Bolero: Dance of Life
1981 · 184 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 2,893 VOTES · DIR. Claude Lelouch
Overview
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,063 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:03 There are only two or three human stories
00:09:39 Paris !
00:24:27 In short, all simple men prefer love to war ...
00:27:17 Dear Karl ...
00:31:34 thy kingdom come. - Thank you Madam.
00:39:05 is for whoever raise him until the end of the war.
00:49:34 Here it is.
01:05:36 We ask the public to remain calm and composed.
01:14:58 a child who'd have been run over on the track?
01:20:51 it was their turn to cross the threshold of adulthood.
01:22:48 I th-thought I'd sh-shoot anyway ...
01:26:17 When I didn't find you home...
01:39:27 leave its mark on the history of music.
01:56:09 Michel Chapus ...
02:00:59 the big sleep. Listen ...
02:04:18 It's truly final.
02:08:28 Silence, please.
02:16:43 You're right after all.
02:18:46 You don't know what you're saying. Drop it.
02:21:03 It's a long story.
02:25:41 I've spent all night on him. Come on, put on your jacket.
02:28:59 The ones and the others.
02:34:08 Without the coffee shops and the stations ...
02:38:57 about UNICEF and the Red Cross.