Movie

Antigone/Rites of Passion

★ 7/10 · 1 votes 1990 1h 25m Released

Drama

This first feature by Amy Greenfield brings to the screen the story of the daughter of Oedipus in an emotionally relentless, visually stunning New Music Film Opera which challenges the conventions of narrative cinema to create a genre of its own. The 2500-year-old drama of the woman who defied the state to bury her brother is transformed through stark, ceaseless movement, haunting sounds and music (including themes from Glen Branca, David Van Tieghem, Elliot Sharp and Diamanda Galas) and words of outcry against our own world's injustice.

Cast

Alan Howard Haemon & Polynices (voice) Bertram Ross Oedipus Janet Eilber Ismene A Amy Greenfield Antigone H Henry Montes Polynices S Silvio Facchin Eteocles