A Third Wave of Postcards

A year into the pandemic we seem on the brink of a third wave of global isolation. So lets confront the darkness head-on and try and have some fun. Movies help. By the way - the working title for this post was Postcards from the Pit.

"What's wrong?" -- Dominique Sanda in Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi Continis), Vittorio De Sica, 1970.

"I don't believe in pals." -- Juliette Mayniel and Gérard Blain in Les Cousins (The Cousins), Claude Chabrol, 1959.

"I don't believe in friendship." -- Joanna Shimkus in Montparnasse-Levallois, Godard, (from Paris vu par... (Six in Paris), 1965.

"I hate great passions." -- Élodie Bouchez and Gaël Morel in Les roseaux sauvages (Wild Reeds), André Téchiné, 1994.

"Nothing means anything in the long run..." -- Birger Malmsten in Sommarlek (Summer Interlude), Bergman, 1951).

"No-one ever comes back again. " -- Stefania Sandrelli in Io la conoscevo bene (I Knew Her Well), Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965.

"I didn't expect it to hurt so much." -- Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in 花樣年華 (In the Mood for Love), Wong Kar-wai,  2000.

"I'm a little bit afraid." -- Solveig Dommartin in Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), Wim Wenders, 1987.

"I can't play at being in love just to please you." -- Guillaume Canet and Adèle Haenel in L'Homme qu'on aimait trop (In the Name of My Daughter), Andre Techine, 2014.

"All the women around Maurice attempted suicide." -- Judith Chemla in L'Homme qu'on aimait trop (In the Name of My Daughter), Andre Techine, 2014.

"Go ahead and have a good cry." -- Franco Citti in Mama Roma, Pier Paulo Pasolini, 1962.

"You're a little terror!" -- Amanda Langlet and Melvil Poupaud in Conte d'été (A Summer's Tale), Éric Rohmer, 1996.

"Bravo. Giulia, did you ever see your husband laugh?" -- Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli in Il conformista (The Conformist), Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970.

"Human sacrifice has gone out of style." -- Takashi Shimura in 醉いどれ天使 (Drunken Angel), Akira Kurosawa, 1948.

**************************************

More posts like this:

Thirteen Postcards in a Pandemic, May 2020. 

A Second Wave of Postcards, October 2020.

A Fourth Wave of Postcards, January 2022.