Greek cinema found international attention in the early 1960s, with films like Never on Sunday putting the country on the world map, and later blossomed again through the celebrated 'Greek Weird Wave' of directors like Yorgos Lanthimos. That tradition of deadpan, unsettling storytelling has made Greek film a favourite on the festival circuit. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.5★
Before Yorgos Lanthimos became an awards-season fixture with the likes of The Favourite and Poor Things, he made this, and what strikes you immediately is how fully formed his sensibility already was. The flat, deadpan strangeness, the refusal to wink at the audience, the sense that horror and absurdity
Rating: 3.0★
There's a specific kind of patience required to sit through a truly slow-burning character study, and Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's Bulgarian drama The Lesson certainly tests it. But honestly, the deliberate pacing isn't the film's biggest flaw. The real tension
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Where do you even begin? That's the question I kept asking myself as the credits rolled on All That's Left of You, and I still don't have a clean answer. What I do have is the feeling of something sitting heavy in my chest,
Genre Comedy
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Genre Comedy
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