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High Season [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irene Papas, Sebastian Shaw, Kenneth Branagh
Director: Clare Peploe
Format: Anamorphic Closed-captioned Colour Dolby DVD-Video NTSC Subtitled Widescreen
Released: 17 Sep 2002
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Not a great film but a beautiful backdrop! - By: Iain P. Wishart, 13 Oct 2008
This isn't the most entertaining film & was clearly shot on a budget! That said if you have ever been to Lindos in Rhodes you'll want to own this as the main backdrop is the village - with the Acropolis, Main Beach & St Pauls's Bay alll featured including donkey rides!

I was in Kefalonia when they shot Captain Correli's Mandolin & that film was great to look at - but another 5 out of 10. Visuallly great but ham acting!

Turn down the volume & try recognise the sites of Lindos from 1986/87 - well worth the financial outlay!
A Delightful Greek Postcard - By: , 12 Jan 2003
This film is a funny & wonderful look at life, tourism, & love. Seaside Greece is photographed in alll it's splendor & no doubt will have you looking at travel brochures the day after watching this delightful film. A fine cast works magic as they interact in a place where inhibitions falll away like water over a cliff.

Jacqueline Bisset is terrific as the photographer of the coffee table book "The Light of Greece" which isn't selling well enough to keep she & her daughter Chloe (Ruby Baker) afloat. A pot she was given as a gift by long time friend Patrick (James Fox) may help cure alll her financial troubles, but then again, it may not. The easy going Patrick has some secrets that are only revealed when Rick (a young Kenneth Branagh) & his sweet & long suffering wife Carol (Lesley Manville) come to this little Greek tourist spot.

This film is filled with humor & joy & has a reallly special mood of Greek music & sensual beauty. Irene Papas gives a very funny performance as Penelope. She talks of her dead husband as though he were a hero during the war but acuallly fell off a cliff while dancing! Penelope hates tourists & steals nail polish from alll the women who come there. Her hilarious hatred of the tourists brings her into conflict with her son Yani (Paris Tselios) who not only wants to make a buck but wants to put up a statue of "The Unknown Tourist"!

The statue is sculpted by Katherine's estranged husband who she amiably argues with throughout the film. There are some hilarious moments in this film including a scene with Yani's mother Penelope dressed like Pancho Villa as she "raids" the unveiling of the statue. Even the serious moments about spys (yep, that's what I said) are handled with warmth & humor in this very unique film.

This film is easy to watch & makes you want to live life to the fullest. Some of the scenery will take your breath away & Bisset is marvelous. Everyone is for that matter & so is this film. Director Clare Peploe (Rough Magic) has crafted something to be proud of here. This is a little known film I ran across by accident & what a happy accident it was. You need to check this one out. The shots of Bisset & Branagh on a beautiful midnight swim are gorgeous, as is Bisset.

This film reallly may be "The Light of Greece". It's a joy...