La Ronde (1950)
Fernand Gravey: Charles Breitkopf
Quotes
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Charles Breitkopf : What are you doing?
Emma Breitkopf : Reading Stendhal.
Charles Breitkopf : Is it good?
Emma Breitkopf : Very instructive.
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Anna : Oh, that naughty champagne! The things it made me do. What you must think of me!
Charles Breitkopf : I think you like me.
Anna : Yes, but that champagne!
Charles Breitkopf : What about it? When two young people like each other, there's no need to drug the champagne, I assure you.
Anna : I was only saying that. We all have our pride. I'm a bit ashamed.
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Anna : Will I see you soon?
Charles Breitkopf : I don't live in Vienna. I just visit from time to time.
Anna : I bet you're married. When a man says he doesn't live in Vienna, he's usually married.
Charles Breitkopf : And you wouldn't feel guilty about seducing a married man?
Anna : Not at all. I imagine his wife would be off doing the same.
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Emma Breitkopf : What is it?
Charles Breitkopf : I should be asking you that?
Emma Breitkopf : Why?
Charles Breitkopf : You look lovely at the moment. You've been transformed.
Emma Breitkopf : Was I so ugly before?
Charles Breitkopf : You were very young. Now you're in full bloom.
Emma Breitkopf : You're very gallant tonight.
Charles Breitkopf : Business is going well.
Emma Breitkopf : I can tell.
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Charles Breitkopf : Alternation is the basic principle of life. Marital love is - How shall I put it? Marriage - is a disconcerting mystery. You well-bred young ladies come to us ignorant and pure. You haven't lived. You couldn't know. But we knew. And what a price we paid! Who wouldn't be disgusted with love after the woman we're condemned to start out with? But we have no choice.
Emma Breitkopf : Tell me about it. Tell me about - those creatures. I find it fascinating.
Charles Breitkopf : I trust you're joking!
Emma Breitkopf : I've always asked you about your youth with those - creatures.
Charles Breitkopf : No! No-no! You don't understand. It'd be a sort of - defilement.
Emma Breitkopf : Oh, it was all so long ago.
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Charles Breitkopf : Emma, you must swear to me that you'll never befriend a woman you think is less than irreproachable. I know you wouldn't seek out such friendship, but these women of dubious reputation often seek out the company of respectable women out of a sort of nostalgia of virtue. What I just said is very profound: It's a nostalgia of virtue. Their own unworthiness pains them.
Emma Breitkopf : You think so?
Charles Breitkopf : I'm absolutely positive. Think of their dreadful lives: trickery, lies, and constant danger. They pay dearly for the tiny bit of happiness - not even happiness...
Emma Breitkopf : Pleasure?
Charles Breitkopf : How can you call that pleasure?
Emma Breitkopf : I'm just guessing. Otherwise they wouldn't...
Charles Breitkopf : It's intoxication.
Emma Breitkopf : Intoxication?
Charles Breitkopf : Yes, intoxication.
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Emma Breitkopf : Who was it? Was it long ago?
Charles Breitkopf : Very long ago. She's dead.
Emma Breitkopf : Dead?
Charles Breitkopf : Women like that all die young.
Emma Breitkopf : Are you sure?
Charles Breitkopf : It's a fact. It's justice.
Emma Breitkopf : Did you love her?
Charles Breitkopf : Darling, you don't love women like that. True love is only possible where there's truth and purity.
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Anna : There must be something in the champagne. My head is spinning.
[Lays down on a couch]
Anna : Oh, what will happen if I can't get up?
Charles Breitkopf : I adore you.