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Rating: - This Film is What It's All About
I don't want to reveal any "spoilers" about the film, but I do want to make a few clairifications about the previous reviews. This film (which is one of the most powerfrul, emotional movies I've ever seen--notwithstanding I've been in mad crazy love with Melina Mercouri ever since I saw Never on Sunday) is about an actress whose career is in decline (Mercouri), who is doing a film adaption of the play Medea. A publicist discovers that in a local greek jail is an American woman (Burstyn), who murdered ... Read More
Rating: - When the tragedy inspires the life!
Melina Mercouri plays a Greek actress in search of inspiration to play Medea. Once more the life has more imagination than you and I can imagine. So, the reality will come for her when she meets in a prison a Medea of the actual times: Ellen Burstyn has killed her three children in order to take revenge on her husband.
Jules Dassin (Rififi) conducts this original proposal.
Rating: - Powerful, Professional, & Intelligent.
I saw "Dream of Passion" on its original release and have never forgotten the riveting and disturbing impressions it made upon me, nor the memorable performances of both Ellen Burstyn and Melina Mercouri as the murderess and the actress. The theme of appalling revenge for a husband's betrayal is as timeless as the beautiful Greek settings in which it is photographed, and creates a gripping tension. An unusual and powerfully acted film, which unfortunately I have never been able to watch again as I have ... Read More
Rating:  - Overwhelmed
I saw this film in a theatrical release and have never forgotten its power. This film is a story within a story, showing the effects of jealousy and rage taken to extremes. Melina Mecuri is an actress preparing a production of Medea and is working with a former lover who rejected her for another woman. As research for her role, she goes to visit in prison a woman (played marvelously by Ellen Bursten) who has actually killed her children in a revengeful, jealous rage against her unfaithful Greek husband. ... Read More
Rating: - "CULTURED CLASH"
Jules Dassin's brilliant vision of actress [and spouse] Melina Mercouri's journey to theatrical Hell and Back is a rarely seen masterpiece.
Premise? Mercouri is about to embark on a production of MEDEA and uses incarcerated Burstyn [American wife/Greek Husband] as inspiration. Spontaneous improvised moments - especially the conversation about Brando and the "real" [possibly autobiographical] moments from "Last Tango in Paris".
Memorable moments between the two women!
Recommended? ... Read More
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