A beautiful woman like you, a woman with a sense of humor… You had affairs with dead actors who were fortunate enough to have been in films that survived better and longer than yours. Does any of it matter now? Life is brutal. Life is unfair. Yours. Theirs. Ours. But let’s put it another way. You had something that most of us never get.
—signed, Vincente Minnelli
Mark Rappaport, September 2013
No, I wasn’t in the Resistance and, yes, I suffered, as did everyone else I knew, during the war—in my business especially, since everything was rationed and there were severe flour shortages, I couldn’t make bread. And, of course, if I didn’t bake bread, I couldn’t sell it.
Mark Rappaport
It’s more than sixty years since Pickpocket (1959) was made. Can there be possibly be anything more to say? Probably not. However, here are a few brief thoughts after having seen it again recently…