Olympia I & II
Apr 24 2008
•0h 8m
•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.
Cast
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Olympia; Miss Strawberry

Gabriel Abrantes
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