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Los Feliz 3 | Q&A with filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari

Part of “Worlds Apart: The Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari,” a retrospective of the Greek director’s films presented by Acropolis Cinema and MUBI and running from April 17 through mid-May at 2220 Arts + Archives, Vidiots and the Los Feliz 3

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  • RELEASED IN: 2015
  • 99 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Athina Rachel Tsangari

ABOUT THE FILM:

In Greek with English subtitles.

Six men set out on the Aegean Sea aboard a yacht, and before long, male bonding and one-upmanship give way to a loosely defined yet hotly contested competition to determine which of them is “the best in general.” As the games and trials grow more elaborate and absurd—everything is up for judgment, from sleeping positions to cholesterol levels to furniture-assembly skills—insecurities emerge and power relations shift. As in her breakthrough ATTENBERG, Athina Rachel Tsangari balances anthropological precision with a wry and wholly original sense of humor. Impeccably staged, crisply photographed and buoyed by eclectic soundtrack choices (Petula Clark, Mark Lanegan), this maritime psychodrama becomes both funnier and richer in its implications as it progresses. What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor-sharp study of human nature itself.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Strand Releasing

COUNTRY: Greece