A Gentle Spirit
1985 · 12 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 265 VOTES · DIR. Piotr Dumała
Overview
A man seated next to the body of his young wife thinks about their brief life together. Suicide has been the only escape for her... Dumala's technique creates a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere, entirely suitable for Dostoyevski's novel "A Gentle Spirit" on which it is based.
Dialogue Timeline — 76 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:03 This short passage, read by Józef Duriasz
00:00:39 Duriasz's voice and posture reminded me
00:00:58 A very short one, too.
00:01:22 I wanted to tell a story with characters that would be almost real.
00:01:53 is a texture of plaster polished with sandpaper.
00:02:15 It is also reminiscent of some graphic works.
00:02:45 as well as their transformation:
00:03:04 AII the camera movements
00:03:25 I used oil paints as I would with a painting.
00:04:00 An animated psychological film was a very attractive idea to me then.
00:04:35 The film met with interest at festivals both for the technique
00:04:58 The challenge was to show the relation
00:05:26 I think animation has this miraculous power
00:05:38 but also by a butterfly, for example
00:06:09 The bottle, the red color, the cracking glass --
00:06:56 The morphing I used
00:07:18 Again, thanks to the technique employed
00:07:35 of Redon called The Haunted House.
00:08:00 a month of work.
00:08:18 and then the earlier one was painted over.
00:09:13 live a life closely connected to ours.
00:09:25 to walk or fly, stop or go back the way it does here.
00:09:45 and remains outside, in a void.
00:10:15 is used for the clock ticking in the old pawnbroker's room.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed76
Dialogue density6.3 lines / min
First line00:00:03
Final line00:10:15
Production Record
DirectorPiotr Dumała
LanguagePolish
IMDb votes265