ciel, amour, liberte!

Love is all very well, but you have to be sensible. ATONEMENT (2007) dir. Joe Wright

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Tangled (2010) dir. Byron Howard, Nathan Greno

“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once walked across a Surrey park at dusk in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life; the man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.” Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

Time, my dearest Emma… time will heal the wound. Emma. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

“This is not just a magazine. This is a shining beacon of hope for… Oh, I don’t know… let’s say a young boy growing up in Rhode Island with six brothers, pretending to go to soccer practice when he was really going to sewing class and reading Runway under the covers at night with a flashlight.” The Devil Wears Prada (2006) dir. David Frankel

"This stuff"? Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select, I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on but what you don't know is that... that sweater is not just blue. It's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns and then it was Yves Saint Laurent who showed cerulean military jackets. Then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of "stuff."

I started something, but I don’t think it’s very good. It’s just about our little life. Who will be interested in a story of domestic struggles and joys? Maybe, it doesn’t seem important because people don’t write about them.

“If I loved you less then I might be able to talk about it more.” EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

“where the north wind meets the sea there’s a river full of memory”

Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

“I got chills, they’re multiplyin’. And I’m losing control cause the power you’re supplying, it’s electrifyin’. You better shape up cause I need a man. And my heart is set on you. You better shape up. You better understand. To my heart I must be true. Nothing left. Nothing left for me to do. You’re the one that I want.” Grease (1978) dir. Randal Kleiser

CHARLIE HUNNAM in THE GENTLEMEN (2019) dir. Guy Ritchie 

I do so wonder Ms. Woodehouse, that you should not be going to be married? So charming as you are. I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Fortune, I do not want. Employment, I do not want. Consequence, I do not want. I believe few married women are half as much mistress of their husband’s house as I am of Hartfield. Emma. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde