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Black comedy drama starring Makis Papadimitriou and Elli Tringou. A middle-aged doctor rebuilding his life and career on a small Greek island becomes besotted with a beautiful young girl and is drawn into a wild lifestyle with her hedonistic friends.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Argyris Papadimitropoulos's third feature is a Lolita-inspired companion to Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier (2015), which also explored the crisis in Greek masculinity and featured Efthymis (aka Makis) Papadimitriou as a middle-aged schlubb with a shocking lack of self-awareness. This time, the hirsute thesp plays Kostis, a 42-year-old doctor who has fetched up on the small island of Antiparos after an unspecified mishap. But he singularly fails to learn his lesson and becomes besotted with Anna (Elli Tringou), a vivacious blonde half his age, whose carelessly free-spirited signals Kostis consistently misreads. It all leads to a humiliating and somewhat implausible dénouement that raises troubling questions about Papadimitropoulos's depiction of women and the moral message he and co-writer Syllas Tzoumerkas seek to impart to audiences. In keeping with Greece's "Weird Wave" and its penchant for provocation, this is often squirm-inducingly amusing, as the sun cream-coated Kostis strives to keep in with the in-crowd. But while cinematographer Christos Karamanis's contrasts between the sun-kissed seascapes and the tawdry nightclubs remain acute, the tonal shift in the final reel is decidedly resistible.

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6.6/10

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Cast

rolenameKostisMakis PapadimitriouAnnaElli TringouAlinHara KotsaliMilaMilou Van GroesenJasonDimi HartMortenMarcus CollenTakisYannis TsortekisMayorPavlos OrkopoulosTzinaMaria KallimaniOrestisSyllas Tzoumerkas

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rolenameDirectorArgyris Papadimitropoulos

Details

Theatrical distributor

Eureka Entertainment

Released on

2017-04-28

Languages

English | Greek | Turkish

Guidance

Violence, sex scenes, nudity.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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