The Ninth Gate (1999)

THE NINTH GATE

Johnny Depp / Emmanuelle Seigner / Frank Langella / Lena Olin / Barbara Jefford / Jack Taylor / Tony Amoni / James Russo / José López Rodero / Wily Holt / Novel  Arturo Pérez-Reverte /Soundtrack  Wojciech Kilar / Cinematography   Darius Khondji / Producer  Mark Allan, Antonio Cardenal & Roman Polanski / Director  Roman Polanski

‘Every book has a life of it’s own..’

‘Nothing is more reliable than a man whose loyalties can be bought with hard cash.’

‘The Devil..I saw him one day. I was fifteen years old, and I saw him as plain as I see you now: cutaway, top hat, cane. Very elegant, very handsome. It was love at first sight.’

‘You can’t come with me… I must travel alone but you can look on and marvel.’

‘There have been men who have been burned alive or disemboweled for a glimpse of what you are about to witness.’

‘Look around you all what do you see? A bunch of buffoons parading around in fancy dress. You think the prince of Darkness would deign to manifest himself before the likes of you? He never has and he never will! Never!’

‘To travel in silence by a long and circuitous route. To brave the arrows of misfortune and fear neither noose nor fire. To play the greatest of all games and win, foregoing no expense is to mock the vicissitudes of Fate and gain at last the key that will unlock..       the Ninth Gate.’

‘Even Hell has its heroes, señor.’

 

The Woodcuts

       

       

 

~ by chaplin on March 5, 2008.