Cinema traffic showed signs of recovery last week, with tickets exceeding 70,000, although the six-time Oscar nominee “The Williams Method” has literally dropped, proving that sports dramas have only crossed the Atlantic. Of the five new films that premiere tonight, the French erotic drama “The Passion”, starring the famous dancer Sergei Polunin, the Greek adult drama “Moon, 66 Questions”, by Jacqueline Lenzou and the romantic light drama “One Day” stand out slightly. in Shanghai “, directed by Vassilis Xiros, which is also the first Greek-Chinese film production, while the violent adventure” The Mediator “, another bad choice of star Liam Neeson and the indifferent children’s animation” Buddy, the Rock Star 2 “are shown. “.
Passion (Passion Simple). Emotional drama, French production of 2020, directed by Daniel Arbid, with Sergei Polunin, Leticia Dos, Caroline Duchess, Silman Dazi and others.
French erotic drama, which when the bodies speak, gains points and loses even more when it tries to get to the core of its subject, sexual obsession and the right of a woman to an unorthodox love.
A film by French-Lebanese Daniel Arbid (“Parisienne”) screened at the official competition section of the Cannes Film Festival, based on the chemistry of the protagonist couple, the rising Leticia Dos, and the famous lead dancer and actor, Sergei. The terrible and “wild” child of the Royal Ballet, who will also be the magnet for the public, as he is considered one of the greatest dancers of the 21st century, despite the reactions caused by his comments about the circuit of classical dance and not only .
Arbid emphasizes the couple’s love affair, but also the sexual addiction caused by the relationship to the divorced mother, having been enchanted by a Russian diplomat, with whom she has nothing in common. On the one hand, the French bourgeois and on the other, the charming young stranger Russian, “who loves American movies and Putin” and will cause her an unprecedented attraction. An addiction and as the heroine confesses, his flight to Russia will leave her with a deprivation, “pain all over her body”. The unexplained erotic passion that will remain largely unexplored with the shallow treatment of Annie Erno’s explosive bestseller of the same name, an autobiographical novel, a study of erotic obsession, that brings to the screen, if nothing else unequal, Arbin .
The expressive and vulnerable Leticia Doss conveys with a special grace her acting talent, while Polunin, who takes his first steps on the set, is just Polunin and that is more than enough for his many fans.
IN A FEW WORDS… A divorced mother finds herself in an addictive love affair with a Russian diplomat, with whom she has nothing in common. The hero is a charming stranger. Life revolves around this man’s face. The day comes when he leaves France forever.
Moon, 66 Questions. Greek drama film, Greek-French production of 2021, directed by Zaklin Lentzou, with Sofia Kokkalis, Lazaros Georgakopoulos, Maria Zorba, Nikita Tsakiroglou and others.
A sympathetic effort by the young and promising Jacqueline Lenzou, in this her first feature film, which competed last year at the Berlin Film Festival, won the Best Film award in Reykjavik and acting awards for the protagonist Sofia Kokkalni in Thessaloniki.
An adult drama that goes one step further and boldly explores the issues of freedom, family, love, the right to choose, but more, as he states at the beginning, a film “about love, movement, flow and the lack of them “.
A statement that gives the stigma of constant contradictions, the problem of alienation and the search for love, through a torturous road, paved with thorns.
The story is that a young girl wants to return to Athens to take care, after years of alienation, of her sick father, a man she knows little about, but when she learns his hidden secret she will get to know him better and truly love him for the first time. .
Jacqueline Lenzou, revealing that she has her own personal cinematic look, clearly with modern influences of European cinema, shows elsewhere the extent of her knowledge of her work, her talent, which can be developed over time and elsewhere demands much more. from the viewer, his complete commitment to something bigger than what he can manage, losing its effectiveness. In short, on the one hand the talent and on the other the well-known pathogenesis (albeit not so obvious) of Greek cinema, the problems in the script and the narrative, the theatricality of the interpretations, the lack of identity and character.
However, Lenzou should be recognized for her courageous gait and her view that the truth, no matter how much it hurts, is the only choice, the only way that can go ahead and its charisma to offer us a disarming unpretentious finale, avoiding a conventional easy choice.
