The Mistral
1966 · 33 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 170 VOTES · DIR. Joris Ivens
Overview
Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens follows the course of the famous wind as it originates in the Alps and finds its way to the Mediterranean Sea. Natural sounds and creative camera work provide a mood film showing the effect of the fury of the wind on the life of southern France.
Dialogue Timeline — 134 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:01 Claude Nedjar presents
00:00:16 In collaboration with Pierre Lhomme and Jean Ravel
00:01:15 ...by the fields of lavender and by the old upright statues.
00:01:36 By inexplicable forces and by signs that precede...
00:02:25 We cut its sudden bursts, we knock it down.
00:04:34 It will rain, shine and storm, like a ballet...
00:06:11 For love of the spring, I've thrown away my shoes...
00:06:27 For love of the spring, I have longed for pursuit.
00:08:07 He wonders about the faceless sun, the shine on the sky and the leaves...
00:10:51 ...or the beautiful sea in the magic of the season?
00:12:05 The Mistral likes to be resisted.
00:15:01 The butterfly makes us flower, we are fertilized by the bee.
00:15:28 It is the hour when Orpheus's torment is plotted in the Valley of Hell...
00:16:08 They know not the jealous envy of those who love pearls...
00:16:42 ...and which at its strongest, amuses itself with nothings.
00:18:08 Venus of the sea, in the Southern and Southeastern sectors...
00:18:28 ...as it sweats out its true personality in pure Provencal.
00:19:12 "destruction, rape, pillage."
00:19:30 ...they love him dearly, their "Mistraou."
00:22:00 Oh my chasm filled with planets...
00:23:39 ...pearled or in waves, zephyr or breeze.
00:24:34 ...of all the sauces, liqueurs and tisanes.
00:30:30 Sky of high Provence and of Rhodanie, an incurable blue.
00:32:24 THE END
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed134
Dialogue density4.1 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line00:32:24
Production Record
DirectorJoris Ivens
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes170