"Argos, Svenskfilmindustri, Sandrews, Anouchka present in light and shadow one of the 121 French language films of which only 3 or 4 get made" "MASCULIN FEMININE" "Never do two glances meet no trace of life, silence emptiness burning..." "The light dims" "Nowhere does the setting of this story without end tell of the monotony tell of the toil every day..." "Nameless this boy from Marseilles tells it twenty-four hours a day tells it with others sharing life unable to be alone..." "No trace anywhere..." "Excuse me, but aren't you Madeleine Zimmer?" "Yes, why?" "Do you know me?" "I've seen you here before" "Could be" "A friend of mine, Robert Poiccard knows someone called Dumas who knows you" "Yes, Marcel" "He said this Dumas might find me a job" " On the magazine?" " I didn't know he worked on a magazine" "If it's Marcel Dumas you mean, he does" "Do you work for this magazine, too?" "I used to be in the picture department, but now I want to be a singer" "Why, are you looking for work?" "Well, I've just finished my military service" "Did you enjoy it?" "Sixteen months without comfort, money, love or leisure" "Subjected to absolute authority twenty-four hours a day" "Just like modern society, in other words" "Sixteen months which confirm that for a young Frenchman even relative freedom is difficult to achieve in the face of established authority when he's had the wrong education" "Sixteen months of obedience likely to become permanent since the military and industrial systems co-exist happily" "Discipline and finance share the same logic" "It doesn't sound much fun." "Now you're at a loose end?" "Not exactly, but I'd like a change" "I often have to work under adverse conditions." "I'm at Napthachemicals now" "What's that?" "It's the big white building near Citroën's" "I've met some great guys there;" "the working class in Paris is O.K." "They talk a lot; maybe that's what's wrong with the Party" "There aren't all that many militants, really" "Working conditions are to blame" "The bosses have cut down on breaks, to step up production" "So a worker isn't his own man any more" "It's work, eat, sleep, and that's my lot, thank you" "I'm meeting Marcel here, actually;" "what's your friend called?" "You're a bitch!" "I'm sick of your insults!" "That's your look-out, you slut;" "you don't know what you want" "Yes, I do!" "Let go of Patrick, I'm taking him!" "Find someone else to slave for you" " Everything O.K.?" " No" " What's wrong?" " Everything's wrong till ten o'clock" " It's five past ten now" " Everything's O.K., then" "Still on night shift?" "Haven't you seen the papers?" "We're on strike" " With union backing?" " The communists, anyway" "What do the anti-communist creeps say?" "I know... the same as the Catholics" "While I think of it, sign this" ""The undersigned, deeply concerned at the imprisonment..." ""...of eight members of the world of arts and letters in Rio de Janiero..." ""...for expressing their disagreement with official policy..." ""...protest against this violation of freedom of thought in Brazil..." ""...and demand the liberation of the eight prisoners"" "Last week it was Madrid." "What next?" "Athens, Baghdad, Lisbon" "What do you earn now?" "HUMAN LABOUR" "MAKES THINGS RISE" "FROM THE DEAD" "Have you asked about the room?" "I can't;" "I was meaning to tell you" "Still sleeping in your car?" "Yes, I'm still at Soissons" "Did you see me the other day in the Place Clichy?" "I shouted" "Yes, but I was with my cousin" " Making out?" " It's pretty heavy going" "Have you seen that girl again?" "Madeleine?" "I can't be bothered with her any more" "Given up screwing, have you?" " The Sports Palace?" " The other side of town" " The Sports Palace?" " The other side of town" " What are you doing?" " Putting myself in his place" "Nothing happened" "So to put yourself in his place doesn't make you understand someone" "Watch this" "May I take some sugar?" "Not bad" "What, her breasts?" "I'll try" "May I take some sugar?" "Fantastic!" " I'm off" " See you on Friday" "Paris today; what do young girls dream about?" "But which girls?" "The checkers at Simca who are too tired after work to make love?" "Eighteen-year-old manicurists and hairdressers whoring in posh hotels?" "Schoolgirls who know their Bergson and Sartre and nothing else because their parents shut them up at home?" "The average Frenchwoman doesn't exist" "Marcel told me it was all right" " How about the pay?" " He said he'd see on Tuesday" "It's the twenty-third today" "So what?" "What about the twenty-third?" "You said we could go out on the twenty-third" "I