(Written by Vinoo)
Language : Greek
Director : Michael Cacoyannis
‘Stella’ is a carefree woman who will let no moral rules hinder her quest for life. She is a Rebetiko / Rembetiko (Greek Blues) singer. Stuck between her love and her desire to be free she would choose the latter. “Men wan’t to own everything and Stella just wont be tied down” she says as she refuses one man after another until she meets the football star, . They are deeply in love and he proposes marriage. She fails to appear in church and only in death can she be somebody’s. Adaptation of ‘Carmen’ this one is simply brilliant. As for the Greek language I simply like the ring to it.
I remember watching he brilliant ‘Zorba the Greek’ by Cacoyannis. Also hope to watch ‘Ifigegeia’ soon.
Useless trivia : Melinda Mercouri met her husband-to-be, Jules Dassin, at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. The movie ‘Stella’ failed to win an award for Marcelo Mercouri for best actor / actress at the cannes Film Festival. It raised such a controversy that Isa Miranda, one of the jury members, gave her a special ‘Isa Miranda Award’.
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