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the best summer after-hours are spent with these movies

What a human being can enjoy with table-tops! And as it says Manuel Vicent “At lunch you never sit at the table with someone you dislike. Remember that the diners who accompany you will be more important than the food for a good digestion. Laughter is very digestive. Otherwise eat little and do it slowly “

Imagine the picture, (or maybe it is not necessary because you are living it right now) in which all the plates are half empty on a pastel colored tablecloth, also the two or three bottles of wine that have accompanied the juicy summer necessities, perhaps a rice, perhaps seafood, or perhaps a perfect cut of some exquisite meat. Liquors are rushed while chatting with increasingly playful tongue and blood in the stomach.

At this time of day when the clock is stopped, the sun is just above the highest point in the sky to begin to descend slowly. But it still remains. And you feel sexy, splendid and generous and the people around you who smoke, who crash the ice with the glass and pour a little elixir, They do not stop talking about interesting or frivolous things, because the truth is that it does not matter.

Interesting things always happen after dinner because there are hardly any filters, the ethyl sweetness and the happiness that accompanies a full stomach leave us in our place, as we are: bellicose, intense, funny, scoundrels, provocative and fragile.

If you make a list of your best after-dinner meals, you will discover a story of your existence, and that of those around you, perfectly clear, but this tells it better. Jesus Terrés in three lines of exquisite and absolute precision when he says that “The desktop is a vortex, like the Interstellar tesseract: I believe that I can travel my life only through desktop, jumping like a squirrel from branch to branch, through time and memory.”

It’s a shame that in Interstellar There are no after-dinner meals and there is no summer either – the perfect time of year because we are less in a hurry, it is hot and we are happier, damn it. And that is why, fortunately, summer-style cinema almost always contemplates this vital moment that rejoices us and in which there are always beautiful people talking around a table.

Grapes on the table from ” Before Nightfall ‘

Una escena de ‘Before midnight’
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Jesse and Celine are spending their last day of summer at her house. Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, in Kardamyli, in the middle of idyllic Peloponnese. They are accompanied by Fermor himself, a friend of his, another funny couple of Greek lovers, the writer’s grandson and his French girlfriend. The white wine glasses are running low and only leftovers remain, but a woman brings in a few plates full of grapes as all the participants in this Greek gastronomic delight chat about love, identity, sex, gender and loss.

It is one of the best scenes in the movie. One can see it many times and discover small details that enhance the naturalness with which the characters exchange ideas while the tension grows or fades.

How wonderful is that story of the nurse who tells how all women after waking up from a coma the first thing they do is ask about their loved ones and all men, however, look at their penis, without exception. Also, of course, from the grandmother, who out of 23 sheets of a living will that she wrote to her entire family, only dedicated one paragraph to her husband and yet three pages to the dresses she sewed for plays – a story that really belongs to her. to the real grandmother of Ethan Hawke, the actor is the scriptwriter of the film along with Julie Delpy-.

Everything flows in that toasty light as Delpy enjoys the grapes and imitates a young fan of Jesse’s character, making a fool of the male with ravishing grace. And of course, the final statement of the character who had not yet spoken, Fermor’s friend, about the fragility of the human being with a toast to match:

For being passing through.

Elio’s blood at the ‘Call Me By Your Name’ dinner

Una escena de 'Call me by your name'
Una escena de ‘Call me by your name’
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In the after-dinner tables there is also the one who never shuts up. It is very likely that if at the end of a desktop they passed a kind of podium where the ranking was from the one who speaks the most to the one who is the most silent, they would almost always be the same. Because it is something that comes with personality and is exacerbated on a full stomach.

The unbearable chatterbox at dinner where Elio ends up with a bleeding nose and Oliver shooting out behind him. Elio is a short Italian giving lessons in politics, morals and cinema.

An impressive verbiage that leaves us the odd pearl as when this angry guy’s wife tells him Smoke and see if you shut up! in a loud and vociferous Italian. Or when he himself says that cinema is a mirror of reality and also a filter.

Brilliant sequence where of course those who are silent say a lot, especially Elio and Oliver, whose quite forbidden relationship has just blossomed.

The transformation of Ripley told in the breakfasts of ‘The talent of Mr. Ripley’

A scene from 'The Talent of Mr. Ripley'
A scene from ‘The Talent of Mr. Ripley’
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In The talent of Mr. Ripley, Back in Italy, Ripley, Dickie, and Marge have poached eggs for breakfast, drink champagne basically all the time, and indulge in absolute hedonism from waking to bed.

