Excursion (1966) poster
1966 · poetic · drama · memory

Excursion

Directed by Takis Kanellopoulos1h 25m1966
ElsewhereIMDb6.9187TMDB7.510
  • sombre
  • slow-burn
  • intimate
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Sombre, slow-burn, measured poetic / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.

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1941 and the war culminates. The wife of a lieutenant and a sergeant fall madly in love. Times and circumstances -military service, marriage, friendship between the two men- forbid this love, but do not negate it. When the lieutenant is injured and taken to hospital, the two lovers, against all odds, dare the only possible way out: he defects, she leaves her husband, and they begin a journey without return towards the border.

Our read · Excursion (1966) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive poetic · drama · memory entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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You want a tragic WWII Greek romance about forbidden love under impossible circumstances.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakensteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want war films with action or happy endings.

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Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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