Documenteur (1981)

Sabine Mamou: Emilie Cooper

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• Martin Cooper : I want you to buy me a fishing pole with a reel.

  Emilie Cooper : I thought fishing disgusted you.

  Martin Cooper : I'd like to be a fisherman who doesn't catch any fish.

• Emilie Cooper : What can be said about the body of a man I loved? Except that pain can be soft and sweet.

• Emilie Cooper : Stop hitting me with your dinosaur.

• Emilie Cooper : Listen, give me your hand. We can play marbles, or have a bite to eat, or go out in the yard and skip around and dance the polka.

  Martin Cooper : I like it when we're sad and then we say we'll go outside and dance. Don't you?

• Martin Cooper : I love it when you laugh. Why don't you laugh more often.

  Emilie Cooper : Sometimes I forget.

• Martin Cooper : You remember that book about the owl?

  Emilie Cooper : Yes, I read it to you.

  Martin Cooper : He made tea out of his tears.

  Emilie Cooper : Yes.

  Martin Cooper : He'd calmly think about very sad things - and it would make him cry into his teapot. Sad things like...

  Emilie Cooper : Like a pencil too small to write with.

  Martin Cooper : Yes, and leftover oatmeal that's gone cold.

  Emilie Cooper : Or a letter written but never answered.

  Martin Cooper : Have you ever sent a letter and then it made you cry because it never got there?

  Emilie Cooper : Yes, because I never got an answer. The owl would also cry into his teapot over the words "never again."

• Martin Cooper : I don't want to sleep alone.

  Emilie Cooper : My bed is too small. You'll sleep much better alone in your new room.

  Martin Cooper : We could at least move my mattress by your bed.

  Emilie Cooper : No, we'll each sleep better in our own room. It's true. Give it a try. Go on. Sleep well, sweetie.