Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! / 2005 / Hardcore / Greece 2004
Two teenage Greek hookers fall in love and search for the rainbow together, in a dark, genre-ish universe.
Two teenage hookers meet, fall in love and search for the rainbow in Hardcore, a monster mash of raw ingredients held together by a confident sense of overall tone and compulsively watchable perfs by leads Katerina Tsavalou and newcomer Danai Skiadi. Impressive feature debut by writer-director Dennis Iliadis has enough tease to attract the curious but at heart is a touching, urban fairytale of love and betrayal that just happens to be set in seedy surroundings. From the opening scenes, it’s clear that this is a picture with more than just sex on its brain. At only 17, with a glazed, drug-fueled passivity and masochistic enjoyment of paid sex, Martha is already close to burn-out. Nadia enters the circle of baby-faced hookers and working guys. Nadia, 16 and with attitude to spare, wants to be famous. For her, unlike Martha, the job is only a pit stop.
Derek Elley
100 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Dennis Iliadis
/ Screenplay Dennis Iliadis
/ Dir. of Photography Thymios Bakatakis
/ Music Coti K
/ Editor Giorgos Mavropsaridis
/ Producer Dennis Iliadis
/ Production Greek Film Centre
/ Cast Katerina Tsavalou, Danae Skiadi, Omiros Poulakis, Ioannis Papazissis, Dimitris Lignadis
/ Contact Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center
Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center
1, Kanari & Akadimias str, 10671, Athens
Greece
Phone: +30 214 4106000
E-mail: [email protected]
Dennis Iliadis
Film Director
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