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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. ...

Sister Alma: If she won't speak or move because she decides not to, which it must be if she isn't ill, then it shows that she is mentally very strong. I might not be equal to it.   (Persona, 1966, Ingmar Bergman)   Selma: You like the movies, don't you?  Bill Houston: I love the movies. I just love the musicals.  Selma: But isn't it annoying when they do the last song in the films?  Bill Houston: Why?  Selma: Because you just know when it goes really big... and the camera goes like out of the roof... and you just know it's going to end. I hate that. I would leave just after the next to last song... and the film would just go on forever. (Dancer in the Dark, 2000, Lars Von Trier) George: It takes time in the morning for me to become George, time to adjust to what is expected of George and how he is to behave. By the time I have dressed and put the final layer of polish on the now slightly stiff but quite perfect George I know fully what part I'...