Sandra (1965)

Jean Sorel: Gianni Wald-Luzzati

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• Andrew Dawson : You must know how great a man's curiosity can be about the woman he loves. He wants to know every detail of her life

  Gianni Wald-Luzzati : Yes, but that curiosity is bound to wain. You love a woman not for what she was or will be; but, for what she is.

  Andrew Dawson : I used to think that too, but, now, I don't want Sandra and me to have any secrets between us.

• Gianni Wald-Luzzati : She wants to keep you shut up in a cage, huh? You better put your foot down.

• Andrew Dawson : Don't forget, I'm a foreigner. A town like this this is so different from any provincial town in my country.

  Gianni Wald-Luzzati : Only superficially. Life in a provincial town is the same all over the world. The same sense of desperation. You think its impossible you felt that way when you're not here. Only it closes in on you again - the moment you come back. Maybe even after a hundred years.

• Gianni Wald-Luzzati : That's wonderful. I haven't seen you in months. We have so much to talk about. A thousand things. But, you want to retire.

  Sandra Dawson : That's right. The thousand things will keep until the morning - and we'll all be rested and calm.

• Gianni Wald-Luzzati : All at once, everything came back. Our talks together. Our silences. My anguish, loneliness. The walks we took on the terrace. The sleepless nights. And most of all, how happy I was with you. A feeling from the depths of my childhood. Because, you were afraid too. Of loneliness, darkness, a sound of a particular voice. Was this passion? What does a child know about passion? That's a grown up emotion, isn't it? I'm grown up and I'm still bewildered.

• Gianni Wald-Luzzati : It's been so long since I've seen you, Sandra. I'd managed somehow to forget you. I told myself I wouldn't think of you. I'd see the world. I'd fall in love. And I did. So many times that its not important. A new life. Everything changed. No more of the past - ever, ever again. So, that's the way it was. No past. No you. Beautiful women. Travel. Emptiness.

• Sandra Dawson : Stop it! I'm sick of you. What do you want? How much more do you want to destroy?

  Gianni Wald-Luzzati : Huh, more? What have you left me?

• Gianni Wald-Luzzati : According to you, we should hide ourselves in shame for a sin we never committed. You're a petite bourgeoisie, Sandra. Well, I'm not. What people think isn't my business. They want something to gossip about? All right, they can have their scandal.

• Gianni Wald-Luzzati : Help me, Sandra. Only you can understand me. We have the same memories. We had the same innocence. We hear the same music.

• Gianni Wald-Luzzati : Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa. At night I used to creep into the garden, count the stars of the Great Bear or watch it shining over the trees from the window. Why did I return to this unhappy, sick place of my childhood - to grope through its shadows, to fall under the spell of its Constellation again.

• Gianni Wald-Luzzati : Why can't you be honest for once? Did God tell you to become a nun? Did he tell you to get married and that would satisfy you? Did he tell you that nun's are sick with desire and frustration? That they're willing to mortify their flesh? Now, why must you torment yourself? Why should you fill so full of guilt? So wretched and alone?