Plot

Euripides’ Medea in... twenty minutes, set in the shabby outskirts of Athens circa 1970.
This is the second film of Michalis Papanikolaou who went on making shorts, docs and TV series. It’s a nice virtuoso piece and a rare sample of asynchronous editing in Greek cinema. There’s no dialogue (and no need for subtitles to follow the “plot”). The soundtrack is disconnected from the action and made up of escapist radio shows, gossips, pop songs (an interesting find: director wrote the verses for one of them), even conversations between members of the firing squad who were to execute the modern Medea of the film…

   От себя

У начинающего греческого режиссера в конце 60х получилось применить такие приёмы киноповествования, что оно и сейчас выглядит современно. Примечательно, что в том же году Пазолини снял свой вариант Медеи.

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