#The Portrait of a Lady

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July 7, 1949 - July 11, 2024

rest in peace shelley🕊🤍

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It has made me better, loving you.

Henry James; The Portrait of a Lady

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Costume designed by Janet Patterson for Nicole Kidman in The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

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It has made me better, loving you.

Henry James / The Portrait of a Lady

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More of Viggo Mortenson ♡♡♡

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The Portrait of a Lady (1996) | dir. Jane Campion

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NICOLE KIDMAN in THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (1996) dir. JANE CAMPION

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Rest in peace angel - Shelley Duvall

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JOHN MALKOVICH in The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

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Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) The Portrait Of A Lady (1996).

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rip my queen 🙏

[soisaidfine]

Ethel Cain: 'i always understand ♡ I am punished by love. But I don't mind. I can't let go when something's broken.' / Henry James: 'I always understood. I’ve been punished. But I don’t care. I don’t think anything’s over.' (The Portrait of a Lady)

mothercain Jan 5, 2022

Anonymous asked: sometimes i’m sad but then i think “at least ethel cain understands” and feel a little better

i always understand ♡

'I am punished by love' Ethel Cain, 'Punish', August 3, 2024 Lollapalooza Music Festival, Grant Park, Chicago

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"But I don't mind 'cause that's how my daddy raised me. ...I can't let go when something's broken." Ethel Cain, Sun Bleached Flies

"“Yes, he was in love with me. But he wouldn’t have married me if I had been poor. I don’t hurt you in saying that. How can I? I only want you to understand. I always tried to keep you from understanding; but that’s all over.”

“I always understood,” said Ralph.

“I thought you did, and I didn’t like it. But now I like it.”

“You don’t hurt me—you make me very happy.” And as Ralph said this there was an extraordinary gladness in his voice. She bent her head again, and pressed her lips to the back of his hand. “I always understood,” he continued, “though it was so strange—so pitiful. You wanted to look at life for yourself—but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!”

“Oh yes, I’ve been punished,” Isabel sobbed.

He listened to her a little, and then continued: “Was he very bad about your coming?”

“He made it very hard for me. But I don’t care.”

“It is all over then between you?”

“Oh no; I don’t think anything’s over.”"

The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady, Jane Campion, Nicole Kidman, Henry James

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Nicole Kidman and Martin Donovan in The Portrait of a Lady (1996) dir. Jane Campion

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- Henry James, The portrait of a lady

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'If I like my cage...' "Freedom and fatherlessness have split the heroine into two disconnected halves — a partly factitious determination to be her own master, and a dark fascination with images of dominance and submission"

About Henry James & Jane Campion, The Portrait of a Lady

“What Isabel wants is to be initiated: even if it means being attracted to darkness.”

“According to Jane Campion, the key to the film and to the novel lies in Isabel’s psychology rather than in purely technical feats. She considers Alfred Habegger’s study as one of the best keys to Isabel, especially when he writes:

“Freedom and fatherlessness have split the heroine into two disconnected halves — a partly factitious determination to be her own master, and a dark fascination with images of dominance and submission.”

(Sophie Menoux: “We are all Isabel Archers” A “Bonne Femme” Conversation with Jane Campion and Laura Jones)

“You were the last person I expected to see caught.”

“I don’t know why you call it caught.”

“Because you’re going to be put into a cage.”

“If I like my cage, that needn’t trouble you,” she answered.”

… “You must have changed immensely. A year ago you valued your liberty beyond everything. You wanted only to see life.”

“I’ve seen it,” said Isabel. “It doesn’t look to me now, I admit, such an inviting expanse.”

“I don’t pretend it is; only I had an idea that you took a genial view of it and wanted to survey the whole field.”

“I’ve seen that one can’t do anything so general. One must choose a corner and cultivate that.”

“That’s what I think. And one must choose as good a corner as possible.”

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, Chapter 34

Film: Jane Campion, Nicole Kidman