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DN SXSW2011: Attenberg – Athina Rachel Tsangari
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Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg has been a critical favourite (see our review) since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year. I got to see Attenberg in Tsangari’s spiritual film home, SXSW (she’s a former Austinite & co-founder of the Cinematexas film festival), and also share a coffee with her as we discussed the Greek film industry, why cinema is more than directing alone and how she’s surreptitiously hypnotising us all back in love with film.
Filmmaking to me is making cinema in anyway and not just being the main author of something.
Author: MarBelle
MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the latest incarnation of this disorder and so much cheaper than film school. Twitter: @MarBelle
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