From the Edge of the City: Amazon.ca: Stathis Papadopoulos, Costas Kotsianidis, Panayiotis Hartomatzidis, Dimitris Papoulidis, Theodora Tzimou, Anestis Polychronidis, Nikos Kamontos, Stelios Tsemboglidis, Giorgos Mavridis, Panagiota Vlachosotirou, Silvia Venizelea, Emilios Chilakis, Yorgos Argiroiliopoulos, Constantine Giannaris, Ioanna Spiliopoulou, Anastasios Vasiliou, Dionysis Samiotis, Maria Powell: DVD

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5.0 out of 5 stars The actors had no prior acting experience:Realism 100%, Sep 8 2002

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This review is from: From the Edge of the City (DVD)

A very best film by Giannaris that explores an ethic Greex-x(can) minority in Athens. The film win many awards and it is perceived one of the best experimentak films of 1999. A powerful, raw film about a group of outcast teenagers living in Menidi, a predominately Greek-Russian suburb near Athens, Greece. I saw that film in LA and I was suprised. This is want I really like. It has the elements of action, love, crime and mixed traditions. 100% u have to watch!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Greek Salad with Russian Dressing, Sep 4 2002

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Gather a cast of 8 or 10 fairly good looking people who speak Greek and (poor) Russian put them in front of a camera...Don't even try to solicit a decent acting performance out of any of them but give them each some unrelated dialogue to speak...add a bunch of drug scenes, some greek instrumental and house rock music, add some kick boxing scenes and some "flashback effect" scenes of a bunch of kids in a field...
Then cut up everything you film...toss it up in the air... and splice it together randomly...
You would probably get a better film than this!

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2.0 out of 5 stars An alternative viewpoint..., Aug 25 2002

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"michael_in_spain" (Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews

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OK, so this movie tackles some important issues, and not on the glossy streets of LA, Sydney or London - but on the grimey streets of Athina. Still, this movie is lacking in a lot of things. It appears that they have settled for any guy who was capable of speaking Russian and Greek who had a good body and was willing to play a 'queer'. (I might add here his Russian was awful - though I know not of his proficiency in Greek) His acting scenes were horrid! - especially when Sasha had to talk to camera in his 'interviews!'

Even so the film had a great concept, some (I mean some) great camera work, but the movie never takes hold, and just never kicks off the ground. A good attempt by the director, but they should have had a few more goes before releasing internationally.

As always, best to get it yourself and make up your own mind. However if you are after light-hearted time (it never claims to be), after a perve, or after an extremely memorable experience: go do the dishes instead. On the other hand: if you want to just 'watch a movie' well hey why not? :)

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