Syllas Tzoumerkas's The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea is showing February and March, 2020 on Mubi as part of the series Direct from the Berlinale. Above: Youla Boudali as Rita“Bitch Town, You Wrecked Me!”“Bitch town, you wrecked me!” yells failed Euro-pop singer Manolis (Christos Passalis) midway through the film, in his on-stage outburst against his audience of regulars in the small provincial nightclub he sings in night after night.Manolis and everyone else in Sargasso are all the children of this very photogenic swampland of Western Greece, the wildly poor province that surrounds a shitty little town: Missolonghi—relic of the 19th century adored by the Romantics for its inhabitants’ suicidal fight against the Ottomans, and the deathbed of a lord with the name Byron. Bred from this land, or thrown in it for a sufficient amount of time, all characters here are sunk waist-down and stuck in the dark,...
- 2/24/2020
- MUBI
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