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They will be naming streets after you. There’ll be statues of you


Hawks, Grant
His Girl Friday (1940)

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Écoute. N’aie pas peur


Sirk, Hudson
Battle Hymn (1957)

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Tout était beau alors. Le monde entier


Hitchcock, Cotten
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

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Condolences, consolation Excuses, justification

Je ne voulais pas t’attrister ce soir


Hitchcock, Cotten
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

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Je reviendrai

(How to leave a room)

Hitchcock, Cotten
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

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Condolences, consolation Get well soon, health

Quand on est malade, on a le droit d’être déprimé


Mankiewicz, Grant
People Will Talk (1951)

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La vie n’aurait pas d’attrait sans cela

Minnelli, Kerr
Tea and Sympathy (1956)

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Rien n’est plus encourageant que de voir mourir autrui

These executions will be a perfect tonic for the entire division.  There are few things more fondamentaly encouraging and stimulating that seeing someone else die.

Kubrick, Douglas, Menjou
Paths of Glory (1957)

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Condolences, consolation Get well soon, health Inspirational, advice Invitation, party Sadness

Oublie les coups de cafard


Risi, Gassman
Il sorpasso (1962)

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Les Illusions perdues. Have you read that?

Guy Decomble recommande à Gérard Blain un roman de Balzac qui, comme Les Cousins, raconte l’histoire d’un jeune provincial qui arrive à Paris.

Chabrol, Blain
Les Cousins (1959)

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Condolences, consolation Sadness

What’s the matter? Why are you crying? If I had a red dress like yours, I wouldn’t cry

Truffaut, Denner
L’Homme qui aimait les femmes (1977)

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I think you’ll feel differently about things when you get in your own house


Borzage, Rogers
Magnificent Doll (1946)

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All along the line, there’s nothing but cold and death and loneliness


Ingmar Bergman
Les Fraises sauvages (1960)

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It’s the effort that’s most important, not what we achieve. Isn’t it?


Ingmar Bergman, Ulmann, Andersson
Persona (1966)

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Laisse-les jaser


Visconti, Antonelli
L’innocente (1976)

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Je ne vous envie pas


Hitchcock, Olivier
Rebecca (1940)

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C’est la vie !


Hitchcock, Fontiane
Rebecca (1940)

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Je ne contemplais plus que des ruines


Hitchcock
Rebecca (1940)

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There’s nothing tragic about being 50, unless you try to be 25

 

Wilder, Swanson, Holden
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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Condolences, consolation Inspirational, advice Love

My love endures after death


Ratoff, Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman
Intermezzo (1939)

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Condolences, consolation Get well soon, health

She’s in a world that’s empty of joy or meaning


Tourneur
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

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Condolences, consolation Get well soon, health Invitation, party

Don’t kill yourself. Let’s have a drink

 

Godard, Brialy, Anne Colette
Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick (1959)

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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief

Patricia : Tu connais William Faulkner ?
Michel : Non…, qui est-ce ? Tu as couché avec lui ?
Patricia : Mais non, mon coco.
Michel : Alors je me fous de lui… Enlève ton jersey.
Patricia : C’est un romancier que j’aime bien. Tu as lu Les Palmes sauvages ?
Michel : Je te dis que non… Enlève ton chandail.
Patricia : Écoute. La dernière phrase, c’est très beau : « Between grief and nothing. I will take grief. » Entre le chagrin et le néant, je choisis le chagrin… Et toi, tu choisirais quoi ?
Michel : Le chagrin, c’est idiot. Je choisis le néant. C’est pas mieux, mais le chagrin, c’est un compromis. Faut tout ou rien.

 

Patricia cite la dernière phrase de l’avant-dernier chapitre de  If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem de Faulkner, d’abord publié sous le titre The Wild Palms (Les Palmiers sauvages) ; on peut voir le livre sur la table de nuit de Patricia dans sa chambre de l’hôtel de Suède.

Godard, Seberg, Belmondo.
À bout de souffle (1960)

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We can’t change the past


The Way Back (2020)

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I’m accustomed to her occasional infidelities


Truffaut
Jules et Jim (1962)

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Je veux dire, tu ne dois pas baisser les bras


Hitchcock, Edna Best,
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

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Seriously, what’s “class struggle” got to do with it?


Tout va bien (1972)

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No one private life runs smoothly. That only happens in the movies


Truffaut, Léaud
La Nuit américaine (1973)

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Aucune honte à dire qu’on régresse


Craig
Skyfall (2012)

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La vie ne nous gâte pas toujours


Another Year (2010)

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Les enterrements m’attristent

 

The Prisoner (1967)

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Pauvre type ! Il avait toujours voulu une piscine

The poor dope, he always wanted a swimming pool. Well, in the end Joe Gillis got himself a pool — only the price turned out to be a little high


Wilder, Holden
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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Annoying shortcoming, I am sorry


Renoir, Gabin, Fresnay
La Grande Illusion (1937)

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Ça devait arriver


Kubrick, Mason, Winters
Lolita (1961)

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C’est pas pour ça qu’il faut pleurer


Midnight Cowboy (1969)

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You won’t believe it, but everything serves a purpose


Fellini
La strada (1954)

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Elle avait 84 ans! — J’ai connu plus âgée


Grand Hotel Budapest (2014)

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Not a day goes by I don’t think aboout him


Premature (2019)

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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

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Condolences, consolation Disappointment Get well soon, health Goodbyes Pain

Lung cancer. Inoperable


Breaking Bad (2008)

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Condolences, consolation Pain

Life, even at its best, is hardly endurable

 

Capra
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

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Condolences, consolation Friendship Loneliness Sadness

Where are all the friends who made my day?

Où sont-ils les amis, les copains?
Où sont-ils tous mes vieux bals musette?
Leur javas au son d’l’accordéon?
Où sont-ils tous mes r’pas sans galette?
Avec un cornet d’frites à dix ronds
Où sont ils donc?

(Lucien Carol, André Decaye, Vincent Scotto, ” Où est-il donc ? “)


Pépé le Moko (1937)

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Don’t be sad. That’s too easy


A Countess From Hong Kong (1967)

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Time heals all


Wenders, Ganz
Les Ailes du désir (1987)

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Condolences, consolation Sadness Threat, orders

Dead


Cria cuervos (1976)

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Living persons are often already dead

Godard, Vlady
Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle (1967)