Seduction and intimacy seem to be desirable and repulsive at the same time in this key work of the Greek Weird Wave as the greyish, emotionless world of a young woman and her dying father is depicted with eccentricity.
A migrant cyborg is sent out into the world to record moving images of random human encounters in Tsangari’s rather prescient if sometimes incoherent debut feature that distils the sense of obliviousness to the new anxieties at the turn of the millennium.
Chen’s third feature, shot in picturesque Greece with Cynthia Erivo, mostly works as a finely-drawn take on an unlikely friendship between a woman who fled her war-torn country and a somewhat passionless tour guide.
Cronenberg’s new sci-fi body horror is packed with fascinating ideas, but the film somewhat falls short in its half-baked attempt to realise them.
The second film of Angelopoulos’ ‘Trilogy of Silence’ sees acting icon Marcello Mastroianni deliver a quiet, wrenching performance that is one of his very best.
Greek arthouse master Angelopoulos serves us one astonishing scene after another in this deliberately-paced elegiac road movie that also works as a powerful time capsule of late 1980s Greece.
Continue reading →A cold if intellectual exercise that experiments with the notion of coping with grief through role-playing, but it doesn’t really push all the right buttons.
Continue reading →This Greek film is frustrating yet fascinating to watch, masquerading as a dark satirical drama that cranks up the horrifying factor to a solid ten.
Eternality Tan 