Movie Review: CHEVALIER (Greece 2015) ***

CHEVALIER (Greece 2015) ***
Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari

Starring: Efthymis Filippou, Athina Rachel Tsangari

Review by Gilbert Seah

Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari broke into the art-house cinema circuit in 2010 with her feminine study in ATTENBERG. Like ATTENBERG, CHEVALIER is a deadpan comedy of manners, so deadpan that much of the humour may be missed. However, the females in her previous films are now replaced by six males – all stuck on a yacht in the Aegean Sea, playing an absurd game in which the winner gets to wear the CHEVALIER ring as a reward. What the game requires is each member to grade every other on personal mental and physical challenges, that are determined by the grader himself. So, hilariously, each go about with a notebook taking notes on every other. The winner is the ‘Best in General’.

CHEVALIER has a good premise judging from the popularity…