The Spanish Apartment (2002)

Cécile de France: Isabelle

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• Isabelle : It's funny. Guys understand nothing about women. It's ridiculous. Each sex off in their own dark corner... While if a guy took an interest in women, he'd be a pig in shit.

• Isabelle : It's a shame you're not a girl.

  Xavier : The world's badly made.

• Isabelle : It's contradictory to defend Catalan at the very moment we're creating a European Union.

  Catalan Student 2 : I don't agree. First of all, because we're dicussing identity. There's not one single valid identity, but many varied and perfectly compatible identities. It's a question of respect. For example, I have at least two identities: my Gambian identity, which I carry internally, and my Catalan identity. It's not contradictory to combine identities.

• Isabelle : Chicks are wacko, I swear.

• Xavier : Love's a bitch! It's so hard!

  Isabelle : Yeah.

  Xavier : And yet I love her. But this!

  Isabelle : It's the same for me. Sabine left starring daggers at me. Well, it's true that...

  Xavier : That what?

  Isabelle : I was stupid to say I got hit on!

  Xavier : Oh, yeah? By what, a guy?

  Isabelle : Of course not! By my Flamenco instructor.

• Isabelle : You think it's all in the cock! Caresses are really important.

  Xavier : I know.

  Isabelle : Yeah, but you certainly don't do it well. Here, look. Come on. Come here!

  Xavier : What?

  Isabelle : When you caress a girl's ass, you caress her here... Here, on the ass.

  Xavier : No, but wait.

  Isabelle : You part her thighs.

  Xavier : I'm embarrassed.

  Isabelle : No, I'll show you. Hold her firmly against you. Keep her from moving. She's got to feel your grip! Contrary to what they say, most women want that grip, to be your prisoner.

  Xavier : No, wait, stop! What are you doing?

  Isabelle : Relax! I'm just explaining. Shall I continue?

  Xavier : Yeah, okay. Go on.

  Isabelle : So you press her body against yours. You caress her hair, the nape of her neck, her breasts. She'll be like you, she'll panic. You calm her. You take your time. Now, a lesson in "giving pleasure"!

• Xavier : It was too good! Like in the movies, I swear! First she was like, "No, no, no." Then it was, "Yes, Ah yes, yes!" I didn't know that was possible.

  Isabelle : I told you, they're all sluts.

  Xavier : You're right, it's incredible! Next time I'll grab her and say, "Here! Suck you big slut"

  Isabelle : Stop! Don't talk like that. No.