MIREILLE BALIN
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"Beauty promise of happiness, "says Stendhal. And setbacks. To contemplate the paintings of old, formerly of photographs, which set the favorite attractions, high-flying courtesans, we can hardly believe that the models had on those around them on a public magnetism that chronicle testifies .
The beauty when it is embodied, goes out of style, even if shown, determined, in its fullness. Human, it is demagnetized as happens to those that love, desire, threw one to the other. The weather cracks, eroding, crumbling, the faces of porcelain and works to forge the richest body under clothing.
If we could, with Mireille Balin, talk about "beauty thunderstruck" is that time alone did not decrepit, like the Gloria Swanson of Sunset Boulevard. Man, that beautiful assault; humiliated so distant a feminine beauty and refined, it denies or defies the man, served by circumstances, will take revenge with, for sure ally, disease. The multiple modalities thereof appearing derive from each other to make endless irreversible decay of the actress.
* Through film, through his affair with a pompous politician, she had from her 21 years, lived in an atmosphere of enchantment as the girl most romantic dared to dream. Should he give it up in an enslaved country, even blind to the cynicism, the villainy, extortion, crime, the powerful of the time? Affluent of the aura of stardom, had it not the duty to maintain , pointing at conquering the beauty, elegance, luxury, still had the right in a capital city of mâchurée swastikas? Born rebellious and stubborn- what had learned louts Hollywood - were to be influencing his behavior because we wiped insults and threats? She loved. No longer a singer whom - the misalliance spiritual, intellectual, well-she had been bored, but a young officer holding Viennese proud, cultured, musician, gifted with superb irony. For beings of absolute love, the passion of inalienable rights. In the monologue so just tone it lends Roger Grenier [1] , who approached, says: "During the war, it might be necessary that we hid. That we behave in the way of an adulterous couple. As if I was married with France and that I should receive my lover in secret, the Austrian officer. Not even a Nazi. A Viennese. He could not understand that I refused to accompany him to the restaurant, theater, in the boxes. Then they said I hold myself. [...] "
* I open the appointment German, Paul Eluard, poet of the Resistance "In those days / not to punish the guilty / be abused girls. / We went so far / shear them. / / Understand who wish / I was what my remorse / the unfortunate who stayed / On the pavement / The reasonable victim / At the torn dress / In relation to child lost / defaced uncrowned / / A girl carried a bouquet / And covered / From black spit of darkness / / Stained and did not understand / That it is dirty / A beast trapped / Amateurs of beauty [...] "
Tainted, yes, and raped repeatedly, September 28, 1944. For lovers of beauty!
Neither woman - sick, ruined, devastated the beauty - or the actress in disgrace, his face, his job is considered old, will, in the many interviews that punctuate its revocation, bitter remarks , resentful, for his condition, friends, disappointing the audience versatile.
It seems that the glory faded, adversity would allow the inherent virtues to the girl to come forward with nothing more to come warp or warp. With elegance m
oral delicacy of reactions, it is a copy of dignity in misfortune that hits the reader with memories of the actress. Early on, she had called fatalistic Early on, she had the feeling of a misunderstanding, and she later said: "I was covered with jewels. I was not made for this life. "
After an interlude where fame, fortune, him away, the detached until he was unconscious of his inner self, a tenacious adversity would allow it ... again coincide with the best of herself. The misfortune was to satiate satiety infuses his humility, his love of solitude, inveterate melancholy, his hunger for authenticity.
* It is no longer - and the mind stumbles at the thought - a little dust, splinters of bones in the cemetery of St. Ouen. Yet, men, revealing his still image or animated marvel to experience, with a particular license, the magic of her face to clear dense frost and the first of a front such as "large countries more chaste than death " evoked by Saint-John Perse, but could not appear unless the wall, no crack, a Fort inside as qu'inexpugnable endorsement. They would discover the secret of an enduring fascination in spite of the modes. Unless they ask him to ward off the evils of a time when flower negligence, vulgarity, meanness and violence. At least, yes, they are looking for some trace of a mood, behavior, endangered, they are called class or race. Which integrate and loyalty based child care, rigor, intransigence towards oneself, with remote socket glory and rattles - not least with the setbacks, the disfavour, destitution.
In the constellation of "stars" extinct whose light reaches us still, that of Greta Garbo was the largest magnitude. The brightness of her face with a pristine halo blurs the edges, imposed on us with the ascendancy of the peaks inviolate.
Clarity held in check the face of Mireille Balin, rather call the terms of shimmer of moiré, which depict the moods of the actress. Intense like reserved, we will perceive it, depending on the scene of the film, reflections of saline water from groundwater or silver vein. The distinction of maintaining inherent to women, adding to the radiance, a shade of rare, precious opal which would have its place, not far from the flower blooming magnolia.
[1] "Mireille" in Fragonard's fiancee, Gallimard, 1981.
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Whispers ...
* The love
thought I was distracted, absent, since I love you, the truth is the stationary inner contemplation of a great inconvenience.
Muette, fascinated, terribly careful, my life uivalent or plugged by a constant mental dialogue, now I oscillate between the alarm and impatience.
* The lover
Daughter, sister, friend, lover, alternately or together, in the hope of Heloise, but companion of First - solid, equal. Companion (vocation) of man. This is never more noticeable than in our silence, side by side, when our thoughts are preserved. When, even in our silent drifts, we will ... company.
* François Solesmes The Murmurs of love , Ink Navy.
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