A Talking Picture

Name: A Talking Picture
Released: 2003-08-31
Rating: 6.7

2003 · 1h 36m · TMDB 6.7/10 (47 votes)

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.

About A Talking Picture

A meditation on civilization.

July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean.

On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars.

Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay.

After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union.

The captain asks mother and child to join them.

He gives the girl a gift.

Helena sings.

Life can be sweet.