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RAPTURE. A strange farmhousehold on the coast of Brittany shelters an escaped criminal who fulfills the various needs of a preachy ex-judge (Melvyn Douglas), his other-worldly daughter (Patricia Gozzi), and a bed-minded serving wench (Gunnel Lindblom). The fulfillment is a triumph for English Director John Guillermin...
...will boost the artistic stock of English Director John Guillermin, whose feature films have covered such varied terrain as The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, Waltz of the Toreadors and Guns at Batasi. And it will clinch the reputation of France's 15-year-old Patricia Gozzi, whose first big role was in the warmly praised Sundays and Cybele (TIME, Dec. 7, 1962). The three years have deepened her mobile beauty and candid eyes, and have added a new range that enables her to bring off an astonishingly subtle and convincing leap to maturity after...
...roaring and crashing against the rocks below, lives a fierce-eyed, craggy recluse (Melvyn Douglas)−once a prominent judge in Paris, and now a bitter misanthrope who spends most of his time bombarding his onetime friends with mimeographed diatribes about justice. With him live Agnes, his "strange" daughter (Gozzi), and Karen, a sexy slattern of a maid (Gunnel Lindblom, a recruit from the stable of Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman...
...sailor on the lam could wish. Melvyn Douglas, one of Hollywood's smoothest eyebrow-archers in the drawing-room comedies of the '30s, began a promising new career as Hud's grizzled old man, is even better now. But Rapture really belongs to the blazing Miss Gozzi, who begins as the same frightened, fantasy-struck child Cybele was, and graduates to a woman's love through joy, homicidal rage and searing pain, hardly making a move that does not register on the heart...
Soon Pierre and Cybele have abandoned themselves to their blissful if obfuscating frolic. Each feeds on the other's need to love. Cybele is an immensely feminine, bright, enchanting little girl (Patricia Gozzi plays her with astonishing insight, with the seeming understanding of a mature woman--she is the best child actress I have ever seen). Pierre grows into a father who will one day be a husband. When Madeleine discovers the relationship she becomes frightened and mystified. She spies on them...