Writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari's second feature, "Attenberg," is an offbeat coming-of-age tale that follows a young woman of 23 as she navigates between her father's terminal illness and her ...
"Attenberg" is the kind of film that you make when you're perpetually young and rootless at 46. It is a one-of-a-kind film about a young woman's sexual awakening in a bleak Greek town as her father is ...
We were treated last week to that bizarrely suggestive Attenberg poster, which, knowing that the film stars Giorgos Lanthimos (the director of Dogtooth and Alps), wasn’t entirely unexpected. And we ...
It might seem unfair to compare Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s innovative sophomore feature “Attenberg” to Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants.” The latter is a polished Hollywood excursion ...
Greece’s official foreign-language Oscar entry, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Attenberg” is a unique spin on the coming-of-age-film. In a stark white crumbling town by the sea, 23-year-old Marina has ...
Two of Eastern Europe’s leading film fest — Poland’s 11th New Horizon and the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina — wrapped over the weekend. The top award at Wroclaw’s New Horizon, ...
“I hate it when people talk about 'Greek films,' like they're all the same,” Athina Rachel Tsangari told me in September, over drinks at the Toronto Film Festival. It's a fair complaint: Shared ...
PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - Already acclaimed at such festivals as Toronto and Venice, "Attenberg" got its first U.S. presentation here at the Sundance Film Festival in the Spotlight ...
Two of Eastern Europe’s leading film fest — Poland’s 11th New Horizon and the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina — wrapped over the weekend. The top award at Wroclaw’s New Horizon, ...