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Oedipus Rex(Edipo re)

  • Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini

  • Italy, 1967, Italian, 104mins, DCP

  • Cast: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli

In this ancient Greek tragedy of Oedipus haunted by a prophecy to murder his father and marry his mother, Pasolini's transplantation of the myth is put under a very personal frame that interweaves his own memories with Sophocles' drama - andwith his cameo as a high priest. Connected to the contemporary world through an autobiographical prologue and epilogue, the ancient text is unfolded in desert settings with primitive grandeur, in a mood of solitude and ambivalence that underline the myth's psychological overtones - are we truly fated to our destinies? 

Kinema Junpo Awards: Best Foreign Language Film 

Venice Film Festival: In Competition 

26/11 (Sat): Film talk with Long Tin

Screening:

Online Screening

  • 2022-12-16 (Fri) 00:00 -
    2022-12-18 (Sun) 23:59

In-theatre Screening

  • 2022-11-26 (Sat)
    14:30
    2022-12-11 (Sun)
    18:00

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  • Financially Supported by

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.