Save your money for something good and enjoyable

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Better Late Then Never

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

The main point of focus in this Greek film is that we got to start f******* our kids in order to get out of the euro crisis. Well, if it's intended as a joke, it's a very thin one, thanks to the stiff performances and the director's lack of personal style. From start 'till end, this film screams 'Dogtooth!' and 'Haneke!' It is also very frustrating that this film never becomes as shocking as it wants to be, and the interior spaces are not well realized. There are some very boring close-ups of household objects. It seems that at times, the director didn't know where to point his camera. Still, its not exactly a bad movie. There are some great bizarre moments like a kid doing a sexy dance in front of a glowing television screen that almost make this film worth while. There are also some very promising actors that show great potential(such as the girl that looks like the Harry Potter chick).

i am from Greece so i should say that this movie is a masterpiece and all that usual stuff almost everybody said about this movie..well i am from the few that didn't like it one bit..The actors played awful and fake..i mean what family acts this way??They all acted like they were hypnotized but in a bad bad way,i found the whole movie slow and boring and i don't recommend it to anyone..i wonder why they all say this is one of the best movies around..that is my honest opinion..There are tons of movies way better than this slow movie!Maybe Dog tooth was better but even that movie didn't said much to me and to a lot of people i know.I think that these kind of movies are not for all the people out there..anyway these kind of movies always go at the festivals and i am sure that i am not a fan of all these movies,again i speak for my self!

Miss Violence was the first film I've seen at this years Vancouver International Film Festival and what a fantastic film it is. There are similarities to Giorgos Lanthimos's films (Dogtooth, Alps) where you spend the first third of the film figuring out the relationships of the characters to each other and the rules of the world they live in. The rest of the film is spent either reveling in either horror or fascination in the world and characters created.This story is given to you in small pieces which build upon your understanding of who these people are. This in turn makes you a very active film-goer and creates a feeling of investment. When Miss Violence reaches it's climax I could feel the collective sighs from the 200+ people gathered to watch it at the festival.Be warned though...it is heavy, but so worth it. You'll be talking about it for awhile to come.