December 24, 2009
Heavy duty dramatics and a sordid story but it's involving and the acting isn't bad if at times a bit over the top.
Nena Menti,
Yannis Tsimitselis,
Jeannie Papadopoulou,
Akylas Karazisis,
Maria Kavoyianni
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A small Greek community becomes the center of a storm of sexual and financial double-dealing in this adult comedy. Magda (Nena Mendi) and her husband (Alexandros Antonopoulos) are the parents of two a... read more
Directed by: Michalis Reppas, Thanasis Papathanasiou, Thansassis Papathanasiou
Release Date: June 6, 2004
DVD Release Date: March 21, 2006
Stats: 46 reviews
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January 6, 2006
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
November 18, 2005
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
There are moments of amusing melodrama, but for the most part, the action is too preposterous to take seriously, and too serious to be very much fun. Full Review
November 18, 2005
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Toward the end, there's a delightful dream sequence, which shows that director-writers Michalis Reppas and Thanassis Papathanasiou aren't complete hacks. Perhaps they'll do better the next time out.
November 17, 2005
Anita Gates, New York Times
The Greek film Blackmail Boy has the feel of farce at times, but much of the time it just seems determined to shock.
November 15, 2005
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
The hysteria is relentless: shrieking, punching, puking, trigger pulling. Overheard bits of inane party chatter provide the only moments of levity; otherwise the theater of cruelty slogs on with no ca... Full Review
March 1, 2007
David Noh, Film Journal International
Their super-tawdry film becomes as compulsively watchable as it is often inadvertently laughable. Full Review
April 9, 2006
Boyd van Hoeij, european-films.net
Without its soporific asides, Oxygono would have succeeded in creating its own tone of intelligent noir irreverence. Full Review
February 27, 2006
Andy Klein, Los Angeles CityBeat
If only this were a farce, but, no, it's deadly earnest and eventually just deadly.
January 6, 2006
E! Online
The movie crumbles under the weight of its own serious-mindedness. Full Review
January 5, 2006
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
It's a mean-spirited exercise in stilted outrageousness. Full Review
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