"Camille" (1936) - A love story to not be forgotten...

"Camille" is a  love story between Marguerite Gautier a courtesan used to a luxurius and vain way of life but empty of love and happiness and Armand Duval, a young passionate and sensitive man who falls blindly in love with Marguerite. By his side she finds finally happiness and sincere love. However, Marguerite is seriously ill and Armand's father does not want him to be involved with a woman he thinks will ruin his son's life and reputation.  

This movie unfolds in a very dramatic fashion. The passion between Armand and Marguerite is mesmerizing. Greta Garbo's performance is remarkable and for the first time it is possible to see her without that distant nature. Her inner self is transparent and both characters show pretty convincing emotions.

Marguerite Gautier is a singular woman. It is interesting to see her little by little detachs herself from that skeptical way to relate to deep emotions to then get lost in love.

I read the book too. The story is told in a  little different way. Some parts in which Marguerite talks about her love for Armand are extremely poignant and beautifully written.

This is one of my very favorite movies!

 

 

 

"I shall have twice as many as usual tomorrow."

"I did not know that a rich man ever looked like that!"

 "His eyes have made love to me all evening."

"Are you following me?" (Marguerite)

"We really seemed fated to meet this evening, didn't we?" (Marguerite)

"I've hoped for this for so long!" (Armand)

"Why have you not spoken to me before?" (Marguerite)

"I've loved you since the first day!" (Armand)

" I think she wants to be alone with my friend!" (Gaston)

"For the first time you are quite right, Gaston!" (Marguerite)

"I'm not always sincere. One cannot be in this world, you know."

"But I am not sorry the mistake happened!"

 "You kept it all this time? Always with you?" (Marguerite)

"Always with me like an old friend!" (Armand)

"You might have asked to see me!" (Marguerite)

"I thought there were so many others!" (Armand)

"There were no others-none! You were the only one who got the trouble to  ring my bell!" (Marguerite)

"Now I am well again and all goes merrily!" (Marguerite)

"Well, then I will keep it but will not read it! I don't like sad thoughts!" (Marguerite)

"However, we all die." (Marguerite)

"I thought you did not like sad thoughts!" (Armand)

"I don't! But they come sometime! Au revoir, Monsieur Armand!" (Marguerite)

"I was so afraid you would not come!" (Marguerite)

"Oh, come, come! I'm not the colonel's daughter just out of the convent!" (Marguerite)

"Oh, it is you! You look ill too!" (Marguerite)

"See you like this suffering! You are killing yourself!" (Armand)

"It's nothing! If I die you are the only one  who objects!' (Marguerite)

"Why don't you go to dance with those pretty girls?!" (Marguerite)

"Your hand is so hot!" (Armand)

"Is that you put tears on it, to cool it?" (Marguerite)

"Someone ought to look after you!" (Armand)

"I could if you let me!" (Armand) 

"Too much wine has made you sentimental!' (Marguerite)

"It was not wine that made me come here every day for months to find out how you were!" (Armand)

"So, you really like to take care of me?"

"Why you should care for a woman like me?" (Marguerite)

"I am always nervous or sick or sad or too gay!" (Marguerite)

"Oh, come, come, you are young and sensitive. This sort of company you are in today does not suit you at all!" (Marguerite)

 "But I do care for you!" (Armand)

"No one has ever loved you as I do!" (Armand)

"Perhaps it is true but what can I do about it?" (Marguerite)

"You should go away and not see me anymore!" (Marguerite)

"But don't go in anger!" (Marguerite)

"Why don't you laugh as I do. Come to talk to me once in a while in a friendly way." (Marguerite)

"It is too much but not enough!" (Armand)

"I believe you are sincere at least!" (Marguerite)

 

"You see, I am not laughing anymore!" (Marguerite)

"Take this and come back when it dies." (Marguerite)

"Something has happened here tonight!" (Marguerite)

"You are an angel!" (Armand)

" I won't go!" (Armand)

"I can't!" (Armand)

 

"The greatest romance of my life!" (Marguerite)

"That might have been!" (Marguerite)

"So, you are really going away Armand Duval?' (Marguerite)

"You wrote me an unkind letter!" (Marguerite)

"You were jealous!" (Marguerite)

"You should have known. It was because I love you!" (Armand)

 "Once I had a little dog and he always looked sad when I was sad and I loved him so!" (Marguerite)

"And when your tears fell on my hand I loved you too at once!" (Marguerite)

