Ismini is in her early 30s. She is cultivated, delicate, sensitive and... emotionally handicapped. She has developed a simplistic system of defense to protect her emotions: no one is to come near. It is exactly the moment when this collapses that unsophisticated, simple, impolite, aggressive and greatly passionate Haris appears in her life.
Acting
Kavalieratou's micro-expressions of repressed panic
Writing
Sharp dialogue that weaponizes social awkwardness
Director
Christina Ioakeimidi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 2010s Greek 'weird wave' cinema examining economic anxiety through interpersonal chaos, though notably softer than Lanthimos territory.
Director Ioakeimidi reportedly cast Papadimitriou after seeing his ability to make 'aggression feel like confused tenderness'—the film's entire thesis in one casting choice.
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