Miss Violence (Alexandros Avranas, 2013)

7/10
This is a Greek film that was met with some controversy when it screened at Venice, and not without merit. It's a dark and pretty disturbing film. The plot is reminiscent of a Greek sensation from a couple of years ago, Dogtooth; a film I enjoyed very much. Miss Violence also centers around a father with an extremely unconventional way of raising his children and grandchildren. Where Dogtooth was a bit more surrealist and darkly comic, Miss Violence aims for the unsettling and harrowing. That doesn't make it a better movie, in my opinion, but it's not too bad in its own right as a harsh criticism of Greece as embodied in a patriarchal figure eating its own.