never said that" "I never said that" "I think you're an awful liar" "I don't agree" " Why "Ha-ha"?" " I don't know; don't you ever lie?" "Never?" "Well, sometimes, naturally, but not often" "How come?" "With you, sometimes" "Why do you lie to me?" "Don't I appeal to you?" "It isn't that" "Do you think my nose is too big?" "Not at all" "Why do you want to go out with me?" "Because you're pretty, because of tenderness..." "Doesn't anything else about me interest you?" "Yes, everything" "Your hair, eyes, nose, mouth, hands..." "By going out, you mean sleeping with me?" "Tell me the truth" "How old are you?" "Twenty-one" "Are your parents alive?" " Do you see them often?" " Now and again" " Do you often go out with girls?" " Now and again" "Yes, I'd really like to sleep with you" " How about you?" " I've never thought about it" "But now that I've asked you?" "Why did you say we'd go out on the twenty-third?" "That was a lie" "Why?" "I believed you" "I know it wasn't nice, but..." "Do you sometimes go out with girls at night?" "I told you I did" " What kind of girls?" " Girls I like" "Girls like me?" "Have you been with whores, too?" "Once in a way; but I find them cold and depressing" " I don't want to know" " I didn't mean anything" "Why say it, then?" "I don't know; it's what I think" "What do you do when you're alone in the evenings?" "What about tonight?" "I've a whole lot of photographs to sort for the magazine" " What kind of photographs?" " Some fashion shots we took" "You said you were trying to become a singer now" "I can do both, can't I?" "I still sort and classify photographs" " Of you?" " No, never" "Are you going out with somebody tonight?" "I saw you with a big, tall bloke the other night" "I just happened to run into him" "That's not true" "It is true... it is" " Where did you go?" " Just to a café" " What did you talk about?" " My record" "Are you afraid I'll make love to you?" " Is that why you won't go out with me?" " Could be" "Why should you be afraid?" "I think you're lovely" "It makes me uneasy" "I think you have very classy breasts" "It's important, you know" "Look me in the eyes" "What are you thinking of at this very moment?" "Nothing" "You have to be thinking something." "Now, looking at me?" " I'm looking" " But what are you thinking?" "What is the centre of the world for you?" "The centre of the world?" "Our first real conversation, and you ask such amazing questions" "It's quite an ordinary question." "What's your answer?" "Love, I suppose" "That's odd." "I'd have answered:" "Me" "Does that seem funny to you?" "Don't you feel you're the centre of the world?" "Yes, of course, in a way" "In what way?" "Living, being, seeing with your own eyes speaking with your own mouth, thinking with your own head" "Do you think one can live alone?" "Always alone?" "No, I don't think one can, it's impossible" "Without tenderness you'd shoot yourself" "Look me in the eyes" "Would it please you if I said I might love you some day?" "Of course it would" "The coming December elections raised great hopes on the Left" "I was now twenty-one." "Robert and I stuck posters everywhere" "Meantime, I made progress with Madeleine" "She introduced me to Elisabeth" "Robert was interested in Catherine probably a virgin, but good militant material" "Great guns in Vietnam, eh?" "Killing lots of communists there?" "Burning the place with napalm?" "Terrific!" "Peace in Vietnam" "PHILOSOPHER AND FILM-MAKER SHARE A GENERATION'S OUTLOOK" "Paris, 25 November, 1965" "I have a blue coat;" "Elisabeth's is trimmed with white" "I share her flat opposite the elevated Métro" "It's cold out" "We lunched in a snack bar on Rue Marbeuf" "Paul kissed me for the second time" "Elisabeth is a bit jealous;" "I don't care" "My first single comes out tomorrow;" "I hope it sells" "If so, I'll buy a Morris-Cooper" "I'm glad Paul's in love with me;" "I'll sleep with him eventually" "I hope he doesn't become a nuisance" " Did you see?" " No." "What'll we do?" "I'm going on to the Etoile" " Let's go to the Palladium" " No, I'm tired" "I'll go as far as Montparnasse with you, then" " How about it?" " I don't feel like it" "You can be a real nigger bastard when you try" "No comment." "No comment, I said" "That's enough; now shut it!" "You know what you niggers are?" "You're killers in the making" "And you know it" "You just dream of being like those Hollywood whores" "All you think of is money;" "it's written all over your face" "They don't even know what it's all about" "They don't even know what it's all about" ""Oh, I adore Bessie Smith", they