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The Spirit of the Beehive
Why this pick
Shares Angelopoulos’s child-centred, dreamlike gaze: a young girl turns an elusive adult world into a landscape of myth, silence and haunting images.
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MOVIE1988 2h 7m GRC
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Like Landscape in the Mist, it follows a child navigating an indifferent urban world, balancing everyday realism with a quietly destabilising sense of freedom.
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Ponette
Why this pick
A deeply attentive portrait of childhood grief, carried by a child’s literal, searching attempt to understand an absence adults cannot repair.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Pubescent Voula (Tania Palaiologou) and her five-year-old brother Alexandros (Michalis Zeke) want to see their father, whom they have never met before. Their mother tells them he lives in Germany and so Voula and Alexandros one day secretly leave their home to find him. They go to the Athens Railway Station and try to use the Germany Express, but are removed from the train for not having a ticket. A police officer takes them to a distant uncle, who convinces the officer that the children do not have a father in Germany. He informs him that their mother lied to them, to prevent them from knowing the truth: that they have different fathers and are simply the results of one-night stands. Although Voula and Alexandros eavesdrop on the conversation, they still believe their mother and believe the uncle is lying. When a blizzard suddenly hits the village and no more attention is paid to them, the children manage to escape.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
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