A story of horrific domestic abuse set in an impressively controlled narrative frame, Miss Violence is one of those films you wish you could erase from your mental hard disk after the screening, so disturbing is its tale of an abusive father’s devious sexual, physical and psychological control over the rest of his family. Presumably these patriarchal evils are meant to have allegorical echoes in the world outside, but the film, like its characters, barely leaves the flat, its troubling tension deriving – as in Markus Schleinzer’s 2011 Michael – from the certainty that the sublimated violence will engulf everything . The birthday is that of solemn-faced 11 year-old Angeliki; so is the suicide.

Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer. It gets murkier from then on. At her 11th birthday party, Angeliki (Chloe Bolota) kills herself by jumping from the apartment balcony, and the family insist to visiting welfare officials that it must have been an accident.

Part of the intriguing Greek new wave of brutal cinema that rages against the country's current woes, but not one of the movement's best.

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From the not-so-happy birthday that opens the film ... up to the harrowing final revelation, Miss Violence fulfils the grisly promise of its title. Thank you for signing up to GamesRadar+.

We assume at first that the never-named adult male in the household – the kind of mild-mannered balding guy you’d never notice on a bus – is the older husband of Angeliki’s mother Eleni. As a document of male inhumanity, it shows a harsh reality. A commanding, troubling domestic horror that should launch a long career for Avranas. Though beautifully shot, and with great artistic merit, Miss Violence is also an unremittingly harsh, disturbing movie to watch, and it leaves its taint behind in the memory.

Even fans of chillingly oblique new Greek cinema (see Dogtooth and Alps) will find this pitch-black drama utterly terrifying simply because it doesn't look like a horror movie.

released: November 7, 2013 (Greece) Greek Art-house films lately for one reason or another have been focused on the internal family drama that is controversial, hidden and disturbing.

Miss Violence honors the thoroughly creepy work of Avranas's countrymen, but in his turn of the screw, Avranas marshals the abstract qualities of art cinema to comment upon concrete horror.

|, November 12, 2014 Interest in the new ‘weird’ wave of Greek cinema is growing after the festival and arthouse success of films such as Dogtooth, Attenberg and Alps. Artistically, the film is brilliant, the acting exceptional.

This site uses cookies. We realise something is not quite right even before she throws herself from the balcony of the family apartment; everything seems stilted in this airless series of rooms, from the mother’s terrifyingly fixed smile to the way everyone wears their party hats as if they’ve been told to put them on at gunpoint.

genre: Drama. But its force can't be doubted.

An investigation is … 2013.

It (self-evidently) does not have the humour of those movies by Lanthimos and Tsangari and by that token, less of their richness and inventiveness. Second-time director Avranas shares the interest of his compatriots Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari in dysfunctional families or surrogate families that live by their own rules, as well as a slightly mannered approach to framing, costumes, production design, and even the way his characters move.

At the centre of this sinister web sits ‘Father’ (Themis Panou), a softly spoken disciplinarian who makes his ‘children’ complicit in their own abuse. starring: Themis Panou, Reni Pittaki and Eleni Roussinou.

Considerably easier to talk about than it is to watch, and talking about it is no picnic.

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Sign up here. It (self-evidently) does not have the humour of those movies by Lanthimos and Tsangari and by that token, less of their richness and inventiveness.

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Cinema's Greek new wave has brought us exciting movies such as Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Attenberg – films with a bracingly angular, deadpan challenge. 99mins. First published on Thu 19 Jun 2014 22.14 BST. It often breaks the fourth wall, demanding that the viewer acknowledge their witness. Regal There was a problem.

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All rights reserved. Production companies: Faliro House Productions, Plays2Place Productions, International sales: Elle Driver, www.elledriver.eu, Producers: Vasilis Chrysanthopoulos, Alexandros Avranas, Executive producer: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Screenplay: Alexandros Avranas, Kostas Peroulis, Production designers: Eva Manidaki, Thanassis Demiris, Main cast: Themis Panou, Reni Pittaki, Eleni Roussinou, Sissy Toumasi, Kalliopi Zontanou, Konstantinos Athanasiades, Chloe Bolota.

| Fresh (21) 7:13 AM PDT 9/1/2013 by Boyd van Hoeij FACEBOOK; TWITTER; EMAIL ME; Director: Alexandros Avranas Cast: Themis Panou, …

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Thirty-four festivals from 19 countries are sharing the grants. Themis Panou is a pudgy middle-aged accountant who lives in a modest Athens flat with his wife (Reni Pittaki), their daughter Eleni (Eleni Roussinou) and a number of younger children.

Still, the exploitation, graphic enough, is exactly within the film's contempt for the rapist.

Receive news and offers from our other brands? | Rating: 4/5 Get a list of the best movie and TV titles recently added (and coming... Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by. Patriarchy rules and revulsion offers little escape in this sickly Haneke-esque modern Greek tragedy. Coming Soon. [A] chillingly controlled family drama ... A commanding, troubling domestic horror that should launch a long career for Avranas.

Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. A profound point arrives when a girl loses all belief in the man she thought of as her father.

A family prepares to celebrate the birthday of a melancholic, eleven year old Angeliki (Chloe Bolota).

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Performances range from the blank to the comatose and, though the aim presumably is to shock, it's a dull slog despite some nice camera work.