A mother has 24 hours to disappear. She chooses vengeance instead.
Medea is expelled from the mining region in the Atacama Desert and is given just one day to disappear. But in that single day, she comes up with a plan for revenge. In order to carry out this plan, which will culminate in her murdering her own son, she invokes her innermost strength, summoning the power of the female gender.
Acting
Millaray Lobos's silent final scenes—devastating restraint
Cinematography
Atacama Desert as barren womb and burial ground
Direction
Moreno's 78-minute crucible, no escape, no mercy
Director
Alejandro Moreno
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Atacama Desert is littered with disappeared bodies from Pinochet's regime—Moreno weaponizes this real geography of state violence against Euripides's domestic tragedy.
By making Medea explicitly 'expelled from the mining region,' Moreno grafts extractive capitalism onto Jason's betrayal—her body and her land both mined dry.
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