The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea review - Lynchian psychodrama in the sun
(The Guardian Greece)

Criminal undercurrents in a sleepy Greek backwater provide the pretext for a disquieting spectacle of strangenessA drumbeat of anxiety and impending violence thuds insistently from this opaque, disquieting spectacle from Greek film-maker Syllas Tzoumerkas - who has previously directed challenging films such as Homeland (2010) and A Blast (2014) and was screenwriter on the excellent male-midlife breakdown satire Suntan (2016).Tzoumerkas´s movie goes out on a creaking limb of weirdness. It´s a bizarre, occasionally almost Lynchian film, alienated and alienating, interspersed - initially, at any rate - with dream-visions of biblical scenes in the burning sun. Its borderline preposterous narrative may simply be the pretext for its tableau of strangeness and bacchanal of dysfunction. Continue reading...