Thursday Till Sunday (2012) - full transcript

Two children travel with their parents from Santiago to the north of Chile for a family holiday. The landscape's loneliness and the car's confinement help bring out the couple's troubles, and the children learn that this might turn out to be their father's farewell and their last family vacation.

- Here, come.

- Come.

Hang onto me.

That's it.

- Are you sure you want
me to go?

- We already talked about it...

THURSDAY TILL SUNDAY

- ...for this wonderful woman.

And you all know her...

Now singing Manuel
Alejandro's songs!

Introducing... Jeanette!



- Bravo!
- Bravo!

- He has the expression
of a flower...

...the voice of a bird,

...the soul like a
full moon in April...

...He has the heart of a poet...

- Fssst

- Another!

- Weeping willow...

Weeping willow...

- Fssst

- She was a dog and
her name was Laika..

- Fssst

- It's a cloudy day in Santiago.
Temperature is 18°C...

Warning: there is a traffic
jam at the entrance...



...of the city. Route 68 is
slow at this time of the day...

- A friend of Felipe has
to leave his apartment...

...and he offered it to me.

- Can we go to the water park?

- Why don't you go to a hotel first
for a few days?

- It's more expensive...

- Did you think of something, mom?

- Yes.
I thought of something.

- No! I want to be the one
who thinks of something!

- Fine, you do it.

- Ready!

- Ok... Animal?

- No...

- Thing?

- No...

- Man?

- Yes...

- Dad, its your turn...

- ls he younger than 15?

- Yes...

- Do we know him?

- Yes...

- It can't be a
cartoon character...

- No.

- Can't you stay at
your brothers place?

- C'mon mom, there's
two questions left.

- Let's see... Right there.

- Look, right after this turn...

...a man was driving and
he crashed.

And the car fell over...

...his wife and daughters were killed,
but he didn't die.

And now he lives up there
all by himself.

And people that pass by
leave food for him.

- Go ahead and leave
something.

- I can leave a milkbox
for him.

- Is it there?

But... his grave is up there?

- No, darling.

- Where is his grave?
- He didn't die.

- He lives here.

- And where is he?

- Lucia!

Where should I put this?

- Leave it here.

Manuel!

- Hey, out it.

- Butt face!

- May god have mercy
on his soul...

- This guy is such a pest...

Close the window.

Close the window.

- Close the window!

- Look, another altar right there.

- May God have mercy
on his soul...

- Dad, I want to go too.

- Stay here and watch
over your mother.

- It's a good spot, right?

I used to stop here
whenever I went north.

- How much longer?
- But we barely started out...

I want us to go and check out
the piece of land in Punta de Choros.

- Which one?

- A parcel my father owned.

I want to see if we can plant some
avocado trees or something.

- And what about the beach?
- We will go...

...but first we have
to find the parcel.

You'll love it.

And if you like it,
it can be yours...

- How much?
- Two thousand pesos.

- How was it?

- This... is YES...

And this is NO.

- Mom, where is
the metal detector'?

- It's at the very bottom, not now.

- Can I have it later'?

- You owe me ten thousand.

- You're shameless...

- it's a valuable toy.

- Chini, Chini?!

Lucia!

Come!
Come here!

You didn't see us, we were right there.

Do you remember my friend
who broke the guitar'?

- Yes...
- He's here in Chile, with his son. Look!

I can't believe it!
Maybe we can meet up with them further?

How about it?

Come here darling.
- No...

- Come!

- Manuel, help me here!

- I'm coming, dad...

- Lucia, why are you
coming herewith us?

And you are barefoot!

I have more fun!

- Wait, wait.
Not yet, not yet.

Ok, go, let's see...

That's it!

Good.

- We will go climbing, Ok?
- Ok.

- On that hill we saw through your window,
do you remember?

- Which one? The one with the witch?
- Yes

I got lost there once.

We went up there with my father,
before sunrise.

And we came back at night.

I was seven.

- Just like me.
- Just like you.

It will be just the two of us, Ok?
- Ok.

When?
- When we get back to Santiago.

- Ok honey,
off to the backseat.

- Ok.

They will arrive
tomorrow around six.

- We.

We will arrive
when we arrive.

Cause I want to go
stop by, see the sights.

- All right.

- How much is it?
- Fifteen thousand pesos.

- We could have discussed it before,
don't you think?

- The idea is for them
to have a good time.

- Yes, but we will have to
take a detour.

- ...that's an illusion that you have,
but ifs not about that.

- Hi.

Thanks.

