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"A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra" (Courtesy of Thessaloniki Film Festival) Following its prize-winning premiere at the Venice Film Festival and a whirlwind tour of the fall festival circuit, “A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra,” by Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou, celebrates its homecoming this week at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, where it’s competing for top honors in the festival’s main international competition.
Inspired by true events, Lentzou’s sophomore feature follows the unruly, melancholic 15-year-old Jo — played by arresting newcomer Evia Andriopoulou — as she navigates the ups and downs of a typical day in a typical teenager’s life. Drifting through a series of seemingly unrelated and inconsequential events, an otherwise ordinary day is turned upside-down with the arrival of Phaedra (Anastasia Gouliamou), a bookish classmate whose warbling rendition of an old love ballad reduces Jo to tears. In an instant, her life — her drab, unremarkable day — becomes full of possibility, hurtling toward both tragedy and transformation.
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