There's real biblical tragedy, and redemption, in Spielmann's fine, sad, suspenseful film.
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Revanche (2009)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:18
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.5/10
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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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 CriticWriter-director Gotz Spielmann (Antares) avoids the clutter and manipulation of most thrillers, escalating tension almost solely through the characters' turbulent emotions.
08/07/09
Top CriticRevanche 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 CriticThe performers do terrifically understated work. Even in a scene of angry, anguished coupling, silence and stillness persist.
06/26/09
Top CriticThis cool, tense Austrian thriller follows a Ukrainian hooker and her petty criminal boyfriend as they try to escape their dead-end lives.
06/05/09
Top CriticRevanche is an extraordinary film, mythic in feeling, about an ex-con who falls in love with a prostitute and how their lives intertwine fatefully with that of a policeman and his wife.
06/05/09
Top CriticThe uniformly crackerjack cast keeps things electric, yet always believable, even when behaving in ways that are shocking.
05/29/09
Top CriticAs 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 CriticIntense and emotional.
05/08/09
Top CriticThe title means 'revenge', but that's a deliberate simplification; Mr. Spielmann's film is full of surprises and, in its distinctive way, full of life.
05/08/09
Top CriticThe coincidences might be too much for some, but viewers who can get past them will be treated to a suspenseful, well-acted, crisply photographed character study.
05/01/09
Top CriticA tidy, glum thriller that aims for a tone of sour humanism, perched just on the near edge of cynical despair.
05/01/09
Top CriticThere's a moral beauty in the movie's consideration of violence and vengeance.
04/30/09
Top CriticDirected with terrific control and economy of means by Spielmann -- a film and theater vet who has had only one previous movie distributed in the U.S. -- Revanche gets its hooks into you early and leaves them there/
04/28/09
Top CriticOne of the most compelling assemblages of character studies I have seen so far in this too-often-dismal year of moviegoing.
04/22/09
Top CriticRevanche, 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
Top CriticAll actors turn in fine, naturalistic perfs, but it would be remiss not to remark on 83-year-old Thanheiser's profoundly moving turn as the grandfather.
10/18/08
Top CriticWith 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
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