Black Medusa

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Black Medusa

2021

1h 36m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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8 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

01/25/2022

3/5

The noir mood of menace and emotional deadness in Black Medusa has been very carefully contrived and curated.

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Carmen Paddock

TAKE ONE Magazine

11/30/2023

BLACK MEDUSA grapples with how people and identities are absorbed or dissolved in trauma, violence, and the vulnerability of love. What is owed to our saviours and those we save, and how do we reckon with taking fate in our hands?

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Joseph Fahim

Middle East Eye

01/27/2022

An impressionistic revenge fable gorgeously shot in black and white, 'Black Medusa' is an angry shriek; a brazenly amoral meditation on violence and the righteousness of retribution, and a moody panorama of a lawless Tunisian capital.

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Felipe Rodríguez Torres

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

11/17/2021

Ethereal, beautiful and hypnotic. [Full review in Spanish]

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Nathaniel Muir

AIPT

06/29/2021

The lack of clear motivation takes away from the sheer brutality of the protagonist. There is no doubting how good the film looks and sounds, but it never sits right.

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Sam C. Mac

In Review Online

06/06/2021

The Tunisian cityscape is often eye-catching, [but] what audience wants to come to a serial killer movie to admire the scenery?

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Director: Youssef Chebbi
Screenwriter: Youssef Chebbi
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 36m