mutter" "They don't understand what Bessie's telling them" ""Here's my big, black ass!" She's not singing about love" "What, then?" "It's not about desire or the blues" "Nothing like that" "Want me to tell you?" "She's shouting:" "Kiss my big, black ass, that's what" "Charlie Parker's the same" "Look out!" "If you told Charlie throw away your sax and you can kill the first ten whites you see, he'd do it" "He'd never play another note" "What are you staring at?" "NOTHING:" "JUST A WOMAN" "AND A MAN" "AND AN OCEAN" "OF SPILT BLOOD" "The sexual organ is purely natural" "Yes, obviously, but..." "So is sexuality" "I don't agree" "For me, sexuality involves the skin." "I think that's very important" "Otherwise, there can be no real contact between two people" "You shake someone by the hand, for instance and you know at once if you felt anything" "What about the eyes, looking?" "Isn't that important?" "The eyes, looking" "Do you think he's good in bed?" "Paul?" "THE MOLE IS BLIND, YET BURROWS IN A PARTICULAR DIRECTION" " I've no time" " It will only take five minutes" "It's my first record, but you don't care" "Yes, I do, really" "Let's sit down" "Well, what do we do?" "Let's go over there;" "I don't like it here" "Say your piece" ""Eglantine, madly in love"" ""There will always be girls who lie down when asked to sit"" ""The duchess was nude; the little prince was dressed as Chaplin"" ""Not even a bra or panties, entirely nude"" ""Finally, the fleur-de-lys panties had slipped off"" ""She had long legs"" ""Early the next morning I went into the little garden"" ""I've seen all kinds, but never one so willing"" ""Quickly I laid her, naked, on my coverlet" ""Her arms reached out in the most wonderful..."" ""She weighed only a hundred and twelve pounds..." ""...but her plump thighs were like satin"" "It's nicer over there" "What would you like?" "I haven't time for anything, thanks" "It's not that I want to;" "I have to" "I learned one thing when I lost my wife" "It's that you just can't stop;" "I have to begin all over again" "I'm just asking you to be patient" "I have to dash" "Won't you leave me, let me go?" "To you I'm just a girl, I know" "Let me set my life aflow" "What I wanted to say was:" "Will you marry me?" "Let's discuss it later" "Won't you let me know the day" "My first true love will come my way?" "Won't you let me find at last" "The one who'll come to hold me fast?" "For you somehow girls must cry" "For you somehow I don't know why" "For you I'd gladly spend all day" "Waiting for you to come my way" "Leave me with my unhappiness" "I believe in faithfulness" "Give me time to dream a while" "Like a drink?" "I'm sorry about before" "Sandie Shaw's terrific, isn't she?" "I think it's disgusting, exhibiting yourself like that" "How about going?" "I've had enough of him today" "Good idea" "Will you pay?" "Shall I see you at the baths later?" "Would you like to take some pictures with me?" "Photographs, I mean" "It's 15,000 francs to see my breasts" "I've only got 10,000" "O.K., but hands off, then" "You must be kidding" "I want to live with you" "You won't come to meet me tonight" "The stars are falling, Madeleine" "Here we are in the city lmagine it's written, Madeleine, like:" ""Astor, the modern man's cigarette!"" "Remember:" "You were leaving the baths, the same record was playing" "5 December, 1965." "The stars" "I want to live with you, bikini-bronzed" "We'll play the machines" "Look, it's the airport here" "You put on your lipstick, snuggle against me" "We've taken off" "Hello, control tower here" "Boeing 737 calling Caravelle, Paul calling Madeleine" "I don't believe your promises, you've lied to me once more" "You know what my address is, but there's no letter at my door" "For days and days I waited, but it was all in vain" "You broke my heart completely when no message came" "Guess what happened" "I hear running footsteps" "What is it?" "I wonder" "I turn round" "And a bloke says: "Did I frighten you?" "Do forgive me"" "I wait" "But when I go on, so do the footsteps" "The guy says: "Did I frighten you?" "Do forgive me"" "All very courteous, but I realize it's a different man" "I go on" "This time the footsteps go past" "But the guy stops just in front of me" "I look at him, and it's not the same guy" "I mean, it's a third guy" ""You're not the same one", I say" "He looks at me and says: "Maybe so..." ""...but the point is you thought you were being followed" ""Who by doesn't matter" ""If I'd run faster..." ""You would have been afraid" ""But I didn't and you weren't"" ""Listen", I say to this guy..." ""...if