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  Review by dani leblanc ★★★★½ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  a real friend will fuck ur dad if u ask them to

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  Review by Edgar Cochran ✝️ ★★★★★

  A comparison with Haneke is, in my humble opinion, absolutely out of the question.

  My hypothesis is that Athina Rachel Tsangari comes as a hybrid of Giorgos Lanthimos' Kynodontas (2009) and Chantal Akerman's Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978), the first one thematically, the second one visually.

  The thematic connection can be drawn from the condemnation of the 20th Century as a "remnant of toxic modernism of post-Enlightment"; Kynodontas condemns the post-industrialist current reality almost as much as Attenberg does. The concept of a family isolated from civilization and unleashing uncommon behaviors as an integral part of their personalities is another similarity. All of these elements play part in an absorbing environment of dredd and hopelessness.

  The visual connection, on the other…

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★½

  "There's a reason why mammals have taboos." - Father,

  This is why I don't home school my children.

  Apparently this character study is commentary on Greece skipping the industrial era but I don't know anything about that so I'll just say that to me this film is about seeing Yorgos Lanthimos' penis.

  P.S. Watched for the Greek Weird Wave discussion in film club.

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  Review by claira curtis ★★★★

  Attenberg thrives in its soft spoken absurdity. 

  Marina is a lead character grounded in peculiarity and those that enter her orbit acknowledge that peculiarity but never admonish or mock it. I love films about weird women who find the people who love and celebrate them and then you just get to watch them do their thing and Attenberg encapsulates that beautifully. 

  Empathy seems to be delicately intertwined in its explorations of sex, friendship, desire, death, and grief. Everything is in your face odd and yet also told so very gently, which left me with a blurry wave of sadness, elation, and introspection. 

  Absolutely not for everyone, or perhaps even for most people, but for me, it all landed perfectly. I’m really glad I stumbled upon Attenberg before it left Criterion.

  
  
  

  
  Also, I loved the poster for this so much that I was inspired to make a list of my favorite movie posters :)

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  Review by Sarah ★★★★

  Weird girl rights!!!

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  Review by Zach a.m. ★★★

  So that's what Lanthimos' penis loos like.

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  Review by moon . • ☽︎ ◌ ⋆ ˖ · ★★

  funny how they greeks are never beating the allegations of being weird

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  Review by Frances Meh is decking them halls good ★★★★ 8

  It’s ok to kink-shame me if I’ve got a shame kink

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  Review by DNA cinephile🏳️‍🌈 ★★★★ 7

  Attenberg. 2010. Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari.

  Airane Labed (Marina) is displaying Aspergers (or at least spectrum based behavior-neurodivergence) while being directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari. David Attenborough has certainly had a positive influence on me and I have seen all the episodes of Attenborough’s documentaries shown in Attenberg. However, I do not feel the need to display the courting ritual of albatrosses. This film is a genuine eccentric portrait of death and neurodivergent life in Greece in the 20th Century. Her father is ready to leave his body and forget about the architecture and industrialization of Greece. Yet, Marina is just learning foreplay and how to copulate in an objective manner. It is worth noting that Ariane Labed met her husband Yorgos Lanthimos in this movie of whom she married in 2013. 

  Source:
  Ariane Labed
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Labed

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  Review by Graham Williamson ★★★½ 5

  52 films by women 2019: 44/52.

  Any time someone tries to lump films together into a 'scene', it's always an over-generalisation, which isn't necessarily a reason not to do it. You have to feel a bit sorry for the Greeks, though, whose current national cinema is defined by the wider world using the work of precisely two weirdos. And they're friends and collaborators, too, so it's literally just a case of two people doing stuff that interests them and launching a 'wave' by accident. This is exactly the sort of absurd consequence I'd expect in... well, in a film by Yorgos Lanthimos and/or Athina Rachel Tsangarai.

  Lanthimos, of course, is now a globally successful, multi-award-winning auteur, whose impact is sufficient…

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  Review by 🌻 lindsay 🌻 ★★★½

  I liked this better than most Greek weird wave movies I’ve seen because it touched on a lot of normal coming of age themes and I love coming of age movies. It was just done with a really weird tone and style lol. This was a cool take on someone’s exploration of themselves and their sexuality. I liked the scenes with Marina’s friend that were cut in of them just walking and doing weird stuff lol I don’t exactly know the reason for it but I thought it was really funny.

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  Review by jen ★★★★

  love how the film swings from dry comedy to allegorical musical numbers to unabashed sentimentality, soundtracked to french chanteuse pop and suicide, while long, stunning wide shots describe the environment's uneasy mixture of serene natural beauty and industrial intrusion.

  similar to lanthimos' dogtooth, attenberg touch on sensational provocation tropes including belated sexual awakening, wordplay and dancing as a loaded social ritual although attenberg is after something different here. where dogtooth was entirely hypothetical, attenberg, for all of its playfulness in tone and form, takes place in a decidedly recognizable world of organic human feelings, percolating under the real cloud of a nation's decline.

  i guess the magic of attenberg is how tsangari is able to not only deftly balance her…