The Baby of Mâcon
1993 · 122 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 5,169 VOTES · DIR. Peter Greenaway
Overview
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
Dialogue Timeline — 938 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:17 The harvests are...
00:06:29 It comes!
00:08:46 It lives...
00:12:14 It will pee.
00:14:12 This child is it really my brother?
00:16:10 What possess you therefore that produces so miraculous babies?
00:19:34 I am the father, and this child is a miracle...
00:22:08 You can touch it. Be not afraid.
00:25:40 So only...
00:31:56 Iron...
00:38:10 Nothing.
00:42:14 See yourlself!
00:46:52 We shall live comfortable for rest at present if you keep silence, kind of fool.
00:51:17 People think that this Child is mine and that he can make miracles.
00:56:00 if this child is yours, as you let it assume, it is because you ran the beggar-woman;
00:59:41 Treat me as a whore...
01:07:00 This child must be withdrawn to him
01:15:30 Twelve thousand!
01:18:58 A small Sheet of tinted Gold some Blood of the Child.
01:26:37 Was God impatient? It was only a child.
01:29:14 If it is virgin, she can avoid for ever in consequences of his crime.
01:36:36 What! I do not want to see your jewellery of family ¡X this lines up!
01:47:39 Because of the avarice of the Church...
01:52:58 Which splendid head.
Cast & Characters
Julia Ormond
The Daughter
Ralph Fiennes
The Bishop's Son
Philip Stone
The Bishop
Jonathan Lacey
Cosimo Medici
Don Henderson
The Father Confessor
Celia Gregory
The Mother Superior
Jeff Nuttall
The Major Domo
Jessica Hynes
The First Midwife
Kathryn Hunter
The Second Midwife
Gabrielle Reidy
The Third Midwife
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed938
Dialogue density7.7 lines / min
First line00:00:17
Final line01:52:58
Production Record
DirectorPeter Greenaway
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes5,169