The Mischief Makers (1957)

Michel François: Récitant, Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Récitant : [voice over narration]  Jouve's sister was unbearably beautiful. She always rode wither skirts flying. Bernadette led us to discover many of our darkly hidden dreams. She awoke in us the springs of luminous sensuality.

• [last lines] 

  Récitant : [voice over narration]  But one autumn day in October Bernadette Jouve passed us, not seeing us. Later I recalled the event more with pity than shame, but I have a bitter memory of her gone from our childhood skies, the way she'd disappear around a corner with her skirts flying.

• Récitant : A virginal heartbeat has its own juvenile logic.

• Récitant : [voice over]  When swimming, she'd leave her bike and we'd hang around it.

  [adolescent boy sniffs Bernadette's bicycle seat]