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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Part of the new wave of Greek cinema, Attenberg is an offbeat coming-of-age film. 23-year-old Marina is living in a small, factory town by the sea where her once-visionary architect father, has returned to die. Finding the human species foreign, she keeps her distance, choosing to observe mankind through Sir David Attenborough’s mammal d...

Directed By: Athina Rachel Tsangari

Written By: Athina Rachel Tsangari

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 37 m

Attenberg

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary Part of the new wave of Greek cinema, Attenberg is an offbeat coming-of-age film. 23-year-old Marina is living in a small, factory town by the sea where her once-visionary architect father, has returned to die. Finding the human species foreign, she keeps her distance, choosing to observe mankind through Sir David Attenborough’s mammal d...

Directed By: Athina Rachel Tsangari

Written By: Athina Rachel Tsangari

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91
Mar 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.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 6, 2012
Attenberg shares with the Oscar-nominated "Dogtooth" a weakness for overgrown innocence and deadpan perversity.
By Eric Hynes FULL REVIEW

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75
Apr 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.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 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."
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70
Mar 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.
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 22, 2011
A captivating and vaguely disturbing experience.
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67
Mar 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.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Haos Film, Greek Film Centre (GFC), Faliro House Productions, Boo Productions, STEFI Cine & TV Productions, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Release Date Mar 9, 2012
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Sexy, strange and beautifully deranged.
Website http://www.facebook.com/attenberg
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Hellenic Film Academy Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
FICUNAM Festival International de Cine UNAM
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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