A tender and moving drama that deserves wider exposure.
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10/11/05
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Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2003)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:8
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Karayannis handles the lead role well, and the result is a poignant exploration of grief.
Reviews for Hard Goodbyes: My Father
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Top CriticHard Goodbyes could easily have been maudlin, but isn't. Credit an adult script and realistic acting, especially by Giorgos Karayannis as Elias.
09/16/05
Top CriticPanayotopoulou does handle the material with sensitivity, but she relies too much on her young hero's unlikely precocity, which unwittingly diminishes the intensity of a child's very real grief.
09/16/05
Top CriticConsidering the delicate and weighty subject matter, the film's tone is surprisingly light, sometimes even humorous, which helps to balance the harsh sentiments that death inevitably brings.
09/16/05
Top CriticA tender Greek drama documenting a child's disbelief in the face of his father's death.
09/13/05
Top CriticAlternately whimsical and harsh, Hard Goodbyes probably deserves to be seen as a promising first feature, although it lacks the grace and novelty of a similar movie, My Life As a Dog.
02/04/05
Top CriticA tender, gently paced coming-of-age movie whose strength is its young lead actor.
07/09/04
Top CriticA complex charmer that shows us, in images and in behavior as poetic as they are plausible, a bittersweet parable about human adaptability.
06/18/04
Top CriticPoignant, convincing and directed with confidence and an enchanted eye.
05/01/04
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