Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Landry: Self
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Quotes
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Landry, African Immigrant : Saint-Tropez is a town, in some ways a village. It reminds me of black Africa. The same old houses and red roofs. Saint-Tropez! Everybody talks about it, even in my forest, in my African bush, I'd heard of Saint-Tropez.
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Angelo, Factory Worker : You don't mind being black?
Landry, African Immigrant : No. I don't mind. I got a trick. I knock on a a door. If it opens, I get in, if it stays shut, I go away.
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Landry, African Immigrant : Blacks, in France, are usually liked for their dancing. I wish people would like blacks for other reasons than dancing.
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Landry, African Immigrant : I find women in Saint-Tropez funny. They wear bikinis and do all they can to attract attention.
Sophie - the cover-girl : They wear extravagant dresses just because they're in Saint-Tropez.
Landry, African Immigrant : To think that in Africa, in some regions, women wear leaves to hide their sex, and the French colonialists make fun of us. But in a bikini a woman hides nothing at all.
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Landry, African Immigrant : Had it been between Congolese and Ivorians, a national of Guinea would not feel involved. But when a white man oppresses the black - all the African states were colonies once - when whites crack down on an African state, we all feel a share in the other's sufferings.
Marceline Loridan Ivens, Herself : I agree. It's not quite the same, but if there is anti-Semitism in any country at all, I feel involved, I can't tolerate it. Whether a German Jew, Polish, Russian or American, it's the same to me.
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Jean Rouch, Himself : Landry, have you noticed the number on Marceline's arm?
Landry, African Immigrant : Yes.
Jean Rouch, Himself : What do you think it is?
Landry, African Immigrant : I've no idea.
Jean Rouch, Himself : No idea? How about you, Raymond?
Raymond, African Immigrant : I know that sailors wear tattooed numbers, but she's not sailor. I don't know what it means. A tease?
Landry, African Immigrant : Why a number?
Marceline Loridan Ivens, Herself : A heart would look better.
Raymond, African Immigrant : It's not a phone number, too long.
Marceline Loridan Ivens, Herself : First of all, it's not a V, it's a triangle. Half of the Jewish star. The Jewish symbol is the six-pointed star. On the other hand, it isn't my phone number. I was sent to a concentration camp because I'm a Jew. This is the number I was given in the camp.
Nadine Ballot, Herself : Do you know what a camp is?
Raymond, African Immigrant : Yes. Yes, I've seen a film about them. "Night and Fog."