Boy Eating the Bird's Food - First Reviews

Ακόμη μια επιτυχία για το Ελληνικό σινεμά.  Το «Αγόρι Τρώει το Φαγητό του Πουλιού» κέρδισε ειδική μνεία ερμηνείας για τον πρωταγωνιστή του Γιάννη Παπαδόπουλο στο 47ο Κινηματογραφικό Φεστιβάλ του Κάρλοβι Βάρι, ενώ απέσπασε και εξαιρετικές κριτικές απο ξένα και Ελληνικά κινηματογραφικά sites. Παρακάτω μπορείς να διαβάσεις μερικές απο αυτές.

- Film International: Where there once was a community, now there is a human desert; where there was passion, a livid emotional void reigns undisputed. It would be easier and more reassuring to think of this individualist and fragile film as “generational” or maybe “national”, but its discomforting denial of any prospect epitomizes the collapse of certainty the vast majority of (western) youths are facing. The quiet and fastidious desperation of this film is the clear symptom of a collective malaise, colourful singing birds notwithstanding.

- Fantom film magazine: Best film of the competition, without any hesitation: BOY EATING THE BIRD`S FOOD.

- Martin Suchan: "Boy Eating the Bird's food" and also his cum - another fekal movie (people escaping cinema in waves now).

 - Screendaily: A film that has “festival hit’ written all over it, Ektoras Lygizos’ debut takes the Lanthimos-Tsangari school of symbolic Greek cinema to its Bressonian extreme. Shot with a handheld camera that is never more than a few steps away from the one single character of the film, this obsessive picture, somehow reminiscent in its approach of Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane, is most likely to delight film critics, though can expect precious little outside the art house circuit.

- Andreas Wiseman: Boy Eating the Bird's Food. One of the best films at KV, apparently. Shame about the title.

- Cineuropa: This is a film that communicates in ellipses, giving us only snippets of information as to why ‘The Boy’ is living as he is. Ideas of dignity, masculinity and pride are being played with here, as much talking about the Greek situation as it does the boy’s personal predicament. Much of the loose narrative works, but there are times when you feel the reality of the film straining at the expense of the allegory (in particular during some more melodramatic moments in the narrative).

- Flix: Μινιμαλιστική, απόλυτα λυπημένη, μα και γεμάτη αγάπη, η πρώτη μεγάλου μήκους του Εκτορα Λυγίζου είναι μια άψογα εκτελεσμένη άσκηση σινεμά, που δεν αρκείται στη δεξιοτεχνία. Σε αγγίζει βαθιά, στα έγκατα της καρδιάς σου.