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Disappointment Sadness

Vous êtes cruel

(Le Héros sacrilège)

Mizoguchi
Shin Heike monogatari (1955)

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Disappointment Sadness

We’re forgotten

Siegel
Riot in Cell 11 (1954)

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Birthday, aging Disappointment

Quand j’avais 30 ans, je croyais encore à quelque chose

(Amours dans la neige)

Yoshida
Juhyô no yoromeki (1968)

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Condolences, consolation Disappointment Jealousy, envy

He’s like a toy they manufacture. Like one of the Ken and Barbie dolls

(Un type méprisable)

Axelrod, Weld, McDowall
Lord Love a Duck (1966)

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Disappointment Friendship Split ups

Tu m’as trahi. Tu as trahi notre amitié

Stan & Ollie (2018)

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Disappointment Excuses, justification

I got used to giving up on things

(Nuages lointains)

Kinoshita, Takamine
Tôi kumo (1955)

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Disappointment

You only want the good part of things

(Jeune fille sous le ciel bleu)

Kinoshita
Aozora musume (1957)

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Disappointment Shame, guilt Work

Dad, I’m going to be a fish vendor

(Nuages au crépuscule)

Kinoshita
Yûyake-gumo (1956)

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Disappointment Happiness, satisfaction

I certainly think men don’t understand what makes us happy

(Le Bon Démon)

Kinoshita
Zen-ma (1951)

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Disappointment Hope, desire

I thought we lived in the same world

(Une auberge à Osaka)

Heinosuke
Osaka no yado (1954)

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Disappointment Refusal Surprise, wonder

But non of our students can be a red

(Le Jardin des femmes)

Kinoshita
Onna no sono (1954)

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Disappointment

My God what a travesty of a mother you’ve turned out to be!

Richardson
A Taste of Honey (1961)

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Disappointment Surprise, wonder

Where did humanity go?

Heinosuke
Osaka no yado (1954)

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Disappointment

The shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own

Kurosawa
Kagemusha (1980)

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Disappointment

Je n’y comprends rien

Kurosawa
Rashomon (1950)

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Disappointment Wedding, marriage

Je suis sûre que comme nous, vos femmes ne sont pas dupes

Azner, O’Hara
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

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Disappointment Refusal

Poetry in translation is like taking a shower with a raincoat on

This metaphor is usually used in a different context : “Some men claim that using a condom is like taking a shower with a raincoat on ” (Nass, Libby, Fisher, Sexual Choices: An Introduction to Human Sexuality, 1984, p. 366)

Jarmusch
Paterson (2016)

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Disappointment Disgust, dislike Sadness

What a fucked-up world

Jarmusch, Waits
The Dead Don’t Die (2018)

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Disappointment Sex Surprise, wonder Work

Où sont tes outils et le bidon d’huile ?

Siegel, Cassavetes, Dickinson
The Killers (1964)

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Boredom Disappointment Invitation, party

Let’s go

Chaplin
A King in New York (1957)

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Disappointment Loneliness Work

Vous avez du retard


Paul Thomas Anderson, Day-Lewis
There Will Be Blood (2007)

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Disappointment

Life is but a dream


Kurosawa
Kagemusha (1950)

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Boredom Disappointment

C’est que rien n’a de sens dernièrement


Fraker, Marvin
Monte Walsh (1970)

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Disappointment Surprise, wonder

Ça t’a jamais dérangé auparavant


Louis King
Frenchie (1950)

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Disappointment Loneliness Sadness

Nobody listens


Shane, Gassman
The Glass Wall (1953)

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Disappointment

Dommage qu’on ait été dans des camps opposés


Ford, Flynn
Virginia City (1940)

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Disappointment Surprise, wonder

[Sighs] It seems a little bitter


Wise
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)

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Disappointment Uncategorized

Je ne comprends pas un mot


Polanski
Cul-de-Sac (1966)

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Disappointment

I’m beginning to think you’re not a man


Bolognini
Giovani mariti (1958)

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Disappointment Excuses, justification

But then, unfortunately, not even Hercule Poirot is perfect


Hamilton, Ustinov
Evil Under the Sun (1982)

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Disappointment Inspirational, advice

You’re on the slippery slope, chaps. Getting into debt

Vous êtes sur la pente fatale, les gars, vous vous endettez


Lautner
Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)

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Disappointment

T’es qu’un feignant !


Stan & Ollie (2018)

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Disappointment

And that the weather here is shit!

Votre patelin est tarte comme c’est pas permis et il y fait un temps de merde


Verneuil, Belmondo
Un singe en hiver (1962)

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Disappointment Disgust, dislike

Ici, il n’y a pas de civilisation


Lean, Holden
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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Disappointment Inspirational, advice Sadness

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

Edwards, Audrey Hepburn
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

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Disappointment Uncategorized

What do we do know ?


Redford
The Candidate (1972)

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Disappointment

You haven’t gotten tough, you’ve just gotten miserable


Daves, Glenn  Ford
Cow-Boy (1958)

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Disappointment

Mais on a compris trop tard qu’il ne s’intéressait qu’à lui-même


Fuller
Verboten! (1949)

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Disappointment Love Split ups

Why? I lived with you for 20 years before I found out you didn’t love me


Wyler, De Havilland, Richardson
The Heiress (1949)

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Disappointment Goodbyes

Well then I wish you all the luck in the world, Mademoiselle


Sternberg, Dietrich, Cooper
Morocco (1930)

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Disappointment Sadness

Comme une réminiscence des cauchemars oubliés

Sternberg, Tierney
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

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Disappointment Excuses, justification

On ne peut échapper à ce qu’on est


Walsh
Colorado Territory (1949)

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Disappointment Hope, desire Love Refusal

Each time he speaks she runs away

S’il faut des fleurs pour la convaincre,

Voici les roses de l’été.

Mais ce n’est pas assez pour vaincre

Tous ses scrupules d’honnêteté.


Ophuls
La Ronde (1950)

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Disappointment Love Refusal

Each time he speaks she runs away

Tournent, tournent, mes personnages.

De son amour il la poursuit

Mais hélas elle reste sage,

Quand il lui parle elle s’enfuit.


Ophuls
La Ronde (1950)

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Disappointment

A horse or a camel would be more useful


Hawks
Fazil (1928)

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Disappointment Sadness Wedding, marriage

On n’est plus que la femme de son mari…


Hitchcock
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

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Disappointment

Can you be so cruel?


Wyler, Miriam Hopkins, De Havilland
The Heiress (1949)

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Disappointment Refusal Surprise, wonder

People don’t look like that

(Picasso, Mère aux enfants à l’orange, 1951)


Wyler
The Collector (1965)

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Disappointment Disgust, dislike Refusal Surprise, wonder

Les transports en commun ?

The diligence. — Public conveyance?


Mamoulian, Miriam Hopkins
Becky Sharp (1955)

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Disappointment Refusal

Vous refusez de parler ?


Hitchcock
Lifeboat (1944)