Medea (1970)
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: col 118m
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Gentile, Massimo Girotti
Synopsis:
Medea helps Jason to the Golden Fleece and elopes with him, but is spurned when he returns to Greece and makes a political marriage. Hell hath no fury�
Review:
A ghastly travesty of Euripedes, incorporating all the mannerisms of its writer-director to excess: handheld camera, casual brutality, grinning boys, outlandish authenticity in costumes and sets, and unexplained or clarified long-shots. Substituting prolonged silences for conventional narrative forms, it is both soporific and extremely hard to follow, even if you are familiar with the story.
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: col 118m
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Gentile, Massimo Girotti
Synopsis:
Medea helps Jason to the Golden Fleece and elopes with him, but is spurned when he returns to Greece and makes a political marriage. Hell hath no fury�
Review:
A ghastly travesty of Euripedes, incorporating all the mannerisms of its writer-director to excess: handheld camera, casual brutality, grinning boys, outlandish authenticity in costumes and sets, and unexplained or clarified long-shots. Substituting prolonged silences for conventional narrative forms, it is both soporific and extremely hard to follow, even if you are familiar with the story.
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: col 118m
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Gentile, Massimo Girotti
Synopsis:
Medea helps Jason to the Golden Fleece and elopes with him, but is spurned when he returns to Greece and makes a political marriage. Hell hath no fury�
Review:
A ghastly travesty of Euripedes, incorporating all the mannerisms of its writer-director to excess: handheld camera, casual brutality, grinning boys, outlandish authenticity in costumes and sets, and unexplained or clarified long-shots. Substituting prolonged silences for conventional narrative forms, it is both soporific and extremely hard to follow, even if you are familiar with the story.