Story of Women (1988)

Isabelle Huppert: Marie

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• Marie : It's easy to keep your hands clean when you're rich.

• Marie : [sigh]  It's been four months now. They want to punish me? Let them do it. And it's all men. How could men understand, anyway?

• Marie : Lose a war and a man gets mean as a wounded bull.

• Marie : And what do you do?

  Lulu : Can't you tell I'm a hooker?

  Marie : You don't say! I guess men must really look you over.

  Lulu : That's what hookers are for.

• Lulu : What's your name?

  Marie : Marie.

  Lulu : Mine's Lucie. But that's no name for a hooker, so I go by Lulu.

• Marie : How much do you make a day?

  Lulu : Depends on the customer. I look, then I decide. Krauts pay through the nose. I can't help it.

  Marie : Some of them are handsome.

  Lulu : True. But it's a matter of principle.

  Marie : Is it true that some like to whip you?

  Lulu : No more than the French. Men have always treated us like horses.

• Marie : I had a friend... She was taken away. A jew.

  Lulu : At least that can't happen to me. We're Normans. Nothing but hicks.

  Marie : [laughs]  Me too.

• Marie : I'm not just a housewife.

  Lulu : No offense, but you look like one.

  Marie : Maybe, but I'm not what I seem to be. I even do things that are against the law.

  Lulu : Like what, baby face?

• Marie : I've been a slave since I was 14. And I don't see how it'll ever change.

  Paul : Like most women.

  Marie : I don't care about "most women". I can't take it anymore!

• Marie : No more empty bellies here. We're in the clover.

• Marie : [In bed]  Why are you smiling?

  Lucien : You're not the best ever, but I like your squirrel coat.

  Marie : You could've said "fur".

  Lucien : "Fur" and "jewels" are words I never say in front of women.

• Marie : You're not a romantic.

  Lucien : I'm a man.

• Marie : Look after your sister, ducky. I've got to go.

• Paul : We're occupied, you know! You may have fancy food and a lover, but there's still a war on.

  Marie : I'm for the Resistance.

  Paul : You idiot, you're not for anything!

• Marie : And there's Pierrot. You too, ducky. Come dance with Mommy.

• Marie : Do you think babies in their mother's belly have a soul?

• Marie : I told the magistrate I wouldn't do it again. He said if I confessed, it'd go better for me.

  [pause] 

  Marie : I want to become a singer.

• Marie : If we ask for forgiveness, we may not go to hell.

• Marie : You handle a sword...

  Lucien : Forcefully?

  Marie : Yes, that's it.

  Lucien : You're cute when you blush. All your freckles show. Are you ashamed?

  Marie : Of what?

  Lucien : Of your freckles. Of turning me on.

• Marie : You got angel eyes.