Attenberg (2010)

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   Vincentie

   @Siskoid
   
   I think you mean David Attenborough? And the protagonists name is Marina, not Monica..
   
   Besides that, interesting review. 2 years 10 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Attenberg is named after Richard Attenborough as the 23-year-old late bloomer in the film is obsessed with his nature documentaries, and it's very much about human behavior and showing how, unlike animals', which are relatively easy to decode to the point where it seems mysterious how their behavior is transmitted, observed human behavior is dependent on unique specific dynamics with other humans (family/friends/lovers). If we were aliens looking through Athina Rachel Tsangari's camera, we would jump to all sorts of conclusions about the species or generally be mystified. Monica's specific context and relationships is a limited ecosystem built on personal idiosyncratic traditions and have a strangeness that is mundane. This is a quiet picture about a French-Greek young woman who at first isn't as interested in boys as she is in play-acting musicals and animal documentaries with her best friend, set on a voyage of sexual discovery at her dying father's urging, set in a sleepy industrial town in Greece. Within that specificity, we do recognize ourselves - in this moment, or that - but also glimpse a foreign island as anthropologically different as, say, your neighbor's house. 3 years 9 months ago
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   nbats

   https://noodlemagazine.com/watch/691945205_456239121 1 year 4 months ago

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