In a 2024 Greek film director Stratoula Theodoratou delves into moral and political corruption in Greek society. Corruption respects no boundaries, and it may be those attempting to expose corruption are equally corrupt as those they strive to expose.
Anna, an Athenian photojournalist, when escaping from a violent demonstration, encounters severely demented Lambros eating a slice of pizza from a trash dumpster. She accompanies him to a police station where he is picked by his son Pavlos and his wife Doretta. Lambros grabs Anna by her arm and refuses to let go even when reaching his son and wife’s fashionable Kolonaki flat. Doretta returns to work leaving Anna and Pavlos to await the arrival of a newly hired “Bulgarian” caregiver the replacement for the departed “Georgian”.
As Athens descends into chaos with massive violent riots and civil disorder, we learn Anna and Pavlos were former lovers and throughout the film they attack and counterattack each other over their past relationships and where each headed after they parted their ways. It’s a nasty interpersonal battle punctuated by a sexual encounter and physical violence.
Anna raises details as to the corruption of Pavlos and his political cronies where murder, arson and intimidation are the name of the game. Anna initially portrayed as a clean whistleblower may be no more different than Pavlos.
The message is that corruption runs deep in Greek political, bureaucratic and private sector all animals in the fauna of corruption.
Enormously intense examination of where corruption begins and ends. Is there good and bad corruption. Food for thought. A frightening glimpse at dementia.
Perhaps too intense for most viewers.
You can view the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/embed/tenOpVlFba0
RKS 2024 Film Rating 83/100.
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