banquet for the shadows

"If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?" Maggie, french girl looking for her own peace of mind.

[blakelivey-deactivated20211026]

I just - I just feel - I just feel like….

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) DIR. GRETA GERWIG

[infinitemarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Feingersh, 1955.

[bimorgana]

Do you ever do this, you think back on all the times you’ve had with someone and you just replay it in your head over and over again and you look for those first signs of trouble?

(500) Days of Summer (2009) dir. Marc Webb

[kafkasdiariies]

Duomo Di Amalfi | Sara Pagano

[tamper]

[floralls]

Positano by arielle vey

[giallolooks]

“As my own neurosis became more subdued I found myself unconsciously drawn to female characters who exhibited signs of behaviors I had recognized in myself: repression, delusion, jealousy, paranoia, hysteria. But these issues didn’t magically disappear; they just became buried beneath business and activity, and came back to sideswipe me at inopportune moments. We have more patience, or perhaps more empathy, for fictional characters than we do their real-life counterparts. Faced with neurosis in film and literature, we want to investigate rather than avoid. If watching horror films is cathartic because it provides a temporary feeling of control over the one unknown factor that can’t be controlled (death), then wouldn’t it make sense that a crazy person would find relief in onscreen histrionics?”

— House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films, Kier-La Janisse

[yayoroses]

[softlitstudent]

National Gallery East Wing

[filmgifs]

Audrey Hepburn in Love in the Afternoon (1957) dir. Billy Wilder

[breathtakingdestinations]

Santorini - Greece (by Alex DROP) 

[jessicachastainsource]

Jessica Chastain attends the ‘X-Men Dark Phoenix’ film photocall in Moscow, Russia, on May 20, 2019.

[mothma]

country skies moodboard

[vetiverfox]

[bongjoonhoe]

Life is more than just what it is. It’s what could be. What you could make it.

Bird Box (2018) dir. Susanne Bier

[marionsafehaven]

You think the grief will make you smaller inside, like your heart will collapse in on itself, but it doesn’t. I feel spaces opening up inside of me like a building with rooms I’ve never explored.

Dolores Abernathy, Westworld (via carol-danvers)

[c0ssette]

John Simmons (1823-1876), “Hermia and Lysander, a midsummer night’s dream” detail.