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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

63 min

Actor:

Athina Mathiou, Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Stavros Svigos

Quality:

HD

Director:

Telémachos Alexiou

Release:

2011

Country:

Greece, Germany

IMDb:

4.3