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Disappointment

I’d like to think about something but I can’t seem to

Je voudrais penser à quelque chose, mais je n’arrive pas.

Godard, Seberg
À bout de souffle (1960)

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Boredom Disappointment Sadness

I’m not thinking about anything

Je pense à rien

Godard, Seberg
À bout de souffle (1960)

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Condolences, consolation Disappointment

That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world

Farrow
The Great Gatsby (1974)

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Disappointment

Now it was our turn to wear shapeless, shit-coloured dresses

Mustang (2015)

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Disappointment Surprise, wonder

In my books, unicorns are slim and white

Malle
Black Moon (1975)

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Disappointment

Because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus

Une fois que nous connaissons un, nous croyons que nous connaissons deux parce que un plus un égale deux. Nous oublions qu’auparavant il faut savoir ce qu’est plus.

Godard, Karina
Alphaville (1965)

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Disappointment Surprise, wonder

You are so naive

Stone, Lemmon
JFK (1991)

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Disappointment

I don’t mean to be rude but you’re not very graceful

Malle
Black Moon (1975)

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Disappointment

Bay of Pigs was a better run operation

Chappaquiddick (2017)

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Disappointment Loneliness Love Split ups

I can no longer love

Pialat, Depardieu
Sous le soleil de Satan (1987)

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Birth, Pregnancy Disappointment

The advent of twin sons to the Duke was a terrible blow

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Price
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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Disappointment Excuses, justification

The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless

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Malle
Black Moon (1975)

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Disappointment Stress, worry Threat, orders Work

It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms

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Price
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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Boredom Disappointment

Nothing you’ve done was not already done before

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Pialat, Bonnaire
Sous le soleil de Satan (1987)

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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 Disgust, dislike

Life is a chewy shit sandwich

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The Doom Generation (1995)

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Disappointment

Life’s but a walking shadow

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Malle
Black Moon (1975)

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Disappointment

Same old story with men

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Bunuel, Deneuve
Belle de jour (1967)

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Disappointment Love Split ups

Once you’ve had a love like that and it’s over, you grow bitter

Pialat, Marceau, Depardieu
Police (1985)

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Disappointment

Would it kill you to say something?

Coen, Buscemi
Fargo (1996)

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Disappointment Threat, orders

I don’t care about the rest of the world

Wise, Marlowe, Neal
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

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Disappointment Love Sex

We are made of dreams

« Peut-être que je rêve debout… Elle me fait penser à la musique… Son visage… On est arrivés à l’époque des hommes doubles… On n’a plus besoin de miroir pour parler tout seul… Quand Marianne dit Il fait beau, rien d’autre, à quoi elle pense ? D’elle je n’ai que cette apparence disant Il fait beau, rien d’autre… À quoi bon expliquer ça ? Nous sommes faits de rêves et les rêves sont faits de nous… Il fait beau mon amour dans les rêves, les mots et la mort. Il fait beau mon amour. Il fait beau dans la vie. »

Pierrot le fou, 1965

« Et nous sommes de l’étoffe même dont les rêves sont faits. […] Quand tu dis qu’il fait beau, à quoi donc penses-tu ? J’entends qu’il fait beau, c’est tout. Je n’ai de toi que cette apparence, ce voile. […] À quoi bon expliquer cela, si n’est la vie autre étoffe que des rêves ? […] Il fait beau, mon amour, dans les rêves, les mots et la mort. Et la vie ? Il fait beau, mon amour, il fait beau dans la vie. »

Aragon, La Mise à mort, 1965, p. 130-133

Godard, Belmondo
Pierrot le fou (1965)

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Disappointment Sex

Looks like a penis, only smaller

This witticism predates the film. An earlier instance maybe found in Richard Grayson’s short story, “The Finest Joe Colletti Story Ever Written (So Far)”, originally published in WRIT magazine #8, Innis College, Toronto, 1973.

Pink Cadillac (1989)

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Disappointment Sex Shame, guilt

When I spend eight bucks on a chick, I don’t just go home with the morning paper

Johnson, Woodward
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

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Disappointment Refusal Stress, worry

Je n’ai pas d’argent

Haskin, Scott
Too Late for Tears (1949)

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Disappointment Excuses, justification

I wanted money

Bernhard
Decoy (1946)

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Disappointment Shame, guilt

Nous n’avons pas assez étudié

Laurel, Hardy
A Chump at Oxford (1940)

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Disappointment Stress, worry Surprise, wonder Wedding, marriage

Do you know another man that vacuums? It’s abnormal

Newell, Depp, Heche
Donnie Brasco (1997)

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Disappointment Wedding, marriage

Et bien, c’était un peu court comme lune de miel

Haskin
Too Late for Tears (1949)

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Disappointment Wedding, marriage

I gave him 10 years of my life and all my love! Isn’t that enough?

Wise, Stanwyck
Executive Suite (1954)

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Disappointment Wedding, marriage

Oh, well. Any marriage is better than none, I suppose

Mamoulian, Darnel
The Mark of Zorro (1940)

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Disappointment Get well soon, health

A man’s got to know his limitations

Eastwood
Magnum Force (1973)

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Disappointment Get well soon, health Surprise, wonder

But, Juliet, you’re a doctor. You kill people every day

Boyle, McGregor
Shallow Graves (1994)

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Disappointment Love Sadness Valentine

My life, my loves, what are they now?

Linklater
Slacker (1991)

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Disappointment

Je ne peux que vous traiter d’idiot

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

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Disappointment Disgust, dislike Sex Split ups

That’s all that thing of yours is for, making wee-wee

Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)

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Disappointment Surprise, wonder Welcome

You look like a gangster

Scorsese
Goodfellas (1990)

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Disappointment Inspirational, advice Stress, worry

Listen, maybe we should forget the river

Tarantini
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985)

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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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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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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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Disappointment

Their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation

Kaufman
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

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Disappointment Love

Lucky at cards, unlucky at love

Vidor, Hayworth
Gilda (1946)

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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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Disappointment Mothers' day Refusal

Non, non, maman. Écoute-moi

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

Walsh, Cagney
White Heat (1949)

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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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Disappointment

My life is shit

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

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Disappointment

With us you are tough, you’re mean

Fernandez
Maria Candelaria (1971)

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Disappointment Surprise, wonder

Où est le shérif ?

Mann, Fonda
The Tin Star (1957)

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Disappointment

Les Terriens sont imprévisibles

Wood
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)