Valse Sentimentale
Constantina Voulgaris’s first feature film is a delightful anomaly in contemporary cinema, sort of like a Cat Power song. Raw, earnest, melancholy, awkward in parts, razor sharp in others, it's lyrical, yet with an undercutting touch of offbeat humor. And more than anything it's unapologetically a girl's bedroom song, an utterly sincere home movie. Made with the ever-generous currency of a cast and crew of friends, and the ample downtime that Greek summer-in-the-city affords, when everybody else is sunning and hooking up out in the islands, it's a film about two exiles -- in Athens, in summer, in love. A sentimental dance between a girl and a boy who could be stuck in downtown any-ville, yearning to be with each other but too cool to dare, too chicken to admit it, too clumsy not to step on each other's Doc Martens, and too damn sentimental not to surrender, in the end, to that old-fashioned thing called love.
Year: 2008
Studio: Cinegram, Greek Film Centre, ERT
Director: Constantina Voulgaris
Cast: Thanos Samaras, Loukia Michalopoulou, Andreas Kontopoulos, Alexander Voulgaris, Marissa Triantafyllidou
Crew: Constantina Voulgaris (Director), Nikos Veliotis (Music), Constantina Voulgaris (Writer), Constantina Voulgaris (Producer), Kyriaki Tsitsa (Costume Design), Kenan Akkawi (Editor)
Runtime: 109 minutes
Release: Apr 03, 2008
IMDb: 3.00/10 by 3 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Greece
Language: ελληνικά
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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