Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

1998 · 27 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 716 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Luc Godard

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute poster

Overview

Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.

Dialogue Timeline — 198 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:15 It has become necessary
00:01:00 Sometimes this contradiction is blatant.
00:01:29 European governments will be surprised
00:01:52 people are slaughtering, setting fires, pillaging
00:02:23 We inform European governments
00:02:58 They say we are exaggerating.
00:03:23 The boy thrown from spike to spike
00:04:08 Let's call a spade a spade: Killing a man
00:04:39 We answer:
00:05:26 And silver salts fix the light.
00:06:11 The triumph of American television and its groupies.
00:06:59 have no more tears to cry.
00:11:19 I was alone, lost
00:11:52 Even Corot's woman in pink doesn't think
00:12:21 Precisely: A form which thinks.
00:13:00 Forty years and two wars after Zola
00:14:42 just before the Glières maquis fell
00:19:20 Fifty years later, we celebrate the Liberation.
00:19:56 as the poet did.
00:20:56 It is not by chance.
00:21:23 The Germans had no cinema.
00:21:55 Then came the crop of great Italian cinema.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed198
Dialogue density7.3 lines / min
First line00:00:15
Final line00:21:55

Production Record

DirectorJean-Luc Godard
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes716