Synopsis
Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."
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Cast
- Ariane LabedMarina
- Evangelia RandouBella
- Vangelis MourikisSpyros
- Yorgos LanthimosEngineer
- Kostas BerikopoulosFuneral Home Employee
- Michel DemopoulosHospital Manager
- Alexandros NiagosBella's Boyfriend
- Vasileia RozanaNurse
- Fidelis AttameForklift Driver
- Antonis NousaharlisForklift Driver
Recommendations
- 91
IndieWire
With its persistent inventiveness and a lack of unearned sentimentality, the movie provides an antidote to a lot of lazily produced dramas about death, American or otherwise. - 88
Slant Magazine
A boldly conceived assemblage of diverse and seemingly random fictional materials, Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg is concerned with nothing less than those hardy perennials: sex, death, and modernity. And coming of age a little too late. - 80
Empire
Tsangari proves she's one of the freshest voices in European cinema with this offbeat character piece. - 80
Time Out
Attenberg shares with the Oscar-nominated "Dogtooth" a weakness for overgrown innocence and deadpan perversity. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
What a strange, moving, puzzling, funny, frustrating and ultimately absorbing film this is. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A Greek film with style and verve, writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari's second feature, Attenberg, is an offbeat coming-of-age tale. - 70
Variety
A captivating and vaguely disturbing experience. - 70
Village Voice
While Tsangari may have borrowed Attenborough's "British phlegmatic tenderness," as she calls it, Attenberg is worlds away from a nature documentary.
