 As Severine (Valentina Cortesa) has more and more trouble  remembering her lines (blowing several takes), Ferrand eventually  writes her lines on pieces of paper that can be stuck up on the set  out of sight of the camera, so that she can read them. It doesnt  really work here. However, Truffaut used the same trick for himself  when he was having trouble remembering his English lines in  _Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)_ (qv).