Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

dromasca Although located at the Southern extremity of the European Union, or maybe just because of this, Greece found itself in the last few years at the crossroads of Europe. The economic crisis that hit Europe and the whole world a decade ago was specifically tough on the Greek economy, part due to global factors, part to the accumulation of bad administration and wrong decision in economic policies. For the Greek economy to survive harsh austerity programs were imposed by the EU and the IMF, resulting in salary and pension cuts and especially in loss of jobs for a significant percentage of the work force. On the other side, Greece found itself, together with Italy, being a target destination and entry point in Europe for hundreds of thousands of refugees from war and economic catastrophes in Africa and the Islamic world. The social and economic pressure resulted in high costs for the Greeks families and individuals, in personal crises for people losing or in danger of losing their safety in a world in change. For some of them the refuge was in political extremism. For other in love. This is the background but also the major theme of actor and director Christopher Papakaliatis's film 'Enas Allos Kosmos' or 'Worlds Apart'.The film is based on three stories, which at first seem to have in common only the relationships between three Greeks and three aliens of different origins and statuses. A young student is saved from rape by an illegal Syrian refugee and the inevitable resulting love story is also the opportunity for the girl to be exposed to the realities of the life conditions of the migrants and the life danger they encounter under the threats of fascist hooligans. A mid-age father of a boy has a one-night stand with a beautiful Swedish woman that turns into a longer relationship, just to discover that she is the manager of the restructuring program at his work place that puts his career and the careers of the people under his responsibility under threat. A housewife struggling to meet ends meets a German retiree in front of the supermarket where she cannot afford any longer buying food, starting a moving and discrete love story at the sunset of the lives of the two. None of the three stories can have a happy end in real world, and maybe this is where the film should have concluded. But it did not.The telling of the stories is pretty fluid, in the style of the European (especially French) romantic stories with a social background. Acting is also good, all the six actors are well cast and play their roles with sincerity and emotion. It's the seventh character - the one of the aged and disappointed worker falling into extremism which deserves a special note. The name of the actor was Minas Hatzisavvas and this was his last role on screen, he died soon after the film was completed.The three stories eventually came together, and this is were I believe, the whole structure loses originality, falling into a territory of expected and melodramatic turns of fate. While the whole Greek defiance is running high (we are several times reminded that the world may have invented economic efficiency but the Greeks invented love), this film about the crisis of the Greek individuals and the Greek family cell under pressure of crisis and having a hard time to cope with the relation with other nations in a global world, has a much too conventional American end.

adonis98-743-186503 In modern-day Greece, while socioeconomic turmoil ravages Southern Europe, three distinct stories unfold, each representing a different generation of Greeks in love with a foreigner, each story coming together in the end to form a whole. World's Apart is one of those films that will mostly be remembered here in Greece for a entirely different reason than it's story or it's message but for mostly the big mistake that Studios did with it's release you see here in my Country Greece we get some films early and some others we don't and that was the case of 'The Force Awakens' the 7th installment of Star Wars we got the film a week later rather than a week earlier and that caused panic and anger among many people with fans arguing and screaming at those certain Studios that they will boycott all their movies if Star Wars doesn't come the day of it's original release and of course they failed we got the film a week later and personally i was spoiled with pictures from idiots on the Internet and as you read this review you might think "why the hell do i care?" i'll get to that in a second you see because of the whole Star Wars Drama i hated this film and i never wanted to see it now 2 years later the film was finally released on DVD and i gotta say i was such a fool for criticizing it because personally i freaking loved it from start to finish. The messages that the film sends about immigration and fascism are so freaking true on the time that we live in and it shows that not all people are as bad as we think because of their hair, their color, their god or anything like it. Plus the film is all around 'Love' and how Love brings people closer together and we have 3 terrific stories the first is about Daphne and Farris a young Greek woman and a man from Syria, the 2nd is about a Man who falls in love with a woman who is also from a different Country and the last is about Maria a Greek woman who has problems with her husband and her marriage is falling apart and she suddenly meets Sebastian a German who they practically fall in love. Now let me talk about the performances everyone in this film did a terrific and fantastic job but the biggest star of the movie and the one who steals the show is J.K Simmons who plays Sebastian and has a terrific chemistry with Maria Kavoyianni, Christopher Papakaliatis is also really good in the film both as an actor and as writer and director his shots and direction is really beautiful and touches your heart in a lot of ways than one. The 3rd act of the film combines all 3 stories into 1 and has a very sudden and touching ending that is narrated by the amazing J.K Simmons and i really just wanna say i'm sorry i'm sorry that i did not went to see this film in Theaters and i'm sorry for judging it without seeing it it was a big surprise for me and honestly one of the Best Greek Films i have seen in probably decades or should i say Ever? (A+)

cdcrb spoiler alert. this is a very good movie. however, do not see it if your life is in any kind of turmoil. this is a heavy, heavy film. its three stories dealing with the current economic and political situation in Greece unfold in a very downbeat fashion. this is not pretty woman. I can't really tell you much about the three episodes because of spoiler issues. I can say that if you have been following the news about Greece, you will be fairly familiar with most of what goes on. Greece has been in politically unstable for two thousand years, at least, most recently with the coup of 1967. the economic crisis is more recent, but you should have seen it coming when Greece joined the euro brigade. a balanced budget for a country is tricky business, i.e the USA. the film is almost like a documentary, the acting is great and the proceedings all seem too real. if you are a serious movie buff, this is a must see. however, I emphasize, this is a downer, although if you love movies, you'll like this.

mgardubas A lifeless, pretentious picture that might trick some viewers with its repetitious fake emotional climaxes that, near the end of the movie, when the director clearly became bored of even trying to make the script not seem as ridiculous as it is, seem almost funny. The plot is copied from way better movies such as Magnolia while the script(the message of the movie could be reduced to "people good, politicians bad")and the acting is insultingly bad (JKS obviously just wanted to go for vacation to Greece after getting his Oscar. He isn't even trying to act. he is just smiling all the time.) The soundtrack contains many songs that, while individually every one is a pleasure to listen to, are used improperly. The only aspect of the movie that makes this movie somewhat watchable is the camera-work that is quite good at parts.