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Maxence: I must steer clear of dreary bourgeoisie art, I must be avant-garde and paint what's in my heart.
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Delphine: Did he have a camera?
Solange: No.
Delphine: Then how did you know he was an American?
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Simon Dame: [singing] How very sad it was the night she fled the scene, she didn't want the name of Madame Guillotine. She had this silly fear that if she went to bed, she'd suddenly wake up one day without her head
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Solange: It's Jules and Jim!
Bill: Hello, Miss.
Etienne: Hello.
Delphine: You two again!
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Maxence: Paris is small for great passion like us.
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[first lines]
[in French, using English subtitles]
Bill: Set up here?
Etienne: OK.
Bill: OK.
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[last lines]
[last spoken lines, in French, using English subtitles]
Etienne: Hurry, they're waiting.
Delphine: Solange isn't here?
Etienne: Too bad.
Delphine: But we were to meet at noon.
Bill: It's nearly half past, get in!
Delphine: Wait. Here she comes!
Etienne: No, it's Josette.
Josette: Wait for me! Take me, I want to see Paris.
Etienne: Hop in.
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[last lines]
[sung, in French, using English subtitles]
Bill, Etienne, Josette: [singing] We go from place to place, Across rivers and valleys. / They call us carnies, The road is our home base.
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Delphine, Solange: [singing] We are a pair of twins born in the sign of Gemini, Mi fa so la mi re, Re mifa so so so re do, We're two demoiselles who took to the boys long ago, Mi fa so la mi re, Re mifa so so so re do.
Delphine: Our mama brought us up on her own, Working herself all her life to the bone.
Solange: To make sure our minds could expand, She's spent all her time behind a French-fry stand.
Delphine, Solange: Papa was somebody that we never knew, But when we undress one thing is true, In the small of our backs - in the very same place.
Delphine: There's the same beauty spot
Solange: He had on his face...
Delphine, Solange: We are a pair of twins born in the sign of Gemini, Mi fa so la mi re, Re mifa so so so re do, Who love catchy tunes, silly puns and repartee, Mi fa so la mi re, Re mifa so so so re do...
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Yvonne Garnier: How do you treat the ladies?
Etienne: They aren't our ladies... not really.
Yvonne Garnier: Performers?
Etienne: The blonde does an Indian shimmy, the redhead a Chinese shimmy.
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Etienne: We all seek our feminine ideal. He's not the only one.
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Yvonne Garnier: I'm afraid I can never get out. I'm confined to this aquarium. Me, who was meant to live in the open air on the Pacific shore, listening to sweet music and reading poetry.
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Bill: You're quite pretty.
Delphine: So I've been told.
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Guillaume Lancien: Hello, dear rose. You're lovely, dear soul.
Delphine: By "soul" you mean my body.
Guillaume Lancien: You're so right, dear heart.
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Guillaume Lancien: I love you and that fills me with pride and craving, since I want you.
Delphine: I inspire your baser feelings.
Guillaume Lancien: And gluttony and lust.
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Yvonne Garnier: Delphine - my daughter.
Etienne: She's a peach.
Bill: So are you.
Yvonne Garnier: So I've been told.
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Solange: Sweetie, guys like that don't hang out in Rochefort.
Delphine: Not right now. He's in Paris. He did my portrait.
Solange: Who is it? You never mentioned him.
Delphine: A painter. I don't know him. He exists and he loves me. But I've never seen him.
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Delphine: You'll never get a man, old girl.
Solange: You were born 12 minutes later, so don't "old girl" me!
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Bill: Miss! Miss, your slip is showing.
Solange: So I've been told.
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Etienne, Bill: [singing] Fly away, turtledoves, Get along to your tropics, Since our eyes are not topics to make you melt with love,
Bill: Since our eyes
Etienne: Are not topics
Etienne, Bill: To make your melt with love, Go on then, my lovelies, Good sailing and good loving.
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Maxence: Braque, Picasso, Klee, Miró, Matisse - - that's life!
