Anaparastasi

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Audience Member This film portrays multiple reconstructions of a domestic crime in a poverty stricken and dying part of rural post war Greece. For the director, portraying the rock strewn environment of a community in decline is a key message, giving us beautiful if somewhat depressing and repetitive images. This is a setting for the crime and subsequent investigation, which is of limited interest. This true story is not an unusual one in life or films/ literature and the multiple reconstructions, very slow pace and banal setting further rob it of dramatic tension. The reconstructions specifically lead to repetition and perhaps some confusion. Characterisation and scenes are well handled, though again tending to follow expected patterns, perhaps precisely because it is based on court transcripts. Overall, critically acclaimed and visually stunning, but you may find it seems rather longer than it actually is. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member A passion crime shocks the small society of a remote Greek village. The flash-back technique is just brilliant and the film's realism is almost surreal. Excellent soundtrack as well. The Iliad story of Agamemnon and Klytaimnistra, the wife murdering the returning husband with the help of her lover Orestes is transferred to the wreck of post civil-war Greece. Hauntingly brilliant, a really breath-taking film debut by Angelopoulos. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Very grim and depressing, the pain of watching this film is reflected heavily with the pain of the countryside, where supposed modern values clash with the traditional, and yet, it displays how these values are already inherent and when the line is mentioned, ' The cities must start to fear ", it really means that it is human beings and not the village or the city that is flawed. It is a film I'll have to think about, as it does not give an answer b8t displays the human psyche in its raw form for us to look into. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member rashomon in Greece. Ioannina in the 1970s Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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