- Did you sleep Chini?
- Yeah.

After a while
it will be the same with anyone else.

- What? - Roll down your window
to see where they're going.

- Hi, where are you headed?

- To Bahia Inglesa, can you give us a ride?
- We can get you closer.

- Aren't you guys scared?

- No.

The last truck driver
that gave us a ride...

...stopped at a gas station
and invited us some tea.

- Another one bought us
apple empanadas in Chiloé.

- Really?

- Yeah
I think ifs just a matter of luck.

- Dad, can we go to Chiloé?

- You could go on
summer vacation. It's beautiful...

- We've been there.

- How old are you?

- I'm 18.
- 19.

- And can you drive?

- Can I add you?

- Sure.

Mine is:

- You should go to La Virgen beach.

It's out of this world.

I was one of the first
to set foot on that beach.

Years ago, that is.
When it was impossible.

There were no roads, nothing.

Now there are even some cabins,
some guy bought all that, it seems.

- Cool.

- Maybe we could go.

- Can one still go there?
- Yes.

Maybe the sand
belongs to someone, but...

the sea belongs to everyone
so you can swim at ease.

- Bye,
- Thanks.

- Bye.

- Have a good one.
- Thanks.

- Bye.
- Bye.

- See you.

- I liked them.
- Really?

Good for you.

- Get in Manuel!
- Manuel, get in!

- Manuel, get in!
- Gunshot, gunshot!

- Shut up!

- Be still, now.

- Alright.

- You were shot, dad.
- It was a warning shot.

- You stole them, dad!

- No, they were hanging outside.
They don't belong to anyone.

- These are rock hard.

- Are we going to the beach?

- No, let's drive on,
so we get there.

- Is it close?

- Please,
I wanna go to the beach.

- I want you guys
to see it, right?

- I wanna go to the beach,
please...

- You'll like it!

- I wanna go to the beach!

Please, please!
- Ok, out it out.

- Ok, Manuel, we can go
to the beach later.

- I wanna go to the beach!
I wanna go to the beach!

- Look, honey, we can
look for coins there too.

- Please!
I wanna go to the beach!

- That's why he's so spoiled.

- I wanna go to the beach!
I wanna go to the beach!

- Please!
I wanna go to the beach,

I wanna go to the beach,

I wanna go to the beach,
I wanna go to the beach!

I wanna go to the beach,

- Move to the front seat.

- Dad, please...

- Please!

No, the beach...
- Fasten your seatbelt.

- ...my dad taught me on the dirt road...
at the house in Arrayan,

...in a Citroen Duck.
You shifted gears like this.

Something like that.

- Would you teach me?

- Yeah, you could
be my chauffer.

I hate driving.

- I could drive Manuel to school.

- Sure, good idea.

Oh, but I'd be left
without the car all day.

- Look.

Look, hey.

This is how I should be.

Like you.

Young...

beautiful...

the prettiest.
- No.

What do you mean no?

- Manuel, get in,
we're leaving.

Now, on the back.

- Dad, teach me how to drive.

- But you're too little yet.
- Please.

- I'll think about it.

- Ready?
- Ready.

- Are you transmitting?
- Yes...

Mmm... yellow?
Yes!

- Yellow!
That's it!

- I swear.
It was yellow.

- Is there nothing else?

- Route traffic information
from the police

- Didn't I tell you?

- What?

- The mucama.

- What?

- Las perlas de mi abuela...

...they are gone.

- 'What is it?
- Nothing darling.

- Si no aparecen, I will have to...

- Who?

- Are you sure?

- Who else?

- Maybe you lost them.
- No.

- How do you know?
- I know.

- There's always someone
trying to mess with you.

- How insufferable.

- Well, let her go then.

- You deal with it.
- Yes, I'll deal with it.

- Plus the piggy bank too.

She left all the coins...

...and with a (wire)
she pulled out all the bills.

- C'mon, I know you guys
are talking about Mrs. Juanita.

- Dad, were you alive?

- Can I be your slave?

- No.
- C'mon, can I be your slave?

- No, not now.
- I'm going to the water.

- It's cold.

- Help me Chini.
- Ok.

- Thanks.

- Mom look.

Be careful, Manuel.

- Careful, careful.
- Daddy, wait.

- Dad, wait!

- Pinch your nose with your hand.

- Can you do that?
- Yes.

- I'm ok.
- Ok. One...

...two and three.

Another one?
- Yes.

One, two and... three.

- Take it.
- Thanks.

The water'?
- It's also there.

