72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Lewis John Carlino
United Kingdom
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A young English widow and an American sailor fall in love. For her, the stranger is the solution and the way-out of a life of sexual repression since the death of her husband. For him, the meetings and love present a happier form of life than his travels with which he is tired and disillusioned. The visitor becomes the idol of the widow's son, a thirteen-year old precocious child. The lovers intend marrying. But the child does no wish to lose the image of his sailor hero, on whom he has based his adolescent dreams. And so, with four friends, he plots to spare the foreigner "The impure days, far from the state of grace that comes from the sea". 

Director
Lewis John Carlino (USA)
Screenplay
Lewis John Carlino
Photography
Douglas Slocombe
Edition
Anthony Gibbs
Music
John Mandel
Cast
Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Margo Cunningham, Jonathan Kahn
Sound
David Hildyard
Format
35 mm
Running Time
105 m.
Country
United Kingdom
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