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Retrospective

Edipo re

FromPier Paolo Pasolini

WithSilvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck, Luciano Bartoli

Year1967

Duration104min.

LanguageItalian

In his first film shot in Africa, Pasolini plays with the deviation from Freud's interpretation of the tragedy material and, via a hallucinatory opening, anchors the protagonist's formative childhood memory as a trauma of rejection, which ultimately rejuvenates into a prophecy of patricide and blood libel. His Oedipus is a man of strength who is able to decide all situations in his favour less through intelligence than through violence ...