Marion Steiner: [during the stage play] At times I feel like I really don't exist.
Marion Steiner: It takes two to love, as it takes two to hate. And I will keep loving you, in spite of yourself. My heart beats faster when I think of you. Nothing else matters.
Daxiat: This may sound strange coming from me, but I think your husband, Lucas Steiner, was wrong to leave France. The new anti-Israelite theater laws apply to spectators and profiteers. But your husband, Mme. Steiner, was a gem. He was the only Israelite theater director...

Marion Steiner: You may say 'Jewish'.

Daxiat: Yes. He was the only one to be a leader, stage director and an artist. You see, the Germans are deeply attached to culture. They don't want talented artists to leave France.
Raymond Boursier: [Yelling at Nadine as she gets out of a Nazi jeep] Not only are you late, you showed up with the Jerries. Jean-Loup will be pissed.

Nadine Marsac: What do you want? I was at a dubbing session. We worked late. They offered me a ride.

Raymond Boursier: Nothing stops you, If they had offered you a part in 'Jew Süss' you'd have taken it.

Nadine Marsac: And how! But they didn't have a role for a French girl.
Bernard Granger: I want to get something straight. I was thrilled to play here, in a real theater, in a real play, but if I must take my pants off to prove I'm not a Jew, thanks, but no thanks. Besides, I refuse to take the part of another actor.
Narrator: In the occupied zones, the curfew is imposed at 11:00 p.m. and for the Parisians it is terribly important not to miss the last metro.
Bernard Granger: I've been here before in the audience. I saw Madame Steiner in "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekhov.
Bernard Granger: I'm alone, so I thought we might have a drink and talk.

Arlette Guillaume: Listen, I'm not thirsty and I have nothing to say. Let me go.

Bernard Granger: You've got me all wrong. Do you think I do this every day? No.

Arlette Guillaume: No, only every other day.
Bernard Granger: Do you know what it's like to be attracted to someone? Please believe me. I haven't picked up a strange woman in four years.

Arlette Guillaume: I should feel honored.
Jean-Loup Cottins: I know as well as you do that Rosen's Aryan certificate is a fake.
Nadine Marsac: I couldn't find it at the theater bookshop.

Jean-Loup Cottins: I'm not surprised. It's never been published.

Nadine Marsac: I've never heard of it.

Jean-Loup Cottins: It's a Norwegian play by a Norwegian playwright, Karen Bergen. You don't get more Norwegian than that!
Jean-Loup Cottins: This is Arlette Guillaume, our set and costume designer. Bernard Granger. He'll play Carl. You must have seen him on stage.

Arlette Guillaume: I don't think so. Wait. Yes, now I recall it.

Jean-Loup Cottins: At the Grand Guignol?

Arlette Guillaume: No, it was in something more ordinary. He played a man cruising the streets.

Bernard Granger: You can't judge me by that part. I was improvising.

Arlette Guillaume: Yet, I could have sworn you knew this role by heart.
Nadine Marsac: You read palms?

Bernard Granger: Oh-la-la-la-la.

Nadine Marsac: Go ahead. What do you see?

Bernard Granger: I see...

Nadine Marsac: Yes?

Bernard Granger: I see that there are two women in you.

Nadine Marsac: That's true!
Lucas Steiner: [walking up a spiral staircase behind Marion] Do you think I let you go first to be polite? Well, you're wrong! I wanted to look at your legs.

[Marion laughs]
Lucas Steiner: Wait. Let me breathe in the smell of the stage. Wait for me.
Lucas Steiner: From the cellar, I follow everything that goes on. When the lights are dimmed in the morning, I know it's rehearsal time. When they go on again, it's lunchtime. When all the lights go out at night, I tell myself, "In five minutes, Marion will be here."
Marion Steiner: He liked the Grand Guignol. But he's very happy to be with us. He's a little like Jean Gabin in "La Bête Humaine." Very physical and yet quite gentle.
Bernard Granger: [Arlette kisses Raymond goodbye] Do I get a kiss too?

Arlette Guillaume: You get a handshake.

Bernard Granger: If you insist. Please, allow me. I'll read your palm. There are two women in you.

Arlette Guillaume: Sorry, neither one wants to sleep with you.
Bernard Granger: [being tape measured for his stage costume] I can't stand to have a man touch me, Arlette. Could you take his place?

Arlette Guillaume: And what about me? What if I can't stand touching a man?
Marion Steiner: I'm simply exhausted.

Lucas Steiner: So make yourself comfortable.

Marion Steiner: No, I want to sleep at home, at the hotel. I'll go home.

Lucas Steiner: So you're deserting the conjugal cave?
Jacquôt: There are the Boches.

Raymond Boursier: Yes.

Jacquôt: The Heinies.

Raymond Boursier: Yes.

Jacquôt: The Krauts, the Jerries. I don't remember the other one.

Raymond Boursier: You forgot the Beetles.

Jacquôt: That's right, the Beetles.
Daxiat: I am a paradox. I adore the theater. I live for it, and yet, I'm hated by most theater people.
Lucas Steiner: Do you remember, Marion? Remember?

Marion Steiner: Remember what?

Lucas Steiner: The elevator in that department store.

Marion Steiner: Yes, I remember. I had the feeling everybody knew what we were doing. I was terrified.

Lucas Steiner: You were only terrified?

Marion Steiner: No, not only terrified.
Bernard Granger: Tell me, Arlette. Would you help me rehearse my lines in my dressing room?

Arlette Guillaume: The kind of help you're looking for is not hard to find. You should try a brothel, I think.
Martine, the thief: Ask for Yolanda at the Lafayette department store. Tell her I sent you. She can get you "Gone With The Wind" for 80 francs.

Germaine Fabre: I would never spend that much on a book, even on the black market. But, if Marion wants it...

Martine, the thief: Yes, she said she wanted to read it.

Germaine Fabre: Then, I'll go get it.
Bernard Granger: Boy! I really was on the wrong track with her.

Jean-Loup Cottins: That's for sure. She's not for you. She's actually more like competition. You liked her that much?

Bernard Granger: I just wanted to sleep with her. I don't know what it is. It was like craving a hot croissant.
Raymond Boursier: I took her to a movie once and once to a restaurant. That's all. I swear. I don't know her address. I've never been to her place and she never came to mine. But since she was pretty, I don't mind that everybody thought I was sleeping with her.
Raymond Boursier: You all right? As the boss used to say, the theater is like a bathroom and cemetery - when you got to go, you got to go.
Marion Steiner: Yes, yes. - Yes. - Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. - Yes, yes.
Bernard Granger: [during the stage play] You are beautiful, Helena. So beautiful it hurts to look at you.

Marion Steiner: Yesterday, you said it was a joy.

Bernard Granger: It is a joy, but it hurts.

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Demetrius 2022-03-25 09:01:19

This movie has been on my hard drive for almost a year. . Finally watched it. . Catherine Deneuve goddess~
Michaela 2022-03-19 09:01:08

The best Chufu always stays until the end. I just finished watching it on Tianjin Road. The excitement is broken. Strong. The strong story. Strong expressiveness. The British and Germans. The personal imprints of the People's Bank of China and Truffer between the gunfire echo the author's film and commercial film in a perfect balance. A few songs, so slow down to find PS. There is mention of Hitchcock’s Ibsen’s doll house under the gas lamp and...