Lesbian August (Lesviakos Avgoustos) (Λεσβιακός Αύγουστος)

LESBIAN AUGUST

Look at his profile.

The boy's also shy.

What are the two of you saying all the time?

You haven't stopped giggling ever since we set sail.

Why, Is It forbidden? When you Ignore us with your colors and brushes

do we ever bother you?

Your father was annoyed, too.

How did the fishing go last night? Was it a good session?

So and so. The yearly winds kept the fish in.

Tell me, are there any lobsters here?

Not many. Every once in a while.

If one shows up I'll bring it to you.

Yes, please do that. Christina loves them.

Careful, don't fall.

- Daddy, take this. - I'll take this.

Thanks.

- Will you take this, too? - Yes, give me the bag.

Let me help you.

Easy now.

That's it.

Thanks a lot.

You're very kind.

Christina!

You bring more and more...

I'll burst with all this food so early. Won't you eat, too?

I don't want to.

Come now, Angeliki.

Sometimes you act like a shrewd old woman.

What could your poor husband do?

He went for work. The cityman pays well.

Why didn't he take you with him?

I'll tell you why.

Come.

Sit.

First, there's no more space in the boat.

Second, I have to mend the nets

and third, because I want to give you a hand round the house.

And fourth, that swinger, the painters daughter will be with them.

And his brother won't have an unmarried man join in.

What are you saying? Has Kostas ever had eyes for a woman but you?

He's had enough of me already.

Ah, Angeliki... Could a man ever have enough of you?

Does anybody ever have enough of water and fresh bread?

Wish I were in lucky Kostas' shoes...

I wish you were.

But my cross-eyed fortune granted him to me.

You're exaggerating, Angeliki. Kostas never approaches other women.

He loves you like a dog.

Will the painter be with them?

Sure, they have their eyes on the girl.

If he wasn't, his wife would surely go along. She's even worse.

She keeps her strictly by her side.

They say she's not her mother.

The city man married her recently as a widower.

You see?

This kind of love between stepmother and stepdaughter is new to me.

Everyone on the Island says so. They're always together.

They're a match probably.

Their ages have no much difference either.

That's why I say.

What does your brother want going between them?

So, let me show you.

You look through here, you press this button, very easy.

Alright.

Enough of these silly photographs!

I'm sorry...

Elena!

What are you doing?

Give me the camera.

We're not finished yet.

Kostas!

Hold it!

It's my turn, now.

Hi.

Hey, lucky guy!

I'm a player I am!

Midday at the coffee shop?

No work today?

I've the day off.

- Kostas went for a ride on the boat. - With the city people?

Yeah, they pay well.

Well, your brother would go for free, if the painters daughter went along.

And you? - Me, what?

Well, Angeliki is alone at home and you at the coffee shop...

Stavros, why don't you explain a bit what you just said?

Well, I don't know...

I remember your longing for Angeliki before she was your sister-in-law.

Since now Kostas is running after the city girl,

you should keep Angeliki company.

And what's It to you? Judging on our house?

You can't take a 'yoke, “was?

Why fire up? Just coffee shop talk, is all.

No such jokes with me, OK?

And wash your dirty mouth twice before mentioning Angeliki.

Angeliki ls my sister-In-law. My brother's wife.

Dunno about yours, but in our house

we don't raise eyes on another man's wife.

- Nlkos, you were crazy about her. - Doesn't she know that?

That was before she chose between us two.

She picked the one she wanted. She's his by right.

I agree.

Never say a thing about her again if you want sweet bread on your table.

Kostas ls my brother and Angeliki my sister-in-law, you hear?

My sister-in-law!

Oh, don't, don't...

And how will you name your painting?

"My daughter and the fisherman"?

No. Just “Bodies in nature".

I wonder at your resilience.

Don't you see how she encourages him?

He's only a dirty fisherman, after all.

Is that what's bothering you?

Your Indifference bothers me. of course, she's your daughter.

But don't you consider people's talk? He'll spread it all over the island.

For God's sake, Elena.

One might think that you saw them do anything wrong. What is it exactly?

They're two children full of life, playing in the sea.

What's more natural?

Tell that to the fisherman's wife when this is all over the island.

Elena, can't you see that this is a joy for me?

It's the first time I see Christina expressing herself like a real woman.

The way she kept away from young men of her age...

I'd started worrying.

Fine...

Then we must also be grateful to Kostas the fisherman

for awakening Christina's instincts.

Why not?

Is it far still?

No, we're there.

Yes, this is the spring!

Good, 'cause I'm tired! I can't do this anymore!

It's very beautiful, see? Right in the plane trees.

- Nice water! I'm so thirsty! - Don't drink, you're in sweat!

Come and drink, Elena!

No more, child.

So refreshing!

I'll wash my face, too. Cool it down a bit.

How nice!

The water's cold!

Comes down from the mountain.

There's a legend about Sappho in this place. You know it?

Yes.

I've heard it from my grandmother.

This spot was very much loved by Sappho.

So, she'd come here at nights

talked with the trees and sang to them.

Once, she had to go on a faraway journey.

So she came on the last night to bid them farewell.

She knelt...

and remained thus... in tears and silence.

It's from her tears that this spring was made.

And Sappho

didn't she ever return to this spot?

Not again.

They say that the forest's soul joined her on that journey.

Hey... Where did Christina go?

Uphill. Want me to call her?

Yes, please do.

Christina!

Christina!

How hard your body isl

We'll go swimming here tonight! The two of us.

On our own!

Christina!

I'll be waiting.

At the cove, this evening.

Is it for her?

Which one?

The one you're making.

Is it for whats-her-name?

Which whats-her-name?

The one you're running after like a puppy.

I'm speaking of the painters daughter.

You're not reasoning, woman.

You think my eyes are just decorative?

I see much more than you think I do.

Get off my back, Angeliki!

Give this to me.

And go make dinner for us.

I'll taking the boat out tonight.

You cannot fool me, Kostas.

I've watched you for days now.

You haven't touched me for three nights.

And you never wasted a moment when you laid with me before.

You're talking nonsense.

And what you're doing

you'll be sorry for.

We'll see who's to be sorry first.

Well, can't you see she's only teasing you?

Women like her only want one thing from men like you.

After taking It, they throw you away like trash.

By God, do you mean what you're saying?

Who the hell put this Idea into your head?

I've nothing to do with the girl.

May fire from heaven burn me, if I'm lying.

I only work for her father. That's all.

Let alone him...

He can't see beyond his nose.

Already, it's the talk of the town...