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The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea

To thávma tis thálassas ton Sargassón

2019

Syllas Tzoumerkas

Angeliki Papoulia, Youla Boudali, Hristos Passalis, Argyris Xafis ...

5.7

42

Drama. Thriller In a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece, two women live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. Elisabeth is a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens ten years ago and now living a joyless, hung-over life; Rita is the quiet, mysterious sister of a lounge singer in the local disco. When a sudden death upsets the town and turns the local community upside-down, the two women who had been ignoring each ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Atmosphere trumps storytelling (...) This is an uneven but always intriguing look at life in rural western Greece"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Its borderline preposterous narrative may simply be the pretext for its tableau of strangeness and bacchanal of dysfunction (...) It’s a film that generates a lot more heat than light (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"[An] atmospheric and sometimes confounding exercise (...) A stylish, many-stranded mystery (...) Overplotting muddles its impact."
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"The obliqueness and the enigmatic theological subtext of 'Miracle' can’t disguise that this is ultimately a small-town nightmare movie of a sort that’s not entirely unfamiliar"
		Vladan Petkovic Cineuropa	"The film has many plus points and features several impressive segments but, in the end, does not fully manage to wrap up its ambitious story."
		Josiah Hughes Exclaim!	"The New Greek Wave of cinema has offered an incredibly fruitful run of films. With The Miracle of Sargasso Sea, however, it's beginning to feel like a genre on autopilot."

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