Greta Garbo.. Timeless…
Greta… Garbo’s…
Mystique…
Magnetism…
Mesmerised me… forever…
I found… her presence…
Enigmatic… electrifying…
Timeless…
Read moreGreta… Garbo’s…
Mystique…
Magnetism…
Mesmerised me… forever…
I found… her presence…
Enigmatic… electrifying…
Timeless…
Read more“Paul Klee: L’Ironie à l’oeuvre” exhibition just opened in Paris’ Centre Pompidou…
Considered one of the 20th century’s most iconic artists and a singular figure in modernity, Klee was a Swiss-German artist, born in 1879, whose highly individual style was influenced by art movements such as Expressionism, Cubism, Constructivism, and Surrealism.
This is the first major Paul Klee retrospective in France since the 1969 exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne…
Read moreFrédéric Chopin…
Fryderyk…
Buried… was his… “heart”…
In his much loved homeland…
Poland…
Beneath an epitaph…
“For where your treasure is…
There will your heart be also”…
Read more“DAVID…
De… Michel-Ange”…
Took… my…
Breath… away…
Before… him…
I… stood…
In Florence’s public square… outside the Palazzo della Signoria…
Mesmerised… by…
His… beauty…
Read moreThe Bettina Rheims photography exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in the Marais is showing until the 27th of March 2016.
You see it at your own peril… depending on your sensibilities.
The exhibition, which is curated by Vanessa Mourot, with the participation of Jean-Luc Monterosso, is a co-production with the Stockholm Fotografisca…
Read moreSnowdrops…
In… winter…
Dancing… with…
Wind… and rain…
Flowering…
Blossoming…
Under… my tree…
On… grassy banks…
They… sway…
Read moreI have… just…
Finished… re-reading…
Ernest… Hemingway’s…
“A Moveable Feast”…
What… a journey…
What… a feast…
Read more“Play it… Sam…
Play… ‘As Time Goes By’ “…
The sublime “Ilsa” (Ingrid Bergman)… her expressive face… sad, tender, nostalgic… implored her former lover “Rick’s” (Humphrey Bogart) friend and house pianist Sam… to play their special song upon spotting him playing the piano… as she entered the establishment “Rick’s Café Americain”…
“Le tout Paris” and I… were bewitched, enthralled, and mesmerized watching the iconic film “Casablanca” yesterday night…
Magnificent… love…
Dazzling… passion…
Read moreCannes… Film…
Festival… Is…
“Pour… moi”…
The most… fabulous….
Film festival… in the world….
It is… glamorous…
“Mais… intime”…
None of… the “Mega”…
That is… Hollywood…
Read more“Twelve… Years…
A… Slave”…
Rather…
Twelve…. shades…
Of… shame…
How…
Did human psyche… dip into the depths of its…. pathological disintegration…
Why…
Was such demeanment… humiliation… and chilling cruelty… inflicted upon fellow humans…
The much praised 2013 period drama… an adaptation of the 1853 memoir by Soloman Northup… “Twelve Years a Slave”… was imposed upon us on the small screen… “la télé”…
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