Head On

1998

Drama

Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.

"full on all night come on"

Rating

6.3
54 votes

Popularity

0.322

Origin & Countries

AU | en | Australia

Production

Head On Productions

Runtime

104 min.

Budget (M$)

0.4 / 0ROI Infinity%

Status

Released

Release: 8/13/1998

Credits

Head On

Ana KokkinosDirector

Head On

Alex DimitriadesAri

Head On

Paul CapsisJohnny

Head On

Julian GarnerSean

Head On

Elena MandalisBetty

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

8/28/2023

6 / 10

Alex Dimitriades is "Ari" - a young Greek man whose family emigrated to live in Melbourne, where he is struggling to get job. To kill time, he hangs around with his mates snorting cocaine and - on the quiet - meeting men for casual sex. It's not really a "gay" film; it is a much broader analysis of a young man with neither the roots of his country, nor of a relationship to help him through his rather meaningless existence. His community is trying to straddle their need to honour their homeland traditions whilst adapting to the "tolerances" of their new home - brought to a head by some fairly grisly homophobic behaviour all round in the last twenty minutes or so. Demitriades is fine, as is Paul Capsis as his openly gay/transvestite cousin "Johnny" but the rest of the cast seem there to reinforce the stereotypes and therefore add little to any meaningful dialogue. To be honest, it could be a depiction of any immigrant culture in any country - and falls a bit flat as "Ari" seems ultimately rather deserving of his shallow existence...

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