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. |
A Dog's Dream dir. Angelos Frantzis
(To Oneiro tou Skylou)
Saturday, May 6 at 9:00pm and Wednesday, May 10 at 8:00 pm
2005, Greece, 35mm, 88 minutes, In Greek with English subtitles
Starring:
Konstantinos Markoulakis, Peggy Trikalioti
In former Angelopoulos assistant Frantzis's intriguing mixture of cop film, magical realism, and Lynchean odyssey, a man overhears a description of a dream about an unusual robbery, then returns home to find his own apartment mysteriously cleaned out. This is just the first in a series of inexplicable events that occur in Athens that night. A red-headed hooker with apparent magical powers and a policeman with unorthodox methods also figure in Frantzis's enigmatic portrait of the Athenian nightworld.