At the beginning Basil picks up three books and puts them under his right arm. He walks around a small group of people, and in the next shot they are under his left arm.
The Greek Orthodox Church does not hold funeral services for suicides.
Near the end of the movie, when the log is coming down the hill it is seen as fairly round and the bark is rough and peeling, like a natural log. But when the log gets to the end of the cable, it appears to be a fake log with no bark and a visible framework that makes it look multi-sided rather than round.
Though Basil is in the remote, backward village for months, his hair continues to look as if he had just walked out of an expensive London hairdressing salon.