Sunday 11 January 2015

Magic Hour (2011) by Costas Kapakas

On Tuesday 20 January at 19:00 and on Wednesday 21 January at 21:00 we will screen in cinema Utopia the comedy Magic Hour (Greece, colour, 2011, 95 min) directed by Costas Kapakas. The film is in the original Greek version with English subtitles. 

Synopsis 


Diomidis and Aristeidis, two men with totally different character bump on each other by chance and they set off to an amusing road trip in the Greek periphery. They are both trying to get over a personal crisis, while philosophising about the dilemmas of life and the current situation.


Here is how Bright Lights Film Journal describes the film:

One film that will surely have people talking is The Magic Hour (2011) by Costas Kapakas. In one of the funniest Greek films to come along in quite a while, The Magic Hour leaves no sacred cow unscathed as it follows the hapless duo of Diomidis (hysterically played by Renos Haralambidis) and Aristidis (Tasos Andoniou) on a Greek road trip with enough misadventures to rival that of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. From outrageous political corruption to racism and the amorality of public officials and citizens alike, Kapakas (who directed the popular Peppermint in 1999) employs gallows humor to peel back several layers of Greek society and in the process expose some fairly substantial rot.