Far too many adults, in far too many rooms, have far too many repetitive conversations about the arcane ins-and-outs of EU policymaking in Costa-Gavras’ maddeningly unfocused “Adults in the Room.” Amounting as much to a hagiography of erstwhile Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis (solidly played by Christos Loulis) as a very long-exposure snapshot of the closed-door 2015 negotiations when Greece attempted to revisit the disastrous terms of its EU debt repayment program, the film is worthily intended, meticulously researched and very dull. “I know you’re tired of this Greek drama — so are we Greeks!” quips Yanis at one point and if the play on “Greek drama” is as close as the movie gets to a bona fide joke, it is also a wild overstatement. Events here barely feel dramatized at all, let alone to the point that anyone kills his father or sleeps with his mother.
Apart from Yanis, whose...
Apart from Yanis, whose...
- 8/31/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The project is based on the memoir by controversial former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
Adults In The Room, the first feature by Greek director Costa-Gavras to shoot in the filmmaker’s homeland, has sparked a row in the press and on social media in the country when it was announced the project will receive €630,000 in state funding via the country’s new cash rebate scheme.
It is being argued by some opposed to the controversial project that it is not the best use of public money in a cash-strapped country like Greece.
The film is based on the memoir Adults...
Adults In The Room, the first feature by Greek director Costa-Gavras to shoot in the filmmaker’s homeland, has sparked a row in the press and on social media in the country when it was announced the project will receive €630,000 in state funding via the country’s new cash rebate scheme.
It is being argued by some opposed to the controversial project that it is not the best use of public money in a cash-strapped country like Greece.
The film is based on the memoir Adults...
- 4/16/2019
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
President Barack Obama has visited more than 50 countries in his eight years in office, and this week he’s taking his final overseas trip as president — a tour of Europe.
Obama has so far spent much of his trip reassuring allies in Europe who are anxious about the unexpected election of Donald Trump and “Brexit,” the British vote to leave the European Union, both of which Obama campaigned against.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the president visited Greece, where he climbed the Acropolis in Athens, toured the Parthenon and met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Obama was the first U.S.
Obama has so far spent much of his trip reassuring allies in Europe who are anxious about the unexpected election of Donald Trump and “Brexit,” the British vote to leave the European Union, both of which Obama campaigned against.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the president visited Greece, where he climbed the Acropolis in Athens, toured the Parthenon and met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Obama was the first U.S.
- 11/18/2016
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
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