IMPRESSIONS OF A DROWNED MAN (Oi entyposeis enos pnigmenou) (2015) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Kyros Papavassiliou

Written by - Kyros Papavassiliou, Maria Varnakkidou, Philippos Yiannikouris, Giorgos Zois

Starring - Thodoris Pentidis, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Christodoulos Martas

"KOSTAS KARYOTAKIS, regarded as having an attitude towards like at once disenchanted, melancholic and sad, finds himself quite unexplainedly in the midst of the mishmash of modern world, not knowing who he is, or what he is, or where he is. Therefore, he looks at the world as a complete outsider much like he did in his times, at the start of the twentieth century, when he was at the fullest of his somewhat unfulfilled literary career. 

IMPRESSIONS OF A DROWNED MAN by KYROS PAPAVASSILOU is playful take on a remunaration of an artist's works and reincarnation in a modern worls, mixed with modern noir genres. Its style and pace recall some of KAURISMAKI's works, while its occasional flirtations with surraealisms seem influenced by DAVID LYNCH. 

Much attention is given to the pace and to the photography of darkened landscapes and equally as empty city scapes. KARYOTAKIS, portrayed wonderfully and in a collected performance by the puppy eyed THODORIS PENTIDIS, jots casually and yet meaningfully his observations on the things around him, and then draws a line over them as if he didn't mean what he wrote, as if he were too alienated to think or liken himself to the estranged surrounding environment."

Drama, Cyprus/Slovenia/Greece