For many, the love for a simple, eternal and spiritual Greece began precisely thanks to this film. Mediterraneo is a manifesto of Greece in which it is possible to get lost in time, breathe more slowly, feel a new essentiality in one's thoughts, letting oneself go to the natural rhythms of the sea, the sun and the moon, the wind. A beautiful article published on Ilgrilloviaggiante.it perfectly describes not only the film, but also the feelings of those like us who have decided to leave everything and move to a Greek island.

"The underlying theme of Mediterraneo is undoubtedly escape, understood as the search for a new form of interiority, not conditioned by ideological factors but rather by emotional connotations. War or politics and its myths have little to do with it, they matter more personal achievements, the confidence in finding one's own paradise, the place to be, to love, to grow old. Escape is not seen (...) as an easy disengagement, it is not even a form of protest, it is rather the need of the soul to reach an elsewhere that allows you to realize dreams and desires, to put the evil of the world behind you. Escape means rebelling in silence, slowing down (in "Mediterranean" the radio breaks, the newspapers are missing, the clocks do not exist) and land where you want. To feel new things. In the film, what wins is the idea of the island as a nest, as a closed system, as a magic circle, as a safe place, which protects, which does not betray. Almost a self-sustaining ecosystem, a kind of myth of paradise".

On a warm evening at the end of summer it is easy to feel the melancholy of the film in the face of a changing world, of something that ends, but also the expectation of something new on the horizon, of finally finding one's own dimension.