Film: Curse of Atreus

Future Casting 2000 The Curse of Atreus

FutureCasting2000.com is credited with casting when Sherry Lee and Amy Dematteis booked principal roles with Neo 60 Studios' film, "The Curse of Atreus". See below for more details.

Screen treatment in brief:

The Curse of Atreus is Part I of an experimental noir-trilogy based on the Oresteia by Aesehylus that reexamines the ancient ethos present to Attic tragedy and questions the permanence of moral codes, which the varying demands of existence regularly contend.

Credits (main players):

Sherry Lee plays the psychic/prophetess Cassandra who is concubine to Agamemnon. The story unfolds through her eyes and her narration.

Amy DeMatteis is the ruthless wife Clytemnestra who seduces and kills Agamemnon upon his return from a ten year incarceration.

Jeff St. Clair's Agamemnon is a pitiful slave to his will, who longs to emancipate himself from the psychological grasp of Clytemnestra and effectuate a relationship with Cassandra.

J.M. Magrini (Writer/Director): Much like Pasolini and Cocteau, I too feel an intense kindred passion for Greek myth, art and life. We learn from the Greeks that no escape is possible from the horrifying drama of existence, so one must exult in it and derive inspiration from it. My last experimental film Wild Mother of Passion was screened at over 10 film festivals in the United States, France, Germany and Eastern Europe.

Laura Esther (Producer): She is a former actress (Phaedra in the 1998 theatrical adaptation of the Nikos Kazantakis' novel, At the Palace of Knossos) and freelance photographer who now owns a highly successful portraiture company (Neo 60 Studios) in Chicago, Illinois. In her spare time she enjoys working on independent films as an actress, production assistant and still photographer.

Scenes* from the film, "The Curse of Atreus"

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Amy DeMatteis greets Jeff St. Clair at Stateville (Joliet) Penitentiary.

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Sherry Lee, Tanya and J.M. Magrini prepare to film an interview.

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Sherry Lee has make-up applied by Tanya before divining from tarot cards.

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Amy DeMatteis and Jeff St. Clair (reunion).

*All still photographs taken by Laura Esther