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 toContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Riviera””
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RKS 2024 Film: “The Sweet Hereafter”
One of the most honoured Canadian films of all time, Atom Egoyan’s “The Sweet Hereafter” (1997) was nominated for 16 Genie Awards and won eight, including best picture, director and actor. It also won three major awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award nominations for adapted screenplay and director. Widely regarded asContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Sweet Hereafter””
RKS Travel: Stop That Continual Currency Comparison!
In a country with a different currency than your home country? Are you continually saying in “my currency” what would that amount to? Well, you aren’t in your country are you? Perhaps a better perspective would be, in most cases, to stop that comparison. Why not think local and act local as isn’t that theContinue reading “RKS Travel: Stop That Continual Currency Comparison!”
RKS 2024 Film: “All You Need is Blood”: A Bloody Interesting Targeted Audience Comedy
I returned two days ago from 10 days at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival where I watched and reviewed 20 movies. Three were Greek films about making a movie about a movie. They weren’t comedies as “All You Need is Blood” which is a movie about making a movie about making a movie. Bucky (LoganContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “All You Need is Blood”: A Bloody Interesting Targeted Audience Comedy”
RKS 2024 Film: Nasty Bad Ass Danes Terrorize Poor Swedes in “Stockholm Bloodbath”
Rest assured “Stockholm Bloodbath” offers the viewer exactly what the title suggests. Hangings, beheadings, burning at the stake, deadly cannonballs, torn limbs and arrows wreaking havoc on the human body and all manner of ghastly terminations of lives. In 1532 Danish King Kristian II (Claes Bang) launches yet another campaign against the head of stateContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Nasty Bad Ass Danes Terrorize Poor Swedes in “Stockholm Bloodbath””
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Fauna”: Corruption Lost in Itself
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 aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Fauna”: Corruption Lost in Itself”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Natatorium”: Supressed Evil Takes a Lunge
Eighteen-year-old Lilja visits grandmother Áóra and grandfather Grimur to be proximate to an audition for an international performance group unable to contact her father Magnus about her stay. How sweet, a stay with granny and grandpa! Kalli, the son of Granny and Grandpa, is bedridden in their home seriously ill. Their daughter Val owner ofContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Natatorium”: Supressed Evil Takes a Lunge”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “The Best of All Worlds”: Portuguese Disaster Movie
In 1775 one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history measuring 8.5-9 on the Richter scale devastated Lisbon. Its centre was in the ocean some 325 kilometres off the coast of the island of Madeira. A tsunami followed. Seismologists predict another similar powerful earthquake in Portugal and the sole question is when. Consider its powerContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “The Best of All Worlds”: Portuguese Disaster Movie”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Giannis in the Cities”: Chilling and Legitimate Child Brutality
“Giannis in the Cities” is a wounding and penetrating journey into “Childcare Cities” established during the Greek Civil War as told through a “survivor” author Yannis Atzakas. There are haunting similarities to the establishment of “residential schools” in Canada amounting to little more than kidnapping of Aboriginal children for purposes of assimilation into colonial correctnessContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Giannis in the Cities”: Chilling and Legitimate Child Brutality”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Meat”: Twice Out of Control and Twice Dead
Takis (Aky Ilaskarazisis) raises sheep in a small Greek village. Takis has a longstanding feud with Kyriakou (Dimitris Xanthopoulos) over land ownership. A situation of two hot heads colliding in a violent verbal spar starting the film with Kyriakou without much community support just being released from three years in prison. Community standards run highContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Meat”: Twice Out of Control and Twice Dead”
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