Medea (1969)

Medea: Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile. After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with powerful sorceress Medea. However, when the king banishes her, it’s only human that Medea plots her furious revenge. Can they escape her wrath?

“To win the kingdom his uncle took from his father, Jason must steal the golden fleece from the land of barbarians…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhen the film opened up and we had the glimpse of a filthy centaur, I was pretty much sold that this film was going to be good, or at least unforgettable. The remainder may not have had as much magic, but it did not disappoint in originality… and cannibalism.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTypically when I think of Italian mythology films, I think of the u0026quot;sword and sandalu0026quot; films. This is not one of those. Rather than make the story all romantic and flashy, we get a world that is probably much closer to reality. Assuming that the event told in myth are many, many years BCE, it makes sense to show a much more primitive world than we expect. And in that sense, this film does not disappoint.”