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UK 122m, Colour
Director: Albert Lewin; Cast: Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Mario Cabré, Marius Goring
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a tragic love story about a femme fatale whose seductive charms bring misery to herself and those men who love her, until she meets a mythical ship captain who is given a chance at redemption if he can convince her to sacrifice her life for love. Though this romantic fantasy requires a suspension of disbelief, and is marred by overly dramatic narration by an archaeologist who pieces together their story as he would a broken relic – the film’s creative artistic references and cinematography make up for these shortcomings in what is otherwise a surprisingly intriguing and beautiful film (Klaus Ming January 2012).
This is a film I’d actually love to see remade. It’s a good story if not always told as well as it could be.
The folks who erected a statue of Ava Gardner in Tossa de mar (where the film was shot) may beg to differ
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