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Phaedra(s)

Barbican Theatre, London (****)

© Pascal Victor, Isabelle Huppert as Phaedre

© Pascal Victor, Isabelle Huppert as Phaedre

 

Art house cineastes and followers of European `high art’ will thrill to a combination of cinema ghouls (the shower scene from Psycho), desire (Pasolini’s Teorema) and gore (the stylised lobotomy scene from Graeme Clifford’s Frances). Others may also delight in a spot of necrophilia, incest, fellatio and general debauchery. Ah, I can feel a bout of philistinism coming on… Continue reading