San Sebastian — Though he’s been based in Paris since 1955 and came up through the French film industry, director Costa-Gavras has never forgotten his roots.
“Those who are born Greek,” said the Peloponnese-born filmmaker at a Saturday press conference, “stay Greek all their lives.”
The once-and-always Greek was not just in San Sebastian to present his latest film “The Adults in the Room,” a ripped-from-the-financial pages docudrama about one-time Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis; the filmmaker was also due to receive the festival’s Donostia Award, which he will accept at a ceremony on Saturday evening.
And so the conference assumed a fittingly career-spanning scope, as the 86-year-old filmmaker took questions about his filmography, his collaborators and his views on the current geopolitical climate.
“We need a Charlie Chaplin to make a movie about that Brazilian guy,” Gavras replied when asked about the situation in South America, indicating his disdain...
“Those who are born Greek,” said the Peloponnese-born filmmaker at a Saturday press conference, “stay Greek all their lives.”
The once-and-always Greek was not just in San Sebastian to present his latest film “The Adults in the Room,” a ripped-from-the-financial pages docudrama about one-time Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis; the filmmaker was also due to receive the festival’s Donostia Award, which he will accept at a ceremony on Saturday evening.
And so the conference assumed a fittingly career-spanning scope, as the 86-year-old filmmaker took questions about his filmography, his collaborators and his views on the current geopolitical climate.
“We need a Charlie Chaplin to make a movie about that Brazilian guy,” Gavras replied when asked about the situation in South America, indicating his disdain...
- 9/21/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
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
Costra-Gavras will receive the Donostia Award on September 21 Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival French filmmaker Costa-Gavras is to receive a Donostia Award at San Sebastian Film Festival next month.
The Greek-born writer/director, whose films include Z, Capital, Eden Is West and The Axe, was last at the festival when Capital competed for the Golden Shell in 2012.
He will collect the award on September 21 at a gala screening of his latest feature film, Adults In The Room, an adaptation of of the memoir of the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.
The film, which will have its world premiere in Venice - where Costa-Gavras will receive the Glory to the Filmmaker Award - was published after Varoufakis’s brief term of office in 2015, at the height of Greek’s financial crisis. The cast includes Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Josiane Pinson and Valeria Golino.
Adults In The Room Photo:...
The Greek-born writer/director, whose films include Z, Capital, Eden Is West and The Axe, was last at the festival when Capital competed for the Golden Shell in 2012.
He will collect the award on September 21 at a gala screening of his latest feature film, Adults In The Room, an adaptation of of the memoir of the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.
The film, which will have its world premiere in Venice - where Costa-Gavras will receive the Glory to the Filmmaker Award - was published after Varoufakis’s brief term of office in 2015, at the height of Greek’s financial crisis. The cast includes Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Josiane Pinson and Valeria Golino.
Adults In The Room Photo:...
- 8/19/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Acclaimed political filmmaker Costa-Gavras will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award at this year's Venice International Film Festival.
A woke director decades before the term was used, the Greek-born Costa-Gavras is best-known for such politically activist features as 1970's Z, which earned him Oscar nominations for best directing and best adapted screenplay, and Missing, winner of the best adapted screenplay Oscar in 1982.
Costa-Gavras' latest feature, Adults in the Room — a look at the Greek financial crisis — will have its world premiere out of competition in Venice on Aug. 31. Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis and Ulrich Tukur ...
A woke director decades before the term was used, the Greek-born Costa-Gavras is best-known for such politically activist features as 1970's Z, which earned him Oscar nominations for best directing and best adapted screenplay, and Missing, winner of the best adapted screenplay Oscar in 1982.
Costa-Gavras' latest feature, Adults in the Room — a look at the Greek financial crisis — will have its world premiere out of competition in Venice on Aug. 31. Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis and Ulrich Tukur ...
- 8/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Acclaimed political filmmaker Costa-Gavras will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award at this year's Venice International Film Festival.
A woke director decades before the term was used, the Greek-born Costa-Gavras is best-known for such politically activist features as 1970's Z, which earned him Oscar nominations for best directing and best adapted screenplay, and Missing, winner of the best adapted screenplay Oscar in 1982.
Costa-Gavras' latest feature, Adults in the Room — a look at the Greek financial crisis — will have its world premiere out of competition in Venice on Aug. 31. Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis and Ulrich Tukur ...
A woke director decades before the term was used, the Greek-born Costa-Gavras is best-known for such politically activist features as 1970's Z, which earned him Oscar nominations for best directing and best adapted screenplay, and Missing, winner of the best adapted screenplay Oscar in 1982.
Costa-Gavras' latest feature, Adults in the Room — a look at the Greek financial crisis — will have its world premiere out of competition in Venice on Aug. 31. Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis and Ulrich Tukur ...
- 8/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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
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