I doubt this will show up online anytime soon -- it's so lightly distributed that when I saw it at a film festival this weekend it was billed as its U.S. premiere. But it's a very interesting movie if you like odd foreign moviesBookish Vassalis (aka Bill) has trouble relating to the men in this life-his emotionally distant father and his older brother, a hot-shot actor who collects women's phone numbers like it's a game. Instead, he dreams of reuniting with the lost women in his life: his mother, who left when he was ten to travel the world; his depressed elementary schoolteacher, whom he wishes he could impress; and Emily, an Irish woman he fell in love with on a fateful New Year's Eve in Berlin. From an early age, he throws himself into writing books, composing music, directing films, and even embroidering satirical messages as ways of expressing his romantic inclinations. While researching a documentary, he meets eleven year-old Snezana, who is reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Ukrainian. Recognizing in her a kindred spirit, Vassalis initiates an unconventional friendship that helps both of them explore their heartbreaks and their whimsical artistic visions.
Writer-director Alexandros Voulgaris, son of award-winning Greek filmmaker Pantelis Voulgaris, also stars in and composed the music for this intimate, offbeat, and lushly romantic film about a young man reluctant to grow up and a little girl he sees himself in. Employing animation, beautiful hand-crafted artwork, and some particularly surreal dream sequences, Voulgaris blends reality with fantasy, the past with the present, to weave together a nonlinear narrative about the regrets and yearning we live with every day.
Especially since the relationship between the 25 year old Greek lead character and an 11 year Ukrainian girl is a unifying theme to what is essentially a movie about his odd life and relationships. No real OT scenes (unless ballet class and swimming count, which they do a little) but I liked it.[Image]
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