Phaidros

Movie
Audience Score
55
Phaidros
NR 1 hr 38 min
Phaidros is based on Platos eponymous dialogue and plays in an LBQT milieu of a presentday metropolis The actor Emil is meant to embody the character of the poet Phaedrus in a battle of words with Werner Maria who slips into the role of Socrates When the borders between friendship and sexual initiation soon blur beyond the events on stage too the shrill carnivalesque scenario turns into grotesque love triangles and quadrangles which ultimately even cause a casualty