that's your idea of a joke, I don't think much of it"" "He looks at me and says:" ""Do you really think it's a joke?" "Well!" ""You just haven't understood", he says" " Coming poster-sticking on Saturday?" " You know I can't on Saturday" " Bring her along" " Hell, no" "Well, it's up to you" "But there are no individual solutions, you know" "One learns by joining the struggle." "You accept too many things too easily" "My problems with women are my affair" "It's all very simple really:" "Women, money" "It's like a movement of perpetual revolt" "I can't accept things like you." "That's what makes me a militant" "I admire you for it" "Join in, then" "I'll think about it" " What are you reading?" " An article on Bob Dylan" " Who's he?" " A Vietnik" " What's that?" " It comes from beatnik and Vietnam" ""Who are you, Mr. Bob Dylan?"" "Old Hitler said it" "And old Stalin, too" "Now old Johnson says it" "There's only one thing to do" "And that's to kill them all" "Hasn't Madeleine mentioned him?" "He sells 10,000 records a day" "I think I'm going to drop her." "I'll find out tonight, anyway" "My landlady wants my room for her nephew" "Madeleine might let me stay with her" "But that bitch Elisabeth?" "I'm crazy about freckles!" "Catherine's a better bet" "Think so?" "Last Saturday I asked her what make of bra she wore" "What a clout I got" "That must be an Oh Yes!" ""Oh Yes!" "The bra that boosts"!" "Do you know why Camille was such a success?" "Give me your hand..." "with your finger like that" "I don't know why I'm joking;" "actually, I feel miserable" "Because of Madeleine?" "Do you realize the word masculine comprises mask and ass?" " And feminine?" " Sweet nothing" "PURITY IS NOT" "OF THIS WORLD" "BUT" "ONCE IN TEN YEARS ITS LIGHT GLEAMS BRIEFLY" "Lonely and terrible the night followed by no day" "American scientists have succeeded in transmitting thoughts through injections" "Man's existence is not determined by his conscience." "Rather, the reverse" "In the near future, each citizen could well be wearing an electrical apparatus designed to stimulate pleasure and sexual gratification" "Give us this day TVand car, but deliver us from freedom" "My dear Marquis, you seem so cheerful" "Joyous, of nothing fearful" "Is it simply satisfaction?" "Or is there cause for your reaction?" "My voice doesn't match my deep and solemn thoughts" "Unlike Boileau" "That struck me when I was at school" "I don't know why, but it often happens to me" "What are they playing at?" "Do you often fall in love?" " Can I speak frankly?" " Of course" " You don't really mean that" " Yes, I do" "You look sincere, but I'm sure you're being defensive" "Still, it's Madeleine I care about." "It's a pity, though" "You said it" "I'm going to ask you a question, too" "Actually, she asked me to;" "she's afraid of getting pregnant" "The idiot." "I'm old enough to know better" " Would you be afraid?" " No, I've got a thingumajig" " What is it?" " An American contraption" "An Air France bloke brought it over for Elisabeth" "Madeleine won't use it; she's shocked" "I can see why she's afraid" " I'm sure this wasn't her idea" " Ask her yourself" " Ask me what?" " Nothing" "My record's number six in Japan" "Who is there ahead of you?" "The Beatles, France Gall, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra" "I didn't know you were warm and lively" ""She continues to create a world entirely of her own" ""The chiselled, classic beauty of her features..." ""...is belied by a mischievous, fun-loving smile" ""Instinctively mistrustful of any kind of insincerity..." ""...her artistic integrity makes her spurn the 'modern' style"" "Stop making fun" "Someone phoned for you" "The memory's gone, I don't know who." "Paul took the call" "I told him to let my poor old mum alone" "No poor old mum?" "How dare you, Marquis!" "Has he gone mad?" "Clear the table" "Madame Durand, your daughters are grand" "But, Madame Durand, their noses expand" "Right." "A bath and then bed" "Going to listen to that outlandish music?" "Then I'm off" "It's fantastic" " What's wrong?" " I've got a flea" "And there's no paper in the bog" "There's a copy of Le Figaro" "Poor Mauriac!" "When you think that Beaumarchais invented the word Figaro and now it's a synonom for bourgeois; it makes you sick" "She's been seeing Robert, obviously" "You keep Paul, Catherine" "No, come here, Paul" " Do you mind?" " Please yourself" "I'm going to have a last cigarette" "Don't switch the light off yet" "Move your backside over, Madeleine" "Don't say my backside, say chubby cheeks" "Don't say chubby cheeks, say jacksey" "No, say my posterior" "Sit-me-down" "Parson's nose" "Fanny" "Bum" "What do you say for sexual organs?" "You say three-piece suite" "Can I put my hand there?" "Do me a favour!" "I've always wondered..." "Not so loud, Paul" "Love, love... in the man's heart is solitude" "And on the face of my naked femininity your face is mirrored" "And my love is in the sea, in dreams" "And we are faced by death" "KIND SLEEP, FREE ME BRIEFLY FROM MYSELF" "Here on Earth, the cruelest star, among men less feeling than stones" "What are you doing?" "Take that string there" "You've heard of the Marquis de Sade?" "Didn't he say: "Once more into the Republican breach..."