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A mulher no grande ecrã

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8 de Março. Dia Mundial da Mulher. Por essa razão e em jeito de homenagem, aqui ficam algumas das melhores interpretações femininas que ilustram a sétima arte. 
Renée Jeanne Falconetti
Faleceu a 12 de Dezembro de 1946 mas deixou a sua marca fincada na história do cinema. Protagonizou e carregou às costas La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), filme mudo realizado pelo dinamarquês Carl Theodor Dreyer. Quanto ao filme propriamente dito, estamos perante uma das minhas obras predilectas. Quanto à representação de Falconetti, os seus olhos encarregam-se de contar a história. De acordo com  o crítico Roger Ebert:  For Falconetti, the performance was an ordeal. Legends from the set tell of Dreyer forcing her to kneel painfully on stone and then wipe all expression from her face--so that the viewer would read suppressed or inner pain. He filmed the same shots again and again, hoping that in the editing room he could find exactly the right nuance in her facial expression.
Liv Ulmann + Bibi Anders…

Miscelânea II

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"Millions of years of evolution, right? Right? Men have to stick it in every place they can, but for women... women it is just about security and commitment and whatever the fuck else!", Alice Harford - Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

"Whether by knife or whether by gun, losing your life can sometimes be fun.", Paul - Funny Games (1997; 2007)

"This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. [pause] But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death." , Virginia Woolf - The Hours (2002)

"Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what…