Makis Papadimitriou is the actor who gave an important efficiency in what deserves to be a contemporary Greek film basic: Suntan, through which he performed a depressed vacation-resort physician who conceives a Dying-In-Venice obsession with one of many stunning younger sunseekers. So it’s good to see him once more, however it is a very tiresome and pointless shaggy-dog-story-slash-road-movie that provides no compelling cause for its personal existence, and definitely no fascinating or satisfying ending.
Papadimitriou is Antonis, a middle-aged loser who finds himself single with a Hornbyesque vinyl assortment and a sideline in singing with an embarrassing band, alongside along with his mate Christos (Michalis Sarantis). To fight their creeping ennui, our two amigos determine to go on a quest: to trace down the (fictional) 90s softcore VHS porn star referred to as Laura Durand with whom they'd each turn out to be mildly obsessed, as a result of she vanished from the enterprise 20 years in the past, turning into the Greta Garbo of Europe’s grownup leisure scene. And they also go on a quest to search out Laura, with at one stage a bizarre Lynchian diversion into black-and-white, and actually quite a lot of zany and quirky encounters, that are written and directed like children’ TV, and a few hallucinatory visions of Laura through which she seems bisected with video scan strains, as in her tacky erotic films.
In some methods, this jogged my memory of the varied documentaries in regards to the real-life 70s porn star Mary Millington, whose sad life and loss of life created a cultish posthumous fanbase. Nicely, a factual porn star is one factor. However a fictional one who doesn't shed any actual mild on feminine or male sexuality, and who is just not a really fascinating character, is one thing else.
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