Medeas Reviews
August 23, 2019
Manages to lull us into a hypnotic state where passion and heartbreak are conveyed as quietly as whispering winds through haze filled fields.
June 12, 2015
The tense atmosphere will take the viewer on a roller coaster of emotions that ends in a haunting finale. [full review in Spanish]
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| Original Score: 4/5
January 16, 2015
Though it's tempting to dismiss the film's strong visuals (...) there are a million other ways to be bored or underwhelmed at the cinema. This one at least creates a little space to dream.
January 16, 2015
At the end, I felt suspended between "so beautiful" and "so what." (Sorry for lifting your phrase, Paul Simon.)
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| Original Score: 2/4
January 15, 2015
With limited dialogue and long takes, Medeas quietly builds to inevitable tragedy, exploring the darkest corners of desire, jealously, and unforgivable transgressions.
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| Original Score: B-
January 15, 2015
A slow, mesmeric slide into heartbreak and horror, "Medeas," the ravishing first feature from the Italian director Andrea Pallaoro, effortlessly conveys a family's disintegration with few words and even fewer miscalculations.
January 15, 2015
With a foregone conclusion in place, small gestures start to seem ridiculous, even bordering on melodramatic in their microscopic form.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
January 15, 2015
Medeas mulls over big ideas through an intimate prism, and marks Pallaoro as a filmmaker to watch...
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| Original Score: 3/4
January 12, 2015
Writer-director Andrea Pallaoro's feature-film debut, Medeas, isn't especially beholden to plot or dialogue, impressionistically shaping its story through pervasive silence.
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| Original Score: 3/4
April 2, 2014
Moves with the fluidity of impressionistic portraiture, weaving from reflections in mirrors and ripples of water a sometimes horrifying (though always engaging) patchwork of subtle innuendo.
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| Original Score: 4/5