Welcome to the fourth annual Greek Film Festival. Greek Cinema Now 2006 offers a gateway to the rich, complex culture of contemporary Greece through its lively and passionate cinema.
Once again the festival's seven-film lineup showcases the range and robustness of recent Greek cinema, with a wide variety of subjects including frantic farce (Woman is a... Tough Person), offbeat cityscape (A Dog's Dream), cross-cultural romance (Alexandria, Liubi), gripping hostage drama (Hostage), and sexually provocative comedy (Honey and the Pig). In addition, the series presents Buzz, a fascinating documentary portrait of Greek American screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides.
Enjoy the festival.
Harry Karahalios, Director
Gene Siskel Film Center The Interparking SELF-PARK, at 20 East Randolph, located between Wabash and State, offers Film Center patrons a discounted parking rate of $14. Patrons are required to show their ticket stub to receive the discount. |
Alexandria dir. Maria Iliou
Saturday, May 20 and Wednesday, May 24 at 8:00 pm
2001, Greece/France/Italy, 35mm, 123 minutes
In Greek, French and Arabic with English subtitles
Starring:
Michele Valley, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Sylvia De Santis
An elegant evocation of a lost world, Iliou's award-winning film centers on a Greek opera singer who journeys with her grown daughter Nina to the Egyptian city of Alexandria that she left under mysterious circumstances in 1956. As flashbacks recreate the city's mythical past, Nina gets her mother to relive her convention-defying love affair with a French novelist, but there may be more to the story than mother has revealed.