Categories
Excuses, justification

Je ne suis pas un bon orateur, mesdames et messieurs


Hitchcock
Saboteur (1942)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

Language means using the right words


Tavernier
Quai d’Orsay (2013)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Work

Language!


Tavernier
Quai d’Orsay (2013)

What’s that mean “puke”?


Godard, Seberg
À bout de souffle (1960)

What’s a scumbag?


Godard, Seberg
À bout de souffle (1960)

Categories
Uncategorized

What’s a “louse”?


Godard, Seberg
À bout de souffle (1960)

Categories
Uncategorized

LAIT


Truffaut
L’Enfant sauvage (1970)

Categories
Disappointment

Ça se confirme, je préfère en anglais


Zemeckis
The Walk (2015)

Categories
Uncategorized

He is far more glib of tongue


Uchida
The Mad Fox (1962)

Categories
Uncategorized Valentine

Things that we cannot tell in words but which we feel


Robson, Karloff
Isle of the Dead (1945)

Categories
Disappointment Hope, desire Love

That’s your theme. Embroider it


Rappeneau, Perez, Brochet
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)

Categories
Love

When two people are quiet, they have a lot to say


Grémillon, Morgan, Gabin
Remorques (1941)

Categories
Disgust, dislike Refusal

Survival, what a horrid word!


Rohmer, Dombasle
L’Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993)

Categories
Disappointment Excuses, justification Love Valentine

“I love you” is such an inadequate way of saying I love you


Bernhardt, Crawford
Possessed (1947)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

Anticonstitutionnelle-ment, qu’est-ce que ça veut dire ?

 

Grémillon, Gabin, Balin
Gueule d’amour (1937)

Categories
Love

Les actes sont plus éloquents que les paroles

 

Hitchcock, Bergman, Grant
Notorious (1946)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

You’ll get much further with the Lord if you learn not to offend his ears


Cukor, Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn
My Fair Lady (1964)

Categories
Congratulations, compliments Inspirational, advice

Well, go on, go on, go on


Cukor, Audrey Hepburn
My Fair Lady (1964)

Categories
Uncategorized

The rine in Spine stays minely in the pline


Cukor, Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn
My Fair Lady (1964)

Categories
Disappointment

No, no, “a cup of tea”

Cukor, Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn
My Fair Lady (1964)

Categories
Uncategorized

Cup, cup, cup, cup, of, of, of, of

 

Cukor, Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn
My Fair Lady (1964)

Categories
Love Shame, guilt Stress, worry

Emballez-moi. Emballez-le-moi, je veux dire

— Well, I give in. I mean, I give up.

— Thank you.
— Very good.

— I’ll wrap it up.
— You’ll wrap it up.

See full transcript

 

Lean, Hepburn, Brazzi
Summertime (1955)

Categories
Uncategorized

Ça représente le Ciel


Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Categories
Reproach, rudeness

I have known many asses that understood and even spoke latin


Paracelsus (1943)

Categories
Hope, desire Uncategorized

Understand?


Renoir, Gabin
La Grande Illusion (1937)

Categories
Uncategorized

French


Renoir, Gabin
La Grande Illusion (1937)

Categories
Uncategorized

Seules les langues romanes permettent


Kubrick, Mason, Winters
Lolita (1961)

Categories
Uncategorized

What words can I speak that they will heed ?


The Ten Commandments (1956)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

Tu parles français ?


Groundhog Day (1993)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

Tu parles français ?


Groundhog Day (1993)

Categories
Excuses, justification Refusal

Je n’ai pas aimé la question


Allen
Cassandra’s Dream (2007)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

De quoi on parle ?

 

Allen
Cassandra’s Dream (2007)

Categories
Thank you

Les mots me manquent


The Meaning of Life (1983)

Categories
Threat, orders

Je vois ce que vous voulez dire


John Ford, Fonda
My Darling Clementine (1946)

Categories
Uncategorized

Je suis fasciné par les langues


Tolkien (2019)

Categories
Reproach, rudeness

I think people that talk in metaphors ought to shampoo my crotch

Nicholson
As Good as It Gets (1997)

Categories
Fear

Fear is when you feel hot. Terror is when you feel cold


Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)

Categories
Work

Learn Japanese to work here


Musuko (1991)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

The language of Ancient Egypt, not heard on this earth for 2,000 years

 

The Mummy (1932)

Categories
Invitation, party Surprise, wonder

Tell me, just what is a “Bar-B-Q”?


Leslie Howard
The Petrified Forest (1936)

Categories
Love

And we didn’t say a thing


Wilder, MacMurray, Stanwyck
Double Indemnity (1944)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Refusal

I think one should just keep quiet, live in silence


Godard, Karina
Vivre sa vie (1962)

Categories
Disappointment Refusal

These are words I don’t understand


Godard, Karina
Alphaville (1965)

Categories
Love Refusal

In love? What does that mean?


Godard, Karina
Alphaville (1965)

Categories
Uncategorized

Eliot said: poetry is what’s untranslatable

Plutôt que T. S. Eliot, Roman Jakobson, “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation” (1966)

Kieślowski
Le Décalogue (1989)

Categories
Uncategorized

But they don’t mean it


Clément, Fossey, Poujouly
Jeux interdits (1952)

Categories
Reproach, rudeness

Toi, tu commences à parler d’un truc, et paf…

You got a way about talkin’  about one thing and then zap… you slide right into somethin’ else


Scorsese, Keitel
Mean Streets (1973)

Categories
Work

How do you spell “holiday”?


Sid and Nancy (1986)

Categories
Happiness, satisfaction Love

They talk to much to be happy

Varda
La Pointe Courte (1955)

Categories
Reproach, rudeness

Do you understand the words that are coming outta my mouth?

(See It Happened One Njght)

Rush Hour (1998)