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Oedipus Rex

1967, Movie, 1h 44min

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s powerfully iconoclastic take on Sophocles’s tragedy blends eras and cultures to create a searing exploration of fate, free will, and the things we fear most in ourselves. Shot amid the stark, elemental landscapes of the Moroccan desert, and set in an indefinable ancient past, this bold reimagining casts the filmmaker’s frequent collaborator Franco Citti as the eponymous foundling, whose willful blindness to his own nature unleashes a cataclysmic reckoning. With a prologue and epilogue set in twentieth-century Italy, Pasolini connects the story to his own upbringing, daring to bare his soul on-screen.

Country: Italy

Director:

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast:

Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia,

Laura Betti,

Ninetto Davoli

Critic William Thomas

rated

...a solidly executed and interesting piece of work.

Read full review at Empire

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