The Woman Next Door (1981)

Fanny Ardant: Mathilde

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• Mathilde : I've really changed, haven't I?

  Bernard : No, you're exactly the same.

• Bernard : I've changed, you know.

  Mathilde : It's true, you have changed.

• Madame Odile Jouve : Such lovely hair! I can't resist touching it. Especially dark hair. There are too many blondes.

  Mathilde : At the club or in general?

  Madame Odile Jouve : Both. It's due to movies, TV. Especially advertising, it's a terrible influence.

• Bernard : You're even more beautiful now. It's true. We were too young, but now we understand each other.

  Mathilde : I don't understand and I'm not trying to, either.

• Bernard : I want to rent the room by the month.

  Mathilde : Why? We can come whenever we want.

  Bernard : I don't want anyone else making love in our bed.

• Mathilde : You, sir, were a skirt-chaser!

• Mathilde : You see, Bernard, I enjoyed it, but it won't happen again.

• Bernard : I'll get a hold of myself. From now on, I'll behave. We'll just be friends, like before.

  Mathilde : Like before? Before what?

• Philippe : I'll ask Mrs. Jouve to find us an apartment. Perhaps in Grenoble. The woman is a godsend. Do you know what she did last month? One of her old flames who lives in New Caledonia came to see her in Grenoble. She went to Paris for three days to avoid him. She didn't want him to see how she'd aged.

  Mathilde : That's not true! You've got it all wrong. That man might've been the love of her life. Twenty years ago, she threw herself out a window because of him. He never knew what happened. He doesn't know she's crippled because of him. Mrs. Jouve is an extraordinary woman, but that man never saw it.

• Doctor : Life has more imagination than us. I'm sure you already know - that we can love, or be loved, more than once.

  Mathilde : To have loved, you must be lovable.

• Bernard : Your radio works now. I'm glad you're interested in the news, what's happening in the world.

  Mathilde : No. I only listen to songs. They tell the truth. The dumber they are, the truer they are. They aren't really dumb. What do they say? They say: "Don't leave me." "Losing you breaks my heart." "I'm like an empty house without you." "I'd follow you anywhere." Or even, "Without love, we are nothing."

  Bernard : Well, Mathilde, I have to go now.

• Mathilde : Wait. Now.