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.
Miss Violence
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Greece · 2013
1h 39m
Director Alexandros Avranas
Starring Themis Panou, Reni Pittaki, Eleni Roussinou, Sissy Toumasi
Genre Drama
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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 her apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep insisting that it was an accident.
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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.
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Avranas makes a claim to be considered among the top ranks of international filmmakers.
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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.
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