Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

nilehorse-69913 Not a terrible movie, would have been much better if they'd found someone under 30 to play role of Ari. I found some scenes to be disconnected and could have enjoyed the entire movie much better had the role of Ari been played by an actor that didn't look more like a 30 to 35 year old. Several times during the movie I had to force myself to continue watching.

Unhelpful Yoda I'm Australian and i love Aussie films. However this film was really confronting. The scene with the cop in the interview room was really horrible. I don't like the way Alex Dimitriades portrays the character at all. I also find the scenes with him having his 'gay' encounters are rather nauseating. I'm in no way homophobic but i think those scenes couldn't of been acted with more class and sensitivity. Also i find this also doesn't give a justified out look of Australian Greek culture. No, in all i would have to say this movie is too full on and Explores many themes that people may not want to be confronted with. Just my opinion but some people may like it.

videorama-759-859391 Here's just another product of great Australian filmmaking. Of course, due to the subject, this film's not gonna be everybody's taste. Certainly something different, a movie about a Greek gay boy, does make this film refreshingly original, some scenes hard to stomach for us homo sapiens. What makes Head On so good, is Ari's character, free as the wind, probably creating a lot of envy towards closeted homosexuals. You can't help Ari, because he says what he wants to say and does what he wants to do. A leopard can't change it's spots. You were born gay, you stay gay, that's it. One of his close family is a drag queen, who he's there for, the family disgraced by him. The scene in the taxi near the end of the movie when they get pulled over by the police is hysterically funny, an antidote of amusement amongst the heavy and depressing scenes of Ari's non acceptance, because of his sexuality. What follows when they're arrested is not so funny, objects of humiliation by a bigoted cop and a younger disgraced Greek cop, who's forced to do what is asked oh him by his peer, making him look the fool, it's easy to see this young girl, goes off at the drag queen character. Some lines stay with me in this 7 day shot film, and we see the other struggles in Greek families, and behind the back ridicule they take, that are so stereotypical, if seeing many other films around this race. The movie really creates a warm feel around Ari's families, where we share the ups and downs. One reason I loved the film, was because of Alex Papps as Ari's brother, one actor who should of gone further, where he finally ended up, where no actor would wanna end up on: Play School. The full sex scene, near the end, with his new love, Sean, which I admit goes a little too far, beware out there to the easily offended. Fine Australian film making, steered by an uninhibited and brave performer who delivers a thunderous and real performance.

bliss66 This film is basically a Saturday Night Fever re-tread. Yeah, the family is Greek, no, there isn't any disco dancing or Bee Gees, but there is a dark, brooding magnetic lead trying to break out of his family's traditions, expectations and the hedonistic culture around him. It's his ethnic culture that prevents him from being his gay self, distorting his view of what that means (very funny that the Greeks, of all people, should be so adverse to homosexuality) and a drug culture that pulls him downward.But it's a bit of snooze. Sure, there are bits of raw sexual activity but they aren't very well integrated into the rest of the film--like his main character, sex and drugs seem to be the only thing that excites this director, as the rest of the film feels flat and arid in a way that disengages the viewer. The narrative is as confused as the lead, Ari; in fact, this film ends where it really should begin. Instead it just meanders about; all we know is that Ari wants to "move out" but we never see what that means or what influences him to be at all aspirational. Sure, we see the push but what's the pull? Since it's obvious to the viewer from the start that Ari is in a confused state about things, how interesting is it for us to watch him over an hour and forty minutes learn what we already know? Well, since the handsome, well-built Alex Dimitriades is playing Ari, fairly interesting at that, but even his committed, intense performance begins to loop back on itself--and it's clear, as an actor, that he is capable of so much more. He's boxed in by repetitive writing--Ari is frustrated, he's frustrated, he's frustrated--get it? Yeah, got it. In the first scene.The best scenes are between Dimitriades and his friend Johnny/Tula, excellently played with and without drag, by Paul Capsis. It would've been better if the film focused more on this relationship, foregoing lengthy and obvious sequences about Ari's Greek heritage. Though revealing, unresolved, under-developed subplots about his friend's engagement and his younger sister go nowhere and make the film lose focus; these characters only exist to say something about Ari. An attraction between Ari and a very pale-featured man named Sean is unconvincing; the director takes for granted that because they're gay they'll get together when the viewer can see that they are clearly chalk and cheese--though this is obvious, their relationship, rather conveniently, isn't really explored which makes the final denouement unsurprising. It should've been the first scene. (In fact, Ari's attractions make this feel, at times, like a gay Breaking The Waves.) Dimitrades is too likable for us to feel critical of his behaviour; instead it feels more like he is let down by the people around him (save Capsis) and should really be mixing with a better grade of people that he has more in common with. Sometimes it's that easy. But the film doesn't go there.Ultimately, the film doesn't go head on with anything, though it can be credited with some subtlety and one can easily admire the work of Dimitriades and Capsis.