Ilektra
Living in exile after their father's death, the children of an usurped and murdered king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
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"An extraordinary film from a visual and dramatic standpoint, _Elektra_ unfortunately too often plays like a _Cliff's Notes_ version of Euripedes' work (although, in all fairness, I must note that the film is only "based on" the classical play). The essential structure is there: Agamemnon's murder, the banishment of Orestes, Elektra's marriage, the reuniting of the grown children, the double murder. But by clipping away much of the Euripedean dialogue, much depth of characterization is lost. The principles become one-dimensional, with only hints of the complexit..."
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Filmed on location in Mycenae and Argos in 1961.
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Living in exile after their father's death, the children of an usurped and murdered king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.