Diabolique (1996)
Isabelle Adjani: Mia Baran
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Quotes
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Nicole : [It's a quiet night and Nicole, drinking something in a cup, is looking Mia lighting candles in an open-air altar of the school] What do your saints say?
Mia : I'm brooding. I'm not praying.
Nicole : Lost your faith, ah? I've never really had any to begin with, I guess. Never believed in any of it. God, the Virgin Mary, that life begins at 40... and the people are all just basically good inside.
Mia : Pretty soon we'll be the same person.
Nicole : See how nice things turned out?
[She stops talking and seems to meditate briefly about something important]
Nicole : I'm going inside.
[about Mia's changing the terrible diet his husband used to martyrize the whole school before he was killing by Nicole and her]
Nicole : You know? It wasn't too smart changing the food like that, he never would've done that if he was alive.
Mia : What is the point in killing him then? I like making it better for the boys.
Nicole : [She starts to leave the place] Still, if it's all the same with you I'd rather not hang for fried chicken.
Mia : Nicole, why did you kill him?
[Nicole stops, with her back to Mia and staring at her above her shoulder]
Mia : You could've left him. You could've left here.
Nicole : I was understimated.
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Nicole : Killing him is a good thing. Like planting a tree.
Mia : Maybe there is a God.
Nicole : What are you talking about?
Mia : I haven't believed fot so long... So when the pool was empty I thought: maybe there is a God. And He knows what we did. And He's coming for us.
Nicole : It's not God, Honey. That's a lady detective with one breast.
Mia : You're always laughing at me. So was Guy. He must be laughing now.
Nicole : I'm not laughing at you, Mia.
Mia : You are. A little. Inside. It's lonely without God, isn't it?
Nicole : It's just lonely... Period.
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Mia : I'm not gonna be able to do this.
Nicole : Well, I suggest you try. It isn't like you burnt the toast, Mia. You killed your husband. It's all off the chart demerit-wise. Understand?
Mia : You are so calm. Look at you. Your hair is done. You've got makeup on.
Nicole : This is a day like any other day. We did what we have to do and it's done. Ok? It was self-defense. You've been taking it fot too long and you finally said fuck off. Good for you. Fuck him. Fuck them.
Mia : Everything but fuck you.
Nicole : Roughly. Now, come on!
[clapping her hands like a teacher to a pupil]
Nicole : Places!
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Mia : [the ex-nun defies] I can go to the police. I can tell them what we did.
Nicole : What YOU did.
Mia : We both did it.
Nicole : Yeah, well. I don't think they'll see that as beneficial to me. They'll say the wife gets the school, the money, his investment, her freedom... And what did the other woman get?
[Significative silence]
Nicole : Nothing. That's how they'll look at it.
Mia : [Coming very close to Nicole, with complicity] I'll say we were lovers.
Nicole : Well. You can take the girl out of the convent.
Mia : I thought we had the same reason.
Nicole : We did have the same reason
[as for the money Mia has just found out that Guy cheated Nicole]
Nicole : I just had an extra one
[Caressing Mia with cherish]
Nicole : I'm sorry I lied to you. I couldn't do it now.
Mia : If you hadn't found this... you'd killed the one person who could have told you where it was.
Nicole : He said we were partners. And then he acted alone
[She kisses softly Mia on her neck]