- Here?
- Yes, don't leave it in the sun.

- Mom, check out my strength.

- Not so far darling.

Ow, crap!
Ow, ow!

- Let me see you.
- No, no! Leave me alone,

- Are you bleeding?

Hey.

- Let me see.

- I put some butter on it
so it won't tum black.

- Does it hurt much?
- No, ifs better.

- Mom, I found a ladybug.
- Did you?

- Look!

- Oh, yes.

- Ladybug out!

- Drop the stick.

Does it hurt?

Sony,
it was an accident.

- Sure, but it still hurts.

- Hey, out it out.
Drop the stick.

- Do you want it with
mayonnaise too?

- Alright.

- Close your window.
- Look at that idiot.

- Close it, close it, close it.

- Damn it!

- Dad, stop!
- Lucia!

- Dad, stop!

- Stop, stop.
Something fell off...

- 'What are you doing?
No, stay here darling.

Stay here.

Careful!

A car may come!

- You beat me to it, Lucia.

- I want that too, dad.

- Let's see, like this.
- Dad, help me.

- Hand me the rope.

- Mom.

- Look at the stone I found.

- It's beautiful!

We can give it to grandma, she'll love it.
- Let me see.

Oh, this is the stone
the cavemen used to make fires with.

- Give it to me...

- I will put it here...
- Give it to her.

Give it back to your sister.

- Juan!
- Hi.

- Great!

- 'What happened?
- We got stuck here.

- Hey, was it too hard to
find the road?

- No, good thing you drove by.

- We stayed a little longer back there.

- Since you said six...

- 'What happened to your hand?
- Nothing, an accident.

- Now it'll get out.
- Let's pull it.

- No, ifs getting out now.
- But let him help you.

- Dad, do I help you?
Can I help?

- It'll get out with a single
pull, ifs ready.

- Did you know I rode
on the roof rack?

- Really?
- Yep.

- Do you want to ride
on the roof rack with us now?

- He sure takes care
of his car.

- Dad, his car is awesome.

- I love my clunker.
- But ifs different.

- And it has a fridge.
- You will have to talk to them.

- Manuel!
- What?

- Come.
- Ok.

- Come here.
Put your leg here, that's it.

Ok.

There, and that one there.

Ok, keep the steering wheel steady.
- But dad, I asked you first.

- But you're too big,
the two of us don't fit in here.

Slowly, slowly.
No, there.

Follow the road.
That's it.

Hey, hey, hey which way?
- I know.

- Can we buy one?

- Do you want one?
- Go on, ask her.

- Yes.
- Choose one, it's a gift.

- 'What do we say?
- Thank you!

- Ok, we're off to get settled.
- Ok.

- Hey, look.

There...

...you see that?
- Yes.

- Behind the willow,
ifs super nice.

Oh but, go around this way
so you won't run over the little tree.

Will ya?
- Ok.

- Thanks.
- See you later.

- And why don't you
plant it somewhere else?

- Because if it wants
to be here...

...we should let it.
- Yes.

- See you then.
- Ok, bye.

- Stop.

Oh, yours has more!

A little more.

- There?

- Eh... yes.

- Hi.

- Do you want some?
- Ok, but quickly, anyway...

- Lend you my glasses?
- Yeah.

- That's fine.
- Ok, let's go?

- Let's go, Lucia.

- Hooray!

- Hey kids.

- Do you have candy?
- No, you have to say:

Trick or treat?

- Trick or treat?

- Treat? Mmm...

Look, Let's do something.

I'll give you this.
Do you want it?

- No.

- You'll like it.

- Jose, do you want one?
- Yeah, ok. I want one.

- I want the other one,
that one there next to that one.

- Ok.
- Thanks.

- Hey, so they go out to the streets
and all that?

- Well, ifs like very improvised.
- Yes?

- There's more now
anyway, in the supermarket, more stuff.

- Don't bum yourself.

- The whole gringo thing
has caught on.

- Yeah, sure.
Same as there.

- Still... if the kids have fun.
- Yep.

- Go on, Chini.

- Hey, you have
something here.

- Where?
- Here, a twig?

- Ow, Ow!
- Sorry, sorry,

- Wait, wait, and there?

Let me see.
- Ow!

- No, careful, careful.

It's out.

- Can I be your slave?
- Alright.

- Go there and bring me
that stone.

Run!

- Now go there and put
your head in the river.

- Yeah, do it!

- The fool, he always
wants to be the slave.

- I like the words that...

...one just says in the middle
of the sentence:

OK

How are you?

