Reviews

The movie stories the Greek culture from 1930-1960. It tries to illustrate the years when the Rebetico music style was born. It follows the lives of four different people (Antonis, Mitsos, Baggelis, Thanasis) who initially created a group and became known. Throughout the series popular songs of old composers (Vamvakaris, Tsitsanis, Papaioanou, etc.) are heard. The movie describes very well the Piraeus and Athens of 1930. The only disadvantage is that the story has many gaps it covers 50 years in 26 episodes. Also, you never tend to see what really happens. You never see how the heroes die, you only hear for their death. If this series was created in these years it could easily cover 2-3 seasons. Overall it is a series worth watching.

The movie starts with the background of the hero and that was the interesting part of the movie. Soon after the movie attempts to describe the 'scent' of the movie through a flood of images. That's when the story started to be boring and the film started running out of time. The obsession of the character to create the perfect scent starts when he smells the scent of a woman. The plot started to be interesting from the point that the main character had no scent of his own. Well I said that is it now the film can only be better but I was wrong. If someone seeks the answer of 'what a combination of a scent of 12 beautiful women can do', must watch this movie. I must admit that the exaggeration of the movie spoilt any good will of judging the movie with an open mind. The film is listed under thriller genre. I would say that the whole thriller action was spent on the 4 minutes memoir of the killing of 11 women, the reaction of the public, the terror spread in the town, the incapability of the police to solve the mystery, the strategy of the town to catch the killer, the part of the church in the whole story, the pain of a father losing a daughter and the so close incident of losing the second. Really catching the 13th woman at that point would spoil another interesting part of the movie 'how to scent your victim from miles away'. Finally a film with no naked female body is likely to have any success. Since the director was aiming high he thought why instead of having 2-3 naked women don't we put 2-3000. At least everybody was happy at the end except of the father of the two girls who apart from losing 2 daughters in the same movie he had no sex. What a pity. At least the movie didn't leave the crowd hungry at the end. I really believe if the movie was more action-thriller oriented could be a movie to remember. After all its a matter of taking the right decisions. Writing a drama and concentrating on photography on a script that has no romance is a risk. I think the movie does not worth spending money to watch it. I can't believe how this movie has better voting than the brotherhood of the wolf. It must be the karate matrix scenes.