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Yes, who is it?
Benjamin, Angelo's brother.
I sent a telegram.
Hello!
I'm Miranda, your sister-in-law.
Well, sort of.
Never had a sister-in-law before.
Lucky me.
What should I call you? Benjamin?
Bennie is good.
Are you in the Navy, Bennie?
No, I work on a cruise ship, Infinity Lines.
I'm a waiter, sort of.
You are much younger than I thought.
I will celebrate 18 on Sunday.
In three days!
I'll throw a party.
Great.
Let me see if he is awake.
Because he has a hard time to stay asleep, you know?
Tetro.
Are you awake? Your brother is here.
I was just a little kid when he went on his writing sabbatical.
It was the last time I saw him.
I'm so happy to see you, Bennie...
and to meet you and all that, but ...
He really doesn't want to know his family any more.
Guess he's about.
No. He wants me to go in.
But you can stay here tonight.
Thank you.
You know, he's really...
I don't want it to have your feelings hurt.
Good night, sweet. Rest.
"I promise you that I'll come back and get you."
"Love, your brother Angelo"
What the fuck happened?
I walked into a bus.
She get your coffee?
No, I just woke up. She's been really nice.
I hate nice.
Especially the word. I hate the word nice.
Are you okay?
What happened, Bennie?
You're getting a fight with the Great One?
I ran away from military school.
Escaped from prison, more like it.
Tell me about it.
Dad does not know where I am.
I got this job because I knew how to wear a uniform.
I lied about my age.
Just took off.
Yes.
Just like you.
Come on, baby.
Good morning.
Look how beautiful
my baby is.
Look at that face.
Doesn't she look like Ava Gardner with the hair like that?
Who is Ava Gardner?
I'm surprised to hear from you, Bennie.
Well, that boat had an engine malfunction.
It will take about four or five days to fix it.
So, you're working on a ship, huh?
Come on.
Well, just... I'm a waiter, but caught that travel bug...
...through you.
Through me!
Well, let's hope that's all you caught, then.
You remember when you moved in the attic and you had all those maps?
Remember that? With Tahiti and Pacific and Pitcairn Island?
So, they are fixing the engine on the boat, right?
- Yes. - So you can still sleep on the boat?
You can stay with us.
Why not, Tetro?
It's only one week.
Let's go out and show him the Boca.
Okay, let's go for a walk.
- Go ahead, put on pants on. - Okay.
Little Bennie...
Able body seaman.
I'm not even a waiter.
Not even ...
- Take Bennie in the shower and I'll be ready in 10 minutes. - Miranda.
Just me and him, OK?
Sure.
Of course.
Listen.
You stay one week, okay?
When your boat sails, you're on it.
Sure. Thanks, Angie.
Angie is dead. My name is Tetro.
- Hello, Tetro! - Good morning.
- How are you? - Whats up?
Sit here.
- Hello, Tetro, how are you? - Hello.
- How are you? - Silvana!
- Okay? - This is my friend Benjamin.
Well, my friend too.
How are you? Now come, yes.
How come you say I am your friend and not your brother?
Do you speak Spanish?
Enough to understand that.
People around here don't know much about me.
Miranda doesn't even know who our father is.
I'd like to keep it that way.
I don't care. Yes.
- What? -It's just gonna be the tough holding on a conversation...
if I can't ask any questions.
Who wants a conversation?
Not me.
Excuse me.
- Pasta flora, specially for Tetro. - Thank you.
Medias lunas.
Ready...
Milk.
- Please. - Yes, I'm coming.
So why did you come?
I don't like questions.
Hey ...
don't do me.
Do you, I'll do me, okay?
It's just... it's not fair.
You left and never came back and got me.
And I didn't get but an explanation.
And you're my brother?
- We shall set sail on Tuesday at 2 PM. - Okay.
Don't forget to call in.
- Hey, Bennie. - Hello, Anica.
So you've survived four of that accidents?
And one more,
with his mother before that.
You know we have different mothers. His died in a car accident.
Yes, but ...
Tell me about your mother.
- About mine? - Yes.
She's been in a coma for nine years.
We are going to have some good things this week.
A family needs to have as much fun as they can get, don't you think?
Jose, you son of a bitch!
I'm the son of a bitch? Look at who is talking ...
Son of a bitch!
No, no ... is Armani!
It's Armani, I'll kill you.
- No, please, I beg you. - I want to see you play cool now!
It is Giorgio Armani. I'll kill you, bitch.
- Anna, no! No! - You can kill me.
- I do not want to know! - Why are you doing this?
I do not care! This shit does not matter!
Now you will see!
Actually they are very much in love.
That's love?
Did you ever sleep with a girl?
What? No.
Okay, what else? I've been waiting, yes. Three hours, yes, already. Yeah, a kiss.
Abelardo Vaca Castex, calls the "cocoa" and leases the pub. What do you think?
How could he do that?
