En Desespoir de Cause

Books, Thoughts, Pictures, Envies

[kvetchlandia]

Raymond Cauchetier     Jean Desailly and Françoise Dorléac on the Set of François Truffaut’s “La peau douce,” (The Soft Skin), Paris     1964

[squidtree]

Fabrizio Dori-Le dieu vagabond

[design-art-architecture]

Can Canyis house in Baleares, Spain Caballero Colon architects.

[letterboxd-loggd]

Le Jour se Lève (Daybreak) (1939) Marcel Carné

October 5th 2019

[ozu-teapot]

R.I.P. Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017)

Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle | 1958

[theimpossiblecool]

“One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.”

Jeanne Moreau.

[timotaychalamet]

La Notte (1961) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

[roseydoux]

The Lovers (1958)

[oldfilmsflicker]

La notte, 1961 (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)

[roseydoux]

The Bride Wore Black (1968)

[connerys]

It’s a pity you have to grow up.

Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[romyschneiderism-deactivated202]

High Society (1956) dir. by Charles Walters.

[henricavyll]

For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I’m suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I’m not leaving… maybe I’m going home. Gattaca (1997) dir. Andrew Niccol

[philosophybits]

“Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.”

— Montesquieu, Persian Letters

[wehadfacesthen]

Jeanne Moreau, Paris, 1949

“Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.”

[the-original-supermodels]

ELLE France (1989) Star / Model: Monica Bellucci by Marc Hispard

[motionpicturesource]

Grace Kelly in Rear Window (1954) - directed by Alfred Hitchcock