Film info: Attenberg

Film Information

Original Title	Attenberg
English Title
Director	Athina Rachel Tsangari
Country
Year	2010
Format	35 mm
Colour	Color
Duration	95 min

Cast:

Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelina Randou, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kostas Berikopoulos

Production:

Guión: Athina Rachel Tsangari
Fotografía: Thimios Bakatakis
Montaje: Sandrine Cheyrol, Matt Johnson
Producción: Maria Hatzakou, Yorgos Lanthimos, Iraklis Mavroidis, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Angelos Venetis

Synopsis

“A strange film and a wonderful character”, said the preview of The Slow Business of Going, back in those first Bafici years. Tsangari took a whole decade before coming back with another strange film and three wonderful characters (“Three people who become four and then two. Three, of course, being the perfect number in any relation.”): Marina, her father Spyros and her friend Bella. The three live in a sort of symmetric, all white dorm-city; the three behave in slightly –to put it mildly– bizarre ways, rehearsing dance (?) steps and clumsy French kisses on the streets, imitating wild animals, spitting out through the window, planning every last detail of their own cremation. BBC naturalist Sir David Attenborough’s quote (pronounce Attenberg), which seems to guide this trio, might clear up the situation: “If ever there was a possibility of escaping the human condition, and living imaginatively in another creature’s world, it must be with the gorilla.” No? It doesn’t matter: the thing here is to loose your self in Attenberg’s white streets, strange human fauna, and catchy music, and always expect the unexpected.