Greece Letter: Athens has too often adopted a subservient attitude to Europe and the US
Poor Things film director Yorgos Lanthimos: The 'Greek Weird Wave' of films could well represent the economic and social disturbances of his homeland.
This evolution was probably inevitable, since, as Lanthimos puts it, the industry is a “complicated and expensive artform”, which Greece cannot support. But he has not lost the sense of “spontaneity and freedom” with which he made his first outstanding films, Dogtooth, Alpes and Kinetta.Gaza’s unique terrain could trigger fiercest urban warfare ever seen
The same day that the Golden Lion award was announced, Kathimerini newspaper carried an opinion piece by a Greek American, John Mazis, which spoke of “the absence and ineffectiveness of the Greek state”, asking “is Greece a modern European country or is it a failed state?” His question is more far-ranging than the current situation occasioned by natural disasters.
Mazis, a historian, has written eloquently of Ion Dragoumis, the politician assassinated in 1920, who recognised the need for “Westernisation” but warned that Greece should not be obliged to relinquish its eastern characteristics. Subsequent governments seem to have ignored Dragoumis’s warning, concentrating on what has too often been a subservient attitude to Europe and the United States.
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