Deep Crimson (1996)

Marisa Paredes: Irene Gallardo

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Quotes 

• Sara Silberman : I don't believe a thing about them.

  Irene Gallardo : You're a heartfelt disbeliever, aren't you. And you're mistaken. Remember: Blessed are they who believe, for they will see the Lord.

  Sara Silberman : Saint Luke?

  Irene Gallardo : No. Irene Gallardo. Me.

• Irene Gallardo : [to Nicolás]  Throw her out! She's just a fat, bitter woman without a man.

  Coral Fabre : Without a man?

  [pulls Nicolás away from Irene] 

  Coral Fabre : You old slut. If you only knew this man is mine. The man you think is yours is mine. My flesh is his flesh.

  [moves her hand down to Nicolás crotch] 

  Coral Fabre : He's my man, only mine. All mine.

  Irene Gallardo : Swine, get your hand out of there! God in heaven won't pardon you. That's incest! You pig! Even savages don't do that. Not even African savages. You sow! Pig! Dear God, forgive them! Forgive them! Sinful pig!

• Irene Gallardo : What's the point of wasting a life bored to death inside these four walls?

• Irene Gallardo : It's you and I who matter. Come to me. For too long my bed has seemed too wide. Now God is uniting us. How can that not be good? "Let your wine spill into my chalice." Song of Songs, verse 23.

• Irene Gallardo : They've come to Latin America to do missionary work.

  Sara Silberman : I thought these lands were already Christian.

  Nicolás Estrella : You thought both correctly and incorrectly. This it the Lord's most faithful flock, but the armies of Luther threaten.

  Coral Fabre : We bring food, comfort, and such things to the poor of the continent.

  Sara Silberman : The last time your countrymen came to bring aid to this continent, they left a slew of dead Indians. Baptized, of course.

  Nicolás Estrella : No, that's the dark legend spread by England to discredit Spain.