Converted Jews, caught by the Spanish Inquisition secretly practicing their Jewish religion, were burned alive in the Plaza Mayor. Scenes of the executions are shown in bass relief on the bronze benches around the Plaza. Only a few steps from the Plaza, a colorful notice, pasted on a door, caught my eyes. "Meduzas (Jelly Fish)" will be screening tonight. Starting time was to be in five minutes, and the location was this very place. The door belongs to the Sepharadic-Israel house, and Etgar Keret, one of my favorite Israeli authors, and a co-director of the movie, was going to attend the screening. Of course we went in. At the end of the movie, I had a chance to ask Etgar a question or two in Spanish, which was translated for him into English.After the movie, we concluded our first day in Spain by dancing Paso-Doble in a crowded meson, a cave like pub built under the foundations of the Plaza Mayor. Laughs, who laughs last.
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ReplyDeleteI said that even though his wife wrote the script, the girl with the inflatable seemed to have walked right in from one of his stories. He smiled. I mentioned something about communications, and he said that in the three stories, the characters needed a intermediary to communicate with each other. The couple needed the dead woman, the mother, and daughter needed the philippina, and Batya needed the little girl to communicate with herself.
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