Oedipus orca

IMDb link: 0897431
IMDb rating: 4.9 (385 votes)
Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Director: Michele Placido, Eriprando Visconti
Cast: Gabriele Ferzetti, Rena Niehaus, Carmen Scarpitta and others

Release date: 4 Apr 1977
Release year: 1977
Runtime: 100 minutes
Country: Italy
Keywords: actual animal killed, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, older man younger girl sex, implied sex, animal abuse, bourgeois family, electra complex, daughter tries to seduce mother's lover, incestuous overtones, traumatized girl

Plot:

Alice returns to a gilded cage of resentment following her brutal abduction. The recovery is a hollow performance staged within the sterile halls of her family estate. Tension radiates from her perceived abandonment by parents who value capital over kin. She navigates the physical world with a heavy, haunted presence, her body a site of past trauma and current defiance. Every interaction with her boyfriend or her mother feels like a collision between the woman she was and the survivor she has become.

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