Patchwork

Petros Charalambous's follow-up to Boy on the Bridge (EUFF 2017) is a knotty, multi-faceted drama of middle-aged regret. Angeliki Papoulia, the fearless Greek actor at the centre of Yorgos Lanthimos's break-out films Dogtooth (2009) and Alps (2011), stars as Chara, a complicated character who, in producer and writer Janine Teerling's script, is presented with a series of foils: her mother, a dreaded influence; the new hire at Chara's workplace, childless and content; and a prickly teenaged intern, who she might take under her wing.