The Little Soldier (1963)

Anna Karina: Veronica Dreyer

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• Bruno Forestier : Got any records?

  Veronica Dreyer : Yes. What would you like? Bach?

  Bruno Forestier : No, it's too late. Bach's for 8:00 in the morning. A Brandenburg Concerto at 8:00 am is wonderful.

  Veronica Dreyer : Mozart? Beethoven?

  Bruno Forestier : Too early. Mozart's for 8:00 at night. Beethoven's music is very deep. Beethoven's for midnight. No, what we need is some Haydn. Good old Joseph Haydn.

• Veronica Dreyer : Is this all you brought?

  Bruno Forestier : Yes.

  Veronica Dreyer : I thought you'd need lights and...

  Bruno Forestier : No, no, no, no. This is very fast film. It's Agfa Record. When you photograph a face - look at me - you photograph the soul behind it.

• Bruno Forestier : [taking photographs of Veronica]  Move around. Don't just stand there.

  Veronica Dreyer : What do you want me to do?

  Bruno Forestier : Whatever you want. Light a cigarette. Take a shower.

  Veronica Dreyer : Yeah, right.

  Bruno Forestier : Why not?

• Bruno Forestier : I'd like to get pictures of you showering. You really don't want to?

  Veronica Dreyer : No.

  Bruno Forestier : Why?

  Veronica Dreyer : Because I think it's stupid.

  Bruno Forestier : Afraid of me seeing your body? - - What were you going to say? What are you thinking right now?

• Bruno Forestier : I think actors are stupid. I despise them. Tell them to laugh and they laugh. Tell them to cry, they cry. Tell them to crawl, they do it. To me, that's grotesque.

  Veronica Dreyer : I don't see why.

  Bruno Forestier : I don't know. They're not free.

• Bruno Forestier : Are you staying with me or not?

  Veronica Dreyer : I don't know. I don't know, Bruno. I don't know.

  Bruno Forestier : Coming out of Club 58 - you remember? You took my arm.

  Veronica Dreyer : Shouldn't I have?

  Bruno Forestier : No.

  Veronica Dreyer : Why?

  Bruno Forestier : Because it made me want to sleep with you. Now you seem to be saying that's impossible. You shouldn't give your arm to men you don't want to be with.

• Veronica Dreyer : Snapshots taken around the world pass before me like a bad dream. Panama. Rome. Alexandria. Budapest. Paris. The bad dream continues. "We went off to war like schoolboys to school." So began one Bernano's novels. I remember the title: Humiliated Children. I relit my cigarette. I feel like one of those schoolboys this morning. Why? Perhaps asking questions is more important than coming up with answers.

• Veronica Dreyer : Where'd you go?

  Bruno Forestier : To get cigarettes. Did you take a bath?

  Veronica Dreyer : I didn't feel like it.

• Veronica Dreyer : I'm going to take a bath.

• Bruno Forestier : Veronica, why don't you say something?

  Veronica Dreyer : I don't know what to say.

  Bruno Forestier : Lie to me. Say you're not sad I'm leaving.

  Veronica Dreyer : I'm not sad your leaving. I'm not in love with you. I won't join you in Brazil. I won't kiss you tenderly.

• Veronica Dreyer : I could see that the French were wrong. The other side has an ideal, but the French don't. It's very important to have an ideal.