Plot

Peppered with unblushing advertisements against the backdrop of a new era in early-1980s Greece, Harry Klynn's enthusiastic triptych unfolds, depicting an entire nation's aspirations, desires, and fears before a brave new world.

This film consists of three hilarious parts. In the first one we see a great police detective entering a house to solve a crime and destroying everything and everyone inside it, the second part is a "high quality" melodrama and the third is a bucolic story taking place at a small village somewhere in Greece.—Chris Makrozahopoulos <makzax@hotmail.com>

Peppered with unblushing advertisements against the backdrop of a new era in early-1980s Greece, Harry Klynn's unapologetic and deeply satirical extravaganza is a bittersweet commentary on an entire nation's aspirations, desires, and fears before a brave new world. Intertwining the Greek tradition with a borrowed modernity, and the dated with the novel, a deliciously enthusiastic triptych unfolds, as a sensitive tough prefaces the movie, introducing a maladroit embodiment of Giannis Maris' eternal hero: the intrepid, Detective Bekas. Following, the genuine tear-jerker story of the empathetic intellectual with the thick wallet, Artemis, attempts to shed light on the unbearable existential burdens of the poor and the needy, paving the way for the ludicrously mischievous final act: Golfo and Tasos' pastoral and politically charged love story. Has anything changed after all this time?—Nick Riganas