F.L.S.

"A Greek movie with violence,splatter and anime-like look?You must be kidding"!This was my first reaction when I learned about "F.L.S." In the beginning, I thought it would be nothing more than a fan film made by buddies to entertain themselves.After all,it cost only 100 euro! But again,the fact that it competed at the 52th Thessaloniki Film Festival along with all the "serious" and expensive Greek productions of that year was quite reassuring that it couldn't be just a cheap piece of crap.The first reviews were quite good so I waited to watch it in Athens.However,the film never premiered in Athens(until early 2013)and it came out as an independent DVD box set.Since I really wanted to see this,I bought the collector's edition(DVD and comic book).It is clearly a low budget production,but the film is quite aspiring.The vision and the talent are there.What is missing is the money.I can see that what Thanos Tsavlis wanted to do is put together all his influence(or ahem,fantasies?) from anime and Asian films in general and create some short of a live-action anime.But all in all,it was what I expected to see from a descent but (very) low budget DIY film.The comic book that accompanies the collector's edition features the stories of various artists and is also good,being some short of additional background stories or sequel of the original movie. If you like the anime/manga/comics gerne and support such indie projects,then I say that you could possibly enjoy the whole package.