eye candy of the week: emmanuelle seigner

Witness the eye-popping wonder that is Emmanuelle Seigner, or to some Mrs. Roman Polanski. Hard to take, I know. She's yet another gorgeous French actress who does that incomprehensible thing French women do that makes them utterly alluring and sultry without much of a care. She's sensational as Jean-Dominique Bauby's wife in Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." She radiates light and maternal ease in her scenes with her children and an ailing Bauby, but has the power to break your heart in another when she has to listen to a phone conversation between her husband and his distraught mistress. It's a performance that I loved and she also contributed one of the film's memorable songs with her band Ultra Orange and Emmanuelle, "Don't Kiss Me Goodbye." It's dreamy, pretty, and wistfully romantic just like the movie.



And for more viewing pleasure:

"Sing Sing"
dir., Jean-Baptiste Mondino