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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Not For Children Movie Release: 1970 DVD Release: 11/26/2002 Format: DVD - Letterbox for TV Audio Tracks: Italian Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 50 mins Studio: Vanguard Cinema Members Wishing: 8 Genres: Drama, Tragedy

Put in the coldest possible terms, Medea is the story of a woman who gets sore at her husband and kills her children to get even. Greek opera diva Maria Callas is certainly in her element as Medea in this 1970 film version of the venerable theatrical piece, with Giuseppe Gentili as her husband Jason and Massimo Girotti as her father, King Creon. When Jason announces that he's prepared to bigamously marry princess Glauce (Margareth Clementi), she exacts her bloody revenge. Despite the excess verbiage and his notoriously loquacious leading lady, director Pier Paolo Pasolini conveys most of Medea's plotline visually. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Maria Callas - Medea
Guiseppe Gentili - Jason
Laurent Terzieff - Centaur
Massimo Girotti - Greonte
Margarethe Clementi - Glauce

Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinematic adaptation of Medea comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The Italian soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono English subtitles are accessible. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, making it difficult to recommend this disc to anyone who is not a fan of Pasolini's confrontational style. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide