Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Most Useful Tripod

Portrait of a Lady: Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve (Séverine) in " Belle de jour " (1967)

Belle de jour di Luis Buñuel (1967) Racconto di Joseph Kessel, Sceneggiatura di Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière Con Catherine Deneuve (Séverine Serizy / Belle de Jour), Jean Sorel (Pierre Serizy), Michel Piccoli (Henri Husson), Geneviève Page (Madame Anais), Pierre Clémenti (Marcel), Françoise Fabian (Charlotte), Macha Méril (Renée), Muni (Pallas), Maria Latour (Mathilde), Michel Charrel, Claude Cerval, Iska Khan, Bernard Musson, Marcel Charvey, François Maistre, Francisco Rabal (Hyppolite), Georges Marchal (il duca), Francis Blanche Fotografia: Sacha Verny (101 minuti) Rating IMDb: 7.8

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The film "Belle de jour " by Luis Buñuel (1967) tells the story of Serizy Séverine (Catherine Deneuve ), a woman of twenty-three years, but beyond that the story tells the fantasy dreams, nightmares of Séverine. He does, as if between history and fantasy there was no interruption. There is no separation, is a unity that is sometimes difficult to distinguish, without any sense of ambiguity, however obscure, of indeterminacy. The game first and then , called flashback, is conducted with such visual and narrative force that almost no one notices, as if it took place in a single linear time, not cyclical, in which the linearity first and then disappears. The irony, the grotesque, even the humor help keep the film - and therefore that we look - in a situation of separation involved, in the end we ask ourselves: "What if the whole movie was not a dream , truer than true? " The ending reinforces this sensation, a final clear, but open. A question which in itself is the answer.


beginning of the film, Séverine is in a carriage with her husband Serizy Pierre (Jean Sorel ), a successful physician, who is in love her. The two seem to spin the perfect love, beautiful, young, rich and in love, but it is not, because Séverine is not available for sex. Here enters the first fantasy: Séverine Pierre punishing whip making with their hands tied by the two coachmen. Séverine enjoys being naked and then kissed her on the shoulder by one of the two.


the beautiful house they live in, Severine and Pierre seem happy, caress, but Séverine Pierre told to wait, not yet ready to make love with him. A family friend, Henry Husson (Michel Piccoli ), is courting a Séverine, although the lover of her best friend, Renee (Macha Meril ). Renée by Séverine learn that their mutual friend every day he attended a brothel. Séverine is shocked. At home, she finds a bouquet of red roses sent to it from Husson. Annoyed, move the vase containing roses, but the vase falls to the ground. The same thing happens in the bathroom with a bottle of perfume: "What happens to me today?" Séverine wonders.


Séverine Husson learned by chance from the address of a brothel: "Madame Anais, Jean Cité de Saumur, 11." Husson asks an appointment that is not present Pierre, but Séverine refuses. Shortly later, it has to Madame Anais (Genevieve Page ). They will agree: Séverine be called Belle de jour and there will be only two to five in the afternoon. Séverine between Anais and homosexual attraction is obvious, though not pursued. With its first client is Séverine, has not yet used.



's not that there are many discussions, Anais and the client go for the prominent and Séverine is forced to do what they came into the brothel of Madame Anais. In the end, is met: more coarse are the customers better. Must be the opposite of the kindness of her husband Pierre. Back in his beautiful home, Séverine burning in the fireplace wearing undergarments that afternoon. Reveries then be dressed in white and tied with Pierre Husson and the sprinkle of castings of manure.



It takes time to acquire expertise in any profession. So Séverine is refused by the gynecologist masochistic because their part is not good. The expert Madame Anais gynecologist decides that we go with another girl and Séverine can peer through a peephole. Séverine learn with diligence and we see a lot more loose with a client that shows the eastern muscles and came with a nice chime.


Séverine Another fantasy is to be conducted in the palace-castle of a Duke ( Georges Marchal). You must play the part of -virgin-veiled naked in a coffin. Everything seems to be going well, but in the end, the butler will drive in the rain.




