12th Annual European Union Film Festival
Cyprus
THE LAST HOMECOMING
(O TELEFTAIOS GYRISMOS)
2008, Corinna Avraamidou, Cyprus, 85 min.
With Christopher Greco, Maria Kitsou
The conflicted love of Alexandra, a young college student, for two brothers--one an easygoing homebody, the other a radical political activist--signals the larger dilemma of Cyprus in the cataclysmic summer of 1974. Director Avraamidou balances the perfection of this last season on the eve of the island’s violent partition with a family’s ill-concealed unrest. The opening night of an amateur production of Euripides’ Trojan Women brings the seaside town’s feuding factions together while conflicts in the spheres of love and politics come to a head. In Greek with English subtitles. 35mm print courtesy of Avra Productions. (BS)