What can I do? Hermano closed our business. You know how it goes.
What am I to do? Excuse me ...
Yes .. Ship to Mexico ... I'm waiting for you, Dad.
- José! - What is the problem?
No, wait! You know how how expensive that guitar is?
I dont care!
No. ..! My guitar!
Unbelieveable!
What position more tempting ...
We were undoing a lot of things.
That's Abelardo Vaca Castex,
- Abelardo, these are my friends... - ...founder...
Tetro illuminates your show.
- It would be good to take it from there ... - Let's get it out ...
- Put the poster. - Let's see ...
Tetro is one of the best illuminators of Elmo La Boca.
Look, how beautiful. Excuse me.
- Okay. - Let's close this ...
- Magnificent! - Perfect!
- We are in business! - We are in...
Fausta. Drama in verse.
What could be worse?
In Buenos Aires ...
Do you like dancing?
# ... that was saved from sharp beak, #
# refuge in the dark, #
# of a gull destructive #
# seeds. #
Carito #, #
# I am your friend #
# offer myself as tree #
for your nest # #
Carito # #
loose your song # #
# that the fabric of my accordion is ...#
Well, Bennie, would you like for your birthday? Tell me.
Just this. Being here with you and. .. with Tetro, here.
You know? There are Tetro's ..
I don't remember. How do you say... this...
Cast.
Tetro's cast is coming off today.
I bet he'll be back to his old self.
Can't wait...
What's that like?
You can't imagine.
Full of interesting things, you know, brilliant...
Also, he has one part...
Well, more of a one part that he's got lately. Of course.
Are you married?
As if I were.
- Hello. - Hello, Jose.
But what I'm seeing. Look at my love.
The doctor said I can walk without my cane very carefully.
- Easy. - No problem.
- He broke it again! - My leg!
- You're alright, right!? Easy... - Miranda's kiss.
- Miracle. - Miranda's kiss.
The miracle cure.
She fixed me right up.
One kiss and it's perfect.
Fixed me!
What were you doing?
Dancing for Bennie?
Just doing my workout.
Dressed like that?
- As always. - Your workout?
Asshole!
Okay ...
I need to return the car to my father.
- Take care! - Thanks.
- Good luck to you.
All the best. Bye, Bennie.
Thanks, Jose.
Sorry to intrude, Miranda.
Bye.
So you call him your brother and me your friend?
What is that?
Would you like to go back to the boat, Bennie? Sleep on your hammock?
You can just say it, "brother".
Brother.
Okay?
Yes, thanks.
Happy to have my cast off.
Have you yet start your work again?
My work?
- Your writing. -I don't have a pencil.
- Where you were on this... - I don't have pencil.
I am a writer too.
What do you write about?
I walked away from that.
How do you walk away from your work? Doesn't it follow you?
So what was it about?
It's about brothers.
Yeah, and?
One brother, a prodigy in music...
and the older brother, also a great musician.
Theme's ancient.
The rivalry.
You're writing the story of our father.
One brother goes to New York City and becomes a big star...
and does nothing to help the older brother,
who taught him everything he knew.
Uncle Alfie? On the candy?
Uncle Alfie.
Yes... Uncle Alfie.
You know what? I'm breaking my own rules.
What rules? What about your mother?
She was like this famous singer, I know, and she died,
but no one ever told me anything about it.
Bennie, we had an agreement.
What agreement?
What about my mom?
Listen,
I divorced myself from my family, OK?
Fathers, sisters... all of it.
All of it. Alright?
I do not want to talk about it.
That's it.
Don't you love them?
Yes, I love them.
You know what love does in the family like ours, Bennie?
It's a quick stab in the heart.
I knew your mother died in a car accident,
but it's just that I never knew that you were driving the car.
Well, now you know.
She didn't tell me, Tetro. Wait! She didn't tell me!
Thanks a lot, Miranda.
She didn't tell me, Tetro.
I ...
Tetro, Miranda didn't tell me anything. I figured it out by myself.
I only have a few days more.
Maybe I should just move back on the boat.
What is with him?
He's like a genius, but...
without enough accomplishment. You know?
That's why his behavior is like this.
A day is ... And another day
he's completely an asshole.
You sound like a doctor.
I'm a doctor.
When I met him, was his doctor in the asylum.
Asylum? What kind of asylum?
It was called La Colifata.
Welcome to "La Colifata"! Viva!
Straight Edge, "La Colifata "...
LT 22, Radio La Colifata "
We did radio for one hour a week on Saturday.
"Onward, O people, the rescue" ( "Avanti popolo, alla riscossa")
"red flag!" ( "bandiera rossa, bandiera rossa !")
"Onward, O people, the rescue" ( "Avanti popolo, alla riscossa")
"red flag will triumph" ( "bandiera rossa trionfo .")
I came from Europe to Argentina
to study with the founder of La Colifata,
who realized that whoever had the microphone
finally had found
someone to listen.
