(Harry Charalambos Mavromichalis, 2018, Canada/Cyprus/Greece/United States, 103 minutes)
SLIFF pricing applies (see below)
A revealing, unfiltered profile of Academy Award-winning theater and film actor Olympia Dukakis, Olympia includes the expected interviews with admirers and friends about her considerable career accomplishments. Unlike most hagiographic documentaries, however, the film focuses primarily on life today, beginning on Dukakis’ 80th birthday and following her over the next three years as she navigates between rehearsals, workshops, family life, and a journey toher ancestral home in Greece. Throughout the film, Dukakis consistently remains an unfiltered hoot. Exhibiting both candor and vulnerability, she deals with issues of age, grief, and sexuality, and talks frankly about her past struggles with depression, suicide, and drug addiction. Although Olympia explores Dukakis’ film work — highlighted by her Oscar for Moonstruck — it also delves deeply into her impressive stage career. An uncompromising maverick and feminist, Dukakis started her own theater company to ensure she received the opportunity to play a full diversity of roles, resisting any attempts to pigeonhole her as “too ethnic.” As Olympia makes clear, her defiant streak of independence is utterly undiminished by age.
Prices for most of the SLIFF screenings are $14 for general admission; $10 for non-WebsterU. students and Cinema St. Louis members; free for Webster U. students. Please note that Webster Film Series punch passes are NOT accepted for SLIFF screenings.
Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Winifred Moore Auditorium
470 E. Lockwood Ave., St. Louis, MO 63119
$14 for general admission; $10 for non-Webster students and Cinema St. Louis members; FREE for Webster students