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Yvonne Garnier: You won't find anyone here to do an Asian shimmy.
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Yvonne Garnier: Oh, my God! One of Booboo's pranks.
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Maxence: [singing] I've searched for her, I've traveled countless miles, From Bali to Lima, Across the South Sea isles, From deep river beds to beds where young girls smile, I keep running after her, Hoping all the while, Just knowing she's alive makes her my beacon fire...
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Maxence: [singing] Knowing she's out there fills me with more desire, Than all the naked girls in my wildest fantasies...
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Maxence: [singing] , I've looked everywhere, I've sailed the seven seas. Can she be far? Is she close to me? I couldn't say, But I know that she exists, Is she a wicked girl or born to royalty? A movie celebrity? Or a simple florist? I know she'll belong to me.
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Etienne: To liven up our stand at the fair, we thought - - Well, it was Bill's idea. We thought that maybe you could do a number - - something lively.
Solange: A number?
Delphine: They think we're strippers.
Solange: Obviously.
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Solange: [singing] Would you like Mozart?
Delphine: Would you like Stravinsky?
Solange: Johann Sebastian Bach?
Delphine: Or maybe Boguslawski?
Solange: Louis Armstrong? Ellington? Count Basie or Hampton?
Delphine: Or maybe you'd prefer Michel Legrand?
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Etienne: [singing] Sing of love
Bill: Or even hate
Bill, Etienne: Just make it bright
Solange: Sing today
Delphine: Dance tonight
Delphine, Solange: Sing of light
Etienne: Dance for joy
Bill: Sing of wind
Bill, Etienne: Sing of sun and rain. Fire us!
Delphine, Solange: Inspire us!
Bill, Etienne: Enchant and astonish us...
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Delphine, Solange: [sinigng] Passion
Bill, Etienne: Spirit
Delphine, Solange: Love
Bill, Etienne: Folly
Delphine, Solange: Genius
Bill, Etienne: Joy
Delphine, Solange: Love and happiness...
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Yvonne Garnier: Going somewhere?
Maxence: I have two days of leave left. I'm going home to Nantes. My leave's immi-Nantes!
Yvonne Garnier: [laughs] Aren't you funny!
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Yvonne Garnier: Ever heard of Lola-Lola?
Pépé: I've never known any dancers.
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Solange: [singing] Why all the boxes?
Delphine: Our costumes, fit for a queen
Solange: Quick! Let me see!
Delphine: So simple, they suit us to a T! Nifty!
Solange: Naughty!
Boubou Garnier: I'm hungry!
Delphine: We're going, just wait a minute more
Solange: Won't we look a bit like whores?
Delphine: Funny, the idea never occurred to me
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Andy Miller: [singing] Can she be far? Is she near to me? I never saw her again, but I know now she exists. Is she chaste? Or does she live fast and free? Her virtue means nothing because I am an artist. And love is the sole authority.
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Yvonne Garnier: The sandman's gone a bit insane. He sprinkled Booboo with champagne.
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Delphine, Solange: [singing] Love your life
Delphine: Love the flowers
Solange: Love to laugh, love to cry
Delphine: Love the day
Solange: Love the night
Delphine: Love the sunshine and showers
Solange: Love the cold
Delphine: Love the wind
Solange: Love the cities and the fields
Delphine: Love the sea
Solange: Love the flames
Delphine, Solange: Love the world and be happy again
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Solange: Well, we got applause.
Etienne: Not quite the Asian shimmy, but it's got charm.
Solange: Enough out of you!
Delphine: Go find your shimmiers, you boors!
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Bill: We're in love with you.
Delphine: What are they talking about?
Etienne: So we want to sleep with you.
Delphine, Solange: What?
Bill: It's normal when you're in love.
Delphine: That explains the ride?
Solange: We'll take the train. Ha-ha.
Etienne: You're not very accommodating.
The Young Girls of Rochefort Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Jacques Demy
Language: French,English Release date: April 11, 1968