Portfolio #13
“At what precise moment does an individual stop being who he thinks he is?”
Monsieur Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski) is a meek, mild-mannered man seeking an affordable apartment in Paris, France. He finds one that seems suitable enough, albeit the landlord is a stuffy and grouchy old man, but soon after finds out that the previous tenant jumped to her death out of the available apartment’s window. Perturbed but desperate, Trelkovsky decides the price is right and decides to…
Portfolio #12
“You think I don’t understand? The hopeless dream of being? Not seeming to be, but being? Conscious and awake at every moment. At the same time, the chasm between what you are to others and what you are to yourself. The feeling of vertigo, and the constant hunger to be unmasked once and for all. To be seen through, cut down...perhaps even annihilated.”
After a performance, prolific stage actress Elizabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann) spontaneously and willing decides to…
i dreamed
we met.
you were there
but it wasn’t you.
“I’ve always thought I’ve had time.”
“Have you met any nice boys in the salon?”
“They’re all pretty nice.”
“I mean any nice queer boys. Do you fool with any of ‘em?”
“Aunt Ida, you know I dig women.”
“Aw, don’t tell me that.”
“Christ, let’s not go through this again.”
“All those beauticians and you don’t have any boy-dates?”
“I don’t want any boy-dates.”
“Oh honey, I’d be so happy if you’d turn nelly.”
“Ain’t no way. I’m straight. I mean, I like a lot…
