Love Me Not

"Directed by Greek filmmaker and winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for "Miss Violence," Alexandros Avranas, "Don't Love Me" is a sinister story revolving around affective relationships in an oddly stifling and cold domestic space, similar to what we have seen in the cruelty of love and family relationships in Ingmar Bergman films like "Scenes from a Marriage" and "Persona"; though with a much more sinister tone akin to his Greek compatriot Yorgos Lanthimos ("The Killing of a Sacred Deer") or Austrian Michael Haneke's "Funny Games." Selected for the 2017 San Sebastian Film Festival, this is a chilly story about the moral decomposition of society and family, an intense provocation through its plot and visuals that yet presents no answers or solutions (perhaps because, simply, there aren't any)."