Roman Dialogue
1983 · 61 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 65 VOTES · DIR. Marguerite Duras
Overview
'The subject of this film is the conversation between a man and a woman. A couple, maybe lovers, maybe married, it doesn't matter. (...) During this conversation, we do not see but the city of Rome. I wanted to transmit that what Rome provokes in me, the feeling of an intrinsic matter, indissoluble, in difference with Paris, made of small parks and open spaces, crossed by the sky and the wind. Hand in hand with the film, the difficulty of the two lovers assumes a clearer, more explicit form. But as much as, in my opinion, it is impossible to describe and film Rome, the difficulty in the love of a couple can never be totally understood.' - Marguerite Duras, Venice film festival catalogue, 1982.
Dialogue Timeline — 448 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:07 ROMAN DIALOGUE
00:03:28 songs,..
00:06:52 icy, livid.
00:08:49 like a room.
00:11:11 When we filmed the personas of these bas-reliefs, we didn't want to film else.
00:18:38 It is a thought that I've known very young,..
00:20:11 How can it be said...
00:22:24 It was a rainy afternoon,..
00:23:42 constructed.
00:25:27 indelible.
00:27:19 This country. This land.
00:32:06 I don't know,..
00:33:41 losing the blood of her own thinking,..
00:37:10 that covers Rome with a mantle of purity.
00:39:19 They would have known as well in case of peace.
00:41:04 She didn't speak Roman,..
00:42:31 He, enters the apartments,..
00:43:53 She loves it,..
00:45:18 From the captivity of a reign within a reign.
00:48:22 he will awaken, knowing that she's still there,..
00:49:57 a ship will come,..
00:53:22 Of all this, too. Of this endless death.
00:55:02 the light swaying of the hips that spreads throughout the body.
00:58:30 before us.