1900 (1976)

Dominique Sanda: Ada Fiastri Paulhan

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Quotes 

• Olmo Dalco : This is my bride-trap.

  Ada Fiastri Paulhan : Have you caught any brides?

  Olmo Dalco : You're the first one.

• Ada Fiastri Paulhan : I don't need this anymore!

  [pours wine over Regina's head] 

  Ada Fiastri Paulhan : I baptize you: Regina, queen of the bitches!

• Ada Fiastri Paulhan : I love the smell of earth!

  Olmo Dalco : That's dried shit.

• Ada Fiastri Paulhan : [indicates their servants]  They are all related?

  Alfredo Berlinghieri : Yes. A whole family of Dalco's. They've been working this land for generations.

• Attila Mellanchini : [attempts to organize the women]  All of you back to work!

  Ada Fiastri Paulhan : Oh, look ladies, it's the rooster, come to shepherd the hens again! Cluck, rooster, cluck!

  [leads women in throwing straw at a bemused Attila] 

• Ada Fiastri Paulhan : [Weaves drunkenly towards an irate Alfredo]  I know why you don't want me to drink. It's because when I drink it gives me the call to tell you the truth! You are different, you have changed. You are surrounded by terrible, vulgar, arrogant bullies, murderers... and you are even worse than they are!

• Ada Fiastri Paulhan : [Ada is drinking excessively in a small pub]  Merry Christmas.

  Alfredo Berlinghieri : [Knocks her drink out her hand]  You know how long I've been looking for you?

  Alfredo Berlinghieri : Signora Berlinghieri can no longer drink at home because the wine is locked away. She can no longer drink in smart cafes because her husband has given orders against it. So she drinks in taverns.

  Alfredo Berlinghieri : [Quiet but furious]  I'm going to have you locked up in an asylum.

  Ada Fiastri Paulhan : [Crawls under the table]  I can drink here! I can even fall under the table. Nobody sees me anyway.

  Alfredo Berlinghieri : Get up from there. Get up. You look disgusting. Your face is all swollen from the alcohol, you stink. Get up!

  Ada Fiastri Paulhan : [Wanders to other people in the tavern]  Do I disgust you too? Am I swollen? Do I stink?

• Alfredo Berlinghieri : You slut. You like fooling around with everyone. Even Olmo.

  Ada Fiastri Paulhan : [Mocking]  Olmo? What an imagination.

  Alfredo Berlinghieri : Is it my imagination to have seen you together? That I've seen you with him before? Is it my imagination that I smell him on you?

  Ada Fiastri Paulhan : [Yells]  You think Olmo would have anything to do with the wife of a *fascist*?

  Alfredo Berlinghieri : [Screams]  Fascist? I am not a fascist! If you call me that again I will kill you! If I see you with him again I will kill you!

• Ada Fiastri Paulhan : I love the smell of Earth.

  Olmo Dalco : That's dried shit.