Venus in the Garden

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 10, 2011

Original language

English

Spoken languages

French, Greek

Countries

Greece, Germany

Production

Chocolate Grinder Films

Cast

Alexandros Vardaxoglou,Stavros Svigos,Athina Mathiou

Director

Telémachos Alexiou

Writer

Telémachos Alexiou

Producer

Telémachos Alexiou,Ilektra Kalaitzi

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2091317