#mimi pollack

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Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo était une actrice très connue à l'époque du cinéma muet. Contrairement à la plupart de ses collègues, elle a pris sa retraite tôt, à l'âge de 35 ans et a vécu une vie privée loin des paillettes d'Hollywood. Bien sûr, la curiosité et l'espionnage sont venus très peu de temps après. Alors qu'elle est sortie avec plusieurs hommes au cours de sa vie, des rumeurs ont fait état de relations avec des femmes après sa mort en 1990 après une lutte contre la pneumonie. Certains des noms qui sont apparus au cours des rumeurs comprenaient Mimi Pollack, Salka Viertel, Lilyan Tashman et Louise Brooks. Plus tard, des lettres ont été déterrées entre elle et Mimi Pollack qui ont confirmé les rumeurs d'une relation. Garbo s'identifiait probablement comme bisexuel à cette époque.

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"Sommarlek" (1951) - Ingmar Bergman

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By his own admission, not the best of Bergman's films. I mean, it's not bad, Bergman was too good of an artist to make actually bad films, but not the best. I will say, however, that it is definitely worth watching for Georg Funkquist's performance alone.

I think my biggest problem with this film is that it to a large extent hinges on Birger Malmsten's status as a handsome leading man to have the audience root for/like/have sympathy with him, and in turn be invested in his relationship with Maj-Britt Nilsson's Marie. In reality, though, he's just a young, insecure, bitchy little pup who's simply not that interesting, which ultimately leads to indifference to, even slight dislike for, him.

An example of this is when the film at one stage makes a point of setting Birger Malmsten's Henrik up as the young and handsome counterpart - the obvious choice for Marie - to Georg Funkquist's older "Uncle" Erland, but I can't help but sit there thinking "Faced with the choice between those two, who in their right mind would go for Birger Malmsten over Georg Funkquist??".

"Uncle" Erland may be a bit of a dirty old man, and I'm not saying he would be a right choice for Marie, far from it, but at least he's interesting, and that's the main difference between him and what's-his-face. It's the old unforgivable sin in fiction; you may be naughty, even a bad person, but don't be boring.

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“We cannot help our nature, as God has created it. But I have always thought you and I belonged together.”

-Taken from a 1930 letter from Greta Garbo to Mimi Pollack

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I am so tired, so tired... I am so fed up with everything and so afraid because I am not old enough for all of this. I have also been very stupid.

Greta Garbo, in a letter to Mimi Pollack, 1962