The Flower of My Secret (1995)

Juan Echanove: Ángel

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• Ángel : What writers do you like?

  Leo Macías : Mainly women. Adventurous, suicidal, lunatics like Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Dorthy Parker, Jean Rhys, Flannery O'Connor, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Isak Dinesen, Janet Frame. I write about them in my article, "Pain and Life".

• Ángel : I want contact with human flesh. And you're the only flesh around here.

• Ángel : Do you specialize in a genre?

  Leo Macías : No. I prefer to write about what I like and avoid Spanish literature.

• Ángel : I love the title "Pain and Life".

  Leo Macías : It's from a Bola de Nieve song.

  Ángel : I know it. "If I only have pain and life left, my love, don't let me live!" Relating Djuna Barnes with the "Cuban feeling" is new, but it makes sense.

• Leo Macías : This is like the film, "The Apartment."

  Ángel : Yes, it is. In that film, Shirley MacLaine falls in love with someone who isn't the person she's really in love with.

  Leo Macías : I'm in love with the person I think I'm in love with.

• Ángel : I must have drunk too much.

  Leo Macías : Yes. And you revealed the flower of your secret.

• Madre de Leo : [to Leo]  Since you started with that weight-loss nonsense, you've really gone downhill. Ángel, don't ever go on a diet.

  Ángel : Don't worry, I love to eat.

  Madre de Leo : And you're handsome that way. She was a chubby little girl. She weighed ten pounds when she was born, after two days of labor.

• Leo Macías : This reminds me of the end of "Rich and Famous". Two friends, writers, making a toast, alone, far from the world in front of a fire.

  Ángel : Yes. But, you don't drink and it was New Year's Eve. That's why they toasted.

  Leo Macías : Give me a drink and I'll make it New Year's Eve.

• Ángel : Playing soccer is strictly forbidden! From now on, only ballet. If a top can spin, I can dance.

• Ángel : Do you remember "Casablanca"?

  Leo Macías : Yes.

  Ángel : The first time Ingrid Bergman enter's Rick's? They both sit down at the same table. Bogart is rigid, speechless from emotion. Ingrid asks him if he remembers the last time they'd been together. It was in Paris. He answers, stone faced: "I'll never forget that day. The day the Germans occupied Paris, the Germans wore gray and you wore blue." You wore blue the day you fled from your life and ran into mine.

  Leo Macías : I don't remember it.

  Ángel : I'll always remember it.