‘Gavagai’ Review: An Engrossing Meta-Drama About Racial Tensions and Modern Moviemaking

A smart, withheld story about the borders between people, Ulrich Köhler’s self-reflexive “Gavagai” chronicles on-set tensions between the cast and crew of a filmed update of “Medea” and subtle fissures caused by a racist skirmish during its premiere. Its reinterpretation of Euripides’ play has its symbolic limits — intentional and otherwise — but it makes […]