The last porn movie – reviews

“… an unconventional film-essay on the implementation of power.”                                                                    Athinorama                                

 “The last porn movie” stands kilometers away from anything we have so far been accustomed to see in Greek cinema, and this in itself is a remarkable achievement… it pushes the limits of conventional cinema towards unexplored territory.”                                                             Cine Art magazine 

“..a shabby atmosphere reigns within this vampiric family, who devours and rejects everything, even their own children. Everything is cold in this perfect measured story; in this script constructed with a precision of a watch mechanism. The Last Porn Movie asks the question of the relation between family and pornography, between pornography and vulgarity, and criminality, and finally, tragedy.”      

MICHELE LEVIEUX, french film critic in Paris daily  l’Humanité and FIPRESCI member        

                                                                                                                                   The void of existence is reflected through the fearful gazes of the heroes and the horror in the coexistence of the five central characters.                                                                         Kathimerini

C. Zapas continues on his solitary course for a raw, ‘unrefined’ cinema.                                                                            Athens Voice 

The illiberality of the human being in a castrating and suffocating environment, where the rain never stops falling, is presented in the movie of Costas Zapas “The last porn movie” which is characterized by a peculiar hardness and disarming realism. Violence, taboo issues, symbolism, paranoia, family consummation with mephistophelic references are presented when the lead young female hero of the movie is being forced by her own father to play the role of  his partner in the last porn movie he is going to shoot.                                                     National Broadcasting Television – ΝΕΤ  

“The most unconventional Greek movie of the year comes direct from the Montreal World Film Festival with provocative intentions. Costas Zapas, director of “Uncut Family” and “one of the protagonists of the contemporary Greek film scene” according to British newspaper The Guardian, is proposing us his new feature The Last Porn Movie overthrowing established norms and ethics. A direct cinematography, almost painful…a modern dark drama, a dive in to the existential agony and the break down of the family – but not only – values, that is supported by an equal explosive cast.”                                    CINEMA magazine 

“37-year old Zapas, who British newspaper The Guardian called the “star of the contemporary Greek film scene”, directs another modern tragedy, daring to break through taboos and look beyond traditional values, with a hard- edged camera that does not aim to please. A devastating testimony of the rise and fall of Greek family values, an existentialist journey where habit and cruelty are only separated by life and death.”                                              
                                                      Athens International Film Festival

~ by Column on March 1, 2007.