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.
00:08:46 for us,..
00:10:36 to not understand that it is impossible to love, together, you, and Rome.
00:18:27 Sometimes, in the evening, around sunset,..
00:20:04 Our love,..
00:22:08 there was that school trip by bus.
00:23:33 It was never known that they were not temples.
00:25:09 there is no need to rediscover it.
00:27:02 It was thus the only road. Look.
00:31:28 Imagine!
00:33:16 from God's errants, from the thieves.
00:36:49 Yes.
00:38:54 And the obstacles to that love,..
00:40:38 Except, perhaps,..
00:42:05 the task to announce her that he decided to abandon her.
00:43:24 Yes.
00:44:55 Spontaneously,..
00:46:17 What still remains of him in the obscure lands,..
00:49:32 When you enter this span of history,..
00:52:13 We could have talked..
00:54:19 would perhaps have been able to tell us who she was,..
00:56:05 The eyes are already drowned..