'Pause' is not an easy or a pleasant film to watch, but it does have individual moments and sequences that are simply transfixing, as well as a strong, well-defined painterly aesthetic.
Elpida just wanted to get her doctor’s opinion on treating her symptoms of menopause. Instead, she leaves his office after an examination with every kind of pill and cream imaginable, a laundry list of side effects that are somehow delivered with a straight face, and confirmation that even when she seeks out help or advice, it won’t come in the form she wants.
Slowly but surely, Costas begins to isolate Elpida from the rest of the world, arguing with her over getting internet access and even selling the car she needs to do said grocery shopping over her repeated objections. Subsequently, Elpida begins to slip into brief daydreams of a different life.
Pause is not an easy or a pleasant film to watch, but it does have individual moments and sequences that are simply transfixing, as well as a strong, well-defined painterly aesthetic. In particular, the frontal shots of the interior of Elpida’s and Costas’ apartment, with its glazed blue, slightly blurred stillness of contemporary realist paintings, are gorgeous even as they describe Elpida’s cage.
It would be overly simplistic to say that Pause is about menopause as an opportunity for a wife to envision, however disturbingly, a life without an awful husband, but the fact that the film opens with Elpida seeking treatment for menopause is certainly not inconsequential to the narrative. The fact that Elpida is going through menopause is merely another way Costas can slice her out of his daily considerations.
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