2016 · youth · crisis · olympic
Park
Directed by Sofia Exarchou1h 40m2016
Ten years after the 2004 Olympic Games, a group of boys live among the abandoned sports facilities of the Olympic Village in Athens. The boys stroll among the ruins, setting up games and organizing dog matings to make money. Dimitris and Anna try to escape from the Village and direct themselves towards the tourist hotels of the southern suburbs. As their adventures continue and the two children enter the tourists' lives, Dimitris' desire for acceptance will be tested in a violent way.
Our read: Park (2016) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive youth · crisis · olympic entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme youth / crisis, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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