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Panos H. KoutrasOperatőr:
Olympia MytilinaiouSzereplők:
Mina Orfanou, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Argyris Kavidas, Akis Ioannou, Giorgos Mazis, Betty Vakalidou, Nikos Thomas, Konstadinos Aspiotis (több)Tartalmak(1)
After serving 14 years in prison for killing his nephew, Yorgos (Yannis Kokiasmenos) is released and goes to Athens, where he hopes to find the son he hasn’t heard from in years. He spends his first night of freedom in a cheap, downtown Athens hotel. There he meets Strella (Mina Orfanou), a young transsexual who makes her living as a prostitute. Yorgos and Strella end up spending the night together and soon they fall in love. With Strella by his side, Yorgos feels confident that he can mend his broken relationship with his son and make a new start, but it isn’t long before he is confronted with a burden from his past. A post-modern Greek tragedy set in the glowing nights of Athens, A Woman’s Way is a love story that defies all conventions. It questions preconceived ideas and feelings, and stresses the importance of respecting and reconciling oneself with Otherness. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(több)Recenziók (1)
At times, it tries to be a lot of art, until the otherwise well-captured tastelessness of the world of transsexuals becomes an element of style (I mean mainly the idiotic squirrel). From a narrative point of view, it is also sometimes clumsy. But the work with the actors is excellent, the capturing of some of the dialogues in detail is very good, and given how wild an archetypal story the film tells, it is kept at the level of acceptable realism. In the central themes (gender - body - identity) it is reminiscent of some of Almodovar's films, but otherwise a typical "young Greek theme" - a distorted paternal authority. Despite the fact that I don't care much for these trans-things, it's a solid, interesting and emotionally-made film.
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