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
00:04:50 Yes
00:07:06 stands in less awe than is fit before the Queen's high majesty.
00:09:41 You speak as gently as you can
00:13:25 How it acts on me, the speech that issues from your lovely lips!
00:16:01 Trust does not know such rapid speech
00:18:53 I am speechless and imageless
00:21:34 No, not yours... How could it be?
00:24:23 you flee before the enemy who chases you.
00:27:06 Compose yourself
00:30:10 Think how your thinking goes awry.
00:32:40 he's but a little boy as yet.
00:35:19 Tell something else, oh be so kind.
00:38:13 You, lovely Queen, are whom I seek.
00:41:33 Lift up the dagger first.
00:44:10 shall be our quarrel's happy end.
00:47:25 in their sphere, sparkling with cheerful cleanliness.
00:50:10 who know not how to guard myself.
00:52:53 It bleeds afresh and now will never heal again.
00:56:05 I hold it true.
00:59:03 Sweet as mellow dream is she;
01:01:44 Allow me this sweet embrace.
01:05:06 Brave man, as many thanks as gratitude may owe to you
01:07:57 But my persuasive gift is small; what's more, delight's too wild in me