Sweet Hours (1982)

Iñaki Aierra: Juan

Quotes 

• La madre de Juan : What did you see?

  Juan : "Gilda", Mom.

  La madre de Juan : "Gilda"? I never heard such title.

  Juan : It's with Rita Hayworth, who later married Orson Welles.

  Abuela : Filth, a filthy movie!

• Juan : I'm just a painter. A horrible future awaits me. And even if it wasn't terrible, the future that awaits me will never be better than my past. I can assure you that after 18, my life was uninteresting. Everything I've done since, it went by in an instant. Leaving no deep trace behind. On the other side, I remember many details of my childhood - and from my youth.

  Berta : I remember my childhood with sadness. I find it so much better now.

  Juan : One day I realized something simple: that my life belongs to me. It was my own possession.

• Juan : Uncle, tell us about the war. Stalingrad. Is one afraid?

  Tío Antoñito : And I said, let love and luck that I never sleep awake. And if I sleep, that I never wake up. But, I awoke from the sweet bewilderment. And I saw that I was alive with Death. And saw that with Life, I was dead.

• Tío : The Germans are great! Its a hard working country like no other.

  Olga : Its foolish, don't they remember Napoleon?

  Tía : I don't know what Franco is waiting for. We need to finish off those criminals!

  Abuela : We've suffered enough with the Civil War! That's enough of wars.

  Juan : What's wrong with the Russians?

  Tía : They are Communist, therefore atheists. Plus they believe we descend from the monkeys. How ridiculous. How could humans descend from another animal?

  Abuela : Some people appear so.

• Abuela : That's enough. In this house it's prohibited to talk about politics, religion, and the other.

  Martita : What's the "other", Grandma?

  Abuela : You be quiet, girl.

  Juan : I already know what's the other.

  Tío : This one knows more of the "other" than us, right, Juanico? Some day we shall go for some whores.

  Abuela : What did you say?

  Tío : Nothing, just whores.

  Abuela : I won't talk to you until you clean your mouth!

  Tío : Whores. Whores. Whores...

• Juan : She was exceptional, she did everything right. She had special talent for everything. Something neither you or me has inherited.

  Marta : The idea you have of Mom is not real, dear.

  Juan : Your reality, perhaps.

  Marta : Mom wasn't delicate and sweet as you think. She was stronger than all of us. And Dad was her victim, like you and me. With the difference that I am a woman.

• Juan : There's things you don't know, Marta.

  Marta : And some you don't even have a clue.

• Berta : And how does the story end?

  Juan : Nobody knows that.

• Juan : I also discovered something that may seem terrible.

  Berta : What?

  Juan : That I was in love with my mother. You're just like her. Now you know it all. That's why I wrote "Dulces horas". And that's why we're both here.