HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY ALEKSANDR SOKUROV
In his spare, intense, lyrical ''Mother and Son,'' Sokurov immerses the viewer in an isolated landscape that resonates with pain and loneliness as a young man tends his dying mother. On the surface, little happens. In a small house in the countryside of Russia, a son cares for his sick, elderly mother as they prepare for her death...
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Master Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini beautifully re-imagines Euripides' ancient Greek tragedy with Maria Callas in the title role. In this haunting tale, Medea sacrifices everything to win the heart of Jason, captain of the Argonauts, but when he spurns her love, Medea exacts a scorching revenge that destroys everyone in its path.
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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TWO PART SCREENING:
1. INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR JULIE TAYMOR
2. OEDIPUS REX (1993)
An "Opera-oratorio in two acts after Sophocles" by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, based on Sophocles's tragedy, performed in the language of the audience, in this version in Japanese.
Exploring femininity and masculinity in the films of Aleksandr Sokurov. (A sequel to the series, Oedipus Rex - A Tribute to Greek Drama)
The intention of the selection is to introduce some examination of the use of religious themes, imagery, and significances in movies. The Bergman films are typically austere in their exploration...
DSTV - DEKATv
DSTV - Dagbreek
HOSTED BY JOS KOETSIER
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DIRECTED BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Edipo Re is a highly personal screenplay adaption by Pasolini of the Greek drama by Sophocles. As his first colour feature, Edipo Re makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes, to transpose collective myth into a particular vision that is at once tender, sensual, and wholly unsparing.
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