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A Masterpiece!

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The movie can be seen as an allegory that utilizes what seems like an impossible plot to make some points about a patriarchal family system, that's ever so common in Greece (surely in other places, too).I'm Greek myself and several of the situations the characters face in the movie are very familiar to me. The father enjoys ultimate and unquestionable respect by the members of the family. The mother stays passive, her role confined mostly to everyday chores. The kids are obedient little soldiers. Any thought of rebellion is suppressed by deep fear. These are all things I've witnessed and heard of myself, from friends and relatives. I remember various incest rape cases having surfaced through the years - they still do.Avranas took his story to the extremes, to point out how rotten the institution we call the "holy Greek family" is. The apartment door is locked. To a patriarch, it doesn't matter what happens behind it, as long as it stays there. It's his family after all. What matters is his own face to society, to keep up appearances. What matters is the surface, not the substance.I've heard so many women in my life saying "Oh yes, he may beat his wife up, but at least he doesn't cheat on her!" or "He may cheat on her, but he always provides food for his family!" What is pictured in the movie is the continued victimization of the female. The woman is rendered to an object for pleasure, for cooking, for cleaning, anything to satisfy the primary male in the family. The father must be obeyed and respected at all times, even though he's an unemployed middle aged man who can't provide much to his family - and this will not be questioned either: he's the MAN. It's so deeply ironic that the song he forces his little girl to dance to is, in fact, feminist at best, and a hymn to misandry at worst (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwbYEOKzBYo).The females have learned to accept their degradation as something normal. The oldest daughter feels numb, not being able to wake up to reality. Her kids, her own brother and sister apparently, she knows will go down the same road themselves. When one of them understands the true nature of her family relationships, she commits suicide. Again, the family's priority is to save face - it was an accident, not a suicide.This attitude, so prevalent in Greece until recently, is what I believe is the director's target here. Some scenes may be hard to watch, but he didn't really cross the line that much, or as far as he could have. From the moment I realized what was going on, the story made sense on so many levels, I was really at awe with what the director accomplished: a film that's both a psychological thriller and a cold, yet in-depth cultural study.

Alexander Avranas's Miss Violence has a realistic point of view that could define various understanding of violence. Does the society make you violent? Or is violence just an essential part of the human nature?The film is about a family struggle. Clearly, they have many economic issues. The opening scene is remarkable. It's an event that the story builds up from. The opening sequence shows a birthday family party for an 11-years-old girl. It shows a happy family until the record player starts playing a happy song by Leonard Cohen called "Dance Me to the End of Love". With the peaceful sound of the music, the birthday girl commits suicide. She jumps from the balcony. Since then the story gets dark and darker. The main character of the story is the father/grandfather who represents masculinity. Thus He is in a total control of the family. The first half of the film shows him as responsible father dealing with a great tragedy, the death of his granddaughter who we don't know who her father was. A complete disaster happened as we find out that he is sexually abusing his other granddaughter as well as selling her out for strangers as prostitute. The film explores different kinds of soft and extreme violence as hitting kids in the face, beating, yelling, screaming, raping, killing, and little blood. The violence doesn't come out as an enjoyment like many of the killing in Hollywood movies instead it's just an acceptable family behavior.Finally, as the grandmother puts an end for the husband extreme abuse. We don't really know if she killed him or did she cut off his…. Therefore, this movie would be better if we became aware of what happened at the end. When you close a movie like that you will have defiantly different reactions. Mine was like I really wanted to see what happened to him. I wanted to see every members of the family dancing around his dead body as a sign of the end of a muscular ignorant **shole control….I give it 7 out of 10. It's worth watching with much respect for Greece cinema specially the great long-live director Theo Angelopoulos

Film's that investigate the underbelly of society are not unusual, however ones that leave an indelible mark upon the viewer are. Miss Violence is one of those films. It's not an easy watch, and it does use cinematic devices that were pioneered by other directors, but this is a truly challenging film that immerses the viewer in a world that we can't help but be both intrigued and repelled by.Miss Violence distances itself from more run-of-the-mill offerings in this genre, delivering an all too believable world with strong acting performances, ominous silences, and skillful use of the more mundane aspects of domestic life that combine to leave the viewer wanting to know what happens after the titles roll.

Of the 40 or so films I have seen so far at the Vancouver International Film Festival, this is the best. No. Wait. It is the best film I have ever seen. In the opening scene, Angeliki calmly leaves her eleventh birthday party, steps over the balcony of her family's Athens apartment and drops to her death. The reason for her suicide drives the rest of the film. Of course, your first guess is that she is being sexually abused, probably by her grandfather, the only man in a family consisting of two women, one teenage girl (besides Angeliki), a 10-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl. But not so fast. The grandfather, brilliantly played by Themis Panou, overcomes his embarrassment over his grand-daughter's death and leads the way in helping social services uncover the dark secrets of his family. And under the skillful direction of Alexandros Avranas, who also co-wrote the script, as the secrets are revealed, so the tension increases. But suspend your suspicions until the last ten minutes -- they may surprise you. Great acting by all the cast. I am reluctant to paste the cliché "riveting' to any film. Except for this one.