The Light Touch

The movie is slow and fairly subjective. The movie is pretty much about a girl named Becky who pick pocket who falls in love with one of Marks. Past that the movies just one big Build up to the end.

There is virtually nothing redeeming about this film. I watched about half hoping it would get better then skipped through the rest. The acting is as bad as an elementary school play. The cop in the flick reminds me of the 3 stogies all wrapped into one person. Dialog is bad not even close to being real. Maybe I missed it and it was supposed to be a spoof. The only good thing is some of the scenery but that was sparsely shown. The two girls aren't bad to look at but other than that don't waste your time.

Beautiful scenery alone does not a good movie make. Several highly telegenic leads does not a good movie make. This movie has those but there are several problems. Starting with the fact that this should honestly be a short film at best. 20 minutes seems too generous for the material. If the mouse-hair thin plot weren't bad enough the wonderfully sexy lead actresses...... well, not one of them could act their way through a light breeze. To call their acting amateurish would be a great disservice to amateur actors. Especially the big breasted lead who seems like she was cast straight out of a playboy magazine. Just painful watching her try to act. Like uncanny valley level terrible acting. It's strange that there are people on screen who seem to have less emotional range and subtlety than one of jim henson's muppets. But here we are.......... 2 of 10.... greece looks like a wonderful destination.

The setting is Athens and we see plenty of it photographed very nicely by Panos Golfis (along with the judicious use of drone shots) and not just the touristic areas. We see working streets, everyday cafes. We see the city from the butchery of the meat market to the graffiti on the trains to the relaxed eateries. It does indeed capture the real feel of the city.

And in the midst of it all we find Duncan Skinner who stole every scene magnificently. Skinner plays a by-the-book British police officer on holiday who is pick-pocketed by Becky (Tess Spentzos in analysis) on the metro. He immerses himself in the role with style and indeed precisely the right touch needed for a film like this. I just wanted to watch more of him.

He was joined in this film by one other stand-out actor: Skyrah Archer (as Miranda, Becky's love interest) who was completely believable as the thoughtful, cultured, pianist fending off unwanted attention from all sides. Her subtlety was always a pleasure to watch.

A pleasant enough romp through the city except it is accompanied by the bitter taste of misogyny and sexual assault as a joke. In the latter case, the victim of the assault suffers no ill effects whatsoever and simply calls on her abuser to help her out of a sticky situation a little later in the film.

I fear the director has issues with women, hence uses them as props here for little more than titillation.

Nice relaxing comedy. Actors are sexy and the cop is very funny. There are some problems,, for example duration should be at least 10 minutes less, but I enjoyed a lot of Athens. I like this city and it plays its role with a great way!