Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

It was about 10 years ago when I first saw this masterpiece and I really could not believe that greek cinema could offer such a great piece of art to the world. A lot of discussion has been done about Aliki Vougiouklaki and a lot has been written about her acting abilities. But it seems that people often underestimate and tend to forget what a great actress Nonika Galinea has been. A possible explanation is that her antagonism with Aliki led her to extinction. You just have to watch this movie to realize why a lot of us have been magnetized all these years by her performance: Nonika is an extraordinary, marvellous actress that even nowadays has a lot to offer to world cinema and theatre...