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Nel 1930 ad Alessandria d’Egitto gli inglesi stanno per cedere il potere alla maggioranza locale, musulmana. La bella Justine, cristiano copta, usa generosamente le armi della seduzione per la causa politica dei suoi correligionari. Da un romanzo di Lawrence Durrell, un melodramma esotico che Cukor riesce a trasformarlo in un gioco ipnotico e morboso, sfruttando anche i mutati costumi del pubblico. Raffinata direzione d’attori.
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Justine (1969)
116 min
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.