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

"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

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

| Oct 4, 2017

An incisive study of a marvelously unusual protagonist.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 10, 2016

After walking out of ATTENBERG, I couldn't decide if I really hated it, or really loved it. I still can't decide. ATTENBERG stretches the arthouse genre to "WTF!?"

| Aug 28, 2013

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

| Jun 28, 2013

Works somewhat as a perverse droll coming-of-age film

| Original Score: B | Mar 5, 2013

Bittersweet, Greek coming-of-age drama about an inexperienced young woman who explores bisexuality while caring for her terminally-ill father.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 16, 2012

The face of actress Ariane Labed lifts this quiet, dour character study by filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari.

| May 3, 2012

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2012

Using occasional song-and-dance numbers with a melancholy Godardian kick, [Tsangari] creates a world that's off-center and alive with loneliness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 5, 2012

Part of the film's success comes from Labed's performance as Marina, who infuses all that weirdness with a barely there vulnerability.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2012

Attenberg gets down in the emotional muck where life, death and sex intertwine. And like those life experiences, watching it can be both awkward and poignant.

| Mar 9, 2012

"Attenberg" is a three-layered love story, anatomizing the mysterious emotions of grief, friendship and erotic attraction.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2012

Perpetually off-balance and maybe just a little too satisfied with its cynicism

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 8, 2012

The drama, at its core, is simple and conventional, but it has the aura of science fiction.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 8, 2012

Tsangari distinguishes herself from her predecessor's freak-show formalism with an underlying humanism and freewheeling playfulness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2012

A cracked coming-of-age tale set in a fading Greek seaside town.

| Mar 6, 2012

In that isolation, and in the marooned hopelessness of the protagonists, there is a hint that normal life may have become too much to cope with, and that its rules of engagement need to be learned afresh.

| Mar 6, 2012

Attenberg remains a captivating and vaguely disturbing experience throughout.

Full Review | Feb 23, 2012