Colette, une femme libre (2004– )

Marie Trintignant: Colette

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Quotes 

• Colette : We're not reasonable...

  Bertrand : We love us, we cannot do everything !

• Henry de Jouvenel : I'm a man of conscience

  Colette : With your physique, should be to you a man of caresses

  Henry de Jouvenel : [laughing,embarrassed]  Well, Well...!

• Colette : [to Bertrand de Jouvenel]  You're more and more beautiful, it's insolence, in the end !

• Colette : Failure is celebrated. Go, come.

  Bertrand : But I had it, my high school diploma ! It's the distinction, which I don't have.

  Camarade de Bertrand : [to Colette]  Madam, you bring champagne to your son, what a chance he has !

  Bertrand : [scornful]  What a idiotic !

  Colette : Why you tell that ?

  [Bertrand de Jouvenel stare at Colette with intensity] 

• Colette : [off, final line]  And as we have to age, follow the way, and only lay down you there to die.

• Henry de Jouvenel : Pretty rings.

  Colette : You could have said "pretty hands".

  Henry de Jouvenel : I'm sorry, I'd not noticed them.

• Colette : [speaking about her parents, Sido and Jules-Joseph]  Willy and I will be like you.

  Sido : No man is like your father. And especially not Willy.

• Colette : [having caught her husband Willy with Lotte, she approaches a young man]  'Scuse me, sir... you want that we are going to make love?

  Young man : Now?

  Colette : No... in a hotel. You don't like the hotels?

  Young man : Yes, on the contrary... I adore the hotels!

  Willy : I advise you Le Ritz...Very good pigeon !