Venus in the Garden (2011)
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.
Director: Telémachos Alexiou
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Athina Mathiou as Monika |
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Alexandros Vardaxoglou as Nikos |
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Stavros Svigos as Alan |
| Editing | Assaf Hochman | Editor |
| Editing | Telémachos Alexiou | Editor |
| Crew | Tim Schenkl | Cinematography |
| Directing | Telémachos Alexiou | Director |
| Production | Ilektra Kalaitzi | Producer |
| Writing | Telémachos Alexiou | Writer |
| Production | Telémachos Alexiou | Producer |
