Attenberg

2010

1h 35m

Drama

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78%

46 Reviews

Tomatometer

53%

1,000+ Ratings

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Marina thinks the human species is strange and repellent until a stranger enters her life.

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Critics Consensus

At once playfully eccentric and poignantly bittersweet, Attenberg adds a refreshing sideways spin to the arthouse coming-of-age drama.

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Spite of the wirdness plaguin the director's style, this story opens an unseen window to coming-on-age stories, and the result is a hillarious, smart, eccentric, well acted and deeply touching film that, using its original source material as fuel, becomes personal and near for the viewer.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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dan m

This is a very strange indie type movie that I'm not sure I fully understood. You got the main character, this asexual virgin who's spending time with her dying dad in the hospital and then the other time is spent with her equally strange friend. It's a bizarre and slow movie. Acting is good I suppose. But yes, very weird.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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I can understand the director's point but still I was not impressed. Especially not with the problematic situations that hide behind a plot hole (I know the film is surrealist but so what?).

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Only the last scene had an impact on me.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

No la entendi mucho,no es una peli de mi estilo realmente 5/10

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Attenberg might have been the kind of film that I don't really like, because it's too messy and it seems to shot at everything simultaneously...but like Battle in Heaven, it's less of a full-fledged sociological essay but more of an imagination of where an individual stands in his or her time. With comic effect.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Athina Rachel Tsangari

Director

Yorgos Lanthimos

Engineer

Vangelis Mourikis

Spyros

Ariane Labed

Marina

Evangelia Randou

Bella

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Screenwriter

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Kjerstin Johnson

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The film never feels male gaze-y, and it's refreshing to watch sex and nudity that's awkward (like life off-screen) and even a bit silly.

Jan 11, 2021

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Nicolas Rapold

Film Comment Magazine

For all the eccentricity, the film feels unexpectedly personal in addressing experiences everyone goes through at some point in their lives.

Jun 28, 2013

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Walter V. Addiego

San Francisco Chronicle

Tsangari's art-house minimalism, which never lets us forget we're watching a movie, still permits a surprising degree of tender emotion.

Rated: 3/4

Apr 20, 2012

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Ard Vijn

ScreenAnarchy

"Attenberg" is a nice, gentle and at times pretty funny drama. Don't expect to be bowled over but there is a good chance you'll be impressed.

Jan 15, 2020

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Derek Smith

Tiny Mix Tapes

Attenberg doesn't have a sense of true purpose and cohesion.

Oct 4, 2017

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

An incisive study of a marvelously unusual protagonist.

Rated: 9/10

Jul 10, 2016

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Synopsis

Marina thinks the human species is strange and repellent until a stranger enters her life.

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Producer: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos
Screenwriter: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Production Co: Haos Film
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Greek
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 4, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $23.8K
Runtime: 1h 35m

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