Our long-standing collaboration with Eleftherotypia newspaper continues this year with our participation in the 19th Panorama of European Cinema, where we will be presenting a tribute to leading British playwright and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter.
The tribute will include screenings of the films The Birthday Party, The Servant, The Last Tycoon, The Go-Between, Comfort of Strangers, The Homecoming and The Tailor of Panama.
An exhibition will take place at the Benaki Museum (Pireos Street Annexe) with photographs from Pinter’s visits to Greece, posters and photographs from films he wrote the screenplay for, Greek editions of his books, costumes and programmes from his plays performed in Greece and the UK, as well as a book by Ninos Feneck-Mikelides with interviews and discussions with Pinter, to be published by Kedros.
Harold Pinter, widely regarded as the UK’s greatest living playwright, is also well known for his strong political views. , Editor-in-Chief at Eleftherotypia newspaper, , writer, and , Professor of Political Sciences at Athens University, will discuss how Pinter brings together art and politics. The discussion will take place on (1 Koumbari Street & Vas. Sofias Avenue). Admission Free.
We are also participating in the competition section of the festival with the British film Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story by Michael Winterbottom based on the classic 18th century comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne.
The film deals with the life of Tristram Shandy, which is always changing due to his family's interventions. Winterbottom explores how human relations are always complicated regardless of the era.
