Los zancos
1984 · 95 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 235 VOTES · DIR. Carlos Saura
Overview
After the death of his wife, Angel, a university professor and writer, he falls into a severe depression. He flees to his house in the country, but there the evil is accentuated, which leads him to an attempted suicide that Teresa, his young neighbor, saves him. Angel starts a relationship with her and her partner, Alberto. Soon he falls in love with Teresa and, through a passionate relationship, he frees himself from his torments. Teresa, Alberto and her theater group on stilts ask her to write a play to represent her in the town. Obsessed by Teresa, she is vivified with this experience with the young, but she soon moves away from him carnally. This rupture desperate and as Teresa disabuses him of any possibility of continuity, in the mind of Angel reappears suicide as the only solution
Dialogue Timeline — 667 lines
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00:04:53 It can't be true.
00:15:47 If you want to kill yourself, find a...
00:18:04 Hello, sweetheart. Are you all by yourself?
00:20:19 Where are the kitchen scissors?
00:21:59 To us.
00:24:04 Like some people. I saw a man who was a turtle.
00:31:33 The melancholic gentleman could say...
00:35:13 Of course. Look...
00:37:05 It's no trouble at all. Come on, stay.
00:39:21 Alberto doesn't care about the theater.
00:42:37 Teresa...
00:45:45 Can you come home this afternoon?
00:48:25 Thank you.
00:50:32 it's walking alone amongst the people
01:00:31 Your breasts and my chest will be together, Rahel
01:02:40 it's a pleasure, mayor
01:07:24 When I was young I walked for miles with my friends.
01:09:28 Let's go for a ride.
01:12:01 - Let's go to your house. - No, they're rehearsing.
01:13:59 When you get home, turn on the video
01:16:39 Full face and a side view.
01:20:27 Everybody is happy in the palace!
01:22:31 In this palace everyone seems to be having babies.
01:23:54 When can I see you?