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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.

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VENUS IN THE GARDEN (Η ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΥΛΗ) 2011

Cast and Crew

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Athina Mathiou

Monika

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Alexandros Vardaxoglou

Nikos

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Stavros Svigos

Alan

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Telémachos Alexiou

Director

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Telémachos Alexiou

Writer

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Telémachos Alexiou

Producer

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Ilektra Kalaitzi

Producer

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Tim Schenkl

Cinematography

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Telémachos Alexiou

Editor

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Assaf Hochman

Editor

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.

Orignal Title

I Afroditi Stin Avli

Orignal Language

en

Duration

63 minutes

Genre

Drama

Status

Released

Release Data

2011-04-10

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Production Companies

Chocolate Grinder Films

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