About Desire

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Désiré is a 1996 French film directed by Bernard Murat. The film is based on the play of the same name by Sacha Guitry.

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Désiré is an experienced late-stage career butler and Don Juan figure who frequently seduces the ladies of the house before moving on romantically, but in this tale, finds himself truly in love.

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Désiré

Fanny Ardant as Odette

Claude Rich as Montignac

Béatrice Dalle as Madeleine

Jean Yanne as Corniche

Dominique Lavanant as Henriette

Annie Grégorio as Adèle

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Notable quotes

“Do not desire for everything that you hear, for this suffices as gullibility (or foolishness).”
— Ali, .
“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”
— Jean de La Fontaine, As quoted in Subcontact : Slap the Face of Fear and Wake Up Your Subconscious‎ (2001) by Dian Benson, p. 149
“I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.”
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Letter to his Niece (September 15, 1842).
“So is it other than the religion of Allah they desire, while to Him have submitted (all) those within the heavens and earth, willingly or by compulsion, and to Him they will be returned?”
— Quran 3:83
“Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act IV, scene 1, line 36.
“As the hart panteth after the water-brooks.”
— Psalms. XLII. 1.

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