“I learned a lot from doing the film Tristan & Isolde,” Franco told Newsweek.
It is claimed to have been the “mother” of such love stories and to have influenced the tale of Tristan and Isolde.
They were as appropriate to each other as the melodies of a perfect duet, such a love-duet as Tristan and Isolde's.
Isolde's blue eyes, dewy as a child's with unshed tears, appealed to him.
Of course it knows its own blessed little mamma—doesn't it, Isolde?
During the love scene in the previous act, Tristan and Isolde have inveighed against the day which jealously keeps them apart.
Tristram took him in his arms, and so did Isolde, while Palamides kneeled before him and thanked him for his life.
