Never on Sunday
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Movie Reviews of Never on Sunday
Movie Review: Never on Sunday
Summary: 5 Stars
Life affirming, timeless, rauckous. Melina plays a woman for all ages and times. The music is a must.Movie Review: Joyous Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie when it first came out and it is one of my top 10 list of all time favorite movies.Movie Review: Never on Sunday
Summary: 5 Stars
I haven't seen this movie in years but what I remember is the music not the story line.Movie Review: Never on sunday
Summary: 5 Stars
Recomand to every one who is inlove.one of the best love story.Movie Review: Sophisticated joie-de-vivre film, or "Happy Hooker Goes to Greece"?
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is a classic, and justifiably so. At the same time, it's easy to criticize this 1960 film from the standpoint of today's morality for the romanticized portrayal of the lifestyle of its main character, the Piraeus prostitute Ilya.
The central dramatic conflict is between the live-for-today attitude of the happy hooker Ilya, and the stifled, overintellectualizing bent of the male lead, the ironically named American tourist Homer -- stiffly played by the film's writer-director, Jules Dassin.
This underlying conflict is the film's saving grace. The film is really not all that dissimilar to "Zorba" (which came later, in 1964) in terms of its message, and the bouzouki music and drunken Greek dances strengthen the sense of parallels between the two. The live-for-today mindset wins out, but still, Ilya does briefly achieve a deeper happiness when she gives Homer's bookish ways a try.
I'm not sure that romanticizing the prostitute's lifestyle is the best way for a film to go. I think most people today would say it isn't, but what do I know -- maybe things were different in Greece in 1960. If you can hold back your probably justified indignation, this movie has some worthwhile things to say.
There are a lot of jokes and references to ancient Greek history and culture. For example, the prostitutes of Piraeus go on strike for better living conditions, which I'm sure is a reference to the Aristophanes play "Lysistrata", in which the women of Greece withhold sex from their men until they agree to stop the Peloponnesian War. Also, the poet Homer was traditionally said to be blind -- just as the film's Homer is figuratively blind to the simple pleasures of life. I'm sure there many more Greek references I didn't pick up on.
On an even more obscure note, the film's story has interesting parallels with the opera "Thaïs" by Jules Massenet: the prostitute-priestess (and that description fits Ilya perfectly as well) converts, becomes a nun, and is much happier for it. The difference is that Thaïs dies a happy nun, but here, the happy hooker returns. Which one was better off?