In one of the many eye-opening moments in “Super Paradise,” Greek filmmaker Steve Krikris’ loving documentary portrait of the island of Mykonos, Marilli Tsopanelli, a writer and multi-disciplinary teacher of mime and dance, recalls the bohemian, free-loving spirit that prevailed on the island in the 1960s and ’70s. “Most of my friends lost their virginity in 1971,” Tsopanelli explains. Another interview subject puts it more bluntly: “So much sex.”
It would be inaccurate to characterize Krikris’ documentary as a lusty romp through the hedonistic heyday of “a scandalous place,” as another of the film’s talking heads describes it; indeed, the director, who spent summers on Mykonos throughout his youth,
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