Romantic Note

Ρομαντικό σημείωμα

In his most visually and thematically introverted film, Takis Kanellopoulos tells the confessional story of four friends and their love for the same woman. It is an audio-visual construct seeking out the limits of romanticism, first and foremost in art but inescapably also in life – one firmly and irrevocably entrenched in the style that would become the signature of his second directorial phase: the complete absence of dialogue expression, visual compositions that reference his beloved Impressionist painters, a pervasive lyricism, a romantic disposition, and a deeply-felt melancholy for a time – that of youth – that seems to have slipped irrevocably away. From Charles Trenet wondering “What remains of our loves?” to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and from there to Pier-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet, Romantic Note seems addressed to Kanellopoulos himself first, then to fans of his films, and finally to all those of his ilk, body and soul. The film garnered a special mention at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival for Christos Triantafillou’s color cinematography and was only screened commercially, at the Rivoli cinema in Thessaloniki, for two weeks in November 1978.
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Direction: Takis Kanellopoulos
Script: Takis Kanellopoulos
Music: Alkis Kakaliangos
Actors: Yorgos Mazis, Maria Perdiki, Sotiris Solomos, Kostas Simenos, Makis Nakos
Producers: Takis Kanellopoulos
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 1978
Duration: 84'
Contact: Yorgos Kanellopoulos, info@kanelamps.gr

Takis Kanellopoulos

Filmography

1960 Macedonian Wedding (short)
1961 Thassos (short)
1962 Glory Sky (fiction)
1966 Excursion (fiction)
1968 Interlude (fiction)
1969 Kastoria (short)
1972 The Last Spring (fiction)
1975 Memories of a Sunday (fiction)
1978 Romantic Note (fiction)
1980 Sonia (fiction)