122 mins |
Rated
CTC
Luca is an intense method actor with big dreams, barely making ends meet as a mechanic in suburban Athens. Desperate to audition at a prestigious acting school in New York, but without the funds to get there, Luca takes part in a heist, which places him in the orbit of Ilias and his wealthy family, including police detective uncle Vasilis.
Beautifully filmed and performed by some of Greece’s finest artists, with a unique eye for Athens that only an outsider could discover, Melbourne’s award winning short filmmaker and first time feature film director Antonis Tsonis has made a powerful, reflective and suspenseful film that harks back to the French New Wave and Italian Neorealist tradition, but also utterly modern.
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Luca is an intense method actor with big dreams, barely making ends meet as a mechanic in suburban Athens. Desperate to audition at a prestigious acting school in New York, but without the funds to get there, Luca takes part in a heist, which places him in the orbit of Ilias and his wealthy family, including police detective uncle Vasilis.
Beautifully filmed and performed by some of Greece’s finest artists, with a unique eye for Athens that only an outsider could discover, Melbourne’s award winning short filmmaker and first time feature film director Antonis Tsonis has made a powerful, reflective and suspenseful film that harks back to the French New Wave and Italian Neorealist tradition, but also utterly modern.