Mikres Aphrodites (1963)
Directed by
Nikos Koundouros
Genre: Drama
Also Known As:
Young Aphrodites (USA) (1966)
Runtime: 88 min
Country: Greece
Language: Greek
Subs: Unknown, maybe subbed english vhs
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057307/
Awards:
1963 Won FIPRESCI Prize Nikos Koundouros
1963 Silver Berlin Bear Best Director Nikos Koundouros
This slow moving exploitation film concerns two couples in love. A married woman meets a shepherd, flocking to him in an adulterous affair while her husband goes on a fishing expedition. Also, a twelve years old girl storms the dreams of a ten year old boy when both are eager to experience their first love. The young couple receive a lesson in love when they run across the shepherd and the fisherman's wife in the throws of passion. — Dan Pavlides
User Comments: stunning imagerie of archetypical symbolism and sensuality.
Not many people may have seen this film. It's probably almost impossible to get hold of these days. A great pity. I saw it twice in the seventies. Ever since the first viewing it has been in my personal top five. It's a story told in images, full of wonderful symbolism, beautifully photographed in black and white. It plays in a long ago Greece, in a village by the sea. The men are out fishing, the women are waiting for their return, and from the mountains a group of shepherds come down with their flocks. Thus the land meets the see, earth and water, male and female, birds and stones, a stork and a fish, birds captured in fishing nets etc. etc. This archetypical encounter is played out by the young (who remembers the intriguing poster of the prepubescent girl with the fishing net draped over her shoulder?) and the mature. I remember, when the film ended, I did not want it to end. I was feeling melancholic and a little sad that you could not be there as well. This film is like a dream you would wish you could dream every night.
YOUNG APRHODITES presents a world of pimitive love and lust, erotic passions, and innocent physical longing as two adolescents experience sensual awakening in a savagely nomadic world. Winner of the BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL AWARD Winner of the INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS AWARD Director NIKOS KOUNDOUROS, winner of the Best Director award at the BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL, filmed among the old ruins and landscapes of Greece and used authentic shepherds, peasants, and popular dancers to recreate the mood and atmosphere of a time long ago. Both exotic and sensual, this magnificently photographed film is a poetic ode to the beginning of adulthood and the loss of innocence.
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