insecure, you worry too much and put too much stuff in it.
- You know me too well. - It's got everything in it!
Do you know what Jean-Claude did?
No.
He stole, Pietro.
He lied and he stole. And he did it to me.
You say you're his friend, I'd been his friend for 20 years!
- He took advantage and stole. - Stop it!
He's stolen a lot of money. He forged the balance sheets.