Roland
What a rotten film. All we meet are crazy people.
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Woman in Car
Are you in a film or in reality?
Roland
In a film.
Man in Car
In a film? You lie too much.
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Corinne
Didn't you heard what he said? Marx says we're all brothers!
Roland
Marx didn't said that. Some other communist said that. Jesus said that.
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Corinne
This isn't a novel, this is a film. A film is life.
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Corinne
It's rotten of us, isn't it? We've no right to burn even a philosopher.
Roland
Can't you see they're only imaginary characters?
Corinne
Why is she crying, then?
Roland
No idea. Let's go.
Corinne
We're little more than that ourselves.
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Joseph Balsamo
I am here to inform these Modern Times of the Grammatical Era's end and the beginning of Flamboyance, especially in cinema.
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Corinne
Paul stripped off too, and flaunted his penis for me. He told Monique to take off my panties. He made me kneel and put my head between Monique's legs. Now my back was turned to Paul. I remember she was describing my buttocks and he gazed at them all the time then came closer and fingered them. The rest of the bottle was poured over my back. I felt the liquid run between my buttock. Paul knelt down and began to lick my ass. It wasn't unpleasant. It was quite wonderful. I felt Monique's bush against my neck, her hair mingling with my hair. While her husband caressed my buttocks, she put my hands on her buttocks and she fondled my breasts again. I felt her buttocks open to receive my fingers, then close upon them.
Roland
And you?
Corinne
They wanted me to talk about it, so that my sensations excited them.
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Saint-Just
[in the midst of a bourgeois' car collision]
From French Revolutions to Gaullist weekends, freedom is violence.
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Roland
Are you going Oinville way?
Woman in Car
Would you rather be screwed by Mao or Johnson?
Roland
Johnson, of course.
Woman in Car
Drive on, Jean. He's a Fascist.
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Le pianiste
There's two sorts of music: music you listen to and music you don't. Mozart you listen to. Just imagine all the royalties the poor man would get nowadays. Music you don't listen to is what's called modern "serious" music. No one goes to the concerts. Real modern music, paradoxically, is based on Mozart's harmonies. You hear bits of Mozart in Dario Moreno, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones or whatever. Fundamentally Mozart harmonies. Modern "serious" music looked for others, resulting in what is probably the biggest disaster in the history of art.
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Joseph Balsamo
Tell me your name, Madame.
Corinne
Me? I'm Corinne Durand.
Joseph Balsamo
Durand's your husband's name. What is yours?
Corinne
My maiden name? Corinne Dupont.
Joseph Balsamo
Dupont is your father's name. What's yours?
Corinne
I don't know.
Joseph Balsamo
You see, you don't even know who you are.
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Corinne
[after surviving a car crash, she watches the vehicle on fire]
My Hermès Handbag!
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Corinne
I went with Monique to her room. Not bad. There was a fire. I took off my raincoat. Monique looked at me. She asked why I seemed to be shivering, if I was cold I could undress. No need to feel embarrassed. Then she helped me.
Roland
To do what?
Corinne
Take off my skirt and pullover.
Roland
I see.
Corinne
I was in my bra and panties. I went to the fire. My back was to her, but I knew she was watching me. I asked why and she said nothing. She didn't reply, so I turned around. She was by the window, her back to me. She sensed my gaze. She took off her dressing gown. She was naked. She asked if I thought her bottom was too big. I said no. She turned around, parted her legs and asked me to describe them. I said she had white thighs and her bush was a black smudge above them. She called Paul. She came up behind me.
Roland
Why?
Corinne
To unhook my bra. Then Paul came in. Wearing pajamas, the coat open. He had a bottle of whiskey. He made me drink. Then he told Monique to go on.
Roland
What was she doing?
Corinne
Fondling my breasts.
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Corinne
Only Gitanes? No American cigarettes?
Roland
In my jacket.
Corinne
None left.
Roland
Take a Gitane.
Corinne
I can't bear them.
