Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Corinne Marchand: Florence 'Cléo' Victoire
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Quotes
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[last lines]
[in French, using English subtitles]
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : Why?
Antoine : I'm sorry I'm leaving. I'd like to be with you.
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : You are. I think my fear is gone. I think I'm happy.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : Everybody spoils me. Nobody loves me.
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Antoine : Nudity should be for everyone, like summer.
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : What does that mean?
Antoine : Nakedness is simplicity itself. Love, birth, the dawn, the sun, the beach, all that.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : Have you ever been in love?
Antoine : Often, but never as deeply as I wanted. Girls just like to be loved. They're afraid to give themselves, to lose something. The love by halves. Their bodies are playthings, not their lives. So I stop halfway too. Excuse me for saying all this.
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : No, you're right.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : I'm afraid of everything - birds, storms, lifts, needles - and now, this great fear of death...
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : [inner voice] Wait, pretty butterfly. Ugliness is a kind of death. As long as I'm beautiful, I'm even more alive than the others.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : He's so ugly!
Plumitif (the lyricist) : "Ugliness is beauty. Beauty is ugliness." Shakespeare.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : My name is Florence. I'm called Cléo, short for Cleopatra.
Antoine : What a name! Florence. It conjures up thoughts of Italy, the Renaissance, Botticelli, a rose. Cleopatra! Egypt, the Sphinx, the asp, a tigress. I prefer Florence.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : I'm suffocating.
Angèle : Do a bit of exercising.
[Cleo lights a cigarette]
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : He's an egotist.
Angèle : Yes, but all men are. Yours too.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : [inner voice] My unchanging doll's face, this ridiculous hat. I can't see my own fears. I always think everyone's looking at me, but I only look at myself. It wears me out.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : You don't mind posing?
Dorothée : No, why?
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : I'd feel so exposed, afraid they'd find a fault.
Dorothée : Nonsense! My body makes me happy, not proud. They're looking at more than just me. A shape, an idea. It's as if I wasn't there. Like I was asleep. And I'm paid for it.
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Antoine : Nudity moves me. Striptease is moving as well as sexy.
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : You're often moved, then.
Antoine : Not often. Nudity is rare.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : I saw a man piercing his arm. It made me feel sick. what a day. I feel out of it.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : [inner voice] Everything suits me. Trying things on intoxicates me!
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The Lover : I just came to kiss you.
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : Always in a hurry. The time's over, lover.
The Lover : I thought you loved me. It upsets me to see so little of you. My Cleopatra.
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Bob, the Pianist , Plumitif (the lyricist) : [singing] He plays the cello beautifully, You play the piano well, But I play games with all the boys, And really give them hell, The black and white notes play as you tinkle the keys,
Bob, the Pianist , Plumitif (the lyricist) , Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : But all the boys just shout for joy, When I wiggle my hips, When I wiggle my hips,
Bob, the Pianist , Plumitif (the lyricist) : He strums a banjo joyfully, You're a genius on the flute,
Bob, the Pianist , Plumitif (the lyricist) , Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : But all the males just stand and stare, if I start getting cute...
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : [singing] Beauty wasted, Cold and naked, How can my body dream, Without you, Without you...
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : Streets should have living people's names. Piaf Street, Bardot Boulevard, Aznavour Avenue. They could change the names when they die.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : Music!
[singing]
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : My precious and capricious body, The azure of my daring eyes, My alluring figure is the bait, That will never deceive, Everyone longs to taste, The flavor of my lovely lips.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : To me, nudity is indiscreet. It's like the night... and illness.
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Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : You've always got the answers. It's funny. I've always got questions.
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Angèle : Shall I come?
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : No! I want to be alone.
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Dorothée : What did José say?
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : He doesn't know. I don't see much of him.
Dorothée : Don't you talk to him in bed?
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : No. He seldom sleeps at my place. He's very busy.
Dorothée : I thought he adored you.
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire' : He does.
Dorothée : Love's all you need to confide.