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...
01:19:13 ...great a mind as Isaac Newton was.
01:20:09 I'm sure you're not a secret lover of dictatorships, but...
01:21:26 There is a new theory emerging now which places all the ecological...
01:22:43 Instead of cutting things to pieces, it looks at the...
01:23:53 A breath of life, linking the earth with the sky and us with the universe.
01:25:13 And there a re millions of relationships like this in our world...
01:26:33 I don't know, it sounds like something out of Alice in Wonderland.
01:27:46 ...and not even a dramatically different climate can change its inner workings.
01:28:56 As Heraclitus once said "A man can't step into the same river...
01:30:10 You mean living systems will evolve just for the hell of it?
01:31:29 Yeah, Jack. There might be something in this for you to...
01:32:27 What am I going to do? Where do you start?
01:33:36 I don't know what you should do. You know what you should do.
01:34:43 Jack, with his tenacious pursuit of the common good, not...
01:36:04 Not yours, maybe. No, that's not nice.
01:37:04 Yeah, you're right. What is this, group therapy?
01:38:19 ...and I respond by describing to you how the sea unicorn...
01:39:39 Pablo Neruda.
01:40:44 So, tell me Sonia, where are all of us in there, the...
01:41:59 And I like my silly friend Jack who's crazy enough to think...
01:44:15 I don't know. Why don't you just come? Anyway, thanks.
01:46:47 ...a language environment which lived, which resonated inside me...