Alexis Alexiou - Istoria 52 aka tale 52 (2008)

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Tagline: Sometimes your mind is the most dangerous place to be
plot: Jason meets Penelope at a dinner with mutual friends at his home. Everything begins here. Everything will keep starting from here.
They go out, they get to know each other, and at some point Penelope moves in. He can share everything with her. Even that childhood game of trying to control his dreams.
Until one morning, when Jason wakes up to find that Penelope has disappeared. He doesn’t know where she has gone, or why she left. He can’t remember what has happened.
Are his chronic headaches to blame, or a secret that reaches out from the past and pulls him further and further away from reality?
Jason has to find a way to get his memory and his life back. But something keeps getting in the way.
Is it the childhood game that has returned? Is it some sort of psychological disorder that threatens him? Or perhaps an inexplicable natural phenomenon, a time warp that pulls him in, deeper and deeper?

critics:link (Film Festival Rotterdam)
The disappearance of his recently conquered girlfriend drives the rather shy Iasonas to despair and evokes confusing delusions in his already fragile mental makeup. A psychological thriller without redemption, with an outspoken visual language.

Reality and delusion can no longer be distinguished from each other after seeing different versions of one and the same encounter between two lovers. Right from the start, it is clear that Tale 52 will put the perception of truth of both the protagonist and the viewer to the test. The spherical camerawork brings unsharp focus and fixes the mentally ill Iasonas from high camera angles like a plaything of a higher power. Gradually, this power seems to reside within himself rather than in the reality around him like an increasingly large festering wound that ensures hallucinations and confusing fears, but is that really the case?
With a fungus spreading on the ceiling of his bedroom as a leitmotiv, Iasonas repeatedly lives through his intimate encounter with the beautiful Penelope in a variety of different versions. The woman has been invited by his friends to a dinner organised by himself. They start a relationship and she moves in with him. Then she suddenly disappears. His attempts to reconstruct this moment truthfully turn out to be impossible because of schizophrenic fantasies. Despite his outspoken visual language, Alexis Alexiou leaves the viewer uncertain about the origins of the psychological and emotional suffering of the rather timid looking man. His feature debut turns into a psychological thriller without deliverance.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Alexis Alexiou - Istoria 52 aka tale 52 (2008)

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