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Hard Goodbyes: My Father
Directed by
Penny Panayotopoulou
2002
1h 53m
Drama
,
Family
7.0
85%
45%
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In 1969 Athens, a 10 year old boy struggles to come to terms with the sudden death of his father.
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Cast of Hard Goodbyes: My Father
Yorgos Karayannis
Ilias Manolopoulos
Stelios Mainas
Hristos Manolopoulos
Ioanna Tsirigouli
Mother
Christos Stergioglou
Theodosis
Hristos Bouyotas
Aris Manolopoulos
Despo Diamantidou
Grandmother
Hard Goodbyes: My Father Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
Laura Kern
Considering the delicate and weighty subject matter, the film's tone is surprisingly light, sometimes even humorous, which helps to balance the harsh sentiments that death inevitably brings.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
About nothing so much as a soulful kid's first encounter with the most literal and poetic meanings of the word 'gone.'
Newsday
John Anderson
Poignant, convincing and directed with confidence and an enchanted eye.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Hard Goodbyes could easily have been maudlin, but isn't. Credit an adult script and realistic acting, especially by Giorgos Karayannis as Elias.
San Francisco Chronicle
John McMurtrie
A tender, gently paced coming-of-age movie whose strength is its young lead actor.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Robert Denerstein
Alternately whimsical and harsh, Hard Goodbyes probably deserves to be seen as a promising first feature, although it lacks the grace and novelty of a similar movie, My Life As a Dog.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Panayotopoulou does handle the material with sensitivity, but she relies too much on her young hero's unlikely precocity, which unwittingly diminishes the intensity of a child's very real grief.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
Panayotopoulou's story has the ring of autobiographical truth, getting the details of the period and of childhood in general right at every turn.
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
Not perfect, exciting, fresh, but well crafted, well acted, and very well directed
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
A sublimely subjective journey from denial to acceptance as a 10-year-old boy comes to terms with the finality of death.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Greek director-writer Penny Panayotopoulou's compelling debut feature is a psychological drama about an Athenian family dealing with grief.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
...has about it the whiff of autobiography, given the specificity of the details and the odd, enchanting drift from an initial tone of social realism toward fantasy.
Film Threat
Mark Sells
With soft heartedness and beautiful imagery, the film aptly captures the feeling of disbelief and aversion that hits children in a time of loss.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Goes from being appropriately child-like to simply childish.
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
Begins to take on an allegorical, global feel.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
A tender and moving drama that deserves wider exposure.
Village Voice
R. Emmet Sweeney
A tender Greek drama documenting a child's disbelief in the face of his father's death.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A complex charmer that shows us, in images and in behavior as poetic as they are plausible, a bittersweet parable about human adaptability.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
Youngster Giorgos Karayannis is a marvel in this touching Greek drama about a son's devotion to his father.
Oregonian
Marc Mohan
It features an endearing, mature performance from its juvenile lead.
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