2013 · province · drama · crisis
Standing Aside, Watching
Directed by Giorgos Servetas1h 38m2013
Antigone returns from Athens to her troubled hometown, determined to keep a low profile. But this is a complex, difficult woman — her name is no coincidence — and her run-ins with the town's brutish men set a dramatic series of events in motion. A moral drama with an edge.
Our read: Standing Aside, Watching (2013) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded province · drama · crisis entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured province / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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