{"id":7393,"date":"2013-12-25T01:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T06:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2013-12-25T01:19:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T06:19:27","slug":"nikos-papatakis%e2%80%99-gloria-mundi-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7393","title":{"rendered":"Nikos Papatakis\u2019 Gloria Mundi (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Merry Xmas on what I hope for most is a warm Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Walking home last night was surreal – you emerge from the subway station and outside is pure blackness, with some faint lights in the distance. I chose to walk home on a street flanked by houses instead of a large park because it seemed less creepy, and did a kind of ‘puddle wading’ walk home, so as not to slip on any of the thick ice patches. A few homes had external generators running, and some had flickering lights from candles , but the entire neighbourhood north of the Danforth was pretty much dead. A house the street over seemed to have some light, but it may well have been a lantern.<\/p>\n

After arriving home, I took the landlord’s suggestion and took the food out of the freezer (which I hand’t opened in 2 days) and placed them in a storage locker outside. The only shock was seeing a bright red wet patch in the freezer – not from thawing meat, but raspberries that had thawed and were leaking bright red juice through a crack in the container. Who knew berries could look so brilliantly sanguine on a white surface?<\/p>\n

When the heat returned, the timing was perfect, because the house was, in simple words, fucking cold. You couldn’t stand without shaking in the cold, and every thick object – a mug, metal utensils, whatever – were icy to the touch. It took maybe 5 hours for the entire basement to warm up again to something genuinely comfortable, and I can’t imagine how awful another day without juice would’ve been. \u00a0I made a point of leaving the faucets on a slow trickle to ensure the pipes wouldn’t freeze, as no one wants a moat in their basement. I also placed the flashlight right by the door so there was minimal searching & wall bumping in the dark.<\/p>\n

The whole walk home and walking in & around the apartment with a flashlight felt like\u00a0The Omega Man <\/strong>(1971), where Charlton Heston spends a lot of time wandering through the city and suburban streets with his flashlight, searching for vampires.<\/p>\n

Biggest surprise: perhaps because the apartment was so cold, the milk actually survived.<\/p>\n

Handy tip: if you have to light candles and don’t have long matches or one of those long-neck candle lighters, use a piece of pasta, like spaghetti or fettuccine. Pasta is very long, and allows you to light a wick very easily from any weird angle.<\/p>\n

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Unlike One 7 Movies cover, this moment is actually in the film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Uploaded is a review of Nikos Papatakis’ politically charged drama Gloria Mundi<\/strong>, aka Tortura<\/strong>. Rebranded as In Hell<\/a><\/strong> by One 7 Movies, this French-Italian co-production is one of just a few films directed by Papatakis, who uses the story of an actress attempting to complete the film begun by her likely dead husband to criticize the French occupation of Algeria.<\/p>\n

If you can sit through the opening scene, you can handle the rest in this furious piece of performance art featuring a bravura performance by Olga Karlatos.<\/p>\n

Part drama, experimental, and sexploitation, this is not a nice movie, but worth the time for those interested in films designed to provoke audiences with blunt force trauma towards their moral cabinet.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com <\/strong>( Main Site<\/a> \/ Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yup, the power’s finally back, so on with the review uploads, starting with Nikos Papatakis’ Gloria Mundi \/ Tortura \/ In Hell from One 7 Movies, starring Olga Karlatos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[2406,2405,934,2403,2404,2407,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1Vf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}