Medea
Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy/France/West Germany, 1969, Italian, 110mins, DCP
Cast: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Giuseppe Gentile, Laurent Terzieff
Full of eccentric fantasy and real passion, Pasolini's imaginative recreation of Euripides' play shifts the tragedy away from the prodigious revenge plotted by the mythical sorceress to the loss of her mystical homeland. Among the stark, abstruse tableaux stands a splendour crystallised inthe magnificent face of opera diva Maria Callas as Medea, whose fiery emotions culminate in her bitter renunciation ofthe world replete with betrayal and political ambition. Through poetic, desirous explorations of landscape and ritual, Pasolini shapes a biting allegory for the menacing influence of Western civilisation on the Third World.
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
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Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction