Bassae
1964 · 9 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 160 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Daniel Pollet
Overview
"I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon’s glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no white marble, no nothing. All Greek temples are dedicated to Apollo etc, and this particular one was not dedicated to anyone and is in a place where there never was a city nearby, in a kind of wasteland, in a ditch. But, just by going up a bit –you are in the centre of Peloponissos- on a clear day, you can see the sea on both your left and right. I went back there, at least six, seven or eight times, as if I wanted to think or find myself. So, at the temple in Bassae, I made a short 10 minute film and I was lucky enough to encounter two days of clouds and mist between the columns." —ecofilms.gr (Jean-Daniel Pollet, Tours d’horizons, Editions de l’oeil 2005)
Dialogue Timeline — 91 lines
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00:01:03 This mineral, standing or fallen
00:01:13 ...nor a proper history.
00:01:22 infused with a faint splash of purple ink
00:02:32 ...that I go near.
00:02:44 this charnel house.
00:03:06 crushed by the years.
00:03:44 Those who set them up wouldn't provide them with this aspect...
00:03:55 as soon as they were planted squarely within the plumb-lines
00:04:09 which not for an instant should ever cease to be somewhere else.
00:05:14 However boldy it may try.
00:05:33 Having been systematically aligned
00:05:38 are remains and offerings?
00:05:49 If it remains uncertain whether he's received the cries of the willing victims
00:06:01 the scents and the cries.
00:06:21 when there weren't any men
00:06:32 This universal junkyard.
00:06:41 caked in mud.
00:06:51 of the not-yet
00:07:11 He will slumber here until the end of the world.
00:07:21 because there's nothing in this mineral cemetery
00:07:56 We're still on the first day
00:08:05 Temple.
00:08:13 has been effaced from the stone...