Olympia I & II (2008)
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Runtime : 8M
Director : Gabriel Abrantes, Katie Widloski
Synopsis
This radical diptych recasts Manet's canonical painting as a scandalous psychodrama: in the first part, a prostitute (Katie Widloski) and her brother (Gabriel Abrantes) struggle with their incestuous urges; in the second, a prostitute (Abrantes) copes with her loneliness on a slow night for business.
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