The Woman Next Door (1981)
Fanny Ardant: Mathilde Bauchard
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Quotes
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[English subtitled version]
Mathilde Bauchard : I've really changed, haven't I?
Bernard Coudray : No, you're exactly the same.
Mathilde Bauchard : You say that so cruelly.
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Bernard Coudray : I've changed, you know.
Mathilde Bauchard : It's true, you have changed.
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Odile Jouve : Such lovely hair! I can't resist touching it. Especially dark hair. There are too many blondes.
Mathilde Bauchard : At the club or in general?
Odile Jouve : Both. It's due to movies, TV. Especially advertising, it's a terrible influence.
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Bernard Coudray : You're even more beautiful now. It's true. We were too young, but now we understand each other.
Mathilde Bauchard : I don't understand and I'm not trying to, either.
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Bernard Coudray : I want to rent the room by the month.
Mathilde Bauchard : Why? We can come whenever we want.
Bernard Coudray : I don't want anyone else making love in our bed.
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Mathilde Bauchard : You, sir, were a skirt-chaser!
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Mathilde Bauchard : [about their sexual encounter] You see, Bernard, I enjoyed it, but it won't happen again.
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Bernard Coudray : I'll get a hold of myself. From now on, I'll behave. We'll just be friends, like before.
Mathilde Bauchard : Like before? Before what?
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Philippe Bauchard : I'll ask Mrs. Jouve to find us an apartment. Perhaps in Grenoble. The woman is a godsend. Do you know what she did last month? One of her old flames who lives in New Caledonia came to see her in Grenoble. She went to Paris for three days to avoid him. She didn't want him to see how she'd aged.
Mathilde Bauchard : That's not true! You've got it all wrong. That man might've been the love of her life. Twenty years ago, she threw herself out a window because of him. He never knew what happened. He doesn't know she's crippled because of him. Mrs. Jouve is an extraordinary woman, but that man never saw it.
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Doctor : Life has more imagination than us. I'm sure you already know - that we can love, or be loved, more than once.
Mathilde Bauchard : To have loved, you must be lovable.
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Bernard Coudray : Your radio works now. I'm glad you're interested in the news, what's happening in the world.
Mathilde Bauchard : No. I only listen to songs. They tell the truth. The dumber they are, the truer they are. They aren't really dumb. What do they say? They say: "Don't leave me." "Losing you breaks my heart." "I'm like an empty house without you." "I'd follow you anywhere." Or even, "Without love, we are nothing."
Bernard Coudray : Well, Mathilde, I have to go now.
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[English subtitled version]
Mathilde Bauchard : Wait. Now.