"And with you the thoughts of our dear Cláudia Alessandra ..."
Well ...
I am very grateful for the opportunity
for this presentation.
that is much bigger than I am ...
I'm just a grain of sand on beach that is "La Colifata"
A drop of water in the ocean of "La Colifata "...
Unlike you, I do not want to give my opinion
Why you are the worst people I met across this planet!
No! No! No! No. ..
What is your name and why are you here?
Do not want to talk to the microphone ...
- Why don't you want to talk? --Because I don't want to talk into a microphone!
I just wanted to thank this station from my heart.
He said he was a writer
and he held everything he had written
against his chest.
It was the only copy that existed.
That is where I met him.
Then finally he said...
"My name is Tetro..."
I want to talk about my father,
my father was a lover without love.
A poet without a poem,
was a failure!
He could not act as a father.
My father worked in an estate
selling houses where we lived.
We had no money.
I robbed,
pharmacies
warehouses...
You were arrested?
I had a gun.
Did you use it?
A toy gun.
Nothing you said is true.
My father is ...
a real son of a bitch.
My father could be very mean
and very violent.
He could hit hard.
Then I did... I did unforgivable...
crazier than my crazies patients...
I fell in love with him.
"He was the older brother
But Alfredo,
the dear, sweet Uncle Alfie
was summoned downtown by The Great One,
like a schoolboy who has done something wrong. "
It's not a big production.
Rigoletto, down and dirty.
Small orchestra, rented scene...
But if it goes bad, the newspapers will call it
the shit Tetrocini Rigoletto.
It won't be a shit Rigoletto.
Alfie, why don't you just conduct under another name?
You want me to change my name?
Thank you.
Yes.
I had the Tetrocini name before you did.
Shit!
What are you doing, Bennie? Sitting there?
I'm just sitting.
Just sitting?
Just sitting.
- Hello! - Hello, Ana.
What's up Tetro?
Jose is driving me crazy.
I'm going to visit an uncle in Punta Del Este.
I have spoken with Miranda.
- It 's okay. - Right.
- Yes... - All right.
You are very kind. Thank you.
Jose told me that if not ...
... he would cook and eat with the poor.
- Okay? - Yes.
No problem.
- Problem, that's how it's called, Problem. - Yes?
Yes.
Give him a kiss.
Thanks, bye.
Bye.
Bye Ana.
Hello.
Happy birthday, Bennie.
I bet you always wanted a puppy.
Tetrocini family came to this country in the year 1901.
The first Benjamin made great in a hosehold chicken business.
But he liked to sing and he played the mandolin.
Mr. Shakespeare, what is free verse?
Something that doesn't rhyme.
- What else? - It has...
no fixed number of syllables.
You know, everything that I love, that I'm interested in, I picked up from you.
You were the one who took me everywhere and show me books
and strange movies. And "The red Shoes".
You thought "The Red Shoes" were strange ?
What about Tales of Hoffman,
Coppelia, the dancing doll?
Yes, The Tales of Hoffman always reminds me of you.
Love,
what is love?
Love is...
nothing.
Avenida de Mayo 825 Buenos Aires.
Twenty years less ...
- Like it? - Hello!
My niece! Look at her!
- Hello! - The boy turns 18!
- This is Maria Luisa... - Bennie!
Come, my love ...
Maria Luisa... - She is my niece,
Maria Luisa.
He is 18 years old, like you.
That girl is adorable!
Take care.
Hello!
Maria Luisa!
Happy, happy day!
Buddy, God bless you
With the peace in your life
And always more and more!
Bravo!
Happy, happy in your day,
Buddy, God bless you
That the peace in your life
- ...and always more! Cheers-- - Happy birthday!
Palmas, Bennie! Congratulations, my dear.
- Hey there! - Health, health, health!
Waiter? Waiter?
More champagne.
Abelardo!
Abelardo! Come.
It's Bennie's birthday.
Happy birthday, Bennie.
How are you? Hello.
You're going the festival of Patagonia?
Yes, whenever possible I am going.
Well, I gotta go. But you just came?
I have to test the machine to see if it fits.
- Do not go falling in love with the place. - Happy birthday, kid.
Bye, thank you!
- I knew a song of that name once. - Really?
You know why he's in such a jolly mood?
I don't really know.
Maria Luisa ...
The cockroach ... It is "La Cucaracha".
Because my boat's leaving, with me on it.
No, no, no.
He's excited because tomorrow he runs the lights.
He loves to do that. He becomes...
The Phantom of the Opera.
Sorry!
Do not touch the door.
I love the settlements,
balances
the changing seasons, burning ...
And standing offer!
Welcome to the world of Fausta!
You came for something else.
Shall I take this?
To turn up?
A few seconds.
Go back to your world red with envy and glory!
- I lose memory? - Be young and wise!
How many guests?
- Hello! - How are you?
