The Meetings of Anna (1978)

Magali Noël: Ida

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• Ida : Have you heard from your mother? Do you write to her?

  Heinrich Schneider : Yes. Her letters are always the same and I reply that everything's fine. Someone who saw her in Brussels said she had backaches and she was very tired. She's also taken up smoking in her old age, but otherwise she's fine.

  Ida : I got a letter from her a month ago. She's like a sister to me. She said she thought of you a lot.

  Heinrich Schneider : Yes. I think about her too. Did you come here to talk about my mother?

• Ida : Sometimes I don't understand. The world's topsy-turvy. Women used to pray to find a husband, afraid they wouldn't be good enough for anyone; but, now? It'll all end badly, very badly.

• Ida : When your parents are dead and you have no kids, what's left?

  Anna Silver : Nothing.

• Ida : To be all alone is no life - especially for a girl.