French Exit (2020)

Michelle Pfeiffer: Frances Price

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• Mr. Baker : What did you think was going to happen, Frances? What was your plan?

  Frances Price : My plan was to die before the money ran out. But I kept and keep not dying and - here I am.

• Frances Price : Look, what was done or not done was done or not done for a very good, very real reason.

• Malcolm Price : What happened when you saw me?

  Frances Price : Oh, I've never been so *hurt* by something in my life as when I saw your face for the first time.

  Malcolm Price : Why?

  Frances Price : Because you were your father. Because you were me. Because you were *all* three of us. So ruinous.

• [first lines] 

  Frances Price : Good morning. What do you want to do?

• Frances Price : Oh, to be youngish and in lovish.

• Joan : What about my apartment in Paris? I haven't been there in a year. It's just sitting empty. To get out of New York is the thing, honey. It's sensible.

  Frances Price : Sensible.

  Joan : Sensible.

  Frances Price : Sensible.

• Frances Price : Did you drink to the brink of sound reasoning? Were you driven to insomnia by the violence of your muse?

  Malcolm Price : No.

  Frances Price : Menstruating?

• Frances Price : Your father and I stayed around here in a hotel for our honeymoon.

  Malcolm Price : I can't imagine you two on a honeymoon.

  Frances Price : It was all the normal things. Hotels and the flowers and the champagne. It's strange to think he was actually fun, but in the beginning, he really was.

• Frances Price : It's been decided that we're going to go to Paris.

  Malcolm Price : We are? For how long?

  Frances Price : Oh, difficult to say. Perhaps, for the rest of our lives.

• Customs Agent : What is the purpose of your trip?

  Frances Price : We're vacationists. I want to see the Eiffel Tower, then die.

  Customs Agent : Madame?

  Frances Price : Chasing after youthful fantasies.

• Frances Price : [after observing a dildo in Mme. Reynard's freezer]  I've never understood them.

  Malcolm Price : What's to understand?

  Frances Price : Is it something one uses alone or with someone there to - help?

  Malcolm Price : Either or.

  Frances Price : Hmm. But why would you want it cold?

  Malcolm Price : That's the mystery.

• Frances Price : I've always admired your heart. Your heart is the rightest of all.

• Julius : What is your relationship to this woman, madame?

  Frances Price : None, whatsoever. My son knows her, though. Carnally.

• Frances Price : I saw a man's penis yesterday. He was pissing in the park opposite the apartment. Have you noticed men simply take them out and use them here. There was no harm in it, I suppose, but, it does take some getting used to. Yesterday's was memorably large. What a gift that must be for a man. What a lottery life is. It was nice to see it, I'll admit.

• Joan : I had a moment earlier this year when I realized when you get older you don't even want love. Not kind we believed in when we were younger. Who has the energy for that? When I think of the way we used to carry on about it.

  Frances Price : Oh, I know.

  Joan : Men and women throwing themselves out of windows. What you want is to know someone's there; but you also want them to leave you alone.

• Mme Reynard : You're lucky.

  Malcolm Price : I've always been lucky.

  Mme Reynard : Have you? I've been neither lucky nor unlucky. I've been luckless.

  Frances Price : I've been incredibly lucky at times and - tragically unlucky at others.

  Madeleine the Medium : I've only been unlucky. But I have a sense that this'll change suddenly and permanently. Anyway, that's what I tell myself.

  Julius : I've only been unlucky - and I believe I will always be.

• Frances Price : Your father is an emotional moron. But he isn't evil.

• [Frances is dragging a knife against another] 

  Malcolm Price : Are you cooking?

  Frances Price : No, I just like the sound it makes.

• Mme Reynard : I don't miss them particularly, but I miss the noise they made. That's why I invited you over.

  Frances Price : Ah! You want us to make noise.

• Young Malcolm Price : What was jail like?

  Frances Price : Not really very much fun.

  Young Malcolm Price : What was the food like?

  Frances Price : You're getting it.

• Frances Price : People tell it. Not so many live it.