Review of Medea

After Epidemic, the second chapter of that trilogy that Lars will call Europe, he is commissioned to the same, a television reduction of the tragedy of Euripides, Medea. Obviously the director will develop the project in his own way, taking a cue from a screenplay by his ideal mentor Dreyer, with the variant of infanticide by hanging, which will appear in the logo of the work, creating repugnance to some critics. From a technical-visual point of view, the director continues his coloristic and shooting experimentation, already present in previous films and will continue in future ones of this period (Europe and The Kingdom): sepia turns and grains, video use and machine on his shoulder . But as usual, if you don't get in tune with your way of making cinema, you risk not compromising the result. Finally, another stylistic obsession also present in this film is water, a silent witness to human affairs.