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Thanos Lekkas narrates this story in past tense, describing an adventure out of the city, camping in nature. Two beautiful guys want to see where the relationship is going, after all the recent fighting. Much wallowing. talking. Frolicking naked on the beach and in the water. Very explicit outdoor sex. Lots of it. Much BEAUTIFUL scenery -- Greece ? this entry doesn't seem to have any locations listed, and i didn't catch any locations mentioned in the credits. So...it's a trade-off... two hot naked guys playing on the beach, while we listen to the "author", (one of the guys...) drone on and on about their last big argument. it's a social worker's dream. and the narrator talks in a monotone voice, so similar to HAL 9000 from 2001, Space Odyssey. My recommendation: watch it with the sound turned off! why spend 76 minutes listen to one guy's agonizing over one incident? There is resolution, which i won't give away here, but it'll be a much happier experience if you leave the sound turned off. so much negativity and self doubt. The scenery and the men are the best part of this. too bad the director couldn't let us spend more hearing about the good, happy times, of which there apparently were many. too much dwelling on the negative. and the monotone voice doesn't help!

With virtually no on-screen dialogue, Konstantinos Menelaou has constructed quite an image-driven look at the relationship between two gay men - Hermes Pittakos and Sanuye Shoteka - their characters have no names - as they spend a summer by the sea evaluating the state (or not) of their long term relationship. With the help of narrator Thanos Lekkas (who increasingly sounded a little like Tom Hardy to me) we are given what at times I feared was bordering on a suicide-letter assessment of the relationship - from just one perspective - as the two men play, cavort, have sex before gradually drifting apart before... Is the relationship doomed or is this rather wordy introspection a route to self-awareness and the salvation of the relationship? Thing is with this, it's just far too long and meandering. At times the script is poignant - we have all felt the intensity of love, sex, disappointment and hope - but this story doesn't really focus on manifesting these emotions on screen sufficiently. Far too many scenes of beaches and seascapes and sunsets... That they speak only once does actually work, but I could have done with maybe half an hour less of the navel gazing and a little more passion, emotion and conviction from writing. To be fair to the two men, though - they are almost like dancers, especially in the water - and they emanate a sense that they could truly be a couple in or out of love. The score is a bit soporific which doesn't exactly help, but it's worth a watch just to see a gay film that does try to think things through...

The film is presented as a monologue accompanying scenes of two very hunky, masculine, good looking guys swimming, having sex, walking, gazing, lying down, sitting. Does this sound like the most wonderful thing to watch for 72 minutes? You're right, it's a pretentious, utterly boring waste of time. Sheer twaddle. Neither of the actors reads the voiceover monologue which details a boring story of relationship difficulties from the point of view of one of them. Instead, it's read by an utterly inappropriate person who drones, is adenoidal and vaguely effeminate, something that jars with the way these guys look and are portraying themselves.

Despite the credits and actors having Greek names, the voiceover is in English. The only non-English part is a song in a language I couldn't identify, maybe Greek. Did I say "actors" again? Sorry, they are anything but. Anyone could have done what they did. They are models.

I was looking forward to this. I have no aversion to "arty" films at all but they have to be interesting, hold the attention, be relevant, say something to the viewer. This film did nothing like that. I didn't care, I wasn't interested and was, frankly, bored. This was a monumental fail.

Really, use the time on something else.

What a waste of an hour and 12 minutes. Besides a lot of nudity and graphic sex, basically a narrated story of a sad life struggling to find happiness.

If you could do a degree in soft porn, this would be someone's dissertation. But it would be a bare pass.

You can almost see the "actors" responding to the director in real time. Washed out, desaturated colour for no obvious reason. Real sex for no obvious reason. No characterisation for no obvious reason. Droning monotone voiceover for no obvious reason.

This film has no obvious reason to exist, except to feed the film-maker's vanity. I couldn't wait for it to end. Avoid.

I love the audio part, i heard it again immediately, the look is beautiful too, with an extremely dreamy beach. Although the story quite dramatic, but i was also boring with coming of age, coming out, or some real life gay stuff. This film is only about love, but not that kind you always found on a movie, love in this film is a heavy word you had to make great effort to stand it. I was so into this guy thought that my heart broken a little bit thinking that they won't be together in the future, i want them have a happy ever after so much cause this film make it fell like they born to be side by side forever.

What's worse than watching paint dry? Watching 2 moderately hot young trendy gay guys endlessly wandering around deserted arid beaches, frequently naked and having pretty explicit but surprisingly un-erotic sex (including an unexpected "solo" performance), while the incredibly immature, insecure, and seriously neurotic half of the couple drones on and on endlessly about all the ways he's been trying to sabotage the relationship. With the sound off, it would be like watching a sterile nature documentary coolly observing the random sex lives of two human males. The incredibly inept film-making leaves the entire experience cold and distant - there is no attempt to involve the viewer and make them care about the characters and the outcome. It was so boring that I spent most of the time wondering where in the heck their necessary copious amounts of fresh water and food was coming from, and how on earth they were magically managing to keep a mobile phone charged in the absolute middle of nowhere! And I wonder how quickly the uber-trendy hair-styles sported by the guys are going to seriously date the look of the picture in years to come.

I have to jump ship with all the other reviews of this film. I found the cinematography outstanding. The 2 actors, I felt, really embraced the storyline. Gay relationships are complicated and the film brings out the emotion of insecurity and guilt from past behaviors by one character and his desire to find the happiness he once felt when the relationship was new. He desperately wants his partner to want him and love him and deep down forgive him and accept him regardless of his (their) mistakes of the past. (I won't mention the behavior, spoiler). Will spending time during the summer together away from the city and surrounded by the beauty and tranquility of the secluded beach bring them back to where they once were? The dialogue begins with an optimistic tone but over the course of time, more is revealed and and the tone darkens. There is a lot of full frontal nudity and sexual content to this film, however I found the actors masculine and realistic, not model types in my opinion mentioned in other reviews. I found it worth the wait to see if their love survives or dies.

Great to see there are cinematographers where trying to break taboo subject about male full nudity!

In general around is considered as shame and filthy to expose your male bits. Only downside is that cast actually does not have any lines. Storyline more suitable for short film.

A film easy to reduce only at image. Two guys making love on beach, in water, a comentary giving a sort of axis of story, not convincing, less useful, sensuality and naked men in large slices and a bit of nostalgia. Nothing spectacular but enough for seduce.