David Denby
“…. [Dassin] involves his actress heroine with an imprisoned American woman (Ellen Burstyn) who has murdered her little children as a way of punishing her American husband for having an affair with a Greek woman. A real Medea--savage and desperate."
"Ellen Burstyn is at her best in this role. Her anger is fully focused; she stays completely in character. Burstyn's murderess is a small-town fundamentalist, semi-psychotic, terrified of God, but still disgusted with her adulterous husband. Shaken by the fury and violence of this woman, Mercouri begins to lose her grip....”
David Denby
New York, November 13, 1978
"Ellen Burstyn is at her best in this role. Her anger is fully focused; she stays completely in character. Burstyn's murderess is a small-town fundamentalist, semi-psychotic, terrified of God, but still disgusted with her adulterous husband. Shaken by the fury and violence of this woman, Mercouri begins to lose her grip....”
David Denby
New York, November 13, 1978
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