From ritual washing in Islam to cleanliness as a virtue in Hinduism. religions frequently place keeping clean at the heart of orderly behaviour, make it central to membership of a civilisation. Nikia Chryssos’ second film, which screened as part of Fantaspoa 2022, is set in a cult based around soap itself, manufacturing it as a means of economic subsistence. it is also a deeply hierarchical environment in which children serve as factory slaves, down in the dark and the dirt, whilst those deemed to have attained a sufficient level of purity lead an idyllic life at the summit of their Mediterranean island (actually Aegina), close to their leader, the man they call Fust.
The divide between clean and unclean is an important one, but other loyalties still exist in this place. The bond between Irina (Greta Bohacek) and her little brother Paul (Claude Heinrich) is strong. When an unexpected discovery...
The divide between clean and unclean is an important one, but other loyalties still exist in this place. The bond between Irina (Greta Bohacek) and her little brother Paul (Claude Heinrich) is strong. When an unexpected discovery...
- 4/24/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Following his acclaimed debut feature “Der Bunker,” Germany’s Nikias Chryssos’ returns to dark fables with a timely tale of a mysterious cult in “A Pure Place.”
The offbeat coming-of-age tale follows two young siblings who live in a secret community on a remote Greek island, isolated from the rest of the world, which they consider impure and dangerous.
Chryssos, who stems from a Greek-German family, describes “A Pure Place” as a “magical, poetic” story inspired by Greek mythology that explores “the contrast between light and darkness, cleanliness and purity.”
In the film, the pristine community on the island is served by child slaves who toil down in the darkness below. The young boy Paul, played by Claude Heinrich, must challenge the obsessive community in order to free his sister Irina (Greta Bohacek) from the nefarious machinations of the cult leader (Sam Louwyck).
Like fairytales that offer allegories of the real world,...
The offbeat coming-of-age tale follows two young siblings who live in a secret community on a remote Greek island, isolated from the rest of the world, which they consider impure and dangerous.
Chryssos, who stems from a Greek-German family, describes “A Pure Place” as a “magical, poetic” story inspired by Greek mythology that explores “the contrast between light and darkness, cleanliness and purity.”
In the film, the pristine community on the island is served by child slaves who toil down in the darkness below. The young boy Paul, played by Claude Heinrich, must challenge the obsessive community in order to free his sister Irina (Greta Bohacek) from the nefarious machinations of the cult leader (Sam Louwyck).
Like fairytales that offer allegories of the real world,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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