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Young Aphrodites
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List Price: $24.98
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Manufacturer: Cinema Epoch
Starring: Eleni Prokopiou, Takis Emmanuel, Kleopatra Rota, Vangelis Ioannidis, Zannino
Directed By: Nikos Koundouros
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 0891514001184
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Cinema Epoch
Manufacturer: Cinema Epoch
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Cinema Epoch
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2007-05-08
Running Time: 88
Studio: Cinema Epoch
Theatrical Release Date: 1966-12
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This rarely seen classic is available for the first time on DVD! The Greek myth of Daphnis and Chloe is told through the tale of the sexual awakening of two adolescents in a Greek tribe.
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Summary: Retsina Makes her clothes fall off
Comment: The appeal of this film is 12-year-old Kleopatra Rota's inability to keep her body covered with the wisp of a garment provided by the costume department. However the film as a whole has a haunting beauty and the feeling of a bleak fairy tale. it begs to be read allegorically. You have men in the wilderness with their animals, women behind the wall of a village. A mature woman longs for the freedom, sexual and otherwise, the shepherds enjoy and struggles with her desire personified by a mature shepherd. A young girl struggles with her emerging sexuality in an innocent game with a boy just feeling his hormones, and is raped and surrenders to a somewhat older boy so besotted with hormones he can't speak. Taken together, the five characters represents, stages, motivations, and possibilities of the never ending dance between men and women. But this is all done visually, with a subtle story arc, so that you feel the motivations without having them articulated. The characters are fantastic, the music great, everything a bit exotic. Way better than all the david hamilton films put together.
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Summary: Engaging !
Comment: Overall, a very well made movie. But the most fascinating aspect of this film--- which I believe indeviduals who give this film a bad review forget--- is that the film is based on an ancient Greek myth, and interpreted by modern Greeks. That is why I have given this film 5 stars; because from the music to the actors, the whole production is authentically Greek. And after all, that is the point of viewing foreign films! The erotic aspect... well, any boy who has gone through puberty should be able to understand the almost hapless.. I mean helpless state of the boy in the film. Truly the story of us all.
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Summary: What a waste of time!
Comment: Watched this DVD with great interest having a bit of knowledge of the old story it was based on. I know it is an old movie and Greeks had a great pride in their conquests but for this movie, it's better with the Greeks left out of it and don't bother buying this movie. I would rate it as less than one star.
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Summary: Feminists and Animal Lovers, Beware!
Comment: This movie, I gathered, is a re-creation of some Greek myth (I would imagine a modern-day Venus and Apollo) and is typical of what transpires in a male domineering world: preying on women and cruelty to animals. This film is not for feminists and animal lovers, nor for those who are buffs for European films with good quality. (I would only recommend it to feminists if they, along with me, wish to view this film just so that they can give it an awful rating; the more of those, the better).
The transfer to DVD is less than good quality for one thing. It moves horribly slow, plus there is no plot. It merely focuses on the sexual frustrations of shepherds who, after a tedious walking trek with their animals, rest in a village where only women dwell; their husbands are gone fending for livelihood.
The main characters are two young pubescent shepherds (one blonde haired, the other dark) and an older one. The older one, despite a young woman's refusals, continues with sexual/romantic advances. Meanwhile, there is competition between the two young ones over a beautiful young girl about their age. As all parties meet, from there it's just continual preying with intermitant displays of merciless cruelty to animals-mostly birds but also one ram. I thought, what was the point?
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Summary: an enigmatic, disturbing film
Comment: This film is a mixture of realism and myth. There are hints of Daphnis and Chloe, but this is not their story at all.
A naive and good young boy (played by a blonde boy of about eleven) travels with a group of sheepherders. At one of their stops, he wanders off and finds a mysterious young girl of about 13 or 14. He falls in love with her, but she plays hard to get and sets tasks for him to do in order to win her. At one point, she teases him wearing a loose garment off one shoulder. There are several shots in which her young breasts are visible, but the twilight is dim. At the end (spoiler coming), an older boy of his group sees the girl, throws her to the ground and rapes her. She screams and resists at first, then throws herself into it. The boy is totally disallusioned, and we see him walking off into the sea dragging the albatross that has been a bond between him and the girl throughout the movie.
That's really it. You make of it what you will, but few people will be able to watch this movie and not have strong mixed feelings of one kind or another.
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