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.
Village Voice by Zachary Wigon
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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