liakoskapa Reviews

The Year of Fury (2020)

Excellent film

[8/10 · 6 March 2024]

The movie was really good. It illustrates successfully the fear and the oppression of the Junta in Uruguay during 1973. These tactics, oppression, violence, torture, kidnapping, were very common in the US-made by force Juntas of that Era, in countries like Greece, Chile, Argentina, but also long-term Juntas like Spanish and Portuguese. Many people were killed, some are still missing, many people were tortured and traumatized forever, many women got raped from the Torturers policemen and the army. The movie reminds us that we should never forget. We should always remember how the right-wing ideology led to this political situation. Every country has its own history, but especially during that period, there were many similarities in politics of these countries. Right-wing fascists led to very tough Dictatorships. A strong political movie, a monument of memory.

From a technical point of view, excellent perspective with the camera, very good photographie and acting.

Poor Things (2023)

The Oscar and the Golden spheres are coming Home

[10/10 · 5 January 2024]

Yorgos has created a masterpiece this time. All the contributors were awesome, from the actors to the costume-designer, from the aesthetic to the direction. A true masterpiece. Congratulations to everyone for this outcome.

The film is really interesting from the beginning till the end. The characters are amazing, Mark Raffalo, Emma Stone, William Dafoe, what a feeling to enjoy these excellent roles. The story is really unique (great book) too. Moreover, the ideas and the values, which this movie presents are very clear and progressive, good thing in general for Hollywood films. Usually somebody can get bored from the deep meaning or the specific concept of a film, but in this film everything seems to bond casually and with harmony. The humour and the grotesque moments and scenes give a light atmosphere to the characters and the movie as a whole.

To sum up Yorgos brings finally something new to the cinema world, something fresh with innovative ideas and important messages. Hollywood just sit down on your couch and learn from somebody that knows how to do it right.

P. S. If somebody didn't like the movie or found it provocative, there is always Aquaman playing on screen, go and enjoy!

Kisses from Athens.

18 (III) (2021)

Good movie!!

[8/10 · 7 April 2023]

Sincerely I cannot understand why the ratings are so low. The movie was pretty good. The movie illustrates some social aspects of greek society, during COVID-19. The protagonists struggle in every day life. Poverty, racism, violence, fascism are some realistic pictures from every day life in Greece during the last decade. A general picture of the social problems, that people experience every day in Athens. The teenagers are not born bad, the conditions make them bad. The point of view of the director is pretty good, the actors are young and play well. Good use of camera, truthful dialogues, well directed sex scenes. In general a good new greek cinema movie. Nice try, well done!!!

Vasy's Odyssey (2020)

Very beautiful

[8/10 · 13 November 2020]

Very beautiful film Mr. Vasys!! It was a small beautiful trip during these hard times in quarantine. Thank you very much!!

Ballad for a Pierced Heart (2020)

Typical wonderful Economides

[8/10 · 8 October 2020]

I hope that you can find a good translation to understand the film... in any case and especially if you are Greek, you will love it!!!

The Last Note (2017)

Cried

[9/10 · 10 February 2020]

I haven't cried so much for a long time!!! Impressive!!

Damnation (2017–2018)

Pretty good!!! Hard times, class struggle!!

[10/10 · 23 September 2019]

Damnation is actually pretty good and in my opinion an underrated serie. The case is something different. The series present the class struggle during 1930s and the moral and ideological principles of the US society. Also illustrate the socioeconomic status of the '30s truthfully and the main contradictions that were crossing the society. The main actors are very good and they play very well. Moreover the plot goes fast and the viewer cannot get bored in general. The fact that the sex-scenes and the love story are not so long helps the viewer not to get tired. The difficulties of the lower classes and their struggle are clear and the contemporary viewer finally stands with the poor and observe their role and situation from an objective point of view.

Cold War (2018)

A critic for a good movie, but "Nothing special"

[6/10 · 26 October 2018]

I must admit that the movie is not bad. The black and white color style creates a romantic and nostalgic atmoshere, during the era of the beginning of the cold war. There are some impressive and well-played scenes (and that is something the director must be praised for, his visual aesthetic), especially in the beginning of the movie, showing the life in Poland after the war and the folkore culture. The perfume and sense of old times and the illustration of another era are so clear. This is the good side of the movie, that reminds us something of the old romantic movies. On the other hand, a movie that could simply be a masterpiece, it just ends to be "nothing special". The main reason is that, although it considers to be a love-film, love is not clearly illustrated. The spectator cannot really understand why their love is so strong, why these people are so stuck to its other. They continue to move all the time and make love and argue, while there is not enough "heaviness" to their relationship. It becomes boring at some point, just to watch people go around and argue and love each other without a reason. In cocnlusion, while I liked the way that the director presents the capitalist world, giving emphasis to the differences between the east and the west ethics and culture, I didn't like the way of presentation of the communist side, because he concentrates only to authority, power, jails and no freedom at all. The movie just left me with a sense, that I was expecting something more.