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Electra, My Love
Why this pick
Like von Trier’s Medea, it turns Greek tragedy into a severe, ceremonial visual experience, using ritualised movement and long takes to make vengeance feel both intimate and mythic.
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MOVIE1988 1h 16m DNK
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Medea
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
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Why this pick
Pasolini shares Medea’s archaic, dreamlike sensibility: myth becomes physical and unsettling through barren locations, ritual, and a deliberately estranging style.
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The Sacrifice
Why this pick
Its hushed pacing, spiritual unease and rigorously composed images offer a similarly austere descent into extreme human feeling and sacrificial logic.
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The Virgin Spring
Why this pick
This medieval revenge tragedy has Medea’s elemental moral force, moving from quiet ritual and foreboding to devastating violence without softening its emotional severity.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
King Creon (disambiguation) of Corinth wants to secure his throne. In order to do this, he wants to marry the successful warrior Jason to his daughter Glauce. Jason accepts, but he is already married to Medea. Since Medea is known as a wise woman, Creon feels need to banish Medea and her two boys from the city. She begs him to let him stay, but he gives her only one day in order to secure the needs of the two boys.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kirsten Olesen
Medea
Henning Jensen
Kreon
Udo Kier
Jason
Solbjørg Højfeldt
Ammen