Criminal undercurrents in a sleepy Greek backwater provide the pretext for a disquieting spectacle of strangenessA drumbeat of anxiety and impending violence thuds insistently from this opaque,disquieting spectacle from Greek film-maker Syllas Tzoumerkas – who has previously directed challenging films such as Homeland (2010) and A Blast (2014) and was screenwriter on the excellent male-midlife breakdown satire Suntan (2016).
Tzoumerkas’s movie goes out on a creaking limb of weirdness. It’s a weird, occasionally nearly Lynchian film, and alienated and alienating,interspersed – initially, at any rate – with dream-visions of biblical scenes in the burning sun. Its borderline preposterous narrative may simply be the pretext for its tableau of strangeness and bacchanal of dysfunction.
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Source: theguardian.com