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  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 14 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 14 m

Summary Two brothers search of their birth father across the colorful landscape of Greece. Dany, 16, leaves Crete to find his brother Odysseus who lives in Athens, and they journey to Thessaloniki where they think their father is living. When the handsome Odysseus isn’t protecting his daydreaming, gay younger brother, he auditions for the televi...

Directed By: Panos H. Koutras

Written By: Panagiotis Evangelidis, Frédérique Moreau, Francois Jonquet, Panos H. Koutras

  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 14 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 2 h 14 m

Xenia

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Two brothers search of their birth father across the colorful landscape of Greece. Dany, 16, leaves Crete to find his brother Odysseus who lives in Athens, and they journey to Thessaloniki where they think their father is living. When the handsome Odysseus isn’t protecting his daydreaming, gay younger brother, he auditions for the televi...

Directed By: Panos H. Koutras

Written By: Panagiotis Evangelidis, Frédérique Moreau, Francois Jonquet, Panos H. Koutras

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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0% Negative
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70
Oct 12, 2015
Xenia has been called a farce. But it is much more than that. Both the story and the performances are packed with raw emotion.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 8, 2015
There’s a decidedly campy side to the proceedings that Koutras effectively juxtaposes with the hard-edged realities of contemporary Greece, a beautiful but hostile nation wrecked by the ongoing economic crisis and a place in which xenophobia, racism and homophobia seem to fester freely.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 8, 2015
Xenia has a winning streak of oddness.
By Michael Nordine FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 5, 2015
It leaves room for a few flights of fancy where the lack of verisimilitude feels less like screenplay filler and more like unabashed poetic license.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 8, 2015
Brashly uneven and wildly overlong, this comedy of brotherly love and outsider acceptance nonetheless boasts a spirited, audience-pleasing core.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 5, 2015
Koutras admirably resists easy wish fulfillment by making the brothers' journey more important than their destination, but the scenario he presents inexplicably turns out to be fantasy.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 100% Synthetic Films, Wrong Men, MPM Film, Entre Chien et Loup, Arte France Cinéma, Greek Film Centre (GFC), New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT), Nova, ARTE, L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Institut Français, Eurimages, Media, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, VOO, ForMovies, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères
Release Date Oct 9, 2015
Duration 2 h 14 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline A New Greek Odyssey
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Awards

Hellenic Film Academy Awards
• 6 Wins & 15 Nominations
Gijón International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Nominations

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