The Dark Night of the Soul
1989 · 93 MIN · IMDB 5.8 · 222 VOTES · DIR. Carlos Saura
Overview
Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan fought to install reforms in the Carmelite Order. Like many another visionary, he was regarded as a heretic, and promptly subjected to the most appalling of tortures. Writer-director Saura manages to draw several parallels between the religious persecution of the 1700s and the political despotism of Fascist Spain.
Dialogue Timeline — 449 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:08 Dark Night of the Soul
00:06:12 under the authority of His Holiness Gregory VIII
00:07:56 He's laughing at us!
00:09:48 Take off your sack-clothes and put on the mandatory habit.
00:15:56 Characters dressed in black, weighted in a scale
00:17:26 But you, hypocrite! Weren't aspiring on becoming a saint.
00:20:51 or from some other kind of humour in the brain, or the heart
00:24:40 He must follow his duty and remain silent.
00:27:50 Beatriz de Santo Tobias.
00:33:04 But before, we would like to inform you
00:36:35 What have you done to yourself?
00:39:05 and many went to see such a prodigy, to listen to her words
00:40:43 gives me life
00:43:45 But tonight
00:49:06 My God!
00:52:05 Me, for example...
00:53:28 I admit it, i admit i was wrong
00:55:15 We won't be wasting more time with you
00:59:12 i've brought you thread, needle and a pair of scissors
01:01:07 cooled by the breeze of your flight.
01:02:44 She said you were a saint. - A Saint?... god willing...
01:05:50 You can't tell anyone what you just heard.
01:08:55 Upon my flowery breast, Kept wholly for himself alone
01:13:31 Would you allow me to throw away my own wastes?
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed449
Dialogue density4.8 lines / min
First line00:00:08
Final line01:13:31
Production Record
DirectorCarlos Saura
LanguageSpanish
IMDb votes222