IN A FEW WORDS… After years of distance, Artemis is forced to return to Athens due to her father’s fragile health condition. Faced with a man who is basically unknown to her and an unprecedented and difficult situation, she will try to cope as best she can. When she accidentally discovers her father’s well-hidden secret, everything she ever wanted to ask is answered at once. The puzzle pieces of their relationship will fall into place and she will be able to meet and truly love him for the first time.
A Day in Shanghai (A Day in the Life of a Teddy Bear). Romantic drama, Greek and Chinese production of 2020, directed by Vassilis Xirou, with Dimitris Mothoneos, Tou Hua and others.
The first Greek-Chinese film production directed by the debutant Vassilis Xiros, who conveys his experiences from China and from the generation of Greeks who left to work and live abroad. Something that Xiros knows first hand, as since 2002 he has been working in the diplomatic service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has been the Consul General of Greece in Shanghai for four years, from 2015 to 2019!
It is a light romantic drama, very reminiscent of the successful “Before Dawn”, which unfolds in a 24-hour period and describes the relationship that develops between a Greek architect, who was in Shanghai for work, and a local girl, who has decided to move to Europe. So, wandering around the picturesque parts of the Chinese big city, the two young people try to get close, to understand each other and of course to flirt. No, it is not a simple tourist romance, as there is something deeper, which is the contact of two unknown cultures in a multicultural world, the timeless relationship between men and women, the problems of dysfunctional families and of course the problem of young people leaving Greece. And in addition a commentary on youthful dreams, acrobatic between desire and reality. And as is well known, the reality is harsh, as opposed to the light-hearted treatment of the emerging director.
With the intimate, but relatively colorless, Dimitris Mothoneos and the delicate and hypocritical, Tou Hua.
IN A FEW WORDS Τ Genxi is a violinist and is preparing to move to Vienna to continue her music studies. On the verge of her departure she meets Panos, an architect who has just arrived in Shanghai, and her world is upset. In just one day, their relationship will go up and down to bring them closer to dilemmas that will determine the course of their lives.
The Intermediary (Blacklight). A police adventure, American, Chinese and Australian production of 2022, directed by Mark Williams, with Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Taylor John Smith, Amy, River Lampman, Claire van der Boom and others.
Liam Neeson’s standardization as the protagonist of hollow or mostly dynamic adventures is a choice that will eventually erode his name from what he did at the height of his career – who can forget him in his roles Schindler, Rob Roy or Michael Collins?
Here, in the adventure of the tried, with mediocre results in this genre, Mark Williams, with whom he had collaborated a few years ago in the mediocre thriller “Honest Thief”, Neeson falls even lower. The story, a conspiracy within the FBI that threatens the public interest with executions of innocent people, is not just a reheated recipe full of clichés, as it seems more out of the remnants of the genre, which seeks, among other things, to show off face-to-face and superficially, underestimating the intelligence of even the average American public, the tense climate and contradictions within America, and of course the lone American hero, who will shed light on the case, slapping anyone in the face.
But what brings spontaneous laughter are the performances of the actors, who growl, even go beyond exaggeration, reminiscent of the old cowboys of the 1930s, when they showed their masculinity or the intensity of the scenes with poses with extreme contractions of their mouths…
Really an uncharacteristic construction, you wonder why Liam Neeson had to play and not these muscular guys, who play the actors of the American heroic producers.
IN A FEW WORDS Τ Travis Block operates behind the scenes on behalf of the FBI, whose mission is to intervene to rescue undercover agents from dangerous situations. When he finds himself entangled in the nets of a morbid conspiracy, he begins to wonder where the truth lies. A truth that can shake even its code of honor.
The movie is still showing:
Buddy The Rock Star 2 (Rock Dog 2). The sequel to the amimation musical “Buddy the Rock Star” by the producers of “Clifford, the Red Dog” and director Mark Baldo. Indifferent children’s film, of the well-known digestible messages “” follow your dream “, the value of friendship and authenticity. With the Tibetan dog and his band now great celebrities in their village and open to larger audiences when given During the tour, Buddy and his friends will learn the value of fame and discover that by remaining genuine, they will experience the true power of rock. .
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