Old schoolmates attend a reunion party, an aviation engineer amongst them takes a trip down memory lane. He reminisces about his childhood and his extraordinary relationship with his cousin Marina. the sweet taste of love’s first kiss in his mouth. He recalls his first kiss and thirty years after that innocent peck on the lips, fate reunites two estranged soulmates. The viewer gets a glimpse of Greek society between 1955 and 1973.
Cast
George Corraface Aggeliki Spiliopoulou Anny Loulou Alexandros Mylonas Zoe Voudouri Nikoletta Vlavianou Tassos Palatzidis
The first feature film of the director Kostas Kapakas, a brief history of Athens in the 1960s, is made with clarity of thought, perfection of European standards in all areas, attention to details (especially of the sets) and relative ease in the development of human relationships. It fits a bit into the “spray, wipe, done” logic to keep everyone satisfied. Mainly the viewers, even the most “difficult” ones. Also, structurally, it somewhat follows the recipe of the equally nostalgic “End of an Era”, which was a great success of Greek cinema in the 1990s.
The 1821 Before and After anniversary exhibition celebrating the bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence was the most important ever organised by the Benaki Museum and the most extensive ever presented on modern Hellenism.
Old schoolmates attend a reunion party, an aviation engineer amongst them takes a trip down memory lane. He reminisces about his childhood and his extraordinary relationship with his cousin Marina. the sweet taste of love’s first kiss in his mouth. He recalls his first kiss and thirty years after that innocent peck on the lips, fate reunites two estranged soulmates. The viewer gets a glimpse of Greek society between 1955 and 1973.
Cast
George Corraface
Aggeliki Spiliopoulou
Anny Loulou
Alexandros Mylonas
Zoe Voudouri
Nikoletta Vlavianou
Tassos Palatzidis
CREDITS
DIRECTOR: Costas Kapakas
SCREENPLAY: Costas Kapakas
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yannis Daskalothanassis
EDITING: Takis Yannopoulos
MUSIC: Panayotis Kalatzopoulos
SET & COSTUMES: Yorgos Georgiou, Alexndra Chorianopoulou, Maria Kontodima
SOUND Marinos Athanassopoulos
REVIEWS
The first feature film of the director Kostas Kapakas, a brief history of Athens in the 1960s, is made with clarity of thought, perfection of European standards in all areas, attention to details (especially of the sets) and relative ease in the development of human relationships. It fits a bit into the “spray, wipe, done” logic to keep everyone satisfied. Mainly the viewers, even the most “difficult” ones. Also, structurally, it somewhat follows the recipe of the equally nostalgic “End of an Era”, which was a great success of Greek cinema in the 1990s.
Yannis Zoumboulakis – TO VIMA