Venus in the Garden
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.
- Year: 2011
- Country: Greece, Germany
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Chocolate Grinder Films
- Keyword: avant-garde, gay theme
- Director: Telémachos Alexiou
- Cast: Athina Mathiou, Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Stavros Svigos
