Attenberg

"Sensual, strange, and delightfully crazy" - perhaps this enticing official slogan could be applied to the lion's share of what we show here. Nevertheless, in the case of "Attenberg," I would probably highlight a different trio: "strange, subtle, human."

23-year-old Marina lives with her architect father in an industrial seaside town. Finding people strange and incomprehensible, she keeps her distance from them, exploring the human emotional world through songs about suicide and her own body by mimicking the movements of animals from the TV show "Life of Mammals." She has no sexual experience, but gradually experiences an anxious and tremulous premonition and anticipation of possible love.

The new generation of Greek directors has sparked discussions about the emergence of another "wave," at the crossroads of ancient Greek tragedy traditions and contemporary auteur cinema, which Western critics have labeled as "strange." Directors (such as Yorgos Lanthimos) may not resonate with this external classification, yet it's hard not to notice some stylistic features that unite their films: meticulous attention to detail, pronounced absurdism, and naturalism contribute to exploring the boundaries of the human, social, and sexual.