Glykia symmoria

Nikolaidi's cinephillia is out of control in this one, brings to mind the classic westerns (Rio Bravo anyone?,or even Assault in Prescinct 13 and Wild Bunch of course). It seems a little dated today, but it hasn't lost it's unique feeling. Nikolaidis is one of a kind

angry and disillusioned, droll and playful, lewd and fetishistic, gorgeous and grotty, a film of almost unfathomable range with a bottomless well of love and pain, somehow attaining a new cinematic ideal i didn't know i needed by drawing a line from peckinpah and rivette to the berliner schule and nocturama (amidst 1000 other reference points)? the NN rabbit hole has something for everyone and everything sparkles from the posters to the website, but this may be his crowning jewel.

Sweet Bunch though definitely quite fun isn't enough so to make up for the really silly writing (why didn't they leave the house on the multiple opportunities to do so? why provoke the group that attacks them before they're actually prepared to defend themselves?). Also it isn't able to support it's long runtime either.