The Vintage (1957)

Michèle Morgan: Léone Morel

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• Léone Morel : Don't be frightened of the vintage. We've lived through them before, we'll live through it again.

• Lucienne : I wish it wasn't vintage time. And, then, I'm glad it is! How can I be both?

  Léone Morel : You'd better try on your dress. And you can be both. That's what makes us human beings. We're both of everything.

• Léone Morel : Children are the best people in the world. But, they fall in love too quickly. But, they never fall in love with bad people.

  Ernesto Barandero : Or else, maybe they see only the good.

• Léone Morel : I wanted him to kiss me. I wanted to feel his arms around me. I wanted to know what it was to be desired again. But, I didn't touch him and he didn't touch me. He was just a boy, a lost boy.

• Léone Morel : How can I help it if I feel like a woman again? When a boy looks at me with love in his eyes.

  Louis Morel : How did you look at him?

• Léone Morel : You trust the vintage. And you trust the grapes, the rain, the sun. Is that all you trust?

• Lucienne : What made me stand up to Louis like that?

  Léone Morel : That's what the vintage does.

  Lucienne : But, it's more than Louis - and more than the vintage. For something wonderful has happened to me. I feel like - for the first time - I'm discovering people - things. I feel like I have a new skin.

• Léone Morel : Do you hate him more than you love me?