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Pandemonium

Amid stylised hyper-violence, Athena asks, ‘Where is the breaking point?’

A scene from Athena. photos © Netflix

The first shot of Athena will be discussed in every writing about the film. A bravura choreography of movement that begins with an intimate close-up of a face and ends, after 10 blood-rushing minutes, with an explosion of revolutionary rage — a la Les Miserables and Do You Hear The People Sing? transported to a predominantly-Muslim Paris suburb — that opening shot is so hypnotising…

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