Tuesday, September 6, 2011

More clips: Orpheus lassos the moon

Lovers often promise the sun, moon and stars. It happens in Eurydice and a whole lot of other places...


It's a Wonderful Life, 1946

Ah, young love... but what of mature, self-sacrificing love? No body does it better than Bette Davis:



(It won't let me load for some reason)

Synopsis: Late bloomer spinster Bette, falls in love with unhappy married man.
They can't have each other, but she can find some happiness raising his daughter.
It's a twisted tale, but on the American Film Institutes 100 most passionate film list.

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