Searching for "Miss Violence" online will yield as many arguments about its ethics as its plot. Critics like Mark Kermode have called it "harrowing but necessary." Others have accused Avranas of making a torture film disguised as art.
The film’s most unbearable quality is its patience. Avranas uses long, unbroken takes. In one seven-minute scene, the family eats dinner in silence while the Father stares at the new Angeliki. Nothing happens. No music swells. But the tension is suffocating.
Searching for "Miss Violence" online will yield as many arguments about its ethics as its plot. Critics like Mark Kermode have called it "harrowing but necessary." Others have accused Avranas of making a torture film disguised as art.
The film’s most unbearable quality is its patience. Avranas uses long, unbroken takes. In one seven-minute scene, the family eats dinner in silence while the Father stares at the new Angeliki. Nothing happens. No music swells. But the tension is suffocating.
