L'Eclisse (1962)

Monica Vitti: Vittoria

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• Vittoria : Why do we ask so many questions? Two people shouldn't know each other too well if they want to fall in love. But, then, maybe they shouldn't fall in love at all.

• Vittoria : I wish I didn't love you or that I loved you much more.

• Piero : I feel like I'm in a foreign country.

  Vittoria : Funny. That's how I feel around you.

• Riccardo : I wanted to make you happy.

  Vittoria : When we first met, I was 20 years old. I was happy then.

• Piero : We'll see each other tomorrow. We'll see each other tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

  Vittoria : And the day after that and the next.

  Piero : And the day after that.

  Vittoria : And tonight.

• Vittoria : As long as we were in love, we understood each other. There was nothing to understand.

• Vittoria : We spent the whole night talking things over. And for what? I'm so tired and depressed. Disgusted and confused. What can I say? There are times when holding a needle and thread, or a book, or a man - it's all the same.

• Piero : What are you writing?

  Vittoria : I'm translating some Spanish.

  Piero : How do you say "I want to come up" in Spanish?

  Vittoria : You say, "You can't". Tough language, isn't it?

• Vittoria : What did you do last night?

  Piero : I had dinner with seven or eight billion lira.

  Vittoria : Or was it a call girl?

  Piero : Who has time to go out with call girls? I'm the call girl.

• Piero : Vittoria? Vittoria, may I come in?

  Vittoria : No, you can't come in.

• Piero : You mind telling me what's wrong?

  Vittoria : Nothing! Let's walk a bit.

• Marta : The six million Negroes want to throw out the 60,000 whites. We're lucky they're still in trees and have barely lost their tails or they'd have already thrown us out.

  Anita : About time, too.

  Marta : I'll just say one thing. There are about ten leaders who've studied at Oxford. The others are all monkeys - six million monkeys.

  Vittoria : But if you like it there, they must be charming monkeys.

• Anita : Why hasn't your father come back?

  Marta : He has his farm and horses in Kenya. He raises flowers. But I'm afraid something's going to happen. They've all got their revolvers. All of them, again.

  Vittoria : All who? The white or the colored?

• Piero : Do I know them?

  Vittoria : I don't think so. They don't play the market.

  Piero : You don't like to come to the exchange.

  Vittoria : I still can't figure out if it's an office, a market place, or a boxing ring. And maybe I don't even need to.

  Piero : You have to come often to understand it. If you get involved, it becomes a passion.

  Vittoria : A passion for what, Piero?

• Vittoria : All those billions lost... where do they end up?

  Piero : Nowhere.

  Vittoria : The guy who wins takes the money, right? From the guy who loses it.

  Piero : It's not that simple.

  Vittoria : But if someone loses, where does the money go?

• Vittoria's Mother : Everything's crashing here. To think things were going so well. Where'll I get the money to cover my losses? I need millions. Where will I get it? You could have waited to make your brilliant move with Riccardo!

  Vittoria : The market always has its ups and downs. It's normal.

  Vittoria's Mother : It's not normal! Somebody's always pulling strings. Politics!

  Vittoria : Right.

• Vittoria : If clothes tear, it's their own fault.

• Vittoria : Is this serious? Is it fixable?

  Piero : With money everything's fixable, especially here. But for some, it was a complete disaster.

  Vittoria : What about my mother?

  Piero : I don't know. Probably lost 10 million lire. Maybe that's a lot for her, but think of the billions lost this morning all over Italy. Look at that poor guy. He lost 50 million.

• Vittoria : Mother says I was tall at 15, much taller than now.

• Vittoria : Come on. You're not going to haggle over 20 lire.

  Vittoria's Mother : Just remember: Millions are made one lire at a time.

• Vittoria : Come on, Mother. Let's go.

  Vittoria's Mother : Where should I go?

  Vittoria : Home. You waiting for a brass band?

• Vittoria : She was born in Kenya. She's killed hippos and elephants.

• Vittoria : This is what Mama's afraid of: poverty.

  Piero : That's what everyone's afraid of.

  Vittoria : I never think about it. Just like I never think about getting rich.

• Piero : Tell me something. Do you think we'd get along?

  Vittoria : I don't know, Piero.

  Piero : That's all you know how to say. 'I don't know.' So why come with me then? And don't tell me you don't know!