In Belle époque
(based on English translation of François Truffaut's final script)
1. What is happening to Madame Avellano when Lucien Lachenay breaks into her train compartment at the opening of the film? (Answer)
2. In the Leon Gandillot play Towards Love, a review of which Lucien is reading to his mother, Lucien reads "in the stages of our affair . . . he is ___________, she is merely _____________; his __________ wanes, hers ___________ . . . again the balance shifts and the affair takes fire as love." How does this shift in balance mirror the relationship between Lucien and Alice? (see also fire references under The English Patient) (Answer)
3. What is Alice unwilling to accept from Lucien early in their relationship? (also reference Bille en Tete) (Answer)
4. Of Madame Dieulafoy, the "lady" archeologist, it is said: "she bares the walls, not that she wears the _______ ." (Answer)
5. What are electric vehicles dangerous to? (also reference "dangerous" line in Bitter Moon) (Answer)
6. How does Lucien decorate le Metro, and how does it involve Alice? (Answer)
7. When Alice meets Lucien, what does she notice around his study at home that disturbs her? (Answer)
8. Alice says at one point in her first interview with Lucien: "Are you not too inclined to mix __________ with ___________ ?" (Answer)
9. Under what circumstances does Alice agree to have dinner with Lucien? (Answer)
10. When the radicals are plotting their conspiracy against the "Think of me as an __________ you lost. If you _________ me in a year and a day," Lucien then adds "you'll say ______ ." (Answer)
11. After the attack on Lucien's home, when Lucien, Alphonse, and Alice sit down for dinner, Lucien says "_________ stirs the appetite, they say." (Answer)
12. To put Alphonse at ease during dinner, Lucien says "If we fill our own glasses, we destroy the _______________ ." (Answer)
13. At what point does Alice kiss Lucien, and what does it tell us about the things that touch her? (Answer)
14. When the Bastille station is opened, what is Alice not wearing at the celebration? (Hint: observe her hands)? (Answer)
15. In the carriage with Lucien, Alice says: "I thought one could only make ______ at _______." (see also Under the Cherry Moon, Random Hearts, and Up at the Villa for cross-references of sex in vehicles) (Answer)
16. At dinner with Jules, Alphonse, and Laure, Professor Thalamus says that "Joan of Arc was, of course, no _________." (By the way, does anyone know what that Ming stone is all about that Jules wants to give Alphonse?) (Answer)
17. What does Lucien tell Alphonse about Laure when Alphonse says he loves her? (Answer)
18. When Alphonse sees Alice in her undergarments at Lucien's, why does Alice feel she needs to break it off with Lucien? (Answer)
19. After Guido's death, when Alice decides to have a cooling off period with Lucien, she says: "Think of me as an ________ you lost. If you ________ me in a year and a day," Lucien then adds "you'll say ______ ." (Answer)
20. When Alice decides she is ready to rekindle with Lucien, what is she wearing, where is she hoping they will go, and what does Lucien tell her instead? (Answer)
21. What leads to the bitter feud between Alphonse and Lucien? (Answer)
22. Marcel says: "Books, Sainte-Beuve said, are born of ____________ and ______________ . He was wrong--books are children of the __________ and __________ ." (Answer)
23. According to Marcel, between men and women, "Friendship does not accentuate our differences, it ___________ them." What are the many references to friendship in that scene between Alice and Marcel? (Answer)
24. Discussing the coming strike, one gentleman says "I've got a __________ of water and six months' provisions." (Answer)
25. When Alice runs into former domestic Josephine on the dance floor, Josephine says she left the Avellano household because of involvement with a ___________ and then says she was a _________ to her senses. Which other KST films does this remind you of? (Answer)
26. Alice has two suitors at the restaurant. One says "You'll have to choose between us" and Alice says: "Why neither of you is __________, but you're __________ together." (Answer)
27. Antoinette says to Alice that evening "People are so _________. You alone are __________ ." (Answer)
28. With whom does Alice dance at one point that reminds us of Bitter Moon and later Four Weddings? (Answer)
29. Back from his honeymoon with Laure, Lucien says that "Love and Italy do make one ___________ ." (Answer)
30. After Alice and Lucien meet again, what story does Alice tell a young girl, and what does it reveal about the sort of relationship she thinks Lucien should have with Alphonse (and perhaps Alice with Lucien)? (Answer)
31. What does Alice notice about Paris that reminds her of the holiday she had once planned with Lucien? How does this manner of comparing her surroundings with a more exotic location remind us of Marie-Therese in Un Ete Inoubliable? (Malcolm came up with this gem) (Answer)
32. What is Lucien's telling line to Laure when reading the paper, after she has been told that Lucien has rekindled romance with Alice? (Answer)
33. Before Lucien goes to make peace with Alphonse, Alice says: "In English, you know, ________ and __________ are so close." (Answer)
