Director: Pantelis Voulgaris
Cast: Aleka Paizi, Thanassis Vengos, Themis Bazaka, Chryssoula Diavati
Greece, 1991, 108', DCP, color
Greek, French with Turkish, English subtitles
Against the background of Athens in August, deserted by its four million inhabitants and the havoc they create, Pantelis Voulgaris tenderly weaves three different stories about the lonely people who remain in a city now devoid of noise, pollution, traffic jams. An elderly woman who lives alone with memories of the man she loved during the war; forever dreaming of the exotic life he used to lead, a retired seaman who lives with his wife; and a bank employee who receives an erotic phone call from an unknown woman every afternoon at four and becomes obsessed with identifying her. Somewhere in between the heat, the memories, the desires and their deeper loneliness, they search for company, for love, for communication in this film whose music was composed by worldwide known composer Manos Hadjidakis.
The war fought by the Greeks to shake off the Turkish yoke was closely observed around Europe and, this being the era of romanticism, the events taking place around Greece between 1821 and 1832 became a symbol for national liberation struggle.
While Paula Rego belatedly was recognised as one of the leading feminist pioneers of her age, little has been written about her exploration of fluid sexuality. Indeed the current of sado-masochism in her drawings and paintings, has tended to encourage an understanding as a classic clash between the patriarchy and exploited women.
I walk over rocks hot as iron under the September sun. I can make out a few lines in the distance, and a few cracked rocks, but apart from those, not a single tree, not one plant
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