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

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

| Jun 28, 2013

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" 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

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

Perhaps viewed under the influence of drugs or drink the film might spring to comic life, but taken straight it is far more likely to get on your nerves.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2011

Fans of Dogtooth should certainly try this one out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2011

It offers its audience a mordant commentary on modern Greece - deriding its cultural and social decay, though without commenting directly on economic difficulties - and affects a serio-comic, quasi-anthropological detachment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2011

Attenberg, both jarring and sweet, stuttering and eloquent, doesn't deliver manifestos or offer answers. But, in its needling, idiosyncratic fashion, it's more fascinating than most films that do.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2011

If you stay, hope to be charmed. But be warned: you could be exasperated first by the servings of self-regard and psycho-spiritual preciosity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2011

Intelligent, inventive and incredibly engaging.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2011

To enjoy 'Attenberg', you have to tune in to an unusual wavelength, but there are strange pleasures to enjoy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2011

Tsangari proves she's one of the freshest voices in European cinema with this offbeat character piece. Recommended.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2011

A boldly conceived assemblage of diverse and seemingly random fictional materials.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2011