L'Avventura (1960)

Monica Vitti: Claudia

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• Sandro : [Admiring the buildings of a small town from a rooftop]  Such imagination. Such movement. They were concerned with the architectural aesthetics. Such extraordinary freedom. I must go ahead and leave Ettore. I'd like to work on design again. I used to have ideas of my own, you know.

  Claudia : Why did you stop?

  Sandro : Why, why, why? Because it isn't easy to admit that a red floor suits a room when you are thinking exactly the opposite. But the lady wants it red. Because there is always a lady... or a man... and so... Once I was asked to make the estimate for the construction of a school. It took me a day and a half. I earned four million lira. So I went on giving estimates of other people's projects. Why are you looking at me this way?

  Claudia : Because I am convinced you could make really beautiful things.

  Sandro : I don't know. I really don't know about that. Who needs beautiful things nowadays, Claudia? How long will they last? All of this was built to last centuries. Today, 10, 20 years at the most, and then? Well...

• Claudia : Sometimes I wonder what I could have done to prevent all this from happening.

• Patrizia : My childhood was like a merry-go-round, now here, now there.

  Claudia : Mine was a very sensible one.

  Patrizia : What do you mean by "sensible"?

  Claudia : I mean without any money.

• Claudia : Did you sleep well?

  Anna : So-so. Last night I went to bed intending to think about lots of things--and then I fell asleep.

• Sandro : You love Anna very much.

  Claudia : Yes, very much.

  Sandro : Did she ever talk to you about me?

  Claudia : Seldom, but always tenderly.

  Sandro : And yet - and yet she acted as though our love, mine, yours, even her father's, in a way, weren't enough for her, meant nothing to her.

• Giulia : [admiring Goffredo's paintings]  Claudia, come see. A nude.

  Claudia : They're all nudes, if I'm not mistaken.

  Giulia : You're good. But why only women?

  Il principe Goffredo : No landscape is as lovely as a woman.

• Anna : You know, the whole shark thing was a lie.

  Claudia : A lie?

  Anna : Yes.

  Claudia : Why?

  Anna : Because. But don't think about it now. It's over.

  Claudia : I don't want to know why you do these things. It's Sandro, I suppose. Did you get what you wanted, at least?

• Sandro : Shall we swim?

  Claudia : Not here! It's frightening.

• Patrizia : What do you want, Raimondo? You want me? At this time of day?

  Claudia : Bye.

  Patrizia : No, Claudia, stay. There's no spark.

• Claudia : Anna!

• Mario - Yacht Captain : We should leave now.

  Corrado : Why?

  Mario - Yacht Captain : The sea is getting rough.

  Claudia : And Anna?

  Corrado : I don't know.

  Mario - Yacht Captain : I thought I heard a boat.

  Corrado : Yes.

  Mario - Yacht Captain : You hear it?

  Claudia : Sandro! Where's Anna?

  Sandro : She was here.

• Sandro : It's all my fault. Say it. It's what you're thinking.

  Claudia : You're so concerned with what I'm thinking. You should have made more of an effort to understand what Anna was thinking.

• Sandro : Claudia, what's the matter?

  Claudia : Sandro, I'm so ashamed, so ashamed. Did you see that? I was trying to hide. I feel miserable. I hate myself.

  Sandro : Do you enjoy saying these things?

  Claudia : No, not at all.

  Sandro : So why do you say them?

  Claudia : Because what I'm doing is ugly.

• Claudia : To think that you must have told Anna these same things--I don't know, how many times.

  Sandro : Let's say I did. I was as earnest with her as I am now with you.

• Claudia : It's not a town, it's a cemetery. Oh God, how sad. Let's go.

• Claudia : It's absurd.

  Sandro : Good. All the better if it is absurd. It means we can't do anything about it. Understand?

• Claudia : I'd really like to know what you're going to say now. Go on, speak. I don't want you with me or to see you. How can I make you understand? Why did you come?

  Sandro : I couldn't help it.

  Claudia : Well, we'll have to help it, so you might as well make this sacrifice right now.

• Claudia : I've never felt so shaken in my whole life. Sandro, why don't you help me?

  Sandro : I think the only way we can help each other is by staying together.

  Claudia : No. I'm sure that's not it.

• Claudia : [Sandro throws Claudia on a hotel room bed]  No, Sandro, please.

  Sandro : Why?

  Claudia : No reason. What's gotten into you? Eh? No. Wait a moment, please. Just a moment. I feel as though I don't know you.

  Sandro : Aren't you happy? You're having a new fling.

  Claudia : What are you saying?

  Sandro : I was joking. I can never joke with you.

• Claudia : Why can't things be less complicated? You say I always want to see things clearly. I'd like to be clearheaded. I'd like to have truly clear ideas!

• Claudia : Oh, Sandro. I want all the things you want, but...

  Sandro : But?

• Claudia : How do you manage with all this chaos? You've always said people irritate you.

  Patrizia : You shouldn't always take me literally.

• Claudia : [singing]  No, no, I'll never leave you, No, no, Forever you'll be mine...

• Patrizia : What kind of face do you think Raimondo has?

  Claudia : A rather corrupt one, I'd say.

  Patrizia : What? He's a child.

  Raimondo : Don't start, Patrizia. I'd rather be corrupt. Unless you happen to love children.

  Patrizia : I don't love anyone. You know it.