A Man Walks in the City
1950 · 95 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 127 VOTES · DIR. Marcello Pagliero
Overview
Le Havre, France, in 1949. In a town that still shows the scars of war, several friends meet up in Albert's café. One of them, Laurent, has lost his job on the docks and his marriage to Madeleine is falling apart. He knows that his wife wants to start an affair with friend, Jean Sauviot. Jean is a lonely man who is attracted to Madeleine but doesn't want to commit himself to the wife of a friend. On the day that Madeleine tells her husband that she is seeing Jean, Laurent goes looking for Jean to find an explanation. Arriving on the docks in the evening, he attacks an American sailor who looks like Jean, but the man fights back and runs away after killing Laurent accidentally. Madeleine thinks that Laurent was killed by Jean and believes that she can start a new life with her lover. The police have other ideas...
Dialogue Timeline — 383 lines
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01:16:45 Majority of americans are very conservative.
01:18:03 When he meets someone like you who sees things in a...
01:19:17 I doubt if there's been a better form of government...
01:20:12 ...wouldn't it take some totalitarian regime to put ideas as comprehensive...
01:21:36 We call it Systems Theory, the theory of living systems.
01:22:57 You can contemplate them, you can look at them, as Thomas says...
01:24:12 Would see the tree as a habitat for birds, a home for insects.
01:25:31 Only the uninformed would call such a notion naive or romantic...
01:26:51 Well said. What is life?
01:28:13 You pancreas, for example, do you know that it replaces most...
01:29:17 That's one of the important characteristics of life...
01:30:33 - Creating what, for instance, beauty? - Oh, yes, beauty too.
01:31:56 ...the world's biggest drug market.
01:33:00 It's going to remain poisonous for the next generation...
01:34:09 I don't know...
01:35:18 I see the pedestrian nature of political work, but...
01:36:36 An isolation in and of itself is a very scaring thing, Jack.
01:37:49 I tell you, the ocean knows this.
01:39:05 I'm nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead of human eyes...
01:40:21 Where are the other people in your system, Sonia... the ones you love?
01:41:44 It's all the same to me. I don't mind a bit.
01:43:02 Water!
01:46:15 Shall we go home?
01:48:21 Translate and corrections: Milton Medellín and Johansen Morales.