Pause (2018 film)
{{short description|Cypriot drama film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Pause
| image = Pause 2018 poster.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Poster
| director = Tonia Mishiali
| producer = {{Plainlist|
- Andros Achilleas
- Panos Bisdas
- Stelana Kliris
- Tonia Mishiali
- Ioanna Soultani
}}
| writer = Tonia Mishiali
Anna Fotiadou
| story =
| based_on =
| starring = {{Plainlist|
- Stella Fyrogeni
- Andreas Vasileiou
- Popi Avraam
}}
| music = Julian Scherle
| cinematography = Yorgos Rahmatoulin
| editing = Emilios Avraam
| production_companies = A.B. Seahorse Films
SOUL Productions
Cyprus Film Advisory Board
| distributor = Subliminal Films
| released = {{Film date|2018|07|04|KVIFF|df=y}}
| runtime = 96 minutes
| country = Cyprus
Greece
| language = Greek
| gross =
}}
Pause ({{Langx|el|Παύση|Pafsi}}) is a 2018 Cypriot drama film directed by Tonia Mishiali, who {{nowrap|co-wrote}} the screenplay with Anna Fotiadou. It stars Stella Fyrogeni, Andreas Vasileiou, and Popi Avraam.
Premise
Upon reaching menopause, a Cypriot housewife's decision to no longer tolerate her husband's abuse and disrespect leads her into a world of violent and disturbing daydreams, though reality and fantasy soon begin to blur.{{Cite web|url=https://filmisafineaffair.com/index.php/reviews/pause-by-tonia-mishiali|title=Pause by Tonia Mishiali | Film Review|date=4 August 2019|website=Film Is A Fine Affair}}
Cast
- Stella Fyrogeni as Elpida
- Oriana Mantzouranou as Young Elpida
- Andreas Vasileiou as Costas
- Popi Avraam as Eleftheria
- Marios Ioannou as a doctor
- Prokopis Agathokleous as a young man
- Marina Mandri as a young woman
- Georgina Tatsi as Irini
- Andrey Pilipenko as a painter
Production
The film's working title of Menopause was changed to Pause during filming. During development, the film was selected for consideration at two German co-production workshops in 2015: the Mannheim Meeting Place at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival and the Connecting Cottbus at the Cottbus International Film Festival. It was filmed in and around Nicosia throughout February and March 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/interviews/filming-greece/6906-filming-greece-%E2%80%9Cpause%E2%80%9D-an-accurate-portrayal-of-the-acute-pain-of-oppression|title=Filming Greece | "Pause": An accurate portrayal of the acute pain of oppression|website=www.greeknewsagenda.gr}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cyprusevents.net/events/pause-nicosia-2019/|title=Cyprus : Pause (Παύση)|website=www.cyprusevents.net}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/cyprus-news/item/114778-production-tonia-mishiali-in-postproduction-with-pause|title=PRODUCTION: Tonia Mishiali in Postproduction with Pause - FilmNewEurope.com|first=Maria|last=Gregoriou|website=www.filmneweurope.com}}
Release
Pause premiered at the 2018 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival as part of the "East of the West" programme.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kviff.com/en/programme/film/50/25005-pause|title=KVIFF | Pause|website=www.kviff.com}} The Hollywood Reporter called it "a work of considerable tonal complexity, as it stirs moments of pitch-black humor and short and violent reveries into an otherwise austerely told tale of spousal strife that wants to smash the patriarchy with feats of cinematic derring-do".{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/pause-pafsi-1125517/|title='Pause' ('Pafsi'): Film Review | Karlovy Vary 2018|first1=Boyd van|last1=Hoeij|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=10 July 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmneweurope.com/news/cyprus-news/item/116615-fne-at-kviff-2018-film-in-cyprus-is-blossoming|title=FNE at KVIFF 2018: Film in Cyprus is Blossoming - FilmNewEurope.com|first=Anna|last=Franklin|website=www.filmneweurope.com}}
In the book What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities and You (2021), author Heather Corinna noted that Pause offered "one of the rare sympathetic descriptions of a menopausal mental health struggle".{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1gHiDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Pause%22+mishiali&pg=PT113|title=What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities and You|first=Heather|last=Corinna|date=1 June 2021|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=9780349425672|via=Google Books}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|6590856}}
- {{Official site|pause-featurefilm.com}}
Category:2010s Greek-language films
Category:2018 directorial debut films