Medea (Blu-ray)
It's a movie about a woman who beheads her brother, stabs her children, and sends her lover's wife up in flames. For Maria Callas, it's a natural.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: December 6, 2011
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: Momentum
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti & Laurent Terzieff | |
Performer: | Guiseppi Gentile | |
Directed by | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
Edited by | Nino Baragli | |
Screenwriting by | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
Produced by | Franco Rossellini | |
Director of Photography: | Ennio Guarnieri |
Entertainment Reviews:
The diva's disappointing (dubbed) performance is due to Pasolini's wayward direction.
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Film4
Pasolini strips the play down to symbolic, almost abstract expressions of scenes and ideas, like the cinema equivalent of hieroglyphics.
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Turner Classic Movies Online
Maria Callas doesn't sing and barely speaks, but her ironic presence was clearly more than sufficient for Pasolini's purposes: a legend is fleshing out a myth.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/4 --
This fascinating, if not entirely successful, adaptation of the Euripides play has opera diva Callas in her sole screen appearance as the sorceress queen.
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TV Guide
Abstruse, stark, elemental
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CinePassion
Pier Paolo Pasolini's disappointing 1970 version of the Greek tragedy.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 7/10 --
Only for an art-house audience, but those who want to feel and poetically experience the ancient world might also find this odd film worth watching, at least once.
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Movie Metropolis
Product Description:
An adaptation of the Euripides play about the woman who helped Jason steal the Golden Fleece. Maria Callas is featured in her only non-operatic role as the vengeful title character. This 1970 film is one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's most memorable films.