Word: mercourial
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Never on Sunday. A rambunctious little politico-philosophical fable about the Virtuous Whore and the Quiet American, who meet and educate each other in an earthy Greek setting. Directed by Jules (He Who Must Die) Dassin and starring Melina Mercouri, Hellenism's latest, triumphant incarnation...
...average Hollywood feature, Sunday has been playing to packed houses in Paris since last May. The title song of the picture is one of Europe's top tunes these days, and for her work as the leading lady-of-the-evening Greece's Melina (Stella) Mercouri was proclaimed 1960"s best cinemactress at the Cannes Film Festival...
...afford to pay an actor to play the part") is an intellectual Boy Scout from Middletown, U.S.A., who takes a trip to Greece in the wide-eyed expectation that in the cradle of Western philosophy he will "find the truth." He finds instead a warmhearted, disrespectful prostitute (Actress Mercouri) who tumbles only for the men she likes, charges only what they are willing or able to pay, and never does business on Sunday...
...recounts her favorite dream. "I get married to a man 84 years old," she says wistfully. "He has a little money, and-do I get a rest!") Dassin himself, a man with the curious, worldly-otherworldly face of a middle-aged elf, is always amusing to watch. And mercurial Mercouri, a sort of Levantine Carmen Miranda, embodies with phenomenal vitality the philosophical premises of the film: 1) know-how is not necessarily power; 2) money cannot buy anything that really matters; 3) the only way to save the world is to love the people in it and accept them...