| Pause | |
| Director: | Tonia Mishiali |
| Producer: | Andros Achilleos Stelana Kliris Tonia Mishiali |
| Screenplay: | Tonia Mishiali Anna Fotiadou |
| Music: | Julian Scherle |
| Cinematography: | Yorgos Rahmatoulin |
| Editing: | Emilios Avraam |
| Production Companies: | A.B. Seahorse Films SOUL productions Cyprus Film Advisory Board |
| Distributor: | Subliminal Films |
| Runtime: | 96 minutes |
| Country: | Cyprus Greece |
| Language: | Greek |
Pause is a 2018 Cypriot drama film directed by Tonia Mishiali and starring Stella Fyrogeni.[1]
Pause was filmed in and around Nicosia, Cyprus's capital, in February and March 2017.[2] [3] [4]
A Cypriot housewife reaches menopause and decides she will no longer tolerate her husband's abuse and disrespect. She enters a world of violent and disturbing fantasies.
Pause premiered at the 2018 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, as part of the "East of the West" programme.[5] The Hollywood Reporter called it "a work of considerable tonal complexity, as it stirs moments of pitch-black humor and short and violent reveries into an otherwise austerely told tale of spousal strife that wants to smash the patriarchy with feats of cinematic derring-do."[6] [7]
In What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities and You, Heather Corinna noted that Pause offered "one of the rare sympathetic descriptions of a menopausal mental health struggle."[8]