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Miss Violence

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Miss Violence

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Summary

On the day of her 11th birthday, Angeliki jumps from the balcony of her family home, falling to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and social services investigate the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki s family keep insisting that it was a tragic accident. As the truth unfolds, the bonds in the family are horrifyingly exposed and shattered.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Sophie Ivan

As the title suggests, this modern-day Greek tragedy - whose opening scene coolly depicts the apparent suicide of an 11-year-old girl at her own birthday party - doesn't pull its punches. Its grim tension comes from the unravelling of the mystery behind the girl's untimely death and its effect on her dysfunctional family. This comprises an unnamed patriarch, mother, adult daughter and three surviving children, whose cramped living arrangements make a mockery of privacy and breed a claustrophobic sense of menace. Writer/director Alexandros Avranas's chilly precision follows the lead of the so-called "Weird Wave" of Greek art house cinema (sparked by Yorgos Lanthimos's excellent Dogtooth in 2009), although as the unsurprisingly ugly truth emerges, he pulls back the curtain to reveal brutal, explicit scenes that owe more to the nightmarish extremes of X-rated horror. Viscerally intense but far from subtle, it's an approach many will find gratuitously shocking, but others will see as boldly unflinching.

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7.0/10

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Cast

rolenameEleniEleni RoussinouFatherThemis PanouMotherReni PittakiAngelikiChloe BolotaFilipposKonstantinos AthanasiadesMyrtoSissy ToumasiAlkminiKalliopi Zontanou

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rolenameDirectorAlexandros Avranas

Details

Theatrical distributor

Metrodome

Released on

2014-06-20

Languages

Greek

Guidance

Violence, sexual violence, nudity.

Available on

DVD

Formats

Colour

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