And in between they chat. Ripley falls in love with Dickie vehemently until wanting to replace him. In fact, there is no more absolute kind of love than precisely wanting to be the other. In the suspended time that exists since you take the last bite of a breakfast, a lunch or a dinner, these characters elevate life to the juiciest levels of enjoyment by going by boat, traveling to Rome, listening to live Jazz.

When the character of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Freddie, verbalizes the key to the movie (and Ripley’s) with great grace:

“You live in Italy, you stay at Dickie’s house, you eat his food, you wear his clothes and his father pays the bill.”

The after-drinks in ‘And your mommy too’

A scene from 'And your mom too'
A scene from ‘And your mom too’
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And with this masterpiece of Alfonso Cuaron we enter a much more fun and perverse terrain. There is something that usually happens in the after-dinner bathed with alcohol and that is magical: the diner becomes emboldened and brings out deep desires or closely guarded secrets.

Towards the end of And Your Mother Too, the three characters eat and drink at a beach bar on the coast of Mexico. And both Julio and Tenoch recognize between laughter that the one and the other have fucked their respective girlfriends on several occasions, they toast for it, for being milk brothers and for all the Italians that they, traveling at that time, are they will be fucking.

And after releasing the ballast between shots of mezcal comes the other thing that is always done in the best after-dinner meals, dance with the center of the universe placed on that stomach full of delicacies, liquids and alcohol that makes the brain smile and rages the heart.

The Italian coffee maker in ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’

A scene from 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'
A scene from ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’
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If they didn’t give the Oscar to Penelope Cruz For this scene from the Woody Allen tape, it shouldn’t have been very far.

With the first coffee served at this table full of empty crockery, the silence transforms into pure tension. The painter Juan Atonio treats his guest Cristina very sweetly, while his ex-wife María Elena, also a painter, tries to humiliate her by meddling with the fact that she studies Japanese.

In a discussion peppered with words in English and Spanish, with a Penelope Cruz intense, gorgeous and outgoing, we are witnesses of a romantic and sexual tension between three characters, two of them with the pretense of broken geniuses and Cristina, who is us witnessing a passionate clash to which, of course, we would like to engage as soon as possible.

The apple of ‘Pauline on the beach’

A scene from 'Pauline on the beach'
A scene from ‘Pauline on the beach’
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At the beginning of this third installment of Rohmer’s ‘Comedies and Proverbs’ series, Marion and her little cousin Pauline meet Pierre, an old friend of the former. You can tell that Pierre has a crush on Marion. However, Marion prefers Henri, more mature, more adventurous … a being much more interesting than Pierre.

At one point, the four of them are standing on the beach and Pierre invites them to dinner at his house, which is very close. Marion happily agrees, Pauline follows her and, what a remedy, Pierre.

Rohmer hides the part where they have dinner from us, but shows us the characters afterwards. They are sitting and talking animatedly about love, emotional ties, passion, and first encounters. Marion describes her desire to burn for a true love that she does not yet know when she will find while playing with an apple that she never gets to eat. Pauline listens carefully and finally grabs the apple that her older cousin was holding. She starts eating it and Henri asks this quinceañera about her romantic experiences.

And the scene closes with Pauline throwing the most stimulating and fun ideas of all the rants of three adults who all think about is sleeping with each other.

Vittorio Gassman’s siesta ‘The Getaway’

A scene from 'The Getaway'
A scene from ‘The Getaway’
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On this tape Dino Risi, Bruno Cortona, who is a scoundrel and a scoundrel, practically kidnaps Roberto, a shy, somewhat scared and silly student, to spend a day of vacation with him on the coast. Take him away from Rome and show him his crazy life.

Of course, as the film progresses, the tone darkens and Roberto becomes hooked on that way of living of the classic and attractive party animal that Vittorio Gassman can not interpret better.

There is a scene, more or less at the beginning of the getaway of these two, where they stop to eat at a restaurant near a port. Bruno, unleashed, talks to Roberto about women, about love, about Don Juan’s inalienable sex while looking at the waitress with rudeness and rapturous mischief.

And after a formidable ellipsis we see Roberto alone in the restaurant. Bruno has gone to take a nap. Then the waitress appears and grabs a bottle of alcohol, stands up and looks intensely at Roberto who has just understood, like all of us, what kind of nap Bruno is taking.

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