HE PLAYS THE MUSIC, WE DANCE

Dates

2020 - 2021
Author

Manuela Lorente
Location Spain, Spain

Delinquent brothers with an air of gangsters dedicate their lives to committing medium-sized robberies throughout their neighborhood.

Delinquent brothers with an air of gangsters dedicate their lives to committing medium-sized robberies throughout their neighborhood. Fantasizing about being protagonists in popular gangster movies they attempt to intimidate their neighbors, often with little success.

The brothers are about to receive a tip that will take them to Galicia in search of their most succulent loot to date: a large shipment of luxurious French relics. What they do not expect is to end up mistakenly taking a shipment of jugs and all the consequences that this action will lead to.

"Both the characters and the story that is told are products of the imagination."

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1_Dog of Benigno

2_Benigno's house exterior

© Manuela Lorente - Image from the HE PLAYS THE MUSIC, WE DANCE photography project

3_Benigno speaking –Look how I dress. Don't you like it or what? You know nothing. In our business, the most important thing is the appearance. Look at me, I can go anywhere, a good restaurant, a hotel... I go totally unnoticed.

4_Conversation at Benigno's house –Each one is worth 100.000, and since there are 35, that makes a total of 3 and a half million. –What a loot …

5_Benigno's car

6_Base camp, Benigno's Women's Costume Shop –You don't answer the phone. –That’s already an answer, don't you think? –You don't answer the phone. –That’s already an answer, don't you think? - You don't answer the phone. - That's already an answer, don't you think?

7_Talks between brothers. –The world is nuts… We are heading towards nonsense… They are messing with us man… People are clinging to a stick and what you must do is let go of it, and if you drown then you have drowned, but let go of the stick, you fool.

8_Meeting place, bar K-37

9_Inside bar K-37 –Pour me another one, you know that I believe in couples: two fucks, two lines, two girl friends, two rode together, two for the road…

10_Brothers talking inside bar K-37 –He has a good instinct for the street. –Instinct for the street... a bumpy brain is what he has!

11_Stop on the way to Galicia

12_Freezer of the lobster restaurant

13_Conversation inside the lobster restaurant –The request is reasonable; the figure is not. –Reasonable request? –He’s the boss; he plays the music, and we dance.

14_House in Galicia –Tell me… «Okay… awesome…» –It’s fucking ours, but it must be done right now.

15_Benigno yelling at the entrance of the house - Where the hell were you !? - Well the boss told me to go home - And that? I don't give a shit what he told you, but you weren't at home!