Medea
Pier Paolo Pasolini / DE, IT, FR, 1969 / 110 min.
Pasolini's brilliant adaptation of the Greek myth, featuring opera star Maria Callas as Medea – her only film role. The enchantress is seduced by adventurer Jason – a deep dive into the world of the Ancient Greeks, for whom the magical and the worldly were one.
In scenes almost devoid of dialogue, Pasolini conjures up the primal realm of magic and sacrifice that naive, besotted Medea leaves to follow the adventurer Jason. She helps him obtain the Golden Fleece, until she realises that she’s just been used to achieve Jason’s worldly ambitions. The mythological hero then continues on his path to power with stone-cold deliberation.
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Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Production year
1969
Country
DE, IT, FR
Original title
Medea
Length
110 min.
Language
Italian
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Albert Serra
Eye Filmmuseum presents the first exhibition in the Netherlands about the work of Catalan film and theatre director Albert Serra. Transforming the entire exhibition space into an immersive stage, Serra orchestrates nocturnal and clandestine encounters where theatre, cinema, and art converge.
Why in Eye
There is a clear parallel with Albert Serra's Honour of the Knights (2006), in which the director wanted to depict 'dead moments' in the classic text; Pasolini seems to have had a similar kind of 'anti-adaptation', with lots of quiet moments, in mind.
Thijs Havens
Programmer Eye Filmmuseum
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