Dinner Party - 1957
Film still from Pedro Almodovar's Volver
(REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)
Film still from Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura
This probably seems like a weird combination of pictures, and I guess it is, but I find all four pretty intriguing in composition and also in that they capture women at different unsuspecting moments. The dinner party photo is a bit funny - the regalia and the expressions. The next one from Volver has such rich color and there is so much drama in the photo alone, never mind that it is from an Almodovar movie. I love looking at film stills almost, if not just as much, as watching the movie. Frozen images that reveal detail and story. The next picture depicts not women but two girls, sisters, refugees of the Congo. It is a more serious photo which reminds me of the old photos you sometimes see of immigrants just arriving to America who simply stare at the camera. Their expressions tell so much beyond their years and the way they tentatively hold hands is so moving. The last photo is of the great Italian actress Monica Vitti from L'Avventura . She had an incredible face and here she is staring at it. Why? See the movie! Although it is a bit abstract, it's Antonioni after all.
(Btw, click on photo to enlarge, particularly "Sisters")
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