Udo Kier series was developed in collaboration with Daniel Marino and David Del Valle.
Featuring an intro + post-film Q&A with Udo Kier.
Cinematic genius Lars von Trier explores the dark passions of a woman scorned in this shocking and powerful film, adapted from a screenplay by the great Carl-Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc). The drama unfolds in shimmering marshlands and gloomy subterranean passageways. Medea is a foreign sorceress, abandoned by Jason, her lover. In a fit of mad, jealous rage, she plots a vicious revenge and murders her own children.
Medea is a revelation—the discovery of a rarely seen, legendary film from the director of Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, and Dogville. While making it, Lars von Trier claimed to be in constant telepathic communication with the co-author of the original script (based on the play by Euripides)—Carl-Theodor Dreyer.
Udo Kier series was developed in collaboration with Daniel Marino and David Del Valle.
There are few runs in recent cinema history more singular than Lars Von Trier from 1984 to 2000. Beginning with The Element of Crime all the way to Dancer in the Dark, Von Trier’s Europe trilogy, followed by his Golden Hearts trilogy, and then his mini-series The Kingdom, are an unmatched, high mark in modern, European filmmaking in terms of thematic boldness, visual innovation, and good old fashioned pushing the envelope. Nestled near the start of this run is the underseen and underrated adaptation of Carl Theodore Dreyer's screenplay of Medea, made right on the heels of The Element of Crime. This intersection of the two Danish masters distills the story to its most primal essence, strips it of its choruses and divine interventions, and retranslates the setting from Greece to the Iron Age, bringing to the fore the story's inherently gothic elements. Kirsten Olesen turns in a career best performance as the title character, and in a unique turn for him, Udo Keir as Jason gives one of the mos