Girl Unknown (La desconocida)

PERSONAL NOTE FROM DIRECTOR PABLO MAQUEDA

This is the "no spoilers" plea that you have read hundreds of times.

And if it had to be done I thought

it should at least come from me.

As you will discover when you see Girl Unknown,

there are some big surprises beyond the initial plot and

whose preservation really affects the experience of a first viewing.

Thanks in advance

for helping to preserve them for the public.

I sing songs of love

Stories for two

I'm like a wounded bird

Looking for warmth

I love simple folk

Longing for love

The boy running into the arms

He so dreamed of

Life will come back

Back to where you are

Your moon and my sun

Back in love again

Back in love again

You might not know

I live in that dream

Of meeting your eyes

Your voice, the ocean

I long for that day to come

And destroy that goodbye

Bring our lips together again

Come back to love

Life will come back

Back into love

The warmth of your sun

Back into love

Back into love

I sing songs of love

Stories in pairs

I'm like a wounded bird

Looking for comfort

And warmth

Imagine a world where Julio Iglesias is young

and he's not a singer,

he's the reserve keeper for Real Madrid, okay?

And one day the main keeper gets injured

and the coach tells Julio he's going to debut next Sunday.

But that same night he's in a tragic car accident

and ends up paralysed.

They take him to hospital, operate on him,

and during his recovery,

for whatever reason, I can't remember now,

his friends and girlfriend stop visiting him, right?

But during his recovery he takes up singing.

He starts singing, singing...

and in the end he gets better and becomes famous.

How about you?

What was the first film you saw at the cinema?

I saw this one at the Palacio de la Musica.

My gran took me.

I was only three, three and a half, but...

She couldn't watch it all.

She did later on.

Because that time,

at the bit where Julio Iglesias gets better and becomes famous,

my gran, looking outraged,

got out of her seat and dragged me out of the cinema.

Because she didn't think life was like that,

that no one could come back after an accident like that.

I remember we went out into the street, it was raining,

we were heading to the metro...

I looked behind me and I'll always remember what I saw.

The reflection of the film title lettering

on the wet asphalt:

Life goes on.

See that old lady?

She's always here.

She's always giving...

crisps and popcorn to the pigeons.

What an idiot.

You know you can't reason with an idiot, right?

Because they don't get you.

And if you're seen talking to them, you must be an idiot too.

So...

They say soon we won't be able to go to the cinema.

I read it online.

“Ten things that will disappear in the next ten years”.

Do you like cinema? What's your favourite film?

Don't you have one? One you've seen loads of times... No?

Any film.

You don't say much.

Cat got your tongue?

Know what my favourite is?

North by Northwest. What a film.

Hitchcock.

There's a scene where the lead, Cary Grant,

is walking across a field

and suddenly a plane comes after him.

Trying to kill him. And he doesn't know why.

The plane dives in on him, it flies right over him...

So close! It comes at him again.

The plane shoots at him.

The third time he gets sprayed with the crop duster.

He's desperate, running, he doesn't know what to do.

He sees a tanker coming up the road.

He tries to stop it. “Stop, stop, stop”.

The tanker brakes last second, nearly runs him over.

He ends up under the tanker, and just then, the plane,

which has turned around and is diving towards him,

can't pull up in time and crashes into the tanker.

The screen fills with fire, smoke...

Amazing.

Amazing.

But the camera turns to Cary Grant...

not a scratch on him.

Know why that is?

Because Cary Grant is the hero.

Sure, if it were James Stewart,

who also worked a lot with Hitchcock,

it would've been different.

But there are film scholars who say that...

Cary Grant represents

what Hitchcock would have liked to be,

okay?

Someone...

sure of themselves, handsome.

On the other hand, James Stewart is what Hitchcock...

I mean, who Hitchcock really was.

Someone, I suppose...

more complex.

Did you make me come here to talk about films?

The old pigeon lady's gone.

Tie it up.

My shoelace, I mean.

Tie my shoelace.

Tie my shoelace. You heard.

Hitchcock has helped me

to understand many things, you know?

But not things about cinema or anything like that,

things about myself.

Thanks.

Know why I'm called Leonardo?

My mum named me.

You young folk think it's because of DiCaprio.

But that makes no sense.

When I came into the world, DiCaprio wasn't even born.

Well, he wasn't far off.

No, it's because of that Italian who did a bit of everything.

You know who?

Da Vinci.

I do everything too.

In fact, I studied piano, Surveying and Fine Arts.

When I was young, I played rhythm guitar and wrote the lyrics.

I mean, I'm...

a bit of an artist.

I'm just fed up of wasting my time on shit like that.

I prefer meeting up with pretty girls like you, who make me hard.

Pick one.

Sorry, you have to choose.

Come on, pick one.

Look, it's like this.

I ask a question, get it right

and you can get up and leave, if you want to.

Get it wrong...

Well, I have a small problem

and I'd like you to do me a favour.

Okay?

History, Language and Literature, Art, Science and Nature, Cinema or Sports.

Where are you going?

It's getting late.

Sit down. Don't make me uneasy.

You said you wouldn't touch me.

Sit on the bench.

- Why? - Because I say so.

Sit on the bench.

You don't look like a 16-year-old.

You just don't know me yet.

Sit on the bench.

What do you want?

- History, Language... - Seriously, what do you want?

Answer and you'll find out.

I don't like Trivial Pursuit.

Everyone loves Trivial.

Will you let me go if I choose?

I won't say it again.

History.

Very well. Let's see.

Who was the first woman to travel to space?

Adriana Sklenarikova,

Svetlana Savitskaya,

Valentina Tereshkova

or Josefina Gutiérrez?

Time.

Time!

Come on, pick one.

You might get it right. Pick any.

The last one.

- Josefina Gutiérrez? - Yes.

- Sure? - Yes.

Well, I'm sorry, but...

You're wrong.

You know what happens now, right?