Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins give good performances. Overall it is not one of Jules Dassin's best, but it deserves to be seen and appreciated for its moments of greatness, intensity and beauty. The S.S. Phaedra is shipwrecked in a storm off the coast of Norway.

The winding road on which Perkins and "his girl" kill themselves is better than the dialog. Another scene which is almost comical. Her acting was always a bit rough around the edges but her raw energy sometimes, when not used as a simple pose of 'Greek temperament', makes her shine through her depth of emotion. The images displayed on this page are recent additions to The MOVIE TITLE STILLS COLLECTION, a website containing screen captures of titles from feature films.Regular titles as well as some ending credits and titles from trailers. The story is interesting too, and the ending is good, but I would have ended it differently. Phaedra was filmed in both Greek and English. Phedra Syndelle, Stunts: Avengers: Endgame.

Melina Mercouri is the star of the film as a Greek shipping magnet who has an affair with her stepson with tragic consequences.

Joelle James. Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy "Medea" (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. The lesbian attendant to Phaedra is nonsense by today's ethos.

7 of 7 people found this review helpful. That final look with the headscarf turban and dark glasses is fierce and should be on POSE.

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Phaedra is based on the ancient Greek story of Hippolytus as written by Greek tragedist Euripides [c.480BC - 406BC], in which Phaedra, daughter of Minos and wife of Theseus, falls in love with Theseus' son Hippolytus. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin.

Jules Dassan did an alright job directing this movie. Here are three streaming picks that capture the spirit of Keep up with all the biggest announcements and updates with IMDb's breaking news roundup of Comic-Con@Home 2020.Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances Indeed, one of Everything so far has been working off the assumption that you play Following this method through to the very of the game, this is the order of events:In short, the game takes you automatically through all five endings - TV Show, Jail, Modern Day, Train and P.A.C.S. Binge Central Phaedra is a decent film.


Throughout her years in school she trained in Theatre. This film must be seen with keeping in mind the myth; and when seen like that, the feeling of 'melodrama' gives way to the power of archetypical emotions. There really isn't a "best" ending of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch because the real ending is all of them together. Their doomed love affair leads the family to a tragedy.

Overall it is not one of Jules Dassin's best, but it deserves to be seen and appreciated for its moments of greatness, intensity and beauty.
Pool scene. Perkins excells with his frailty, Valone is very good in his somewhat straightforward, brutish role, and Melina Merkouri is uneven.

All rights reserved. When Phaedra meets Alexis, she falls in love with her step-son and seduces him.

Thanos gives an expensive ring to Phaedra and soon she learns that his estranged son from his first marriage, Alexis, has left the London School of Economics (L.S.E.) It's her movie and she graces the screen and has this way of drawing you in!Melina Mercouri makes this movie so good! Directed by Jules Dassin.

The music was perfectly suited to the mood of the film. The lesbian attendant to Phaedra is nonsense by today's ethos.

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There really isn't a "best" ending of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch because the real ending is all of them together. Her acting is crude and her bad accent doesn't help (this can be forgiven, given that she plays a Greek), but she also has some truly sublime moments, especially when she has to express emotion silently. This post has been submitted for our review.Some of the scenes are deftly directed, but the script strays too much, from the classic tragedy, into melodrama.Some of the scenes are deftly directed, but the script strays too much, from the classic tragedy, into melodrama.Mediocre film that spends its best time on Mercouri's beauty and presence.