Rapture (1965 film)

Rapture
Directed by John Guillermin
Starring Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell
Music by Georges Delerue
Release date(s) November 8, 1965
Running time 104 minutes
Country France, United States
Language French, English

Rapture (French: ''La fleur de l'âge'') is a 1965 French/American film directed by John Guillermin, and starring Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, and Dean Stockwell.

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Plot

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union[1]

Reception

Time magazine called it a "penumbral play of love against loneliness" that "boost[s] the artistic stock of English director John Guillermin" and "clinch[es] the reputation of France's 15-year-old Patricia Gozzi."[2]

References

  1. ^ Rapture at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ "Darkness in Brittany". Time. August 27, 1965. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,828378,00.html. Retrieved 2011-11-05. 

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Films directed by John Guillermin
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