Olympia

Name: Olympia
Genre: Biography, Drama, Comedy, Documentary
Released: July 9, 2020
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Alexandra Dukakis, Apollo Dukakis, Constantine Dukakis, Edward Asner, Kary Antholis

2020

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Abramorama | Release Date (Streaming): July 9, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexandra Dukakis, Apollo Dukakis, Constantine Dukakis, Edward Asner, Kary Antholis, Leslie Ayvazian, Lynn Cohen, Maggie Dukakis, Michael Dukakis, Mimi Denissi

Summary: In the same vein as Albert Maysles’ Iris, this sublimely intimate fly-on-the-wall verité documentary tells a heart-wrenching story of a woman finding her own voice on her own terms to assert a gigantic creative force into the world. Rebelling against her old world panty-sniffing suspicious Greek mother to assert her strong sexual drive,In the same vein as Albert Maysles’ Iris, this sublimely intimate fly-on-the-wall verité documentary tells a heart-wrenching story of a woman finding her own voice on her own terms to assert a gigantic creative force into the world. Rebelling against her old world panty-sniffing suspicious Greek mother to assert her strong sexual drive, fighting the feeling she was “too ethnic” amid the Boston Brahmin at BU, and starting her own theatre company in New Jersey instead of waiting for the phone to ring, Olympia Dukakis models how to live life with blazing courage.… Expand

Director: Harry Mavromichalis

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Comedy, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Jul 9, 2020

Olympia has the usual biographical documentary structure, though it's a bit of a hodge-podge, following Dukakis to a festival, a rehearsal, awards events, at home, intercut with archival footage and comments from friends, colleagues, and family. Read full review

Michael Ordoña

Jul 14, 2020

Without a more probing look into her artistry, it’s hard to think of Olympia as a definitive Dukakis profile — though it’s certainly an unusual celebrity documentary. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jul 9, 2020

At times, Mavromichalis himself seems starstuck, to the extent that he can’t distinguish the disarming from the banal. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Jul 11, 2020

Olympia for all its fondness, is just too cursory a portrait of a complex woman: depth presented as a series of glinting surfaces. Read full review

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