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Under the warm lights of a Barcelona's 1934 tavern we attend this casual meeting of two close friends, colossal poets of the 20Th century Spanish literature: Pablo Neruda and Federico Garcia Lorca. In a moody atmosphere, between glasses, tangos and sporadic friends the night will be altered, forcing the poets to deploy their best weapon: Words.
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It's Tuesday morning at Ha-Ha Studios. BF Richards has the studio heads on the war path. Sarge checks in on the comedy troops and Gus Meyer shows up to work with a huge black eye and a tall tale to tell. I Am Not Ignatius Riley is a story about dreams penetrating reality. A comedy who asks 'Who Are You?'
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Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. On the island, the unemployed son of a poor fisherman is hired as an extra postman due to the huge increase in mail that this causes. Il Postino is to hand-deliver the celebrity's mail to him. Though poorly educated, the postman learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda's help and guidance more than ever.
Keywords: 1950s, based-on-novel, communism, exile, foosball, island, lead-actor's-last-film, living-in-exile, nobel-prize, pablo-neruda
An irresistable treat about love, letters, and laughter!
Dreams do come true.
A shy postman didn't stand a chance with the island's most beautiful woman until the great poet of love gave him the courage to follow his dreams...and the words to win her heart.
He had no way to win her heart. Until a great poet showed him the power of words.
When he found the power to express what was in his heart, he found the love of a lifetime.
Pablo Neruda: Man has no business with the simplicity or complexity of things.
Pablo Neruda: When you explain poetry, it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand it.
Donna Rosa: When it comes to bed, there's no difference between a poet, a priest, or a communist!
Mario Ruoppolo: Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it; it belongs to those who need it.
Pablo Neruda: We poets are all fat.
Pablo Neruda: Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often.
Mario Ruoppolo: Your laugh is a sudden silvery wave.
Mario Ruoppolo: Your smile spreads like a butterfly.
Mario Ruoppolo: So what if we break our chains? What do we do then?
Mario Ruoppolo: If you make this much of a fuss about one poem, you're never going to win that Nobel Prize.
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Based on Skármeta's book, this is the story of a poor postman in Isla Negra who befriends Pablo Neruda and asks his help writing poems to the woman of his dreams.
Keywords: 1970s, based-on-book, chile, communism, exile, island, love, nobel-prize, pablo-neruda, poet
Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda.
Neruda became known as a poet while still a teenager. He wrote in a variety of styles including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and erotically-charged love poems such as the ones in his 1924 collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." Neruda always wrote in green ink as it was his personal colour of hope.
On July 15, 1945, at Pacaembu Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, he read to 100,000 people in honor of Communist revolutionary leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During his lifetime, Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions and served a stint as a senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When Chilean President González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a warrant was issued for Neruda's arrest. Friends hid him for months in a house basement in the Chilean port of Valparaíso. Later, Neruda escaped into exile through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina. Years later, Neruda was a close collaborator to socialist President Salvador Allende. When Neruda returned to Chile after his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70,000 people.
I asked my love
to be my bride
and live a life
of ease
hand in hand
and side by side
we'd each
do as we
please
I have a rock
in my backyard
that sits beneath
a tree
I climb its back
it's warm and hard
and I can feel
the breeze
wait till
the honeymoon's over
believe me
I believe you'll
never leave
I lost a part
of the afternoon
along a windowsill
I chased it down
in an old red cart
and I'm looking for it
still
we live our life
by the ocean walk
in the tall grass
by the sea
long amber light
your lips unlock
this is where
I want to be
wait till
the honeymoon's over
believe me
I believe you'll
never leave