00:01Marlène, the object of love. Through distant deserts, dangerous journeys, and artistic environments.
00:08refined, the fragmented portrait of the same female figure develops, embodied by
00:14Marlène Dietrich, an enigmatic and magnetic woman, who is constantly observed, desired and
00:21transformed into something that doesn't quite belong to her. An idea, a dream, an obsession.
00:29Each chapter tells a different version of the same destiny. To be loved not for what
00:35yes it is, but for what it represents. In Morocco, Morocco, 1930, in a suspended colonial city
00:44between civilization and desert, a cabaret singer conquers everyone's attention, imposing a
00:49A free and ambiguous presence. The encounter with a legionary gives rise to an intense but unstable love,
00:56in which the protagonist is torn between independence and the need to belong to someone.
01:03And you? Aren't you supposed to marry your rich friend?
01:08Certain.
01:09The central tension emerges from the very beginning. To be the subject of one's own desire or to become oneself.
01:16object of another's. In Shanghai Express, 1932, on a train that crosses territories
01:23uncertain, a woman with a controversial past is the center of attention, suspicion and attraction.
01:30Everyone looks at her, everyone judges her, few understand her. In a context fraught with danger
01:36and tension, his body and his reputation become a bargaining chip, revealing with
01:43rawness how the desire of others can turn into control. In The Song of Songs,
01:49The Song of Songs 1933, we are in the world of art. A young woman becomes the muse of
01:57a sculptor, slowly being shaped, not only in image, but in identity.
02:04Loved, idealized and possessed, she becomes more of a symbol than a person. Here the
02:11process reaches its culmination. The human being dissolves into the image constructed by the
02:17others. Marlène, the object of love, tells of the progressive loss of control of her own
02:23identity under the weight of others' gaze. In every story, the protagonist is desired,
02:30elevated and at the same time reduced to an object. Of love, of power, of imagination. The trilogy
02:39constructs a coherent and tragic path. The more the protagonist is loved, the less she belongs to him.
02:45one's life.