Costas Ferris

The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer (imdb)

A 40 year old man has reached a marginal existence. A representative of the French May and the Berkley upheavals, now he cannot connect to anything. He leaves the commune he was living with and goes to the streets. He meets old friends and his ex girl friend. As he feels that nothing can fill up his sould, he stages his theatrical death. (standinatthecrossroads-blackcatbone.blogspot.gr)

Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild's crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby.... (KG)

An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo, German expressionism of the 20s, and the ideologically motivated "cruelty" of a Bunuel come together in this ferocious work of a French theatre collective -- an ambitious, almost completely successful example of visual cinema at its best. (Amos Vogel)