By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Penny Panayotopoulou
Starring: Ioanna Tsirigouli | Stelios Mainas | Yorgos Karayannis
Original language title: Diskoli apocheretismi: O babas mou
Country: germany, greece
Year: 2004
Running time: 113
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329002/combined
Diane says: “Writer/director Penny Panayotopoulou’s 2002 debut hasn’t gotten much of a release, but Ellen and I saw it in
Newburyport. It’s a negative of THE RETURN: in 1969 Athens, a traveling salesman comes home for a few days to a resentful wife and two sons, one sullen and one who idolizes him.
“The younger brother is the focus of the story and will see an acting nom from me. When his father goes away again, he hangs on to the promise that his ‘babas’ will be home to see the moon landing. The boy’s imagination, enlivened by his father’s storytelling, carries him through until he is able to face the truth.
“We were told by the projectionist that a Greek man had come to see it and then came back with his whole family. We wished that he would have given a talk after the movie to express his perspective.
“Great soundtrack and camerawork (another nom). 4 cats”