Soul Kicking

Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money. He's got a family, a baby, a home. Takis is being cheated. He loves her and suffers. His boss tops them all. Takis has run out of time. Economides' second feature premiered at Cannes Critics' Week and pushed his style to its absolute limit — a portrait of a working-class man being crushed from every direction at once, with nowhere to go and no language left except rage. The film is exhausting in the best possible sense: it doesn't let you rest because Takis can't.