Interruption (2016)

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

"Interruption" is one of the best film I have seen in last years. Disturbing and mind-blowing game with our habits, myths and democracy in modern world is something very rare those days. Between the philosophical aspects of free choices and ancient therms of destiny the director build a film experience, that cannot be confused with any other films. In this sense the film is a little bit like a classical tragedy. It has the same magnificent weird power like Yorgos Lanthimos famous movies, but it take also a different kind of narrative perspective that makes film unique. Georgios Zois has it's own voice in Greek cinema and I think it will get even stronger.

Interruption is a film taking place in a theatre which scenography is an art installation. It's a masterpiece without any doubts. The film atmosphere is constantly built and viewer is getting more and more curious what is going to happen next. The more we watch the more anxious we get. But still we can't look away, because it's such a beautiful film. Cinematography, editing, sound, acting, every aspect of the film is just perfect. Central composition of shots, shots from audience perspective to suggest to viewer that he's in theatre in the film. So even if we leave the cinema, we would do it as part of the audience. To conclude - this film is intermediality and intertextuality piece of art. Every single aspect of it is built in a very specific and aware way. It's a intellectual, audiovisual, meaningful masterpiece, which shows how modern art can connect and develop different media into one brilliant modern work.

One step close to a masterpiece. Brilliant, disturbing, fascinating, multi layered, brain orgasmic, harsh intellectual and at the same time a suspense and agony adventure film, that will blow your heart out. I saw it in Vilnius Film Festival and the whole audience was so passionate in the end, we did not let the director to go out of the room. As one said, this is a film that has to be seen more than once and you have to digest it first in order to speak about it. The film is a haunting virus, it controls your thoughts days after and you are forced to reconsider it again and again.I was left speechless. This film peels questions about the modern spectacle and humanity as a passive mass of peeping toms. It challenges us to think outside the box, outside the cube that is on the stage of the film. Life is a play and we are all part of it we are all guilty and we need the catharsis. There are some wonderful moments, including an awkwardly brilliant dance sequence in the end and the guy going to the toilet when everything around him just gets into chaos.Its raw and provocative, stylish and fearless, thought-provoking and unconventional,dedicated to split the public and find its place in the history of the cinema. Original and a stunning parable of life.The film has many unanswered questions and is open to so different interpretations. The director is to be applauded for being able to genuinely transform theater into cinema. This film still seems to have slipped under the radar of many people, its without question the find of this year for me.Interruption takes us into this world of inverted logic, wicked parts, and our search for identity. It leads us to a place where you can not distinguish truth and lie. Just like life! You can not miss it.

Interruption is about our society and our behavioral patterns as a species. It's about what is really happening. This film demonstrates a universal problem. We are all trapped. It is a film that raises all sorts of questions about the individual and the way he is forced to play a part in and it encapsulates these questions into a deceptively ancient tragedy plot. This film talks about the myths and lies we are told to maintain status quo and the appearance of stability and normality. It forces you to question the oddness and the parameters of your own existence. A life with roles unquestioned and unexplored leads to a stagnant swamp of disorientation. I can get if someone rejects it and does not get into this no mans world, it's not the most easy movie to watch, but I haven't been this pleasantly surprised in a long time. Saw this in the premiere and I believe most of the people there were absorbed by the screen and didn't want to see the film end. Intellectual, emotional, cruel, realistic and beautiful would be the words I would use to describe this picture. At first you don't really understand what's going on or where you're at, but soon find yourself submerged in this theater scene. This is definitely one of the most important indie films of the year; aside from the original and highly meaningful leveled story, the film if impeccably made with astounding performances. The lights in Venice turned on, the credits were running and everyone was quiet and searching for answers in others looks. Its best surprise that I've got in years. It is a hypnotic trip that displays brilliant originality and borderlines pure insanity. In my humble opinion, it is a film that should be watched by every single person, for the experience alone. Sadly, I'm almost certain that this film will never find a wide release, so, please do seek it out!!!