24 July, 2010

Sappho (2008)

Synopsis:
The film "Sappho - Love without limits" is a provocative, passionate and enthralling love story, set on a Greek island of Lesbos in the 1920’s. The movie is centered on a modern love triangle between a newly-wed American couple, Sappho and Phil, and the daughter of a Russian émigré archaeologist, Helene.
This love triangle repeats the central situation of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho's most famous lyric of thwarted sexual desire. As our three lovers live out a complex and scandalous ménage a trios, the present and the past seem to merge together, leading our modern Sappho to an act which repeats the passionate death of the ancient poetess.
As our three lovers live out a complex girl-boy-girl sexual triangle, Sappho also comes to believe that she is the reincarnation of the ancient poetess Sappho - that Sappho who first put the "lesbian" in Lesbos. However, our modern Sappho does realize how the ancient Sappho's legend ends... Inspired by the poems of Sappho
"Sappho. Love without limits" was filmed in the Crimea by "Yalta-Film", the new Ukrainian film studio. Sappho’s stars are a trio of talented young actors, Avalon Barrie, Todd Soley and Lyudmila Shiryaeva, and the movie also features Bogdan Stupka and several Greek actors in secondary roles. The music is by Maro Theodorakis and world-famous Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis ("Zorba the Greek", "Serpico", "Z"), and the superb photography is by Baghir Rafiyev.

Starring:
Avalon Barrie - Sappho
Todd Soley - Phil
Laurel Shaffer - Helene
Lyudmila Shiryaeva - Bogdan Stupka

Director: Robert Crombie
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