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Arpa Colla

Name: Arpa Colla
Director: Nikos Perakis
Released: 1982
Duration: 104 min

Representation Score

4.3/10

Fair

1982

Director

Nikos Perakis

Runtime

104 minutes

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Arpa Colla is a satirical film that examines the creative struggles of a director and an author in post-dictatorship Greece. It excels at cultural subversion and critiques institutional standards and superficiality. However, the film remains limited by its focus on male intellectualism and lacks diverse gender, racial, or LGBTQ+ perspectives.

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Category Breakdown

Does Arpa Colla have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film focuses on the professional relationship between two male characters and does not include any characters with LGBTQ+ identities or queer intimacy.

How does Arpa Colla portray gender?

Fair

Male characters play a central role in navigating creative and political ambitions, while female characters have less involvement in the central narrative.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Arpa Colla?

Limited

The film is set in a culturally homogeneous Greek context and does not feature multi-ethnic representation.

How does Arpa Colla represent religion and culture?

Good

The film explores political tensions and shifting ideologies, critiquing superficiality and disrupting conventional capitalist storytelling through its thematic depth.

Does Arpa Colla include disability representation?

Minimal

There are no characters with physical, sensory, or neurodivergent experiences mentioned in the film.

Present on Screen

Uses political and social ideologies to subvert cultural norms.
Engages with postmodern themes by shifting between various cinematic genres.
Critiques established institutional standards and superficiality.

Limited or Absent

Limited representation of female characters in the central narrative.
Minimal engagement with racial or multi-ethnic diversity beyond a localized Greek context.
Absence of LGBTQ+ identities or non-straight-centered character depictions.

Official Synopsis

"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.

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