Medeas

Synopsis: Medeas is a daring and lyrical exploration of alienation and desperation through the intimate observation of a family's inner lives and their relationship to each other and their environment. Without moral judgment, it probes the boundaries of human behavior and the lengths to which people can be driven for love and self-preservation.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Andrea Pallaoro
Production: Vladar Company
  8 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
Year:
2013
97 min
Website
76 Views


1

Everyone get outta the water.

Come on.

Get close to your ma.

Get close.

Come on.

One,

two,

three.

All right.

Forward, hup.

Forward, hup.

Forward.

Hup.

Forward, hup.

Forward, hup.

Forward, hup.

Giddy up.

I'm scrubbing dada.

Okay, come here.

Mama was soaking.

Can you pass the salt?

Pass your sister the salt.

Don't feed the dog.

Keep doing that,

I'll give it away.

Eat your food.

Seventeen, eighteen,

nineteen, twenty.

Here I come.

Found you!

Mama.

What's a S-P-I-G...

Do insects go to heaven?

No.

Only people go to heaven.

Good people.

No one ever knows how bad...

If you're in the middle

of a doubtful day...

It's okay, it's okay.

Come down, come on.

I wanna see!

Michael.

You know how it's been.

Ain't no food

out there for them.

Ain't no rain either.

Can't do it.

I'd like to help you out.

You know I would.

We've gotta do something

about that bill of yours

for the past couple months.

Well.

Been just as tough around here.

He has it!

Move.

It's not it.

No.

Try moving.

Move over a little bit.

Wait.

Get back, like, this way.

Go back.

Yes, right there.

No, I feel it.

If you could take only one,

who would you save?

Dad or Mom?

Mom.

Mom has AIDS.

You have AIDS, too?

No.

I dunno... maybe.

She's gonna die.

When?

Soon.

That's what happens

to people with AIDS.

Jacob, come on!

Come on.

Let's go.

Why are you walking

so slowly, buddy?

And then he landed

on the trampoline,

jumped over the moon,

and landed in a China shoe,

then went back home

to see his friends,

June Bug Head and Hairy Head.

...jumped over the moon,

and landed in a China shoe.

And then he went back home...

To see his friends.

To see his friends...

what were their names?

- June Bug Head and Hairy Head.

- June Bug Head and Hairy Head?

Are you serious?

"I give you Navar the Great,

the last of a renowned family

of fire eaters whose history

goes back

way back to Napoleon's days.

That preliminary there

was just, shall I say,

a warm up, because I want you

to be prepared

to be amazed now

with what Navar will do.

First, he will consume

five cigarettes."

Wait, Dad, no, please.

Just a little bit longer.

Bed, now.

Come on.

Goodnight, Dad.

Goodnight.

Where do you think

you're going like that?

We're not leaving until

you wash that off your face.

Still don't see it.

"Do you know how sweetly

he once said to him..."

What's going on?

What happened?

Dad, no.

Let's go.

Where are you taking him?

- Get up.

- He didn't do anything.

Get in the car.

Come on.

When are you gonna

stop doing that?

Instead of doing that,

should be doing

what you're supposed to.

Fill her up.

Fifty five.

One, perform it on a hill.

Two, make sure you have

a lot of room,

so you don't run into anything.

Three, spin around

in clockwise circles.

Four, yell it while spinning

around in circles.

It should be rhythmical

and fast.

Five, if you're trying

to get rid of rain,

spin in counterclockwise circles

and say your chant backwards.

It works more effectively

in an open field,

and it won't work straight away.

"From waters of the heavens,

to waters of the sea,

bring my will upon me, I cast

this spell so mote it be.

From waters of the heavens,

to waters of the sea,

bring my will upon me, I cast

this spell so mote it be."

Rain!

Dad.

Yeah?

Here, let me see that.

This is supposed to help.

Is it better now?

Yeah, much better.

Mom.

Mom.

Mom.

Stop it, Dad, stop!

Mom, Mom!

What did you do?

Que bonito es estar

hasta arriba

Cuando tienes

bastante dinero

Te resultan resto de amigos

Que te dicen que son

muy sinceros

Pero el dia que

se acaba la plata

Te das cuenta fueron

traicioneros

Hay amigos que

si son sinceros

Pero existen

de todos senores

Son muy pocos los

que se te acerquen

Y que tienen

buenas intenciones

La amistad

de aquellos companeros

Eran flasas

por puro dinero

You look like you wanna dance.

Hay un dicho

que dice la neta

Come on, dance with me.

Te visita si estas

en la carcel

I don't dance, sorry.

Everybody dances.

I don't.

I'm sorry.

So you see

I love you so much

That I don't want

to watch you leave me, baby

Most of all

I just don't

I just don't want

to be free, no

I was just,

I was just

I was just

sittin' here thinkin'

Of your kiss

and your warm embrace, yeah

When the reflection

in the glass

that I held

to my lips now, baby

Yeah yeah

Revealed the tears

that was on my face, yeah

Baby, baby,

I'd rather

I'd rather be blind, boy

Than to see you walk

away from me, child

So you see

I love you so much

That I don't want

to watch you leave me, baby

Most of all,

I just don't

I just don't want

to be free, no

I was just,

I was just

I was just

sittin' here thinkin'

Of your kiss

and your warm embrace

Look at me.

You're my wife.

You're my wife.

You're my wife.

Wanna see something?

Do you wanna touch it?

It doesn't hurt, look.

Dad says it won't

even leave a scar.

Look at mine.

What happened?

I was just chasing a cat and,

just as I was

about to capture it,

fell on a bunch

of broken bottles.

I was a cat in a past life.

So I've got a couple lives left.

I don't wanna go.

You're coming with us,

end of story.

Let me see it.

Put it away.

Don't do that.

Put it away right now.

Now!

When I head on out

For an evening

To stretch out

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Andrea Pallaoro

Andrea Pallaoro (born 6 February 1982) is a film director and screenwriter. His film Medeas premiered at the 70th annual Venice Film Festival. The film investigates alienation and its relationship to intimacy. Pallaoro won Best Director at The Marrakech Film Festival for Medeas. Medeas won the New Voices/New Visions Award at the 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival. Chayse Irvin received the award for best cinematographer's debut for Medeas at Camerimage, the 2013 international film festival of the art of cinematography.His short film Wunderkammer won six international awards and has been selected in the official competition of over fifty film festivals around the world. Medeas marks Pallaoro's feature film directorial debut. Pallaoro holds an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA from Hampshire College. He was born in Trento, Italy and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. In 2013, he was awarded a Yaddo Residency. more…

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