Napoléon (2002)

Isabella Rossellini: Joséphine de Beauharnais

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Quotes 

• Joséphine de Beauharnais : Look at me. Why don't you look at me? You've done it. You've done a dreadful thing. Although I begged you not to, and so did your mother, your entire family.

  Napoléon : This affair doesn't concern you, or my family. It's an affair of state. It concerns the government of France, and me.

  Joséphine de Beauharnais : And you, yes, you! You could have pardoned him. You didn't need anyone. You only had to say one word. One little word!

  Napoléon : If he - had asked me to spare him... but those Bourbons are so stupidly proud.

  Joséphine de Beauharnais : Proud, yes, but innocent! He wasn't even in France during the attempt to your life.

  Napoléon : His friends were. And even if they didn't do it, they did it for him.

  Joséphine de Beauharnais : This foul deed will bring a curse upon us. Sorrow to you, and sorrow to me, because I couldn't stop you!

  [Josephine leaves for the door] 

  Joséphine de Beauharnais : And sorrow, to all who had a hand in this crime!