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Venus in the Garden

Original title: I Afroditi stin avli
Year: 2011
Running time: 63 min.
Country: Greece
Director: Telémachos Alexiou
Screenwriter: Telémachos Alexiou
Cast: Athina Mathiou, Alex Vardas, Stavros Svigos
Cinematography: Tim Schenkl
Producer: Co-production Greece-Germany;
Chocolate Grinder Films. Distributor: Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art
Genre: Drama | Gay & Lesbian
Synopsis: Mid-summer heatwave. Nikos and Alain, two male prostitutes and a female pimp, Monica, get tangled in a peculiar relationship after meeting in a dark street called POUTANA. They fall in love, play with guns and talk about card games, money and theatre castings. Is this a game of role playing the three of them have invented to pass their time in a remote, empty summer house? Have they been reading Jean Genet? Whether a mirror image of the characters’ reality or an elliptic depiction of their distorted, dream-like perception of it, I Afroditi Stin Avli, by juxtaposing disparate literary and art references, leads its isolated characters towards dissolution. And yet, in its strange language, it presents this dissolution as a triumph.

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Venus in the Garden

2011

Telémachos Alexiou