Cast members hugged Tsangari following the premiere, which received a warm reception from the audience.
The film is a loose adaptation of Jim Craces novel of the same name.
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
From left : Director of the 81st Venice International Film Festival, Alberto Barbera, actors Rosy McEwen, Arinze Kene and Frank Dillane, producer Rebecca O’Brien, director Athina Rachel Tsangari, actors Thalissa Teixeira and Caleb Landry Jones, Venice Film FestivalGetty
There are no heroes.
Only imperfect, ordinary folks.
I imagined it as a daguerreotype, or its modern equivalent, a Polaroid being slowly exposed to twilight.
MUBI has U.S. and UK rights; The Match Factory is handling world sales.
