Cabeça erguida

Cabeça erguida (1998)

Head On

Ao longo de um período de 24 horas, Ari, um jovem de 19 anos, confronta sua sexualidade e seu fundo grego. Ari é obcecado por sexo e tem encontros sexuais com várias pessoas, a maioria deles gay, e tenta satisfazer a irmã de um de seus melhores amigos. Ao mesmo tempo, ele está enfrentando problemas com seus tradicionais pais gregos, que não têm nenhum indício sobre suas atividades sexuais e consumo de drogas

Data de estreia
1998-08-13
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (70)
Duração
1 h 44 min
Géneros
Drama
Realizador
Ana Kokkinos

Elenco

Curiosidades

  • Bilheteira: AU$ 1,8 mi
  • Baseado em: Loaded
  • Filmado em: Melbourne
  • Prémios: 1 · Nomeações: 9. Incluindo: AACTA Award for Best Editing

Head On is a 1998 Australian LGBT-related romantic drama film directed by Ana Kokkinos, who wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bovell and Mira Robertson. The film is based on the 1995 novel Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas. The film stars Alex Dimitriades, Paul Capsis, Elena Mandalis and Damien Fotiou. The film tells the story of Ari (Dimitriades), a dissolute 19-year-old second generation Greek-Australian in Melbourne. Ari is caught between his conservative Greek background and modern Australia, amid his homosexual desire.

Production

Several Greek Australian actors from Kokkinos' previous film, Only the Brave appear in this film. Elena Mandalis and Dora Kaskanis, protagonists of the previous film, again took on Greek Australian roles as Betty and Dina. Eugenia Fragos was also cast as the mother of Ari (Dimitriades). She had previously played Mrs Stefanou, mother of Vicki (Kaskanis) in Only the Brave. Elena Mandalis (Betty) and Andrea Mandalis (Alex) are real-life sisters.

The "bashing" scene at the police station, where Ari and Toula are assaulted by cops, was written for the film and does not come from the novel. Such incidents were not uncommon at the time in Australia. Kokkinos hired a cop for the rehearsals period and asked if the scene was overblown, he responded “No. Quite the contrary.”

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