And seeing it through your eyes is as always extremely cool, especially with all the classical layers going on here.

Thank you! At present it is my reigning favorite version of the story, way ahead of everybody since Euripides. And in some ways, ahead of Euripides, too. The requited desire makes it even more of a fireball.

I'm trying to think of other classical stories I have seen with contemporary settings and at the moment, beyond Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950), Marcel Camus' Orfeu Negro (1959), and the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), I am drawing a blank. Pasolini's Edipo re (1967) doesn't count; it opens and closes in the twentieth century, but everything in between is a kind of dreamtime Archaic period. It's an approach I associate more with theater. I will feel really stupid when the rest start coming to mind. I have still never seen a really satisfactory version of The Bacchae, onscreen or off.