“We would sigh or let out a great breath from the depth of our hearts, for what we felt was precisely this: Can it be possible that there is such a woman in this world?”
Slightly surprised that it took until the last few days for the news to spread.
Then again, I was surprised to learn from the Guardian’s obituary that she’d appeared in a German-Japanese co-production directed by Arnold Fanck (the guy who’d discovered Leni Reifenstahl). One of those odd connections.