A special screening of John Cassavetes' first movie in the frame of the 37th Panorama of European Cinema
The Hellenic American Union and the 37th Panorama of European Cinema present the first movie directed by John Cassavetes to mark the ending of the visual arts exhibition at the Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Gallery which was bestowed as a tribute to the famous film director
In the film, the camera captures what America has kept hidden until then, deconstructing all conventional social and acting rules and breaking the barrier between fiction and reality. Shadows is the beginning of an American cinema in another direction, a manifesto of modernism and the avant-garde, a milestone of independent cinema, for the first time so exquisitely in ideas, in narratives, in themes, in its production itself. There is no director who has not been influenced, since then, by this important artistic gesture and a lesson, until today, in daring against each time institutionally established.
The movie received the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival (1960).