Io so che tu sai che io so (1982)

Monica Vitti: Livia Bonetti

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• Livia Bonetti : [on the phone]  Today I am very happy. I really want to see you and make love with you!

  Fabio Bonetti : What's wrong with you? What are these sudden frenzies?

  Livia Bonetti : Take three days and join me in the country house.

  Fabio Bonetti : What do you say? We haven't stayed over there in a long time. It needs heating, the rooms are cold.

  Livia Bonetti : Don't worry. I'll warm you up in bed.

  Fabio Bonetti : Livia, I'm not alone, don't talk like that. There are people here.

  Livia Bonetti : What do you care? You are a living man, full of health! Do you understand? Please tell me you want to make love to me!

• Livia Bonetti : Life is short. You have to enjoy every moment!

• Fabio Bonetti : You are beautiful, you are a fake skinny. You have a mandolin ass, you know?

  Livia Bonetti : I know everyone tells me.

• Livia Bonetti : Sexual relations between my husband and I have always been a little - lukewarm.

  Valeria : At first with me too, monotonous.

  Livia Bonetti : Then, one evening three years ago, all of a sudden, he comes home and his actions in bed changed in a revolutionary way!

  Valeria : Really? And what was he doing?

  Livia Bonetti : What was he doing? You have no idea! I don't want to go into details, but his erotic fantasy, he was unleashed, he had no limits! How can I explain it to you? He made me do things I can't repeat! His erotic fantasy was limitless!

  Valeria : Really? He must have read some pornographic magazines.

  Livia Bonetti : No, no. He just met you.

• Livia Bonetti : You have to explain to me why when I say yes you always say no!

• Valeria : I was tired of making love in the missionary position.

  Livia Bonetti : Huh? The missionary position?

  Valeria : Yes, woman below and man on top.

  Livia Bonetti : Ah, that one? Is that the missionary position? Is it the worst?

  Valeria : Not the worst, but the most banal.

  Livia Bonetti : Ah!

  Valeria : So, one evening I said to him, "Do we want to change?"

  Livia Bonetti : You had the courage to tell him? I, never!

  Valeria : Sure. I taught him to make love in various positions.

  Livia Bonetti : Ah!

  Valeria : As a Yugoslav boy had taught me.

  Livia Bonetti : Ah, from a Yugoslav boy! You learned it from him. Then you taught my husband. That's why, back home he abandoned the missionary position and threw me in the air, laid me on the side, standing in the kitchen, on the bench...

• Livia Bonetti : What is the use of closing the barn door when the oxen have already run away?

• Livia Bonetti : Things are never as they are told.

• Veronica Bonetti : I'm not going to talk to Dad.

  Livia Bonetti : Leave him alone, poor creature. What does he have to do with it? What does he know about these things? Let him live in his dreams, with TV.

• Fabio Bonetti , Livia Bonetti : [singing]  Kittens in love, They still purr for you...

• Fabio Bonetti : Where are you going?

  Livia Bonetti : Let's go down on the ground.

  Fabio Bonetti : On the ground?

  Livia Bonetti : Let's do it here.

  Fabio Bonetti : Why don't we sit on the bench, the way you like it?

  Livia Bonetti : Yes, yes! Yes, yes! No, no! On the bench, no.

  Fabio Bonetti : No? No?

  Livia Bonetti : No, I'll get hurt. Take me to the bed, love.

  Fabio Bonetti : Come on, I'm ready. Do you like the missionary position?

  Livia Bonetti : No, no! I don't want the missionary position!