Florid, arty updating of the ancient Greek myth that feeds off of the celebrity love affair between shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and opera diva Maria Callas. Director Jules Dassin can find no other basis for tackling the tangled material. Mass deaths, suicide, lesbianism, adultery with a hint of incest: with all this, how did he […]
Daily Archives: December 20, 2007
I am contemplating adding this entry to my list of the 100 best films from the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe, which would also require, of course, dropping something that’s already on the list. In the meantime, here is the entry. Lucid yet also elusive, Péter Gothár’s Megáll az idö presents a social […]
Dennis Grunes 