From The Edge Of The City details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Simela Chartomatsidi, Vasias Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos Giannaris |
| Director: | Constantine Giannaris |
| Genres: | Drama - General, World Cinema - French |
| Studio: | MILLIVRES MULTIMEDIA / LACE |
| Name | Discs | |
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From The Edge Of The City |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 33 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 17 Sep 2001 |
| Main languages: | Russian, Greek |
| Subtitles: | English |
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Disappointing
By a customer from Glasgow, Scotland , 01 Sep 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
The movie is about Russian-Greek street kids living in an immigrant suburb on the edge of Athens. An unseen interviewer asks questions and talks to them about their lives, drug use, etc.
We follow one hustler, Sasha, as he negotiates his way through family life, work and play. Sasha's traditionalist father can't understand his son's slacker lifestyle, but disapproval only strengthens the youth's resolve to rebel. When he isn't turning tricks, Sasha is paid by a pimp to look after his Russian whore, a girl Sasha quickly develops a crush on. Sasha and the rest vehemently deny they're homosexual. They're selling themselves to pay for drugs and material goods. However for some anyway it's more complicated.
The camera clearly loves the young actor playing Sasha, and it's a stylish film. I particularly enjoyed Sasha's dream sequences, from his boyhood in Kazakhstan. There's a political dimension to this film I was too ignorant to understand. Nuances about cultural distinctions between these immigrants (returned to their homeland on the collapse of the USSR) and Greeks meant nothing to me. Both groups appear homophobic, and there's one powerful scene describing the barbaric treatment dealt out to gay people in Russia.
The film was muddled, leaving me dissatisfied and confused about its message. Maybe I'd have been more impressed if I hadn't just seen Mandragora, a Polish film covering similar themes with far greater impact. Rent that one instead.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(18)Not so bad but neither good
By a customer , 11 Aug 2011This is a film about a Greek boy with Russian roots. He lives a boring life in the outskirts of Athens. apparently is some kind of documentary but you can see this is a play especially at the end. this is refreshing because is a Greek film so watch it because of that but don't expect much about it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Disappointing movie
By a customer , 25 May 2011This movie was not 'all that'. Very disappointing. A real waste of time. The whole movie looked like it was done by ammatures! I did not enjoy this movie, a real disappointment.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not bad...
By a customer from OXON , 17 May 2010Filmed as both a documentary/interview and a straightforward film, this piece struggled to assert itself in places. However, the film was quite grim in places as the young charactors tried to get by in modern Greece. Worth a look- Was this review helpful to you?
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The Edge of the World
By Cato (703 reviews) from Lydbury North , 26 Apr 2010I only got through a half of this pretty repulsive garbage. If you like your films full of sexism, homophobia, racism and macho posturing, then this is the one for you.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A little messy and disjointed
By MsLilly (265 reviews) from London , 17 Mar 2009Cute boys who sell their bodies for money but have girlfriends back home who they send the money too, a good insight into life on the streets of Greece, but it just didn't seem to gel together- Was this review helpful to you?
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