Adaptación de la tragedia griega de Eurípides en la que Pasolini muestra la trágica confrontación entre dos culturas incompatibles: el mundo mágico e irracional de Medea y el mundo racional de Jasón. Supuso la única incursión en el cine de la gran diva de la ópera Maria Callas.
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited still images of Africans and African Americans which function like flashes of history that the unborn child will inherit. Caldwell invokes Amiri Baraka’s poem “Part of the Doctrine” in this experimental meditation on art history, Black imagery, identity and heritage.
An actress loses her identity in a character, what then turns her life into tragedy.