Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

The Passenger (1975)

The Girl: Isn't it funny how things happen? All the shapes 

we make. Wouldn't it be terrible to be blind? 

David: I know a man who was blind. When he was 

nearly 40 years old, he had an operation and regained his sight.

The Girl: How was it like?

David: At first he was elated... really high. Faces... colors... 

landscapes. But then everything began to change. The world 

was much poorer than he imagined. No one had ever told him 

how much dirt there was. How much ugliness. He noticed 

ugliness everywhere. When he was blind... 

he used to cross the street alone with a stick. 

After he regained his sight... he became afraid. 

He began to live in darkness. He never left his room. 

After three years he killed himself.

God I love The Passenger. Really I love every Antonioni movie I've seen so I should 1) binge more of them because there's a lot I haven't seen and 2) write about his work more. (I mean I watch Blow Up when I need to relax.) Anyway to get to the point actress Maria Schneider was born 73 years ago today. (She passed away in 2011.) Besides starring opposite Jack Nicholson in the above movie she's of course best known for starring opposite Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. And coincidentally there's a movie about Schneider's disturbing experiences making Tango with Brando & director Bernardo Bertolucci that's in theaters right now! It's called Being Maria and I'll share the trailer down below. Anamaria Vartolomei plays Schneider and Matt Dillon plays Brando, while...

... the extremely hot Italian actor Giuseppe Maggio plays Bertolucci in what you might be forced to call an exxxtreme glow-up. That was certainly a choice. A lot of one. That said I haven't seen Being Maria yet, but I've got a screener so hopefully I can dive in this weekend. I'm extremely curious to see how it tackles all the shit that Maria went through making that movie. Here's that trailer: