A Close Look at a Relationship Through a Unique Lens

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MOVIE REVIEW
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Genre: Drama
Year Released: 2022
Runtime: 1h 48m
Director(s): Jacqueline Lentzou
Writer(s): Jacqueline Lentzou
Cast: Sofia Kokkali, Lazaros Georgakopoulous
Where To Watch: Premiering via VOD & digital on July 8, 2022

What a unique and beautiful film, led by Sofia Kokkali (Artemis) while she struggles to come to terms with her father's declining health after years of being apart. She must overcome these obstacles and learn who her father truly is before it's too late. Lazaros Georgakopoulos (Paris), who plays Artemis’ father, will emotionally gut you while watching his performance on screen.

Director Jacqueline Lentzou creates an experimental film within the constraints of a traditional feature-length film. The use of different mediums, styles, and overall feel creates a movie that you can recognize and follow but at the same time feels like something you would see at an arthouse film festival. She uses this to an advantage in telling a coming-of-age story, a moment between two people “the project… coming-of-age of a relationship, rather than the one of a person only.”

The film is a personal experience; most of it is between the father (Georgakopoulos) and the daughter (Kokkali); this couldn’t have worked without the chemistry these two built. Their performances fed off each other, ultimately creating the story the director had written down. Inspired partly by the idea of Anne Frank’s diary (the first book Lentzou read) gave the film its basis, it evolved from there. We see the story unfold in a non-traditional way and, in doing so, are allowed to examine the moments of the film from a different perspective. This allowed a deeper dive, not having to follow the traditional set of rules of a typical narrative format.

While I traditionally don’t like “artsy” movies, it’s usually because I feel like they try to be that way just because they can. Thankfully this isn’t the case here; sure, the style is all over the place, but it’s done so with a feeling of importance, a feeling of necessity that helps tell the story and move it along.

I use the Academy Awards each year as a grounding point, something I can use to set the bar. It was only within this last year that I realized just how narrow that perspective is. I’ve given out more 3.5+ star reviews this year than ever before, mainly because I’ve got to experiment with a larger window into cinema—a worldview instead of being constrained to what I’ve been given at local theaters.

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