?" "A nation took up Turenne's sword launching the first army of justice into Europe" "For a hundred years this ragged army fulfilled the highest dreams" "It drove out a king, crossed the Alps and the Rhine" "What have you and I, Monsieur Mitterand, to do with this vast shadow which made Europe dance to the tune of liberty?" "I don't believe your promises any more" "Too many girls have believed you before" "You're laughing at my tears..." "DIALOGUE WITH A CONSUMER PRODUCT" "You're a friend of Madeleine's?" " Where did you meet?" " She used to work on the magazine" "What magazine?" "Miss 19?" "What's your job?" "Well, I was chosen as Miss 19" "Why all these questions, anyway?" "What are you doing?" " It's a public opinion survey" " Changed jobs?" "Yes, I wasn't earning enough with the magazine" "I've always been interested in sociology" "Why do you want to be Miss 19?" "I don't particularly;" "I just had the good luck to be chosen" "I've never really known why, but I'm Miss 19 for a year" "Why do you say "good luck"?" "For me there are all sorts of advantages; it's fantastic" "All sorts of things..." "I have a car, I get fabulous trips" " What did you do before?" " I was studying" " What for?" " My baccalauréat" "Didn't you want to go on?" "No, everything changed when I was chosen, you see" "You'd rather have your car than your baccalauréat?" "I'm happy to say I have both" "Do you think socialism has a future?" "Socialism, did you say?" "I don't really know enough about it" "What do you understand by socialism?" "I won't try to answer that, or I'll get all muddled" "Say you had to choose between socialism and the American way of life" "Is there a difference?" "Of course, but it's difficult to explain" "What do you understand by American way of life?" "Everything going at a terrific pace, very free and easy" "I was lucky enough to be able to go and see what America was like" "What was it like?" "Pretty terrific;" "I really liked it" "What was terrific about it?" "I mean, what in particular?" "It's all so different from France, you see" "They live and work hard, but everything goes at such a pace" "You get the impression that everyone's running all the time, busy with important things" "One thing is that women play a more important role there" "Does the word reactionary mean anything to you?" "It's difficult to explain what it means" "To be reactionary is to be in opposition to react against things, not to accept just anything" "Is it a good or a bad thing?" "Good;" "I don't like yes-people" "Does the Popular Front mean anything to you?" "What awful questions!" " What's so funny?" " I don't want to answer such questions" " Do you want to have children?" " Later, not just yet" "Why later?" "Because I want to live a little first, to be independent" "So children are out" "Do you know what birth-control means?" "More or less; there's a lot talked about it" "What does it actually involve?" "Come on, tell me" "It's so embarrassing..." "I know what it is, but I can't..." "I'm making a general survey of Frenchwomen, not just you" "I see; well, birth-control is..." "Do you know any practical methods?" "I know some, but I'd rather not name them" "Just give one or two examples" "Well, there are pills, to use a general sort of term" "Or else a diaphragm" "Yes, but aren't there other things besides pills?" "I told you:" "A diaphragm" "Do you often fall in love?" "Certainly not" "Don't you like being in love?" "Yes, but it isn't something you go looking for" "It just happens; and when it does, it's terrific" "It's something you can't help, and it doesn't happen every day" "Do you know of a war going on just now?" "That doesn't concern me" "No, but isn't there one going on somewhere?" "I don't know..." "I don't know..." "Well?" "She'll be here in fifteen minutes" "If she appears at the Olympia, I'll kill her" "You're crazy" "No, I think it's disgusting;" "I'll kill her" "Let's talk