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Synopsis: Roland, an idler living on the Left Bank in Paris, is determined to inflict a terrible revenge on his friend Arthur, after the latter subjected him to a harmless joke. He engages the services of the seductive Ambroisine, who pretends to fall in love with Arthur. Oblivious to his friend's scheming, Arthur is certain that Ambroisine's feelings for him are genuine and looks forward to their wedding day.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Year:
1961
99 min
187 Views


I thought you hold it against me.

You shouldn't love me.

It encumbers me, it's hopeless.

I'm not made for being loved.

You can't blame me for being a fool.

Look at this face.

He was making his cheeks red

while we were in Paris.

Our Arthur knows how to live.

I'm glad Ambroisine told you

about our invitation.

You're very kind.

What a beautiful crockery.

Don't exaggerate, I'm not

a compulsive collector.

You're right, things have to be useful.

Absolutely, I hate uselessness.

By the way, sorry for our small party.

You know how things like that end up.

Yep.

Don't worry, I'll pay for the breakage.

Watch out, explosion!

You can see astrology

and religion are compatible.

Do you have Cognac?

Look on the tray.

There's is none.

Drink something else.

No, I want Cognac.

There must be some left in the kitchen.

I'm coming with you.

No more cognac.

Maybe in the library.

Children there's only the linen room left.

Nothing in the linen room neither.

You'll do without Cognac.

I'm not lucky, I'm always the victim.

I think we should let our host sleep.

There's no hurry my dear.

We could stay until he fall asleep.

Good idea. Sing some lullaby.

And I don't really want to move.

Why don't we sleep here?

My beds are yours.

Why not.

What is it?

I was thirsty.

What if we wake Ronald with a start?

If you want.

Here is your breakfast.

Goodbye.

If she didn't exist we should create her.

We could do without this creation.

That's only your opinion.

It's my opinion.

You can live on your own.

Sometimes you are quite a jerk.

I'm sorry if sadness make me being an idiot.

You're getting worked up with this girl.

She's not worth it, believe me.

I can do nothing.

I love Ambroisine and it hurts.

It doesn't make you funnier.

It's boring.

And you know it.

And since you don't know what to do,

you making a cuckold face.

I'm not conventional enough

to try to beat you up.

Yes, you're doing me a favor.

Enough Arthur.

I'll give you an advice because I like you.

Also because I don't want you

to be an idiot.

Never tell Ambroisine you love her.

Act like me, seem indifferent.

It will make her react.

Then she will be the one falling for it.

A man shouldn't carry the supplies.

Neither should I.

- You don't care about the crayfish?

- Not at all.

- So it will stay here.

- It died of oldness.

Hey, what's wrong?

Tell me, what's wrong?

Tell me.

What's wrong?

- 2 tickets?

- 1.

What's wrong?

What's wrong?

Will you stop following me like a dog?

- Is it because of Ronald?

- F*** you!

Listen, I don't care about Ronald.

He's not funny.

Want one?

- Try.

- It will be easy.

You're too disgusting.

Go away I've seen you enough.

Look, this old woman on the cover

looks like Arthur.

Sometimes I think you're almost a b*tch.

Why?

I didn't say you're a b*tch.

But you're close.

Although I like it.

You're very cruel with our little Arthur.

He's the one who's rude.

Of course.

Do you see him?

He's bothering.

What if he drowns himself?

He would never do that.

We're laughing, aren't we?

Aren't you laughing?

I think we're laughing.

No, we're not laughing?

Don't be pensive Ambroisine.

Listen to this Adagio.

Stop sulking.

My poor car...

You don't care about your car,

it's not about it.

- What is it about?

- It's about Ambroisine.

- Are you crazy?

- No.

I don't care about Ambroisine.

That's what you say...

I haven't seen her for 5 days.

It won't last.

You can start economizing.

And you're vulgar sentences are unbearable.

Here are the lovers. Welcome.

We're not bothering you?

You? Oh...

- So how are you doing?

- Wonderfully well.

Good. I'm very well too.

And you?

Oh...

We've got so much spirit today.

