Word: bellucci
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...opera Parsifal and again in connection with Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood. (The Wachowski brothers, those cultural magpies, named a villain in The Matrix Reloaded Merovingian, filming him surrounded by Grail-like chalices. His wife in that film was played by Italian actress Monica Bellucci, who will also play Magdalene in Mel Gibson's upcoming Jesus film ... Sorry, this stuff is addictive.) The idea that Magdalene herself was the Holy Grail--the human receptacle for Jesus' blood line--popped up in a 1986 best seller, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which inspired Brown's Da Vinci...
...Milan design house Costume National is offering up a number of shiny, black leather ensembles that echo Trinity's outfit. For his menswear collection, Michael Kors sent down the catwalks a leather duster not unlike the one sported by Morpheus. The rubber suit worn in Reloaded by Monica Bellucci, as well as the leather pantsuit apparently molded onto Jada Pinkett Smith, also seems familiar in the 21st century, albeit primarily from the pages of fetish catalogs...
...minute rape sequence that forms the core of the film. Told in a reverse narrative a la Memento, Irreversible follows Marcus (Vincent Cassel) and his friend Pierre (Albert Dupontel) as they search a bizarrely hostile gay club for the man who raped Marcus’s girlfriend Alex (Monica Bellucci). After the incredible revenge is taken, Noe backs up to depict the rape, and the final sequence of the film is a long, tender love scene between Alex and Marcus...
...when European stars commuted between homegrown and Hollywood films. A later generation had less luck: Isabelle Huppert's first big U.S. film was Heaven's Gate, and Isabelle Adjani's was Ishtar--two signal flops of the '80s. Penelope Cruz has yet to look comfortable in a U.S. film. Bellucci knows the odds, and she has the ambition. "It's so difficult for a European actress to have the chance to work internationally," she says. "But if you want to make it as an international actress, you have to work in America...
...Monica Bellucci's conquest of America begins this week at a theater near you. --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles