Efpsychi (1997)

The details of the young actors face his eyes eyebrows earlobe chin etc are set opposite the old buildings in the market quarter of Athens where every street is named after a classic ancient Greek playwrite In this setting of intense stillness sometimes interrupted by sudden sounds and movements in the streets he speaks a single word teleftea meaning the last one and as he repeats this word it moves differently each time across his face and gains another sense from one scene to the next suggesting the uncanny proximity of eroticism the sacred and chance Robert Beavers