Word: kedrova
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Speak of the Devil and he appears. First night in Crete, the old man turns into an old goat and goes snorting after a dilapidated soubrette of 60 (Lila Kedrova), who followed the British fleet to Crete in her flaming youth and made enough money to retire by entertaining admirals on the bridge. Next day the old man urges his young friend to hold similar converse with the village widow (Irene Papas). The young man is afraid to try. "It would only make trouble," he murmurs. "Trouble!" the old man hoots at him. "Life is trouble. Only dead...
...treats it with respect but not with awe. The big moments of the book are all in the film, but the fictional furbelows are trimmed, and some dazzling cinematic doodads added. The camera sees much that Kazantzakis didn't, and the movie is often funnier than the book-Kedrova's minx emeritus, she of the floor-length eyelashes, frequent chins and raucous reminiscences is, for instance, a major comic creation. Zorba, of course, is the heart and soul of the show, and Quinn plays him to hellangone. In his finest frames, at the dominant moments of the drama...