Blind Venus
1941 · 140 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 153 VOTES · DIR. Abel Gance
Overview
Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the German occupation. Although the film is not set in any specified period, Gance wanted it to be seen as relevant to the contemporary situation in France. He wrote, "...La Vénus aveugle is at the crossroads of reality and legend... The heroine ... gradually sinks deeper and deeper into despair. Only when she has reached the bottom of the abyss does she encounter the smile of Providence that life reserves for those who have faith in it, and she can then go serenely back up the slope towards happiness. If I have been able to show in this film that elevated feelings are the only force that can triumph over Fate, then my efforts will not have been in vain."
Dialogue Timeline — 1,459 lines
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00:00:00 ?
00:09:55 At the red cork.
00:13:43 You like this jackanapes!
00:19:39 Come on, you must clear off here!
00:24:22 You don't know how jealous i am of all she does!
00:29:31 Why are you looking at me this way
00:34:45 Good guess!
00:39:02 slowly forget about his boat to be his wife.
00:49:13 time i submit a fortune to a neurasthenic of your kind!
00:55:26 A blind woman would not
01:00:58 It seems far away but time goes fast.
01:07:49 - Married.- 10 months ago, in the French indies, at Karikal.
01:12:28 Her sister Mireille was in it. So leave me alone!
01:22:04 We're here.
01:29:31 ?
01:41:52 She can't do without it. It's her only
01:46:32 let her died quietly.
01:50:22 Handsome but not my kind. You'd like him a lot.
01:54:41 When he has a blind audience !
02:00:26 And you play the oyster !
02:04:12 porcelain flowers from the kabyle emir in it.
02:10:11 - What's wrong?- Where is he going?
02:14:14 This story will be famous!
02:19:16 Yes, in a few moments.