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“ … As anyone who has ever been a teenager will tell you, romantic obsession is more about subject than object. Proust grasped this completely: No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves. … Whatever Lisa del Giocondo may have been like in person, she is now and forever the sum of all the supplementary persons other people have projected onto her. Opening with Nat King Cole’s song („Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you…“) is the icing on the cake. …“ | http://criterioncollection.blogspot.de/2011/04/107-mona-lisa.html
Matthew Dessem, Los Angeles, California, United States (2011,[The Criterion Contraption – I’m going to watch every last DVD in the Criterion Collection.])