Lacerate blends elements of realism with a dreamlike, symbolic dimension, portraying the extreme decision of a woman who turns from victim into executioner. In a series of mises-en-scène shot only in natural light, we see a domestic setting overrun by a pack of dogs that roam around restlessly, attacking objects and furniture. The interior of this home is a mental space, violated and lacerated like a body that has undergone violence. Fruit, game, and remnants of food are arranged like still lifes, with allegorical elements evoking the precariousness of life and the loss of innocence.
1863. In a vast and desolate coast, Grand Tour voyagers are seeking Arcadia and the ancient ruins, symbols of an emerging Greek and European identity. More than one century later, the body of an unidentified man lies on the same coast…
В небольшом городке на греческом побережье живут две женщины, мечтая поскорее оттуда уехать. Элизабет переехала десять лет назад и теперь работает местным шефом полиции. Она топит свои амбиции в алкоголе, пребывает в разрушительной связи с женатым мужчиной и все чаще срывает злость на окружающих. Рита — сестра певца, живущая в тени своего знаменитого родственника. Когда внезапная смерть потрясает весь город, именно эти две женщины становятся друг для друга спасением.
During the 80's, in Athens, a nine-year old girl gradually loses touch with her workaholic communist father. She fantasizes that Vladimir Lenin wants to harm him. Things get worse when the American movie maniac Freddy Krueger joins forces with the Russian.
This bitter political satire is based on a theatre play, later made to a movie, of which the current film is a remake.It's main focus is the clientelistic character of Greek politics which makes a well-meaning but naive Health minister to employ an ambitious young provincial with a talent for lying in order to handle the diverse demands of his volatile political clientèle.The provincial becomes the mastermind behind every move of the minister causing the envy of the minister's closest associates and of his good-looking wife, played by rising Greek media star Zeta Makrypoulia. Changes of fortune abound and finally the plot reveals that the lying provincial is not a bad person in heart although he never denounces lying as a survival strategy.
A crime that took place somewhere in the Greek province is covered by the media. Everyone is looking for answers, but the small village community knows that the victim was a father-master who had an affair with his daughter.