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The Love of Ulysses

Name: The Love of Ulysses
Director: Vasilis Vafeas
Released: 1984
Duration: 107 min

Representation Score

2.5/10

Limited

1984

Director

Vasilis Vafeas

Runtime

107 minutes

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The film functions as a traditional character study of a middle-aged man facing unemployment, adhering to the social frameworks of 1980s Greece. It focuses on a singular, bourgeois experience. While the protagonist's wandering provides insight into personal vulnerability, the film lacks depth in exploring multiple aspects of identity. The narrative relies on established social hierarchies and conventional gender roles. Ultimately, the production prioritizes a localized, homogeneous perspective, offering a specific cultural snapshot but lacking diverse representation.

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Category Breakdown

Does The Love of Ulysses have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The story follows a traditional relationship between a married man and a younger woman, without any representation of LGBTQ+ identities or perspectives.

How does The Love of Ulysses portray gender?

Fair

The narrative centers around a male protagonist's mid-life crisis, where the female character is portrayed mainly through the lens of the male protagonist’s perspective, lacking independent ability to act.

How racially and ethnically diverse is The Love of Ulysses?

Limited

The film is set in Athens and Hydra, depicting a homogeneous Greek experience without any racial diversity or perspectives from different ethnic backgrounds.

How does The Love of Ulysses represent religion and culture?

Limited

The film explores traditional bourgeois family structures and capitalist displacement within a conventional Western social framework of the 1980s, rooted in the social norms of the time.

Does The Love of Ulysses include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no mention of characters with visible or invisible disabilities in the provided material.

Present on Screen

Provides a localized look at the Greek bourgeois experience in the mid-1980s.
Explores themes of economic displacement and personal vulnerability through a mid-life crisis.

Limited or Absent

Lacks diverse ethnic and racial perspectives within its Athenian and Hydran setting.
Features a female character framed primarily through the male protagonist’s perspective.
Does not include representations of non-cisgender identities or LGBTQ+ individuals.

Official Synopsis

Odysseus, a typical bourgeois, married and father of two, is working in the accounting department of a large company when he is suddenly fired, leaving him stranded. Now unemployed, with severance pay in his pocket, he wanders aimlessly around summer Athens. In his wanderings he meets a girl who represents for him the lost youth. He follows her everywhere, but every now and then he loses sight of her and worries. It's a wander from Athens to Hydra, and yet it's full of surprises, funny moments, but also suspense.

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