73
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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerA boldly conceived assemblage of diverse and seemingly random fictional materials, Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg is concerned with nothing less than those hardy perennials: sex, death, and modernity. And coming of age a little too late.
- 80EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonTsangari proves she's one of the freshest voices in European cinema with this offbeat character piece.
- 80Time OutEric HynesTime OutEric HynesAttenberg shares with the Oscar-nominated "Dogtooth" a weakness for overgrown innocence and deadpan perversity.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenWhat a strange, moving, puzzling, funny, frustrating and ultimately absorbing film this is.
- A Greek film with style and verve, writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari's second feature, Attenberg, is an offbeat coming-of-age tale.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceWhile Tsangari may have borrowed Attenborough's "British phlegmatic tenderness," as she calls it, Attenberg is worlds away from a nature documentary.
- 70The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneThe father's resignation to that fate is, on balance, the most compelling aspect of the film, and I will not readily forget the sight of him staring out over the town and mourning the long history of his homeland. "We built an industrial colony on top of sheep pens," he says, "and thought we were making a revolution." Maybe Attenberg is topical, after all.
- 67The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasStripped of all its random weirdness, Attenberg has the premise of a classic Yasujiro Ozu drama like "Late Spring," with its relationship between a widower approaching death and a devoted daughter who needs to leave the nest before it's too late.