Thursday, 16 October at 20:30
With regard to this atmospheric cinematic transfiguration of the Euripidean tragedy, Aglaia Mitropoulou emphasizes in her classic book “Greek Cinema”: “…With ‘Electra’, Cacoyannis literally creates a Greek tragedienne of cinema. He takes Irene Papas, with the rugged features of a modern village girl, and with his art and passion breathes into her the spirit of the indomitable quest for revenge, the spirit of administering justice by any means, of punishing crime. But Papas does not portray all of these theatrically, with the art of acting. She discovers them within herself, as they flow together with the blood in her veins. She breathes them in the magical air of the Greek space and sees them with that double vision of people who have inherited a vision of the world with passion.
