Song of Songs - References in Film

References in Film

• In Carl Th. Dreyer's Day of Wrath, a film about sexual repression in a puritanical Protestant family, the first few verses of Song of Songs chapter 2 are read aloud by the daughter Anne, but soon after her father forbids her to continue. The chapter's verse paraphrases Anne's own amorous adventures and desires.
• The Woman in the Window (1944), Professor Richard Wanley pulls this book off a shelf in the gentleman's club and sits to read it after his friends leave early in the film.
• In El crimen del Padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro) (2002), a Mexican film (script by Vicente Leñero, based on the homonymous novel written in 1875 by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz) about a sexual relationship between a priest and a girl, father Amaro recites it to his lover during their nocturnal meetings.
• In Once Upon a Time in America (1984), a Sergio Leone film, the young Deborah Gelly (Jennifer Connelly) recites it to Noodles (Scott Tiler).
• Marc Levin's 2001 Brooklyn Babylon set in Crown Heights features Tariq Trotter of The Roots as the two primary factions of the community, West Indian Rastafarians and the Lubavitch Jewish community come into conflict.
• Song of Songs (2005) a Josh Appignanesi and Jay Basu film - a study of belief and desire, set in the cloistered world of London's Orthodox Jewish community.
• Keeping Mum (2005) a Niall Johnson film - In which Vicar Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson) after being informed of the Song of Solomon's sexual nature by stepmother Grace (Maggie Smith) realises that he can love his wife as much as he loves God.
• Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal (1986) is a warm and lyrical motion picture centered around a Malayalee Syrian Christian-Nasrani ("Nazarene") family. It was based on the Malayalam novel Nammukku Graamangalil Chennu Raappaarkkaam (Let us go and dwell in the villages) by K. K. Sudhakaran (1986). The title of the film and novel is based upon a passage from Biblical book of The Song of Solomon or Song of Songs, Chapter 7:12: "Let us get up early to the vineyards." The protagonist quotes this passage at one point during the film.