Brando with a Glass Eye
[Plays 1/20 at 9:35 p.m. and 1/24 at 6:45 p.m. at the Yarrow Theater A in Park City during the 30th Slamdance Film Festival that runs Jan. 19-25; for more information, log on to https://slamdance.com.] After an aspiring Greek actor (Yiannis Niarros), who works as a mechanic, is offered a method acting scholarship at the Method Studio in New York City and then robs a bank in Athens with his brother (Kostas Nikoulis) to get money for the trip that goes awry when an innocent, depressed, piano-playing bystander (Alexandros Chrysanthopoulos) is shot in Antonis Tsonis' intriguing, realistic, well-acted, multifaceted, thought-provoking, unpredictable, 122-minute film, he ends up befriending the victim, who lives at the home of his detective uncle (Giannis Tsortekis) who married his wealthy mother (Chara Mata Giannatou), as he tries to forgive himself and to rectify his guilt while the friendship and his life take a darker turn.
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