Roland Topor. Cover for Graphis N° 151 (detail). 1970.
Pam Grier as Foxy Brown (1974)
Following the gorgeous, seemingly liberated Adriana as she chases her dreams in the Rome of La dolce vita, I Knew Her Well is at once a delightful immersion in the popular music and style of Italy in the sixties and a biting critique of its sexual politics and the culture of celebrity. Over a series of intimate episodes, just about every one featuring a different man, a new hairstyle, and an outfit to match, the unsung Italian master Antonio Pietrangeli, working from a script he cowrote with Ettore Scola, composes a deft, seriocomic character study that never strays from its complicated central figure. I Knew Her Well is a thrilling rediscovery, by turns funny, tragic, and altogether jaw-dropping.
Europa ‘51 (1952), dir. Roberto Rossellini
“How sad it is, suddenly to discover, that we’ve been dictators in our lives, to ourselves and others.”
Unpublished Group Photo of the Surrealist Crew, Salvador Dali, Gala and Paul Eluard, Philippe Soupault, René Crevel, Robert Desnos and Benjamin Péret included, 1924
