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About my Movie Namesake:
Sundays and Cybčle
My
parents named me after this film. It's a somewhat dark film,
literally and figuratively. But well made.
~
Cybele
REVIEW
Sundays
and Cybele stars Hardy
Kruger as a former bomber pilot. Emotionally shattered
by a tragic wartime incident, Kruger goes into semi-seclusion in a
small Parisian suburb. He is drawn out of his shell by 12-year-old
orphan girl Patricia
Gozzi. The nuns in charge of Patricia bless the
relationship, assuming that Kruger is the girl's father.
A warm,
chaste friendship develops between the older man and the
bright-eyed girl, culminating in their mutual decision to spend
Christmas together in a nearby woods. Unfortunately, nurse Nicole
Courcel, suspecting that Kruger is a pedophile, calls
the police--a move that can only result in disaster for all
concerned. Based on a novel by Bernard
Eschasseriaux, the exquisitely photographed Sundays
and Cybele won the 1962 Best Foreign Film Academy
Award.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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