Let’s get our dreams unstuck

is one of my favorite quotes by Jean Cocteau.

I am off to Italy in a few days. I have not prepared anything though. I think I’m just gonna grab some of my summer dresses, my journal, my mac and my camera and…just go. We don’t have a place to stay in Florence, only a ticket, we do have a place to stay in Rome, but still not a ticket. I am sure we are gonna have the best of time in Italy this summer.

My love for Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty, set in Italy, goes way back. Stealing Beauty has everything. The sweet excitement. Sorrow. Love. Art. Great characters. Great script. Colors. Amazing interior and exterior. The movie glows art in every way. I was fifteen when I watched it for the first time and I remember there was something familiar about Lucy that struck me. The way she acts among the others, the way she explores everything in silence, the way she sits in the window writing poems in the candlelight, the way she keeps her journal, the way her hair is – long and dark, the way she searches for a deeper meaning in her life…it all reminds me of myself in my teenage years and especially the summers I spent in Turkey.

Some place in the movie Lucy asks:

“What about falling in love?”.

Guillaume passing by says something in French, very passionately, and Niccolo, very hot and totally stoned, translates:

“There is no love, there is only proof of love.” Also a quote by Jean Cocteau.

I am going to get my dreams unstuck in Italy this summer.