Confidentially Yours (1983)

Jean-Louis Trintignant: Julien Vercel

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• Julien Vercel : I need a secretary skilled in typing and shorthand. Also fluent in English, to start in one month. Yes, references required. Marital status? Irrelevant.

• Julien Vercel : I did hear two strange gunshots. One, then another five seconds later, like to kill a wounded duck, except there were no ducks.

• Julien Vercel : You've no reason to be afraid. You know I never get angry. I don't understand anger or arguments. When I'm upset with someone, I just clam up, that's all.

• Julien Vercel : I must leave town tonight. Run the agency while I'm gone.

  Barbara Becker : I'm in charge? Didn't you just fire me? Make up your mind.

• Julien Vercel : The key lies in Marie-Christine's past. I must investigate in Nice where she was a beautician.

• Julien Vercel : Take it to Clement, but don't tell him I'm here. I can't compromise him.

  Barbara Becker : Compromise him? He's a lawyer, not an alter boy!

• Julien Vercel : Tying up an unconscious man isn't very heroic.

  Barbara Becker : We're not here to be heroic.

• Julien Vercel : Death is a strange thing, isn't it? When people die of illness it's cruel and unfair, but it's really death. But when it's a crime, a murder, death becomes abstract, as if solving the mystery is all that matters, like in a detective novel.

• Julien Vercel : I found the salon for her. She closed her beauty salon soon after opening it, she said she wanted to spend more time with me. I was so attracted to her, terribly attracted. You couldn't understand.

  Barbara Becker : Then why tell me about it?

• Barbara Becker : The town looks so pretty from here, especially after the rain.

  Julien Vercel : When I opened my agency, whenever a customer hesitated, I'd bring him here to convince him. Behind this multitude of lights are all sorts of things: people watching TV, working night shifts, children sleeping, and our killer, who'll be really surprised when the cops arrest him.

• Barbara Becker : You despise me?

  Julien Vercel : I don't despise you.

  Barbara Becker : Well, I despise you.

• Barbara Becker : I thought he was fishy ever since he handled my divorce. I even had to slap him in the face.

  Julien Vercel : Why?

  Barbara Becker : It seemed the best way to get his hands off my bra.