Week 7: Oedipus Rex (1967) w MUCLASS
19/04/2024 - 19/04/2024 3pm - 6pm
Latham Theatre, Redmond Barry
Film Society
Together with the Classics and Archeology Society, we are diving into Ancient Greek theatre with a screening of Oedipus Rex (1967).
MUCLASS is a club dedicated to classics and ancient societies, if you are interested in reading groups, museum visits and toga parties, consider joining them here: https://umsu.unimelb.edu.au/buddy-up/clubs/clubs-listing/join/6477/
SYNOPSIS:
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.
Where: Latham Theatre, Redmond Barry
When: 3pm, Friday
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UTLcz47uf8