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.
Valse Sentimentale
April 3, 2008
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Thanos Samaras
Stamatis
Loukia Michalopoulou
Ilektra
Andreas Kontopoulos
Babis
Alexander Voulgaris
Anestis
Marissa Triantafyllidou
Marie
Constantina Voulgaris
Director
Constantina Voulgaris
Writer
Constantina Voulgaris
Producer
Nikos Nikolettos
Producer
Nikos Veliotis
Music
Kyriaki Tsitsa
Set Decoration
Kyriaki Tsitsa
Costume Design
Dimitris Kasimatis
Cinematography
Kenan Akkawi
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