Photo: Thanos Anastopoulos's Correction
Yorgos Symeonidis. That is both the name of Correction's main character and the actor who plays him—just one sign of this Greek drama's annoying, some might say marvelous, sense of ambiguity. When Yorgos emerges from prison, audiences don't notice the man so much as the prison bars he walks behind, and when he takes a bus to a day center for former prisoners, a cemetery hangs noticeably in the background, hungry for our attention. Throughout the film, writer-director Thanos Anastopoulos self-consciously thrills in propping Yorgos near gates and spiderwebs, strained poetic expressions of the man's presumably crippling sense of entrapment, but what's the story with Mr. Gloom? Ed Gonzalez
Yorgos Symeonidis. That is both the name of Correction's main character and the actor who plays him—just one sign of this Greek drama's annoying, some might say marvelous, sense of ambiguity. When Yorgos emerges from prison, audiences don't notice the man so much as the prison bars he walks behind, and when he takes a bus to a day center for former prisoners, a cemetery hangs noticeably in the background, hungry for our attention. Throughout the film, writer-director Thanos Anastopoulos self-consciously thrills in propping Yorgos near gates and spiderwebs, strained poetic expressions of the man's presumably crippling sense of entrapment, but what's the story with Mr. Gloom? Ed Gonzalez
