“Bonjour, bourgeois” or undermining the realist convention in The Greek Weird Wave
“Bonjour, bourgeois” or undermining the realist convention in The Greek Weird Wave

Summary/Abstract: The Greek Weird Wave is an ongoing cinema movement, some researchers state, which debuted with Kynodontas (directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009), finalised – aesthetically speaking – once performance art was introduced in the film Attenberg (directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010). There are aesthetic links and links regarding conception between the above-mentioned directors, as the two films can be interpreted through the same critical device. Overcoming the aesthetic conditioning can be felt in the second internationally-produced film directed in 2015 by Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster, in which the first sequence, thought out as a prologue, is unique through the fact that the character in it does not reappear in the remainder of the film. Another director, who draws closer to a different perception of the real, is Babis Makridis through the films Oiktos (Pity) (2018) and Ornithes (I pos na gineis pouli) (Birds (or How to Be One)) (2020).

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