In Un été inoubliable
(based on English translation in U.S. release)
1. What sort of nature does Marie-Therèse have according to her son? In how many films does Kristin dance? How often does it lead to something more? (see other dance references under The English Patient ) (Answer)
2. One of the Roumanian soldiers outside the ball says of Marie-Therèse von Debretzy: "She'd make a good _______________ ." Can anyone offer the meaning of the original Roumanian line, which is no doubt far more illuminating? (Answer)
3. What was Marie-Therèse saved from during the Communist plague? Who is the archangel who saved her? (Answer)
4. What did Marie-Therèse get from her mother? What from her father? (Answer)
5. Where does Helène get bored? (Why does she have nothing in common with Kristin in this respect?) (Answer)
6. At the party, Helène remarks that Marie-Therèse speaks Roumanian, but with what ghastly accent? (Answer)
7. What is the name of the Roumanian officer who expresses a passionate interest in Marie-Therèse? (reference Cherry Moon) (Answer)
8. How does Helène sum up Petrica? (Answer)
9. What does Tchilibia say he would trade for a glass of wine? Why is this an interesting twist on a line from Richard III? (Answer)
10. Tchilibia says of ________ (it could be any of the men in this film), "If you stuck that ____________ up your ______________, what a ____________ you would have." (Answer)
11. What did Marie-Therèse do before she married? What would she jump through? (reference The English Patient--doesn't everything have a TEP reference?) (Answer)
12. What was Marie-Therèse waving in the air in the carriage on the way home from the ball? (Answer)
13. What are the answers to the following based on Marie-Therèse's and Petrica's conversation about Prince?
Petrica: "Next time I'll cut off his __________." (Answer)
Marie-Therèse: "What will he hang his ___________ on?" (Answer)
14. What does Petrica call Prince behind his back? (Answer)
15. Who is Eros in the homecoming yard scene at the border compound, and what is he surrounded by? (Hint: There is no Leda and the goose reference here) (Answer)
16. How many bathtub or shower scenes can you think of that feature Kristin? (What is this thing about bathtubs, anyway? See plumbing cross-references under The English Patient) (Answer)
17. What does Petrica wear always, even while shaving? What does this suggest that Petrica and other officers lack? (Answer)
18. What doesn't lie, according to Marie-Therèse? What sort of ______ is a lying _______? Which other KST films contain similar references to this object? (Answer)
19. What composers' music does Marie-Therèse play on the harpsichord? What is Kristin's vocal octave range during the brief Magic Flute segment? (Answer)
20. What finally shatters the mirror? (Answer)
21. What does Marie-Therèse call the mountain near their home? (Answer)
22. What do the soldiers all call Marie-Therèse? (Answer)
23. Why is Lt. Turtureanu always pissed? (two answers) What did the soldier do that so upset Lt. Turtureanu? Where can Petrica _____, according to Lt. Turtureanu? What is a soldier doing when there is an attack on the Roumanian camp? (Answer)
24. How many times does Marie-Therèse wear white in this film? Why is her husband always trying to make love to her? Why are women all over the world trying to wear white more often? (Answer)
25. When the Bulgarians attack the Roumanian soldiers, what do they cut off? (Answer)
26. What does Marie-Therèse take when she is worried about the ramifications of the Bulgarian attack? (reference Richard III) (Answer)
27. How many Roumanians were killed at Post 16? How many Bulgarians are arrested to tend the garden at the post? (Answer)
28. Petco says: "You need a full ________ to meet __________ ." What scene does this foreshadow? (Answer)
29. Marie-Therèse says to the Bulgarians: "When I come to your homes, you'll greet me with _________ and _________ ." (Answer)
30. How does Marie-Therèse pay the Bulgarians for their work in the garden? (two answers) (Answer)
31. How do the Bulgarians manage to grow such large courgettes (zucchinis)? What are all of those women with schmatas on their heads doing just outside the compound? (Answer)
32. Why does salad make Marie-Therèse and Petrica choke at dinner? (Answer)
33. What does Petrica say he needs in order to execute the Bulgarians? (Answer)
34. Prince says to Petrica: "Dear fellow, let's forget your pretty little ___________ . You can kiss your ______________ goodbye. You'll end up piling ______________ instead of piling up _______________ ." (Answer)
35. What is Prince's toast to the spirit of Roumanian women who tame the _____________ and make the _____________ bloom? (another TEP reference) (Answer)
36. Marie-Therèse says at lunch: "I feel ______________ for all the _______________." When she goes inside the house, she pounds on the door and says "How could I have been so ________ ?" (Answer)
37. What do the soldiers call Prince behind his back? What are all of the references to telescopes in this film? (Answer)
38. When Marie-Therèse says "Get off" to her children when she is upset about the coming execution (which Malcolm tells us is "Piss off" in the French version), why does the dubbed voice from Kristin sound like she is possessed by the Devil, like Linda Blair in The Exorcist? (Answer)
39.Tchilibia says to Petrica: "We burnt the red flag of Bela ________ ." He also says "I _______ in your harpsichord." (Answer)
40. What is crawling in the salad at dinner? Which other film does this remind us of? Why is Marie-Therèse so anxious to get the salad out of the house? (Answer)
41. What do you think are the complicated motivations of Marie-Therèse when she tells the Bulgarians who are being hauled off for execution that they will be all right and that she will see them in the morning? (Answer)
42. What comparison does Tchilibia draw between Marie-Therèse and the whore Erji, and what does Petrica draw from his waist in rage? What does Petrica put in his mouth after the ordeal? (Answer)
43. What do the Bulgarian women almost do to Marie-Therèse among the sheep in the paddock? (Answer)
44. What did Marie-Therèse take to in order to try to forget that unforgettable summer? (Answer)
45. How many languages does Kristin speak with fluency in this film? (Answer)
