
It's Aggeliki's eleventh birthday, and a well-organised party is held in her honour. All the ingredients of a usual birthday gathering are here: a scrumptious sugar-glazed cake, cheerful music, and the warm embrace of a doting grandfather. However, is any of this real, or is this an elaborate facade? Little by little, as a devastating act of despair unfolds before Aggeliki's shocked family, wolves and lambs alike gradually find themselves lured into an elaborate web of hideou... (Full plot summary below)
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It's Aggeliki's eleventh birthday, and a well-organised party is held in her honour. All the ingredients of a usual birthday gathering are here: a scrumptious sugar-glazed cake, cheerful music, and the warm embrace of a doting grandfather. However, is any of this real, or is this an elaborate facade? Little by little, as a devastating act of despair unfolds before Aggeliki's shocked family, wolves and lambs alike gradually find themselves lured into an elaborate web of hideous secrets, deceptive appearances, and a frantic downward spiral of lies. In the end, as the sinners' blood-curdling evildoings kept behind closed doors unravel, one can't help but plunge into the depths of the human soul, and the unfathomable secrets within.
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| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabMiss Violence is a grim tale of family dysfunction that also stands as an allegory about moral and economic decline in Greek society. |
| Empire MagazineSimon CrookA commanding, troubling domestic horror that should launch a long career for Avranas. |
| Total FilmMatt Glasby[A] chillingly controlled family drama ... |
| Contactmusic.comRich ClineEven fans of chillingly oblique new Greek cinema (see Dogtooth and Alps) will find this pitch-black drama utterly terrifying simply because it doesn't look like a horror movie. |
| StarburstMartyn ConterioEver since Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth wowed audiences back in 2009, Greek cinema has become the new Michael Haneke. |
| Digital JournalSarah GopaulThough people may be tempted to frame this story in the context of Greece's debt crisis, it's important to remember Miss Violence is about power not about money. |
| Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijA precision-tooled portrait of a hermetically closed family unit. |
| ScotsmanSiobhan SynnotPart of the intriguing Greek new wave of brutal cinema that rages against the country's current woes, but not one of the movement's best. |
| Time OutAlex Dudok de WitFrom the not-so-happy birthday that opens the film ... up to the harrowing final revelation, Miss Violence fulfils the grisly promise of its title. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinConsiderably easier to talk about than it is to watch, and talking about it is no picnic. |