Are you watching more movies these days? Bill and I are watching a lot of foreign films and have noticed the one-liner quality of some of the subtitles. I keep my Nikon handy and take pictures of the screen. We've started a pool of the results called "Pitiless Postcards". This set of Pandemic cards is drawn from that pool. Collect them all!
"My happiness was only a dream." -- Gérard Philipe as the young Faust and Michel Simon as Mephistopheles in René Clair's La Beauté du Diable (The Beauty of the Devil), 1957
"What a pig you turned out to be." -- Lucrecia Martel's La Ciénaga (The Swamp), 2001
"I've wasted so much time being beautiful." -- Polly Walker in Mike Newell's The Enchanted April, 1991
"And I was so full of scruples!" -- Fabio Testi in Vittoria De Sica's Il Gardino dei Finzi-Continis (Garden of the Finzi-Continis), 1970
"It's no joke. You're in pain and so am I." -- Jean Renoir's La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game), 1939.
"Nothing is possible anymore." -- Maria Callas in the title role of Pier Paulo Pasolini's Medea, 1969.
"You don't have to worry when I'm here." -- the family maid (Kari Sylwan), comforting the mother (Harriet Anderson) in Ingmar Bergman's Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers), 1972.
"There is some onion, if you want it." -- Andrei Tarkovski's Андрей Рублёв (Andrei Rublev), 1969
"...but too sincere. Sincere people are such bores." -- Nora Gregor in Jean Renoir's La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game), 1939.
"Yet, I can feel deep down that I am not a coward." -- Jeanne Voisin in Bruno Dumont's Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc (Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc), 2017.
"To have a conscience is to be open to the world." -- Jean-Pierre Léaud in Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin, 1966.
"Last night you woke me and talked very softly." -- Marcel Carné's Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows), 1939.
"The shepherdesses are waiting." -- Eric Rohmer's, Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (The Romance of Astrea and Celadon), 2007.
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These are fabulous! A brilliant idea!
ReplyDeleteAha! I'm so glad you're posting again. What a treat! And what a delightful game - you've found some real gems.
ReplyDeleteVery entertaining and so apt for the times.
ReplyDeleteah, i was worried about you two. Miss your posts. Hugs
ReplyDeleteAlso, been watching Criterion Channel since april 2019 - so good!
ReplyDeleteI'm seeing a theme for a great photography exhibit, you can even put on an on-line exhibit like so many galleries these days.
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