Sundays and Cybele

France   Hardy Kruger, Patricia Gozzi

One of the great works of world cinema...when it was released it was considered one of the jewels of the French New Wave. For reasons I don't understand it's been largely forgotten.

Performances by both leads were first rate...staging, cinematography, pacing were also world class. She was one of the best child actors ever...after Rapture two years later she retired from the screen and public life...watta loss.

Because it deals with tabu subjects it would be impossible to release today. Intelligent, emotionally engaging, sharply critical of social mores, dramatically nuanced with a fitting, tragic resolution.

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