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Forbidden Sun

1989, Movie, R, 88 mins

Forbidden Sun: Review

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At the American School on Crete, nubile young female gymnasts soak up sun, work out, dream about romance, and study ancient Greek culture. The story reveals a tapestry of sexual intrigue, repression, and jealousy. One of the girls, Jane (Viveca Davis) is obsessed with Jack, the coach (Robert Beltran); Professor Lake has the hots for another girl, Paula (Samantha Mathis); his wife, Francine (Lauren Hutton) is having an affair with the coach; and Paula is sexually assaulted--by the handyman, Ulysses (Svetislav Goncic)? After a lot of insanity and some vigilantism from the students, the whole thing culminates in a gymnastic bull-dance, evoking the myth of the Minotaur. While the plot is undeniably offbeat, tony allusions to mythology don't disguise this psychodrama's rampant silliness. Significantly, the movie fails to generate suspense, with the identity of the rapist becoming apparent much too early. The direction is pedestrian, the poorly written characters uninteresting and unsympathetic. The film's climax encapsulates everything that is wrong with this ill-conceived drama--its sparsity of logic, its surfeit of ludicrousness, and its pretentious overreliance on cultural references. leave a comment
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