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Only the Brave (1994)
Only the Brave (1994)
Dir.: Ana Kokkinos
Alex (Elena Mandalis) and Vicki (Dora Kaskanis) are best friends, growing up in the industrial suburbs of outer Melbourne. Vicki’s parents are Greek migrants. Alex’s parents were musicians, but her Greek mother left the family years earlier, and Alex longs to know where she is. In school, Alex is the favourite of English teacher Kate (Maud Davey) and Vicki is the rebel. Outside school, they both run wild, setting fires in abandoned houses, drinking and smoking, planning to run away to Sydney to find Alex’s mother. Vicki can’t understand Alex’s reluctance to sleep with a boy; Alex isn’t quite sure yet what her sexuality is. When Alex learns that her friend is being sexually abused, the world collapses for both girls. (australianscreen.com.au)
Alex (Elena Mandalis) and Vicki (Dora Kaskanis) are best friends, growing up in the industrial suburbs of outer Melbourne. Vicki’s parents are Greek migrants. Alex’s parents were musicians, but her Greek mother left the family years earlier, and Alex longs to know where she is. In school, Alex is the favourite of English teacher Kate (Maud Davey) and Vicki is the rebel. Outside school, they both run wild, setting fires in abandoned houses, drinking and smoking, planning to run away to Sydney to find Alex’s mother. Vicki can’t understand Alex’s reluctance to sleep with a boy; Alex isn’t quite sure yet what her sexuality is. When Alex learns that her friend is being sexually abused, the world collapses for both girls. (australianscreen.com.au)
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Head On is a 1998 award-winning Australian film directed by Ana Kokkinos. Based on the
Head On is a 1998 award-winning Australian film directed by Ana Kokkinos. Based on the
acclaimed novel Loaded written by Christos Tsiolkas, it stars Alex Dimitriades as a young gay
man of Greek background, living in the inner city of Melbourne. The film gained notoriety upon
its releasefor its sexual explicitness, including a graphic masturbation scene performed by
Dimitriades. Also features a transgender character played by Paul Capsis. (en.wikipedia.com)
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Head On (1998)
Head On (1998)
Dir.: Ana Kokkinos
Nineteen-year-old Ari (Alex Dimitriades) walks out of a Greek wedding in Melbourne. He is young, handsome, unemployed and bisexual, alienated from just about everything. His father (Tony Nikolakopoulos) calls him an animal, his mother (Eugenia Fragos) pleads with him not to leave home. Ari’s closest friend Johnny (Paul Capsis) is open about his cross-dressing, but Ari can’t face the ostracism and derision that would follow coming out. Instead he seeks short-term ecstasy in large amounts of drugs and anonymous sex in seedy alleys and public toilets.
The movie follows him and his friends through 24 hours of excess – from a family party where he almost has sex with his best friend Betty (Elena Mandalis), to a Greek nightclub where Johnny arrives dressed as his mother, calling himself Toula; to a gay nightclub where he meets up with Sean (Julian Garner), an Anglo man he fancies. In the morning he stands on the docks at Williamstown, where thousands of Greek migrants first set foot in Australia. He dances a Greek dance, alone and still defiant. (australianscreen.com.au)
Nineteen-year-old Ari (Alex Dimitriades) walks out of a Greek wedding in Melbourne. He is young, handsome, unemployed and bisexual, alienated from just about everything. His father (Tony Nikolakopoulos) calls him an animal, his mother (Eugenia Fragos) pleads with him not to leave home. Ari’s closest friend Johnny (Paul Capsis) is open about his cross-dressing, but Ari can’t face the ostracism and derision that would follow coming out. Instead he seeks short-term ecstasy in large amounts of drugs and anonymous sex in seedy alleys and public toilets.
The movie follows him and his friends through 24 hours of excess – from a family party where he almost has sex with his best friend Betty (Elena Mandalis), to a Greek nightclub where Johnny arrives dressed as his mother, calling himself Toula; to a gay nightclub where he meets up with Sean (Julian Garner), an Anglo man he fancies. In the morning he stands on the docks at Williamstown, where thousands of Greek migrants first set foot in Australia. He dances a Greek dance, alone and still defiant. (australianscreen.com.au)
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