Time of Indifference (1964)

Claudia Cardinale: Carla

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Quotes 

• Leo : I'm sorry.

  Carla : Why are you sorry? You change, right? It's another form of change.

  Mariagrazia : Carla, stop talking nonsense!

• Leo : When you can't go on, there's one thing to do, change.

  Carla : Change? How?

  Leo : Change your life. Get away, start again. A girl like you can have everything. As long as you want it.

  Carla : What's with you today?

  Leo : [pulls Carla down on the sofa]  Why don't you come and stay with me?

  Carla : Stop it!

  Leo : I'm serious. You'll have everything. Clothes, cars, trips. Think about it, Carla.

• Carla : We're in trouble. Bailiffs came.

  Leo : You have beautiful legs, Carla.

  [pulls up Carla's skirt, she slaps his hand away] 

  Carla : You can imagine the scene.

• Carla : Why did you call me that?

  Leo : What?

  Carla : Almost-daughter.

  Leo : It was just a joke, a game. Adults play games, too. Just like you played games ,here in this garden. You were a beautiful little girl. I imagined I was your father.

  Carla : You don't feel shame, Leo?

  [Leo kisses Carla on the lips] 

• Leo : Have you forgotten about today? I haven't. I still see you on that bed. When will we be together again?

  Carla : No, Leo. It's useless.

  Leo : Not true. It will happen. And you know it. You must tell me. When, Carla?

  Carla : No, Leo.

• Carla : Mama, what do you know about style?

  Mariagrazia : Carla, that's enough now! She want's to tell me how to behave. The world's turned upside down!

• Carla : Why did you make me drink?

  Leo : Why did you drink?

• Carla : What do you want?

  Leo : It's you I want. I want you now. Tonight, at my house. I'll wait in the car. Come down as soon as your mother's in bed.

• Carla : It doesn't matter, Michele. It'll still be the same, at least for me. You realize that it hasn't changed anything. Only a stronger feeling of disgust.

• Carla : What's happening to us, Michele?

  Michele : Nothing, Carla. That's the point. Nothing is happening to us. Or too much is happening and we've learned to ignore it. It's the same thing, the same way.

  Leo : A round of applause for the poet! Every one of us has very concrete motives and reasons for everything we do!

  Michele : Even to steal. Even to sleep with your "almost-daughter"?