One day, Madame Anais happen a long time client who was not. This is Hyppolite ( Francisco Rabal), a gangster who has the habit of choosing between girls seeing them all together. Would you choose Belle de jour , who has never seen before. But he came in company with another gangster, his junior, a friend and student. This is Marcel (Pierre Clementi ) asking in no uncertain terms that he himself was to go with Belle de jour . Hyppolite gives it to him and nothing would seem more of a strange relationship between a woman and as a delinquent Severine crude, lame, violent, toothless and full of scars as Marcel. Yet the relationship works in a certain way, the two fall in love with each other. Marcel violates the rules because vuole Séverine tutta per sé, vuole entrare nella sua vita fuori di lì: dove abita, con chi sta. Séverine cerca di sottrarsi: sparisce dalla casa di Madame Anais e fa un viaggio al mare col marito. Marcel quasi impazzisce, la cerca dappertutto. Finalmente Séverine torna, Marcel la percuote, ma tutto sembra tornare come prima, anche se Marcel continua a voler penetrare nella vita della ricca signora.


Arriva Husson, da Madame Anais. Husson, che voleva diventare l'amante di Séverine e che è stato respinto. Séverine cerca di non farsi vedere voltandosi verso il muro, ma infine Husson la scorge. Adesso è lui il più forte, può raccontare Pierre everything at any time. So, Séverine disappears. He knows he is blackmail and should not be more Madame Anais, who is deprived of his address. In a fantasy, he sees the duel between the gun and Pierre Husson where she is to be hit.


ssossionato The haunting and Marcel does not give up, unable to know where he lives Séverine and entered his house. He wants to know who the man with whom he is Séverine, who barely gets him out of the house. Marcel hides the street, waits for Pierre and fires three shots. Then he runs away, chased by police cars. It will be shot dead a few streets away.


Séverine is finally quiet. Pierre attends day and night, half-blind and paralyzed, he does not know why he shot the stranger's gangster. One day they will present Husson and Séverine tells Pierre that will reveal the truth, so you do not feel guilty of being watched constantly by her. When Husson out after talking with Pierre, Pierre Séverine goes and finds him dead in an armchair. Ends up?



not said Séverine lacemaking Pierre and appears in her robe, completely recovered. Séverine Pierre and toast together. At the end of the movie shows the carriage, that of the beginning. There are his coachmen, you hear the sound of bells, but the carriage is empty.


Dorléac Catherine, daughter of actor and actress Renée Deneuve Dorléac Maurice, born in 1943 in Paris. Film debut with "Les collégiennes" (1957) by André Hunebelle. Even her sister Françoise, more than a year, becomes a famous actress, but lost his life in 1967 in a car accident.
Success came to Catherine with "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" (1964) by Jacques Demy, with "Repulsion" (1965) and Roman Polanski's "Beautiful Day" (1967) Luis Buñuel.

He won the César for best actress twice: in 1981 with "Le dernier métro" by François Truffaut in 1992 and "Indochine" by Regis Wargnier.
In 1963 his son Christian was born, from his relationship with Roger Vadim, in 1972 her daughter Clare, from the relationship with Marcello Mastroianni.
A marriage (which lasted from 1965 to 1972), with photographer David Bailey.
E 'was the jury president of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice (2006). Do the attributes
108 titles to date, I post below, in chronological order, images from 17 of these films:

" Le vice et la vertu " (1963) di Roger Vadim

" Les parapluies de Cherbourg " (1964) di Jacques Demy

" Repulsion " (1965) di Roman Polanski

" La vie de château " (1966) di Jean-Paul Rappeneau

" Les demoiselles de Rochefort " (1967) di Jacques Demy

" Mississippi Mermaid" (1969) di François Truffaut

" Tristana" (1970) di Luis Buñuel

" Skin Donkey "(1970) by Jacques Demy

" not Touch the White Woman "(1974) di Marco Ferreri

" The last metro "(1980) di François Truffaut

"Le choix des armes " (1981) by Alain Corneau

"Hopefully a Girl" (1986) by Mario Monicelli

" Le temps retrouvé" (1999) by Raoul Ruiz

" Dancer in the Dark" (2000) by Lars von Trier

" 8 femmes" (2002) François Ozon

" Palais Royal!" (2005) Valérie Lemercier

"Après him" (2007) by Gaël Morel

Friday, December 25, 2009

Dog Ate A Sanitary Napkin

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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Women Vagana With Herpes

Painting in the movie: Romeo and Juliet (3 )

Susan Shentall (Giulietta)

