Voice from the Stone Edit

A dead cat? No.

A denial.

About the wonderful things that lie ahead for you.

Ah, perfetto.

Ah! What?

Ah.

Alessio thinks it's best to confuse, confuse.

Alessio will see you to your room.

Alessio's family has been here for just as long.

All of them as sure of their talents as you.

Also in the garden.

And 16 days.

And a certain, um, sensitivity. Sensitivity.

And also the best.

And ask that we forget the matter entirely.

And do you remain in contact with these people?

And he'll be here as soon as he can.

And he's breaking his father's heart.

And hear me.

And I must admit, you're very good at it.

And I'm going to be staying here for a while.

And imagine what she might say now if she could see you.

And it became like fire.

And Jakob stayed with her.

And now I have made things worse.

And once, I stayed with a family in Piacenza.

And she had her career.

And she is tired.

And she is trapped.

And the boy who wouldn't speak.

And this one?

And tidied her hair.

And to take care of you.

And walked into the lake.

And when she died, I washed her...

And yet he has still said nothing.

Angelica...

Another woman will come.

Another woman will come.

Are you listening?

As a protection against evil.

As if, by this vigil,

Be quiet. Be quiet.

Be silent.

Be the words that call me back to you.

Because anything we experience is real in its own way,

Before she died,

Brava. Sei bellissima.

Braver than the others.

Bring them in.

Buongiorno.

Buongiorno.

But he's waited long enough.

But I am not your enemy.

But I should go.

But it's...

But she is suffering.

But she's not there.

But the past is a dream from which we wake with each new morning.

But they say you've a gift.

But you've helped me realize something.

But...

By the love she shows to you.

Cares only for the love of her audience.

Carlotta.

Carlotta... Arrivederci.

Certain resemblances between you...

Come, Jakob.

Come.

Do you play?

Do you understand?

Don't leave me here. Not this room.

Don't move.

Don't. Shh, shh.

Each day, it consumed a little bit more of her strength,

Each one harder than the last.

Enough.

Enter La Rocciosa...

Every parting.

Everything's going to be fine. I promise. Hmm.

For him.

For kings and queens,

Forgive me.

Give me your hands.

Good night, Jakob.

Good night, Jakob.

Grazie.

Grazie.

Grazie.

He and Lilia nursed her together.

He became a danger to himself and to others.

He can undo what is done.

He chooses not to speak?

He has his mother's gift.

He hasn't shown it yet, but he will.

He heard terrible things.

He is the future.

He is very obedient. Hmm.

He isn't trying to hurt you.

He needs help.

He needs me.

He prefers English?

He saw terrible things.

He was as sure of what he heard as you are.

He was by the wall as if he was...

He will not speak to please you.

He will send me away if you don't speak.

He won't even nod his head.

He won't write or draw...

He would sit with it for hours,

He wouldn't leave his mother's side.

He's sick.

Hello, Jakob.

Hello?

Help me down.

Help me.

Help me.

Her beauty.

Her life is measured out in goodbyes.

Her name is Verena.

Her needs.

His mother.

Hmm, and I see how hard it must be

Hmm.

How beautiful you are.

How beautiful you are.

How hard you must be concentrating every moment.

How I loved her.

However hard we wish them to,

I assume it's his mother he hears

I await your decision.

I can help him.

I can't leave you.

I can't.

I can't... I really... Please, I really can't.

I care about you.

I do hope you'll be comfortable here.

I do it to help you, Jakob.

I find it helps in understanding the child

I had to leave to find help,

I hardly know the woman I see.

I have an idea.

I have an idea.

I have been misled about what is required.

I have not worked in many months.

I have some things I need to ask.

I have something to ask.

I have these from previous employers.

I keep it clean for her.

I know a little something of what it feels to be apart from the world.

I know it well.

I know it, Jakob.

I lost my mother when I was a little bit younger than you.

I mean, there is no injury?

I miss my mama.

I must consider whether I am properly qualified.

I must do what is best,

I must leave. No.

I must say there have been other nurses,

I must speak to Jakob.

I need to understand what he has been through.

I once knew a boy

I promise I'm not like the others.

I promise.

I saw this afternoon

I see...

I shared a room with the cook

I should have been told.

I should have paid closer attention. No!

I stayed with a family in Lucca.

I think he understands that.

I think it's time for us

I used to do this to her every night of her life

I want to hear you speak.

I want you to stay.

I want you to stop this.

I was worried.

I will be very comfortable here.

I wondered if Jakob was still here.

I would like to introduce myself to your son.

I...

I... I think you know what it is I ask.

I... I tore my dress... My skirt.

I... I'm a fool to speak lightly of it.

