The Photograph | en présence d'Efthimis Filippou

Cinémathèque @Théâtre des Capucins

Film programmed by Efthimis Filippou, who will also introduce his choice

The Photograph

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I fotografia / La Photo. Grèce-France 1986 | Nikos Papatakis | vostEN | 102’ | digital | Cast : Aris Retsos, Despina Tomazani, Christos Tsangas

►Best Film & Best Screenplay, Thessaloniki Film Festival 1986

Fleeing political turmoil in Greece, Ilias travels to Paris and seeks out Gerasimos, a homesick relative working there as a furrier. A misunderstanding involving a photograph that Ilias has brought with him leads each man into a tangled web of deception and delusion that lays bare their complex relationships to their homeland.

« Nico Papatakis brilliantly dissects the soul of modern Greece in this darkly comic, cuttingly perceptive exile’s tale. » (Criterion)

« A fierce comment on the modern history of the country and the power of the collective imaginary. » (Syros International Film Festival)

Org. Cinémathèque