I was invited by Abelardo Vaca. No, you have to pay.
No. .. you have to pay. It's 10 pesos.
- It is a work of art! - I came because I was invited!
- Get in! - Thanks.
What I want is clear ...
Your soul!
Not a bad deal ...
I want all of yours!
Hallelujah!
How alive is the life!
The future welcomes you!
It's my aunt.
The future welcomes you!
To be young is to be naked.
Youth is naked!
Soon the time talks! Alas ...
What beautiful thing.
And it is better than the preachers.
Take it off!
Silence!
I am the author, damn it!
Silence!
I am Abelardo Castex Vaca, the author.
Abelardo Vaca Castex.
God ...
Oh, what a waste!
- It is critique now? - Abelardo!
Why, I don't see anyone. Only the one who failed with the light.
This time this light is the truth.
The truth? This light is a shit!
Set the tone, please.
Come here.
My dear ...
Josephine! Come here!
Tetro, what are you doing?
Please look at me. I'm crying.
Okay, okay, okay.
Please! What are you doing? I'll kill you!
Bastard! Come here!
Josephine!
Firm flesh!
Silky hair ...
Legs hard!
Tits hard!
Touch my flesh and feel ...
What penetrating aroma ...
And it's not content ... Mercy!
What vulgar woman! It's Chanel No. 5.
Please! Chanel No. 5?
Come on.
What is this?
These lines are a disaster!
You do not understand! Because I speak Castilian ...
Abelardo, what you said is not important. This language is dead!
Go fuck yourself! Come with me.
Okay... Come...
Come on.
Down!
Son of a bitch!
Do not throw that chair!
Son of a bitch!
Abelardo ...
Welcome back, Alone.
Who is it?
Ladies and Gentlemen,
is a pleasure to have her here with us.
Alone.
Welcome back, Alone.
I understand here is being presented a new work in verse.
Fausta.
- Yes. - Correct?
Yes.
"Faust" as a woman.
It's fun, you will like it.
For me it is very funny.
A woman ...
But let the play continue.
It will be an honor for us.
Come on, boys, come on!
At your posts!
Careful with that! Come!
His clothes, Josefina! Come!
- It is important! - Come on!
Come!
- Caio! - Coming!
Josefina, hurry up!
- It is a disaster, a disgrace! - Hurry up!
- All... - The accordion, please.
Mrs. Alone, champagne?
Who is that?
That's the most important critic and writer in South America.
She uses the pen name "Alone".
She runs The Patagonia Festival, you know.
Here, we ...
See ...
She was your brother's teacher and mentor until...
Until what?
Until she turned against him, you know.
There are many different stories why.
No one knows the truth.
Let
It is a mystery.
- Let's get this! - To
Like the mystery of your father
and who he really is.
"Carlo Tetrocini comes from Genovese ancestors
who emigrated to Argentina in 1901.
He was was discovered by Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber,
who took him to Berlin.
He is one of world's great symphonic conductors.
Carlo Tetrocini is Tetro's father?
It's our last name.
"Tetrocini has conducted
Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra New York for 35 years."
Three decades and a half.
How did this get into my home?
Your father is Carlos Tetrocini?
Of course, how didn't I notice that?
But you told me in "La Colifata" that your father was...
...a failed writer.
- Remember? - This was me ...
I told you many stories.
But you said money was always a problem,
even made you to robberies!
Money was a problem. He had money, I didn't.
Okay, let's read on.
"His wife, the acclaimed soprano Angela Panzara, was tragically killed
in an automobile accident.
- He remarried several times ... " - OK, enough.
I'll be at the other insane asylum.
I need a break to clear my head.
How could you do this to me? How could you do that, huh?
How could you do it me?
You broke our oath.
I never made any oath, I never agreed.
You make rules an it doesn't mean I have to follow.
I make rules for my own house, Bennie. This is my house.
-These rules are only for my house. - It's just a little house
- It's not that you rule the kingdom. - It's my house and my business.
Our family is our business.
Why don't you call your boat, Ben?
Why don't you call them up? 'Cause I think they all miss you over there.
Every boat needs a little rat on it. So why don't you call them up and see if they want you back?
Hello, I'm calling because my brother's an asshole.
I'm the asshole now? I'm the asshole?
Good move, good turnaround.
I'm going back to my boat.
Go back to your ship. Good idea.
You're real good.
But I just want you to hear something first.
You want me to hear your confession of all those sneaky things you've done behind my back?
"Dear Bennie:
I am sorry to to be writing and that's not be able to tell you in person ...".
- No... - Hey, I don't want to hear that.
"I'm going away for a little while...
but I promise you that I will come back...".
Read it for yourself.
Why? Because you remember writing it? Do you remember this?
OK, you're running away now, you're running away from your own writing.
"I promise you that I will come back and get you.
I know things are very hard sometimes in our family.
"I need to go away for a little while on a writing sabbatical...
