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"And? What comes next?" "It's lost. We'll never know." "Perhaps we should decide for ourselves" Sappho is a provocative and passionate love story set in the 1920s - not to be watched with children or with parents. Millionaire's daughter Sappho Lovell arrives on the Greek island of Lesbos for her honeymoon with her artist husband Phil. There she meets Helene, the daughter of a Russian archaeologist, and she falls in love with her. As our three lovers live out a complex girl-boy-girl sexual triangle, Sappho also comes to believe that she is the reincarnation of the ancient poetess Sappho - that Sappho who first put the "lesbian" in Lesbos. However, our modern Sappho does realize how the ancient Sappho's legend ends... Inspired by the poems of Sappho
Keywords: 1920s, anal-sex, artist, based-on-poem, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, character-name-in-title, father-daughter-relationship, female-full-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, gender-roles
Love is what is love
Phil: And? What comes next?::Helene: It's lost. We'll never know.::Sappho: Perhaps we should decide for ourselves.
Sappho: You can marry Helene. You can have her if you like.::Phil: I'm not a Turk. I can't have two wives. It's in the rules.::Sappho: Don't be so boring, Phil. There are no rules in this game. There's nothing we can imagine that's not allowed. What's love is love.::Phil: Well, what's loyalty is that too. Don't you care if I sleep with other women now?::Sappho: You can sleep with other boys too if you like.::[to Helene]::Sappho: Will you marry my husband?::Helene: Yes.::Sappho: Then it's perfect. It's all that simple. We can all be married to one another.
Phil: Don't you understand? Nothing good will come out of this game. All of us being together will not last. We'll take sides, get jealous, and start to hate one another.::Sappho: Just like it happens when two normal people get married?::Phil: Maybe. But that's how it is most times. It's the way nature meant it to be.::Sappho: [to Helene] You see Helene, that's what makes Phil a bad painter. He paints ordinary pictures that ordinary people will buy.
Sappho: I love you.::Helene: Why?::Sappho: Do I need a reason? I just do.::Helene: Don't you care about Phil?::Sappho: Of course I care about Phil. But making love with you feels just right.::Helene: But that's where you're wrong. This is how girls fool around when there are no men around.::Sappho: How is a woman making love to another woman any different then a woman making love to a man?
Helene: Have you come to say goodbye?::Sappho: Goodbye?::Helene: Aren't you going home? To America?::Sappho: I am home. This is Lesbos... and I am a lesbian. I've always known who I am. This is my home.::Helene: It's so boring here. You are welcome to it.::Sappho: It's like always a never. The sea breaking against the rocks. The one always wanting. It's the hardest thing loving someone who doesn't love you.::Helene: I'm sorry. It's not my fault.::Sappho: Come and be my girl. To feel your face and hear your footsteps, I'd give the world.::Helene: I am a woman now. I have made love to you and your husband. I want a husband of my own and children. You can't give me what I want.
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Introducing 'Song of Seasons,' a short lyrical drama reminiscent of the ancient Greek tragedies... With the end of days looming ominously over humankind, naught but a lover's serenade offers hope of a new dawn upon the earth. Join the mortal Sappho, whose courtship of the beautiful Voluptas, goddess of pleasure, takes her to the very edge of doom. Star crossed by violence and deceit, their fate is sealed by sacrifice and thereby elevated to truly Elysian heights.
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Jack Frost's playboy lifestyle in New York City is rocked by the news that his childhood love is engaged. Amidst his friendships with Scotch Evans, a ribald nightlife correspondent; Ozzy, a troubled but loving heroin addict; and Kate Hardwick, a bewitching, quick-witted reporter, Jack sinks deeper into depression. Haunted by lost-love and his mother's suicide, Jack plunges into whiskey and self-destruction . . . until his eleven-year-old neighbor, Sophie, an unlikely mother figure, leads Jack back into himself, and out of the nostalgia and excess that consumed him.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, one-word-title
The Greeks are coming, the Greeks are coming and Aphrodite is the reason why!
The World's Boldest Beauty!
She stormed the battlements of love and war!
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Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betty along the way. An inspector calls the amusement pier unsafe but Carter bribes him. The pier collapses, leading to the inspector's suicide, injury to Pop McWade, trial for Carter, and Betty's leaving him. Carter starts over with an unsafe floating casino.
Keywords: 1930s, accident, amusement-park, arcade, auction, author-name-in-title, baby, baseball, blackface, bribery
Dean: There's nothing left for me now, but Hell. I thought you might like to watch me go there.
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A series of twelve short films re-enacting highlights from famous novels. Individual titles are: #1: Trilby; #2: Les Miserables; #3: Sappho; #4: Nancy; #5: Fagin; #6: La Tosca; #7: Scrooge; #8: Vanity Fair; #9: East Lynne: #10: A Tale of Two Cities; #11: Moths; #12: David Garrick.
Keywords: based-on-novel
Sappho ( /ˈsæfoʊ/; Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω [psapːʰɔː]) was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.
The only contemporary source for Sappho's life is her own poetry, and scholars are skeptical of reading it biographically. Later biographical accounts are also unreliable.
Strabo indicates that Sappho was the contemporary of Alcaeus of Mytilene (born ca. 620 BC) and Pittacus (ca. 645 - 570 BC), and according to Athenaeus, she was the contemporary of Alyattes of Lydia (ca. 610 - 560 BC). The Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopædia, dates her to the 42nd Olympiad (612/608 BC), meaning either that she was born then or that this was her floruit. The versions of Eusebius state that she was famous by the first or second year of the 45th or 46th Olympiad (between 600 and 594 BC). Taken together, these references make it likely that she was born ca. 620 BC, or a little earlier.
Met this girl last night,
She's a real life dancer
The kind that will change your life
She just stepped right up and sat down,
Took a brand new tiara and laying it on the ground
She said,
Are you healthy?
Do my pheromones make you happy?
How do you tell a child that there's no God up in the sky,
And it's all a lie,
For Nothing
How do you tell a son that his daddy left his mum when she fell in love with a girl like you?
Ohhh
With a girl like Sappho
With a girl like you
Ohhh
With a girl like Sappho
With a girl like you
Took a ride in her car,
She had back seat speakers
She took me to her favourite bar.
She kicked off her heels again,
Took a swing at the lampshade
And whispered softly in my ear,
Are you healthy?
Do my pheromones make you happy?
How do you tell a child that there's no God up in the sky,
And it's all a lie,
For nothing
How do you tell a son that his daddy left his mum when she fell in love with a girl like you?
Ohhh
With a girl like Sappho
With a girl like you
Ohhh
With a girl like Sappho
With a girl like you
Are you healthy?
Do my pheromones make you happy?
How do you tell a child that there's no God up in the sky,
And it's all a lie,
For nothing
How do you tell a son that his daddy left his mum when she fell in love with a girl like you?
Ohhh
With a girl like Sappho
With a girl like you
Ohhh
With a girl like Sappho