Fri 04.03.
20:00
Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
I/F/BRD / 1969
110 min.
/ 35 mm
/ Original version with English subtitles
with
With Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff
Original language
Italian
Duo 1 with RE GRANCHIO
Cinema
Arsenal 1
zu den Ticketszu dem KalenderIntroduced by Hannah Pilarczyk
Pasolini once said that the past was the only global critique of the present. Midway through his career as a director, this conviction drove him back to mythic times of the past: After Edipo Re (Oedipus Rex, I 1967), MEDEA was his second film to explicitly take on a Greek myth and embrace the power of the archaic narrative. In her first and only cinema role, Maria Callas plays the outcast king's daughter and sorceress who takes revenge on her husband Jason and kills their children. With no pretense of even approaching historical authenticity or artistic conventions, Callas and Pasolini indulge in the intoxication of irrationality. Calamity only lurks where modernity is at large. (hp)
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