Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1388 in VHS
• Released on: 2000-01-24
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: PAL, Subtitled
• Original language: Italian
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 105 minutes

Synopsis
An adaptation of the Euripides play about the woman who helped Jason steal the golden fleece. Maria Callas stars in her only non-operatic role. Italian with English subtitles.

Customer Reviews

Spellbinding Reworking of An Ancient Myth
If you have to see one film in your lifetime, make it Pasolini's Medea. It has everything - superb plot, location, acting, direction - and more. Maria Callas, magnificent on the screen as the abandoned wife Medea, steals your breath away as she first betrayes her people to help Jason steal the Golden Fleece, and then wreaks a terrible revenge when she is in turn betrayed by him for another woman. Pasolini's direction is gentle yet precise, allowing Callas to unfold in all the vehemence of her passion, elciting from her a great performance. A must for all lovers of great films!