Attenberg
Strand Releasing | Release Date: March 9, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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IndieWireEric KohnMar 5, 2012
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. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerMar 5, 2012
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. Read full review
80
Time OutEric HynesMar 6, 2012
Attenberg shares with the Oscar-nominated "Dogtooth" a weakness for overgrown innocence and deadpan perversity. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid ParkinsonMar 5, 2012
Tsangari proves she's one of the freshest voices in European cinema with this offbeat character piece. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoApr 20, 2012
The film is much enhanced by the performance of Labed, whose work capturing Marina's moods and contradictions won the best actress award at the 67th Venice Film Festival. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenMar 5, 2012
What a strange, moving, puzzling, funny, frustrating and ultimately absorbing film this is. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenApr 5, 2012
From the gangly awkwardness of its opening scene - a pleasure-free lesson in kissing - it's clear that Attenberg aims to provoke. Its bored young characters and flat-affect performances recall another innovative Greek drama, "Dogtooth." Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 8, 2012
The emotions are quiet, and the connections among the characters feel tentative and fragile. Though it makes no reference to the current economic and political crisis in Greece, Attenberg is suffused with a sense of malaise - of stasis, if you prefer a Greek word - that way well reflect the contemporary national mood. Read full review
70
The New YorkerAnthony LaneMar 5, 2012
The father's resignation to that fate is, on balance, the most compelling aspect of the film, and I will not readily forget the sight of him staring out over the town and mourning the long history of his homeland. "We built an industrial colony on top of sheep pens," he says, "and thought we were making a revolution." Maybe Attenberg is topical, after all. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungMar 22, 2011
A Greek film with style and verve, writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari's second feature, Attenberg, is an offbeat coming-of-age tale. Read full review
70
VarietyBoyd van HoeijMar 22, 2011
A captivating and vaguely disturbing experience. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAnthony KaufmanMar 22, 2011
While Tsangari may have borrowed Attenborough's "British phlegmatic tenderness," as she calls it, Attenberg is worlds away from a nature documentary. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasMar 7, 2012
Stripped of all its random weirdness, Attenberg has the premise of a classic Yasujiro Ozu drama like "Late Spring," with its relationship between a widower approaching death and a devoted daughter who needs to leave the nest before it's too late. Read full review
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