Spielmann’s deft storytelling is coupled with immaculate compositions that constrain the characters as confidently as any prison bars.
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Revanche (2009)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:50
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: With Revanche, Götz Spielmann has crafted a debut as surprising as it is suspenseful.
Theatrical Release:May 1, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: At once a gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar–nominated, international breakthrough film from Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann. In a... [More]
Starring: Ursula Strauss, Irina Potapenko, Johannes Krisch, Andreas Lust
Director: Götz Spielmann
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Reviews for Revanche
Revanche is, first and foremost, a good story, craftily told.
04/30/09
There's a moral beauty in the movie's consideration of violence and vengeance.
04/30/09
Top CriticAs it unfolds, it constructs a parable of crime and punishment, redemption and revenge.
05/01/09
Goetz Spielmann's overpraised Austrian Oscar submission Revanche is a slight film masquerading as a significant one, and a work whose style and substance are irreconcilably at odds with each other.
05/11/09
Spielmann urges his actors in the direction of emotional credibility by way of impressively, intently physical performances.
05/03/09
Writer-director Gotz Spielmann (Antares) avoids the clutter and manipulation of most thrillers, escalating tension almost solely through the characters' turbulent emotions.
08/07/09
Revanche involves a rare coming together of a male's criminal nature and a female's deep needs, entwined with a first-rate thriller.
08/06/09
Top CriticA film of carefully strained pulp and rigorously controlled intrigue, the Austrian revenge drama Revanche, which is really about the dividing line between vengeance and forgiveness, belongs to a neo-noir universe where all the classical genre laws apply.
08/14/09
Top CriticThe performers do terrifically understated work. Even in a scene of angry, anguished coupling, silence and stillness persist.
06/26/09
It's undeniably effective and pretty engrossing. And there's something to be said for the unconventional way it sucks viewers in.
07/16/09
Revanche, a recent Austrian entry in the foreign film Oscar race, is both shocking in its starkness and subtle in its low seethe of dangerous intent.
04/03/09
The precise camera placement in every scene brings the audience an up-close and personal vantage point. The sights and sounds of nature play an integral part in the story.
11/21/09
As long as Revanche focuses on the relationship between Tamara (Irina Potapenko), an indentured Ukrainian prostitute, and Alex (Johannes Krisch), the ex-con gofer and would-be tough guy who wants to help her escape, it's riveting.
05/13/09
Top CriticA meandering first half gives way to a spectacular psychological portrait of the deafening silence of pain and loneliness in Austrian writer-director Götz Spielmann's Revanche.
03/31/08
Gotz Spielmann smoothly transports us from the seedy Vienna red light district to a tranquil farmhouse setting in this tense, and even a little naughty, revenge tale.
11/04/08
An existential parry to Todd Field's magnificent In the Bedroom
04/30/09
With the rudiments of a crime thriller and the makings of a psychological suspense, the drawn-out unfolding of events encourages expectations of a smarter twist or more impressive ending.
10/18/08
Spielmann sets a tone of weary desperation and rarely strays from it. Not a happy film, but a gripping one.
11/20/09
An unbearably taut, slow-simmering noir transposed to the vast countryside and its patient, drawn-out rhythms.
12/14/09
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