FFGR
KARKALOU
ΚΑΡΚΑΛΟΥ


Stavros Tornes
Greece 1984 83 35mm Colour
Film description
An elderly man is riding in a taxi driven by a young man. In the trunk there is a coffin. As night falls, the taxi comes to a quarry. The older man lures the cab driver to a shack, where he introduces him to Karkalou, a woman who has seen better days. They dance to the rhythm of a Louis Armstrong song and then they leave on a little boat, to go on a trip into the world of memories. The travelers’ destination is, once again, the quarry. There, grown men break rocks, revolutionaries conspire to revolt, and the young taxi driver, transformed into the alter ego of his elderly guide, becomes entangled with the woman. At first they quarrel, but then their quarrel ends in a sexual embrace.









