ONCE
UPON THE TIME AT A FUNERAL...
The
funeral of Agata Siniarska took place more than one month ago but just today
her friends and lovers, after time consuming police investigation, using the
opportunity of Berlin Film Festival
2012,
decided to share this shocking information with the press.
The
funeral took place on the small cementary, not in Rome like it was expected by
her fans, but in Berlin when Siniarska spent her last months before her sucidal
death.
Since
the ceremony was closed for the press, it supposed to be very calm and
intimate, with friends and people from cinema world – admirators of her talent
and work. Besides Andrei Tarkovsky, the closest companion during the last
months of Siniarska’s life, at the funeral appeared among others Federico Fellini, Alain Delon, Monica
Vitti, Jeanne Moreau, Juillete Binoche and Stanley Kubrik.
During
the moment when the coffin with Siniarska’s body supposed to be put down to the
grave, the ceremony was stopped by appaling scream –
“Ladies and gentlemen!
Here is divinity assuming another form of existence. Here is the
miracle...Stop!
You are all accused.
Stand up! I will speak to you only if you are standing!”.
Javier
Bardem just before rage attack
The
scream belongs to noone but Javier Bardem, with whom Siniarska finished their
hot affair last summer in Amsterdam.
The
gathered took this situation as another Bardem’s break down. It is well know
that since Siniarska left him, his alcoholism started, after her death reaching
the zenith.
“Stand up. Stand up.
Stand up as for
national anthem!
Stand up for God save the
king!
Stand up as before the
flag!”
-
he screamed.
The
gathered were trying to cool down the whole situation but agressive Bardem
wasn’t in the mood to stop him, he run towards the grave and with one movement
of his spanish arms, opened the coffin.
What
a shock when instead of rotten corpse, the guests found inside nothing but the
letter signed by Siniarska.
People
were convulsed, Monica Vitti with her cinematographic charm fell to the knees
of Stanley Kubrik, as well as Federico Fellini to Binoche’s.
Bardem
still screaming:
“Nothing, you see
nothing.
It’s like your
paradise: nothing
It’s like your heroes:
nothing
It’s like your
artists: nothing
Whistle, cry, smash my
mouth and then I will tell you again, there is nothing.
She is the
revolution!”
Till
now it is the only information known to the public. The letter is in the hand
of Andrei Tarkovsky with the promise of soon publishing.
The
retrospective of Agata Siniarska will take place in Arsenal at Potzdamer Platz
on 17th of February, the date when Siniarska supposed to be honored with the Berlinale's Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime
achievement.
Because
of health problems and current rehab, Javier Bardem will not host this
ceremony.
More to come