Looking at this photograph, you wonder: "Who is she?" She might be an Italian contessa, sitting in the living room of her Venetian palazzo amidst the antiques of her forebears. Or is she a French actress, reminiscing about her career and affairs to her biographer in her apartment in Neuilly?

A picture says more than a thousand words, they say. But a picture can also entice the viewer to create their own story.

Ellen, a conversation in 99 pictures, is a narration of an evening. Watch as her story unfolds and build your own narrative. They are all true.