Felice… Felice…
1998 · 99 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 130 VOTES · DIR. Peter Delpeut
Overview
Tragic love story about the photographer and explorer Felice Beato who travelled back to Japan in 1895 to seek his former wife O-Kiku. On the way he describes in a nostalgic letter to his brother how much he yearns for his lost love O-Kiku and how impotent he feels in an ancient Japan subject to rapid change. The journey takes him to Nagasaki and Moji, Onomichi, Mount Fuji, Yokohama and Tokyo. Places he once visited with his beloved and where he now no longer understands the people. Felice...Felice... is inspired by hand-coloured nineteenth century photos taken by e.g. Felice Beato, Sjimooka Renjo and Baron von Stilfried. In this film, shot entirely in a studio, the photos depict Felice's journey. Awarded the Golden Calf for Best Feature film in 1998. (NFF)
Dialogue Timeline — 763 lines
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00:02:27 My dear brother Antonio...
00:04:51 Please, Felice-san, don't enter the house.
00:11:13 She gave everything away, everything in the house, I tell you.
00:14:35 Perhaps you would like the company of a geisha, sir?
00:17:35 After all, O-Kiku was married to you.
00:20:57 that would rather be silent than speak.
00:24:27 I didn't mind losing myself for good in this foreign place...
00:28:35 At my age, you only go to sea to die.
00:32:20 She died in childbirth.
00:37:25 When will you be leaving?
00:41:44 Our photographs will lose their silence.
00:45:22 She wouldn't let anyone take her picture.
00:49:04 I know...
00:52:44 O-Kiku didn't like Yokohama.
00:56:12 The harbour was crawling with soldiers. I avoided the place.
00:59:28 Why do you wear a summer kimono three sizes too small?
01:03:26 Yes, she was here... Alone.
01:07:00 But I...
01:10:23 I know, Felice-sen.
01:16:50 Felice-sen...
01:20:01 the sun high and bright in the sky. A pretty picture.
01:22:49 What did you see during all those years here?
01:26:33 Could you come here a moment?
01:31:49 Is Kurosu-san good to you?