The Private Life of Don Juan Page #4

Synopsis: What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan. When a jealous husband kills him, the real Don Juan sees a way to avoid jail and get some peace. He hides as Captain Mariano in a small town. After six months, he's ready to return to society: can he measure up to the legend, will women find him attractive, and what about Doña Dolores?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Alexander Korda
Production: Criterion Collection
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
UNRATED
Year:
1934
89 min
25 Views


Tonight.

- Did they think it was me?

- They did.

Well, there's only gonna be

one Don Juan in this world.

[ Leporello ]

He's gone!

- Look! He's taken your diary!

- I'll find him and I'll kill him!

[ Knocking ]

- [ Knocking Continues ]

- [ Man ] Let me inI

- You can't come inI

- [ Men Arguing ]

- You can't get in!

- I'll kill him! I'll kill him!

- Who do you want to kill?

- That scoundrel Don Juan!

- Don Juan? Why?

- He made love to my wife.

- When?

- Last night.

Last night?

Last night.

I am Don Juan.

Come on!

- What?

- Yes - Oh.

I beg your pardon.

Is your wife charming?

- She is lovely.

- Lovely.

Thanks very much.

Come on!

- [ Gasps ]

- [ Don Juan Laughing ]

Lovely? When did you tell her

that she was lovely?

When did you send her

a basket of flowers?

When did you whisper words

that sent shivers up and down her spine?

Not for years.

Because you were married.

You just owned her,

like a monkey, a fiddle...

so that a miserable bungler

could come and take her away from you.

Why should a lovely wife

be faithful to you?

Clown. Yokel!

Boob! Husband!

How long have you been married?

- Six years.

- Six years.

- When did you tell her that she was lovely?

- Every day.

When did you send her

a basket of flowers?

Every day!

Are you... romantic?

Every day!

Oh. Kick him out.

He's a bore.

Your impersonator

must have been very busy last night.

I wonder why he ran away.

I'll find him and I'll kill him.

- Pepitta!

- Hmm?

We are sold out, and everybody hopes

that Don Juan will come to visit you.

- And over there?

- At the Black Cat?

- Mm-hmm.

- Empty!

- Come along, darling. Hurry up!

- [ Pepitta Giggling ]

[ Castanets Clicking ]

- [ Cheering ]

- Pepitta! Pepitta! Pepitta!

[ Flamenco ]

[ Castanets Clicking ]

- Full?

- No. Empty.

They've all gone over

to the Golden Pheasant to see Pepitta.

- Pepitta? That old battle horse?

- Old?

Twenty-six at least.

I'm 19 , and I can dance. She can't.

No, but Don Juan kissed her

yesterday afternoon.

Don Juan! Even his kiss

can't make her a good dancer.

No, perhaps not.

But what publicity!

Well, if Spain doesn't know anymore

what good dancing is, then - then -

Then what?

Then -Then it's no wonder that our fleet

was beaten by the English.

Oh, you can't argue with the public.

They expect Don Juan at the Golden Pheasant.

Don Juan! The man with

the worst taste in Spain!

- Worst?

- The worst!

Well, if you want my opinion,

you'll get ready for your turn.

And if you want my opinion,

I refuse to dance to an empty house.

And if you want my opinion,

you'll get the sack if you don't!

[ Gasps, Sighs ]

Here I am, darling.

How wonderful of you, Don Juan.

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Henry Bataille

Félix-Henri Bataille (4 April 1872 in Nîmes – 2 March 1922 in Rueil-Malmaison) was a French dramatist and poet. His works were popular between 1900 and the start of World War I. Bataille's parents died when he was young. He attended the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian to study painting, but started writing when he was 14. Henry wrote plays and poems, but after the success of his second play, La Lépreuse, he became a playwright exclusively. Bataille's early works explored the effects of passion on human motivation and how stifling the social conventions of the times could be. For example, Maman Colibri, is about a middle-aged woman's affair with a younger man. Later, Bataille would gravitate towards the theater of ideas and social drama. Bataille was also a theorist of subconscious motivation. While he did not use his theories in most of his own works, he influenced later playwrights such as Jean-Jacques Bernard and the "school of silence". more…

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