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British actresses in Cadaqués to shoot Ventura Pons Dalí film

These days, guests at a Cadaqués hotel away from the tourist frenzy of the town centre have unknowingly been sharing it with two people who know much of the history of European cinema and television. Two octogenarian British ladies who look straight out of a Mediterranean Agatha Christie plot: none other than actors Siân Phillips - best known as Livia Drusilla from the series I Claudius - and Claire Bloom, who found stardom with one Charles Chaplin in Limelight when still in her early twenties.

The reason for their stay on the Costa Brava is the filming of the Ventura Pons production Miss Dalí. It is a film based on the figure of Salvador Dalí's sister, Anna Maria (played by Phillips) and narrated in two time frames, the 1920s and 1989, shortly after the death of the painter - whom she had been distant from for years - which is the part of the film starring these two veteran performers.

In a meeting with the press, the Catalan director explained that Anna Maria Dalí's story is “hidden, a Greek tragedy about the love of two siblings who lived in the same village for forty years without talking to one another.”

Pons used to spend his summers in Cadaqués, where he met Dalí and his wife Gala, about whom he has “many stories to tell.”

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