Problem: 1. Intelligent, inventive and incredibly engaging.
2. If you stay, hope to be charmed. But be warned: you could be exasperated first by the servings of self-regard and psycho-spiritual preciosity.
3. Tsangari proves she's one of the freshest voices in European cinema with this offbeat character piece. Recommended.
4. To enjoy 'Attenberg', you have to tune in to an unusual wavelength, but there are strange pleasures to enjoy.
5. Fans of Dogtooth should certainly try this one out.
6. Perhaps viewed under the influence of drugs or drink the film might spring to comic life, but taken straight it is far more likely to get on your nerves.
7. Attenberg, both jarring and sweet, stuttering and eloquent, doesn't deliver manifestos or offer answers. But, in its needling, idiosyncratic fashion, it's more fascinating than most films that do.
8. It offers its audience a mordant commentary on modern Greece - deriding its cultural and social decay, though without commenting directly on economic difficulties - and affects a serio-comic, quasi-anthropological detachment.
9. From the makers of Dogtooth comes Attenberg, another slice of eccentric Greek weirdness that tries to pass itself as an oft kilter coming of age tale. It fails.
10. This clinically shot oddity ultimately mystifies.
What is the consensus?
****
Answer: At once playfully eccentric and poignantly bittersweet, Attenberg adds a refreshing sideways spin to the arthouse coming-of-age drama.


Problem: 1. Weightless entertainment that's both camp and true.
2. The acting is such a delight, with each actress nailing her respective personality type with appropriate flair and finesse, that it breathes with life.
3. It's more of a graduate seminar kind of fun than a Singin' in the Rain kind of fun.
4. What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? 8 women and a dead French guy trapped in a snowstorm.
5. Beautifully constructed, unexpectedly touching, and gorgeous to behold, it's a swirling kaleidoscope of murder, intrigue, and musical numbers that cinematic bon vivants will eagerly devour.
6. The line between wacky offbeatness and just plain silliness is sadly crossed a few too many times.
7. Most of the fun of 8 Women is that it is cliche.
8. Simply to name the eight actresses ... is to indulge in an iconic incantation that has less to do with traditional film criticism than with spiritual speculation on the eloquent intimations of immortality in the ageless cinema of faces.
9. [Francois] Ozon creates a retro film that resonates with qualities and concepts that harkens back to the 50's and 60's.
10. Combining the traditions of the English country house murder mystery and the 1960s musical, 8 Women is nutty French fun.
What is the consensus?
****
Answer: Featuring some of the best French actresses working today, 8 Women is frothy, delirious, over-the-top fun.


Problem: 1. This is an unusual and tender story about the love of a family for each other.
2. Hay varios aspectos en los cuales conectar con esta película, al punto de que casi nadie permanecerá indiferente.
3. combines fairytale elements with actual documentary footage, and the personal with the political, creating a contemporary allegory of the dreams and delusions upon which the lives of East Germans were sustained.
4. The real story is how ideologies melt when it comes to affairs of the heart. In that way, the movie has an appeal that goes way beyond its country's borders.
5. Succeeds as a comedy, as a glimpse at a tumultuous time in European history, and as a thoughtful look at the great lengths to which people will go for important relationships.
6. The real story is how ideologies melt when it comes to affairs of the heart. In that way, the movie has an appeal that goes way beyond its country's borders.
7. Un film qui propose ŕ la fois une réflexion intelligente sur la chute du mur de Berlin, un divertissement amusant et un récit touchant.
8. A political comedy that reaches you right down in your soul, reminding us without any Benigni-ish moral frivolity that life sure is complicated, but it is also beautiful.
9. An enjoyable comedy about keeping a big thing secret from someone and an interesting drama about family ties and values and politics.
10. Non-Germans will certainly get the essence of the humor but may find the movie long and repetitive.
What is the consensus?
****
Answer:
Funny and poignant social critique of German reunification.