It’s all been getting a bit monochrome and serious here lately (memo to self: lighten up a bit). So as a distraction from the rigours of logic here’s another in that occasional series of photos of Monica Vitti. This one — click to enlarge — was taken in Rome by the photographer Willy Rizzo in 1960, the year of L’avventura, when she was 28.
A lot has been written about that elusive film: this, by the critic Gregory Solman, perhaps gets something right about it.
I don’t get to the cinema much these days: but I wonder what comparable films are being made that can and will be watched, repaying the same serious attention, almost fifty years on. Any suggestions?
Oh, if only the professor of divinity looked like an Italian film star — then everything would be great.
“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due — she reminds us too much of a prima donna.” -E.M. Forster (quote seen on the Web; not independently verified)
la migliore!!!!
monica forever!
super monica
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