Night Train to Lisbon Page #2

Synopsis: About an aging Swiss professor of classical languages who, after a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman, quits his job and travels to Lisbon in the hope of discovering the fate of a certain author, a doctor and poet who fought against Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.
Director(s): Bille August
Production: Wrekin Hill
  3 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
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Rotten Tomatoes:
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Year:
2013
111 min
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that it will..."

"never be achieved,

this wholeness,"

"we suddenly don't know

how to live the time..."

"that can no longer be

part of the whole life."

Better?

Or worse?

Better.

- You feel as if you wrote the book yourself?

- I would like to then.

Talks about everything

that preoccupying him for years.

Better? Or worse?

Worse.

Tell me one of these

beautiful sentences you read.

"The real director of life

is accident --"

"a director full of cruelty,"

"compassion and bewitching charm."

By accident, he means fate?

No, I think he means chance,

randomness chance.

Let's take a break,

rest your eyes for a moment.

You are a man

who does not sleep well.

- You can tell?

- The eyes reveal everything.

Look at these eyes.

Tell me what they reveal.

Melancholic, but hopeful.

Tire, but persistent.

Contradictory.

Why would his sister

pretend that he is still alive?

I have no idea.

Shall we resume?

So you met a woman in a red coat

who disappeared...

- ... and you just dropped everything?

- Then I read the book.

I would love to be able to do that,

just drop everything...

- You do that often?

- No, I never done anything like that before.

Best? Or worse?

Uh, better.

How does that feel?

You talk about seeing his feeling.

- Well, isn't it?

- I suppose it is.

- How clear is it? The image.

- Very clear.

And how about this?

Everything is in focus.

Sir, we have this

new one here...

"The decisive moment of life,"

"when its direction

changes forever,"

"are not always marked by

loud and shrill dramatics."

"In truth, the dramatic moments

of a life-determining experience..."

"are often unbelievable low-key."

"When it unfolds

its revolutionary effect..."

"and make sure that life that it revealed

in a brand-new light."

"It does that silently."

"And in this wonderful silence

resides its special nobility."

Now you wonder if

the old pair were better.

- Yes.

- But they are not, are they?

No, they feel very light.

Getting used to them

will take some time.

- You take credit cards?

- You can sort all that out with my receptionist.

Before you go...

I have an uncle.

He lives in a nursing home

across the Tejo (river Tagus).

I called him last night

and told him about you and the book.

He knew Amadeu de Prado well.

I told him you want to know about Amadeu

and he said he'll talk to you.

He was in the resistance.

I must warn you,

my uncle can be difficult.

In what way?

The generation that

lived under the dictator Salazar

is still battling to come to terms

with what happened.

When the resistance began,

the Secret Police were extremely brutal.

To this day,

people don't like talking about it,

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