Actually I watched the movie on Amazon Prime video in the UK. I loved the music and the photography as well as the wonderful Greek locations and drone filming.
I believe the story is so difficult to understand if you are used to regular standards of filming. It's absolutely an independent effort of mixing the ancient Greek status of Mycanaean daily life and a fictional dramatic adventure. The existential messages are shown in the very first beginning of the movie combined with a romantic approach of the two young people. I strongly believe that if that script was in the hands of a multi-million dollars film company it would be a huge success.
I gave a niner because I'm sure about the honest and decent intentions of the director and producer to present something big in a lower budget production which is mostly based in beautiful cinematography and photography, epic orchestral music that sometimes reminds a little bit of medieval times, and the special deep philosophical narration..
As for acting some of the actors are quite decent in their roles and some of them need more work to achieve the demands of the director and the script as well..
I would suggest a remake of this movie because it promotes great values and ethics of the Greek civilization, with the same director and writer Demetrios Katis but this time with the support of a well established multimillion dollar Film production company in the style of Viking TV series or last Kingdom.
The scenario is above everything and deals the existential agony in the most dramatic way. I would definitely buy it if it was written on a book. We mostly know Demetrios Katis as an orchestral composer of epic music but this first effort of his in direction and writing is very well promising considering the difficulties and the independent effort.
From a Chinese who lives in the UK.
