The Children (2005)

Karin Viard: Jeanne Lancry

Quotes 

• Victor Esteban : [Visiting his studio apartment]  There isn't john here !

  Jeanne Lancry : John, as you say, is on the stage. You'll have to take your precautions before going to bed.

  Thomas "Tom" Esteban : You'll shit in your trousers...!

  Victor Esteban : Shut up or I'll make you eat your shit !

  Jeanne Lancry : You're crazy to speak like that...!

  [to Pierre] 

  Jeanne Lancry : Don't you say anything to them ?!

  Pierre Esteban : [to Victor and Tom]  You're crazy to speak like that..!

• Jeanne Lancry : We could play hide-and-go-seek !

  Victor Esteban : [ironic]  Of course ! And we could play jump rope, while you're about it !

• Jeanne Lancry : [she's going to visit a church, to the children]  Are you sure to want to stay in the car ?

  Victor Esteban : I'm not baptized.

  Jeanne Lancry : Because you need be baptized to go in a church ? What nonsense ! Do as you please, but it will be boiling hot in there !

  Camille : Unless we set the automatic air-conditioning going.

  Jeanne Lancry : Of course ! I'll set the motor going, just to keep you in a cool place !

  Camille : Why not ?

  Pierre Esteban : [to Tom and Paul]  Do you come with us, or do you do like the two big twits ?

  Thomas "Tom" Esteban , Paul : We do like the two big twits.

• Jeanne Lancry : Sometimes, I dream about a life without cornflakes nor tubes of stewed fruit...

• Pierre Esteban : [describing Victor, his eldest son]  Typical teenager. He feels uncomfortable. He don't answer when one's telling to him. He thinks know everything, because obviously his father don't know anything.

  Jeanne Lancry : Girls are not better. My getting-on-for-thirteen daughter is awful. At home, she can't spend a second without her soft toy, but I have to fight with her like a madwoman because she would go to the school dressed like a hooker !