Clever Beast

According to Plato there exists in the Ideal realm a perfect form of beauty of which all beautiful appearances on Earth only elude to.  We get mere glimpses of this perfection, some more pronounced than others.  Unfortunately, lust has a way of interfering with this noble aspiration of seeking out the beautiful, its baseness contrasts with the supposed transcendental nature of the Ideal beauty underlying things.  Now, I am a man, and a lesser being than Plato, so in my present attempt to capture this nobler essence, I inevitably fall trap to the sexual aura of the female form on occasion.  Sex and beauty are hard for me to divorce.  So in defense of this assemblage of stills I would just like to say that its not only the superficial properties of the image that I am responding to, but the context, the character as captured in these films, and from there, dare I say, an inner beauty shines through.  

Feel free to share your exemplars of beauty below.

Be warned that there is some nudity (tasteful I assure you).

The Double Life of Veronique

Chungking Express

Nights of Cabiria

The New World

Singin’ in the Rain

The Dreamers 

Amelie

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Picnic on Hanging Rock 

La Notte

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• 01/26/12