Man who keeps joking "but I love you!"
 

Friend of mine is trying to remember a film. Let's see if we can help him out. Here's his description (lightly edited):

Anyone got any ideas?

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Not a clue

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Christine (1958) has a man saying "Christine, I love you" but it's only once and it's not humorous. It's also in color.

Re: Man who keeps joking "but I love you!"
 

Hmmm, probably not, but appreciate the suggestion.

Shoot the Piano Player?


A Woman is a Woman?

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I'll pass those along and ask him, thank you. :)

Probably long shots if they're both French, as that's the kind of detail you'd expect to remember, but I'll confirm.

The Gumball Rally ?

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Green Card (1990)?

(Only going on the idea of maybe French = Gerard Depardieu - although he was the lead, not supporting.)

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I'll ask about The Gumball Rally. Friend was pretty certain of the black and white part though so it probably has to be old.

B&W is probably the better jumping off point, since he just said the character spoke French or Spanish, and he wasn't even sure which language.

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Surprised @mark f hasn't had a pop at this yet :D

It's an obscure movie...
Casablanca
1942, Michael Curtiz

Sascha (Leonid Kinskey), the Russian bartender at Rick's Café Américain, playfully tells beautiful French patron Yvonne (Madeleine LeBeau) several times, "Yvonne, I love you". But she is completely uninterested in Sascha and is fixated on Bogart's Rick, an occasional paramour who commits to none of the women in Casablanca. It leads to the scene below where she is drunk and irritated and Rick cuts her off and sends her home. When she asks Sascha for another drink he tells her, "Yvonne, I love you...but he pays me."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ZnZ4-aGi0

Later in the narrative Yvonne returns to the Café, whoring around with the newly arrived German officers in town, punishing herself and trying to get Rick's attention. But when Victor Laszlo (Paul Henried) defiantly orders the house band to play "La Marseillaise", the French National Anthem, to drown out the Nazis singing and Rick condones it, her patriotism overcomes her hurt and she rises with tears in her eyes to belt it out, exclaiming, "Vive la France!".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeFhSzoTuc

One of the many reasons Casablanca is such a brilliant and enduring film is that even the small side characters are full of wit, memorable dialogue, and have purpose and arcs.

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Oh my goodness. Casablanca is his favorite film, too. He's gonna be really embarrassed.

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You have given me a gift, both with the answer and with what the answer turned out to be.