I'd like that very much.

I'd like to help you. Do you understand?

I'll tell you what I hear.

I'm going to fetch a doctor,

I'm going to look after you.

I'm here to work,

I'm here.

I'm here.

I'm much worse.

I'm not saying that...

I'm right here.

I'm right here.

I'm right here.

I'm so afraid.

I'm sorry. (STAMMERS) I was looking for Jakob.

I've been looking for you, Jakob.

If I have offended you, I apologize

If it was, then all you've done is tell me you're afraid.

If you wish.

In all the great halls,

In his bedroom.

In the quarry.

In truth, I cannot think of this place as my own.

Instead of helping Jakob, you've made yourself unwell. No...

Is all that matters.

It began after our return.

It changes the situation.

It is said that a true performer

It is simply a refusal.

It is your mind that is speaking to you, Jakob,

It may indicate a far more serious condition.

It seems to give him comfort.

It started as a simple fever

It was as you saw last night.

It was impossible.

It was the custom amongst those building houses such as this to...

It was to be of her.

It would help Jakob.

It would mean only what you wanted it to mean.

It's a lovely day.

It's been so long.

It's for me to protect him,

It's important to understand that.

It's not what it pretends to be.

It's strange,

It's time.

It's time.

It's where all this comes from,

It's, uh, my wife.

Jakob doesn't need to answer me.

Jakob doesn't want you here.

Jakob swims there.

Jakob will be waiting. Yes.

Jakob,

Jakob, listen to me closely.

Jakob, no!

Jakob, no.

Jakob, no.

Jakob, was it you?

Jakob, what is it?

Jakob!

Jakob!

Jakob!

Jakob!

Jakob! Stop!

Jakob?

Jakob?

Jakob?

Jakob?

Jakob?

Jakob?

Jakob? What? Hey! (GRUNTS)

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob.

Jakob. Jakob!

Just a little more.

Just to help if I can.

KLAUS: Good morning.

KLAUS: It's all right.

KLAUS: It's for your safety.

KLAUS: Quiet. Enough.

KLAUS: There's a story about that cat

KLAUS: There's no point.

Knew her moods,

La signora Malvina.

Let Lilia see you.

Let me care for them both.

Let the words you speak

Let's see. This?

Like hers.

LILIA: (SOFTLY) He's waiting.

LILIA: (SPEAKING ENGLISH) Let me.

LILIA: Look at yourself,

LILIA: The boy was upset today.

LILIA: The boy will speak when the time is right.

Lilia?

Lilia.

Listening and whispering his secrets.

Listening.

Lonely child.

Look at yourself,

Lucia...

Make him talk.

Malvina Rivi.

MALVINA: (DISTANT WHISPER) Bring them in.

MALVINA: (FAINTLY) Jakob. Are you there, Jakob?

MALVINA: I will always be your mother.

MALVINA: Jakob.

MALVINA: Jakob.

MALVINA: Jakob.

MALVINA: Jakob.

MALVINA: Look at yourself.

Malvina.

May I see?

Me and the boy.

Mmm.

Mmm. I'm just a visitor.

More adoration as she leaves the stage.

My name is Verena,

My skill comes through experience,

My son has not spoken since.

My son's name is Jakob.

My wife wanted him to speak it.

My wife's family has lived here for 1,200 years.

No incapacity?

No more need for the stone.

No, absolutely not.

No, I, uh, never could.

No, it has to be now.

No, Jakob needs you.

No, no, I... I couldn't.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No. (CHUCKLES)

No. Hmm.

No. Jakob!

No. No, no, no.

No. No, no.

Nobody knew her as I did.

Nor do I.

Not dead.

Not only Jakob, all of us.

Not this room.

Not to play hide and seek.

Nothing else.

Now you hear whatever you wish!

Now you may go.

Of course.

Oh, God, please.

Oh, no.

Oh, welcome.

Oh, you've torn your dress.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh...

Oh...

Oh...

Oh...

Oh... Oh, this...

On the day of Malvina's funeral,

Once, Jakob,

One could imagine almost anything.

Or is it me?

Or thinks he hears.

Per favore.

Perhaps I was wrong earlier

Perhaps it would signify hope.

Perhaps your silence

Perhaps, to see you work,

Perhaps.

Perhaps...

Play for me, Jakob.

Please don't send me away. Please.

Please look at me, Jakob.

Please, Klaus, not this room.

Please.

Presidents.

Promise me.

Promise.

Put it on.

Put that one away.

Quiet. Quiet.

Restless, complaining.

Say 9:00?

See how it fits, huh?

Seven months...

She allowed it to flood at the beginning of the War.

She began to perform

She died. There was an illness.

