I Love Karditsa (2010)

Excellent, a Must See

An absolute waste of money

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Mike Kanias who lives in New York is the fist cloned man and he owes 30 million to the mafia, to save himself decides to change positions with his clone in Karditsa. I love Karditsa feels like someone in Greece saw The Godfather, The 6th Day and Multiplicity and said hey? Let's make a greek movie with a bunch of good actors in silly roles with lot's of cursing, over the top and horrendous acting but also a plot that hardly makes even a bit of a sense. I Love Karditsa is probably and without a doubt one of the worst Greek movies i have seen in years. (0/10) (F)

This is a standard film to see when you want to seat back in your couch, relax and forget everything that's bad this world. Just prepare some pop corn and some refreshments ready."I Love Karditsa" It's a typical screwball comedy, where the mingling of polar opposite persons and a series of misunderstandings and mis happenings drive the plot around. OK, the acting is not for Oscars, but this is just the type of acting you would expect in this kind of films. Of course you would not expect this to win any award in an international film festival. However, we should not underestimate the good film that offer you a pleasant hour and a half.I have read many bad reviews about it (the script, the cursing, the acting of Miss Papoutsaki etc etc), but the point is that when you want to enjoy in a lazy afternoon, let's face it, this is just the movie you would want to watch.

It is another awful modern Greek movie that lacks originality, acting, scenario and directing. Its whole plot (what plot?) could last only for 15 minutes. It is that kind of movies that make us all here in Greece to consider Greek cinema as bottom. Not even try to watch it. It would be a complete waste of time. Although it lasts only 90 mins I think, I was bored since the first half-hour and less. Acting was too average either. Katerina Papoutsaki proved once again that she could be everything else than an actress. She has to understand that she lacks talent. It was only the acting of Bsi Malfa that made this film bearable, even if her acting was also not good enough. The lead actor's talent was also almost good.

This film along with "Νήσος"/"Island" are the main cards for Greek commercial comedy this season. They contain both actors and lifestyle celebrities/models and target the mainstream public, while they include some edges for the more sophisticated.In this film which takes place in New York and a village in the vicinity of Karditsa, a provincial town of central Greece- the two main characters, whose appearance is identical, seek their private professional and sentimental goals while their fates intersect.Chance, sentimental complications,issues of locality and class, organized crime and modern science are blended in a merry-go-round satire of modern "Greek" reality which touches lightheartedly many not so light in themselves issues and resolves in a conciliatory happy end.If only those quandaries could be solved that easily in real life! The actors, TV and film actors of the national star-system support their flat and sometimes caricatured roles with ability. There is a combination of trash magazine culture and bucolic romance in the movie which may sound contradictory by definition but works well in practice.