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Film still from MEDEA. Maria Callas as Medea looks through a crack in the door.

Fri 04.03.
20:00

  • Director

    Pier Paolo Pasolini

  • I/F/BRD / 1969
    110 min. / 35 mm / Original version with English subtitles

  • with

    With Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff

  • Original language

    Italian

  • Duo 1 with RE GRANCHIO

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender
  • Introduced by Hannah Pilarczyk

Pasolini once said that the past was the only global critique of the present. Midway through his career as a director, this conviction drove him back to mythic times of the past: After Edipo Re (Oedipus Rex, I 1967), MEDEA was his second film to explicitly take on a Greek myth and embrace the power of the archaic narrative. In her first and only cinema role, Maria Callas plays the outcast king's daughter and sorceress who takes revenge on her husband Jason and kills their children. With no pretense of even approaching historical authenticity or artistic conventions, Callas and Pasolini indulge in the intoxication of irrationality. Calamity only lurks where modernity is at large. (hp)

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