In Praise of Love
2001 · 99 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 3,084 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Luc Godard
Overview
Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,059 lines
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00:00:33 Do you remember the names?
00:03:55 The moment of youth.
00:07:43 but whether he has the right to.
00:11:29 staring into the distance
00:14:44 But with adults, it's anything but obvious.
00:18:50 - Don't you agree, Philippe? - l don't know, sir.
00:26:16 Maybe better than that.
00:29:59 ''Love of a mortal being.
00:33:22 And the young lady, Edgar?
00:38:20 What do you mean?
00:41:55 but my father left a letter.
00:45:30 - Americans have no real past. - Those in the north.
00:50:14 l think, though, that you think so.
00:56:13 We were visiting Mr Rosenthal.
01:00:04 l didn't know.
01:05:07 learns a few words of English.
01:09:13 What should we do?
01:13:06 We can't go on discussing for hours.
01:15:44 Nicely.
01:19:58 - ''lf you can't see it anymore... - ''...lt's raining.''
01:24:51 That's right.
01:28:14 ''not the contrary.''
01:31:58 with America as well.
01:35:35 l see a landscape that is new to me