Metacritic Film

From The Edge of the City

Starring Simela Chartomatsidi, Vasias Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos Giannaris, and Kostas Gogos

MPAA RATING: Not rated

Mythos Ltd.
Drama
93 minutes | Color
Greece
Released In Theaters April 21, 2000

17-year-old Sasha (Papadopolous) is the center of a gang of hustling kids who live on the drug infested fringes of Athens society. Kazakhstan refugees, they are shunned in their new homeland, even though they are ethnic Greeks.

WRITTEN BY
Constantine Giannaris

DIRECTED BY
Constantine Giannaris

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

47 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 Los Angeles Times
Brutal yet lyrical film.
60 The New York Times
It captures a gritty urban reality without moralizing or sentimentalizing its hapless young protagonist.
60 TV Guide
If it's not an entirely wholesome portrait of the immigrant experience, it's certainly an entertaining one.
50 LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
An impressive work that's ultimately undone by its excessive style.
50 New York Daily News
Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.
50 San Francisco Chronicle
Gratuitous, yes, but Giannaris has the visual finesse to make it work.
42 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
All the jazzy effects and jumpy editing merely move us quicker to an otherwise predetermined tragedy.
40 Village Voice
The viewer, though unavoidably alert, is before long too numb to care.
38 New York Post
Feels like a Greek version of "My Own Private Idaho."

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