L'Avventura Movie Quotes
Sandro
Why should we be here talking, arguing? Believe me, Anna, words are more and more pointless. They create misunderstandings.
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Sandro
[Admiring the buildings of a small town from a rooftop]
Such imagination. Such movement. They were concerned with the architectural aesthetics. Such extraordinary freedom. I must go ahead and leave Ettore. I'd like to work on design again. I used to have ideas of my own, you know.
Claudia
Why did you stop?
Sandro
Why, why, why? Because it isn't easy to admit that a red floor suits a room when you are thinking exactly the opposite. But the lady wants it red. Because there is always a lady... or a man... and so... Once I was asked to make the estimate for the construction of a school. It took me a day and a half. I earned four million lira. So I went on giving estimates of other people's projects. Why are you looking at me this way?
Claudia
Because I am convinced you could make really beautiful things.
Sandro
I don't know. I really don't know about that. Who needs beautiful things nowadays, Claudia? How long will they last? All of this was built to last centuries. Today, 10, 20 years at the most, and then? Well...
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Anna
It's difficult keeping a relationship going with one person here and the other there. But it's convenient. Because you can imagine whatever you like. Do you see? Whereas when somebody's right in front of you, that's all you get. Know you what I mean?
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Corrado
Giulia is like Oscar Wilde. Give her all the luxuries and she will manage without the little necessities.
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Patrizia
I never understood islands. Surrounded by nothing but water, poor things.
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Claudia
Sometimes I wonder what I could have done to prevent all this from happening.
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Sandro
Was she blonde or brunette?
Pharmacist
Brunette.
Pharmacist's jealous wife
Blonde.
Sandro
What was she wearing?
Pharmacist
I don't remember. Some pale color, I believe.
Pharmacist's jealous wife
He doesn't notice the clothing. He notices what's underneath.
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Patrizia
Do you like spearfishing?
Raimondo
I hate it, but I must adapt. What can you do?
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Patrizia
My childhood was like a merry-go-round, now here, now there.
Claudia
Mine was a very sensible one.
Patrizia
What do you mean by "sensible"?
Claudia
I mean without any money.
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Sandro
Did you know that when I was a boy I wanted to be a diplomat? Can you imagine that! Me, a diplomat? It's strange but I never thought I'd be rich. I saw myself living in a rooming house, full of geniuses... Instead, I have two apartments, one in Rome and one in Milan. As far as genius goes, it's a habit I've never formed. What do you think of that?
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Il padre di Anna
How long will you be away?
Anna
Four or five days.
Il padre di Anna
Well, I suppose I'll spend the weekend alone. I'll rest. I should have grown used to it by now.
Anna
Used to what, father?
Il padre di Anna
To rest, not only from my diplomatic duties but as a father.
Anna
Why do you say such things?
Il padre di Anna
It's the truth. Allow me at least this much: after 30 years of never telling the truth, I might as well speak truthfully to my own daughter now.
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Claudia
Did you sleep well?
Anna
So-so. Last night I went to bed intending to think about lots of things--and then I fell asleep.
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Ettore
Princess, why don't you sell this villa? I'd turn it into a lovely clinic for nervous disorders.
La principessa
It's already a little like that.
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Giulia
[admiring Goffredo's paintings]
Claudia, come see. A nude.
Claudia
They're all nudes, if I'm not mistaken.
Giulia
You're good. But why only women?
Il principe Goffredo
No landscape is as lovely as a woman.
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Giulia
[to Claudia]
Goffredo is the princess's grandson. He's 17, lucky him. Just imagine, he paints.
Il principe Goffredo
Anyone can hold a brush. You just buy the paint and start. Even Titian started that way.
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Sandro
You love Anna very much.
Claudia
Yes, very much.
Sandro
Did she ever talk to you about me?
Claudia
Seldom, but always tenderly.
Sandro
And yet - and yet she acted as though our love, mine, yours, even her father's, in a way, weren't enough for her, meant nothing to her.
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Corrado
You say, "How beautiful," about everything: the sea, a child, a cat. Your sensitive little heart races at nothing.
Giulia
If something is beautiful, why shouldn't I say so?
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Raimondo
To think that if there ever was a woman deliberately created, actually custom-made for every kind of promiscuity and betrayal, of soridness and debauchery, it would be her. Oh, well. She's faithful, a faithfulness born from a sort of apathy.
Patrizia
[laughs]
It amuses me. It's the only amusement I know, besides my dog.
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Sandro
[Anna starts to undress]
Your friend is downstairs, waiting.
Anna
Let her wait.
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Claudia
It's not a town, it's a cemetery. Oh God, how sad. Let's go.
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Claudia
It's absurd.
Sandro
Good. All the better if it is absurd. It means we can't do anything about it. Understand?
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Zuria - il giornalista
Please, don't take it badly, but why should I do you a favor?
Sandro
Let's say it's business, then. To help you round up your salary.
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Sandro
I've never met a woman like you who needs to see everything clearly.
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Il principe Goffredo
It's strange how women enjoy showing themselves. It almost seems like part of their nature.
Giulia
[laughs, looks at a nude portrait]
How can they pose that way? I couldn't.
Il principe Goffredo
Why don't you try?
