At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

"Interruption" is a brilliant film, one of the few that has touched me intensely. I watched this film for the first time at the 56th International Film Festival at Thessaloniki, on 13th November 2015, on a Friday. At the same time at "Bataklan" Theatre in Paris something horrible happened; an interruption of the "Eagles of Death Metal" concert. It was a real invasion by terrorists. It ended in a terrible bloodshed with 118 victims. We were informed about this gruesome incident on our way out from the film festival. It was an unexpected, shocking feeling that cannot be expressed with words. The coincidence of the fact that the film, which is a product of imagination, and the actual fact of similar conditions, changed my perception by far, of how anything can happen in reality, surpassing the limits of imagery. Leaving from the theater, I was in a state of shock and I talk about this experience in my life until this day. The film has exceeded in many levels of directing. Watching a play has a different effect of a life performance and art, compared to watching a film at the cinema. Nevertheless, the director managed to give liveliness in the film that a live performance has. The feeling that a spectator had while watching the modern "Orestia" on the screen was the same of a spectator watching it on the cinema screen. The interruption of the performance was initially something unexpected but simultaneously something subversive. The substance of this interruption was meant to highlight the inertia and inactivity of the spectators who become too comfortable for the sake of the performance. Its purpose was to shock and paralyze the audience and their everyday life, who watch countless events but do not react and they remain indifferent. The film in general had an incredible aesthetic and a group of outstanding actors. I recommend to all who have not seen the film to do so and those who have seen it to become more responsible people so as to make our world a better place.

"Interruption" is one of the best film I have seen in last years. Disturbing and mind-blowing game with our habits, myths and democracy in modern world is something very rare those days. Between the philosophical aspects of free choices and ancient therms of destiny the director build a film experience, that cannot be confused with any other films. In this sense the film is a little bit like a classical tragedy. It has the same magnificent weird power like Yorgos Lanthimos famous movies, but it take also a different kind of narrative perspective that makes film unique. Georgios Zois has it's own voice in Greek cinema and I think it will get even stronger.

The last movie I saw at the Mumbai Film Fest and for sometime it looked like I would be going out on a high. The movie grips from the beginning, with a modern dramatized interpretation of an ancient Greek myth setting the stage for a takeover by a shadowy group of armed men and women, their mesmerizing leader thrusting himself as the chief orchestrator of events. The play audience is pulled in to the performance, not realizing that the bizarre turn of events was not part of the programmed script. The tension builds up, and you are hoping that the director can pull of a grand denouement. The entire movie theatre was gripped - even in the quiet parts there was no restless stirring or chatter. But in the end it doesn't so much fall flat as just fizzle out. We were left puzzled - who were the hostage takers, what were their motives, what did they hope to achieve by hijacking the play and its audience, was there a personal connection/antagonism with any of the cast members ... It was like the director had a stylish premise, a unique plot device that he hoped to build a movie around, but didn't have the story to back it up. At the end, the tepid applause from a festival audience that gives even mediocre movies a good clap told it all. It was a feeling of deflation, of being let down after a stirring build up, of making a bad choice when what was playing in the next auditorium was possibly the better movie.

'Interruption' is by far the worst film screening at this year's 72nd Venice Film festival. As the movie begins, a man steps onto a theater stage announcing that 'tonight, the audience will make up the characters and story of the performance'. And yet, the film never settles on a choosing what story it wants to tell. A tour-de-force of slow rack focuses, painfully boring moments of silence, and quite awkward false endings. One after the other. It is arrogant in the way it thinks highly of itself- 'artsy' just for the sake of being artsy. It offers no real thoughts or new ideas, yet it demands two hours of the audience's time.I'd respect the film if it was trying to create unique experimental filmmaking. Unfortunately, it's nothing more than a cheap imitation of it. In the movie's final scene, the theater's audience claps loudly at the performers on stage, once the show is over. In the screening room, the lights go up, and the audience leaves in confused silence.