To my eternal shame, I failed to commemorate the seventy-first birthday of exquisite Italian-born supermodel-turned mercurial and intense actress turned animal behaviour authority Isabella Rossellini (née Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, 18 June 1952) yesterday. Among the many achievements of the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini: she remains the definitive spokeswoman for Lancôme cosmetics and maverick filmmaker David Lynch’s single greatest muse. Her performance as tormented sadomasochistic nightclub chanteuse Dorothy Vallens in Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece Blue Velvet alone ensures Rossellini cinematic immortality. Pictured: Rossellini photographed at the Cannes Film Festival by Jean-Christian Bourcart, 1990.
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L’écrivaine Toni Morrison, en 2004
Jean-Christian Bourcart/Rapho
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Essere la tua ombra, la tua ombra, soltanto,
e star vedendo e sognando alla tua ombra
l’esistenza dell’amore risuscitata.
Parlare con te attraverso il deserto.
Cecília Meireles
Jean Christian Boucart “Isabella Rossellini”
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