KAOS: Orpheus' Song

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Two best friends from Berlin win a trip to Greece. On their excursion, they get lost on an island. They wander in the woods until they find an abandoned village where they encounter a mysterious youth, who calls himself Hercules. They spend the night together in a cave and dream a mystical dream. The next day, nothing between the two will be like it was before.

Orpheus' Song is the latest feature from Tor Iben, whose last film was the strange, unsettling (and definitely worth seeing) The Year I Lost My Mind.

I was reminded of Kirk Shannon-Butts' woozy, underrated 2007 gem, Blueprint, which similarly sees two men go walkabout in picturesque countryside. As with Blueprint, Iben successfully takes the viewer on the couple's journey, inviting us into their very intimate dance. The developing undercurrent of sexual tension is intoxicating.

So too is the beauty of the two male leads: Sascha Weingarten, in particular, is mesmerisingly lovely, and the chemistry between him and handsome costar Julien Lickert really sells the fantasy.

Short and sweet (it clocks in at just seventy-two minutes) this is one song you'll want to play, and play again.

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"A film is a petrified fountain of thought." Jean Cocteau, French filmmaker, 1889-1963

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