Excelente.

Just a few.

Those you say in a row
and then mix together.

- How?

- A few words in English
when you're speaking Spanish.

I don't know, for example:

Have you been alright?

Si.

And you?

Perfecto.

Why are you staring
like that?

- 'Cause you're speaking.

- Yes, but you could be staring
sideways, like more normal.

- Hey, I can only get
short frequency.

- My car gets both.

- 'What does anybody know...?

'What does any...?

Remember when Pati
sang Raphael in the kitchen?

- Yeah, but it was Camilo
Sesto she sang.

- C'mon.
It was Raphael.

- No,
Camilo Sesto.

- No.
- Yeah.

- Dad, José knows every
capital city in the world.

- Really, all of them?

- Yes, all of them.

- And Lucia knows millions of lyrics by heart.
- Really?

- No.

- And she makes a great
Jeanette impression.

- No.
- Really? C'mon.

- No, mom.
- That one.

- Front to front or the other one
...Heart of Poet, that one. - No.

- Do you remember Jeanette?
- Yeah, sure.

Front to front.

- ...we lowered our stare...
- ...we lowered our stare...

- C'mon, love.

- No.

- We want to hear it.
- Sing! Sing!

- Sing!

- C'mon, come back!
- Baby is gonna cry!

- Baby is gonna cry!
- Lucia!

Simon. Classic! Start!

Cool!

You're out!

- C'mon.

Hey.

- I wanna be here.

- Don't get mad, it doesn't matter.

- It's not that.

- Alright...

- Another one, a popular one...

- I want to sleep tired...

- I love that one... Yes!
- You like it?

- And you know it?
- Yes.

- Great, sing it!

Look, I know the chords...

Let me remember...

- I want to sleep tired...

...and not have to think
about you...

...I want to sleep deeply...

...and not have to
wake up crying...

...sad for not seeing you...

I want to sleep tired...

...and never wake up...

...I want to sleep eternally...

...because I'm in love...

...and this love doesn't
understand me.

Living life sleeping...

- There was a blond bug and
a skinny bug, a very irritable one...

So, when they got to the river, they...
- Dad. Not about us.

- No?
- No, you cheater.

- Little vampire and eagle egg?
- Yes! Yes!

- No, a story of you as a kid.

- Yes, when you was a kid...
- I don't know.

- Did I tell you about the Union Club?
- Yes.

- And when I cried 'cause they
told me my name wasn't Nano?

- Look at my row.

The walrus first, then the hippo...
- It looks fantastic.

...then the goat, then... this that
eats... disgusting stuff...

...then the goat, the cow...
- Your row is fantastic.

- ...and last, the lucky bunny
that gets his head burnt.

- And when I died?

- Liar.
- Get out of here!

- Look, I was at a beach called
Green Vertigo up here north...

And I was swimming, and
I started getting far from the shore.

And I was swimming, swimming, swimming.

And I saw people further into the sea.

So I thought: if there's people there it
must be more fun there, so I will go there.

So I kept on swimming, swimming,
and when I looked...

They were all surfers,
with their boards, and I didn't have one...

And suddenly a huge wave...

...knocked me around.
Another wave...

Another wave...

And I sunk.

I sunk all the way down, down, down...

And I suddenly looked up, like this.

And I saw light.

And then, I looked down, like that.

And I saw myself,
I was there floating, facing down.

So I swam down... and I sort of...
joined back with my body.

- Get out of here.
- Hey, what I'm telling is the truth.

I was dying and I reacted.

If I hadn't, that was it for me,
and you guys wouldn't exist.

'What do you reckon?

- And, the leg-munching piranha...

- He walked away, he was going away.

So I run after him, but wasn't sure
if he was him or not.

And I touch his shoulder and say:

"Sandro, is that you?"

And he replies: "Yes... it's me."

So I get very nervous,
and say: "I'm so thrilled".

"Thanks Sandro!
Thanks for your songs."

And he says:
"Ana... I will always be with you."

- Excellent.

- Remember when you threw
my guitar off the balcony?

- By accident, plus I got you a new one.

- Yes, a new one. Very good.
That's the one I still own.

Juan is the one who would host us in France.

- And the offer is still good, if you want to...

- I still teach baroque dance there.

- Yes?
- Yes.

- Still with Eva?
- Yeah, with Eva.

Lucia! Go to sleep!

- I'm not tired.

- Well, just close your eyes and
you'll get sleepy.

- Another cup of wine?

- Alright.
- Alright, thanks.

