Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s lyrical telling of the classical tragedy has a strangely personal quality, in its intricate construction of its doomed hero’s subjectivity, and his abject fall upon learning that he has not outrun his terrible destiny. Modern episodes of a mother giving birth in Fascist Italy complete the director’s suggestion that Oedipus’ inheritance of doom is also his own.
Producer: Alfredo Bini. Screenwriter: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Editor: Nino Baragli. Cast: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck.
35mm, color, in Italian with English subtitles, 104 min.
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