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In memory of Ingrid Bergman ♥ (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982)

“She always moved with wonderful grace and self control. She spoke her lines beautifully and her radiant beauty struck me the first time I saw her. She appreciated compliments, accepted them shyly but they never altered the three totally original characteristics of her work. Truth, naturalness and fantasy. I created Intermezzo for her, but I was not responsible for its success. Ingrid herself made it successful through her perfomance. The truth is, nobody discovered her. Nobody launched her. She discovered herself.”

– Gustaf Molander

“She has a combination of rare beauty, freshness, vitality and ability that is as uncommon as a century plant in bloom.”

– Wanda Hale

“You see that she’s kind of a pure soul, that she’s naive and good. But she always said the truth, and she had a kind of direct wisdom. And she was very funny. You know, I don’t think my mother cared so much that people thought she was courageous or not courageous, modern or not modern, independent or dependent. I think she would like to be remembered only as a good actress. And to know that through her work and that of my father, generation after generation will be encouraged to make films.”

– Isabella Rossellini

i can’t decide how i feel about this, is this attractive or utterly terrifying? we might never know

visualdevelopmentart:

Bjorn-Erik Aschim – The Illusionist

lyannas:

got’s uncasted poc; mellario of norvos

↳ Lady Mellario of Norvos is Prince Doran Martell’s estranged wife. Doran had been travelling in the Free Cities when he met Mellario; the two fell in love, and Mellario returned with Doran to Dorne as his wife. The pair had a falling out when Mellario protested sending their son Quentyn away to be fostered at Yronwood. The rift proved to be irreparable, and Mellario returned to Norvos absent her children– a fact she remains bitter about.

constancemilligan:

So, uhm… I kind of wrote a song about Thirteen Women..

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Hello, I’ve been reading a lot of travelogues recently and I noticed that a lot of them have the same narrative of “American person goes to Italy, discovers how the Italians are endearingly inefficient yet learns important lessons about life and love.” (A really egregious example of this is ‘the Venice Experiment by Barry Frangipane). As a Croatian, I get annoyed when people are so patronizing towards us, and i was wondering how you feel about those books.

italiansreclaimingitaly:

Hello and thanks for writing! I mostly feel angry whenever I read about travelogues like that. We discussed a couple of similar instances here and here last year and I think it’s mainly disrespectful and a wasted opportunity to actually create bridges between different cultures. Today we’ve been arguing on Twitter over another article (I won’t link to it because they don’t deserve the views, since it’s pretty clear they’re using it as clickbait) about an American who stayed for one year in Genova and wrote a list of impressions that generalizes his single experience to the whole country and says completely false things. The thing I hate the most about this “genre” is that approaching a different culture is never seen as an opportunity to learn, but only to judge like: “We do this different and thus inherently better and God forbid I even bother to understand why you do it like that, you silly uncivilized kids”. That’s the worst attitude one could ever have towards a different set of rules and traditions. And let’s not even mention how most of the times they either keep up with stereotypes from 50 years ago or act surprised when they see those stereotypes that are meant to make us look ancient prove to be completely false.

That said, if anyone knows of a good travelogue about Italy that doesn’t follow this wretched path of disrespect, please recommend them to us!

French poster for The Innocents (1961)

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