Embryo Lava Butterfly
Kyros Papavassiliou
- 2023
- Greece, Cyprus
- Drama
- 1h31mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
French premiere
In a world where temporal linearity is subjected to arbitrary changes, a couple tries to stay afloat, between a past lived tomorrow, a future experienced yesterday, the conscience of being and of having been. What’s love got to do with it?
Who hasn’t been haunted by the remnants of his past, mentally reliving the fear of unavoidable coming events? As radical as Lanthimos, as cosmic as Malick, Kyros Papavassiliou draws from these universal terrors a philosophical poem that questions the meaning of life…but not in order. If we know what’s coming, how do we carry on, how can we feel emotions, and retain passion and desire? It’s the heroes of this prodigiously intelligent fable’s permanent challenge to not only invite us into a dialogue with ourselves, but to also drive us gradually to giddiness.
Credits
- With : Makis Papadimitriou, Yiannis Niarros, Stephania Sotiropoulou, Hirstos Sougaris
- Screenplay : Kyros Papavassiliou
- Photography : Thodoros Mihopoulos
- Editing : Giannis Halkadiakis
- Music by : Dimitris Kariofillis, MMMD, Nikos Veliotis
- Production : Marios Piperides, Janine Teerling
