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Love

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

Vidor, Glenn Ford
Gilda (1946)

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Get well soon, health Love Pain

I hate you so much, I think I’m going to die from it

Vidor, Hayworth, Glenn Ford
Gilda (1946)

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Split ups

I hate you so much that I’d destroy myself to take you down with me

Vidor, Hayworth
Gilda (1946)

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Love Valentine

Je t’aime

Haskin, Kennedy, Scott
Too Late for Tears (1949)

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Inspirational, advice

Il y a bien des façons de tuer un homme

Haskin
Too Late for Tears (1949)

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Congratulations, compliments Good News

Ça a été

« Le génie de la photographie, son noème, porte ce nom : “Ça-a-été”. » (Roland Barthes, La Chambre claire). « Tandis que le cinéma […], c’est plutôt du côté de : Ça a l’air d’avoir été » (La Préparation du roman).

Too Late for Tears (1949)

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Good News Work

Look, I succeeded, it’s there, life… life in that tiny bottle!

Karloff
The Ape (1940)

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Disappointment Love Sadness Sex

I feel I’ve wasted my life

« Je me sens moche. J’ai l’impression de pas avoir de vie devant, j’ai l’impression d’un gâchis. »

Pialat, Depardieu, Marceau
Police (1985)

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Love Sex Surprise, wonder Wedding, marriage

Before coming here, I told my husband all about us

Petri, Mastroianni
L’assassino (1961)

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Inspirational, advice Refusal Work

Si l’affaire te plaît pas, dis-le. Annule-la

Siodmak, Lancaster, Duryea
Criss Cross (1949)

It’s true, women are the root of all evil

Fernandez
Maria Candelaria (1944)

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Goodbyes Inspirational, advice Wedding, marriage

Tu devrais aller chez ta mère en attendant mon retour

Wood
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

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Disappointment Excuses, justification Threat, orders

Je regrette d’avoir à agir de la sorte, mais c’est inévitable

Wood
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

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Good News

That’s all right with me

Sturges, Widmark
The Law and Jack Wade (1958)

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Disappointment Disgust, dislike Sadness

Deep down, everything’s horrible

« Le fond de tout est horrible. » (Jacques Chardonne)

Pialat, Depardieu, Marceau
Police (1985)

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Condolences, consolation Sadness

Shall we have a drink before I start to cry?

Charles Vidor, Hayworth, Glenn Ford
Gilda (1946)

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Disappointment

Their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation

Kaufman
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

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Condolences, consolation Happiness, satisfaction Hope, desire Inspirational, advice

But sometimes the greatest happiness happens in the worst times

Wenders, Moreau
Until the End of the World (1991)

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Sadness

Life’s so sad

Pialat, Dutronc
Van Gogh (1991)

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Condolences, consolation Happiness, satisfaction Sadness

Our lives are filled with sad stories, and good ones too

Wenders, Moreau
Until the End of the World (1991)

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Boasting

Superior to humans in almost every way

Genesis II (1973)

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Disappointment Love

Lucky at cards, unlucky at love

Vidor, Hayworth
Gilda (1946)

So as pessoas frustradas fumam tanto

(Only frustrated people smoke too much)

Vidor, Hayworth
Gilda (1946)

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Congratulations, compliments Surprise, wonder

That’s unusual… in a woman

Arliss
The Wicked Lady (1945)

It looks like our doom!

(Gozilla)

Honda
Gojira (1954)

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Birthday, aging Disappointment

I’ll never learn to be old!

(« Comme je me sens vieux, comme je me sens peu fait pour l’être, jamais je ne vais savoir être vieux. »)

Pialat
Sous le soleil de Satan (1987)

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Threat, orders

Pour 200 $, je buterais ma mémé

Reiner, Martin
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)

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Good News Work

100 000 $ à la clé

Tourneur, Mature
Easy Living (1949)

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Uncategorized

Big cars are the last flash of our civilization

(« Les grosses bagnoles, c’est les derniers feux d’une civilisation »)

Beineix, Dalle
37°2 le matin (1986)

Give women the vote and what do you get? Lady scientists

Arnold
Tarantula! (1955)

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Love Sex Valentine Welcome

I want you to kiss me

Aldrich
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

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Good News Happiness, satisfaction Hope, desire

J’espère que tu es satisfaite

West of the Pecos (1945)

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Excuses, justification Get well soon, health

Viruses are monstrous. — Everything wants to live, Jake

Charlie Kaufman, Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

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Excuses, justification

I suppose I watch too many movies

Kaufman
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

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Disappointment Mothers' day Refusal

Non, non, maman. Écoute-moi

(As quoted in Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid)

Walsh, Cagney
White Heat (1949)

Schweinehund ! — Crétin !

Reiner, Martin
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)

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Disappointment

They wouldn’t do such things if they were practical

(Le Jardin des femmes)

Kinoshita
Onna no sono (1954)

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Loneliness

They’re all against me

Petri, Mastroianni, Presle
L’assassino (1961)

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Excuses, justification Inspirational, advice Refusal

Why complicate life? — It complicates itself

(Popiół i diament)

Wajda, Cybulski
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

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Goodbyes Love Refusal Sadness

I don’t want any good-byes or memories

(Popiół i diament)

Wajda
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

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Threat, orders

Je leur briserai l’échine…

Petri, Volonte
La classe operaia va in paradiso (1971)

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Condolences, consolation Inspirational, advice

It”s easy to die. — Depends on how

(Popiół i diament)

Wajda, Cybulski
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

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Surprise, wonder

What are you?

Yoshimura
Anjo-ke no butokai (1947)

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Hope, desire

You understand?

Toyoda
Gan (1953)

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Refusal

If you think I’m lending you my bed, you’re out of your mind

Losey, Baker
Eva (1962)

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Get well soon, health

A part of himself that he will not allow his conscious self to admit

Lee
I, Monster (1971)

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Sadness

Why am I not dead?

« Moi qui serais morte pour lui, pourquoi ne suis-je pas morte ? »

Demy, Deneuve
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)

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Stress, worry

Pour lui, aucune échappatoire

Siodmak, Lancaster
Criss Cross (1949)

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Disappointment

My life is shit

Soderbergh, Andie MacDowell
Sex, Lies and Videotapes (1989)

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Get well soon, health

Lying is like alcoholism, you’re continually recovering

Soderbergh
Sex, Lies and Videotapes (19!9)