The Summer with Carmen

6.6(28)20231h 46m

Comedy

While having a day-long swim at Athens’ queer beach, best friends Demosthenes and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas’ feature debut.

Director

Zacharias Mavroeidis

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Cast

Yorgos Tsiantoulas

Demosthenes

Andreas Labropoulos

Nikitas

Nikolas Mihas

Panos

Roubini Vasilakopoulou

Kaiti

Vasilis Tsigristaris

Thymios

Nantia Margariti

Fenia

Clio Chavgie

Eleni

Jacques Simha

Kostakis

Christos Stathousis

Worker

Antonis Karnavas

Queer Boy #1

Nikos Georgakakis

Queer Boy #2

Asi Biliou

Self

Reviews

2 reviews

Brent_Marchant

1y ago

6.0

The movie-within-a-movie narrative is a popular cinematic storytelling approach, but, to my knowledge, writer-director Zacharias Mavroeidis’s fourth feature outing is the first film to make use of it in the LGBTQ+ genre. This endearing gay comedy-drama tells the story of two long-time best friends, Demosthenes (Yorgos Tsiantoulas), a former actor-turned civil servant, and Nikitas (Andreas Labropou...

Geronimo1967

8mo ago

6.0

If you watch an heap of gay cinema, especially from South America, then this kind of story isn’t really that novel. There are plenty where hunky heroes like “Demos” (Yorgos Tsiantoilas) has a best mate “Nikitas” (Andreas Labropoulos) - who is obviously quite keen on his pal who doesn’t really reciprocate in the way he wants, and who takes advantage of the local nudist beach and fairly vibrant gay...