This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

this movie is heavy and dragging, almost painful to watch. forcing myself to continue watching, and 30mins before the movie ended, everything started to make sense. i regret watching this movie. a total waste of time.definitely not a thriller, more to a drama, with minimal dialogues and i was left wondering why why why, yep until the last 30mins of the movie.

Sometimes it occurs to me I should be concerned at some of the films that Amazon recommends to me on the basis of my known preferences and this one probably beats them all. It is a very, very good film but I wouldn't truly recommend it to anyone. At least not someone I didn't know very well and could be sure that they could deal with the worryingly believable and atrocious basis of this film. It begins innocuously enough with a daughter's eleventh birthday. And yet wasn't I slightly perturbed at the flat and colourless surroundings, the spooky lack or gaiety, the fact they were dancing to a Leonard Cohen track? And the way the 'father' held his daughter? Almost immediately there is a most dramatic incident and then we are taken back to a measured family routine where everything is under control and we get drawn further into this only seeming innocuous family. There are truly dreadful events represented here and although most of this gradually dawns upon the viewer during the course of the film there are a couple of openly distressing scenes. There is no attempt to set this awful business in the past and we can only guess at how surprising this depiction is to a Greek audience, if indeed it had a theatrical release. People and glass houses and all that so I will say no more other than that maybe we in the UK need such a brave film maker to look further into some of our more murky corners that are, similarly, maybe not too far from home.

The purpose of this film was to shock just for the sake of it. This is not independent cinema, this is pure sickness. We need to move away from the sick minded people and the movies that reproduce sickness so they can be named ''independent'', ''shocking'' , ''contemporary'' etc. Every useless director in Greece is trying to imitate previous successes (dogtooth) and make a name, but apparently they cannot realize the limits. Or are they sick too? The worst part of the movie was the attempted connection of these disgusting actions with the financial crisis (the low wage that that the grandpa was offered). Don't watch it.

Miss Violence was the first film I've seen at this years Vancouver International Film Festival and what a fantastic film it is. There are similarities to Giorgos Lanthimos's films (Dogtooth, Alps) where you spend the first third of the film figuring out the relationships of the characters to each other and the rules of the world they live in. The rest of the film is spent either reveling in either horror or fascination in the world and characters created.This story is given to you in small pieces which build upon your understanding of who these people are. This in turn makes you a very active film-goer and creates a feeling of investment. When Miss Violence reaches it's climax I could feel the collective sighs from the 200+ people gathered to watch it at the festival.Be warned though...it is heavy, but so worth it. You'll be talking about it for awhile to come.