In Athens
“
It’s the last straw
,” fumes a cultural advisor after watching the Netflix documentary series retracing the life of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
Alexander
:
The Making of a God
Grand: In the rank of the gods
, online since January 31 in France).
Tired of seeing yet another adaptation of the warlord's life reduced to a kiss with his general Hephaistion, this advisor approves of the controversy of the moment.
The unease is such that he has even invited himself into the ranks of Vouli, the Greek Parliament.
In responding to a question from a member of the patriotic nationalist Niki party, Lina Mendoni, Minister of Culture, had to play the role of film critic by throwing fuel on the fire.
She thus described the controversial documentary as
“fiction of very poor quality, with weak content, and historical inaccuracies”
.
All riddled
with “bad staging and scenographic poverty in search of sensationalism.
If the platform believes that it…
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