Word: goddesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aphrodite, goddess of love, is said to have first set foot on solid ground at Cyprus, but obviously she has not visited her favorite island in recent years. Last week hate again ruled Cyprus as an eruption of the old feud between Turk and Greek caused an estimated 200 casualties. Absent diplomats were hurriedly recalled to their posts in Ankara, Athens and London. Fortunately, neither Greece, Turkey nor Britain wanted the trouble to continue. Nor did bearded Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, or his Turkish Cypriot Vice President, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk...
...contrasts domestic detail with divine ritual. The scene shifts abruptly from a quarrel between Donamayee's brother-in-law and his wife to the ecstatic faces of the priests. The same woman who, when an affectionate aunt, feeds candy to her little nephew attempts to cure him when a goddess...
...always been rather vain, begins to believe in her own divinity; she cannot run away when her husband begs her to. Physically trapped as the key figure in a ritual, she becomes emotionally trapped by the ceremony. Even the audience comes close to believing that she is indeed a goddess...
Brilliant performances from the entire cast sustain the tension of the tragedy. In particular, the actors effectively use their eyes to capture subtle shifts in emotion. Shamila Tagore presents Donamayee as an entirely believable, affectionate young wife--and as a terror-stricken "goddess." Satyajit Ray, who also directed the Apu films, paces this picture to underline changes in mood; for example, Donamayee pauses when asked to cure a child and then reaches out to him with an instinctive maternal gesture...
...effective shot of a statue of the Mother Goddess begins the film. Her sharp, grotesque eyes contrast with her elaborate costume. Music pounds and lights cut into the sky as men worship her. The ritual mounts to a frenzy, and the statue is cast into...