Director Yelena Popovic (left) talking with actor Alexander Petrov during the filming of Man of God . (Photo credit: Marilena Anastasiado)
“Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” This simple prayer is repeated continuously throughout
Man of God by the film’s title character, Bishop Nektarios (Aris Servetalis), venerated as Saint Nektarios of Aegina in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Man of God, written and directed by Yelena Popovic, is less a traditional biopic than a concentrated focus on the unjust persecutions and humiliations that follow Nektarios as an ascetic priest entirely devoted to the will of God.
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Cecilia Aldarondo immerses us into various regions of Puerto Rico to reflect its history and challenges in Landfall. (Courtesy of the Pacific Film Archive)
This lack of travel has made me quite twitchy. Fortunately, I’ve found a sort-of/not-quite solution making a great escape by watching a flurry of international films.
The California Film Institute and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive are helping out wanderlusters like me, whisking us away from the same-oldness of our homebound lives via their choice offerings.
This week, Pass the Remote hopscotches vicariously to Brazil, Puerto Rico and on over to Greece, Japan and even tours a futuristic Ukraine.
Bridgerton s rape scene exposes the problem with historical romantic fiction and sexual violence
Netflix s glossy adaptation has minimised Daphne s raping of the Duke through forced insemination, feeding into decades of controversy
Non-consensual: an intimate scene between Daphne and the Duke has alarmed viewers
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Until the final 10 minutes of its sixth episode, regency romp Bridgerton clops along much as you would expect. Shonda Rhimes’s libidinous new costume drama for Netflix brims with dishy dukes, doe-eyed debutantes and villainous viscounts. Adapted from Julia Quinn’s bestselling “Regency” saga, it is essentially a racier Downtown Abbey: precisely what Netflix will have bargained for when it signed Grey’s Anatomy creator Rhimes up to a $150 million deal.
Irini Souganidou (left) and Soli Beraha (right)
We met with
Soli Beraha and
Irini Souganidou, Managing Director and Head of Acquisition for Greek distribution company Feelgood Entertainment, to talk about the Greek film market, concentrated in two main cities and dominated by multiplexes. They describe for us their most creative campaigns and tell us about the challenges and consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, since in Greece, until now, there have only been general measures of support.
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Cineuropa: What is Feelgood Entertainmentâs editorial policy?
Soli Beraha
and
Irini Souganidou: We have a portfolio that includes major Hollywood studio movies (we represent Sony and Disney in Greece and Cyprus) and European independent production. We love good films, whether they come from Hollywood or independent studios. We can support the releases of blockbusters and, at the same time, we work on small gems, only screened on