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Inspirational, advice Work

C’est pas bon le changement, tu sais ?

Besson
Léon (1994)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

We all need a vacation

Clouzot, Serrault, Signoret
Les Diaboliques (1955)

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Excuses, justification Seasons

I don’t care

Deray, Delon, Schneider
La Piscine (1969)

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Uncategorized

I want a cigarette

Rivette, Béart
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

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Pain

I remember it all like one long torment

Bergman, Ulmann, Andersson
Persona (1966)

Categories
Excuses, justification Inspirational, advice Work

I may live badly, but at least I don’t have to work to do it

Linklater
Slacker (1991)

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Loneliness Refusal

I want to be alone without being judged

Teshigahara
The Face of Another (1966)

It means she’s scared of something

Dès qu’une fille dit que tout va très bien et qu’elle n’arrive pas à allumer sa cigarette, et bien, c’est qu’elle a peur de quelque chose

Godard, Seberg
À bout de souffle (1960)

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Uncategorized

You know, I’ve always liked that word, “gargantuan”

Tarantino, Thurman
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)

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Boredom Disappointment Threat, orders

World domination. That same old dream

Young, Connery
Dr. No (1962)

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Inspirational, advice

Asking questions is more important than finding answers

Godard, Subor
Le Petit Soldat (1960)

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Surprise, wonder

Pourquoi demander ceci ? Vas-tu me tuer ?

Sternberg, Dietrich
The Devil Is a Woman (1961)

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Get well soon, health Stress, worry

But what about tomorrow?

Godard, Subor
Le Petit Soldat (1960)

Categories
Get well soon, health Inspirational, advice

Let’s go get a drink and smoke a cigarette

Anderson, Wilson
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

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Uncategorized

Mommy, I’m very hungry

Bunuel
Le Fantôme de la liberté (1974)

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Love

Heartless, horrible, cowardly, despicable

Cruelle, idiote, sans cœur, lamentable, lâche, méprisable

Godard, Seberg
À bout de souffle (1960)

Categories
Love Surprise, wonder

In love? What’s that?

Godard, Constantine
Alphaville (1965)

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Disappointment

Weekends, like life, are short

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Price
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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Disappointment

Same old story with men

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Bunuel, Deneuve
Belle de jour (1967)

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Sex

Women who wear that love to make love

Pierre : Ce sont des corsages panthères.

Nicole : Oui, oui, mais tu sais les femmes qui portent ça, et bien ce sont des femmes qui aiment l’amour.

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Truffaut, Dorléac, Desailly
La Peau douce (1964)

Doesn’t it give you a headache asking stupid questions?

Inès : Ça te donne pas le mal de mer de regarder les bateaux après le déjeuner ?
Pépé : Et toi, ça te fait pas mal à la tête de me poser des questions pareilles ?

Pépé le Moko (1937)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Threat, orders Work

There’s gonna be a lot of changes around here

Bacon, Robinson
A Slight Case of Murder (1938)

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Sex

Mind if I smoke while you’re eating?

Damiano
Deep Throat (1972)

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Uncategorized

If you haven’t got a penny, give us a cigarette

Reed
Odd Man Out (1947)

Categories
Disgust, dislike Get well soon, health

Tu as une mine affreuse

Haskin, Kennedy
Too Late for Tears (1949)

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Love

I hated her so, I couldn’t get her out of my mind

Vidor, Glenn Ford
Gilda (1946)

So as pessoas frustradas fumam tanto

(Only frustrated people smoke too much)

Vidor, Hayworth
Gilda (1946)

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Good News Work

100 000 $ à la clé

Tourneur, Mature
Easy Living (1949)

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Uncategorized

Reality in just in our heads

Moullet
Anatomie d’un rapport (1976)

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Inspirational, advice

But forget the past

(Le Bal de la famille Anjo)

Yoshimura
Anjô-ke no butôkai (1947)

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Congratulations, compliments Friendship Work

This is the greatest bunch of fellas I’ve ever worked with


Boetticher, Poitier
Red Ball Express (1952)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Refusal

Parle doucement. — Non, moi je parle fort


Un eroe dei nostri tempi (1955)

Categories
Congratulations, compliments Sex

You can get any man you want


Walsh
In Old Arizona (1928)

Categories
Excuses, justification Love

Ce n’était pas mon intention, mais c’est arrivé


Leonard, Shearer
The Divorcee (1930)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

No money is safe where a woman can get her hands on it

Gilbert, Harvey, Basehart, Ireland, Baker
The Good Die Young (1954)

Categories
Happiness, satisfaction Jealousy, envy

She’s so gay tonight

She’s so gay tonight

She’s like spring tonight

She’s a rollicking, frollicking thing tonight

So disarming, soft and charming

She is not thinking of me

No, she’s not thinking of me

(Lerner and Lowe, Waltz at Maxim’s)


Minnelli, Jourdan
Gigi (1958)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Wedding, marriage

One does one tell a husband? One tells nothing


Tourneur
Cat People (1942)

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Loneliness

A great feeling of loneliness flooded over me

Godard
Le Petit Soldat (1961)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

You’re gonna need a bigger boat

Some bad hat, Harry


Spielberg
Jaws (1975)

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Uncategorized

Have you read The Three Musketeers?

In a scene of Scola’s We All Loved Each Other So Much, Gianni (Gassman) is amused when Luciana (Sandrelli) declares The Three Musketeers hard to read. See next.

Godard, Karina
Vivre sa vie (1962)

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Uncategorized

I saw the film. Why?

Rather than to George Sidney’s The Three Musketeers, the 1948 version with Gene Kelly in the title role, Nana (Anna Karina) probably refers to the most recent adaptation of Dumas’s novel : a two-part film by Bernard Borderie (1961).


Godard, Karina
Vivre sa vie (1962)

Categories
Invitation, party Love Sex Work

Voulez-vous de l’argent facile ?


Von Sternberg, Dietrich
Dishonored (1931)

Categories
Love

Your head’s in the clouds, my love

Chabrol, Béart
L’Enfer (1994)

Categories
Welcome

Je suis Orgueil et Préjugé de Jane Austen

Truffaut
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

Categories
Congratulations, compliments

So you’re a novelist like Baudelaire

Truffaut
Domicile conjugal : tournage (1970)

Categories
Uncategorized

Je peux fumer ?


Siodmak, De Havilland
The Dark Mirror (1946)

Categories
Invitation, party Refusal Surprise, wonder

Une cigarette ? — Non merci


Hitchcock, Olivier, Fontaine
Rebecca (1940)

Categories
Excuses, justification

Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?


Kubrick, Sellers, Hayden
Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Categories
Excuses, justification Invitation, party

Forgive me, but I can only offer your the edge of my bed


Renoir, Gabin
French Cancan (1955)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

Girls are like rosebuds. You get me?


Forman
Les Amours d’une blonde (1965)