Love on the Run (1979)

Jean-Pierre Léaud: Antoine Doinel

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• [English subtitled version] 

  Antoine Doinel : [to Alphonse as he is about to head off to music camp]  If you practice hard, you'll be a great musician.

  Alphonse Doinel : What if I don't?

  Antoine Doinel : If you don't, you'll wind up a music critic.

• Christine Doinel : That's too much, Antoine - to forget the day you're getting divorced! No one would believe it.

  Antoine Doinel : Yet the unbelievable is sometimes true.

• Antoine Doinel : I gave in to temptation. But that's the last time.

  Sabine Barnérias : It is?

  Antoine Doinel : As of today, I'm walking the path to chastity.

  Sabine Barnérias : Oh, come here. Come here like last night.

  Antoine Doinel : Last night was last night.

• Sabine Barnérias : I've wanted to meet your son forever.

  Antoine Doinel : Sabine, this isn't the time to confuse Alphonse with that.

  Sabine Barnérias : You always have to complicate things. I'm sure your wife - ex-wife - would agree.

  Antoine Doinel : My life's split into pieces and I can't change it overnight.

  Sabine Barnérias : All your little intrigues and quirks tire me out.

  Antoine Doinel : Since the divorce, Alphonse meets too many strangers anyway...

  Sabine Barnérias : Strangers? Thanks a lot! Listen, if I'm just a hooker to you, then say so, and pay me for each time we make love.

• Colette Tazzi : You haven't changed. You're as self-centered as ever. For example, you saw the porter give me this message. Were you the slightest bit curious?

  Antoine Doinel : Mere discretion, Colette.

  Colette Tazzi : No! Sheer indifference, Antoine! Who have we been talking about for two hours? You! Mere discretion again, I suppose.

  [wets her lips] 

  Colette Tazzi : I know you don't care, but I'll tell you anyway. This message is from that ape I ran into in the corridor. He's offered me 1,000 francs to sleep with him tonight. What should I do? Times are hard. I've got a law degree, but I'm out of work. So like other women with half-decent looks, I get by somehow. Night trains are my specialty! Of course, the porter gets 10%. Get the picture? Our little chat is costing me a thousand francs. So!

  Antoine Doinel : I think I'd better be going.

• Antoine Doinel : Mr. Lucien said my mother was like a little bird. A little bird? Were we talking about the same person? But Mrs. Doinel did teach me one thing: Love is all that matters.

• Mère de Colette : Do you remember the first time we met?

  Antoine Doinel : Yes, it was at the Edith Piaf concert.

• Monsieur Lucien : It wasn't wasn't easy getting a place for her in the Montmartre cemetery, but I insisted, because she loved this neighborhood. She'd be happy to know she's next to Marguerite Gauthier. You know who that is?

  Antoine Doinel : No, no. I don't think I do, Monsieur Lucien.

  Monsieur Lucien : Marguerite Gauthier! "La Dame aux camélias" by Alexandre Dumas.

  Antoine Doinel : Oh, yes! I thought she was made up.

  Monsieur Lucien : No, she really existed.