The City of Lost Children (1995)
Judith Vittet: Miette
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Quotes
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Miette : When you're born in the gutter you end up in the port.
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Miette : One?
[One grunts]
Miette : You asleep?
[One breathes deeply and mumbles]
Miette : What did you do before?
One : One sailor. Harpooned Whales. One night
[pauses]
One : One hear whales singing. After
[gestures throwing of harpoon]
One : always always the target I miss. One loses job.
Miette : One?
[pauses]
Miette : What's it like to have a little brother?
One : Keeps you
[pauses]
One : running.
Miette : Well, he can't complain he's got nobody to worry about him.
One : [Turns over] Denree- little brother. Miette- little sister.
[Blows air on Miette's back]
Miette : What are you doing?
One : [Whispers in Miette's ear] Radiator
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le scaphandrier : The Children!
Miette : What about them? What do you know?
le scaphandrier : He takes them. The Devil takes them away. In his boat... he takes them to Hell.
Miette : What Hell?
le scaphandrier : The tattooed man: he knows where. The map... the map of the minefield is tattooed on his body.