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Oxygono (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 12

Fresh: 2

Rotten:10

Average Rating: 3.9/10

Rated: Not Rated

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Nov 18, 2005 Limited

Synopsis: A small Greek town is the setting for a delirious black comedy combining early Almodovar with Dynasty to achieve a twisted tale of dubious morality, infidelity, and murder. Magda’s family seems... A small Greek town is the setting for a delirious black comedy combining early Almodovar with Dynasty to achieve a twisted tale of dubious morality, infidelity, and murder. Magda’s family seems fairly average: she dotes on her attractive 20-year-old son, Christos, while daughter Giota and her husband Stelios live upstairs. The potential redevelopment of a piece of family-owned land serves as a catalyst for Giota and Stelios’ greed. The menacing Stelios’ discovery of a clandestine homosexual affair between Christos and an older land redevelopment official puts the youth at the epicenter of their blackmail plot. But Christos may have plans of his own... -- © Picture This! Entertainment [More]


Studio: Picture This! Entertainment

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Their super-tawdry film becomes as compulsively watchable as it is often inadvertently laughable.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
David Noh
Film Journal International

Without its soporific asides, Oxygono would have succeeded in creating its own tone of intelligent noir irreverence.

Full Review Source: european-films.net | comment Comment
04/09/06
Boyd van Hoeij
european-films.net

If only this were a farce, but, no, it's deadly earnest and eventually just deadly.

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02/27/06
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

In definite need of a sea breeze to cool off its overheated characters, the Greek melodrama Blackmail Boy reaches for tragedy but settles for soap opera.

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01/06/06
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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The movie crumbles under the weight of its own serious-mindedness.

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01/06/06
E! Online

It’s a mean-spirited exercise in stilted outrageousness.

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01/05/06
Ernest Hardy
L.A. Weekly
N/R

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12/06/05
AV Club

There are moments of amusing melodrama, but for the most part, the action is too preposterous to take seriously, and too serious to be very much fun.

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11/18/05
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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Toward the end, there's a delightful dream sequence, which shows that director-writers Michalis Reppas and Thanassis Papathanasiou aren't complete hacks. Perhaps they'll do better the next time out.

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11/18/05
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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The tone is so poorly established that it takes a while to realize its cavalcade of outrageous misfortunes is meant to be farcical, not melodramatic.

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11/18/05
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The Greek film Blackmail Boy has the feel of farce at times, but much of the time it just seems determined to shock.

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11/17/05
Anita Gates
New York Times
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The hysteria is relentless: shrieking, punching, puking, trigger pulling. Overheard bits of inane party chatter provide the only moments of levity; otherwise the theater of cruelty slogs on with no cathartic release.

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11/15/05
Melissa Anderson
Village Voice
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The only trick the filmmakers pull off is wasting a perfectly cute Tsimitselis on a pair of underwear two sizes too big.

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11/10/05
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
 
 
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