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
00:09:42 Must not change your look with the boys of the Duke
00:24:32 The more they'll listen to music ...
00:27:24 Alas here in Berlin, after all our victories, it's euphoria.
00:31:49 So, wasn't I right to make you learn them?
00:39:19 this money had a different perfume.
01:00:55 She slept with the Krauts!
01:08:02 Escaped. -Yes, in March '45 ...
01:16:38 You're just a bit out there, come back down here.
01:21:19 As soon as I'm in Paris I'll bring you over.
01:23:40 Mum. - The teacher.
01:28:08 You look good.
01:50:37 the cries for help ...
01:57:28 They had met at law school.
02:02:27 I'm not through.
02:05:00 What more could we say?
02:09:28 and you are lost, crazy, and wasted, you must give up.
02:17:35 Stop it, Francis. Good god.
02:19:35 We didn't need to pay two thousand francs per broad.
02:22:18 Him, maybe?
02:27:48 has finally agreed to sing in Paris.
02:31:55 Was she coming often?
02:37:47 Compared to war, everything else is sweet...
04:00:04 It's been a long time.