Greece Is the Word

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Greece Is the Word

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By Ben Elliott

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When we think of Greek stories, we think of the classics — The Odyssey, The Iliad, Antigone, Oedipus. But Greece’s more recent history has produced stories just as rich — and often just as dramatic. Over the past century, Greek cinema has evolved through dictatorship, occupation, and economic crisis, with each era inspiring a new generation of filmmakers.

The Traveling Players, 1975

The quick succession of the fascist Metexas Regime, Nazi control, and civil war in the ‘30 and ‘40s sets the scene for Theo Angelopoulos’s The Traveling Players, an epic meditation of the perseverance of art through instability. An economic rebound in the ‘50s led to global hits like Never on Sunday and Zorba the Greek, while the military junta of 1967 sparked bold political filmmaking like Costa-Gavras’s Z. Jump ahead to the aftermath of the 2008 financial collapse and you’ll find the “Greek Weird Wave,” with films like Dogtooth and Attenberg offering surreal, unsettling portraits of life in a fractured society.

The Trip to Greece, 2020

This mix of ancient myth and modern instability gives Greece a unique place in the storytelling world — where every narrative feels layered with history, memory, and reinvention. The Trip to Greece, which screens at The Triplex this Saturday, plays with those layers. It’s a comedy on the surface — a road trip full of impressions and banter — but it also turns reflective, tying its characters’ midlife questions to the timeless journey of Odysseus.

After the screening, we’ll be joined by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Dr. Joachim Frank, whose new novel Ierapetra follows a brother and sister peeling back their own layered history on a trip to Crete. It's a story that reinforces Greece’s enduring appeal to storytellers, inspiring us to connect with the past while reminding us that the future always remains unwritten.

Showtimes

Showtimes Freakier Friday | 1:00PM, 3:30PM, 6:00PM, 8:30PM The Life of Chuck | 1:15PM, 4:15PM Highest 2 Lowest | 1:45PM, 4:45PM, 8:00PM The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg | 7:00PM

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