The third film I watched while in Cannes was a film from Greece. The film was called Wasted Youth. The story follows two males throughout their day in Athens. One of the characters is an older man who is having financial and personal problems. During the day he comes home from the late shift at the police station, and during this day we see him turn down his friend on a business proposition. We also see the interactions between his family and co-workers. On the opposite end of the spectrum is a young boy in his late teens. He lives a carefree life style where his only concerns are skateboarding, friends, booze, and sex. All of this is mirrored in certain scenes where we watch the relationship he has with his father. Eventually their two days collide and Athens erupts.
First and foremost, if this film was a short it would have been amazing. The film seems to drag a certain points with long unnecessary cuts that were clearly put into the film to elongate it. A lot of it just seemed so out of place as to what was going on, there does not need to be a tracking pan for an extra few seconds after the subjects have already disappeared off screen. A few scenes just seemed completely out of place to me, looking back on it now I can see the significance in some of them, but there were some that were completely out of place. At points the dialogue also fell very short, and I felt myself wanting more explanation of why certain things were going wrong or right in these two characters’ lives.
This movie will probably be one you will never see or hear about from this point on, but if you do come across it give it a watch but be open minded about it. Frankly you have to be for some of the images and subtext that litter the film. I liked the film but as stated earlier it would have been better and had more of an impact if it was a short.
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