HARD GOODBYES: MY FATHER
The story of a lonely boy, Elias, who makes a pact with his father to watch the moonlanding on television. The year is 1969. The pair loves to recite the stories of Jules Verne, the man who had envisioned the "shot to the moon" a century earlier. Elias and his dad are adventurers and explorers. They spin tales of the imagination that take them far away from their home in Athens, Greece -- to their imagined refuges on islands and in space. They name the blue family car "Birbilo" and turn it into their own spaceship. Elias worships his father. But his father is often away on business trips, and one day, he doesn't come back. The nighttime promise will go unkept. And Elias must rely on their shared love of storytelling to transcend the unimaginable.
Directed by: Penny Panayotopoulou
Starring: Giorgos Karayannis, Ioanna Tsirigouli, Stelios Mainas, Christos Bougiotas, Despo Diamantidou, Christos Stergioglou
Official selection: Toronto, Locarno, Palm Springs, Thessaloniki, San Francisco, Seattle
Country of Origin: Greece
Official Site: www.hardgoodbyes.com
Trailer: http://www.hardgoodbyes.com/trailer.htm
Not rated (108 minutes)
This movie has gone to 40 U.S. cities and will finally get its New York premiere September 16. How well our film does in general also affects how eager U.S. distributors and theatres will be to promote Greek cinema, talent, and the small stories such as this one about a family in 1969 Athens, Greece.
Please go to Village East Cinemas (2nd Ave. and 12th St., Manhattan, 212-529-6799) opening weekend. And please help spread the word about HARD GOODBYES.
Reviews:
"A gifted new Greek filmmaker, Penny Panayotopoulou" -- Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"...a complex charmer that shows us, in images and in behavior as poetic as they are plausible, a bittersweet parable about human adaptibility" -- Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post ("Editor's Pick")
"A tender elegy of childhood's end, this is a luminous, funny and deeply movie" -- Eleanor Ringel-Gillespie, The Atlanta Journal-Constitutiton
"All at once sad and seductive, unsophisticated and acutely mindful, 'Hard Goodbyes' is a welcome departure from the artifice of the melodramatic" -- Stella Papamichael, BBC
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