The So-Called Caryatids
1984 · 12 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 149 VOTES · DIR. Agnès Varda
Overview
Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc.
Dialogue Timeline — 111 lines
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00:00:35 The So-called Caryatids
00:01:03 lighting sidewalks or buildings gracefully and lasciviously.
00:02:29 The architect Vitruvius tells of their origin.
00:02:46 slaying all the men and enslaving the women.
00:03:06 architects used...
00:03:24 Here we'll only see Parisian ones...
00:04:02 Except on Avenue de Tourville where there is a mixed couple...
00:04:32 He bears this building alone, single-handed.
00:04:52 The men are strong and muscular.
00:05:18 Women usually bear loads casually on their heads.
00:05:34 in Portugal, for example.
00:05:56 Theodore de Banville published "The Caryatids".
00:06:16 Flaubert's "Education Sentimentale"...
00:06:32 "I am beautiful, like a dream of stone
00:06:45 "I am beautiful and demand you love only Beauty
00:07:57 to the dearest whose look flowers on you anew?"
00:08:15 she finally gave in to him.
00:08:33 One could cry.
00:08:50 Yet at times he could articulate.
00:09:20 "remorse, sobs, misery and the vague terror of awful nights...
00:09:38 "darkly clenched fists, tears of bile...
00:10:00 facing the office for improved housing and small-home owners' aid.
00:10:23 due to the sack like a tassel?
00:10:40 "Hail, mask or decor! Your beauty I adore!"
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed111
Dialogue density9.3 lines / min
First line00:00:35
Final line00:10:40
Production Record
DirectorAgnès Varda
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes149
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