‘Gavagai’ Director on Rewriting Euripides for the Film Industry Set
In Ulrich Köhler’s New York Film Festival world premiere “Gavagai,” a filmmaker and her star are taken to task for making a reverse-engineered “Medea” in Senegal. The Euripides play, about a woman who murders her own children as a tribute to the man she loves and is obsessed with, is here recast as a story…