Venus in the Garden (2011)

  • NR
  • 04/10/2011 (DE)
  • Drama
  • 1h 3m

Overview

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.

Telémachos Alexiou

Director, Writer

Cast

Athina Mathiou's headshot

Athina Mathiou

Monika
Alexandros Vardaxoglou's headshot

Alexandros Vardaxoglou

Nikos
Stavros Svigos's headshot

Stavros Svigos

Alan

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