Time of Indifference (1964)
Claudia Cardinale: Carla
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Quotes
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Leo : I'm sorry.
Carla : Why are you sorry? You change, right? It's another form of change.
Mariagrazia : Carla, stop talking nonsense!
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Leo : When you can't go on, there's one thing to do, change.
Carla : Change? How?
Leo : Change your life. Get away, start again. A girl like you can have everything. As long as you want it.
Carla : What's with you today?
Leo : [pulls Carla down on the sofa] Why don't you come and stay with me?
Carla : Stop it!
Leo : I'm serious. You'll have everything. Clothes, cars, trips. Think about it, Carla.
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Carla : Why did you call me that?
Leo : What?
Carla : Almost-daughter.
Leo : It was just a joke, a game. Adults play games, too. Just like you played games ,here in this garden. You were a beautiful little girl. I imagined I was your father.
Carla : You don't feel shame, Leo?
[Leo kisses Carla on the lips]
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Carla : Mama, what do you know about style?
Mariagrazia : Carla, that's enough now! She want's to tell me how to behave. The world's turned upside down!
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Carla : It doesn't matter, Michele. It'll still be the same, at least for me. You realize that it hasn't changed anything. Only a stronger feeling of disgust.
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Carla : What's happening to us, Michele?
Michele : Nothing, Carla. That's the point. Nothing is happening to us. Or too much is happening and we've learned to ignore it. It's the same thing, the same way.
Leo : A round of applause for the poet! Every one of us has very concrete motives and reasons for everything we do!
Michele : Even to steal. Even to sleep with your "almost-daughter"?