Fréjus, France. Film The Shadow.
The important actors are Alec Baldwin, John Lone and Penelope Ann Miller.
Penelope Ann Miller in Fréjus (France).
Besides, I have met them often in my function as a cameraman (these memories came up in 2005), I have met Penelope already in 1962 on the beach of Fréjus in France.
That evening, after a drink and a dance on a terrace, I took her with me to the sea. I indicated with my forefinger to the constellation of the Great Bear. On what the whole constellation started to shine more lucid and even started to twinkle. One moment it seemed even that the whole constellation wanted to detach herself from the firmament. In order to embrace me.
Was I the son, who was not allowed to be born? Was the revenge of the Goddess of The Hunt not exaggerated severe? She, this very cruel Goddess, was the one that changed my mother in a bear. I almost had killed my mother with one of my indefectible arrows. Fortunately, He came, the One who is living on Olympia, to help and in a rush he swung the bear, on his tail, into the universe.
‘I have to remember this,’ she called delighted by the unexpected spectacle.
‘In the future I shall become a movie star. I shall take care that this scene, the indicating with your finger to the Great Bear, the twinkling of the whole constellation, shall be fixed for ever on the white screen. In this way you shall remember our meeting, this evening, near the sea.’
She kissed my forehead tender and disappeared in the dark of the night. Leaving me bewildered alone.
‘You shall remind me definitely,’ she called from the darkness, while her voice hardly came above the sound of the sea waves.
‘About two years, after hallucinations and wanderings in Samsara, I shall be born again and shall become a very well-known movie star. Especially, I come back for you.’
From the depth of the sea,
I heard the voice of her mother,
the Goddess Aphrodite,
daughter of Zeus,
whispering her name
in a very sensitive and sad way.
Accompanied by the murmur
of thousand seawaves.
Penelope Ann Miller in Fréjus (France).