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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #72. Spiros Stathoulopoulos’ Meteora

Greek/Colombian helmer Spiros Stathoulopoulos blasted onto the scene with the 2007 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selected PVC-1 (one 85 minute continuous shot featuring a human time bomb). This torrid love story has been simmering in post-production for a while now, we’re confident that this won’t go unnoticed once it hits the festival circuit.

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#72. Meteora

Director/Writer: Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Producers: Stathoulopoulos, Philippe Bober, Theo Alexander, Asimakis A. Pagids, Yolanda Markopoulou
Distributor: Rights Available (Co-production Office)

The Gist: One young monk is drawn to temptation when he meets a nun. They start communicating, sending signals across the abyss from one monastery to another using mirrors and sunlight…(more)

Cast: Theo Alexander, Tamila Koulieva

List Worthy Reasons…: Greek/Colombian helmer Spiros Stathoulopoulos blasted onto the scene with the 2007 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selected PVC-1 (one 85 minute continuous shot featuring a human time bomb). This torrid love story has been simmering in post-production for a while now, we’re confident that this won’t go unnoticed once it hits the festival circuit.

Release Date/Status?: We thought this would have been released in Cannes or Venice of 2011. Looks like a bonafide 2012 release. Update: This has been selected for the Berlin Film Festival.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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