Touch Me Not
In a frantic mid-1990s Athens, a methodical frotteur balances dangerously between reality and dream; desire and compulsion; obsession and fantasy in the crammed means of public transportation, where h…
Touch Me Not
In a frantic mid-1990s Athens, a methodical frotteur balances dangerously between reality and dream; desire and compulsion; obsession and fantasy in the crammed means of public transportation, where he can have any woman he desires. Voulis is a middle aged everyday man. After his divorce develops a passion. All day long, when he is not working, takes rides on random buses and he is rubbing against women. He is a "professional" frotteur, as he knows perfectly any bus's internal space, details and characteristics. Soon he initiate another young man in his "art", but then problems occur.. —a_lektor In a frantic mid-1990s Athens, Voulis Sibouras--a youthful and unpractised father, and above all, a methodical frotteur--balances dangerously between reality and dream; desire and compulsion; obsession and fantasy. With his playground being the crammed means of public transportation, Voulis, who is neither handsome nor wealthy, can have any woman he desires--no unforeseen setbacks or the occasional beating can take away from him this powerful feeling of accomplishment. In the end, this is a risk worth taking, as long as Voulis can lose himself in the whirlwind of an illusion and the fleeting touch of a luscious, yet vulnerable female body. —Nick Riganas
Touch Me Not
Comedy,Drama
Film Details
In a frantic mid-1990s Athens, a methodical frotteur balances dangerously between reality and dream; desire and compulsion; obsession and fantasy in the crammed means of public transportation, where he can have any woman he desires. Voulis is a middle aged everyday man. After his divorce develops a passion.
All day long, when he is not working, takes rides on random buses and he is rubbing against women. He is a "professional" frotteur, as he knows perfectly any bus's internal space, details and characteristics. Soon he initiate another young man in his "art", but then problems occur..
—a_lektor In a frantic mid-1990s Athens, Voulis Sibouras--a youthful and unpractised father, and above all, a methodical frotteur--balances dangerously between reality and dream; desire and compulsion; obsession and fantasy. With his playground being the crammed means of public transportation, Voulis, who is neither handsome nor wealthy, can have any woman he desires--no unforeseen setbacks or the occasional beating can take away from him this powerful feeling of accomplishment. In the end, this is a risk worth taking, as long as Voulis can lose himself in the whirlwind of an illusion and the fleeting touch of a luscious, yet vulnerable female body.
—Nick Riganas.