Film Screening: Phaedra @ National Gallery of Art
by Svetlana
| October 18, 2008 | ||
| 2:30 pm |
Phaedra
October 18 at 2:30
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/dassin.shtm
Introduction by Jay Carr
Inspired by Euripides’ Hippolytus, Phaedra was a vehicle for Melina Mercouri, who is cast as the wealthy wife of Greek shipping magnate Raf Vallone. In the manner of the original tragedy, she has an affair with her younger stepson, played by Anthony Perkins in a tour-de-force performance. (1962, 35 mm, 115 minutes)









