A Talking Picture
2003 · 96 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 2,149 VOTES · DIR. Manoel de Oliveira
Overview
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.
Dialogue Timeline — 902 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:10 A TALKING PICTURE
00:03:39 The Portuguese people continued to believe —
00:08:10 He is a fisherman.
00:09:56 "Here, in about 600 BC
00:14:04 What's a volcano?
00:19:31 What did people do here?
00:22:06 from no matter where you stood in the city.
00:23:56 The name we give to the goddess of wisdom.
00:26:33 They make the sign of the cross with their palm open.
00:31:38 And finally, this building was constructed in 537
00:34:04 there is a niche facing Jerusalem.
00:37:45 How?
00:39:38 It happened many thousands of years ago.
00:42:17 As you can see here in the hotel, there are many pieces in the shape of a beetle.
00:44:54 It's truly beautiful.
00:49:05 Always the flatterer, as Delphine said.
00:51:30 I have suffered betrayal
00:53:58 Thank you. It's true that for an artist
00:57:38 but also an extraordinary coincidence.
01:00:33 Outside Greece, nobody speaks Greek.
01:02:48 between East and West
01:06:01 Sara persuaded Abraham to cast out Ishmael
01:09:06 and I'm on this cruise to visit in person
01:17:13 Philosophy.