Medea

Year: 1969

Runtime: 118 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

FantasyDramaHumanity and the world around usSurreal and thought-provoking visions of life and deathPowerful poetic and passionate drama

The film follows Medea, a foreign woman in ancient Greece whose status is jeopardized when her husband Jason abandons her for another woman. In a blaze of vengeance she murders her own children, kills her brother, and burns her rival, embodying the tragic fury of Euripides’ classic tale. Maria Callas delivers a powerful performance.

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