Saturday 28 July 2007, 19.00

Set on the Costa Brava, near Dalí 's home town of Cadaques, Lewin’s extraordinary romantic tragedy was acclaimed by critics in the surrealist circuit. The director Albert Lewin was friendly with a number of surrealist artists, such as Man Ray and Max Ernst, and collected surrealist art. He updates the Flying Dutchman legend to a Spanish village in the 1930s, where a stunning Ava Gardner plays Pandora, a night-club singer and femme fatale for whose hand various men compete. James Mason stars as the Dutchman, a sea captain who, since the seventeenth century, has been condemned to sail the seven seas until he finds a woman willing to die for his love.

Albert Lewin, UK 1951, 122 min

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Dalí at Tate Modern exhibition