Another Woman (1988)
Gena Rowlands: Marion
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[last lines]
Marion : [voiceover] I closed the book, and felt this strange mixture of wistfulness and hope, and I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost. For the first time in a long time, I felt at peace.
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Paul : Do you remember some years ago when I showed you something I'd written, do you remember what you said?
Marion : No, I don't remember. I was probably just trying to be truthful.
Paul : Yes, I'm sure. You said, "This is overblown, it's too emotional, it's maudlin. Your dreams may be meaningful to you, but to the objective observer, it's just so embarrassing."
Marion : I said that?
Paul : Exactly your words. So I tried not to embarrass you any more.
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Marion : Then I saw my mother's favorite poem, "Archaic Torso of Apollo." There were stains on the page, which, I believe were her tears. They fell across the last line, "For here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life."
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Marion : Fifty. I didn't think anything turning thirty. Everybody said I would. Then they said I'd be crushed turning forty, but they were wrong. I didn't give it a second's thought. Then they said that I'd be traumatized when I hit fifty, and they were right. I'll tell you the truth, I don't think I've ever recovered my balance since turning fifty.
Hope : Oh, gee, fifty's not so old.
Marion : No, I know it isn't, but... you just suddenly look up and see where you are.
Hope : You're in a good spot, aren't you?
Marion : Well, I thought I was. But then there's chances gone by you can't have back again.
Hope : Like what?
Marion : I don't know. Maybe it would be nice to have a child.
Hope : You really think that?
Marion : I do. I never said it before, but I do.
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[first lines]
Marion : [voiceover] If someone had asked me when I reached my fifties to assess my life, I would have said that I had achieved a decent measure of fulfillment, both personally and professionally. Beyond that, I would say I don't choose to delve.
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Marion : I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost.
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Marion : But you want nothing around to even remind you of mother?
Marion's Father : Well, there are times when even an historian shouldn't look at the past.
Laura : Do you think at your age you can find someone and fall in love again?
Marion's Father : One hopes at my age to build up an immunity.
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Marion : Don't make something romantic sound infantile...
Ken : Hey, but it's the same level of maturity as sex on the floor.
Marion : Well, we might as well have it on the floor, we certainly don't have it in bed anymore.
Ken : I don't believe we're having this discussion.
Marion : Why have you stopped sleeping with me?
Ken : We are simply going through a less active period, that's all. Its not uncommon.
Marion : Why? I just want to know why?
Ken : Why don't we just go to bed.
Marion : There was a time that we were dying to be together.
Ken : Marion, you're still the most desirable woman that I know.
Marion : But, we won't make love tonight, because, they'll be some excuse. I hadn't realized how much of that had slipped away, until today.