Greece
, 110 min
Shown in 1978
CREDITS
- dir
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Jules Dassin
- prod
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Jules Dassin
- scr
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Jules Dassin
- cam
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George Arvanitis
- cast
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Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andreas Voutsinas, Despo Diamantidou, Dimitris Papamichael, Yannis Voglis
- source
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Avco Embassy Pictures Corp.
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COMMENTS
Jules Dassin and Ellen Burstyn in person.
OTHER
A sensation in Europe this year, A Dream of Passion stars Melina Mercouri and Ellen Burstyn in a complex and powerful variation of the classic Medea theme. While preparing a stage production of Medea, a strong but troubled actress (Mercouri) arranges to meet an American woman (Burstyn) who has been imprisoned for the murder of her three children. A deep relationship develops between the two women, and an interdependence grows between the three Medeas—the legend, the actress and the murderess. Director/writer Jules Dassin (Never on Sunday, Phaedra) based in part on a true story, and he describes the theme of the film as “the total risk that a woman takes when she constructs her entire life around one man and the violence that can come from a total trust that is betrayed."
FACTOID #176
Hordes of screaming teenagers were fascinated with the Rolling Stones, but so were influential imagemakers Jean-Luc Godard and Robert Frank. The SFIFF has screened three different films with the Rolling Stones as the main subject: Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil (SFIFF 1972), Frank’s Cocksucker Blues (SFIFF 1998) and the IMAX documentary At the Max (SFIFF 1991).
