Saturday, 28 October 2017

Pygmalion : The real creature

‘Pygmalion : The real creature’

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2017 (19 to 26 October)
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27 October



‘Pygmalion : The real creature’

(Genesis 1 : 27)


Pygmalion
Took a lovely
Woman (unnamed
By Ovid)
And made,
Of her,
An ivory
Statue :


No, not a woman
Without a name –
As sculptor’s
Naked muse –
But real,
Warm flesh
To ivory
Statue.



© Belston Night Works 2017




Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestes
by Rt Hon. Sir Frederic Leighton, PA








Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)

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