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Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Theophilos" at 7 p.m. A poeticvisualization of the life and work of the famousGreek folk painter Theophilos Jadjimichael, awandering artist who searched all the time for thequintessence of the modern Greek spirit...
...Rembetiko" at 9 p.m. The fictionalizedbiography of a popular Greek singer provides adistinctive look at the events that played animportant role in Greek history in the first partof the twentieth century. "Like Water forChocolate" at 8 and 10 p.m. in Science Center...
...natural reaction tooppression and loss of freedom. With aconsiderable biographical element, the filmnarrates the antics of a group of soldiers who aredoing their military service in a televisionstation belonging to the Armed Forces. Pregnantwith satire and grotesque situations, the film wasone of the biggest popular successes of thecontemporary Greek cinema, after the fall of thecolonies...
...learnsthe art of the furrier. The old emigrant falls inlove with the unknown young girl appearing on apost card sent to llias from Greece. They bothlong to return home-for different reasons-whilecontinuing to live together in Paris, developing anew relationship which turns into a modern versionof an ancient Greek tragedy. The search forFelicity gradually leads to crime and catastrophe,reflecting the inhuman aspect of the politicalstruggle in Greece...
...audience, and the race to keep up does get tiresome towards the latter half of the second act. Fortunately however, Levin, keen to an audience's limited capacity to watch and process a bullet-paced thriller, allows for extensive monologues in which characters, like members of a Greek chorus, meticulously recall events twist for twist...