Giulietta e Romeo (1954) di Renato Castellani Da "Romeo and Juliet" di William Shakespeare, Adattamento di Renato Castellani Con Laurence Harvey (Romeo), Susan Shentall (Giulietta), Flora Robson (La Nutrice), Norman Wooland (Paride), Mervyn Johns (Frate Lorenzo), John Gielgud (Il Coro), Bill Travers (Benvolio) Sebastian Cabot (Capuleti), Lydia Sherwood (Lady Capulet), Ubaldo Zollo (Mercutio), Enzo Fiermonte (Tybalt), Elio Vittorini (Prince of Verona), Giulio Garbinetto (Montague), Nietta Zocchi (Lady Montague), Thomas Nicholls (Friar John), Mario Meniconi (Baldassarre ), Peter Shack (Samson), Luciano Bodi (Abraham), Dagmar Josipovitch (Rosalina) Music: Roman Vlad Photography: Robert Krasker Costumes: Leonor Fini (138 minutes) IMDb Rating: 6.8

Suleiman

I wrote a few post two years ago on the film "Romeo and Juliet " (1954) by Renato Castellani for logical view Painting in the cinema. In those places I I was especially dedicated to the identification of precise correspondences between images of the film and paintings. Now play a different job (though not all) take a more general correspondences, and then see how the visions of some artists have painted in a sense permeate the film made by Castellani, which lasted six years. In this post I consider four Italian painters of the Quattrocento: Piero della Francesca, Mantegna the Ghirlandaio and Carpaccio.



Piero della Francesca : Solomon and
Queen of Sheba (detail) c.1452 Church of San Francesco, Arezzo

E 'fresco by Piero della Francesca with Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, despite the differences representative to inspire Castellani, especially in figure of Juliet. The difference is mainly linked to way representative of the cinema, far dall'impassibilità Piero, but the link exists, as shown in the two images below.


In the first image, Juliet (Susan Shentall ), which has not yet met Romeo, is spying with his mother and the nurse's arrival Count of Paris ( Norman Wooland ), asking to marry her. In the second image is marrying Juliet with Romeo. The two look through a grate in the monastery of Friar Laurence ( Mervyn Johns), who officiates the wedding.


Andrea Mantegna: The Court of Mantua (detail) 1471-74
Palazzo Ducale, Mantua

In the frescoes of Andrea Mantegna in the Camera degli Sposi or Room picta (whatever you call it) Renato Castellani's attention and is mainly aimed at those who suggest the representation of the Court of Mantua, as seen below in the images of two different scenes of the film.


In the first image, at the house party Capulet, Tybalt ( Enzo Fiermonte ) learns that the party is also Romeo. In the second image, Romeo ( Laurence Harvey), who was exiled after the killing of Tybalt, is leaving for Mantua and greets a member of the Montague family.

Domenico Ghirlandaio: Funeral of St. Fina
Collegiate 1473-75, San Gimignano

Domenico Ghirlandaio: The angel appears to Zechariah (detail) 1486-90
Cappella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Domenico Ghirlandaio: The Visitation (detail) 1486-90
Cappella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Domenico Ghirlandaio is present in Renato Castellani. His artwork is so congenial to his way of seeing. As a direct reference, I believe we can show the image below, which is very close to the representation of women who attend the Visitation.

Tybalt was slain by Romeo and Juliet is struggling with the mother for not being able to marry County Paris.

Vittore Carpaccio: Arrival of the English Ambassadors (part)
1495-1500 Stories of Ursula Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice



In the film Renato Castellani, the process after the killing of Tybalt, whose location the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, calls one of the episodes of the story of St. Ursula Vittore Carpaccio of : the arrival Ambassadors English.

Vittore Carpaccio: The Dream of St. Ursula St. Ursula
1495-1500 Stories Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice


Sat'Orsola's dream is called in the film in a unique way: the messenger of Friar Laurence to Mantua is located in front of a patient suffering from fever and therefore will not return in time to Verona.

Vittore Carpaccio : The Vision of St. Augustine (part) 1502
Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice

The monastic cell in which there is the vision Carpaccio of St Augustine draws the cell of Friar Lawrence in the film by Castellani.

Vittore Carpaccio : Madonna leggente
78x51 cm 1505-10 National Gallery of Art, Washington