Venus in the Garden

Released: 2011


Drama
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.
Starring: Athina Mathiou, Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Stavros Svigos
Directed by: Telémachos Alexiou
Written by: Telémachos Alexiou
Language: French, Greek
Scenes
Alan (Stavros Svigos) urinates on himself hitting his face and shirt. (50:53)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8nyp2i
Screen Captures

Alternate Titles
I Afroditi stin avli
Venus in the Garden