Secret Ceremony

[Machine Translation] Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow play a strange "mother and daughter" in this forbidden psychological suspense film directed by master filmmaker Joseph Losey! This masterpiece features a gorgeous performance by Taylor, who had just won her second Oscar for "Virginia Woolf is Not Afraid" ('66), Farrow, who had just made her breakthrough with "Rosemary's Baby" ('68), and Mitchum, Hollywood's toughest "tough guy". Directed by Joseph Losey, the master of "The Event" ('67) and "Love" ('70). --Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor), a middle-aged prostitute who lives in despair in a cheap apartment in London after her beloved daughter drowns to death due to her own carelessness, is invited by a young woman named Chenchi (Mia Farrow), who suddenly calls out "Mommy" to her on the bus one day. Mia Farrow ), a young woman who suddenly calls out "Mommy" to her on the bus one day. Leonora is begged by Cenci, who has lost her mother and leads a solitary life in a mansion, to come and live with her. Leonora protects Cenci from her wealth-seeking aunt and other people, and eventually begins to love Cenci as if she were her own daughter, but the appearance of Cenci's father-in-law, Albert ( Robert Mitchum ), causes a crack in the strange mother-daughter relationship...

エリザベス・テイラーとミア・ファローが奇妙な"母娘"を演じた、名匠ジョセフ・ロージー監督による禁断の心理サスペンス! 『バージニア・ウルフなんかこわくない』(66)で二度目のオスカーを手にし脂の乗りきっていたテイラー、『ローズマリーの赤ちゃん』(68)でブレイクしたばかりのファロー、そしてハリウッド随一の"タフガイ"、ミッチャムの豪華競演が話題を呼んだ傑作。監督は『できごと』(67)、『恋』(70)の名匠、ジョセフ・ロージー。――自らの不注意で最愛の娘を水死させてしまい、ロンドンの安アパートで失意の日々を生きる中年の娼婦、レオノーラ(エリザベス・テイラー)は、ある日バスの中でいきなり「マミー」と声をかけてきた若い女、チェンチ(ミア・ファロー)に誘われるがまま彼女の家に連れて行かれる。母を亡くし、豪邸で孤独な生活を送るチェンチに請われて一緒に住み始めるレオノーラ。財産目当ての伯母らから守り、いつしかチェンチに実の娘のように愛情を注ぐレオノーラだったが、チェンチの義父、アルバート(ロバート・ミッチャム)が姿を現わしたことから、奇妙な母娘関係に亀裂が生じてしまう・・・。