Monica Bellucci in painter Gaetano Tranchino’s studio, 1997.
Bellucci, an Italian model and actress, made her American
film debut in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). Her role in the French thriller The
Apartment (1996), shot her to stardom as she won the French equivalent of an
Oscar nomination…
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of
the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the
profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy
out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed,
and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing
beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of
rebirth - Isadora Duncan