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Athena
Directed by
Romain Gavras
R
2022
1h 37m
Drama
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Action
,
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6.8
87%
71%
6.6
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Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
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Cast of Athena
Dali Benssalah
Abdel
Anthony Bajon
Jérôme
Alexis Manenti
Sébastien
Ouassini Embarek
Moktar
Sami Slimane
Karim
Radostina Rogliano
Karim Lasmi
Mehdi Abdelhakmi
Tarek Haddaji
Guy Donald Koukissa
Birane Ba
Le Négociateur
Sophie-Marie Larrouy
Nourisse
Nesrine Abdat
La soeur
Romain Gavras
Director / Screenplay / Producer
Ladj Ly
Screenplay / Producer
Elias Belkeddar
Screenplay / Executive Producer
Mourad Belkeddar
Producer
Charles-Marie Anthonioz
Producer
Jean Duhamel
Producer
Nicolas Lhermitte
Producer
Athena Ratings & Reviews
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
It's been quite a while since I watched a movie in a constant fugue state of tension and admiration.
Keith & the Movies
Keith Garlington
It may rely too heavily on its amazing visual craftsmanship, but the themes (though only scratched upon) are there. And watching society crumble and violence beget violence on screen is affecting.
The Bulwark
Sonny Bunch
Athena is so tense as to be nearly exhausting, but it's a good kind of exhaustion, the exhaustion that comes from exhilaration.
We Live Entertainment
Aaron Neuwirth
Director Romain Gavras is doing more than just putting an ambitious and wildly energetic film on his resume; he's delivering something sensational, often quite grim, and of the moment.
Observer
Dylan Roth
Athena is an engrossing and unflinching polemic, an "action-tragedy" that's both a feast for the eyes and a dagger to the heart.
Common Sense Media
Barbara Shulgasser
The focus is on visual spectacle, not social issues. That's why none of the characters amount to much more than stereotypes, some with dramatically convenient flip-flopping personalities.
Pajiba
Petr Navovy
This is ferocious, supremely confident filmmaking-as-spectacle from director Romain Gavras, that uses that spectacle to rip you from your sofa, transporting you onto the makeshift barricades erected on and around the Athena estate.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Amy Nicholson
It gets a little tidy in the storytelling, but the look of it is just fantastic.
RogerEbert.com
Tomris Laffly
A fast-moving political thriller and urban drama that feels genuinely cinematic, with technical finesse to spare.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
While it's true that there are real issues at play here - police violence, racism, the disaffection of the immigrant underclass - the filmmakers don't so much explore as exploit them, giving a loud and sloppy genre exercise a patina of relevance.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
As a sustained piece of action choreography, "Athena" is frequently staggering. As a drama about police violence, the woes of a long-ignored underclass and the complexities of modern French identity, the movie feels thin and overdetermined.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A visceral tour de force that lands with the impact of a shotgun blast to the chest.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
"Athena" is a vision of political apocalypse, and it names the enemy while throwing its cinematic hands in the air, along with the camera. It turns its own story into just another figure in the mediascape that it decries.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
It's a movie that utilizes every bit of Gavras' abundant chops and marshals them to make a coherent statement, tapping brains and heart and spleen in the name of forcing you to recognize what he's putting in front of you.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
[It] has one eye on the present and another on the eternal. Its subject is timely but its presentation is timeless - it's a war movie, a family drama, a Greek tragedy.
Variety
Peter Debruge
"Athena" is not propaganda. Sure, it could be seen as a passionate call to action, giving audiences a taste of resistance, but the screenwriters - Gavras, Ly and Elias Belkeddar - temper that catharsis with a strong sense of caution.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Nerve-rattling, intense and explosive.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
A more self-aware film might have recognized the weaknesses of its storytelling and embraced the representational essence of Gavras' direction.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Todd McCarthy
Athena is a torrent, an inundation, a cascade of rage, fury and frustration over the realities of life for a particular group of French families.
TheWrap
Carlos Aguilar
Gavras' orchestrating reflects the urgency of the cause in the visual energy of the filmmaking: a perpetual state of disarray choreographed to appear organically conceived.
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