Director: Pantelis Voulgaris
Cast: Aleka Paizi, Thanassis Vengos, Themis Bazaka, Chryssoula Diavati
Greece, 1991, 108', DCP, color
Greek, French with Turkish, English subtitles
Against the background of Athens in August, deserted by its four million inhabitants and the havoc they create, Pantelis Voulgaris tenderly weaves three different stories about the lonely people who remain in a city now devoid of noise, pollution, traffic jams. An elderly woman who lives alone with memories of the man she loved during the war; forever dreaming of the exotic life he used to lead, a retired seaman who lives with his wife; and a bank employee who receives an erotic phone call from an unknown woman every afternoon at four and becomes obsessed with identifying her. Somewhere in between the heat, the memories, the desires and their deeper loneliness, they search for company, for love, for communication in this film whose music was composed by worldwide known composer Manos Hadjidakis.
Coffee was served with much splendor at the harems of the Ottoman palace and mansions. First, sweets (usually jam) was served on silverware, followed by coffee serving. The coffee jug would be placed in a sitil (brazier), which had three chains on its sides for carrying, had cinders in the middle, and was made of tombac, silver or brass. The sitil had a satin or silk cover embroidered with silver thread, tinsel, sequin or even pearls and diamonds.
1638, the year Louis XIV was born –his second name, Dieudonné, alluding to his God-given status– saw the diffusion of a cult of maternity encouraged by the very devout Anne of Austria, in thanks for the miracle by which she had given birth to an heir to the French throne. Simon François de Tours (1606-1671) painted the Queen in the guise of the Virgin Mary, and the young Louis XIV as the infant Jesus, in the allegorical portrait now in the Bishop’s Palace at Sens.
The various states of viewing nudity entered the Ottoman world on postcards before paintings. These postcards appeared in the 1890s, and became widespread in the 1910s, following the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy, traveling from hand to hand, city to city.
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