Venus in the Garden

Venus in the Garden

43% Match20111h 3m

Drama

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.

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Two Brothers
A Siren in the Dark
Never Too Young to Die
Hush!
Like Grains of Sand
The Mudge Boy
Otto; or, Up with Dead People
Wild Reeds
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Harry and Max
Come Undone
Eban and Charley
O Fantasma
Drifting Laurent
Not Knowing
Drowning by Numbers
Intruders
Steam: The Turkish Bath
Gone, But Not Forgotten