Dead Europe

I just have finished reading "Damascus" by the same author, which frankly makes Dead Europe, which I read a couple of years ago, seem like a lighthearted novel. But beyond that I have to say of this film that is an absolutely terrible adaption of the novel, perhaps the worst adaption I have ever seen. Darkness in the novel into insufferable (and interminable) sulking moroseness's, the supernatural elements are handled clumsily, and even the bigotry it seeks to illuminate is made shrill instead of heinous and cruel. The acting and general directing is also just a mess. I would recommend to everyone who is going to watch the to read both the novel by the same name and Damascus which was just released. with Damascus you get a true sense of where the hatred comes into Greece, and by extension from: Exported from the Middle East to Greece which until that point had been extremely tolerant of differences, and for example homosexuality. There are several levels of irony, concerning several types of intolerance the film seeks to showcase to be found rooted there as well.