about something else" "That's between you and Madeleine" "Still thinking about her?" "No, I was thinking about my father." "It's the mashed potatoes" "One day at home we were eating mashed potatoes" "Suddenly my father stopped and said:" ""I've got it!"" ""Got what?", my sister asked" "He'd discovered why the earth goes round the sun" "Of course, Galileo discovered it first" "But all of a sudden, just like that, my father had rediscovered why the earth goes round the sun exactly as Galileo did originally" "So he stopped eating mashed potatoes and said: "I've got it!"" "Me, I made a crack, and got the mashed potatoes in my face" "Did I tell you I saw that guy again?" "The one we went to Fontainebleau with?" "I hadn't heard about that" "Surely Madeleine told you we went with him?" " Remember how cross you were after?" " Not about that" "I thought you were angry about..." "Nothing; you'd be hurt" "Tell me, anyway" "It was nothing" "The guy wants to go again this weekend, because he saw you with me and wants to bring his woman" " Poor Paul!" " Why?" "We're not the sort of girls for you" "What bloody business is it of yours?" "I repeat:" "What bloody business is it of yours?" "I just mentioned it" "I don't care, anyway;" "Madeleine's pregnant" "She isn't;" "I know her" "I don't think you do, really" "She takes her temperature before sleeping around" "She's very careful" "I'm still out of breath" " I've been rushing" " It doesn't show" "Feel" "Well, really!" "Oh, come on." "He's entitled to that" "I met Sylvie at the studio; she gave me a signed copy of her record" "Here you are" "Something less hip for you" "Yes, I'd rather have had Bach's Concerto in D" "May I wait until you've finished?" "Look, I think I know that woman" "She's the one who took a shot at her husband" "I don't think it's the same woman" "She's hustling" "I haven't much money" "I have to economize if I'm to see the châteaux on the Loire" "How much can you give me?" "That's too much" "How much do you have on you?" "Not much; why, do you have different prices?" "It depends on what you want" "Let me work it out" "Are you German?" "I'm not French, and people think I'm German but I hate the Germans" "Because my parents died in Germany" "Whereabouts?" "Never heard of concentration camps?" "I'm fed up with people saying things like that" "I was ten years old at the time;" "you, too, probably" "Maybe you were, but your father wasn't" "I dissociate myself from him" "It must be strange, screwing fifty guys a day" "I don't suppose it's more than two or three" "No, at weekends they do over a hundred in the slums" "Who's to blame, then?" " Laughing on your lonesome?" " That's why I'm laughing" "She looks just like Brigitte Bardot, doesn't she?" "No, the sequence doesn't work;" "I'd marked it already" "You don't take it quickly enough" "Vauthier's direction says "quickly"" "I love sham, I love lies, everything phoney everything secret, caressing, reassuring and false" "You've got to go much quicker;" "the same with the accident bit" "After the guy's run over?" "Yes, the rhythm's wrong there;" "it says "in convulsive snatches"" "It was terrible, whoever was at fault; and what did I say?" "There's one idiot the less" "It says "quickly"" "He should have been more careful;" "nobody loves a loser" "The same goes for the visit to the housing project" "It says "with a sort of wild enthusiasm"" "The memory of the marvellous innovation will remain" "The play isn't called The Marvels for nothing" "She speaks "ardently":" "A vast area raised by human hand and where there was nothing, endless identical boxes" "I think you must try to forget you've rehearsed it, forget it all" "Do it as if you were reading it for the first time" "Just read it any old how" "All right, I'll try" "It was constructed, it was perverse" "There was no one there." "The people had gone, leaving their traces" "There was nothing, nothing at all" "They were lost and happy, nothing left to desire" "Got any change?" "Neither have I" "What are you doing there, Paul?" "I'm going for a pee" "It's the sub-titled version" "Good; dubbing's strictly for suckers" "Get lost, punk!" "Down with the republic of rat-finks" "Don't mess about, Paul" "Make your minds up" "I love you, you silly oaf" " Have you finished, darlings?" " Shut up, Trotskyite!" "They're cropping the picture;" "I'll go and complain" "Where's the projection box?" ""The film should be projected in the ratio in which it was shot" ""The ratio of 1:1.85 constitutes a limit which should not be exceeded..." ""...in accordance with standards set by international