Pier Paolo Pasolini's disappointing 1970 version of the Greek tragedy.

Pasolini frequently uses those who push themselves to the margins of society to expose our collective and individual weaknesses, and our determination to maintain the image of order.

Only for an art-house audience, but those who want to feel and poetically experience the ancient world might also find this odd film worth watching, at least once.

Pasolini strips the play down to symbolic, almost abstract expressions of scenes and ideas, like the cinema equivalent of hieroglyphics.