Made up of only twelve very long takes,  Miklós Jancsó’s film transforms a classic myth into a powerful political fable.  Miklós Jancsó’s Electra, My Love (1974) is very much a film of its time, an artistic reaction to Soviet oppression in the years following the 1959 Hungarian revolution. Yet, the film is also a retelling of an ancient story that predates the Soviet Union and Hungary by thousands of years. A stunning amalgamation of ancient myth and modern history, its message is somehow still pertinent today.  The film, itself an adaption of a 1968 play by Làszlò Gyurkò, tells the classic tale of Electra