agreement"" "We master ideas, which are nothing, but not our emotions, which are all" "What's happening?" "A man and a woman in a foreign city..." " I don't like it;" "let's leave" " I want to see it" "Oh, let's go." "All this eroticism is disgusting, anyway" "Speak for yourself" "Come on, let's go" " Are you staying?" " Yes, I am" "At movies the screen would light up and we'd shiver" "But more often we'd be disappointed, Madeleine and I" "But more often we'd be disappointed, Madeleine and I" "The images seemed old and flickery;" "Marilyn Monroe had aged terribly" "We were sad" "This wasn't the film we'd imagined the perfect film each of us carried within the film we would like to have made, or perhaps even to have lived" "Why do you find discussion so difficult?" "The government won't let workers go to university" "They're afraid, so they shut us out" "It's the lack of money that does it" "You need to learn how to say what you want" "What was it you were trying to tell me?" " Why do you love Paul, not me?" " I don't love Paul;" "Madeleine does" " Oh, sure." "Why?" " I don't want to talk about it" "Because it's none of your business" " Don't you like going out with boys?" " It depends on the boy" "Are you going out with someone just now?" "Mind your own business" " Where do you want to take me?" " To the cinema" " Do you often take girls out?" " Now and again" "What kind of girls?" "Just girls" "What's your boy friend like?" "I'm not going out with anyone special just now" " So you sleep around?" " No, I don't sleep around" "You just said you did" "I said I'm not going out with anyone special" "There's a difference between going out and sleeping with" " Have you any ideas about democracy?" " Not particularly" "Are you interested in what goes on around you?" "Of course, but it depends on what it is" "Politics don't interest me, but there are other things" "I can't think offhand but there are all sorts of things I'm interested in" "Well, I read the newspapers, for instance and if it's an interesting article, I go on; if not, I skip" "You don't like being bored?" "Why won't you speak about yourself?" "Because it's none of your business and I don't see any point in it" "What good would it do you?" "I'm none of your business" "Do you often go with whores?" "Now and then" "If you can't find a girl?" "No, not because I can't find a girl" "I can't..." "I like whores in a way, for lots of reasons" " How much does it cost?" " I never pay" "About us going out..." " You prefer going out with Paul?" " Listen, I don't go out with Paul" "The way you look at him, I'd say you were in love" "I'm not; don't go on about it" " Are you in love with anyone?" " No, why?" "Really?" "No kidding?" "Do you think I'm prettier than Madeleine?" "No, physically I prefer Madeleine" "Madeleine said she'd shown you her breasts; is it true?" "I don't remember" "That's not true" "Did she show them to Paul?" " Like to talk about Paul, don't you?" " Don't go on so!" " Don't you like going out with boys?" " It depends on the boy" "What kind do you like?" "No particular kind, but I know right away" " Johnny Halliday?" " Not likely!" " General de Gaulle?" " No fear!" "Who, then?" "American film stars?" "I get the feeling I'd seen you somewhere before Paul introduced you" "Maybe in a bar in Montparnasse?" "Could be, I'm often around the Montparnasse bars" "Doing what?" "Talking to friends, playing pinball machines" "Don't you like talking about yourself?" "Because it's none of your business" " But you're your business" " Yes, but I'm not yours" " Why not talk, then?" " Because I don't concern you" "But I love you, so I want to know what you're like" "Well, if it isn't mutual, it's just egoism on your part" " Do you sleep with boys sometimes?" " No, why?" " Never?" " Mind your own business!" " Have you ever made love?" " Mind your own business" " What's the paper?" " My lecture to the cell" " What's it about?" " The revolution" "Why is a workman described as skilled, but not actors or clerks?" "I go into that." "There are three categories of skilled worker" "Being capable of executing a complete revolution, I belong to the third" "What is a complete revolution?" "Take a piece of complex machinery, for instance" "You're given the raw material and the design showing what it should be like when finished" "There's no time to lose, so you must be capable of exceptional precision in thought as well as gesture visualizing at once not only how to do it, but each stage in the operation" "You have each stage clearly in mind, even before you start" "You take it up