This is a Greek, Spanish, Dutch, and UK co-production, in English and Spanish (and a little Greek), with a cast from many countries, headed by Willem Dafoe as a Greek tycoon.
It opened theatrically in the USA today, as well as on streaming services. It has already been released in several countries, but did nothing at the box office. The international box was about $100,000. I’m guessing that it cost about ten million to make, but much of that was offset by funding from regional and national film funds, including the Greek Film Center, EKOME (Greece), ERT (Greece), ICEC (Catalunya, Spain), the Netherlands Film Fund, and the U.K. Global Screen Fund.
IMDb: 5.1
Tomato Meter: 45%
The story is set in the late 1970s somewhere in the Mediterranean, where Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for Sofia, his daughter and sole heiress, on his exclusive private island. The party is a perfect excuse for various people in his life to approach him with their own agendas. But Marcos, who is used to ruthlessly controlling everything and everyone around him at whatever cost, is also secretly plotting a big decision on his daughter’s behalf. Sofia, however, has come to share some important news of her own. As guests start pouring in and night falls, the party grows rowdier and more decadent, while the inevitable clash between Marcos and Sofia reaches a heartbreaking climax.
Willem Dafoe, from Appleton, Wisconsin, and Vic Carmen Sonne from Copenhagen, Denmark play the Greek father and daughter. At least they didn’t try to affect Greek accents when speaking English.
Hey, maybe Anthony Quinn was kind of a hammy actor, but at least he was credible as a Greek. Willem Dafoe isn’t even that convincing when he plays an American. I’m pretty sure he really comes from the same distant planet as Anya Taylor-Joy and Pete Davidson.
I couldn’t get into the movie at all, and I can’t imagine why national film societies would subsidize a film that is basically an R-rated episode of Dynasty, with the same 1980s vibe, but the nudity is also at the 1980s level, and that’s better than anything we see in American theaters today.
Vic Carmen Sonne
Maria Pau Pigem
Nata Kas (real name Natalia Zakharova)



















