Renoir (2012)
Michel Bouquet: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Quotes
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : You're rather modest for an actress.
Andrée Heuschling : Actress doesn't mean whore.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : It's us... old people, the infirm who they should send to the front, in the mud and trenches.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : You want to make yourself useful? Go put a necklace on her. Take the emerald one.
Jean Renoir : [approaches a posing Andree] The boss wants you to wear this.
Andrée Heuschling : No introduction first?
Jean Renoir : Forgive me.
Andrée Heuschling : You're Jean? I saw a painting of you.
Jean Renoir : I saw a painting of you, too.
Andrée Heuschling : He always makes me too fat.
Jean Renoir : He makes me look like a girl.
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Jean Renoir : If you told me what you wanted...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : You can't explain a painting, you have to feel it. Go see Titian's courtesans at the Louvre. If those don't make you want to caress them, then you've understood nothing at all.
[Jean leaves]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Where are you going?
Jean Renoir : To the Louvre!
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Andrée Heuschling : I paint like a child.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : That's a good thing. My whole life, I tried to paint like a child. Without knowing anything. Without thinking.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Titian would have worshiped her. I'd give my right arm for her tits.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : She won't come anymore, will she? Were you a gentleman with her?
Jean Renoir : Did I need your permission?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : All women, whether they be a whore or a queen, deserve the same respect.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : [Jean has re-enlisted in WWI] Go get yourself pumped full of lead, imbecile! Or if you prefer, go kill some good German fellow who smokes a pipe. If you think it'll change something.
[long pause]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : You, too... you can't live without her either.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : You can't explain a painting, you have to feel it.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : I need living, breathing material. What interests me, is skin... the velvety texture of a young girl's skin.
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Jean Renoir : [his father has suffered the torments of arthritis in his hands] Papa. You can't take any more.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : The pain passes, Jean. But beauty remains.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Don't force Fate's hand. Hmm? It's best to go with the flow. Like a cork floating in a stream.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : I started as a porcelain painter. But the appearance of machines decided my fate. If they'd continued hand painting, I would have spent my whole life painting plates. Hmm. And been very happy to do so.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : You say it's my poor wife who sent you?
Andrée Heuschling : She told me - she said maybe I could pose for you.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Hmm. A girl from out of nowhere - sent by a dead woman. I think we're going to work together.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Strokes, more strokes. One melting into the other. They've got to fuck! What must control the structure, is not the line. It's the color.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Change positions. - - Not like that.
Andrée Heuschling : Like what then?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Floating! Courbet.
Jean Renoir : I see.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : "Les Demoiselles" Floating. Hanging in the landscape.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Walking takes all my strength. I won't have any left for painting.
Docteur Pratt : And when you can't use your hands anymore?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : I'll paint with my dick.
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Jean Renoir : You paint faster than ever.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : My whole life, I got tangled up in complications. Today I simplify matters.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : I don't want to hear Gabrielle's name again. It's Andrée who left! My best model since - Titian would have worshipped her. I'd give my right arm for her tits. Rounded and firm, with a delicate fold that gives them a golden tinge. Flesh! That's all that matters. If you don't understand that, you'll never understand life! Or painting.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Your mother. I owe her everything. I had fury running through my veins. She calmed my nerves. When we met I was twenty years older than her. I thought my life was over. But no. It was only just beginning.
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Jean Renoir : You've painted everything.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : I still have progress to make. I'll carry on till I collapse.
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Andrée Heuschling : I read that actresses can't play the role of lover without lots of experience. What do you say, boss?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Nothing. Nothing.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Canary yellow. Ochre red.
Andrée Heuschling : Boss, do you mind if I lie down?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : No. Naples yellow.
Andrée Heuschling : I'm dead tired. Didn't sleep all night. You want to know why?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : No.
Andrée Heuschling : I have a new beau. A fabulous lover.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Do you mind posing, please? Any position you want.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : The Renoirs refuse to paint the world black. A painting should be something pleasant and cheerful. There are enough disagreeable things in life. I don't need to create more. Poverty, despair, death. They're not my concern.
Jean Renoir : And the war?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : That either. Tragedy. Others play it very well.