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.
Medea (Blu-ray)
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Format:  Blu-ray
item number:  GK6Q
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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

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User Ratings: 1,698
The diva's disappointing (dubbed) performance is due to Pasolini's wayward direction. Full Review
Film4
May 24, 2003
Pasolini strips the play down to symbolic, almost abstract expressions of scenes and ideas, like the cinema equivalent of hieroglyphics. Full Review
Turner Classic Movies Online
Dec 18, 2011
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
Feb 1, 2012
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. Full Review
TV Guide
Oct 24, 2007
Abstruse, stark, elemental Full Review
CinePassion
Sep 28, 2009
Pier Paolo Pasolini's disappointing 1970 version of the Greek tragedy. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000
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. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Jan 5, 2012

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.

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  • UPC: 741952708391
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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