Dionysius

Sappho (2008)

Actors: Bakhtiyar Aliev (actor), Seit-Khalil Ametov (actor), Vasily Andrus (actor), Sergey Kosenko (actor), Alexander Leontaritis (actor), Vassilis Psychogiopoulos (actor), Anatoliy Semenov (actor), Todd Soley (actor), Bogdan Stupka (actor), Elissaios Vlachos (actor), Diana Asonova (actress), Avalon Barrie (actress), Oksana Osipova (actress), Lyudmila Shiryaeva (actress), Robert Crombie (producer),

Plot: "And? What comes next?" "It's lost. We'll never know." "Perhaps we should decide for ourselves" Sappho is a provocative and passionate love story set in the 1920s. Millionaire's daughter Sappho Lovell arrives on the Greek island of Lesbos for her honeymoon with her artist husband Phil. There she meets Helene, the daughter of a Russian archaeologist, and she falls in love with her. As our three lovers live out a complex girl-boy-girl sexual triangle, Sappho also comes to believe that she is the reincarnation of the ancient poetess Sappho - that Sappho who first put the "lesbian" in Lesbos. However, our modern Sappho does realize how the ancient Sappho's legend ends... Inspired by the poems of Sappho

Keywords: 1920s, anal-sex, artist, based-on-poem, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, character-name-in-title, father-daughter-relationship, female-full-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, gender-roles
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Love is what is love

Quotes:

Phil: And? What comes next?::Helene: It's lost. We'll never know.::Sappho: Perhaps we should decide for ourselves.

Sappho: You can marry Helene. You can have her if you like.::Phil: I'm not a Turk. I can't have two wives. It's in the rules.::Sappho: Don't be so boring, Phil. There are no rules in this game. There's nothing we can imagine that's not allowed. What's love is love.::Phil: Well, what's loyalty is that too. Don't you care if I sleep with other women now?::Sappho: You can sleep with other boys too if you like.::[to Helene]::Sappho: Will you marry my husband?::Helene: Yes.::Sappho: Then it's perfect. It's all that simple. We can all be married to one another.

Phil: Don't you understand? Nothing good will come out of this game. All of us being together will not last. We'll take sides, get jealous, and start to hate one another.::Sappho: Just like it happens when two normal people get married?::Phil: Maybe. But that's how it is most times. It's the way nature meant it to be.::Sappho: [to Helene] You see Helene, that's what makes Phil a bad painter. He paints ordinary pictures that ordinary people will buy.

Sappho: I love you.::Helene: Why?::Sappho: Do I need a reason? I just do.::Helene: Don't you care about Phil?::Sappho: Of course I care about Phil. But making love with you feels just right.::Helene: But that's where you're wrong. This is how girls fool around when there are no men around.::Sappho: How is a woman making love to another woman any different then a woman making love to a man?

Helene: Have you come to say goodbye?::Sappho: Goodbye?::Helene: Aren't you going home? To America?::Sappho: I am home. This is Lesbos... and I am a lesbian. I've always known who I am. This is my home.::Helene: It's so boring here. You are welcome to it.::Sappho: It's like always a never. The sea breaking against the rocks. The one always wanting. It's the hardest thing loving someone who doesn't love you.::Helene: I'm sorry. It's not my fault.::Sappho: Come and be my girl. To feel your face and hear your footsteps, I'd give the world.::Helene: I am a woman now. I have made love to you and your husband. I want a husband of my own and children. You can't give me what I want.