If They Tell You I Fell

If They Tell You I Fell Spanish Si te dicen que ca is a 1989 Spanish film written and directed by Vicente Aranda, starring Jorge Sanz and Victoria Abril. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Catalan author Juan Mars. Set mostly in the old quarter of 1940s Barcelona, the film centers in a young rag and bone merchant who falls in love with a prostitute. If They Tell You I Fell has an intricate narrative in which real and imagined stories blend in a crosswords style.

In 1970, Nito, a medical examiner assistant and sister Paulina, a nursenun who grew up together, and now are coworkers in a hospital identify the corpse of a couple who had drowned during a car accident. The dead man is Daniel Javaloyes Java, one of the main characters of the aventis of their childhood and adolescence. The woman seems to be Juanita, who forty years before was one of many orphans. The discovery of Javas body long presumed dead leads them to remember what had happened decades before. Flashbacks reveal a story that may or may not have happened.In the old quarter of 1940s Barcelona inhabitants are struggling to survive among the ruins left by the Spanish Civil War. Daniel Javaloyes, Java is one of them. He is a young man trying by any means to leave behind the misery around him. He lives in a dilapidated house with his grandmother, a mute trapper. To make some money, the hardened Java performs perverse sexual acts for the voyeuristic pleasure of Don Conrado, a rich sadistic man, who uses a wheelchair after being wounded during the war. In one of those sexual encounters for hire, Java has violent sex with Ramona, a visibly pregnant prostitute. From then on Java is smitten with the fallen woman. Initially he finds out very little about her, but when Conrados mother visits him also looking for her, Java learns that Ramona had been a maid in Don Conrados household. She bears a scarred left nipple caused by his sadism. ........

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