Alphaville (1965)

Anna Karina: Natacha von Braun

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Quotes 

• [English subtitled version] 

  Natacha von Braun : Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips. Our silences, our words. Light that goes, light that returns. A single smile between us. In quest of knowledge, I watched the night create day while we seemed unchanged. O beloved of all, beloved of one alone, your mouth silently promised to be happy. Away, away, says hate; closer, closer, says love. A caress leads us from our infancy. Increasingly I see the human form as a lover's dialogue. The heart has but one mouth. Everything by chance. All words without thought. Sentiments adrift. Men roam the city. A glance, a word. Because I love you. Everything moves. We must advance to live. Aim straight ahead toward those you love. I went toward you, endlessly toward the light. If you smile, it enfolds me all the better. The rays of your arms pierce the mist.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Lemmy Caution : This isn't a bible, this is a dictionary!

  Natacha von Braun : Aren't they the same in the outlands?

• [English subtitled version] 

  Natacha von Braun : Got a light?

  Lemmy Caution : I've traveled 9,000 kilometers to give it to you.

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  [last lines] 

  Natacha von Braun : You're looking at me oddly.

  Lemmy Caution : Yes.

  Natacha von Braun : It's as if you're waiting for me to say something.

  Lemmy Caution : Yes.

  Natacha von Braun : I don't know what to say. I don't know the words. I was never taught them. Help me.

  Lemmy Caution : I can't, princess. You have to get there by yourself to be saved. If you can't, then you're as lost as the dead souls of Alphaville.

  Natacha von Braun : I... love... you. I love you.

• [English subtitled version] 

  Natacha von Braun : In life, one can only know the present. No one's lived in the past, or will live in the future.

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  Natacha von Braun : In love? What's that?

  Lemmy Caution : This.

  Natacha von Braun : No. I know what that is: it's sensuality.

  Lemmy Caution : No, sensuality is a consequence. It cannot exist without love.

  Natacha von Braun : So what is love, then?

• [English subtitled version] 

  Lemmy Caution : You never have love affairs?

  Natacha von Braun : What?

  Lemmy Caution : Has no one ever fallen in love with you?

  Natacha von Braun : In love? What's that?

• [English subtitled version] 

  Lemmy Caution : I left because I couldn't understand a word he was saying.

  Natacha von Braun : But it's very simple. We learned this evening that death and life are found within the same circle.

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  Natacha von Braun : [while shaking her head no]  Yes.

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  Lemmy Caution : Why does everyone look so sad, somber?

  Natacha von Braun : You ask too many questions. Because they lack electricity.

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  Lemmy Caution : What are you afraid of?

  Natacha von Braun : I'm afraid because I know that word without ever having seen it or read it.

  Lemmy Caution : Which word?

  Natacha von Braun : Le conscience.

  Lemmy Caution : La conscience.

  Natacha von Braun : La conscience.

• Natacha von Braun : We live in the void of metamorphoses. But the echo that runs through the day, that echo beyond time, anguish, or caress. Are we near to our conscience, or far from it?... These are words I don't understand - "Conscience".

  Lemmy Caution : And that - "Death in conversation". And that?

  Natacha von Braun : Your eyes have returned from a despotic land where no one has known the meaning of a glance.

  Lemmy Caution : You've really no idea what this is?

  Natacha von Braun : It reminds me of something. I don't know what.

  [the naked truth. I know it well. Despair is wingless, and so is love. I am as alive as my love and despair...] 

  Natacha von Braun : [Johnson grabs book from Natasha] 

• Natacha von Braun : Conscience... Not in the new one, either. So no one here knows the meaning of the word conscience anymore.

• Natacha von Braun : In love? What's that?

  Lemmy Caution : [Johnson walks around Natasha]  Johnson: This.

  Natacha von Braun : No, I know what that is - it's sensuality.

  Lemmy Caution : No, sensuality flows from it. It cannot exist without love. Natasha: So what is love, then?

  Natacha von Braun : o what is love, then? Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips. Our silences, our words. Light that goes, light that returns. A single smile between us. In quest of knowledge, I watched the night create day while we seemed unchanged. O beloved of all, beloved of one alone, your mouth silently promised to be happy. Away, away, says hate; closer, closer, says love. A caress leads us from our infancy. Increasingly I see the human form as a lover's dialogue. The heart has but one mouth. Everything by chance. All words without thought. Sentiments adrift. Men roam the city. A glance, a word. Because I love you. Everything moves. We must advance to live. Aim straight ahead toward those you love. I went toward you, endlessly toward the light. If you smile, it enfolds me all the better. The rays of your arms pierce the mist.