“They Come Out of Margo”, an interview with director Alexandros Voulgaris

July 11, 2025

Director Alexandros Voulgaris on "They Come Out of Margo": 'The film is a farewell party to darkness.'

"They Come Out of Margo", an interview with director Alexandros Voulgaris Bénédicte Prot

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Greek director and musician Alexandros Voulgaris, a.k.a. The Boy, who has just world-premiered his latest work, “They Come Out of Margo“, in the Proxima Competition of the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival, tells us more about this undescribable, extremely rich work centered around a fictional, once prolific female composer adored by the people of Athens – born by accident after the mysterious disappearance of a sister she never met whose name she bears in shortened form – who celebrates her 40th birthday with her dearest friends in the rich universe of the flat she hasn’t left in many years.

Voulgaris describes his writing process and elaborates on the seemingly dissociative, fragmented structure of the film, teeming with existential and philosophical suggestions, and how it embraces more truthfully the all-at-once complexity of daily life. We also discuss death and generativity, the elevated cinematic references present in the film, its horror-like elements as well as its uncanny lightness, and the situation of female artists in the 70s and 80s, amongst other things.

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'A tender horror flick, an experimental melodrama. Any attempt made to categorise this unconventional cinematic experience seems inadequate. Greek director and musician Alexandros Voulgaris, a.k.a. The Boy, brings us an unusually intimate, yet expressively powerful study of an artist on the brink of middle age. All fears, anxieties and hopes are embodied in the character of Margo, a songwriter who was once famous but who now isolates herself in her apartment. A party held to celebrate her 40th birthday and the emotions that are born there unexpectedly help Margo enter a new stage in her life.' (Anna Kořínek, KVIFF official website)

Written by: Bénédicte Prot

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Alexandros Voulgaris

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They Come Out of Margo

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Karlovy Vary Film Festival

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