 "This must be your mother. How happy she looks!" (Marguerite)

 

"Marguerite you put tears on my hand. Why? (Armand)

""You will never love me 30 years! Nobody will!" (Marguerite)

 "I will love you all my life" (Armand)

"All my life!" (Armand)

"I've told you before that you should forget me! So you go to your trip around the world and put me out of your mind!" (Marguerite)

"I thought I meant something to you!" (Armand)

"You mean too much already!" (Marguerite)

"But you are young and your life is before you. You know what mine has been already!" (Marguerite)

"Marguerite, you need love more than you need money right now. You need care even more than love." (Armand)

"I want too much!" (Armand)

"So do I!" (Marguerite)

"How can one change one's entire life and build a new one in a moment of love? And yet is this what you want me to close my eyes and say yes!" (Marguerite)

"Close your eyes and say yes! I command you!" (Armand)

"Yes, yes, yes!!" (Marguerite)

"Is not very grand!" (the countryside house) (Armand)

"It's heaven!!" (Marguerite)

"I don't care what is behind us, do you?" (Armand)

"No!" (Marguerite)

"If you smile I will give this to you!" (Marguerite)

"We might go to the top of the hill." (Marguerite)

"To the baron's chateaux?" (Armand)

"Are you going to spoil a day like this by being jealous?" (Marguerite)

"I always know he is there!" (Armand)

"But I am always here!!" (Marguerite)

"I will never will! I can't bear our summer to end, Marguerite!" (Armand)

"Nor I!" (Marguerite)

"I cannot live any other way now!" (Marguerite)

 

"You will give up everything to me?" (Armand)

"Everything, everything!" (Marguerite)

  

 

"Never be jealous again! Never doubt I love you more than the world, more than myself!!" (Marguerite)

"Then marry me! Everything that the priest said today was meant to us. In my heart I made all the vows to you!" (Armand)

"And I do to you!" (Marguerite)

 

"No, no, that isn't fitting! Let me love you. Let me live for you. Don't make me ask more from heaven than that. God might get angry!" (Marguerite)

"I shall love Armand always and I believe he shall love me always too!" 

"Without Armand I am doomed!"

"But you have others that are dear to you. I have only Armand!"

"You don't know how I've changed. He taught me that love is not always selfish, nor goodness dull, no all man faithless!"

"You can expect me to give up a love like this!" (Marguerite)

"I will have to make my love hates me!" (Marguerite)

"Darling, darling, I begun to think that you did not love me!" (Armand)

"Perhaps I don't, really!" (Marguerite)

"Life is something more than kisses and promises in the moonlight!" (Marguerite) 

"We don't make our hearts. If that was not enough I am not to blame." (Marguerite)

"Yes, you are no more to blame because yours can be faithful only a few weeks and mine  can be faithful as long as I live!" (Armand)

"Are you going to leave me?" (Armand)

"Yes." (Marguerite)

"His voice is too cold and his face is too pale!" (Marguerite)

"The story of a man who loves a woman more than his honor and a woman who wants luxury more than his love!" (Armand)

"When I came to a choice, the jewelry and his carriage worth more than my love, my devotion, my life!" (Armand)

"I'm completely worthless woman, no man should risk his life for me!" (Marguerite)

"Because your heart is something that can be bought and sold." (Armand)

"I came to Paris to tell you to tell you that I despise you, but I love you too!" (Armand)

"I leave this place with one condition! You leave with me!" (Armand)

"No! No, no!!" (Marguerite)

"I beg, I borrow, I will steal you but I must be with you always!" (Armand)

"Nothing will do me any better except Armand's return!" (Marguerite)

"That is what I live, that is what I am waiting for!' (Marguerite)

"I will be beautiful and well again!" (Marguerite)

 

 

"It's you! Is not a dream!" (Marguerite)

"I am here with my arms at last!" (Armand)

 

"I've tried to forget how much I love you, forget you... as I could!" (Armand)

 

 

"You are weak!" (Armand)

"No, no I am well. It is my heart that is not used to be happy!" (Marguerite)

 

"Forgive me! I couldn't see in this heart I know so well and see that it was sacrificing for me!" (Armand)

"No good can come to either of us without the other. Nothing shall separate us again." (Armand)

 

 

"My whole life belongs to you!" (Armand)

 

 

"If I am dead will be no stain in our love." (Marguerite)

"No Marguerite! Don't leave me!" (Armand)