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Joseph Balsamo
Anything you wish, if you'll take me to London.
Roland
A big Mercedes sports car?
Joseph Balsamo
Yes.
Corinne
An Yves St Laurent evening dress?
Joseph Balsamo
Yes.
Roland
A Miami Beach hotel.
Corinne
Make me a blonde, a natural blonde.
Roland
A squadron of Mirage IVs, like the yids used to trash the wogs.
Corinne
A weekend with James Bond.
Joseph Balsamo
Is that all you want? You creeps, I'll give you nothing.
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Emily Bronte
Poor pebble. Ignored by architecture, sculpture, mosaic and jewelry. It dates from the beginning of the planet, perhaps from another star. Warped by space, like the stigmata of its terrible fall. It predates man. And man has not embodied it in his art or industry. He did not manufacture it and thus decide its place. The pebble perpetuates nothing more than its own memory.
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Emily Bronte
Cover the flowers in flame, stroke their hair, teach them to read!
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Roland
We know nothing.
Corinne
Yes. We're totally ignorant of ourselves.
Roland
We're totally ignorant of what this worm is.
Corinne
We're both enigmas.
Roland
Anyone who denies it is the most ignorant of all. Anyone who denies it is the most ignorant of all.
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Roland
A little torture will change her mind. I remember a few tricks from when I was a lieutenant in Algeria.
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Corinne
Isn't that a truck coming?
Roland
Quick, off with those trousers and lie down in the road! Raise your knees! Open them wide, you fool!
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Corinne
After a while, Paul asked Monique to change places with me. She kissed my bush while I helped Paul screw her from behind.
Roland
And that was all?
Corinne
Then we watched each other masturbate. Then Paul cried: "To the kitchen, pussies!"
Roland
What for?
Corinne
I'm telling you. On the fridge there was a dish of milk for the cat. Monique said: "What will you bet me to sit in the dish?" "I bet you wouldn't dare, " said Paul. She climbed on the sink, level with the fridge, and sat in the dish. Never taking her eyes off us, she ordered us to masturbate.
Roland
Is that all?
Corinne
Paul told me to stop just as I was coming and to climb up on the sink, too, and kneel in front of Monique. Then he took an egg from the fridge. I licked Monique's pussy, in the milk and he put an egg between my buttocks. When I came the egg broke and ran down my legs.
Roland
Is this true or a nightmare?
Corinne
I don't know.
Roland
I adore you, Corinne.
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Roland
We'll find the way in the end.
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Roland
Toffee-nosed little bitch!
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Joseph Balsamo
Silence! Even God has His police.
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Roland
We're married. We screw legally.
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Woman in Car
[after he smashes into the Dauphine]
You dented my bumper!
Roland
[dismissively]
Bumpers are made to be bumped.
[she pulls him out of the car]
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A FILM ADRIFT IN THE COSMOS
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A FILM FOUND IN A DUMP
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Corinne's Lover
Is Roland getting suspicious? He gives me funny looks at times.
Corinne
No, I let him screw me sometimes, so he thinks I love him.
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Roland
Sure I love you. You're my splendid bitch, you know that.
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Joseph Balsamo
Christianity is the refusal of self-knowledge, the death of language.
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Corinne
It wasn't like a women's magazine romance. I don't know... his eyes were so hard... his mouth, his words. He started in the Mercedes. I told him I went for him. I wanted more than a quick screw. We ought to meet again somewhere. Cuddling in cars is dreary. I said to take me home and I'd call him in the afternoon. I wanted to screw, but I'd rather wait.
Roland
What did he say?
Corinne
He talked about my body, and how I turned him on and how it was vulgar and unkind.
Roland
Did you think of me, too?
Corinne
Of course I did.
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Corinne
I was tired and very cold. I realize now I wasn't drunk at all. I wanted him to screw me then - anywhere, even in the lift. But I didn't say anything. His shoulder touched one of my breasts when he shut the lift door.
Roland
Why?
Corinne
It just did.
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