The Zero Years

20052005
2h 3m

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6.1/10

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Today as tomorrow and as yesterday. Four women, who have been not been sterilized and are under constant toxic restraint and surveillance, are serving their term in a government-run brothel.... Read allToday as tomorrow and as yesterday. Four women, who have been not been sterilized and are under constant toxic restraint and surveillance, are serving their term in a government-run brothel. Their duty is to have sex with their customers without remorse. The relations between the... Read allToday as tomorrow and as yesterday. Four women, who have been not been sterilized and are under constant toxic restraint and surveillance, are serving their term in a government-run brothel. Their duty is to have sex with their customers without remorse. The relations between them are at a critical point; food and water are scarce, their house is rotting and ready to ... Read all

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Alkis Panagiotidis in The Zero Years (2005)

Vicky Harris, Jenny Kitseli, Arhontissa Mavrakaki, and Eftyhia Giakoumi in The Zero Years (2005)

Vicky Harris and Eftyhia Giakoumi in The Zero Years (2005)

Eftyhia Giakoumi in The Zero Years (2005)

Vicky Harris, Jenny Kitseli, and Arhontissa Mavrakaki in The Zero Years (2005)

Jenny Kitseli and Arhontissa Mavrakaki in The Zero Years (2005)

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10/10

Four women, barren, under surveillance and continuous toxic control, are serving their term in a government run brothel.

Beyond his narrative genius N.N.'s evolution turns his creations into significant (and) extra-film events. This is particularly evident in "THE ZERO YEARS" Beyond the obvious and the implied (global dictatorship, etc.) there is a discreet and penetrating psychological analysis and observation. As we know at the end of "THE ZERO YEARS" we clearly perceive that because of the deadlock and the lack of solutions its heroines choose hell over the free open world which (however) has been invalidated. It is both a conscious and an automated choice. The women are overcome by "institutionalism". Hell is fine because we know it and it is better than a supposedly free world, which, in any event, is wholly controlled and totally not free. "I love my bonds and my torment; they are better than the unknown horror of the outside." The "noir spoke" to us many times about impassioned heroes and their bonds, characters who are terrified of the free open fields. N.N. goes beyond this film-noir convention and reaches further to approach existential philosophy (particularly that of Camus). A micro-prison inside an enormous one. Whatever we choose we are trapped and what we demand is not to get OUT but to free everything, to tear down all the barbed wire. "THE ZERO YEARS" is a chronology of the end of civilization and of urban institutions. Everything is illusion; everything is utopia and a trap. ALEXIS DERMETZOGLOU

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