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If Antonis Tsonis’s debut is any indication, the Weird Wave is experiencing a second wind. The first Greek-language film in Slamdance’s narrative competition, Brando with a Glass Eye takes the country’s proclivity for cinematic strangeness into bold, uncharted territories with this metatextual tale of a wannabe actor (Yiannis Niarros) who resorts to crime to finance a trip to New York’s famed Acting Studio. When a bystander is shot during a botched heist job, the Brando-obsessive goes Method and befriends the victim in an increasingly unhinged bid for personal salvation. Steeped in the influence of New Hollywood cinema, Tsonis’s confident, curious debut is a mise en abyme about the movies and the art (and artifice) of performance.
- Year2024
 - Runtime122 minutes
 - LanguageGreek
 - CountryGreece
 - Subtitle LanguageEnglish
 
- DirectorAntonis Tsonis
 
If Antonis Tsonis’s debut is any indication, the Weird Wave is experiencing a second wind. The first Greek-language film in Slamdance’s narrative competition, Brando with a Glass Eye takes the country’s proclivity for cinematic strangeness into bold, uncharted territories with this metatextual tale of a wannabe actor (Yiannis Niarros) who resorts to crime to finance a trip to New York’s famed Acting Studio. When a bystander is shot during a botched heist job, the Brando-obsessive goes Method and befriends the victim in an increasingly unhinged bid for personal salvation. Steeped in the influence of New Hollywood cinema, Tsonis’s confident, curious debut is a mise en abyme about the movies and the art (and artifice) of performance.
- Year2024
 - Runtime122 minutes
 - LanguageGreek
 - CountryGreece
 - Subtitle LanguageEnglish
 
- DirectorAntonis Tsonis