Rapture

Patricia Gozzi, Melvyn Douglas, Dean Stockwell

An extraordinary film...one of world cinema's lost treasures just cleaned up and released by Eureka Films.

It features an incredible performance by 15 yo Gozzi - one of the finest by a youth I've ever seen. Three years previous she had starred in her first film (Sundays and Cybele) in French; here she plays in English. What in the world ever happened to her? She was a giant talent.

The film also features spectacular B/W photography, imaginative camera work, solid supporting performances and a beautiful score by Georges Delerue.

This is a melodrama, hence a bit overcooked, but the overall excellence of the production puts it into the ranks of the great works of world cinema. From 1965.

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