2014 · road-movie · lgbt · brothers
Xenia
Directed by Panos H. Koutras2h 3m2014
Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.
Our read: Xenia (2014) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive road-movie · lgbt · brothers entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured road-movie / lgbt, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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