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Prasini thalassa (2020)

Profound, beautiful, melancholic

Loved this film - it is a slice of life far from glossy romantic comedies. The characters are complex and interesting and the plot is curiously realistic even if the premise is odd. I could almost the food, the raki and the cigarettes.

The setting is perfect - the Greece not shown in tourist brochures or on Instagram. I feel I know this place - even the taverna - and the people, with all their quirks.

The two negative reviews say more about the reviewers than the film (the critic of Greece is breathtaking in its arrogance and ignorance and tells you nothing about the film).

Definitely worth watching (though perhaps not if you only like action movies, thrillers or romcoms).