“I once fell in love with someone. After a while she was gone. I couldn’t stop wondering if she loved me or not. I went to 2046 hoping to find her there. But I never found her.”
2046, 2004 (dir. Wong Kar-wai)
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“It was strange, here I was among all those people, and at the same time I felt as if I were looking at them from some place far away, the whole place seemed to me like a deep hole and the people down in it like strange animals, like… like snakes, and I’ve been thrown into it… yes… as though… as though I were in a snake pit…”
The Snake Pit, 1948 (dir. Anatole Litvak)
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“They look at us like we’re monsters.”
Babel, 2006 (dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
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Michael Pitt, Eva Green, and Louis Garrel in The Dreamers, 2003 (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
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“I always thought one minute flies by. But sometimes it really lingers on. Once, a person pointed at his watch and said to me, that because of that minute, he’d always remember me. It was so charming listening to that. But now I look at my watch and tell myself that I have to forget this man starting this very minute.”
Days of Being Wild, 1990 (dir. Wong Kar-wai)
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Ingmar Bergman and Bengt Ekerot on the set of The Seventh Seal
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“I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.”
Punch Drunk Love, 2002 (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
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“The old ones called it ‘the hour of the wolf.’ It is the hour when the most people die, and the most are born. At this time, nightmares come to us. And when we awake, we are afraid.”
Hour of the Wolf, 1968 (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
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Anais Reboux in Fat Girl, 2001 (dir. Catherine Breillat)
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Morvern Callar, 2002 (dir. Lynne Ramsay)
This film is not one to be missed—it’s absolutely breathtaking. So much is said without actually being said—Samantha Morton’s performance is all in her face. It’s soundtrack is absolutely fantastic, including music from Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, The Velvet Underground, and The Mamas and the Papas (all used diegetically). It’s an absolutely heart-breaking tale of a woman trying to put her life together with pieces that aren’t even hers.
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“Have you read Adorno on Schumann’s Fantasia in C Major? He talks of his twilight. It’s not Schumann bereft of reason, but just before. A fraction before. He knows he’s losing his mind. It torments him but he clings on one last time. It’s being aware of what it means to lose oneself before being completely abandoned.”
The Piano Teacher, 2001 (dir. Michael Haneke)
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Trois Couleurs: Blanc, 1994 (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
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“See, they’re even fake so they’ll never die.”
Lars and the Real Girl, 2007 (dir. Craig Gillespie)
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“The best thing about my profession is that there’s no need to make any decisions. Who’s to die… when… where… it’s all been planned by others. I’m a lazy person. I like people to arrange things for me. That’s why I need a partner.”
Michelle Reis in Fallen Angels, 1995 (dir. Wong Kar-wai)
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“Rise up and walk, none of your bones are broken.”
Sleeping Beauty, 2011 (dir. Julia Leigh)
