Medea

Medea

1970 · 118 min · IT · 6.6 (157 votes)
Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · Starring Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile, Margareth Clémenti, Paul Jabara

It's a movie about a woman who beheads her brother, stabs her children, and sends her lover's wife up in flames. For Maria Callas, it's a natural.

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Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

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A primal scream echoing through antiquity. This is a raw, furious descent into the heart of betrayal and vengeance, delivered with operatic intensity. It feels like witnessing a myth unfold, heavy with inevitable tragedy.

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