(A young woman wants to sell the hero an issue of the Cahiers du cinéma.)
Fille. Monsieur…, pardon!… vous n’avez rien contre la jeunesse?
Michel. Si! Moi, j’aime bien les vieux!Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle (1960)Girl. Excuse me, Sir. You don’t have anything against young people, do you?
Michel. Oh yes, I do! Me, I like old people!
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About Mad Beppo
Why art thou sad, my Beppo?"
Mad Beppo (aka the Professor) is neither sad nor mad. He delights in French, poetry, film, and Baroque music. More about Mad Beppo…
Many of the writers for the Cahiers du Cinéma around 1960 were indeed young(ish), as were also, undoubtedly, many of their readers; hence the young woman’s gambit.
Michel Poiccard, anti-hero of the film, expresses his unusual view with characteristic firmness.