'Tungsten" is a film about the ugly face of modern Athens. A face that we all know that exists, in other cities too (even in a different way), but try to avoid it, to pretend that it has nothing to do with us- but it does. Families full of debts, relationships in lack of communication, friendship and dreaming, violence, anger and despair are the characteristics of the heroes' lives that haunt them and almost drive them mad, doing things that could take them out of their sadness and boredom. The B/W color gives the film a dramatic tone, stresses the darkness in which the heroes are trapped, while the urban setting, industrial, with huge highways and working class' neighborhoods, puts us right into that miserable routine. Does the light ever come back? Spectators are about to answer this question in the end of the film, which, in conclusion, is about a city and its habitants that (both) need to be loved and start all over.
7,5/ 10