Where the film truly shines is in its cinematography and its sound design. I have been lucky enough to visit Athens several times, and this is truly what that city is like during the summer. Many don’t realise just how unfathomably LARGE Athens is but its off-white lowrises cover horizon to horizon, while the many hills in it give the streets a very three-dimensional feel. And when it’s hot the middle of the city does start to feel like you’re in a giant pressurecooker. And that is the feeling we get here: as noon approaches, Haris and Vasilis are in a pressurecooker. Loud background noise is everywhere and a nervous camera seems as hot as the rippling air radiating off of everything.
by Ard Vijn (Twitch), for “Wasted Youth”
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