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
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:03 This mineral, standing or fallen
00:01:10 To one for which there is no precise name in any language
00:01:20 Still beneath this sky
00:02:30 ...that I pause
00:02:41 in whose name was erected one day
00:03:05 as if these stones had been
00:03:31 only the space of a yawn?
00:03:52 that as soon as they should be piled up, one on top of the other
00:04:06 their slow passage back to the mineral realm
00:05:11 Nothing is able to defy time.
00:05:30 In this vale of stunted trees
00:05:37 What use
00:05:44 No more of prayer than of worship.
00:05:55 the thick fog which smothers these hills
00:06:17 With his flowing beard.
00:06:27 This chaos was made for him.
00:06:37 He feels safe here.
00:06:45 In a heavy slumber without dreams
00:07:05 Don't awaken him
00:07:17 And when he contemplates it in his slumber
00:07:27 the possibility of an accident
00:08:02 in this garden of horrors
00:08:08 For I am the Word.
00:08:35 subtitles: depositio