Edipo re

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 ...