L'Avventura (1960)
Monica Vitti: Claudia
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Quotes
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Sandro : [Admiring the buildings of a small town from a rooftop] Such imagination. Such movement. They were concerned with the architectural aesthetics. Such extraordinary freedom. I must go ahead and leave Ettore. I'd like to work on design again. I used to have ideas of my own, you know.
Claudia : Why did you stop?
Sandro : Why, why, why? Because it isn't easy to admit that a red floor suits a room when you are thinking exactly the opposite. But the lady wants it red. Because there is always a lady... or a man... and so... Once I was asked to make the estimate for the construction of a school. It took me a day and a half. I earned four million lira. So I went on giving estimates of other people's projects. Why are you looking at me this way?
Claudia : Because I am convinced you could make really beautiful things.
Sandro : I don't know. I really don't know about that. Who needs beautiful things nowadays, Claudia? How long will they last? All of this was built to last centuries. Today, 10, 20 years at the most, and then? Well...
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Claudia : Sometimes I wonder what I could have done to prevent all this from happening.
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Giulia : [admiring Goffredo's paintings] Claudia, come see. A nude.
Claudia : They're all nudes, if I'm not mistaken.
Giulia : You're good. But why only women?
Il principe Goffredo : No landscape is as lovely as a woman.
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Claudia : Anna!
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Mario - Yacht Captain : We should leave now.
Corrado : Why?
Mario - Yacht Captain : The sea is getting rough.
Claudia : And Anna?
Corrado : I don't know.
Mario - Yacht Captain : I thought I heard a boat.
Corrado : Yes.
Mario - Yacht Captain : You hear it?
Claudia : Sandro! Where's Anna?
Sandro : She was here.
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Claudia : It's not a town, it's a cemetery. Oh God, how sad. Let's go.
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Claudia : [Sandro throws Claudia on a hotel room bed] No, Sandro, please.
Sandro : Why?
Claudia : No reason. What's gotten into you? Eh? No. Wait a moment, please. Just a moment. I feel as though I don't know you.
Sandro : Aren't you happy? You're having a new fling.
Claudia : What are you saying?
Sandro : I was joking. I can never joke with you.
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Claudia : Why can't things be less complicated? You say I always want to see things clearly. I'd like to be clearheaded. I'd like to have truly clear ideas!
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Claudia : [singing] No, no, I'll never leave you, No, no, Forever you'll be mine...