About

La photographie, c’est la vérité,
et le cinéma, c’est 24 fois la vérité par seconde

European Arthouse, Obscure Cinema, Hidden Gems

Welcome to my blog,

I am a freelance film critic and hardcore cinephile from Greece. Since 2010 I have been writing for my personal bilingual website 24 fois la vérité par seconde where I am trying to explore and introduce lesser known and hidden films to my readers. My main expertise is in the field of arthouse independent films and especially in the French, Italian and Eastern European cinema. I am mainly a self-taught researcher and I have attended courses of documentary and film criticism at Scuola Holden in Turin, Italy. I have participated at Sarajevo Talents, and in Nisimazine workshops and I have been accredited to a various international film festivals. I am also collaborating with multiple international outlets and in the past I was contributing as film critic for a couple Greek film portals. Finally I am always searching for new cinematic trends and discoveries.

Vassilis Economou

REVIEWS

Ja Tozhe Hochu (Me Too) – Venice 69 Orizzonti

Alexei Balabanov's last and most personal film. An adaptation on Tarkovsky's Stalker myth set in Balabanov's provocative world.

Ida (2013)

Paweł Pawlikowski tries to express everything that troubled 60s Poland but his aesthetic austere formalism surpasses the content.

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)

A folk romantic crime saga by the emerging indie Texan filmmaker, David Lowery on the footsteps of Terence Mallick tradition.

Tôkyô Sensô Sengo Hiwa (The Man Who Left His Will on Film, 1970)

Nagisha Ôshima is performing a requiem for Japanese New Wave and he is covering everything, from the sociopolitical changes till his own alienation that he feels as an artist.

Shell – Torino 30

A slow paced family kitchen sink drama directed by Scott Graham and set in the Scottish highlands. Winner of the 30th Torino Film Festival.

QUOTES

Jodorowsky on filmmaking

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles

Jafar Panahi: I don’t like political movies.

I’m not a political person. I don’t like political movies. But I take every opportunity to comment on the social issues. I talk about the current issues.

Pasolini e gli italiani

Intelligence will never have much value in the collective judgment of this public's opinion.

Cœur Fidèle vs. Boy Meets Girl

Jean Epstein’s visual poetic realism meets Leos Carax's abstract elegiac poem

How to make a bed

Films teach you how to live, how to make a bed.