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This entry was posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:40 pm and is filed under FILM with tags 10.30PM Summer, Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, The Daily Notebook, The Forgotten. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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November 8, 2012 at 5:55 pm
My God, what a film this is!!
Oh, and a great piece too, by the way.
November 8, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Thanks!
Hope you enjoy your dinner with Fiona tonight!
November 8, 2012 at 10:37 pm
Romy Schneider is usually terrific. Mind you I haven’t seen any of the “cutie pie” Hapsburgiana…
November 8, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Me neither, but if it got her motivated in the opposite direction, we can be thankful for it.
November 9, 2012 at 2:37 pm
The Sissi films are a truly stultifying experience. The equivalent of a cheesy Viennese operetta, only minus the songs. Plus, each film lasts an eternity, so the whole series is eternity times four! You have to be an Austrian gentleman of a certain persuasion to sit through the whole thing. I know because I dated one. He was very sweet…but never again!
November 9, 2012 at 3:54 pm
What Dassin is doing here, as floridly entertaining as it may be is the polar opposite of Duras’ cinematic esthetic. I believe it was the decisive factor that drove her to become a filmmaker herself.
November 9, 2012 at 3:56 pm
November 9, 2012 at 4:46 pm
It could well be. But I wouldn’t blame Dassin for making the film in his own way rather than somehow anticipating what Duras would have done. And if it prompted her to take charge of her cinematic destiny, he did us all a favour.