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Claudia
I'd really like to know what you're going to say now. Go on, speak. I don't want you with me or to see you. How can I make you understand? Why did you come?
Sandro
I couldn't help it.
Claudia
Well, we'll have to help it, so you might as well make this sacrifice right now.
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Claudia
I've never felt so shaken in my whole life. Sandro, why don't you help me?
Sandro
I think the only way we can help each other is by staying together.
Claudia
No. I'm sure that's not it.
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Sandro
Why?
Claudia
No reason. What's gotten into you? Eh? No. Wait a moment, please. Just a moment. I feel as though I don't know you.
Sandro
Aren't you happy? You're having a new fling.
Claudia
What are you saying?
Sandro
I was joking. I can never joke with you.
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Claudia
Why can't things be less complicated? You say I always want to see things clearly. I'd like to be clearheaded. I'd like to have truly clear ideas!
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Claudia
Oh, Sandro. I want all the things you want, but...
Sandro
But?
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Claudia
How do you manage with all this chaos? You've always said people irritate you.
Patrizia
You shouldn't always take me literally.
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Sandro
Did you get good rooms?
Sandro
Not really, apparently.
Patrizia
You should have told Ettore. He always manages to get what he wants.
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Claudia
Tell me you love me.
Sandro
I love you
Claudia
Tell me again.
Sandro
I don't love you.
Claudia
I deserve that.
Sandro
[Leaves the room and immediately comes back]
It's not true. I love you.
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Patrizia
What kind of face do you think Raimondo has?
Claudia
A rather corrupt one, I'd say.
Patrizia
What? He's a child.
Raimondo
Don't start, Patrizia. I'd rather be corrupt. Unless you happen to love children.
Patrizia
I don't love anyone. You know it.
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Raimondo
Anna!
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Sandro
Anna!
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Giulia
Anna!
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Mario - Yacht Captain
We should leave now.
Corrado
Why?
Mario - Yacht Captain
The sea is getting rough.
Claudia
And Anna?
Corrado
I don't know.
Mario - Yacht Captain
I thought I heard a boat.
Corrado
Yes.
Mario - Yacht Captain
You hear it?
Claudia
Sandro! Where's Anna?
Sandro
She was here.
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Marquis
[after Claudia walks past] Concierge, who is that little doll?
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Claudia
Anna!
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Giulia
The weather's changing.
Corrado
Please, Giulia. There's no need to be so didactic all the time. I can see for myself that the weather is changing.
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Sandro
How are you?
Anna
Awful.
Sandro
Why?
Anna
Huh, why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Eh? Why? Why? Why?
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Anna
Any more truths to tell me?
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Anna
All this fuss over a swim.
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Anna
You know, the whole shark thing was a lie.
Claudia
A lie?
Anna
Yes.
Claudia
Why?
Anna
Because. But don't think about it now. It's over.
Claudia
I don't want to know why you do these things. It's Sandro, I suppose. Did you get what you wanted, at least?
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Sandro
Shall we swim?
Claudia
Not here! It's frightening.
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Sandro
I care for you, Anna. Isn't that enough?
Anna
No, it isn't enough. I'd like to spend some time alone.
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Anna
I know, it's absurd. I'm distraught. The idea of losing you makes me want to die. I don't feel you anymore.
Sandro
Even yesterday, at my place, you didn't feel me anymore?
Anna
You always have to dirty everything.
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Anna
I think we should talk about it. Or do you think we won't be able to understand each other either?
Sandro
We'll have time to talk. We're getting married. What's longer time than a lifetime?
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Patrizia
[Raimondo feels Patrizia's breast]
You're a little disappointed. Tell the truth.
Raimondo
Not at all. Quite the opposite.
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Patrizia
What do you want, Raimondo? You want me? At this time of day?
Claudia
Bye.
Patrizia
No, Claudia, stay. There's no spark.
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Il padre di Anna
This is a good sign. Don't you think? I think someone who reads the Bible wouldn't do anything rash, because it means they believe in God. So I would definitely rule out the suicide hypothesis, right?
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Giulia
Once the Aeolian islands were all volcanoes.
Corrado
When we came here together 12 years ago, you said the exact same thing.
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Sandro
It's all my fault. Say it. It's what you're thinking.
Claudia
You're so concerned with what I'm thinking. You should have made more of an effort to understand what Anna was thinking.
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Patrizia
This luncheon was the last thing we needed. All these people's vitality irritates me.
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Zuria - il giornalista
How old are you?
Gloria Perkins
Nineteen. I'm married. My name is Gloria Perkins. For the past year, I've been a writer. I write while in a trance and almost always while in communication with the dead. With Tolstoy, for instance, or Shakespeare. But, I'm also interested in working in the movies.
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Sandro
Claudia, what's the matter?
Claudia
Sandro, I'm so ashamed, so ashamed. Did you see that? I was trying to hide. I feel miserable. I hate myself.
Sandro
Do you enjoy saying these things?
Claudia
No, not at all.
Sandro
So why do you say them?
Claudia
Because what I'm doing is ugly.
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Claudia
To think that you must have told Anna these same things--I don't know, how many times.
Sandro
Let's say I did. I was as earnest with her as I am now with you.
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