Funny. I saw two films at the San Francisco International Film Festival on Friday—a Danish documentary and a Greek drama. They both concerned themselves with a grown but immature woman too dependent on a parent, and they both had a scene of a loved one’s ashes being scattered into the sea.
One big difference: Attenberg’s protagonist is only 23, making her immaturity considerably more understandable and excusable than the daughter in The Good Life.
Besides, she’s able to hold down a job.
And how, a capsule review of Attenberg:
B- You have to adjust yourself to the slow pace of Athina Rachel Tsangari’s story of a young woman simultaneously facing her late-blooming sexuality and her father’s mortality. The static and low-key opening scene of two women kissing in the most awkward way possible sets the tone: Be patient, and you’ll be rewarded with some unique yet believable individuals, as well as some genuine and human laughs. And with the funniest sex scene i have ever seen.
Attenberg plays again at the Kabuki on Wednesday at 8:45, and at the New People (VIZ Cinema) next Friday at 3:15.
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