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6.3/10 • 54

1998-08-131h 44m

Drama

Full on. All night. Come on.

Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.

Directors
Ana Kokkinos
Editors
Jill Bilcock

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  1. Alex Dimitriades

    Alex Dimitriades

    Ari

  2. Paul Capsis

    Paul Capsis

    Johnny

  3. Julian Garner

    Julian Garner

    Sean

  4. Elena Mandalis

    Elena Mandalis

    Betty

  5. Tony Nikolakopoulos

    Tony Nikolakopoulos

    Dimitri

  6. Damien Fotiou

    Damien Fotiou

    Joe

  7. Eugenia Fragos

    Eugenia Fragos

    Sophia

  8. Dora Kaskanis

    Dora Kaskanis

    Dina

  9. Alex Papps

    Alex Papps

    Peter

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CinemaSerf

Aug 28, 2023

6/10

Alex Dimitriades is "Ari" - a young Greek man whose family emigrated to live in Melbourne, where he is struggling to get job. To kill time, he hangs around with his mates snorting cocaine and - on the quiet - meeting men for casual sex. It's not really a "gay" film; it is a much broader analysis of a young man with neither the roots of his country, nor of a relationship to help him through his rather meaningless existence. His community is trying to straddle their need to honour their homeland traditions whilst adapting to the "tolerances" of their new home - brought to a head by some fairly grisly homophobic behaviour all round in the last twenty minutes or so. Demitriades is fine, as is Paul Capsis as his openly gay/transvestite cousin "Johnny" but the rest of the cast seem there to reinforce the stereotypes and therefore add little to any meaningful dialogue. To be honest, it could be a depiction of any immigrant culture in any country - and falls a bit flat as "Ari" seems ultimately rather deserving of his shallow existence...

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
$378,667.00
Keywords
bisexualitymelbourne, australiadrugslgbtwoman directorgay theme