Image by Albane Navizet/Corbis Outline, from New York Magazine.
"I sit in cafés and see lots of good-looking women, but they are all so similar. There's nobody I want to follow—no one with that allure or mystery that's so important".
So said Jacqueline Bisset (born 1944), actress and star of the unsettling new movie Death in Love.
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It's because they are all going to the same plastic surgeon/aesthetician.
Jacqueline Bisset is top of the list, just looking at her makes me proud to be a women. She is what she is, naturally stunning. My dad had such a crush on her, I remember when The Deep came out he said "the best breasts ever", it pissed my mom off. A white tee shirt took on a whole other meaning.
Ms. Bisset, Charlotte Rampling, Catherine Deneuve and Jeanne Moreau all should have been in a great film together.
Indeed, there are a lot of great films that should have been made. Why weren't they?
I especially like this one.
I just love her..... Hooked in The Abyss!
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Back in the late 197Os, my mother went to visit a friend who lived in Lima, Peru and one day, the friend, being sick in bed with the flu, my mother went off to Macchu Picchu by herself.
She came home from her trip with beautiful handwoven alpaca sweaters which no one could wear because the weavers hadn't bothered to remove the needle-sharp grasses & twigs from the wool before they turned it into yarn, some smuggled antiquities which she could have done penance for, just by wearing those sweaters, and a story about a beautiful, mysterious woman who rode up the mountain to Macchu Picchu in the tram seat just ahead of her, wearing a simple headscarf against the mountain mists.
My mother was all about good manners, so she didn't want to disturb the woman, certainly not to do anything as touristy & intrusive as to ask if she could take her picture, but once everyone got off the train & started exploring the ruins, all that reticence stuff went by the wayside & my mother had no problem stalking the beautiful woman all over the ruined city, waiting for her to climb to the perfect spot on an ancient stone staircase, or to look out of a corbeled window overlooking a sheer cliff, so that she could take her photo. Listening to my mom's account of the day, she sounded like someone possessed.
Even so, it was 6 months before those photos made it out of the camera & down to the lab, but when they came back, there was no mistaking the beautiful stranger on the mountaintop. It was Jacqueline Bisset. How anyone--even my mother, who seldom went to the movies & who never looked at a tabloid paper in her life--could have failed to recognize one of the most beautil women in the world is still a mystery to me, thirty years later. My mom's been dead for almost 20 years now, but stacked somewhere in a box of family pictures are a few misty shots of an impossibly beautiful woman climbing the stairs of a city on a mountain.
thank you mrs. b, took the very words right out of my mouth. I was just telling my girls (8 and 11) that the most beautiful people are the ones with an interesting face. Although youth is inherently beautiful in our culture, there is nothing more gorgeous than the landscape of a face that has really 'lived'.
I agree with Mrs. B. I look at the photos on NYSD and all of the women look identical. From their shiny foreheads to their strange chipmonk cheeks, they look like the living dead. Not a good look, gals!
Jacqueline Bisset's use of the word "follow" reminds me of my grandmother who used to literally do just that - by foot or by car - whenever she saw someone interesting. One of her favorite writers Barbara Pym used to do that too. It's funny to imagine someone as mysterious and compelling as Ms. Bisset being caught behind a hedgerow or peering into a window. But perhaps she is aware of her own power to "glamor" people and was referring to Mr. Magnaverde's mother tailing her in the mountains!
Magnaverde, so nice to see you and hear your wonderful voice again. I haven't seen your comments in a while and thought perhaps you had disappeared with the Great One Across the Pond. If we remove all traces of our past on our faces, how do we know ourselves?
Absolutely fascinating woman. Age is not about years, but about growth in spirit or refusal to grow. Ms. Bisset is definitely on the growth path. Thanks so much for the update.
Re: Went(Mid)west: what about adding Julie Christie to the list?
Too true - I look forward to this film, xv.
So true, so true.
she is just.... so cool.
It's because she (JB) has been living in Los Angeles too long. The photo gives her a mean expensive biker chick look, and we know that's a movie thing, an image management thing.
Anonymous, One can't blame her for the ensemble. Surely that was a stylist's choice. In instances like this actresses are mere mannequins.
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