Romain Gavras’s latest drama Athena is the story of Idir, Karim, Abdel and Moktar. Four brothers whose realities change dramatically because of one tragic incident.
Stunningly captured and well-structured storytelling is one phrase that fits here. Athena is clever and socially conscious, to the point where you may wish you could have attended a screening followed by a live Q&A session with Gavras himself.
Starring Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Alexis Manenti, Karim Lasmi and Anthony Bajon, my favourite thing about Athena is the highly engaging way it captures chaos. For me, the camera work, choreography and dialogue combined to deliver a movie as watchable as its highly engaging teaser trailer.
Watch Athena for a moving tragedy that cleverly unfolds while offering plenty to consider, hope for and imagine.
Happy Film Loving,
G
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Saw it yesterday. I made sure to re-watch his Born Free music video for M.I.A first to get me in the zone. 😁
Born Free will diffinitely get you in that zone. Gavras certainly knows what he’s doing, smart man.
Additionally, the amount of rehearsal that must have happened to get everything looking so natural and real…
Exactly. I hear that it took at least three months of rehearsal. Looks super worthwhile to me. 🤓
Ooo, thank you for the recommendation. 😀 I’ll look out for it. 😀
You’re super welcome. It’s actually available to watch on Netflix right now. It was released on Friday September 23rd. Enjoy! 🤓
Oh really? That’s excellent. 😀