i spy with my little eyes

Sorrow by Hanna Samutina, 1990

— George Eliot, Middlemarch

Летят журавли (The Cranes Are Flying) 1957—dir. Mikhail Kalatozov

They don’t call it “to wing it” for nothing, you know. ;)

We can't live like this

yeah

Equus (1977) // The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris // American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

Hamlet, William Shakespeare // Possession (1981) (added by @katharine-hepburn)

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LACENAIRE (1990) dir. Francis Girod On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard’s study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers’ memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire’s childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him. (link in title)

If you’re curious to learn more about this infamous ‘poète assassin’ and how his theatrical personality inspired the dramatised portrayal of Patron-Minette in Les Misérables, you can check out the post on my WordPress blog.