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Oedipus Rex

1967, Movie, NR, 110 mins

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Shot in the red deserts of Morocco, Pasolini's first color feature is a relatively straightforward--albeit self-consciously Freudian--rendition of Sophocles' tragedy. Slow-moving, sensual, and often gorgeous to behold, it is unusually frank in its treatment of the incestuous relationship between Oedipus (Franco Citti) and mother Jocasta (Silvano Mangano). According to Pasolini, OEDIPUS REX was intended "to confront both the problem of psychoanalysis and the problem of myth. ... read more leave a comment
Year: 1967
Rated NR

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Cast
Franco Citti: Oedipus
Silvana Mangano: Jocasta
Alida Valli: Merope
Carmelo Bene: Creon
Julian Beck: Tiresias
Luciano Bartoli: Laius

 

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