Snow White
2000 · 75 MIN · IMDB 4.9 · 454 VOTES · DIR. João César Monteiro
Overview
Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden’s life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins – infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the “death of the author” so central to postmodern literary criticism.
Dialogue Timeline — 952 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 SNOWWHITE
00:04:51 I must cry to hear that you would break the neck
00:07:18 A wonder that you are alive.
00:09:55 and grins with doom behind your tongue's endearing notes
00:13:43 of lispings
00:16:24 - Oh drop this, please. - Yes, let us chat
00:19:27 How she cries out with passion
00:22:20 Forgive me, winter image dear
00:25:03 Do go! I wish you'd go now; I dismiss you.
00:27:56 but I don't cry;
00:31:03 Not feeling, he will think minutely.
00:33:39 who sent her huntsman after you and brought you poisoned fruit to eat.
00:36:30 Hate me, enabling me to love but the more childishly
00:39:10 With you, who are her Grace the Queen.
00:42:41 I have no right to struggle
00:46:10 Yet you sulk, and don't see the love approaching you on every side.
00:48:58 I truly cannot tell.
00:51:44 I stoked his fire with kisses, right?
00:54:54 Say that I do believe.
00:57:55 Why, on what grounds should I distrust such welcome news?
01:00:46 Poison the lie which so asserts.
01:04:17 Yes, injured envy thought a while it had to hate.
01:07:05 I, too, have thought myself ill used, cast out
01:10:26 Come, Father, accompany us all inside.