The Blond Leading The Blind

Mistress Boodles.

I watched a film recently, La Chamade, based on a story by Françoise Sagan, and it was not great, but good, in that it perfectly encapsulated the French attitude of the times – the late ‘60’s early ‘70’s. You know, terminally blasé, lots of pouting and existential angst. St. Laurent did the wardrobe and it is at times, divine. And La Deneuve, at the apogee of her beauty,  takes your breath away. The hair is huge and fluffy, her complexion is like luminescent porcelain and in profile she looks like a 12 year old girl. Honey... child.

 

 Denueve in St. Laurent in La Chamade 1969 - based on a story by Francoise Sagan

Here is the video box description.   Alliteration 101.

“The expensively kept girlfriend of a wealthy older man, Lucille is beautiful, bored and blissfully blind to her shallow existence… until she meets Antoine. Passionate but poor, Antoine offers a whole new world of experience and kindles Lucille’s smoldering desires. But as the charms of Antoine’s workaday life begin to fade, Lucille must choose between the love of her life and the love of her lifestyle”

 And then there’s this…

Isn’t this an amazing photograph!

Here is the text that accompanied the news item.

“This 1888 photo released by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows Helen Keller when she was eight years old, left, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a summer vacation to Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod. A staff member at the society discovered the photograph in a large photography collection recently donated to the society. When Sullivan arrived at the Keller household to teach Helen, she gave her a doll as a present. Although Keller had many dolls throughout her childhood, this is believed to be the first known photograph of Helen Keller with one of her dolls.”