The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976)

Directed by

Lewis John Carlino

Genre

drama film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

12

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed Englishwoman begins a passionate affair with an American sailor. Her young son and his gang of friends secretly observe the relationship and start to form dangerous ideas about the adults around them.

melancholictensebroodingcontemplativeatmosphericdarkly romanticsereneunsettling

What happens

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is a 1976 British drama film starring Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles, directed by Lewis John Carlino. It was adapted by Carlino from the 1963 novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The novel is set in Japan but for the film the story's location was changed to the English town of Dartmouth, Devon, where it was also filmed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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