The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas
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A similarly dry, unsettling Greek character study: ritualised behaviour, awkward humour and a deliberately artificial social world turn emotional isolation into something quietly absurd.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
A similarly dry, unsettling Greek character study: ritualised behaviour, awkward humour and a deliberately artificial social world turn emotional isolation into something quietly absurd.
Why this pick
Tsangari again uses precise framing, deadpan comedy and bizarre social rituals to expose masculinity and competition, retaining Attenberg’s cool, discomfiting observational style.
Why this pick
Its clipped performances, estranged intimacy and rigorously absurd rules extend the Greek Weird Wave sensibility of Attenberg, pairing dark comedy with a poignant fear of human connection.
Why this pick
For Attenberg’s formal distance and off-kilter bodily behaviour, this offers an even more claustrophobic, deadpan exploration of family, language and social conditioning.
Why this pick
A small domestic space becomes uncanny through precise gestures, fragmented conversations and patient observation—well suited to Attenberg’s fascination with behaviour over conventional plot.
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01 / THE STORY
Marina, a sexually inexperienced 23-year-old woman, lives with her terminally-ill architect father, Spyros, in an industrial Greek town by the sea where she works at the local steel mill.
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