On Jan 14, Harvey Roy Greenberg MD writes: >Need list of associated films where a woman redeems (more >or less) a feckless man (men)) with the intense purity of her >love. maybe gets martyred in the process. Soap opera staple, >but do any better examples of the breed come to mind? I can >think of -- at this moment -- PASSIONE D'AMORE by Ettore >Scola; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN; JANE EYRE (maybe); >THE PIANO (possibly not): JOAN OF ARC (various versions), so >forth. Wouldn't _La Strada_(1956) qualify? Just saw it again (on newly remastered videotape), BTW, as part of a local film discussion group here which linked _Breaking the Waves_ with _La Strada_ for this month's study topic. Regards, Bet MacArthur MSW "A piece of material Film Projects that engages me emotionally, Arts Analysis Inst that is the coin of the realm-- Cambridge MA emotion. 'Invention' is not as Mass (415) 455 6189 important as 'investment. You don't LA: (310) 313 5059 have to be all that smart. You online: [log in to unmask] really just have to be there, and give of yourself." -- Harrison Ford ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]