Dark Night, Calcutta
1964 · 24 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 79 VOTES · DIR. Marin Karmitz
Overview
Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block.
Dialogue Timeline — 172 lines
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00:00:01 Do the clinical studies of psychiatrists
00:00:21 some of the main symptoms of their clinical patients
00:01:22 I have come here to write a novel.
00:01:48 Vice-consul:
00:02:03 I must now tell of his failure
00:03:27 Its heat.
00:03:59 I will not kill myself.
00:05:11 hidden, for the moment.
00:05:34 The beggar
00:06:04 What is its nature?
00:07:33 What I know is, it's taken my place.
00:08:04 Clouds gather above the mouth of the Ganges...
00:09:18 I don't want to! I don't want to anymore.
00:09:40 and I like that beach.
00:10:19 Horrible vermin everywhere.
00:12:26 A great swelling wave
00:15:25 The sky is nothing.
00:16:47 I must begin again tomorrow. Calmly.
00:17:13 I will find the phrases.
00:17:45 So that's how you are...
00:18:17 He's gone.
00:19:14 Miasmic...
00:24:05 Is there something you wanted to know?
00:25:22 What is there to do?
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed172
Dialogue density7.2 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line00:25:22
Production Record
DirectorMarin Karmitz
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes79