A young Czech theater director has an ambition to adapt Eurypides' Phaedra. However, having affair with the actress, he puts his marriage at risk and the play turns to be a fiasco. Desperate, he tries to be the best possible father and husband. Not a perfect one.
Acting
Mádl's desperate charm keeps you rooting against your better judgment.
Writing
Smart parallel between Phaedra's doomed lust and its modern echo.
Director
Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Almendras, a Chilean director, shot this in Czech with a local cast—Petr's foreignness mirrors the director's own outsider gaze on masculine crisis.
The disastrous stage production glimpses were reportedly shot during an actual dress rehearsal with a real Prague audience's confusion preserved.
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