Valparaiso
1964 · 27 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 1,457 VOTES · DIR. Joris Ivens
Overview
In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …A Valparaíso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portrait of the city, built on 42 hills, with its wealth and poverty, its daily life on the streets, the stairs, the rack railways and in the bars. Although the port has lost its importance, the rich past is still present in the impoverished city. The film echoes this ambiguous situation in its dialectical poetic style, interweaving the daily life reality (of 1963) with the history of the city and changing from black and white to colour, finally leaving us with hopeful perspective for the children who are playing on the stairs and hills of this beautiful town.
Dialogue Timeline — 198 lines
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00:00:03 Argos Film and the University of Chili present
00:01:40 One scissors' snip at Panama put it in its place...
00:03:23 Pronounced horribly as Valparaiso in French...
00:04:28 All the homes are triangular, impossible to furnish.
00:05:44 the Bank of London...
00:06:16 She persists.
00:07:20 He knows it, he counts them.
00:07:51 Too many people up above, and too few down below.
00:10:55 So once again, the cable railways.
00:11:26 What price the desire to live? And what price happiness?
00:13:44 ...of the Butterfly...
00:14:18 ...a school, a clinic...
00:14:53 ...of the hygiene in our neighbourhood, in the center of the main port of the country.
00:17:11 The entire male population belongs to the firefighting corps.
00:17:48 ...on which we like directing the same calm, courteous, and amicable gaze.
00:19:59 And the horse's eyes widen from fear, for it knows.
00:21:25 Memory of the pirates.
00:22:11 Memory of storms.
00:22:45 ...this was to be the destiny of this peaceful people.
00:23:26 ...is a useful way to flee the adventure of today.
00:25:30 A film by Joris Ivens
00:25:48 Song "Nous Irons a Valparaiso" translated by Germaine Montero