Medea
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 20, 2003
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Facets
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Udo Kier & Kirsten Olesen | |
| Directed by | Lars von Trier | |
| Screenwriting by | Lars von Trier & Preben Thomsen | |
| Composition by | Joachim Holbek |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2/5 --
The cryptic tale is an exercise in long takes and roundabout dialogue, where every character speaks in riddles.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 3/4 --
The moment you can forget about Dreyer--or at least reduce his contribution to some parts of the dialogue-- Medea becomes an exhilarating visual feast.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The muddy, overly-pixilated pictures begin to resonate with a punchy beauty found in very few shot-on-film movies.
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Combustible Celluloid
Literal and simple-minded.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 4/5 --
No admirer of Mr. von Trier's work should miss this compelling rarity.
New York Times
Adapted from a script composed by the late Danish silent filmmaker Carl Theodor Dryer, this narrative is quiet and elegant.
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PopMatters
It's difficult to imagine the Euripides original ever being more eloquently adapted.
Village Voice
Product Description:
Euridipides' Greek tragedy MEDEA is transposed to Denmark in this 1988 television entry from Lars von Trier. Following Jason's betrayal of the woman he once loved, Medea vows revenge upon her former lover and the children she has had with him. This tragic retelling is based on a script by silent film master and von Trier's fellow countryman Carl Theodore Dreyer (THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC).
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