Isabelli
Ferrari in Caos Calmo
Katy Mixon in Eastbound and Down, season 1, episode 6.
Sinead McCafferty in The Day the Earth Stopped. It is part
of the UN's Universal declaration of Human Truths, that
"Sinead" must always be followed by "O'" or "Mc," unless it
refers to sinus relief medicine.
The women of 5x2:
Geraldine Pailhas and
Valerie
Bruni-Tedeschi, France's First Sister-in-Law. Valerie is
not so drop-dead-gorgeous as her sister Carla, and in fact is
not very pretty at all, but there is something earthy about
her which makes her fleshy and sexy in a sort of Lorenesque
way.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a great art film, one
of the few such films accessible to normal human beings. Here
are the two stars:
Lena Olin and Juliette Binoche, and here's the great scene
with
Consuelo de Haviland. Most people felt that Lena Olin
would go on from this film to become a great screen icon in
the tradition of Dietrich or Garbo. That never happened. She
has had an excellent career playing a wide variety of roles,
but whatever Olympian niche she should have fit into was never
really discovered by anyone after Unbearable Lightness, which
was directed by Phil Kaufman. By the way, Kaufman has two
projects in the pipeline, which could be great news for those
of us who love his best films, like this and The Right Stuff:
- One of them is a biopic about Nicholas Ray, the director
of Rebel Without a Cause, who had a fascinating life, filled
with successes and sex scandals and radical politics and
plenty of drinking and gambling and what have you.
Bio here
- The other is a "Drama centered on the romance between
Ernest Hemingway and WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn,
Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls and the
only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer."
Unfortunately, I don't know whether these projects are
concrete or wishful. His last worthwhile film was in 2000. (He
did direct a disastrously bad Ashley Judd thriller in 2004.)
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