Tenebrae Lessons
2001 · 77 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 71 VOTES · DIR. Vincent Dieutre
Overview
“The Nineties had a pretty bad start”, this is how Vincent Dieutre introduces us to the shadows of his personal universe in those years going through Utrecht, Naples and Rome. In these three cities and two love affairs guide a homosexual man on his nightly search for lost beauty. In a cross between a diary and a baroque play the film reconstructs the fragments of a fateful journey against a Caravaggio backdrop. Painting, sensuality, losing oneself in a cityscape: the Leçons de ténèbres form an obscure fresco, a white-hot collage of trashy vanity.
Dialogue Timeline — 359 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:02 "Tenebrae Lessons" after Jeremiah's Book of Lamentations.
00:03:10 of what and who you really love.
00:04:59 how much your existence depends on him.
00:07:51 prostrate, not at all nervous.
00:08:38 and his infinite confidence moves you immensely.
00:11:19 you often mocked tourists while walking along the Grand Canal
00:14:44 Two massive bodies, expressing no particular mood or cruelty.
00:19:44 You know these repetitive disputes are sapping his strength.
00:21:15 Some time later, on the freeway, as had already happened in Paris
00:23:26 yet which stems directly from the same issues.
00:28:59 Forever that infinite resonance that confines one to whispering
00:30:06 you had the reassuring feeling of belonging.
00:33:23 the Master of the Announcement to the Shepherds
00:39:26 You ask yourself what you represent to him:
00:40:16 and you are going nowhere.
00:44:13 to fix the reassuring image for all times.
00:45:08 Don't turn indifference inside out
00:50:54 like a promise and also like a form:
00:51:56 Open nights, feverish waiting
00:55:34 her pose both twisted and languid, her dead silence...
01:00:11 But it's the People's Piazza
01:05:27 In the space of a breath, you will have been two
01:07:01 musicians composed
01:09:10 erase the irreversible gestures
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed359
Dialogue density4.7 lines / min
First line00:00:02
Final line01:09:10
Production Record
DirectorVincent Dieutre
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes71