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Two faces of love
Omiros
Efstratiadis deserves much success among the cinema’s lovers. We
are sure after seeing third movies, previous of others that we already
reviewed. The Greek director strong of a nearly fifty-year career
gives us another interesting movie, which is between the drama, erotic,
thriller and psychedelia.
A film of 1972 that makes the low-cost its symbol and the length its pride.
Efstratiadis works with a few things, all at your fingertips and puts
them into a storyline with two faces, like the English title
brilliantly explains.
A simple construction with a very linear direction that frequently
focus on morbidity and women’s naked bodies, and tell us the life
of the unsatisfied Eleana.
Married with the rich Giorgios, businessman linked to various
businesses (and for some reason also with the world of football, as
some scenes of the matches of Panathinaikos testify) is an unsatisfied
woman and she is ignored by her husband. The luxury is not enough and
therefore Eleana begins a second life, diametrically opposite. She is a
prostitute and among many customers she met Hristos who falls madly in
love with her.
With a (very slow) dramatic crescendo the two worlds collide and
don’t’ think about her husband who discovers the thing, but
it’s Eleana who suffers leading us in a psychedelic ending is
really an understatement.
The story is very slow and diluted [ninety] minutes which often bore
the viewer. Poor production and sometimes poor ideas . But despite all,
this soft-core film it has something that makes it attractive, and
after all, enjoyable.
Giorgios is played by a great sex symbol of the Greek cinema of the
fifties and sixties, Andreas Barkoulis. And the main women character is
Anna Fonsou actress beloved BT many directors and star of several
commercial and erotic which have made her the forbidden dream of the
Greeks.
