All those actresses of the sixties, and I am thinking specifically Julie Christie, Jacqueline Bisset, Monica Vitti, Françoise Dorléac, Delphine Seyrig, Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin, Liv Ullman, and others I am forgetting off the top of my head, they really had something. They had a special something that crossed over countries (although I think most were European, or played in a lot of European films), something I think that later actresses lacked. Was it the directors they performed for, the nature of the films themselves, the still black and white films they made then ? I'd really love to have someone try and define that special quality. I am not talking here about the kind of actress like Audrey Hepburn (whom I admire greatly too), but actresses that had an air of mystery, almost of tragedy about them, and say, without the kind of irony a Faye Dunaway (who is also one of my favorite actresses), would add to her performance. Maybe that's why some of these sixties movies are so poignant to watch ? I know this is not a film thread, but they all shared a certain style that bespoke of a kind of disorientation, a lack of compass, yet strength and endurance too. A strange mixture. Was it because of the birth pangs of the modern feminist movement ?