Twelve-year-old Vassilliakis and it's little wonder since his gruff father Giannis (Nikos Georgakis) is insisting he fires a gun. But in many ways the latest short from Dimitris Moutsiakas is all about how things become loaded for the kill as much as fired.
The writer/director's drama belongs to the school of Greek film that inhabits the damp and cool countryside of Greece rather than the picture postcard beachside image. These spaces are, if the latest young cohort of directors are to be believed, a place where toxic masculinity thrives and is handed down the generations like a treasured heirloom.
The gift for Vassilliakis' birthday also comes loaded. He picks the cutest dog at the pound - in a shot which sees Yiorgos Karvelas' watchful camera sweep along a row of cages. Max is the Greek harehound (or Gekas) of the film's title. Just...
The writer/director's drama belongs to the school of Greek film that inhabits the damp and cool countryside of Greece rather than the picture postcard beachside image. These spaces are, if the latest young cohort of directors are to be believed, a place where toxic masculinity thrives and is handed down the generations like a treasured heirloom.
The gift for Vassilliakis' birthday also comes loaded. He picks the cutest dog at the pound - in a shot which sees Yiorgos Karvelas' watchful camera sweep along a row of cages. Max is the Greek harehound (or Gekas) of the film's title. Just...
- 11/8/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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