Review of Attenberg (2010) by Ola S — 28 Apr 2011
One of the main characters here says that Greece has moved from sheep keeping to IT without passing industrialism. And the landscape her confirms it. It's not the Greece you seen on postcards. It's the last spasms of modernism. The rest of an overrated 20th century.
Marina is a 23-year-old girl who rejects love, rejects sex, rejects all people, with the exception of her father and a female very experienced friend. There's no warmth in those relations either. Marina seems to be waiting for the next century, which can start after her father's, the architect's death. But she meets this man and almost destroys their love life by talking it into pieces. And everything is interrupted all the time, by the two girls silent dancing without music in a yard.
Form experiments. They are always risky and not that successful here. It's a little too choreographic, too clinical, too cold.
This review of Attenberg (2010) was written by Ola S on 28 Apr 2011.
Attenberg has generally received positive reviews.
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