and you know exactly what you have to do" "And as you work, your mind can see what must come next" "You have already foreseen the necessary tools and phases" "This is known as a revolution; this, too, is the revolutionary spirit" "THIS FILM COULD BE CALLED" "THE CHILDREN OF MARX AND COCA-COLA" "MAKE OF IT WHAT YOU WILL" "Got a light?" "My matches!" "Kiss the children" " My matches!" " Let this poor Messiah pass" "I want to see what he does" "He poured petrol over himself and set fire to it" "He can't have, he'd have cried out;" "I heard nothing" "He'd put sticking-plaster over his mouth to silence himself" "Why would he do it outside the American Hospital?" "There's a piece of paper;" "go and look for yourself" "What does it say?" ""Peace in Vietnam"." "He's dead" "Kill a man and you're a murderer" "Kill thousands and you're a conqueror" "Kill them all and you're a god" "God doesn't exist" "We'll soon see" " Do you love Madeleine?" " Don't start that again!" "First tell me your name and I'll tell you mine" "Let's go far away from here and then we'll talk" "I don't want anyone to know I've met you" "I don't want them to say you've kissed me" "What is it?" "Can't you go away?" "Watch your p's, Madeleine" "It's the echo;" "I can't hear what I'm singing" "Watch my baton, Madeleine" "Not bad, Madeleine... it was so-so" "Did you like it?" "Was it good?" "Could we re-do that tomorrow?" "I'm not so good there" "All right, three o'clock tomorrow" "Someone from Radio Europe One is waiting for you" "Madeleine Zimmer?" "Did the session go well?" "Very well." "I must speak to my secretary" "The car, Paul" " What car?" " Don't be thick" " How do I get a car?" " Use those cool wits you boast about" "Shut up!" "I'll phone" "Your favourite singers?" "The Beatles; and for the classics, Bach" "Bach seems rather surprising, given the kind of songs you sing" "They don't rule each other out, you know" " Any special traits?" " Well, I hardly ever wear make-up" "And I like flat shoes and short skirts" "You like the young look?" "In America you see billboards along the highways saying:" ""You're in the Pepsi Generation"" "I love Pepsi-Cola, really I do" "Well, we look forward to your third record" " What about the car?" " What car?" "Did you steal one?" "You haven't the guts, you're no Pierrot le Fou" "No?" "Well, I phoned the War Ministry" ""This is General Doinel", I said." ""Where the hell's my car?"" "It may not come;" "Robert and I have worked the trick before" "Long live the French army!" "January to March:" "I continue my survey" "Do you like cheese in tubes?" "Do you read?" "What is a cadre?" "What do you think of short skirts?" "What do you do at an accident?" "Suppose your fiancée took up with a black?" "Do you know there's a famine in India?" "What is a communist?" "Do you take the pill?" "Or do you prefer vaginal contraception?" "Why are society women more often frigid than working class women?" "Do you know the Kurds are at war with Iraq?" "Gradually I began to realize that such questions often distorted rather than reflected a collective mentality" "My own lack of objectivity, even though unconscious was inevitably matched by insincerity in those I questioned" "Unaware of deceiving them, I may have been deceived, too." "Why?" "Probably because such surveys tend to forget their real objective seeking value judgements, instead of observing behaviour" "I discovered that all these questions I was asking French people expressed an ideology of the past and not of the present" "I had to remain vigilant;" "I had gleaned a few insights as guidelines" "A philosopher is a man who pits his awareness against opinion" "To be a aware is to be open to the world" "To be honest is to act as though time didn't exist" "To see life, to really see it, that is what wisdom means" "What happened?" "He inherited some money from his mother and bought a flat" "Nobody really believed it until Elisabeth and Madeleine saw the flat" "It was in a tower block being built at Neuilly" "They talked about furnishing the rooms the kitchen, the dining-room and so on" "They had a quarrel" "I think because Madeleine wanted Elisabeth to live with them" "Anyway, Paul apparently wanted to take some photographs" "He must have retreated too far and he fell" "I can't believe it was suicide;" "it was a stupid accident" "Madeleine Zimmer?" "What happened?" "It happened exactly as Catherine told you... exactly" "Your friend Elisabeth says you're pregnant." "What will you do?" "I don't know" "I'm not sure" "I don't know..." "Elisabeth mentioned curtain rods..." "I'm not sure"