Valse Sentimentale

Valse Sentimentale

Release date : April 3, 2008
Runtime : 1h 49m
Countries of origin : Greece /
Original Language : Greek /
Director : Constantina Voulgaris /
Writers : Constantina Voulgaris /
Production companies : Cinegram / Greek Film Centre / EPT /
April 3, 2008 1h 49m Greece Drama Greek More
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Constantina Voulgaris’s first feature film is a delightful anomaly in contemporary cinema, sort of like a Cat Power song. Raw, earnest, melancholy, awkward in parts, razor sharp in others, it's lyrical, yet with an undercutting touch of offbeat humor. And more than anything it's unapologetically a girl's bedroom song, an utterly sincere home movie. Made with the ever-generous currency of a cast and crew of friends, and the ample downtime that Greek summer-in-the-city affords, when everybody else is sunning and hooking up out in the islands, it's a film about two exiles -- in Athens, in summer, in love. A sentimental dance between a girl and a boy who could be stuck in downtown any-ville, yearning to be with each other but too cool to dare, too chicken to admit it, too clumsy not to step on each other's Doc Martens, and too damn sentimental not to surrender, in the end, to that old-fashioned thing called love.
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  • title:Valse Sentimentale
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 2008
  • Runtime:1h 49m
  • Genres: Drama · Romance ·
  • Countries of origin: Greece ·
  • Original Language: Greek ·
  • Director: Constantina Voulgaris /
  • Writers: Constantina Voulgaris ·
  • Production companies: Cinegram · Greek Film Centre · EPT ·
  • Overview:Constantina Voulgaris’s first feature film is a delightful anomaly in contemporary cinema, sort of like a Cat Power song. Raw, earnest, melancholy, awkward in parts, razor sharp in others, it's lyrical, yet with an undercutting touch of offbeat humor. And more than anything it's unapologetically a girl's bedroom song, an utterly sincere home movie. Made with the ever-generous currency of a cast and crew of friends, and the ample downtime that Greek summer-in-the-city affords, when everybody else is sunning and hooking up out in the islands, it's a film about two exiles -- in Athens, in summer, in love. A sentimental dance between a girl and a boy who could be stuck in downtown any-ville, yearning to be with each other but too cool to dare, too chicken to admit it, too clumsy not to step on each other's Doc Martens, and too damn sentimental not to surrender, in the end, to that old-fashioned thing called love.
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