Oedipus Rex
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Oedipus Rex

1993Movie57 min

Music
82
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb8.2
82
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb8.2

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Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together the key scenes of Sophocles’s tragedy translated by the Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin-a language that, according the composer, “is not dead but engraved in stone, and so imposing that it is immune to any popularization”.

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The CreonRare · in 43 titlesThe original was the Trope Namer.A Minor Kidroductionin 924 titlesOne might think that this would be obvious for an Oedipus story, but Sophocles's play basically corresponds to only the second half of this film, when Oedipus starts investigating the mystery after p…All 31 tropes

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