Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special committee of the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commission has been in the hands of the member governments. After two years of investigations, the commission charged that torture and ill treatment of political prisoners amounted to an "administrative practice" that has been "officially tolerated" by Greek government authorities...
...system is the present Greek government, and the adventure is the extrapolation of an incident in Athens, circa 1963. A Spock-like physician-politician (Yves Montand) addresses an antimilitary rally. As he leaves the assembly hall, he is viciously clubbed by hired assassins as a truck simultaneously brushes past him. Three days later, without regaining consciousness, he dies. Officials immediately offer smug condolences about the "regrettable traffic accident." But a few bits of offal stick to the whitewash. A journalist coaxes a witness into a confession; an alibi springs an irreparable leak. The incorruptible public prosecutor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) remains...
Memories of Zapruder. By definition Z is a polemic. The film plainly exaggerates the horrors of the present Greek scene. But it is a po'emic that was created, not just felt, partly by using dialogue that is more like lyrics than speech. According to traditionalist historians, there is no history, only biography. Z reverses the proposition; there are only forces, not men. Accordingly, the leading roles are the sort one would find on a chessboard. In an essentially small part, Montand is again Camus-like, at once involved and lofty. Trintignant, more through skill than script, turns...
...Orleans fantasies. But essentially Z is grinding its ax not for politicians but for politics. Tyranny is always better organized than freedom; beneath the idea of order-in Eastern Europe, says the film, as well as in Greece-truly anarchic forces are loosed upon the world. The Greek letter Z is a symbol for "he still lives." In this case, Z refers to the murdered Deputy. But it is also the spirit of revolt against a stifling government that has banned, in addition to miniskirts, Twain, Chekhov, Beckett, and of course Z. As a work of art, Z can live...
...film, an actor can do something without much physical projection and it can be compelling. On stage this is impossible, and a realization of this means going back to the original Greek idea of the actor's power, which in its turn is based on a certain dimension of ritual...