MARJORAM:A FILM WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE BY PRADIP BISWAS, THE INDIAN EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS, INDIA JURY MEMBER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AND FRIBOURG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 44TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA, GOA, 2013 Since women filmmakers all over the world are on the rise, it is no surprise that we could Olga Malea and her film MARJORAM at IFFI, GOA, 2013.Greece is now country replete with various ills and shortcoming. Olga Malea had to produce the film on her own as the production costs of her sixth feature film funding was cut. Olga Malea represents Theo Aangelopoulos and his country who won so many Grand Prix for his epic films in a series. For this, cinema goers the world over should be forever indebted to her.. Marjoram is a psychological suspense drama that centres on a mother-daughter relationship. Anna (Maria Riskaki), is an eleven-year-old who strives to be the perfect daughter for her mother Mary. \ Anna as the star talent of a cooking TV show for children, the show appears to be in her element. Suddenly Anna suffers a cooking injury, and while most are concerned about her recovery time, the TV shows child psychologist Eva sees her injury as a cry for help. There is twist. After she agrees to spend an hour with Anna, she notices all is not what it seems for this eleven-year-old. Since starting off as a happy adolescent, Anna begins to act strangely, and thats when - slowly, very slowly - all the characters in the film begin to somersault and unravel. Anna and her erratic behaviours, the mother Mary who is driven to her limits by her actions, Annas father who is forced to sell family heirlooms due to financial stress, and, symbolically, Eva, who identifies with Annas cries for help, as she did in her childhood. No doubt Olga Malea naturally use a plot befitting Greece. For her first foray into drama, Malea has done an exceptional job with this film that is filled with taboo subjects presented in a palatable way, yet at times with a dark prank that is reminiscent of her past films. Olga shows hpw a young girl, trying to make sense of the world but at the same time suffering the odd burden of the world on her tiny shoulders - from her mothers illness with cancer. Anna wants to protect her from harm, to entering the cooking show to save the family from financial disasters. And the tension of bearing the burden of her secret is purely palpable. And just when its revealed, just when you think this young child can breathe easy - as you too can as a viewer - the momentum is raked up again with her mother in hospital, her father by her side and the young girl desperately trying to create a winning dish... with her secret herb in her woven wooden basket. The MARJORAM is a work that Olga builds up to prove that girls or women are great warriors against crumbling Greece in economic failures.
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