Venus in the Garden

Midsummer 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 dreamlike 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