Arch of Triumph (1948)

Ingrid Bergman: Joan Madou

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• Joan Madou : He wanted to kill me. They always talk about it but they never do.

  [laughs] 

  Joan Madou : You wouldn't want to kill me.

• Dr. Ravic : What do you want to drink?

  Joan Madou : Anything.

  Dr. Ravic : Two Calvados and a package of Chesterfields.

  Tattooed Waiter : Only French.

  Dr. Ravic : Then give me a package of Laurents.

• Dr. Ravic : What's your name?

  Joan Madou : Madou. Joan Madou.

  Dr. Ravic : Joan Madou. I'll remember it.

• Joan Madou : I'm not a good actress. I've only played small parts. In Italy.

• Joan Madou : What are you thinking of?

  Dr. Ravic : Of how dangerous you are, Joan.

  Joan Madou : I'm not dangerous.

  Dr. Ravic : The fact that you think that is part of it.

• Dr. Ravic : What's the matter?

  Joan Madou : Nothing. I'm happy. I told you I'm in love.

  Dr. Ravic : Have you been - happy often?

• Joan Madou : What if I could close my eyes and open them and find all danger gone - at last alone in the past?

  Dr. Ravic : All I can give you is my love in this bitter present.

  Joan Madou : To the present.

  Dr. Ravic : Salut.

• Albert : You ought to go back to work instead of walking the city all night. It's not right.

  Joan Madou : Unwise, Albert.

  Albert : Very unwise.

  Joan Madou : I don't just walk the city, not always.

  Albert : Sometimes you go to the railroad stations. Is that it?

  Joan Madou : Yes, the stations.

  Albert : Don't men molest you?

  Joan Madou : They don't like women who aren't gay.

• Joan Madou : Alone, without hope.

  'Col.' Boris Morosov : Hope. Hope is luxury we cannot afford this year.

• Dr. Ravic : Life is short. We're only here for a few days. Why should I persuade you to do what you'll do anyway?

  Joan Madou : All right, you've persuaded me.

• Joan Madou : Let's go to the most expensive restaurant and have caviar and champagne. Let's be like our parents were before all these wars - carefree and sentimental and without fear. Full of bad taste and tears, and the moon, oleanders, violins, and the ocean and love. I want to believe that I'm married to you, that we have children and a garden and a house. I've given up a great career for your sake. And we still love each other - after 20 years. And you still think me beautiful. And I can't sleep when you're not at home for one night.

• Dr. Ravic : I saw you come out of the water.

  Joan Madou : How could you?

  Dr. Ravic : Then I covered my eyes. It was like Venus rising from the sea. I didn't want to be struck blind. Now I am blind. Now I have my sight back. How was the water?

  Joan Madou : Cold without you.

• Joan Madou : Why don't you ask me, Ravic? About what happened in between. Don't you want to know where I live, how I live?

  Dr. Ravic : Joan, look outside. Ask the air whether it rained yesterday. Whether there was a war in China or Spain. Whether thousands are dying or being born at this moment. The world exists. We exist. Why rake up dead leaves?

• Dr. Ravic : [pushes Joan down]  Now stop your nonsense.

  Joan Madou : [smiles]  Are you going to beat me, too?

  Dr. Ravic : I just wanted to stop that babbling!

• Joan Madou : What do you want of me, anyway? What rights have you?

  Dr. Ravic : None. I thought you had come back.

  Joan Madou : Well, didn't I?

  Dr. Ravic : You came to me, but you did not come back.

• Dr. Ravic : Do you know how it works?

  [shows Ravic her phonograph] 

  Joan Madou : No.

  Dr. Ravic : Oh, it's wonderful. It plays for hours, and I can lie here and listen and watch it getting dark outside and dream.

• Joan Madou : I waited. I waited, and there was nothing. Then, one day, someone came... who wanted me. Nothing but me. Wholly and forever. It was like a landslide, which one laughs at in the beginning. Then, suddenly, there's nothing left to hold onto... when one can't resist any longer.

• Joan Madou : Are we automatons that we can turn love on and off?

• Dr. Ravic : What do you want me to do?

  Joan Madou : Give me time. Wait for me.

  Dr. Ravic : Wait for you?

  Joan Madou : Yes, wait for me.

  Dr. Ravic : I'm a refugee. It's my profession to wait, to keep alive and wait.

  Joan Madou : You'll come again, Ravic?

  Dr. Ravic : Don't think about it. Take your time. You'll find out for yourself.