Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

Eiji Okada: Lui

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Quotes 

• Lui : Some years from now, when I have forgotten you and other romances like this one have recurred through sheer habit, I will remember you as a symbol of love's forgetfulness. This affair will remind me how horrible forgetting is.

• Elle : I have dubious morals, you know.

  Lui : What do you call "having dubious morals"?

  Elle : Being dubious about other people's morals.

• Elle : [Last lines]  Hi-ro-shi-ma. Hiroshima. That is your name.

  Lui : Yes, that is my name. And your name is Nevers. Nevers, in France.

• Lui : What did Hiroshima mean to you, in France?

  Elle : [pauses for a second]  The end of the war... completely, I mean. Amazement that they dared, amazement that they succeeded. And for us, the start of an unknown fear. Then, indifference. And fear of that indifference.

• Lui : You were bored in a way that makes a man want to know a woman

• Lui : [First lines]  You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing.

  Elle : I saw everything. Everything.

• Elle : I have made nothing up.

  Lui : You have made it all up.

• Lui : What's the film you're in?

  Elle : A film about peace. What else would we be making in Hiroshima?

• Lui : And then one day, my love, does eternity come to an end?

• Elle : Were you here in Hiroshima?

  Lui : Of course not.

  Elle : That's right. How silly of me.

  Lui : But my family was in Hiroshima.

  Lui : I was off fighting the war.

  Elle : Lucky for you, eh?

  Lui : Yes.

  Elle : Lucky for me, too.

• Lui : Where are you going? To Nevers?

  Lui : No, Paris. I'll never set foot in Nevers again.

  Elle : Never?

  Lui : Never.

• Elle : I have always wept for the fate of Hiroshima. Always.

  Lui : No. What would you have wept about?

• Lui : Why are you in Hiroshima?

  Elle : A film.

  Lui : What film?

  Elle : I am acting in a film.

• Lui : Perhaps I was dreaming, without realizing it.

• Lui : Does it mean anything else in French, "Nevers"?

  Elle : No, nothing.