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The Fear (1966)

Superior craftsmanship in the service of a cliched story

[6/10 · 3 April 2022]

On a technical level, "Fovos" aka "Fear" must be one of the best serious Greek films of the 1960s: a stark psychodrama, possibly influenced by Ingmar Bergman, artistically directed, with lots of unusual and expressive camera angles, building to a feverish crescendo. On a story level, it's the umpteenth variation on the animalistic-and-sexually-frustrated-to-the-point-of-psychosis-farm-boy theme. First-rate cast, with an unrecognizable Mairi Hronopoulou playing (very convincingly!) the mother of an actress only 8 years younger than her. **1/2 out of 4.