I do not want to hear it. Go.
- Get out. - "I want to do something with my life.
"Someday you'll understand.
You're very young now, but someday you'll understand. I promise
that I'll come back and get you. Love,...
"Love...
"Love, your brother...
Angelo ".
"Love,
"your brother Angelo."
"X does whatever he can to avoid the topic. But one summer day,
trailing behind C on the beach,
X brings the news to his father. "
Dad ... I don't want to continue with pre-med.
If not pre-med, then what?
Philosophy.
How do you make a living of philosophy?
I want to be a novelist.
Novelist? Writer?
Yes, that's what I want to do.
Well, to make a living as a writer,
you have to be a genius.
So?
There is only room for one genius in this family.
Amalia, listen to me. I do not want to hear from anybody
family any more. That's all.
OK? I'm just asking you to stay out of my life.
That's all I'm asking.
That's all I'm asking, OK? Very simple, just stay out of my life. Okay?
- Angie, we love you. Pop loves you. - Yeah, but don't love me, OK?
Be my sister but don't love me.
- Don't say that, I don't want to hear that. - You know what?
Let's blame me. I'm a bad person, okay?
Why don't you just go on to the sabbatical, do your writing and...
- ...just with our blessing? -I dont' want to talk to my father,
...I do not want to talk to anybody from the family ever again.
Papa will send you the money. All the money you need.
I'm getting off the phone now.
Good-bye.
Again! Sorry!
Let's start again.
Letter Q.
Good!
Monday, eleven o'clock.
So,
you're going on a sabbatical.
To write?
One of these checks will arrive wherever you go,
every three months.
I expect you to cut out this nonsense about Bennie once and for all.
For your own sake,
someday you will understand.
Go, go on this sabbatical...
to write ...
or to find yourself.
And when you go on this writing sabbatical, Angelo,
what will you write about?
I said, what will you write about?
This.
Dammit, Bennie!
What did you do? What is this?
Please ...
What is this?
Bennie, how could you do this?
What if he walks in?
I fell asleep.
Yes, I see that you were asleep.
You can't be careless and have him find you like this.
You haven't seen him really blow.
It's all backwards and in code.
Maybe you should tell him you have this and ask his permission?
Here. How did you find this?
- How? - It was accident.
An accident?
Yes.
An accident.
Alright.
You are leaving.
You know?
Maybe Josephine's niece is gonna miss you.
Don't you think?
Can I use the phone? Really quick.
I have to check in with my cruise ship.
Of course.
Did you like Maria Luisa?
Infinty Lines, please.
Yes, I liked Maria Luisa, but I think that
Tetro has frightened her off.
Hi,
Benjamin Tetrocini, I was just...
Ok.
- Hello! - Hello, my love.
Okay, I'll be there.
Great. Thank you.
Good night, Tetro.
Now he speaks Spanish, he'll be here forever.
My engines are fixed.
- Really? - Yes.
I'm on my way.
The wander lust. You enjoy it.
Wander lust. That's a good title.
A title for what?
She wants to go out. We trained her!
- Unbelievable. - I'll take her.
Amazing.
He loves you so much.
I wonder how that happened.
Don't touch him! Don't!
Call an ambulance!
What happened?
Nobody touches him! Do not touch his head
Don't touch him anywhere.
Do not move him. Please, do not move him.
Can you talk to me?
What happened?
Please, come here, there was an accident.
Bennie is a friend and I can help.
Can I help, please?
Tetro, I go with him. I'll call when I can.
Excuse me...
How much?
Fifteen is good?
More?
Flowers?
You're in pain?
How's the puppy?
She's back with Jose.
I hope he doesn't eat her.
I guess the ship sailed without me.
Good looking cast.
Flowers?
This used to be my old room.
I miss it.
So you came to see the room.
I miss the room. Here, put these.
That's right, when I get out, I'm gonna stay with Abelardo or Josephine or something.
With Abelardo?
You can stay with us.
That's OK?
I'll make do.
Thank you.
Yes?
Is Angelo Tetrocini there?
Yes, who is it?
Do you speak English? I'm calling from New York.
One moment.
Who's this?
Is the United States.
Who?
This is the office of Carlo Tetrocini.
We need to speak to Angelo.
- Your father. - Himself?
His office.
Hello?
I got CDs and some books.
Leon Felipe,
Roberto Bolano and Alone's new book...
New horizons in literature.
Wow.
Thank you.
Are you mentioned in there?
No.
Bennie, your father's office called last night.
He's had a stroke. He is still alive.
But they wanted you both to know. Bought the tickets for you to come back.
Is he going?
No, he's not going.
I have nothing to say to him.
I brought you some comics,
and gossip magazines
to help you learn the Spanish.
See you later.
Goodbye.
"X called N
and said he'd introduce her to his father.
N was very impressed.
Happily, of course.
This is my father, Carlo Tetrocini.
