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Good News Happiness, satisfaction Invitation, party

Dans ce cas… Je paie ma tournée


Parrish, Cassavetes
Saddle the Wind (1958)

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Get well soon, health

J’ai aussi bon appétit


De Toth
Riding Shotgun (1954)

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Get well soon, health

Un verre d’eau


Hibbs, Murphy
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)

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Surprise, wonder

Pour boire ?


Hibbs, Murphy
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)

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Refusal

Désolé, mais on pourrait croire que j’accepte un pot-de-vin


Louis King, Winters, McCrea
Frenchie (1950)

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Surprise, wonder

I assume the gentleman is joking


Verneuil, Belmondo
Un singe en hiver (1962)

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Refusal

Absolutely not!


Verneuil, Belmondo
Un singe en hiver (1962)

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Seasons

Sun, my ass!

Soleil de mes fesses !


Verneuil, Belmondo
Un singe en hiver (1962)

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Disappointment

And that the weather here is shit!

Votre patelin est tarte comme c’est pas permis et il y fait un temps de merde


Verneuil, Belmondo
Un singe en hiver (1962)

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Thank you Toast

Gentlemen, your hospitality overwhelms me

Messieurs, votre accueil me bouleverse


Verneuil, Belmondo
Un singe en hiver (1962)

Categories
Refusal Split ups

I don’t want him anymore


Reed, Valli
The Third Man (1949)

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Inspirational, advice Refusal

Parle doucement. — Non, moi je parle fort


Un eroe dei nostri tempi (1955)

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Threat, orders

Où vas-tu, crapule ?

Where’re you going, thief ?


Lang, Glenn Ford
The Big Heat (1953)

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Excuses, justification

Sans rancune

No hard feelings


Lang, Marvin, Grahame, Glenn Ford
The Big Heat (1953)

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Goodbyes Threat, orders

Fichez le camp tant que vous êtes en état

Get out of here while you can still walk


Lang, Marvin, Glenn Ford, Grahame
The Big Heat (1953)

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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)

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Invitation, party

What do witches drink? — Just coffee

Preminger, Mitchum, Simmons
Angel Face (1952)

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Stress, worry

What’s wrong?


Melville
Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)

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Uncategorized

I went to the movies


Melville
Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)

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Birthday, aging

Now, at 46 years old…


Melville
Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)

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Refusal

Rends-moi service, ne me rends jamais service


Pitt
Cogan: Killing Them Softly (2012)

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Loneliness

Peu de gens me connaissent


Pitt
Cogan: Killing Them Softly (2012)

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Uncategorized

Do you know what’s wrong with mirrors in bars?


Shield for Murder (1954)

Categories
Disappointment Love Split ups

Did he find her? — Not yet


Demy, Darrieux, Dorléac
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)

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Boredom

I don’t recognize people who bore me

Rohmer, Lucchini, Ogier
Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984)

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Work

Why are you reading? — It’s my job

Philosopher Brice Parain (1897-1971), in a scene which illustrates his very idiosyncratic way of reading the French classics. See next.


Godard
Vivre sa vie (1962)

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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)

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Excuses, justification

This is really in Twenty Years Later

Wrong again : Porthos’s death occurs in Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, chapter CCLVI : La mort d’un titan). See next.


Godard, Brice Parain
Vivre sa vie (1962)

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Get well soon, health

The first time he thought, it killed him

Pour expliquer à Nana (Anna Karina) les dangers de la réflexion, Brice Parain réécrit à sa manière la mort de Porthos. Voir la scène du film.


Godard
Vivre sa vie (1962)

Categories
Sex Surprise, wonder

Une fois ?


Risi, Gassman
Il sorpasso (1962)

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Love

Your head’s in the clouds, my love

Chabrol, Béart
L’Enfer (1994)

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Happiness, satisfaction Sadness

Le bonheur ? N’est-ce pas aussi un peu triste ?


Fleurs d’équinoxe (1958)

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Boredom

Je vais au café boire un Pernod et écouter la fanfare

Huston, Bogart, Lollobrigida
Beat the Devil (1953)

Categories
Love Shame, guilt

If only I could die

David Lean, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Brief Encounter (1945)

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Invitation, party Sex

I wan’t to make love to you now


Aurel, Avron, Karina
De l’amour (1964)

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Fear Love Surprise, wonder

Scared?


Notorious (1946)

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Fear Get well soon, health Love

I’ve always been scared of women, but I get over it


Hitchcock, Grant, Bergman
Notorious (1946)

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Love

L’amour éternel

 

Reed, Richardson, Morgan
The Fallen Idol (1948)

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Inspirational, advice Sadness

Bisogna fare come gli elefanti, quando sono tristi spariscono


Godard, Seberg
À bout de souffle (1960)

Categories
Disappointment Surprise, wonder

Vous m’avez menti ?


Lang, Baxter
The Blue Gardenia (1953)

Categories
Excuses, justification

Je ne saurai jamais manger ça

There’s a trick to eating one of these things but I’ve never learned it.


Lang, Baxter, Conte
The Blue Gardenia (1953)

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Uncategorized

Un thé et une part de gâteau, je vous prie


Hitchcock, Pilbeam
Young and Innocent (1937)

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Refusal

Non, du thé


Hitchcock, Pilbeam
Young and Innocent (1937)

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Uncategorized

Deux thés, je vous prie. — Inde ou Chine, monsieur ?


Hitchcock, Pilbeam
Young and Innocent (1937)

Categories
Hope, desire Inspirational, advice

Tout arrive à qui sait attendre

 

Lean, Hepburn, Brazzi
Summertime (1955)

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Toast Work

Ça donne soif de travailler à l’usine !


Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

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Happiness, satisfaction

Liberté

Landis
The Blues Brothers (1980)

Categories
Inspirational, advice

Libère ton esprit. Libère-toi


The Blues Borthers (1980)

Categories
Disappointment Reproach, rudeness

Well, you big idiot, you say something


I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)