(O teleftaios gyrismos / Ο Τελευταίος Γυρισμός)
Cyprus 2008. Director: Corinna Avraamidou
Cast: Stavros Louras, Christopher Greco, Maria Kitsou, Popi Avraam, Christodoulos Marta
The debut feature of Cypriot filmmaker Corinna Avraamidou is a compelling drama set on Cyprus in 1974 during the fateful final days before the tumultuous events (a Greek-backed military coup, the subsequent Turkish invasion) that lead to the de facto division of the Mediterranean island. “The conflicted love of Alexandra, a young college student, for two brothers — one an easygoing homebody, the other a radical political activist — signals the larger dilemma of Cyprus in the cataclysmic summer of 1974. Director Avraamidou balances the perfection of this last season on the eve of the island’s violent partition with a family’s ill-concealed unrest. The opening night of an amateur production of Euripides’ The Trojan Women brings the seaside town’s feuding factions together while conflicts in the spheres of love and politics come to a head” (EUFF Chicago). Colour, 35mm, in Greek with English subtitles. 86 mins.
Bulgarian director Andrey Slabakov has invoked Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Fellini’s dreamlike style as reference points for Hindemith, his satirical assault on nouveau-riche values and mindless consumerism. When two very similar families buy identical houses in a prestigious, prefab new neighbourhood, their efforts to maintain friendly relations with each other are undermined by their determination to be different from one another. Because their ideas of “being different” are also identical, the harder they try to assert their distinctiveness, the more alike they become — leading to all-out neighbourly war. Ernestina Shinova, director Slabakov’s wife, has a double role as the wife in both households, each of whom spends her days watching TV commercials and buying the latest products of the ubiquitous Hindemith brand. Deyan Donkov, also in a double role, plays both husbands. Colour, 35mm, in Bulgarian with English subtitles. 100 mins.
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