She is alone.

She must have spoken about the future

She played all over the world,

She put stones in her pockets

She remembers all of them.

She took me with her everywhere.

She wants me here

She was here at the end.

She was the worst

She was the worst possible model,

She's dead.

Shh. Shh, shh, shh, shh. (STRUGGLING)

Signore.

Since she was a tiny girl.

Sing or laugh, mmm?

Sir, she's given me her illness.

Sit down.

Sit with me.

Six months after that photograph was taken, she was dead.

Smile...

So he obeys.

So, yes, I'm sure...

Something I had previously failed to notice,

Something inside him has been broken.

Sometimes I wish I did.

Speak!

Speak! Speak!

Speak.

Speak.

Stop, Jakob!

Stop!

Surely that is clear to anyone.

Take it off.

Taking him away from this place?

Tell me what I must do.

Tell me! (SCREAMS)

Tell me! Tell me!

Tell me.

Tell me.

Tell me.

Tell me.

Tell me.

Tell me.

Tell me. Tell me.

Thank you.

That I'm wrong or that I'm right?

That if you wanted to speak, you could.

That what you hear isn't real,

That's a revelation.

That's Carnegie Hall.

That's horrible.

That's my son, signorina, not me. Hmm.

The boy

The boy will speak when the time is right.

The dead do not speak.

The dead remain silent.

The door was locked.

The men, in the quarry.

The mind is capable of extraordinary things.

The nurse, of course.

The quarry? Mmm.

The room upsets you.

The sounds.

The stone was once highly prized.

The voice is real.

The voice will cease.

The wealth of the family.

The women work here in the house.

Their house hadn't been cleaned in years.

Then he should be in hospital.

There is such power in his silence.

There were cockroaches as big as your father's watch.

There will be another.

There's a story about that cat.

They would sit here and play together for hours.

They're strong,

This is how it must be.

This is how it must be.

This is how it must be.

This is part of it.

This is your wife?

This must be that incredible sensitivity of yours?

This way, yes.

Through the teeth of an old comb.

Times were difficult

To discuss any changes in Jakob's behavior.

To disobey is to say something, so...

To review the progress of your work,

To seal a cat within the walls

To take care of Jakob and...

To the next place.

To truly say nothing.

Tomorrow, perhaps.

Try this on.

Try to remember what she said.

Tutto, tutto.

Tutto.

Ugolina...

Uh, yes.

VERENA: (SPEAKING ENGLISH) I think you're afraid that if you speak,

VERENA: I should have left him. He was...

VERENA: I try to think of a time before this.

VERENA: Jakob!

VERENA: Jakob.

VERENA: Not here.

VERENA: Not this room.

VERENA: Now, if you were to play,

VERENA: Please don't leave me here.

VERENA: She was very beautiful.

VERENA: Signore.

VERENA: To begin with, I will tell you what I see.

Verena!

Verena.

Wait! Wait!

Wait.

Was?

We are, none of us, quite who we were.

We must help her.

We must help her.

We must help her.

We nursed her day and night,

We'll begin our work in the morning, Jakob.

We'll listen together.

Welcome to La Rocciosa, my child.

Welcome.

Well, that's a... (CHUCKLES)

What are you doing?

What are you telling me, Jakob?

What do you mean?

What is it?

What is it?

What things?

What was her name?

When a child recovers, the family will generally choose to forget.

When he speaks,

When I spoke about your mother.

When she was 14.

Where is Jakob?

Where is she?

Where will you go?

Who snored come un bufalo.

Who thought he could hear his dead sister

Why would she speak to you and not to her husband?

Why?

Within the walls.

WOMAN: (SPEAKING ENGLISH) I hardly know the woman I see.

Wouldn't horrify her as it does me.

Yes, I... I wondered if I might borrow some thread.

Yes, I've seen him do it.

Yes, of course.

Yes, of course. Go find the boy.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes. And did you observe anything?

You and my wife.

You can't... (BANGS KEYS)

You cannot finish it, so you abandoned it.

You don't believe in such voices?

You don't have to leave.

You have a fever. That is all.

You have a very beautiful home.

You have no children of your own.

You have to let her go.

You haven't told me his name.

You know what you must do.

You may have heard of her.

You may very likely refuse.

You said it yourself. "Serious condition."

You scared me, Jakob.

You speak very harshly to him. (POUNDS TABLE)

You spent time with Jakob this morning.

You wanted to see me?

You will feel it.

You will know her

You will see.

You wish to leave?

You're feeling better?

You're hurting him now.

You're just like the others.

You're mad.

You're telling me he wants his mother back, hmm?

You're very kind.

You've come to make the boy talk.

You've no degree.