And this is Naomi White.
Naomi.
I told you about her.
It is an honor to meet you, maestro.
You know, years ago I wrote a song called "Naomi".
I'm falling,
I'm falling
I fell for a little rose, Naomi.
My father always listens to your records, Mr. Tetrocini.
He doubts not you're even greater than Fritz Reiner.
Well, Fritz was good ...
But you can call me Carlo. Do you stay for dinner?
Oh, Dad, we can't, we're meeting friends.
I invite all of your friends, all over. I'll throw a lobster party.
Great.
Can we?
I'm falling,
I fell for a floribunda rose...
Naomi...
My dear Naomi...
White.
Did you make this out just now?
What do you do, Naomi?
Actually, I'm a dancer.
"N called X
and said she'd had a dream.
N was so young and X worried about her,
because the dream was about ...
his father.
Can you dance for us, Naomi?
Yes, Carlo.
Dance for your maestro.
"X never knew what hit him.
He slept with his fist pushed against his heart.
N...
didn't respond for days.
But when she did, she wrote: 'Dear X:
I am...
I am the doll Coppelia,
broken into parts, without blood".
Surprise!
Look what I got you.
You like the bears, no?
Yeah, great.
What are you doing?
I'm just reading some stuff.
What are you reading?
You go through my things.
How could you do this to me?
How could you go through my things?
I was in the house, I was looking around, I found the suitcases...
It was an accident.
- An accident? - Yes.
Can you read this? Can you read my writing?
It's in the military school code.
Yeah, bullshit!
- Wait, Tetro ... - Bullshit you were.
How could you do this to me?
How could you go through my things?
An accident!
It was an accident!
It wasn't an accident!
They're great stories, they just... they don't have an ending!
They don't need an ending. Listen!
No ending? There doesn't have to be an ending, Bennie. You know why?
'Cause my stories will never be published.
Who gave you this?
Where did you get this?
It's my story!
Where did you get this?
- Miranda gave it to you? - It's my story too!
Miranda gave it to you?
It is my story, my life, my father.
And my mother.
It is not fair, I don't know anything.
I don't know my mother and my father.
All I have is you and you're fucking crazy.
Hello!
You, sneak!
- What are you doing? - I should punch you right into your face!
- Don't touch me, you son of a bitch! - Shut up!
- Did you give it to him? Yes or no? - Yes, yes!
I don't trust you any more.
No punching.
- I don't trust you any more! - I dare you! Come on!
Youn dare me to punch you? You're lucky I don't punch you.
You want to hit me?
Then hit me!
- Don't you see? - Did you give him that?
I'm the only person who is always at your side.
Always at your side supporting you.
The only person in this damn life that loves you.
And still you want to beat me.
- Come on! - Did you give it...
I will not repeat...
- Hey... - Move!
Yes!
- Stay away from us! - He's had an accident, you idiot!
You know who wrote this? Angie wrote this crap!
Angie is dead!
Come on! The patient is on the floor!
Doctor, the patient is on the ground
This will take a while to blow over.
You can't live with us any more.
One step.
Flow with the conditions in La Boca.
People live here in the Stone Ages.
Gimme the crutches.
He is only 18. Take care.
You forgot your hat.
You should keep it as a souvenir.
Thank you very much.
He is 18...
This is the inevitable moment
And the poet must act.
This is the famous work of Tetro?
What the whole world talks of but no one saw?
Okay?
I am so happy that you work in here, you know?
Need something, Bennie?
- How's your writing going? - Going well.
I almost have the ending and then it'll be done.
Ending? Well!
I'm very close to Alone, by the way.
We are relatives and our families are connected for a long time.
Alone, Patagonia Festival?
I have your ear...
How do you get submitted for the Patagonia Festival?
Obelisk of Buenos Aires. 9 de Julio Avenue.
- Sit down, please. Tetro...
Tetro, how are you?
How are you? How's it going?
How are you?
Well, well ...
I'm fine because we are in production and that's cool ...
Of what?
You don't know?
No, what?
- What? - Well, well...
- "Wander Lust." - "Wander Lust"?
"Wander Lust". The new work of your brother.
It is very good.
- What? - I cut myself.
Bennie is a genius!
A genius!
He's a genius!
If you can do illumination with us.
I mean, you can do the lights.
Henrique, former husband of Josephine comes and pays it all.
He is in charge of production.
The whole. How could I refuse?
- Put yourself in my place. - I want it short.
- Has to be short black hair. - I do not like short.
Curtains, please.
No, please. - No.
Do not cry, let's see.
Do not cry, my love.
Look at my hair.
No! I'm going to cut corners.
I want to ...
I heard you wrote a play.
Yes, yes.
If it's this one, you ripped it off.
Well, you weren't doing anything with it, so I figured I'll just put my name on it.
Put your name on it.
For you it was junk. I've done some changes. Put an ending to it.
