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Attenberg

2010

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Ariane Labed, Yorgos Lanthimos, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou

5.9

988

Drama In a small, seaside industrial town, 23-year-old Marina maintains an exceptionally close relationship with her architect father, who is dying of cancer. Her only sexual knowledge comes from her friend Bella, with whom she practices kissing, and she remains an observer of mankind, emulating Sir David Attenborough whose animal programs she enjoys. While preparing for her father’s imminent death, Marina discovers her own sexuality with a visiting engineer. [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An angular, complex, absorbing and obscurely troubling movie. It offers its audience a mordant commentary on modern Greece (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"An eccentric, beguiling blend of detachment and empathy (...) Part of Ms. Labed’s gift is an ability to appear convincingly indifferent to her own charisma"	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A Greek film with style and verve (...) Tsangari's light but serious handling of sex and death themes is a major achievement."	POS
United States	Boyd van Hoeij Variety	"'Attenberg' remains a captivating and vaguely disturbing experience throughout (...) Tsangari fully exploits the mesmerizing features of Labed"	POS
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"[An] eccentric and, in turn, annoying and captivating Greek meditation on the weirdness of human behaviour (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"'Attenberg' is needling, idiosyncratic - and fascinating (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"It approaches human nature with the hushed mystery of the Attenborough documentaries its heroine watches on TV, but its discoveries are slight."	NEU
United States	Walter Addiego SFGATE	"Tsangari's art-house minimalism (...) permits a surprising degree of tender emotion (...) The film is much enhanced by the performance of Labed"	POS
United States	Andrew Schenker Slant	"A boldly conceived assemblage of diverse and seemingly random fictional materials (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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