A Greek child watches adults perform seven years of beautiful disasters.
The world of adults through the eyes of a child: Intrigues, joyous breaks, illusory and conflicting interests, misunderstood pursuit of love, gestures of affection, dull faces, all make up the background of 7 years - the pinnacle of kitsch - captured on an old-fashioned movie poster at the edge of a dirt road in Thriasio Pedio.
Production
That dirt-road movie poster frame is everything.
Costume
Peak 2004 Greek aesthetic — accidentally iconic.
Direction
Makris makes childhood perspective feel like surveillance.
Director
Dimitris Makris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thriasio Pedio was historically Athens' industrial dumping ground; filming there layers class commentary into every frame.
Dimitris Makris cast several non-professionals from the actual village, blurring documentary and fiction.
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