- Abelardo's got it translated ... - Make some changes?
Make some changes??
Make changes?
- You've made changes, eh? - Yes.
Well, you know, we can share the credit, but my name first.
You're a fucking little thief. Little thief.
You're worse than a thief, you are a plagiarist.
You can write the endings...
What ending? What ending?
The one that you couldn't face.
My play does not need an ending, my play will not be published.
You hear me?
Ending!
If you say it's your play, then that's declaring that it is yours.
- Which means that you'll publish that. - Bullshit.
- I'm gonna save you, Tetro. - You gonna save me?
You gonna save me?
I'll shove it up your throat.
You'll save me? Save yourself.
Hallo, Bennie.
- You are a fucking weasel! - That's Alone.
Let me talk to her.
Talk to fucking her! Talk to!
Now talk to. Go ahead, talk to her. Talk to Alone! Talk to Alone, your friend.
Hello, hello!
Hello, Bennie.
- You're one of the five finalists. - Your new friend.
"Wander Lust" is one of the five finalists za nagradu Los Parricidas.
Yes!
Thank you very much.
- How wonderful! - Silence!
Listen...
It is one of the finest plays I've ever read.
In this one work, Tetro has been rejuvenating himself
into a real writer.
I'm impressed!
Thank you. My brother is speechless.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
We're going to the festival in Patagonia!
Bravo! Viva!
What?
She welcomed his brother.
Come on, Tetro!
- Bravo, Tetro. - What, you have beautiful brother.
Let's celebrate.
Bravo, my love!
- Thank you! - Good luck!
What's wrong?
I don't want Bennie to save me.
I don't want anyone to save me.
But this is exactly what you had hoped for.
What will cure you.
You think this will cure me.
Absolutely.
Am I not OK the way I am?
Not famous enough?
Of course...
I had a girlfriend once who was very impressed by famous people.
And one day a very famous person took her away.
Stole it from me.
But it means so much to us.
To know you're a success, Tetro.
To Bennie, to your friends, to me as well. Yes.
I understand that this is your way of showing love.
Success.
It's what you need, Tetro.
If you had one word to give away, just one word.
If ...
If this was that word,
who would you give it to?
- Hello! - Hello!
Hello!
How are you?
Hello, La Boca!
How are you?
You see the car?
How wonderful in Patagonia!
Of course my dear with this car ...
Very nice.
- Maria Luisa. - What?
You can sit in the back with the boys.
Hello, Tetro! How are you, my dear?
My love.
Hello, Tetro. How are you, my love?
Just kidding, we're only lovers.
It's a lie. Just kidding.
Come!
Hello.
Are you alright?
Why not stop here...
and close the hood?
Look at that beautiful day we have!
We are freezing!
Why is Tetro like this?
What?
I don't know.
Bye!
We want to close the hood!
And I would like to have a sex scene with Tetro!
Just kidding...
Tetro, how did you get in love with Miranda, Tetro?
Why? What Tetro have?
Your father's office just called.
It is serious.
I know how you feel, but maybe Bennie wants to see him
before it's too late.
Bennie is ...
What is it?
Are you cold?
A little.
- Really? - Just a little.
- A wee? - Yes.
Give me a kiss.
- What? - Kiss me.
- No. - What are you doing?
What will they think of family?
- Do you not see what you are doing? - And you?
I?
What aunt...
Kiss me.
Hands off.
- I am not playing. - What bad manners!
I'm not playing.
You'll see...
Being empathetic
to know about Argentina...
All they have are two rooms,
It's with beds for three people.
One double and one single.
What?
Girl, let's see...
Look what we'll do:
Bennie gets in here with Maria Luisa and me.
Bennie? Shy as he is?
He is accustomed to us, Josefina.
- The other room is the same. - Let it be...
Go on with your husband, go!
Come in!
The boy is a virgin!
This woman is well known.
She knows perfectly what she's doing.
Intuition, or not.
Tetro? Tetro?
Thank ...
- What happened? - He came out of nowhere ...
in the midst of the dark. I did not want to run into him
I did not want to crush him. I do not know what happened.
And my car! Who will pay?
Calm...
"Look at this woman"
"being alone in front of you"
What do you think? Like so?
- That's good. - Yes?
"And no one thinks ..."
"What can already ..."
"but ..."
Or maybe like this?
Wow.
- Baby... - Yes.
Aunt Josephine told me that we can have a pajamas party.
Without pajamas.
Yes...
Without pajamas.
Yes!
Without pajamas.
Without pajamas, baby.
Come with us, Bambi.
Look at his penis!
Yes!
Come on, baby.
Dive!
- Who is it? - Miranda.
Wait!
Is Bennie here?
Yes. Bennie!
Something has happened to your brother.
He's gone.
I have no idea where he is.
Good evening, welcome!
We'll park the car.
Come on, boy. Park this car, please.
--Do you know something about Tetro? No, and you?
