The Sound of the Shaking Earth
1990 · 93 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · DIR. Rita Azevedo Gomes
Overview
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.
Dialogue Timeline — 701 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:11 The Sound of the Earth Shaking
00:03:39 I tell you.
00:05:44 Cipriano says he's coming too.
00:10:06 I was trying to explain it to Jean-Pierre a little while ago.
00:12:02 What we put into something, without knowing the reason.
00:14:29 "Above all I look for plains..."
00:17:09 I'll go home.
00:21:00 "'My friends, don't you know an animal so squat and soft'"
00:23:14 I didn't even explain why we're here.
00:25:31 Only the one who is in perpetual motion
00:30:32 in the street
00:33:15 Because in life, as in dreams,
00:35:29 Did anybody say he would do anything else before he dies?
00:38:50 Try to vary up the emotions.
00:41:12 -Let's see? -What?
00:45:27 like smokes in the distance.
00:55:48 I need to rest.
01:03:03 The swamp... the bogs.
01:11:39 And I told her about the red in the Virgin's mantle,
01:13:22 at the time one should read it.
01:15:00 You must have heard already about
01:16:29 for the problem we had at the moment.
01:24:25 and of my heart with them.
01:27:16 I dedicate this film to Antonio Orlando
Cast & Characters
José Mário Branco
Alberto
Manuela de Freitas
Isabel
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Luciano
Sara Marques
Girl
Miguel Simão
Cipriana
João Bénard da Costa
Professor
Jean-Pierre Tailhade
Jean-Pierre
Conceição Guerra
Maria
Paulo Rocha
Hostel Doorman
Francisco Marinho
Sailor
Paulo Sousa Rocha
Books Salesman
Carolina Viana
Goddaughter
Milú
Girl in Disco
Maria Tomás
Girl in Disco
João Cabral
João Pedro Bénard
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed701
Dialogue density7.5 lines / min
First line00:00:11
Final line01:27:16
Production Record
DirectorRita Azevedo Gomes
LanguagePortuguese
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