ATTENBERG (LUX Prize) by Athina Rachel Tsangari
Greece 2010, 95’, 35 mm, colour
screenplay
ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI
cinematography
THIMIOS BAKATAKIS
editing
SANDRINE CHEYROL
MATT JOHNSON
art direction
DAFNI KALOGIANNI
cast
ARIANE LABED (Marina), YORGOS LANTHIMOS (ingegnere), VANGELIS MOURIKIS (Spyros), EVANGELIA RANDOU (Bella), KOSTAS BERIKOPOULOS (impresario pompe funebri), MICHEL DEMOPOULOS (dirigente ospedale)
producer
MARIA HATZAKOU
YORGOS LANTHIMOS
IRAKLIS MAVROIDIS
ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI
ANGELOS VENETIS
production
HAOS FILM
co-production
FALIRO HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
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Marina, finding the human species strange and repellent, keeps her distance. Instead, she chooses to observe it through the songs of Suicide, the mammal documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sexual-education lessons she receives from her only friend, Bella. A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel on her own table. Her father meanwhile ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be “overrated”. The film competed in Venice in 2010, with the Volpi Cup for best actress going to Ariane Labed. “I wrote ATTENBERG during the first riots in Athens, in December 2008. Unconsciously, some of the desperation, alienation and sense of betrayal that had poured out in the streets, snuck into the film. Three years later, in the midst of my country’s controversial collapse within the European Union, it is a big surprise and a great honor to be nominated for the LUX Prize. I think now, more than ever, making cinema in Greece goes beyond making art. It is an act of political, social, and moral survival.” (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI divides her time between her native country and the USA, where she studied film. Her first feature film, THE SLOW BUSINESS OF GOING (2000), shot in nine cities around the world, was voted Best First Film in the “Village Voice Critics” Poll. In 2005 she founded the production company Haos Film, where she has developed and produced films by her compatriot Yorgos Lanthimos, KINETTA (2005) and DOGTOOTH (2009), which won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes and ALPS (2011). With the Duplass brothers she also co-produced Bryan Poyser’s LOVERS OF HATE (2010), screened at Sundance.
SCREENING:
04/09/2011 - 15:30
Sala Pasinetti
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