Your father told me you have her gift.

Your hand. Yes, your hand.

Your head.

Your left leg forward.

Your mother is watching over you.

Your questions are wasted.

Your silence is a fitting tribute.

Your son.

Your work here will be unaffected.

(ALESSIO PRAYING IN LATIN)

(ALESSIO SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(ANGRILY) No.

(BEES BUZZING)

(BEES BUZZING)

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

(BREATHES SLOWLY)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(BREATHING HEAVILY) Ja...

(BREATHING SHAKILY)

(CALMLY) No, signore, I do not.

(CHAIN RATTLING)

(CHISEL TAPPING)

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

(CHURCH BELL TOLLS)

(CLANKING)

(CLEARS THROAT)

(CLEARS THROAT)

(CLEARS THROAT)

(CLEARS THROAT)

(CLEARS THROAT)

(CLEARS THROAT) Come closer. Come.

(CLEARS THROAT) Have you considered

(CLICKS PHONOGRAPH OFF)

(COUGHING)

(DEVICE WHIRRING)

(DISTANT CLATTERING)

(DISTANT THUDDING)

(DOOR OPENING)

(DOOR OPENS)

(EERIE, INDISTINCT WHISPERING)

(EERIE, INDISTINCT WHISPERING)

(EERIE, INDISTINCT WHISPERING)

(EERIE, INDISTINCT WHISPERING)

(EXHALES SHARPLY) Bellissima.

(EXHALES)

(EXHALES)

(FABRIC RIPPING)

(FLOOR TILE CLATTERS)

(FOOTSTEPS)

(FORK SCRAPING)

(GAGS)

(GASPING)

(GASPING)

(GASPING)

(GASPS)

(GASPS)

(GASPS)

(GASPS)

(GASPS)

(GASPS)

(GATE CLATTERING)

(GATE CREAKS)

(GIRL SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(GREETING IN ITALIAN)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(GUNSHOT ECHOES)

(HEART BEATING)

(HEARTBEAT POUNDING)

(HINGES CREAKING)

(INAUDIBLE)

(LAUGHS)

(LIGHT WHOOSHING)

(LIGHT WHOOSHING)

(LIGHTER CLICKS)

(LILIA BREATHES DEEPLY)

(LILIA PRAYING IN ITALIAN)

(LILIA SIGHS)

(LOCK OPENING)

(MALVINA EXHALES SHARPLY)

(MALVINA SHUDDERS)

(MOANING)

(MUSIC ENDS)

(NECK SNAPS)

(PANTING)

(PANTING)

(PANTING)

(PANTING)

(PANTING)

(PANTING)

(PANTING) I've...

(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING)

(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING)

(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING)

(PLAYING KEYS)

(PLAYS PIANO NOTE)

(PLAYS PIANO NOTE)

(PLAYS PIANO NOTE)

(RATTLES DOOR HANDLE)

(RATTLING)

(ROCKS CRUMBLING)

(RUMBLING)

(SCOFFS)

(SCOFFS)

(SCOFFS)

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMS) Tell me.

(SHAKILY) Lilia, where is she?

(SHAKILY) No. Yes.

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(SILVERWARE SCRAPING)

(SNIFFLING) He's going to send me away.

(SOBBING)

(SOBBING)

(SOBBING)

(SOBBING)

(SOBBING) I must speak to Jakob.

(SOBBING) I'm here. (GASPS)

(SOBBING) Oh, no.

(SOBBING) Tell me. Tell me.

(SOBS)

(SOFTLY) Cry.

(SOFTLY) He's waiting.

(SOFTLY) Jakob.

(SPEAKING ENGLISH) Come with me, please.

(SPEAKING ENGLISH) Did you live with each family?

(SPEAKING ENGLISH) I haven't finished yet, Jakob.

(SPEAKING ENGLISH) Is it her?

(SPEAKING ENGLISH) My first language.

(SPEAKING ENGLISH) Please, forgive me. I didn't... Verena.

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN) (CRYING)

(STONE CLATTERS)

(STONE THUDS LIGHTLY)

(STONE WHIRRING, CLATTERS)

(STONE WHIRRING)

(STONE WHIRRING)

(STOPS PLAYING)

(STRUGGLING) Jakob.

(TAKES DEEP BREATH)

(TAPPING CONTINUES)

(THUDDING) (CREAKING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(TOUCHING KEY SOFTLY)

(VERENA GRUNTS)

(VERENA INHALES DEEPLY)

(WATER GURGLING)

(WATER SPLASHING)

(WEAKLY) Help.

(WHEEZING)

(WHEEZING)

(WHEEZING)

(WHIMPERING)

(WHIMPERS)