Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep insisting that it was an accident. What is the secret that young Angeliki took with her? Why does her family persist in trying to "forget" her and to move on with its life?
Miss Violence is a Greek slow-burn psychological drama that unfolds with cold, clinical precision. The plot is meticulously constructed, revealing its horrifying secret gradually through suffocating silences and domestic normalcy that masks extreme abuse. The acting, particularly from Themis Panou as the patriarch, is chillingly controlled — he projects banal authority that makes the horror all the more unbearable. Cinematography is deliberately static and distanced, using long takes and fixed frames that implicate the viewer as an observer, mirroring the complicity of those who look away from abuse. The ending is bleak and uncompromising, offering no catharsis but a devastating cyclical logic. Novelty earns a 3 — while executed with singular craft, it operates within the established tradition of Greek Weird Wave cinema (Dogtooth, Kynodontas), and the 'family secret' structure follows a recognizable slow-reveal template. It is exceptional filmmaking but not entirely without precedent in its conception.