The Serpent's Kiss (1997)

Greta Scacchi: Juliana

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Quotes 

• Fitzmaurice : Don't you remember? Cousins can do things that other people can't. And we were more than children before anyone knew what we were up to.

  Juliana : Even we didn't know.

• Juliana : You can't swim. I suppose you could drown, though. Anybody can do that. Even on dry land.

• [Chrome and Juliana are talking in the hothouse at night] 

  Chrome : There will be flowers of brown and green and black.

  Juliana : Black?

  Chrome : The Larousse collection specializes in dark plants, often black. Primula Arricula. Canna Indica. Tulipfera Nigra. Anemone Atrocarrulea.

  Juliana : I would be unacceptable then in a Larousse collection.

  Chrome : Oh, I think you would be rare enough, exotic enough.

  Juliana : But my skin is white.

  Chrome : Completely white?

  Juliana : Completely.

  Chrome : No blemishes, no stains?

  [Juliana shakes her head "no."] 

  Chrome : But inside

  [Chrome licks his fingers and begins to put out the candles, one at a time] 

  Chrome : ... deep inside... there is a darkness.

  Juliana : I feel there is. I can't be sure. It would need an expert touch to discover and comfirm it.

  Chrome : Perhaps if Monsieur Larousse was here he would be able to verify.

  Juliana : But in the absence of Monsieur Larousse -...

  Chrome : I am not worthy.

  Juliana : And I might not always find it convenient to wait for the arrival of Monsieur Larousse. May I move now?

  [She flutters her fan, extinguishing the last candle]