‘Mesmerizing…Deadpan and winning…What rivets the attention is not the hardcore sex but the sense - Mike Leigh-worthy - of a tragicomical, low-rent existential crisis’  

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times **** 

‘Directed by Andrew Haigh with great sensitivity…all is portrayed with breathtaking artistry and considerateness…The story blends fiction and documentary, using real scenarios from film collected over a year, fleeting moments in stobe-lit disco’s momentarily reduce all players to colliding atoms in a particle accelerator, but Haigh brilliantly chooses to focus on the individuals and the everyday nature of their life, with it’s simplicity and accidental grace” 

Ken Russell, The Times 

 ‘The vérité aesthetic is gritty and unglamorous, but also humane and occasionally transcendent…Forget judgmental finger-wagging or voyeuristic adulation: Haigh wants his audience to draw their own conclusions”

Michael Gillespie , The Skinny ****

‘A deadpan serving of real-life drama, this night-and-day portrait is a 21st-century update of Andy Warhol’s Flesh…It’s sadness doesn’t stem from a moral tut-tut stance about whoring but from a sense of modern emptiness that haunts Pete…Well-shot and anchored by a performance that’s just deep and ordinary enough to remain compelling, Greek Pete isn’t just easy meat’

San Francisco Bay Guardian

‘Greek Pete is an arresting, but sad, insight into the unseen world of rent..Full of honesty, real affection, real sex and often shocking realism, director Andrew Haigh casts light on what is an often misunderstood section of gay society’

Attitude Magazine

‘It’s a black comedy, full of great lines and it deserves to be a mainstream hit’

Charlotte O’Sullivan, Evening Standard