Medeas is an intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape. Ennis, a stern, a hard-working dairy farmer struggles to maintain control of his family and surrounding environment, while his wife, Christina, retreats into herself, progressively disconnecting from him and their five children. As tensions increase, each character must confront their own yearnings and anxieties, culminating in a dangerous conflict between control and freedom, intimacy and alienation. A journey into the unpredictable boundaries of human behavior, Medeas explores the desperate lengths people are driven to by love and self-preservation.—Film Italia
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Brían F. O'Byrne, Mary Mouser
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A daring and lyrical exploration of alienation and desperation through the intimate observation of a family's inner lives and their relationship to each other and their environment. Without moral judgment, it probes the boundaries of human behavior and the lengths to which people can be driven for love and self-preservation. Middle aged couple, Ennis and Christine, a deaf-mute woman have five children. He devoted his whole life to his farm and his family, but over time, their relationship began to collapse. She was becoming more and more withdrawn. This led to the fact that she increasingly moved away from her husband and spent less and less time with her children. He tried his best to maintain a relationship, but this will lead to a tragic outcome.