Review of Electra

Electra (I) (1962)
9/10
Elektra and Iphigenia
26 January 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Possible spoilers if you haven't seen Iphigenia I recently watched the opera Elektra with Birgit Nilsson and nibbling back of my mind was didn't Agamemnon sacrifice his daughter? If so, why would Orestes and Elektra be so hell bent on killing their father when he murdered their sibling? If you had seen Iphigenia, then you would have seen that she was hell bent on revenging her daughter's death. Maybe Orestes and Elektra forgot about their sister, loved their Dad so much they could forgive him for his deed or maybe they were just glad their sister was gone. time to reread the plays.

However, I loved the movies and Irene Papas is a real force of nature.
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