The ancient Greek play Medea has enraptured readers, actors, and audience members for nearly 2,500 years. The classical playwright Euripides crafted a sharp-minded female character named Medea who ...
‘Gavagai’ Rewrites ‘Medea’ as a Portrait of Racial Cluelessness in the Privilege-Prone Film Industry
Writer/director Ulrich Köhler talks to IndieWire about his subversive NYFF premiere, which centers on a white woman ostracized by an African community. In Ulrich Köhler’s New York Film Festival world ...
Medea persists in our cultural memory mainly as the embodiment of female vengeance, most remembered for her murder of her unfaithful husband, his new bride, and her own two children in response to her ...
‘Gavagai’ Rewrites ‘Medea’ as a Portrait of Racial Cluelessness in the Privilege-Prone Film Industry
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Ulrich Köhler's New York Film Festival world premiere "Gavagai," a filmmaker and her star are taken to task for making a ...
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‘Gavagai' Rewrites ‘Medea' as a Portrait of Racial Cluelessness in the Privilege-Prone Film Industry
In Ulrich Köhler's New York Film Festival world premiere "Gavagai," a filmmaker and her star are taken to task for making a reverse-engineered "Medea" in Senegal. The Euripides play, about a woman who ...
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