adonis98-743-186503 In modern-day Greece, while socioeconomic turmoil ravages Southern Europe, three distinct stories unfold, each representing a different generation of Greeks in love with a foreigner, each story coming together in the end to form a whole. World's Apart is one of those films that will mostly be remembered here in Greece for a entirely different reason than it's story or it's message but for mostly the big mistake that Studios did with it's release you see here in my Country Greece we get some films early and some others we don't and that was the case of 'The Force Awakens' the 7th installment of Star Wars we got the film a week later rather than a week earlier and that caused panic and anger among many people with fans arguing and screaming at those certain Studios that they will boycott all their movies if Star Wars doesn't come the day of it's original release and of course they failed we got the film a week later and personally i was spoiled with pictures from idiots on the Internet and as you read this review you might think "why the hell do i care?" i'll get to that in a second you see because of the whole Star Wars Drama i hated this film and i never wanted to see it now 2 years later the film was finally released on DVD and i gotta say i was such a fool for criticizing it because personally i freaking loved it from start to finish. The messages that the film sends about immigration and fascism are so freaking true on the time that we live in and it shows that not all people are as bad as we think because of their hair, their color, their god or anything like it. Plus the film is all around 'Love' and how Love brings people closer together and we have 3 terrific stories the first is about Daphne and Farris a young Greek woman and a man from Syria, the 2nd is about a Man who falls in love with a woman who is also from a different Country and the last is about Maria a Greek woman who has problems with her husband and her marriage is falling apart and she suddenly meets Sebastian a German who they practically fall in love. Now let me talk about the performances everyone in this film did a terrific and fantastic job but the biggest star of the movie and the one who steals the show is J.K Simmons who plays Sebastian and has a terrific chemistry with Maria Kavoyianni, Christopher Papakaliatis is also really good in the film both as an actor and as writer and director his shots and direction is really beautiful and touches your heart in a lot of ways than one. The 3rd act of the film combines all 3 stories into 1 and has a very sudden and touching ending that is narrated by the amazing J.K Simmons and i really just wanna say i'm sorry i'm sorry that i did not went to see this film in Theaters and i'm sorry for judging it without seeing it it was a big surprise for me and honestly one of the Best Greek Films i have seen in probably decades or should i say Ever? (A+)

airamcarina Wonderful film, full of emotions but also full of really facts about to what happen today. Excellent directing with beautiful photography and amazing music. As for the actors, they were excellent! Quite artistic without being elitist. The love stories of six different people (3 Greeks- 3 foreigners), in modern Greece at crisis, but with an global eye. Papakaliatis (director / screenwriter), managed to create absolutely real heroes, who they live among us or we identify with them. (I'm sure i know some ...). Absolutely recommend. After the closing credits i wanted to see it again!

philipposathina Ιn spite of the economic crisis, some wonderful films have been recently released in Greece. This is one of them. Though not its target, it will make you too wonder how a country like mine has got to this mess. And perhaps it will push you to discovering it. If you do, you will even more wonder how a nation with such an amazing infrastructure and culture (neat modern cities/towns/villages with beautiful brand new buildings all over, ultra modern cultural complexes among which the unique brand new opera house-national library cultural park in Athens, fantastic museums, hospitals, science and education institutions, modern highways, sport centers etc etc and above all beautiful people+a highly educated modern young and not only generation, the country of M. Kallas, M.Mercury, N.Mouskouri,M. Theodorakis, Nober prize winners Elytis and Seferis, the country of Mykonos-Corfu-Rhodes etc) could ever find itself into such a catastrophic turmoil. This film won't answer your questions but will give you an idea of the causes. And at the same time will touch your heart with its humanistic message of how love (not any love, the specific love that the Greeks have a special name for and that is "Eros") can bring together in a magic way, persons which have learned/have been taught, that the "others" and only, never themselves, are to blame for their misery. Funny thing that though the magic of this place is not at all what the film is focusing on, anything but that, this magic is simply invincible and impossible to hide. The film is a very good one. And i mean in international standards. It will touch your heart and will make you cry even if you find the story a little unrealistic which is partly true. Yet, even if you see it as a modern fairy-tale, you will have to acknowledge that its background is absolutely realistic and true and will probably make you too revise some of your own ideas about things, like its characters do.

vikatsi I could not expect anything less from Christoforos Papakaliatis! Excellent performances,realistic dialogs and a touch of Greek magic even through difficult yet realistic situations.All three stories kept you waiting anxiously for the conclusion.You get a fairly good picture of how economical crisis has affected different age groups all through a love story. I have to mention the music that gives a more dramatic aspect to every scene. Finally the beautiful scenery of Plaka makes you fall in love with Greece and forget, even if for a moment,all the everyday trouble Greek people go through everyday. I highly recommend it to everyone-Greek or not.