Agelastos petra

not another documentary....Did you know that the Greek word for "truth" is "aleethea" which comes from "a" and "Lethe",meaning "the one that is not forgotten"? So true is something that you never forget, like your true love... A Greek cinematographer, films during a period of 15 or something years, the Eleysina area of modern Greece, mother place of the ancient apocrypha eleysinian mysteries,which nobody ,even in our days knows in what exactly they consisted of.. The place is a character itself, and even thought it has been altered irreversibly by the heavy modern industrialization, it remains ancient, morally clean, observing modern history, silently. The deepest message of the film thought, is in this: In its love towards the ordinary people that live in this area, that are born, play games at their childhood, get in love during their puberty,grow up, become old, and die.While watching the film we slowly realize that the ancient Greeks are not dead at all.Their customs, their problems, agonies,love for beauty and truth are still so alive. Every time i watch this film, i feel so beautifully strange..It is a film about resurrection after all...Have faith my friends..Have hope.