Medea

1970

1h 50m

Drama

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73%

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11 Reviews

75%

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1,000+ Ratings

The powerful sorceress (Maria Callas) helps Jason (Giuseppi Gentile) steal the Golden Fleece and reclaim his throne, then enacts a gruesome revenge after he spurns her.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Pier Paolo Pasolini's disappointing 1970 version of the Greek tragedy.

Jan 1, 2000

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Scott Nye

Battleship Pretension

Pasolini frequently uses those who push themselves to the margins of society to expose our collective and individual weaknesses, and our determination to maintain the image of order.

Jun 29, 2023

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James Plath

Movie Metropolis

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.

Rated: 7/10

Jan 5, 2012

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Sean Axmaker

Turner Classic Movies Online

Pasolini strips the play down to symbolic, almost abstract expressions of scenes and ideas, like the cinema equivalent of hieroglyphics.

Dec 17, 2011

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Abstruse, stark, elemental

Sep 27, 2009

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Rated: 5/5

Dec 1, 2007

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william k

Operatic interpretation of Euripides' play focused on the revenge story is fascinatingly staged in historic locations and garbs, but is clearly observed by a modern-day viewpoint.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

An outstanding, haunting, beautiful movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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walter m

If you're a beginner to this ancient Greek tragedy about betrayal and revenge, then Pier Paolo Pasolini's abstract version really is not the place to start.(As strange as it may sound Lars von Trier's version is better suited for the beginner.) But that's not to say there are not rewards here for the adventurous filmgoer, namely the great Maria Callas in the lead. So, while I did have a sense of deja-vu from watching this(namely because of Pasolini's "Oedipus Rex" not being that stylistically dissimilar), I thought it was interesting how his version of ancient Greece almost resembled another planet through a great use of locations.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

You can take the girl outta the ghetto but not the ghetto outta the girl.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

a strange and compelling film - genuinely capturing something of the 'otherness' of the ancient world - visually beautiful - and having as a soundtrack tibetan ritual music, Bulgarian and Japanese folk singing - that you might not think would work, but it does...

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

An oddity worth seeing for Callas.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Synopsis

The powerful sorceress (Maria Callas) helps Jason (Giuseppi Gentile) steal the Golden Fleece and reclaim his throne, then enacts a gruesome revenge after he spurns her.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Screenwriter: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 24, 2016
Runtime: 1h 50m