À l'aventure (2008)

Carole Brana: Sandrine

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• Sandrine : Do you think that we're all conditioned? That we do things at set hours?

• Fred : You've been lying to me?

  Sandrine : Every day.

  Fred : You cheating on me?

  Sandrine : No. I mean, yes. I touch myself every day.

• Sandrine : Wouldn't it be really interesting to study the body? To know how and why a thought, a desire turns into pain or paralysis?

• Fred : Where have you been?

  Sandrine : I just had sex with a man in a hotel room.

  Fred : Has he been your lover long?

  Sandrine : Since this afternoon.

• L'homme sur le banc : You know I just realized something really odd. Like you, I observe people and the world around me. All that exists. If I touch someone a woman, you for instance, she'll react. She may slap me. Or be glad about it. But in fact what are you if not a void? Did that shock you?

  Sandrine : You didn't feel anything since I'm a void.

• La mère de Sandrine : What got into you to touch yourself in the next room after making love with him?

  Sandrine : I wasn't satisfied, that's all. It could have excited him. Hardly.

  La mère de Sandrine : That's something you should only do to avoid seeing other men. And discreetly.

• La mère de Sandrine : Usually, you're in love first, and all that changes later. For you it's the opposite. There are more than love matches. That's a good thing. Sure, society puts you in a cage. But that's how it is. So choose the most comfortable cage you can.

  Sandrine : Your respectable straitjacket is not for me.

  La mère de Sandrine : Don't get on your high horse. It's hard not living like other people. You'll learn that at your expense.

• Sandrine : You men will never know how good it is.

• Sandrine : So why did you get married?

  Sophie : I don't know. To make my husband happy. To make everybody happy.

• L'homme sur le banc : God loves those who dare.

  Sandrine : I don't believe in God.

  L'homme sur le banc : Neither do I. But sometimes it's useful to find a word to talk about certain things we don't know.

• Sandrine : I thought you didn't believe in anything.

  L'homme sur le banc : I don't believe in a god conceivable to the human mind that's all. Even that I have doubts about.

• Sandrine : If you advertised female pleasure, you'd be overrun.

• L'homme sur le banc : What is life, what is pleasure, what is love? Look at this landscape. What does it inspire in you?

  Sandrine : A feeling of calm and harmony.

  L'homme sur le banc : As it does for me. But, and you know this, it's first of all emptiness, yet at the same time filled with plants and insects, and thousands of animals that devour each other to survive. The plants grow thanks to the light, thanks to the sun. But the balance, the harmony depends on never-ending savagery and murder. Maybe we're nothing more than silly accidents in the universe. Or else fallen angels.

  Sandrine : Fallen from what?

  L'homme sur le banc : I don't know.