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Louis-Ferdinand Céline, sometimes with the subititle Two Clowns for a Catastrophe, is a 2016 French drama film directed by Emmanuel Bourdieu, starring Denis Lavant, Géraldine Pailhas and Philip Desmeules. It is set in Denmark in 1948 and is about the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who was in exile with his wife and cat while accused of collaboration during the German occupation of France.
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“I should be able to get the alligators to dance to the tune of the pan pipe.”
“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”
“You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.”
“I believed in her body, I didn't believe in her soul. I thought of Lola as a charming goldbrick, miles away from the war, miles away from life.”
“Then I fell sick, I was delirious, driven mad by fear, they said at the hospital. Maybe so. The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.”
“Beating up Jews (by Jew I mean anyone with a Jew for a grandparent, even one!) won’t help, I’m sure, that’s just going around in circles, it’s a joke, you’re only beating around the bush if you don’t grab them by the strings [tefillins], if you don’t strangle them with them.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.