Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on February 26, 2009 at 13:46:12

"Zorba the Greek" (though it starred the Mexican Tony Quinn....).
A young brother and sister live in a small Greek village in the home of their widowed mother. She, middle-aged, attractive, and having been widowed at a very early age (remarriage obviously is frowned upon in that society at that time), has become the scandal of the village for her affairs, including one with one of the local tough fisherman. Into this repressive society where women are so much chattel comes a world-weary Athenian sophisticate---a failed writer--- and his friend, a successful architect.
Soon, the philandering writer becomes attracted to the young woman, creating volcanic jealousy within the fisherman who unsuccessfully has pursued her for years.
The cinematography is marvelous without screaming, "art photography!" And the primal love story is as powerful as a latter day, "Romeo and Juliet."
If it is possible to fall in love with a film beauty, it will happen to any male that beholds the beautiful Ellie Lamberti. The phrase, "the face that launched a thousand ships," suddenly has meaning.