What happens when the sea calls and your husband's a landlocked doctor with no rizz?
Married to a doctor and mother of two daughters, a woman continually rethinks her relationship with a sailor.
Acting
Giovanna Lenzi's oceanic longing in every restrained gesture.
Cinematography
Wet, windswept Italian coast that mirrors Ellida's turmoil.
Director
Sergio Pastore
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ibsen's 1888 play was scandalous for suggesting women could reject motherhood for freedom; Pastore's 1984 adaptation arrived when Italian divorce laws were still fresh battlegrounds.
Sergio Pastore was primarily a giallo director—this moody chamber drama was his unexpected detour into prestige territory, and it shows in the lingering, suspicious gazes.
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