Bed & Board (1970)

Jean-Pierre Léaud: Antoine Doinel

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• [English subtitled version] 

  Antoine Doinel : You're my sister, you're my daughter, you're my mother.

  Christine Doinel : I would have liked to be your wife.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Antoine Doinel : Bored? I don't know what boredom is. I've heard people talk about it but I don't know what it is. There's always something to do: cut the pages of a book, do crossword puzzles, take notes. I wish there were thirty hours in a day cause I never get bored. I can't wait to get old so I can get by on five hours sleep. Why am I even discussing this? I'm going to the bathroom.

• [English subtitled version] 

  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.

• [English subtitled version] 

  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.

• Ginette : You know what I did? I bought new pajamas. I threw away the bottoms and kept just the top. What do you say to that?

  Antoine Doinel : Not a thing.

• Antoine Doinel : I don't fall in love with a girl - I fall in love with her whole family. Her mother, her father. I like a girl with good parents. I enjoy parents - as long as they're not mine!

• 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 : What a pretty little bottom this baby has.

  Antoine Doinel : Like his mother!

• Antoine Doinel : You said "mashi mashi" on the phone. What does that mean?

  Kyoko : Not "mashi mashi". "Moshi moshi." It means hello.

  Antoine Doinel : Hello? If you say, "hello, hello," is it "moshi moshi, moshi moshi"?

  Kyoko : No, just "moshi moshi".

• Césarin : So what's your novel about?

  Antoine Doinel : Oh, you know: life in general, my youth, moving from the personal to the universal.

  Césarin : Yes, yes, yes. I understand. I trust I'll get an autographed copy.

  Antoine Doinel : Yes, yes. "For Césarin".

  Césarin : What's the title?

  Antoine Doinel : I haven't found one yet.

  Césarin : Oh, that's not hard. Any singing in your novel?

  Antoine Doinel : No.

  Césarin : Any dancing?

  Antoine Doinel : No.

  Césarin : Then call it "No Song and Dance"! Not bad, eh?

• Antoine Doinel : The end of the month, the end of the road, the end of the movie. I hate things that end.

• 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.

• Madame Darbon : The Japanese know everything about flowers.

  Antoine Doinel : Floral art.

• 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.

• Le réparateur TV : Didn't you get married?

  Antoine Doinel : Yes. I live here. Hear that violin? That's my wife. She gives music lessons.

  Le réparateur TV : A musician, huh? You always did love music - and nice bourgeois girls!

  Antoine Doinel : I never thought of it like that.

• 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?

• Ginette : Is your wife in the hospital for a week?

  Antoine Doinel : Yes.

  Ginette : Don't you get bored in your bed - at night - all alone?

  Antoine Doinel : No, I'm just fine.

• Antoine Doinel : Monsieur Desbois? He lives up there. Monsieur Desbois? That's strange. Monsieur Desbois?

  Le réparateur TV : Probably went out for some shopping.

  Antoine Doinel : I'd be surprised. He hasn't gone out in 25 years. A kind of voluntary confinement.

• Antoine Doinel : This is a remarkable baby! I knew he would be, but he's even more than I expected. I'll make him what I could never be - a great writer. Victor Hugo or nothing! What Napoleon achieved with the sword, you'll achieve with the pen.

• 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!

• Marie : Some administration! When I saw 'em on TV, I knew they'd screw us over. Are you interested in politics?

  Antoine Doinel : A little. I agree with you. They're all crooks.

  Marie : Yeah, but some crooks take more than others. If you don't follow politics, it'll get you in the end.

• Césarin : Working for the Americans now, eh? Do they pay you in dollars?

  Antoine Doinel : Yes, but the best thing is I have time to think. 'Cause I'm writing a novel.

  Césarin : No kidding!

  Antoine Doinel : Don't tell my wife. I write at night while she's asleep.

  Césarin : So you're a novelist like Baudelaire. Did you know he started out in flowers too?

  Antoine Doinel : Baudelaire wasn't a novelist.

  Césarin : What about "Les Fleurs du Mal"?

  Antoine Doinel : That's poetry.

• Antoine Doinel : When we met, I was astonished at her good manners. She was so polite I had to laugh. It was very touching. Then it got on my nerves. "Thank you, sir. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you for coming. Thank you for the wonderful meal. Thank you for calling." At first I called her "Peggy Proper." "Peggy" for her reserved, British side. And "Proper" because that's how she is.

• Antoine Doinel : You should see her smoke. She doesn't know how. She holds it clumsily between her fingers - like a little girl pretending to be a woman.