Night Train to Lisbon
~ Night Train to Lisbon (2013) ~
That will make you think.
Based on the novel
"Night Train to Lisbon"
by Pascal Mercier
(Bern, Switzerland)
Stay there!
Thank you.
May I walk with you?
Fine.
- Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
- Good morning, sir!
We have a visitor,
this morning.
Your coat...
Have a seat there.
slight mishap on the way here...
I think the corrections
would still be legible.
Max, would you...
do the honors?
More work require there...
No opportunity
to honor and respect yourself.
philosopher and an emperor.
There's no coincidence,
that was the way with the Romans.
Thought and action were all one.
I think we were
chapter 12, page 42.
Natalie,
perhaps you da... begin?
"How can it be that the Gods...
overlooked this alone,
that some lost men...
and those very good men,
who have had the most... "
"into the course with the divine."
Uh, just keep on going.
"If it is so that we live
only a small part of the life
which is within us,"
" what happens to the rest?"
Hello, Mr. Gregorius.
I am afraid your book on
Persian grammar has yet to arrive.
Uh no, that's not why I came...
Do you know that book?
Indeed,
I sold it to someone yesterday.
A woman?
Yes. She came in, asked
for the Portuguese section
from this book.
Sat there.
Read it for an hour or so
Paid for the book and left...
How did you come by?
I found it.
Beautiful title.
"A Goldsmith of Words."
Train tickets.
- Where to?
- Lisbon, eventually.
Leaving in 15 minutes.
- Thank you.
- She was wearing that coat!
Attention please.
Line 10 on platform 8
is now leaving...
What is all this noise?
- Where is Mr. Gregorius?
- He left, Mr. Kagi.
He left?
There was a woman with him here.
Impossible.
"We live here and now."
"Everything before
"Mostly forgotten."
Hello.
Uh, this is Mr. Kagi.
Where are you?
- On a train.
- A train?
- Where to?
- Lisbon.
Would you take care of my books?
I left them on my desk.
"What could,
what should be done..."
"with all the time
that lies ahead of us,"
"open and unshaped,"
"feather-light in its freedom..."
"and lead-heavy in its uncertainty?"
"Is it a wish?"
"Dream like and nostalgic,"
"to stand once again
at that point in life..."
"and be able to take a
completely different direction..."
"to the one which has
made us who we are?"
Do you have a room?
- Where is your luggage?
- I don't have any.
I will trust you
and give you a room.
With a view of the sea.
There. The sea.
- Anything else, sir?
- Yes
I wanted to find the address
of the man who wrote this.
Thank you.
- Anything else?
- No, thank you.
Good morning,
I am looking for Amadeu de Prado.
One moment.
I believe you are
looking for my brother?
- Yes. Is the doctor in?
- Are you ill?
No, I'm...
I am reading this book.
I very much like to meet him.
What he writes
touches me very deeply.
You should come inside.
You may sit.
Some tea?
Red Assam is Amadeu's preference.
Thank you.
Tea, Clotilde.
This is Amadeu's favorite room.
It's beautiful room.
He has read everyone
of those books.
Does he still practice
as a doctor?
Where did you get it?
I came across it in Bern,
where I live.
Only a hundred were ever printed.
I have six copies left.
the other 94 went.
Bern is in Switzerland,
is it not?
Yes.
And the book has traveled?...
That is a good thing.
- Has he written anything else?
- Nothing that has been published.
He wanted to be
a writer, a philosopher...
Then he decided
to become a doctor.
He didn't believe
people should be in pain.
- Is that him?
- That is our father
- He was a famous judge.
- So, I gather from the book.
He and Amadeu had a
rather complicated relationship.
"Consider from the standpoint of eternity
that rather loses its significance."
Yes.
- He often said that to Amadeu.
- Amadeu does not believe in eternity.
Unfortunately not.
I don't mean to pry, but...
may I ask
how your father died?
No. No, you may not.
If you want to see Amadeu...
you will find him
in Cemetery Prazeres.
"We leave something
of ourselves behind..."
"when we leave a place,..."
"we stay there,
even though we go away."
"And there are things in us..."
"that we can find again
only by going back there."
"We travel to our souls
when we go to a place..."
"that we have covered
a stretch of our life,..."
"no matter how brief
it may have been."
"But by travelling to ourselves,
we must confront our own loneliness.
"And isn't it so
that everything we do..."
"is done out of fear
of loneliness?"
"Isn't that why we renounce..."
"all the things we will regret
at the end of our life?
Excuse me. I am looking for
Amadeu de Almeida Prado.
- Prado.
- Thank you.
(In Portuguese)
"...When dictatorship is a fact,
revolution is a duty..."
Merda idiota! (Portuguese)
["F***ing idiot!"]
"Is it ultimately a
question of self-image,"
"the determining idea
one has made for oneself..."
"of what one has to have
accomplished and experienced..."
"so that one can approve of
the life one has lived?"
"If this is the case,"
"the fear of death
might be described..."
"as the fear of not being able to
become whom one planned to be."
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?
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,"
loud and shrill dramatics."
"In truth, the dramatic moments
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