The Woman Next Door (1981)

Henri Garcin: Philippe

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• Roland : Mathilde is gorgeous. She doesn't look French, more Italian.

  Philippe : She's French, but from the south. As soon as I met her, I knew it was serious. I never set out to find my "ideal woman" or any woman at all. But when I met Mathilde, I realized she was like a promise. No. To be honest, what I really thought was: she is my last chance at happiness.

• Arlette : I don't think it's a scandalous dress, but will she wear it while you're gone?

  Philippe : She'll wear it whenever and wherever, with whoever she wants. I'm not a Spanish husband!

• Philippe : Men don't know a thing about love. We're amateurs.

• Philippe : I love you as you are, Mathilde, but I don't understand you. I have never lied simply because it's too complicated. Now I find myself living with a liar, sleeping with a liar, making love with a liar. And I love a liar.

• 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.