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A human clone is washed up on the shores of Santorini. Allan Dawson discovers this new finding within his recently inherited property. What follows is an attempt to mold his new best friend ... Read allA human clone is washed up on the shores of Santorini. Allan Dawson discovers this new finding within his recently inherited property. What follows is an attempt to mold his new best friend to dire consequences.A human clone is washed up on the shores of Santorini. Allan Dawson discovers this new finding within his recently inherited property. What follows is an attempt to mold his new best friend to dire consequences.
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Hmmm. So here's the gist. "Allan" (Keith Roenke) is living in the USA with his older girlfriend "Sylvia" (Torie Tyson) but after six years they are really just going through the motions. Then he gets an unexpected call telling him that his grandmother has gone and left him an house on Santorini. Off he duly goes to assess his inheritance and it's all rather beautiful. Then one night he hears some scratching and upon investigation he discovers a naked man half starved and unable to speak. Now what would you do at this juncture? Doctor? Police? Ambulance? Nope, "Allan" decides to wash this rather grubby fellow and treat him like a dog. Feed him from a bowl, chain him up with a collar, indeed the word 'inhumane' just leaps to mind - especially when there are some very thinly veiled sexual connotations incorporated into this rather savage indictment of a dominating character. Wait, though! It gets better. It transpires that, after a quick search on Greek Google, that this lad - whom he's christened "D'Ago" was being used for organ donating; fell off his ship in the Aegean Sea and was pretty much abandoned by his creators. Yep, he's a clone! What now ensues took what little credibility that was left and drowned it. There are so many ridiculous scenarios, not least when "D'Ago" escapes and goes meandering across the island, stark naked, and then returns to his dog-collar providing master. Is the purpose here that the disgruntled, and frankly supremely arrogant "Allan" is supposed to be looking after this captive and starting to learn about himself? Is he supposed to count what blessings he had with his girlfriend or is he really just an irredeemable and odious character whose definition of kindly behaviour is to treat his new friend as if he were an animal. I must admit, though, that pretty tasteless as this was I did find it curiously compelling. I felt sure that something was going to happen - and it did! Thing is, what we get for a denouement is just as unsatisfying as most of the rest of this rather shallow assessment of humanity, sexuality and preposterousness. It is fitting that it's set in Greece where the ancient pantheon was riddled with gods and heroes whose mothers, sisters and goats were all the same creature and upon which quite possibly auteur Jorge Ameer (who frequently and persistently knocks on the door to say hello) used as his basis for the screenplay, but in any case this film makes little if any sense and is a long old watch to leave us with such an unfulfilling sense of ambiguity.
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- Mar 18, 2025
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- Trivia"Summer Lovers" was the main inspiration for Jorge Ameer shooting his film in Greece. Always of fan of this film from 1982 and friends with Director Randal Kleiser (Grease, Blue Lagoon), Jorge Ameer always wanted to shoot in Santorini. So much so, that many places where Summer Lovers was shot is where D'Agostino shot as well. The crew and cast stayed in on of the hotel where "Summer Lovers" was filmed and director Jorge Ameer had his main cast watch the film to get a good grasp of Santorini prior to traveling to shoot the film.
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