Lola Montès (1955)

Martine Carol: Lola Montes

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• Lola Montes : When a man is attractive, and you are terribly attractive, it's easy to yield, to hold on, to go almost too far. Now we are embarrassed by all those follies. We are starting to watch each other. We are trying to find each other again, to recognize ourselves, and our answers become questions.

• Franz Liszt : Don't you ever dream of an affair with no end?

  Lola Montes : Oh! Dreaming! Dreams are private. We can't share them with anybody, they are sometimes pretty embarrassing.

  Franz Liszt : Embarrassing! Why? Because they don't last?

  Lola Montes : Maybe!

  Franz Liszt : Because there's an awakening? You just have to cling to them, live them before it's too late, right?

  Lola Montes : Life for me is - a movement.

• Lola Montes : All life is coincidence.

• Lola Montes : One night we'll be in the same town. I'll be dancing and you'll be giving a concert.

  Franz Liszt : It would have to be a really big town.

  Lola Montes : But we'll share the same public. I'll leave my theater in time to hear your encore. I'll applaud you and come backstage. Will you be pleased?

  Franz Liszt : Yes.

  Lola Montes : You'll have a date with another woman, and I with another man, and we won't go.

  Franz Liszt : No, we won't go.

  Lola Montes : For one night we'll hide together. We will be together as we are now. Won't it be wonderful?

  Franz Liszt : It will be wonderful.

  [kiss] 

• Franz Liszt : Ravishing. So, Lola...

  Lola Montes : Goodbye. Goodbye, Franz.

  Franz Liszt : I see that you are true - to my music! Goodbye.

• Mrs. Craigie, Lola's mother : See? You'll have all that.

  Lola Montes : I don't care.

  Mrs. Craigie, Lola's mother : Oh! Yet! The dresses, the jewels, it matters! I would have doubts, if I didn't know the man, but the baron was an old friend of your father.

  Lola Montes : Well, he must be very old.

  Mrs. Craigie, Lola's mother : Old, old - it's a matter of taste.

• Mrs. Craigie, Lola's mother : I'm not forcing you, you know, you are always free to refuse. As for the baron, I danced with him when I was a girl.

  Lola Montes : Then you should marry him.

  Mrs. Craigie, Lola's mother : Oh! What insolence!

• Mrs. Craigie, Lola's mother : Come along! Come along now!

  Lola Montes : He doesn't know me. He'll be disappointed.

  Mrs. Craigie, Lola's mother : I sent him your portrait. He won't be disappointed. You're not bad looking. Ah! If he asks if you play the piano, say yes. As a matter of fact, say "yes" to everything.

• Lola Montes : He told me he was divorced, but this is not true. I don't appreciate married women much, but I hate cowardly men.

• Lola Montes : Send him in.

  Josephine, The maid : He is strange. He frightens me.

  Lola Montes : No one frightens me.

• Lola Montes : These committees, bureaucracies, chancellors, counselors, they choke me! Really! Always restraining, prohibiting. It's not in my nature. Your subjects must choke too, with all these laws, these regulations.

  Ludwig I, King of Bavaria : You can't abolish all laws and regulations.

  Lola Montes : That's too bad.

• Lola Montes : They're against me just because I do have a good figure!

• Ludwig I, King of Bavaria : I don't know what's the matter with them.

  Lola Montes : A revolution?

  Ludwig I, King of Bavaria : If they stop, it's a riot. If they continue, it's a revolution.

• Student : We want to save you. They will surely come for you. This revolt - this revolt is a work of reactionaries. You represent love, freedom, everything they detest. They want to imprison you, perhaps kill you. But we are for love and the pursuit of happiness. We want to help you escape the country. We want to come with you, defend you.

  Lola Montes : What have I to do with revolutions, whether they come from the right or the left?

• Lola Montes : You're much too young for all this.

  Student : No, no, no, no! Don't say that. At 20, I'm not too young.

  Lola Montes : You are.

  Student : No! Let me explain. It's not true. I know one thing. I'm not old but the king was old and you see how that ended. Moreover, you didn't love him.

  Lola Montes : Whereas you?

  Student : You can't help but love me. I'm young enough to offer you a new start - a - a new life. I would fear nothing, no obstacles, no conflicts. There would be no more fame, no more fortune, of course. What I have to offer is something else. A simple life, love in a new land. You might be happy as just another woman.

• Student : Listen to me. There is such a thing as coincidence. I'm the first man you met in Bavaria and the last. Do you remember? You had invited me, I answered, "I'm going the other way." "You'll do that later," you said. And here, I am again with you. We're set out together. It's fate. It was written. It's - it's - it's destiny. Destiny. One mustn't fight destiny!

  Lola Montes : Or mistake one's destiny.

• Lola Montes : Someday you'll learn that people can keep hoping for miracles. That's when you'll find happiness.