Suzanne's Career (1963)

Philippe Beuzen: Bertrand

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• Guillaume : How's Sophie?

  Bertrand : You're always with her.

  Guillaume : Just to piss the other one off. Is she sulking?

  Bertrand : Suzanne? A bit. She's entitled.

  Guillaume : Good. The easy-looking ones are murder. It drags on and on. Anyway, I think she's about ready now, don't you?

  Bertrand : Yes, maybe.

  Guillaume : Sophie's too stuck up for me. But you've got a chance.

• Suzanne : If you don't mind, I could come to your place. I won't talk. I'll curl up and read in an armchair.

  Bertrand : Okay, but we have to be quiet going in.

  Suzanne : Protecting your reputation?

• Suzanne : How's your love life?

  Bertrand : Not great.

  Suzanne : Listen, you've got to take things in hand. Girls like to be forced.

  Bertrand : Another of Guillaume's theories.

  Suzanne : He knows.

  Bertrand : Not necessarily. Not always.

• Bertrand : I've always said she was ugly, but...

  Sophie : Ugly? That's all you can say? She's not ugly. Maybe not a classic beauty, but she's very attractive and elegant. She has lovely limbs, beautiful hands. The quintessential young French girl.

  Bertrand : Doesn't make me feel patriotic.

  Sophie : Ha-ha. And men find her attractive.

  Bertrand : Not me.

  Sophie : No wonder. You're just a kid.

  Bertrand : So kids like you?

  Sophie : That's my cross to bear, yes.

• Sophie : He bankrupted Suzanne.

  Bertrand : That's different. He was having fun.

  Sophie : Some fun. He's leading you around by the nose.

  Bertrand : You're crazy.

• Bertrand : I almost lodged a complaint at the hotel, but that would mean...

  Sophie : You don't want them to know you bring girls up.

• Bertrand : [voiceover]  There was a clear physical resemblance, I finally began to see, between all of Guillaume's girls. They weren't ugly, as I'd said, and similar less in face than in figure. Dismissing tall girls like Sophie as storks, Guillaume didn't try to justify his attraction to small, plump women.

• Bertrand : [voiceover]  Innocent or guilty, naive or cunning, what did it matter. By depriving me of the right to pity her, Suzanne had her true revenge.