The Tenant (1976)

Isabelle Adjani: Stella

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• Stella : Why don't you take your tie off? You look like you're choking to death.

  Trelkovsky : I found a tooth in my apartment. It was in a hole.

• Trelkovsky : Tell me, at what precise moment - does an individual stop being who he thinks he is?

  Stella : You know, I don't like complications.

  Trelkovsky : You cut off my arm. I say, "Me - and my arm." You cut off my other arm. I say, "Me and my two arms." You - take out - take out my stomach, my kidneys, assuming that were possible. And I say, "Me and my intestines." Do you follow me? And now, if you cut off my head - would I say, "Me and my head" or "Me and my body"? What right has my head to call itself me? What right?

• [last lines] 

  Stella : You do recognise me, don't you? It's me. Stella. Your friend Stella. Don't you recognise me?

• Trelkovsky : Could it have been a disappointment in love, perhaps? Something like that?

  Stella : Who with?

  Trelkovsky : I don't know. Some man.

  Stella : You know she wasn't interested in men.

  Trelkovsky : Oh, yes, I know, but - women as sensitive as she was, she is, I mean, often tend to have - much more complicated relationships than they seem to.

• Stella : You're strange.

  Trelkovsky : You must tell me, then. I wouldn't mind, really.

• Stella : Don't be naughty now. You're to be good.