Day 89: After the Festival Q&A in Guadalajara
Leaving a screening at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, Constanza (A) and her older brother Elías (B) talk about the documentary they have just seen on the Sierra Tarahumara, the mountains of Chihuahua that are home to the Rarámuri people.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Spanish word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Spanish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.
Keys: E hide English · ← → previous / next day · point at a word to see its meaning
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A
Te dije que valía la pena quedarnos a las preguntas. ¿Sigues pensando que el documental es lento?
I told you it was worth staying for the Q&A. Do you still think the documentary's slow?
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B
¿Lento? Lo que le sigue: veinte minutos de una señora moliendo maíz sin que pase nada.
Slow? Way beyond slow: twenty minutes of a woman grinding corn without a thing happening.
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A
De eso habló el cineasta: dijo que había vivido un año en la sierra antes de filmar.
That's what the filmmaker talked about: he said he'd lived in the sierra for a year before he started filming.
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B
Se nota que le sobraba tiempo. ¿Qué más dijo, que el aburrimiento es un recurso narrativo?
You can tell he had time on his hands. What else did he say, that boredom's a storytelling device?
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A
Que no quería retratar a los rarámuris como postal para turistas, y que por eso respetó su ritmo pausado.
That he didn't want to portray the Rarámuri like a postcard for tourists, so he respected their unhurried pace.
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B
Muy noble la intención, pero si media sala está viendo el celular, el mensaje no llega.
Very noble intentions, but if half the audience is looking at their phones, the message isn't getting through.
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A
No hay nadie que haya filmado la sierra así: desde adentro, sin narrador y sin tratar a nadie como curiosidad.
Nobody has ever filmed the sierra like that: from the inside, with no narrator and without treating anyone as a curiosity.
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B
Eso te lo concedo. Pero con un montaje más ágil, la escena del maíz habría durado la mitad.
I'll give you that. But with tighter editing, the corn scene would have been half as long.
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A
Eso le preguntó un señor, y el director contestó que en la sierra nadie muele maíz con prisa.
A man asked him that, and the director told him that in the sierra, nobody grinds corn in a hurry.
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