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Greece · 2015
1h 53m
Director Christoforos Papakaliatis
Starring Christoforos Papakaliatis, J.K. Simmons, Andrea Osvárt, Maria Kavoyianni
Genre Drama, Romance
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A young college student falls in love with a Syrian refugee. An unhappy sales manager has an affair with a Swedish executive. A German retiree romances a wistful housewife. Their worlds collide in present-day Greece against the backdrop of a ruinous financial collapse.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Worlds Apart doesn’t manage to transcend the forced and familiar-feeling aspects of its multipart narrative, but it does offer an evocative portrait of its troubled milieu, and one of its segments, at least, has genuine emotional resonance.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
It’s an often tender, affecting film that slowly creeps up on you — then completely takes hold.
It isn’t bad, but it’s kind of a trifle. Though it treats its themes with reasonable honesty, it can’t help but come off as a bit diagrammed.
This wistful, melancholy yet hopeful romance has a warmth that singes, a poetry to its stock situations and a biting allegory about the country where Western civilization began facing a world of troubles, not all of its own making.
Neophyte writer/director Christopher Papakaliatis eventually shows an affinity for filming two people in love, but his actors often lack the chemistry to make us believe that their bond transcends all socioeconomic boundaries.
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