I believe this movie, Edipo Re, to be the worst movie Pasolini ever made. I kind of like his other films, but this one is unbelievable. As already said, the characters speak their lines as if they were on a stage, trying to give it too much of a feeling and effect, making the dialogues and Oedipus' monologues especially, very annoying to me. Sometimes the actors tried too hard and sometimes they seemed as if they were just cold machines with no feelings at all. And the fact, that half of the time someone, but mostly Oedipus is screaming as if they would torture him, was extremely disturbing me. Actually the first time I watched it, I had to stop it somewhere in the half of the movie. I finished it only a bit later. The actors' performances were under my opinion weak. It may surprise you all, but I give it just 2 stars meaning "very weak" and that only because it carries the name Pier Paolo Pasolini. If it would be someone else's movie and if it would be possible on this site I'd give it a straight 0, what would mean "totally dreadful".
Review of Oedipus Rex
