Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Medea, the wife of legendary hero Jason, thrown over by him for a more politically expedient marriage in a new land, exacts revenge, murdering Jason’s children and issuing curses from the flames of her destruction. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini frames the classical tragedy as a commentary on a clash of cultures, and the dangers inherent in abandoning a way of life, metaphorizing his key critique of post-WWII Italy.
Producer: Franco Rossellini, Maria Cicogna. Screenwriter: P. Pasolini, based on Euripides’ tragedy. Cinematographer: Ennio Guarnieri. Editor: Nino Baragli. Cast: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile, Margareth Clémenti.
35mm, color, in Italian with English subtitles, 110 min.
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