Alkisti (Eva Samioti) lives with her mother Anna (Maria Apostlakea) in a house on the Athenian Riviera letting out rooms to Greek and foreign tourists. Failed writer Petros and an elder couple the Hatzivasiliou’s are guests.
Alkisti often expresses herself poetically. Alkisti describes the end of the world in literary terms asking her devil to be care friend her opinion receiving the reply if there are beaches and bars there.
In a creative mood I might say the film is a reverse “Summer of 42” where adulthood and sexuality are discovered in a gentle way by Alkisti. The lighthearted and flippant music of the film accentuates its messages are delivered in a non-threatening fashion.
Key to the film, again thinking symbolically, is the small spot of mold growing on the wall in one room of the house increasing in size throughout the film like a sarcoma covering the entire wall by the conclusion of the film is akin to rot devouring the past enveloped in the house until its memories and those of its inhabitants are physically and mentally inhabitable forcing all to leave to a different reality: a good-bye to the present. Alkisti’s house is sold to a Chinese family somewhat like the present-day Greek economy being sold to Chinese investors.
Alkisti moves to a new future to commence her university studies at The University of Athens and even her beloved diseased palm tree Jerry is uprooted by a crane and disposed of.
Directed by Orfeas Peretzis.
RKS 2024 Film Rating 82/100.
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