Product: Romeo and Juliet [Region 2] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
Shaped my young adult idea of love
I was 14. I loved Jonathan Livingston Seagull, poetry by Schwartz, and John Denver. I also couldn't breath when Eric D. walked by. Our English teacher walked us through "The Good Earth", the 5 paragraph paper, and the last spelling tests we would ever take. She bravely asked hormonely overloaded teens to read Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". As a reward she took our class to see Zefferelli's film. I laughed and I cried. It touched my soul more than anything or anyone had ever reached. I knew I'd seen the ideal love model.And then Eric reached over and held my hand. I still cry thinking about it!To this day some 30 years later, Olivia Hussey's eyes and the musical score, "A Time For Us" still arouses my adolescent soul. No other film has ever stirred my emotions in the same way.