“I know what women want,” and what do they want? “they want to be beautiful”.
Storyville, Valentino, The Last Emperor, 2010-11
‘The face more than any other body part is for the other. It is the most articulate sector of the body, but is mute without the other’s reading.’ Mary Anne Doane. Kate’s face is shared with us through the fashion media and no one can resist a beautiful face. Every time I move into a close up with her, especially one as successful as this, I enter into a dialogue with her image, which is fathomless. Beauty should always be celebrated, even if it’s under the guise of capitalism.
“What counts is what the heroine provokes, or rather what she represents. She is the one, or rather the love or fear she inspires in the hero, or else the concern he feels for her, who makes him act the way he does. In herself the woman has not the slightest importance.”