- Nothing. - Me neither.
- I tried ... - He is an idiot!
Put this...
The most important figure of literary criticism in South America
Alone, a powerful woman,
is expanding her influence from literature to entertainment.
Your magazine "Foundation" is read by millions people.
And we have today with us Alone, what a pleasure!
Thank you for being here.
Not at all ... I would like to ask
about the Festival and the prize "Los Parricidas".
This award is an honor for the parricidal movement.
This is the sixth year that the Festival is done in my home.
We have increased the prize to $ 40,000.
Therefore, all are welcome to the 6th Festival of Patagonia.
Well, Tetro is...
I believe... We will have a surprise
at any time.
But right now, the brother, the co-author of the work.
5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Action!
Thanks!
Health, my love ...
Health!
Lamb.
5 ...
Now the 3 ...
I ask everyone for a round of applause to the genius of fashion,
owner of this important collection
designer Fabian Zitta
Fabián Zitta...
Good evening...
I remember a trip...
on a train with Pablo Neruda
when he received the award in Viareggio, Italy.
He stared for a while at the sky,
and said:
"Give the award to the moon!"
Few days later
he came here to Patagonia
stared at the ice
and said: "No. .. Do not just give it to the moon, "
"Give the award to it too!"
That's why we call the prize "Los Parricidas" "El Glacier.
This award
which was created especially by Swarovski in Vienna
will be awarded to the winner along with $ 40,000.
And now the last set.
Tetro Angelo and Tetro Benjamin ...
present their drama "Wander Lust"
You said you put an ending to the story.
Yes, the ending is that you kill your father.
In the end, that's what an ending has to be.
It's about to start, right now.
OK, we can make it, come.
I'm gonna tell you straight, Bennie.
I'm not your brother.
I am your father.
Your mother...
she was the girl that I loved when she was 18.
I was 20.
I don't believe a word you say.
Believe me, Bennie.
You know the ending you wrote in the play?
The father is killed. You're looking at him.
You know?
When you were a kid,
I thought you were my brother.
That's what I was told.
I loved you.
I loved having a brother. I took you everywhere.
And then she told us ...
She told me.
She told him the truth.
She took an overdose.
And when your mother was sick,
I left her.
Kill me.
If that's the way you want the story end, you have to kill me.
Kill me, Bennie. Kill me.
You're my son.
You're my son, Bennie.
Sorry, Bennie.
I'm sorry.
Hello?
Before announcing the winner
will repeat the list of the finalists.
Javier Barga,
Evelyn Badasame,
Rodrigo Alzone,
Tetro Angelo e. ..
- Good. - One moment...
Seems that one of the finalists is in the garden.
I go get them and be right back.
"Searching for network"
Montser ...
Cabo! Cable
Come on, come on ...
Ready ... Pronto!
Ready, guys!
Tetro, you're safe!
Alone is going to the garden! Down to the garden!
Come here ...
Taking ... making
When you move too quickly towards me,
I'm not sure if you're going to give me a passionate kiss
or a punch in the nose.
I only have respect for you, Alone.
Once he threatened me with violence.
It was very exciting.
You turned against me.
You hadn't lived up to your promise.
Now you have.
Yes...
With one play...
Yes, it is...
you've made second grade all the new young writers,
if my opinion matters to you.
Of course.
Your opinion doesn't matter to me any more.
Cut, staff, finished.
Your father is dead!
He wanted to be buried
where he was born... in Buenos Aires.
Here, Uncle Alfie.
You take it.
I do not know what to do.
Just take it.
I would have had him give it to me.
Now.
What has happened to our family?
We were so promising...
We loved each other so much.
I do not know what to do.
What was it in our way?
The rivalry.
Look who he is!
Aunt Lily?
You remember Uncle Alfie?
Pop sent Bennie away to prep school.
Bennie?
How about...
toothie one,
sonny?
My grandfather did something, something
I didn't tell you about.
Your father, you mean.
No, him.
Carlo Tetrocini, my grandfather.
Your grandfather?
He stole my poor mother away from Tetro.
Bennie, what are you saying?
What are you saying?
- It's not true. - True?
Amalia? Yes it's true.
And you know it, because you're a part of it.
The deceit.
It was for Angie's... It was for Angie's own good.
It was for
Angie's own good.
Don't call him Angie. He doesn't want to be called Angie any more.
His name's Tetro.
And him, the Great One,
he stole her away from him,
just because he could.
Tetro is your father,
Bennie?
How didn't I realize?
Oh, Bennie.
How I did not see it?
Bennie.
Bennie!
We have to take the roses
There is a fire ...
Let's get them out of here!
No!
Bennie.
Tetro, he needs you!
Mad!
You bastard!
Bennie, no!
You can't look at the light. Don't look at the light.
Bennie... Bennie...
You're my son.
Come on, let's go.
It's gonna be OK.
We are a family.