The Little Soldier (1963)
Anna Karina: Veronica Dreyer
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Quotes
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Bruno Forestier : Got any records?
Veronica Dreyer : Yes. What would you like? Bach?
Bruno Forestier : No, it's too late. Bach's for 8:00 in the morning. A Brandenburg Concerto at 8:00 am is wonderful.
Veronica Dreyer : Mozart? Beethoven?
Bruno Forestier : Too early. Mozart's for 8:00 at night. Beethoven's music is very deep. Beethoven's for midnight. No, what we need is some Haydn. Good old Joseph Haydn.
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Veronica Dreyer : Is this all you brought?
Bruno Forestier : Yes.
Veronica Dreyer : I thought you'd need lights and...
Bruno Forestier : No, no, no, no. This is very fast film. It's Agfa Record. When you photograph a face - look at me - you photograph the soul behind it.
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Bruno Forestier : [taking photographs of Veronica] Move around. Don't just stand there.
Veronica Dreyer : What do you want me to do?
Bruno Forestier : Whatever you want. Light a cigarette. Take a shower.
Veronica Dreyer : Yeah, right.
Bruno Forestier : Why not?
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Bruno Forestier : I'd like to get pictures of you showering. You really don't want to?
Veronica Dreyer : No.
Bruno Forestier : Why?
Veronica Dreyer : Because I think it's stupid.
Bruno Forestier : Afraid of me seeing your body? - - What were you going to say? What are you thinking right now?
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Bruno Forestier : I think actors are stupid. I despise them. Tell them to laugh and they laugh. Tell them to cry, they cry. Tell them to crawl, they do it. To me, that's grotesque.
Veronica Dreyer : I don't see why.
Bruno Forestier : I don't know. They're not free.
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Bruno Forestier : Are you staying with me or not?
Veronica Dreyer : I don't know. I don't know, Bruno. I don't know.
Bruno Forestier : Coming out of Club 58 - you remember? You took my arm.
Veronica Dreyer : Shouldn't I have?
Bruno Forestier : No.
Veronica Dreyer : Why?
Bruno Forestier : Because it made me want to sleep with you. Now you seem to be saying that's impossible. You shouldn't give your arm to men you don't want to be with.
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Veronica Dreyer : Snapshots taken around the world pass before me like a bad dream. Panama. Rome. Alexandria. Budapest. Paris. The bad dream continues. "We went off to war like schoolboys to school." So began one Bernano's novels. I remember the title: Humiliated Children. I relit my cigarette. I feel like one of those schoolboys this morning. Why? Perhaps asking questions is more important than coming up with answers.
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Veronica Dreyer : Where'd you go?
Bruno Forestier : To get cigarettes. Did you take a bath?
Veronica Dreyer : I didn't feel like it.
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Veronica Dreyer : I'm going to take a bath.
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Bruno Forestier : Veronica, why don't you say something?
Veronica Dreyer : I don't know what to say.
Bruno Forestier : Lie to me. Say you're not sad I'm leaving.
Veronica Dreyer : I'm not sad your leaving. I'm not in love with you. I won't join you in Brazil. I won't kiss you tenderly.
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Veronica Dreyer : I could see that the French were wrong. The other side has an ideal, but the French don't. It's very important to have an ideal.