Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
tu as enlevé tout le jeu du visage
English translation:
your face has shed all its artifice
French term
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le jeu du visage
I'm thinking something along the line of 'the mask of the face' or 'the tricks of the face' but neither of them sound entirely natural in English. (Actually the photographer is German, which is maybe why this sentence sounds a little strange in French too.)
"C'est comme si tu as enlevé tout le *** jeu du visage *** comme des vêtements."
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Karen Vincent-Jones (X)
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Theodora OB
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B D Finch
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Lara Barnett
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Frédéric Brunet
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| 3 | (you have) shed all your personae |
DLyons
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Just Opera
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Nov 2, 2011 12:15: Evans (X) changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Nov 4, 2011 10:37: Karen Vincent-Jones (X) Created KOG entry
PRO (3): Lara Barnett, Theodora OB, Evans (X)
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Proposed translations
the face has shed all its artifice
The model is probably a woman, so "all (of) her face's artifice" might be better.
Or if he is actually addressing the model, "your face"
(you have) shed all your personae
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facial facade
http://m.dictionary.com/t/?q=facade
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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-11-02 11:14:28 GMT)
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These are examples of the usage of this term in terms of facial expressions and attitude:
"Microexpressions are facial expressions that flash on a person's face for a fraction of a second and reveal the person's true emotion underneath their FACADE."
http://www.wikihow.com/Detect-Lies
"Two-faced because the face you have seen all along is really a mask that hides the real person behind a FACADE......Fortunately there's a way to remove the FACADE and expose the true nature of the person hiding behind the mask."
http://graphicinsight.co.za/behindthemask.htm
expression
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philgoddard
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: "facial expression"// Maybe, but I'm rethinking this one actually. I go along with the mask image. Sorry changed my mind. Forgive me!!!
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... stripped all expression from her face as though it were clothing?
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mask
Something like that...
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philgoddard
: Though "tu" presumably refers to the photographer.
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Kelly Harrison
: seems the most logical from the context
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: The idea is that something has been cast aside to reveal something of greater simplicity, purity and beauty. I first though of expression, but removing expression suggests expressionless, which is potentially contradictory.
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tabularasa (X)
: way to go!
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drama of the face
'le jeu du visage' (The Theatre of the Face) is a book by well known photographer and art critic Max Kozloff. I don't know if this is an inter textual reference, but it plays with the notion contained in the quote.
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