- I will open another bottle.

- What's wrong?
- I'm scared.

- Scared of what?
- I don't know.

- Nothing's wrong.
We are just a few steps from you.

- Hey, hand me the water.

- I don't know where it is.
- It was right next to you.

- No, it's not here.

- Sure?
- Yes.

- Out!
Alright, out, out.

- Mom!

- Out! Out!
Out, out, out.

No! Get out!

No! Get out!

Get out, out, out.

- Out, out!

- No!

- Out!

- Out!

No! Scramble!

Go away! Shit!

- Hey, they got the tomatoes and chewed
on the basket handle.

- My basket!

- Great! Good, good, good.

- Lower them.
- No.

- Thigh.

- Leave your sister.

- Let's get them up... up, up.

That's it! Very good.

Rest.

- ...He leaves and
runs into his buddy:

- Here, here!

- Manuel! Over here!

- I have it!

C'mon, over there, there!

- Go there, Jose, there.

- C'mon, dad! You're terrible.

- C'mon! Oh, cheated!

- Here I go!

- Over here!

- Oh, the football...

- And you would come to Chile by yourselves?
- I don't know.

Look, a robin.

- Where?
- Right there.

Don't you ever wear shoes?

- No.
- Look... touch.

- It's hard.

So lucky...

- What?
- The birds.

- ...so I was at a mountain,
it was horrible, and I had to choose.

I was riding a can and they
first showed me a cliff.

Then some tigers...

...and then a cave where they wanted
to kill me with guns.

- Damn, what a bad dream.
- They made me choose.

- So?

- I told them I wanted none...

...but I still preferred getting
thrown off the cliff.

...But I didn't tell them.

Dad.
- Yes?

- 'Was the story of the
parcel just a lie?

- No.

If we drive a couple of hours more,
I think we will get there.

- We could build a small house there.

- Grab the wheel, steady.

Like this, look
Here and there.

Steady, alright?
- Alright.

- Look. That's the
brakes over there.

- And the gears?

- No. Before the gears you must
learn how to brake, Ok? - Alright.

- Focus.
- Yeah.

- That's it!

I will tell you when to brake.

- Faster!
- Go ahead.

Brake!

Well done!

Very good.
'Was it hard?

- No.
- No?

Good.

- Mom, can we go to the
beach when it rains?

- Better when there's sun.

- It's just that when it rains,
coins rise up over the sand.

José told me so...
- Good.

- No! Get down.

- But...
- Down.

- Damn...

- Bye.

- A pleasure.
- Bye.

- Well, let's talk back in Santiago.

- Right.
- Bye.

- Bye, José. Have a good time.
- Thanks, bye.

- Bye.

- Bye, good luck.

- Bye.
- Bye.

- Bye.

- It doesn't show here.

- He didn't ride on the roof rack.

- Who didn't?
- José.

- Well, another time.

- ...tragedy in the third province...

...a 23-year old young man suffered an
accident when his motorbike...

...slipped off the road when
he drove to the National Park...

...his corpse was found...

- It must be the kid we saw in the river.

- It might not be.

- He seemed lost, that kid.

You're out!

Start!

You're out!

- Dad, can we come with grandma when
the desert flowers bloom?

- Yeah, sure.

- Can I call her?

- There's no signal.

- Dad, I'm thirsty...

- Thirsty for justice?

- C'mon dad,
it's always the same...

- Look over there.

I don't like when it looks like that.

- How?

- Round.

- Mom! Look!

- Be careful.

- They will die.
- No. They last for a couple of days.

- I will rent that apartment.

- Why did we even come...?

You already rented it.

You had already rented it...
- Ana!

- You know what? Just go away!

- Mom!

- And your parents?
Huh?

- Over there.
- They are taking a stroll.

- Be careful with trucks here.

They drive fast around here.

- Lucia!
- Lucia!

Wait up, stay there!

Did you see her?

- Can you carry me?
- What?

- Can you carry me
on your shoulders? I'm tired.

- Ok.

- Ana...

- Get in the car...

- Ana!

Let's go!

Ana...

- She doesn't want to?

- Come on...

- What's wrong?

- Are we staying here?

- Yes, we're going to wait until dawn.

- I'm not sleepy.

- Let's see.
- Lucia!

Come.

- Can we go back to Chiloé anyway?

- Yes, maybe.

Let's go back inside.
- Alright.

- There was a small hill somewhere...

- Alright.

Come. I think it's here...

- Here?

- Let's see. Come.

- Let me have some.