Categories
Condolences, consolation Excuses, justification

Toutes les hommes mentent un peu

Ray, Hayward
The Lusty Men (1952)

Categories
Disappointment

Tu as inventé une fiction plus dramatique pour ta vie

Park, Pugh
The Little Drummer Girl (2018)

Categories
Disappointment

You feel the vast deceit of your life ?

Pialat, Depardieu
Sous le soleil de Satan (1987)

Categories
Disappointment Surprise, wonder

Le menteur ! Il disait la vérité !

What a miserable liar : he was telling me the truth

Wilder, Osmond
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Refusal Sex Shame, guilt

Il y a des choses qu’un mari ne peut pas demander à sa femme

Wilder, Osmond
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Categories
Shame, guilt

Je dois vous avouer quelque chose

Visconti, Mastroianni, Schell
Le notti bianche (1957)

Categories
Disappointment Inspirational, advice

If men don’t trust each other, this earth might as well be hell

Kurosawa
Rashomon (1950)

Categories
Threat, orders

Ça va barder

There’ll be plenty of trouble

Hawks, Bogart
The Big Sleep (1946)

Categories
Threat, orders

Ils ne l’emporteront pas au paradis

They’ll pay good and plenty for that

Borderie, Constantine
La Môme Vert-de-gris (1953)

Categories
Threat, orders

I’ve got a gun in my pocket

Melville, Gréco
Quand tu liras cette lettre (1953)

Categories
Goodbyes

Ta gueule ! Rentre chez ta mère

Schlesinger, Bates
A Kind of Loving (1962)

Categories
Refusal

Personne ne me parle sur ce ton !

People don’t talk to me like that.

Hawks, Bacall, Bogart
The Big Sleep (1946)

Categories
Refusal

Vous allez trop loin

You go too far, Marlowe.

Hawks, Bacall, Bogart
The Big Sleep (1946)

Frappe-le comme un bébé phoque !

Cohen, Ferrell
Holmes and Watson (2018)

Categories
Jealousy, envy

Espèce de Casanova, en culottes courtes !

You teenage wolf! you male Lolita!

Wilder
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Congratulations, compliments Stress, worry

Oui, j’ai un peu forci. — C’est pas un problème

As far as I’m concerned there couldn’t be enough of you

Wilder, Novak, Martin
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Categories
Get well soon, health

Si vous me mettez au régime, je le suivrai à la lettre

Quine, Lemmon
Operation Mad Ball (1957)

Categories
Get well soon, health Pain

D’où venait la douleur ? — Ici. Juste ici

Quine, Lemmon
Operation Mad Ball (1957)

Categories
Get well soon, health Love Pain Stress, worry

Tu crois que je suis amoureux ?

Donen, Keel
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Categories
Get well soon, health Stress, worry

Je suis très tendu à l’intérieur

Quine, Lemmon
Operation Mad Ball (1957)

Categories
Get well soon, health Stress, worry

Je suis tout agitato

Wilder, Walston
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Categories
Get well soon, health Surprise, wonder

Des gencives fragiles !

(More dentistry)

Wilder, Walston
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Categories
Get well soon, health Sex

L’autopsie médico-légale a quelque chose de sensuel, non ?

There is something so sensual about forensic autopsy, isn’t there?

Holmes & Watson (2018)

Categories
Excuses, justification Get well soon, health

Juste un peu de grippe intestinale

Cohen, Ferrell, Reilly
Holmes & Watson (2018)

Categories
Get well soon, health Love

Moi aussi, j’ai contracté cette maladie qu’on appelle l’amour

Cohen, Reilly
Holmes & Watson (2018)

Categories
Get well soon, health Inspirational, advice Love Pain

Papa disait : “La rougeole et ça, ça n’arrive qu’une fois…”

Pa’ used to say : “Love is kind of like the measles : you only get it once ; the older you are the tougher it goes. “

Donen, Keel
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Categories
Get well soon, health Inspirational, advice Love Pain

Plus on est âgé, plus c’est douloureux

Donen, Keel
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Categories
Get well soon, health Surprise, wonder

Un virus ?

Cohen, Reilly
Holmes & Watson (2018)

Categories
Get well soon, health Surprise, wonder

La vérole ?

Cukor, Stewart
The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

Tu aurais commmencé par le gambit dame

Holmes & Watson (2018)

Categories
Surprise, wonder

Échec et mat !

— Checkmate! Checkmate.

— What? We haven’t started yet.

— You would have opened with the Queen’s Gambit. I would have countered with a Slav Defense. You would have panicked, thus exposing your queen. Seeing your queen exposed would have compelled you to defend her. Thereby neglecting my castle. Checkmate.

Holmes & Watson (2018)

Categories
Invitation, party

J’aime jouer. — Moi aussi

— I like gambling.

— So do I.

Hawks, Bacall, Bogart
The Big Sleep (1946)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

Nous jouons à un jeu dangereux

Mann, Courtenay
Dandy in Aspic (1968)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

Ne lance jamais de perles à des cochons

Neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample. them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. (Matthew 7 :6)

Donen, Powell
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Categories
Uncategorized

Vous avez lu Madame Bovary de Zola ?

Lubitsch, Stewart, Sullavan
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

“Vie parallèles” de Plutarque et la Bible

Donen, Keel, Powell
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Categories
Disgust, dislike

Un livre !

Donen, Keel
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Categories
Love

Aimer, c’est être deux et un à la fois

Oh ! l’amour ! dit-elle, c’est être deux et n’être qu’un (Notre-Dame de Paris)

Lubitsch, Stewart, Sullavan
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Categories
Disappointment

C’est de Victor Hugo, il l’a plagié

Lubitsch, Stewart, Sullavan
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

I always felt like a book is a friend that does what no friend can do…

… stay quiet when you wanna think.

Reiner, Freeman
The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)

Categories
Sadness Surprise, wonder

Funny how love songs are always sad

Carné, Montand
Les Portes de la nuit (1946)

Categories
Sadness Surprise, wonder

Quelle est cette larme ?

Cohen, Ferrell
Holmes & Watson (2018)

Categories
Sadness

Ses larmes coulaient comme une rivière

And her tears flowed like wine
Yes, her tears flowed like wine
She’s a real sad tomato
She’s a busted Valentine
Knows her mama done told her
That her man is darned unkind

(And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine, lyrics by Joe Greene, music by Stan Kenton and Charles Lawrence, 1944)

Hawks, Bacall
The Big Sleep (1946)

Categories
Birthday, aging Disappointment

Une fille dévouée donne à son père l’illusion de la jeunesse

Cukor, Hepburn
The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Categories
Disappointment Disgust, dislike

They let the vote, smoke and drive… Even put them in pants!

Meyer
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Categories
Threat, orders Wedding, marriage

I shall kill my wife

Whale, Morgan
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)

Women seek intense and terrifying emotion because they rarely enjoy it

Larkin, Gail Patrick
Quiet Please, Murder (1942)

Categories
Disappointment Sex Surprise, wonder

Qui diable veut vous voir habillée ?

Siegel, Eastwood
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1972)

Categories
Excuses, justification

Mais nous, les femmes, on refuse de reconnaître qu’on a tort

Lubitsch, Stewart, Sullavan
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Categories
Get well soon, health Surprise, wonder

Une femme docteur ?

Cohen, Ferrell, Reilly
Holmes and Watson (2018)