Synopsis
On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep insisting that it was an accident. What is the secret that young Angeliki took with her? Why does her family persist in trying to "forget" her and to move on with its life?
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Cast
- Themis PanouFather
- Reni PittakiMother
- Eleni RoussinouEleni
- Sissy ToumasiMyrto
- Kostas AntalopoulosSocial Welfare Employee
- Constantinos AthanasiadesPhilippos
- Chloe BolotaAngeliki
- Martha BouziouriGynecologist
- Rafika ChawisheCivil Status Worker
- Kalliopi ZontanouAlkmini
Recommendations
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The Playlist
Avranas makes a claim to be considered among the top ranks of international filmmakers. - 90
Village Voice
Miss Violence honors the thoroughly creepy work of Avranas's countrymen, but in his turn of the screw, Avranas marshals the abstract qualities of art cinema to comment upon concrete horror. - 80
Empire
A commanding, troubling domestic horror that should launch a long career for Avranas. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
What’s most disturbing about the film is indeed its placid, almost non-descript surface -- also echoed in the production design and camerawork -- and the knowledge that unspeakable things are happening offscreen and behind closed doors. - 70
Variety
Avranas’ film employs an irony-free meter that certainly distinguishes his work from that of Lanthimos or Athina Rachel Tsangari, and lends the film’s most explicitly severe sequences of domestic and sexual abuse a kind of cumulative numbing power. - 60
Time Out London
What you take from Miss Violence depends both on your stomach for this kind of brutality, and whether you appreciate its cold, mannered formalism – one viewer’s stylistic tour de force is another’s grating Haneke pastiche. Still, this is punchy stuff.
