The Truth About Bebe Donge (1952)

Danielle Darrieux: Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge

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• Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : Because I ask myself what's the good of becoming a couple, if it's not better than when you were alone. If it's only more convenient...

  François Donge : You're sorry already?

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : Francois, do you think I'm stupid?

  François Donge : No, but you're like all women. You want to be sure of the future. It's an obsession with women. You want to have it all and forever.

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : You're wrong. It's not about security, but something else.

  François Donge : It's about not finding yourself alone at 40, with wrinkles. Only if you get wrinkles, there are beauty salons, but for the rest of it, being lonely, there's nothing to be done. So you get married.

• Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : What's desire, Francois?

  François Donge : It's the shortest way between two people. The shortest. The best.

• François Donge : ...As for miracles... I do very well without them, that's the truth. Miracles are everything can be done with this and with that! The miracle is that everything depends on you.

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : Then it's a theory.

  François Donge : Oh, no. It's experience. The experience of every day. I have no theories.

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : Don't laugh at me, Francois, it's too easy. I want to say...

  François Donge : What? What is it you want to say?

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : If you go to the heart of things, your theory, that is, your explanation, does it also work for things of the heart?

  François Donge : -Things of the heart?

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : Does it take all your life to learn you love each other, or is love like a dazzlement?

  François Donge : Love? Love is like everything else, it can be done.

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : Then how do you explain our meeting?

  François Donge : I don't explain it, I just know it happened. It's a coincidence, nothing more.

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : I don't agree. Everything depends on how deeply things strike in us.

  François Donge : Come on... The heart of things, things of the heart, the depth of... What are you talking about?

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : On the surface, everything is smooth. It's at bottom that it happens. At bottom.

  François Donge : You've got such words...

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : Don't you like words?

  François Donge : Only one: Live. The others get in the way. You can't see what's behind them. You talk too much.

  Elisabeth 'Bébé' Donge : Francois, what's behind them is so simple. But if I'd said nothing, you'd surely have believed I was a whore. And you wouldn't have kissed me... .