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Nevertheless, one of the last shots of the film frames a future where sexual orientation is no longer something that needs to be discussed.

Victoras and Mathias reach their destination too speedily and the dive into the domestic is a shock, and family dynamics muddle the filmвЂ™s main relationship. Later as the men drive through the Italian mountains, KammitsisвЂ™s vision is more keen to show the wide landscapes as the road to Germany loops up inclines or hugs the side of the valley. The early moments in the film, like when VictorasвЂ™s torso bounces into camera shot as he exercises on his trampoline to the tune of Sam FenderвЂ™s Dead Boys or when he visits his dying grandmother in bed underneath a blinking fluorescent light bulb in the municipal hospital, reveal KammitsisвЂ™s eye for detail. The sexual tension between them doesnвЂ™t really arise until the two men gatecrash a heterosexual wedding in the Italian countryside, an ironic catalyst from writer-director Stelios Kammitsis.

However, once Mathias is in the car the rest of the film, sedate even in its brief 80 minutes, feels believable, and MathiasвЂ™s knowledge of life complements the innocence of Victoras. ThereвЂ™s no sense of desire at this point or even of friendship. Their first conversation ends abruptly with Victoras walking off, but eventually MathiasвЂ™s persistence wins and heвЂ™s soon sat in the passenger seat of VictorasвЂ™s Audi.ДЄnton Weil does well to make Mathias a likeable character, but it is hard to believe that Victoras would let the smarmy and needy German into his car in the first place. The confident German tries to impress the awkward Greek by stealing an overpriced sandwich. On the ferry to Italy, he meets Mathias, a German with money in his pocket and a month to spend it in. After the funeral, he decides to go on a road trip. It seems that he has a lonely life there he trampolines alone at the dock before working in silence at a furniture restorer. Victoras (a suitably hangdog performance by Vasilis Magouliotis) leaves Greece when his grandmother dies. The вЂIs he?вЂ™ вЂwill he?вЂ™ tension established in the filmвЂ™s first half is so absorbing that itвЂ™s unfortunate that their expedition is over so fast.

Man of the house rain dance movie#

Proving that the journey is more important than the destination, this homoerotic road movie set in Greece, Italy and Germany is far more interesting when its heroes Victoras and Mathias are travelling and their friendship is on precarious terms.