Suntan

Papadimitropoulos very aptly calls this a ‘coming-of-middle-age film’. His protagonist Kostis, an introvert, unhappy and sleepy forty-something, starts working on the Greek holiday island of Antiparos as a doctor. A group of young tourists drags him out of his shell with excursions to the nude beach and exuberant alcoholic evenings in clubs, while the frivolous Anna especially turns his head. Kostis joins in, but has trouble keeping up with the young people. The tragicomic film smoothly brings together two very different worlds: the carefree intoxication of the holidaymakers and the devastating loneliness of the man facing a midlife crisis, early but no less intense. En passant Papadimitropoulos provides a beautiful picture of the rather decadent and unreal atmosphere that reigns in the summer on islands like Antiparos, where the local inhabitants put up with a lot from the tourists because they are the largest source of income.