French Exit (2020)

Valerie Mahaffey: Mme Reynard

Quotes 

• Tom : I asked Susan to marry me and it was looking good. Then she gets this early morning telephone call. Since she hung up the phone I've been playing catch up - trying to figure out what she wants. And if I'm not mistaken, she wants - him.

  Mme Reynard : Well?

  Susan : I thought I was happy. I *was* happy. But, then Malcolm called and now I don't know what I'm doing. What am I doing, Malcolm?

  [Malcolm shrugs] 

  Susan : I wonder if you could take your head out of your ass for just the *briefest* moment.

  Tom : Wait! It's a complicated situation but I believe we can express our respective points of view while maintaining our dignity.

  Mme Reynard : Bravo.

• Mme Reynard : Do you ever feel that you've had adulthood thrust upon you at too young an age and that you're still essentially a child mimicking the behaviors of the grownups all around you so they won't uncover the meagre contents of your heart?

• Mme Reynard : I don't know who's famous anymore. These people are all strangers to me.

• Tom : Before I met Susan I thought I knew what it was to be in love. Said it, meant it. I'd heard it said to me and been so glad to know. But, what were those feelings, compared to this? This is something else. This is - the love poets aspire to.

  Mme Reynard : Are you a poet?

  Tom : I work in finance. There is, I feel, a certain poetry in numbers.

• 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.

• 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.

• Mme Reynard : I've upset your mother.

  Malcolm Price : Well, she's upset in the general sense.

• Mme Reynard : I believe that friendship is a greater force for good than any religion ever was. Don't you agree?