Phaedra (Blu-ray)
A violent drama of profane love
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 21, 2017
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins & Raf Vallone | |
Directed by | Jules Dassin | |
Screenwriting by | Jules Dassin | |
Screenplay by | Jules Dassin | |
Composition by | Mikis Theodorakis | |
Director of Photography: | Jacques Natteau |
Entertainment Reviews:
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 120
In the Dassin version, the melodrama is heightened and the logic is eliminated.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: 2/5 --
Unlike wine, bad films do not get better with age.
Film Threat
Rating: A --
"Phaedra" straddles a line between ancient and modern sensibilities. It is an undervalued and underseen example of mythology adapted to cinema.
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ColeSmithey.com
When you think of the repetitiveness of film love-scenes and the low emotional temperature as a result, it seems odd how little has been done on these lines.
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The Spectator
Rating: C+ --
I found it entertaining as a bad film, one that detracts from the Greek tragedy with ludicrous offerings of sex.
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Product Description:
Inspired by Euripedes' tragedy HIPPOLYTUS and set in modern times, this allegorical tale centers on the love triangle between a fabulously wealthy Greek shipping magnate, his lonely second wife, and his first-born son. The affair between the wife and her stepson begins soon after she arrives in London to bring him back to Greece so her husband can teach him about shipping and he can marry another tycoon's daughter to cement a new alliance. Though the son quickly falls in love with his beautiful stepmother, he cannot overcome his crushing guilt at having betrayed his father. When the wife learns of her husband's planned betrothal of his son, she becomes enraged and confesses her affair. Great tragedy follows as her husband beats his son senseless while verbally battering the wife.
Keywords:
Holiday
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Love Triangle
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Tragedy
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Holidays
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Affairs
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Love Triangles
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Islands
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Love
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Cars / Automobiles
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Boats
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 59,090
- UPC: 887090133111
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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