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Do It Yourself
Greece 2017
produced by Giorgos Kyriakos, Kostas Lambropoulos, Andreas Tsilifonis, George Kiriakos (executive), Effie Skrobolas (creative) for Viewmaster Films, Central Athens
directed by Dimitris Tsilifonis
starring Konstadinos Aspiotis, Makis Papadimitriou, Mirto Alikaki, Christos Loulis, Argyris Xafis, Panos Koronis, Themis Panou, Aris Antonopoulos, Stephanos Mwange
written by Dimitris Tsilifonis, music by Chris Christodoulou, stunt coordination and choreography by Chris Radanov
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Alkis (Konstadinos Aspiotis), a
small time crook on the run, has agreed to appear in a video in which he
admits to having killed drug kingpin Forkou (Themis Panou) and acquits
corrupt businessman Bezerianos (Christos Loulis) of all crimes because he
has been promised by Bezerianos and his lawyer Ioanna (Mirto Alikaki) to
be smuggled out of the country in return. But after he has shot the video
- in a porn studio no less - he realizes it has been a set-up and pretty
much everybody now wants to get rid of him, be it Forkou (who hasn't even
been killed yet), Forkou's right hand man Daviti (Panos Koronis), who
wants to take over from Forkou and is more than happy to have a scapegoat
for that, Bezerianos and Ioanna, because the less people in the know the
better, or Bezerianos right-hand man Petros (Makis Papadimitriou), who of
course has his own agenda. Now Alkis, while by no means a fighting
machine, is actually rather handy at using all sorts of things to his own
advantage, including the props of the S&M room of the porn studio, but
it becomes more and more apparent that despite all his ingenuity he's
mostly dependent on his own luck to get out of the shit he has ultimately
gotten himself into - but will his luck alone suffice to save him?
Do It Yourself
is, above all else ... pure fun, really: Basically, the film's plot is a
bit hard to follow with a few too many characters of equal importance, but
the plot really takes backseat behind the film's sheer joy of
storytelling, of throwing its protagonist into pretty impossible
situations (that make sense in the film's narrative framework though) and
letting him find a way out of them, and of playing with many a genre
mainstay to rather unexpected results. And all of this is done in a very
light-footed way, with the tongue constantly in cheek but never crossing
over to just being moronic - making this one a real joy to watch!
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
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a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
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all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
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the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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