What are you telling me?

We're going to get married.

What?

No joke?

We're as surprised as you.

Now she has to get a good wife.

Of course I'll be the witness.

We came to ask you.

With such a news we'll drink some Cognac.

Watch out, now I'm someone respectable.

Hey, how are you doing Saint-Aubin?

Hello Sir.

Well, you didn't stand idle

since philosophy.

It's a boy.

No, he's sleeping.

Well, congratulations.

I think you're on a good way.

Well Saint-Aubin,

I won't hold you any longer.

Madam.

Goodbye Sir.

I'm hungry.

It's weird but this joke made me sad.

It's weird, me too.

Now you can trust me.

Sweetheart, good news:

you're going to the Pyrnes tomorrow.

Wed, wed.

There'll still be something left.

When will you be in Cannes?

In 8 days.

Why?

For nothing.

I wanted to make sure

you won't be bored without us.

See you soon.

Arthur.

My little Arthur.

You put my car on the sidewalk.

You'll pay for this.

We could live like that forever.

You would be bored after one month.

I'd be happy with you.

Yes, if we stay in Paris 10 months a year.

That's not unrealizable.

So what do we do?

What do you mean "what do we do"?

Are we getting married?

I don't know. What do you think?

What to you think?

What would be different?

- Nothing.

- That's it.

But it's a lifetime promise.

That's what we were trying to avoid.

I can change my mind, can't I?

What would we live with?

My uncle is rich.

He's still young.

True.

And it's not with what he give me...

And for me? Do you think he could

make an effort for me?

You don't know him.

We could borrow from your inheritance.

From who?

I don't know. Why not Ronald?

It's delicate.

He's not like that.

Still. Still...

Listen Arthur, we have to find a solution.

Money, what a problem.

Money is not vital,

it doesn't make you happy.

So it's settled, we're getting married?

We're getting married.

My uncle will be very surprised.

Would you like to make

a detour by Saint Flore?

I'm not sure I'll have time.

Ah?

Yes, I also have to make a detour.

By Saumur.

What for?

To see my daughter.

Your daughter?

My daughter.

I have a daughter. I didn't tell you?

- Don't forget to give her the doll.

- I'm not gonna keep it for me.

- Don't be late.

- Don't neither.

If my uncle want me to stay for some days

I won't be able to wriggle out of it.

If I arrive first I'll wait for you.

Do you love me?

Do you?

I have a hunch I do.

So kiss me.

Get into a line.

I'm not totally dry.

Hurry, come and dress up. We'll go shopping.

At last I'll believe you're in love with me.

Belief leads the world.

Dress up.

We're happy here together.

Let's go.

Ambroisine!

Ambroisine!

Ambroisine!

I'm sorry my angel, I have to go.

See you soon.

Hello.

Hi.

Where is Ambroisine?

She's coming back in a few days.

- Isn't she in Paris?

- I told you not.

I would know, wouldn't I?

Arthur.

You want to see Ronald?

I think he will receive you.

Wait here.

"Arthur wants to see you".

Let him enter.

Do I bother you?

I have to say that if it wasn't you...

I would have had a row.

How were these holidays?

Marvelous.

Yours in Cannes?

So bad.

I branched off to Saint Tropez,

I ran out of money.

And you're marriage, any news?

My uncle was astonished

but he is rich enough.

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Claude Chabrol

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (French: [klod ʃabʁɔl]; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker. Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in Les Biches (1968), La Femme infidèle (1969), and Le Boucher (1970) – all featuring Stéphane Audran, who was his wife at the time. Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozière. On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovary (1991) and La Cérémonie (1996). Film critic John Russell Taylor has stated that "there are few directors whose films are more difficult to explain or evoke on paper, if only because so much of the overall effect turns on Chabrol's sheer hedonistic relish for the medium...Some of his films become almost private jokes, made to amuse himself." James Monaco has called Chabrol "the craftsman par excellence of the New Wave, and his variations upon a theme give us an understanding of the explicitness and precision of the language of the film that we don't get from the more varied experiments in genre of Truffaut or Godard." more…

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