copain wrote:No, je parle allemand.
Ah, fantastisch! Ich kann Deutsch viel besser als Französisch, meine ich, weil ich die liebste teutonische Sprache in Hochschule gelernt habe, seit sechs Jahren. Also, toll! Aus welchem Teil Deutschlandes kommst du?
Every time has its own ideal about beautiness and Diane Kruger represents the one which the public nowadays wants to see - otherwise she would not have been choosen.
Not at all; I've not yet met a single heterosexual man who finds appealing Fräulein Kruger's appearance in the slightest. If this majority does not want to see it, then they correctly speak for what is indeed the contemporary "ideal;" and moreover, they lead towards hints on the fundamental truth of beauty itself. Beauty is not an artificial construct; it is as eternal as a Platonic Idea.
And as a matter of fact I can´t find nothing about her appearance in this film which indicates her as a representative of an "repulsive fashion model extreme"
I think she looks worse than a fashion model; she looks like a mannequin. Though she certainly fits the "repulsive...extreme," if I may quote myself; she is skinny and unappealing physically; her face lacks feature, generally, and certainly bears nothing striking. Her lips are thin, her eyes are rather far-apart-looking (a feature in Indian women which I actually find particularly stunning; but with Diane Kruger's bone structure, it just isn't at all inspiring); I don't quite understand her nose, which I find too small (I prefer a classical Roman or Greek nose anyday), or her jaw, which appears too square. And none of these are in actuality faults or blemishes; it's not even the combination which detracts from her loveliness, or lack thereof; it's simply an absense of
essense, that certain
je ne sais précisement quoi. I love the color of her eyes, but I see no enchanting spirit behind them, no draw at all of the
venifica we would come to expect from "the most beautiful woman who ever lived." She just seems blank -- much liker her performance, which brings us to...
Considering her acting performance she may stay behind those of Rose Byrne, I have to confess. Maybe it is this which takes a slight negative touch about her appearance.
Because beautiness is not only a matter of good looking but also how someone is able to express himself.
Truly! Personality is everything, and even in still photos it is quite visible, as well as in motion picture and in person. That spirit, that
animus,
jene besondere Seele, die diese Fräulein nicht hat, oder die durch das Gesicht dieser Dame nicht scheint, that is what is fundamentally essential to a person's beauty; for beauty is not found upon the face,
aber im Herz, in corde, nel cuore, dans le cœur, in the heart.