Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

L begins with an ode to being a bear and ends with an ode to the sea. What happens in between constitutes one of the more original, willfully bizarre films of the year.

A man lives in his car. He’s 40 and separated from his wife and kids, who live in a different car. They meet in parking lots. A professional driver, the man delivers honey to a narcoleptic man and often dreams of his friend, who was killed when a hunter mistook him for a bear. Frequently late delivering honey, the man is fired, and his driving skills are questioned. Thrust into existential uncertainty, he abandons “car life” and joins a rogue motorbike gang.

Cowriter/director Babis Makridis and cowriter Efthimis Filippou (Dogtooth, Alps) propel us into a funky, surreal world of deadpan absurdism. Beneath the postmodern detachment lies a quiet human struggle. Facing absurd existences, these characters are trying: to be better drivers, to be better bears. Even the score, a flawed rendition of Moonlight Sonata, is trying to be better.
- J.N.

Kathleen McInnis
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Babis Makridis was born in Greece in 1970. He studied film in the Stavrakos Film School. His short film The Last Fakir (2005) was awarded the Newcomer's Prize at the Drama Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece. In 2010 Raindance named Makridis one of “10 Greek Filmmakers to Watch.” L is Makridis's first feature film.