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...stay on. Besides, no one can seem to agree on a successor. In the U.N.'s clubby delegates' lounge last week, more than a dozen names were being mentioned, from Finland's ex-Ambassador to the U.N. Ralph Enckell to Mexico's past President Adolfo Lopez Mateos. In the end, the doubters feel that U Thant, whose current term of office runs to Nov. 3, may only be angling for a draft, and as the price of his acceptance would demand more cooperation between the East and West...
Along with his cards, Adolfo unconsciously reveals his character, and it is not a pretty sight. He is a scared little man who compensates his fear with dreary little vices. As he gets the financial picture, his watery eyes gleam with greed, and he assumes a proprietary air. When Pina leaves the room, he arrogantly rearranges some furniture, carelessly cracks a glass lampshade, slyly turns the crack to the wall...
...parrot for pure cussedness-like a bad boy just begging for a beating. When he doesn't get one, he gives the old girl a lusty whack on what follows her around. Poor Pina, delighted to have a man around the house, mistakes insult for interest. But after Adolfo gratuitously sneers at her friends ("I'm a cut above the lot of you") and falls down drunk in her backyard, Pina's patience runs out, and she tells him what a useless mess...
...Adolfo admits she is right and confesses the fear and loneliness and self-disgust that drive him to do such things. Suddenly their hearts are open, and their plain faces shine with the light of life. They kiss, they make love. But the moment passes and the mess remains. In the morning Adolfo heads for home. "Thank you," he says in numb conclusion, "for a very nice...
Written, directed and performed with taste, La Visita has something deep to say about the walls people build around themselves and the pain that lives inside. In the simple story of Pina and Adolfo can be traced the complex process that transforms the tie that binds into the bind that ties and causes all the other-hood...