11/5/2023 0 Comments Friendships secrets and lies![]() Why did you chose Pelion as your location? I have spent several Easters there myself and it is a very familiar place. Others, however, do see the «corpse.» They acknowledge it, and that’s when the real struggle begins. It is lovely to say that there is no problem and to move on. As in the film, some people simply prefer not to see them. ![]() Indifference, routine and egoism are all the symptoms of small deaths that have amassed within us. Are we, for example, willing to give up something that is ours in the pursuit of truth and freedom? Does the dead body have some symbolic significance? We all have to face loss by death at many different points in our lives, and I don’t just mean physical death. Therefore, the question is not whether there are secrets and lies, but how able we are to deal with them. There are successes and celebrations, but also major mishaps. Individual friendships, groups of friends, couples and families are core groups trying to move along together in life. We are exposed to everything life brings us and it is always unpredictable. Nothing can be built in clinical conditions. Is that how friendships are? Constructed on secrets and lies? They are arbitrary constructions that build themselves on anything they can find. The film looks at different groups of friends, all of whom have certain knots they must untie in order to move forward. So I don’t see anything sarcastic about the title. I am more worried about peace and quiet than friction. Contrasts in a relationship are normal, and to me they are a sign that it is still alive. How big a dose of sarcasm is there in the title, «Friends»? Friction, problems and disappointments are inevitable over the course of any relationship, be it erotic or friendly. The film paints a very vivid and cynical mural of modern society as a backdrop to a murder. Goritsas gradually revealed a sense of melancholy over the course of his career, and this is apparent in his latest film, «Friends,» which opened at theaters last week. Goritsas has a knack for turning his lens quickly, with well-honed reflexes, onto the social issues of each period he addresses: The first wave of Albanian migrants coming into Greece after a long journey («From the Snow») the box-office hit «Balkanizater,» which was based on the modern Greek dream of running a scam to hit the jackpot and «Brasileiro,» a comedy about two European Union inspectors arriving at a small Greek village to examine wht their funds have been spent on. Sotiris Goritsas has enjoyed a steady presence in Greek cinema ever since the 1990s, when he made his debut with «From the Snow,» a film that heralded a new era in a local industry that seemed stagnant.
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