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If god wants it (and especially if 20th Century Fox does), some day maybe, Sodom And Gomorrah will rise from the ashes! Hear the Queen call you : "Stay! I command you to stay !" More or less legal but always deceptive editions come up everywhere in the world: in Asia, on two discs with a randomly chosen cut (clumsy considering the fact that the film has an intermission), or in Brazil where the film is "letter-boxed" (black strips at the top and bottom). And the main title is also cut in several places (including the first seconds) with the consequences you can imagine on the listening pleasure. If the format of the picture is adapted to wide-screen TV, it seems that various copies of different quality were mixed together which gives a frankly disturbing result. In the French version for instance (the film was shot in English), Tamar's torture scene was censored and the shots showing the spikes on Arno's torso are missing, which gives the impression that Tamar is dying of a big hug.Īn official DVD with an English soundtrack saw the light of day in Germany. But I must admit that Anouk Aimée never had the career she could expect in the USA. Whatever attitude she had, the results are there. I don't know what their differences were on that shoot, but I have to say I disagree on that last comment. According to him, her attitude was "intractable. I was very surprised to read in an interview by Boze Hadleigh of director George Cukor, who ordinarily remains so consensual, that he thought working with her (on Justine) had been one the worst experiences of his career.
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I saw Anouk Aimée on the stage playing Love Letters, and in another English-speaking role besides "Sodom" (she dubs herself in the French version) in a TV episode called, " Voices In The Garden" where she plays the tragic part of a sick woman whose last days are brightened by her meeting with a couple of teenagers. The character is fascinating, but the talent of the actress (not to mention her beauty) are really what made it work for me. But her influence over him and his final execution resemble a cat-and-mouse game: slow and vicious so she can see her victim suffer and relish it. The latter is, to my knowledge, never mentioned by name in the movie but is listed as "Queen Bera" on the IMDB and various other sources.Īnouk Aimée, who was never prettier than in this film, parades with a detached face but really has power of life and death over the people that surround her and she uses rivalries and the court intrigues to get rid of the one person that can rightfully resist her: her brother, with whom she cultivates a very peculiar relationship. The Queen in Snow White, Ayesha in " She", and the Queen of Sodom. I've always loved the parts of beautiful, cruel, poker-faced women with power.
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Have you noticed how Italian extras, as opposed to over-enthusiastic American ones, always seem to be waiting the end of the scene to get their paycheck? Maybe it's just me.īy now, you're probably wondering : "What's so special about this film, then?"Īpart from a few details like the involvement of two future long-time James Bond collaborators : Ken Adam for production design and Maurice Binder for his highly stylized main title sequences, the on-screen presence of Stewart Granger ( Moonfleet, The Prisoner of Zenda.), and pretty Pier Angeli, this film has two main attractions : Anouk Aimée and Miklós Rózsa's music. Maybe it's the origins (Italian productions of the time often look somewhat cheap to me) at a time when the sword-and-sandal genre was beginning to wane in popularity. This Italian-French-American co-production did not meet an overwhelming success even though it was released in many countries. Not a tit shot, not even a curse word, nothing. In it, Sodomites are barely the inhabitants of Sodom, lesbianism is reduced to a few insistent gazes, all of which can very well go unnoticed for a young naive and pure child (which I was back then). Yes, because, in spite of the title, the film remains quite decent. I remember seeing it as a child at my grand ma's and the show blew me away.