dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
2009 // 1 hr 37 min // Digital Porjection
Starring: Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou
Marina is an awkward, emotionally stunted 23-year-old who lives with her terminally ill architect father, binges Attenborough documentaries, listens to the proto-punk songs of Suicide, and doesn’t understand sex. With the help of her friend Bella and a mysterious stranger, she embarks on an unusual journey of sexual discovery. The strangest coming-of-age story you’ll ever see!
Greek Weird Wave is a movement that arose in response to Greece’s government-debt crisis that began in 2009 and led to intense tax increases, impoverishment, high unemployment, and more. The Wave draws upon the difficulty and peculiarity of this period by exploring the human experience in surrealist, and often upsetting, ways. Alienated protagonists, minimal dialogue delivered impassively, uncomfortable sexual encounters, and the irrational conveyed rationally occupy films of this movement. They’re bleak, subversive, and definitely WEIRD!