Claude Jade credited as playing...
Christine Doinel
- [English subtitled version]
- Christine Doinel: I don't like this business of writing about your childhood, dragging your parents through the mud. I don't know much, but one thing I do know - if you use art to settle accounts, it's no longer art.
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- Antoine Doinel: You're my sister, you're my daughter, you're my mother.
- Christine Doinel: I would have liked to be your wife.
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- Christine Doinel: I was a virgin when I met him and don't think I'm proud of it. My parents let me date all I wanted, but I was afraid of guys and believed certain things. Virgin at 20 - can you imagine? A walking fossil! A real idiot!
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- Christine Doinel: Oh, my poor breasts. If I have a child, I won't breast-feed him.
- Antoine Doinel: Well, don't look at me. He'll have to fend for himself.
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- Christine Doinel: Do what you have to do, but let me be. I'm not proud and never have been, so I can tell you: I still love you. But I'd rather not see you anymore.
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- Antoine Doinel: l'd like to kiss you.
- Christine Doinel: Me too...
- Antoine Doinel: Tenderly.
- Christine Doinel: Me too...
- Antoine Doinel: Is that true?
- Christine Doinel: It's true.
- Christine Doinel: What's this?
- Antoine Doinel: A library staircase. I've always wanted one.
- Christine Doinel: But we don't have a library.
- Antoine Doinel: You have to start somewhere.
- Antoine Doinel: Let me see.
- Christine Doinel: Stop it!
- Antoine Doinel: Come on, show me. What's wrong with your breasts?
- [looks]
- Antoine Doinel: They don't match!
- Christine Doinel: You're crazy.
- Antoine Doinel: One is bigger than the other.
- Christine Doinel: That's not true.
- Antoine Doinel: I'm afraid it is.
- Christine Doinel: Everyone's are like that!
- Antoine Doinel: Not true. You might give them names to tell them apart. Laurel and Hardy, for example.
- Christine Doinel: Stop!
- Antoine Doinel: No, I'm serious. Or perhaps you prefer Don Quixote and this plump little guy would be Sancho Panza.
- Christine Doinel: Antoine, you're not funny. Now, good night!
- Christine Doinel: I saw you.
- Antoine Doinel: What?
- Christine Doinel: I'm not blind. You like her.
- Antoine Doinel: Who?
- Christine Doinel: Silvana! You like her! A pretty Italian woman with big breasts and luscious lips. Bastard!
- Christine Doinel: Watch your daddy. He's on his way to the bathroom. He'll take enough gear for an arctic expedition. Watch. A flashlight, a book. Oh, the pages aren't cut yet. A knife - and now what's he looking for? The newspaper.
- Lucien Darbon: [to Antoine] Listen, the duck's for Alphonse, not for you. I say that 'cause I just read an interesting novel called "The Mischievous Duck". It's about this bourgeois judge who goes crazy for a little duck someone bought for his son. Very strange.
- Christine Doinel: No chance of that happening to Antoine. He doesn't like things. He prefers people, though he's very partial to yellow.
- Christine Doinel: Mother's Day? I'm so sorry. I completely forgot.
- Antoine Doinel: Mother's Day was invented by the Nazis anyway.
- Madame Darbon: Really?
- Antoine Doinel: During the war.
- Antoine Doinel: [playfully] Did you see those big, hairy hands with spindly fingers and hairy knuckles that come out at night to grab women's legs?
- Christine Doinel: Stop it!
- Antoine Doinel: Don't look.
- Christine Doinel: No, I'm reading.
- Antoine Doinel: Naked men are revolting.
- Christine Doinel: Not all of them.
- Antoine Doinel: Yes, all of them.
- Christine Doinel: All except one.
- Antoine Doinel: Ah, you're right! All except one.
- Antoine Doinel: You remember our first kiss?
- Christine Doinel: I was terrified. I couldn't move.
- Antoine Doinel: What? You made the first move!
- Christine Doinel: You've got it backwards.
- Antoine Doinel: No, I remember perfectly. The taxi stopped and I leaned over to give you a little good-bye kiss on the cheek. I saw you had your lips slightly apart. "She really wants me to kiss her!"
- Christine Doinel: You're hallucinating.
- Antoine Doinel: I'm not saying I didn't like it, but you made the first move.
- Christine Doinel: That's your story! You lunged at me and I just went with it.
- Antoine Doinel: No, I remember perfectly well how it was. Your head was tilted back, eyes closed, lips slightly apart, just like this.
- Christine Doinel: Oh là là.
- Antoine Doinel: You'd been thinking about it.
- Christine Doinel: About what?
- Antoine Doinel: About the fact we'd kiss one day.
- Christine Doinel: Well, of course. Every girl thinks about that.
- Antoine Doinel: "Every girl thinks about that." So you admit it, then?
- Christine Doinel: She made you suffer, huh?
- Antoine Doinel: Oh là là. She really put me through the wringer. What a nightmare! But one night I just fell out of love with her. One moment I was in love. An hour later I couldn't stand her. I was over her.
- Christine Doinel: It must be something she said.
- Antoine Doinel: Exactly. I can't even remember what. But it was a relief.
- Antoine Doinel: The world won't stop turning if we sleep in the same bed, you know.
- Christine Doinel: I'm not like you. I don't like things fuzzy and vague and ambiguous. I like things to be clear.
- Antoine Doinel: Listen, Christine.
- Christine Doinel: No! Don't come near me. There's nothing between us.
- Christine Doinel: Then what the hell am I doing here?
- Christine Doinel: Good question!
- [first lines]
- [English subtitled version]
- Christine Doinel: [stopping at a fruit stand] Two pounds of tangerines, please.
- Fruiteriere: Here you are, mademoiselle.
- Christine Doinel: Not mademoiselle - madame!
- Christine Doinel: [stopping at a newsstand] I'd like this magazine, please.
- Le marchand de journaux: Very well.
- Christine Doinel: [noticing it hanging on the side of the stand] What a lovely poster of Nureyev. May I have it?
- Le marchand de journaux: Certainly.
- Christine Doinel: Thank you.
- Le marchand de journaux: Help yourself.
- Christine Doinel: [taking the poster down] Very nice. Terrific. How much?
- Le marchand de journaux: Two francs.
- Christine Doinel: Thank you.
- Le marchand de journaux: Thank you, mademoiselle.
- Christine Doinel: Not mademoiselle - madame!