Revenge is a dish best served Austrian in Revanche.
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06/05/09
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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
The uniformly crackerjack cast keeps things electric, yet always believable, even when behaving in ways that are shocking.
05/29/09
Top CriticThere are periods of time when Revanche's audience could be forgiven for falling asleep, but at other moments it captures harrowing feelings of guilt, betrayal and anger better than nearly anything else out there.
05/15/09
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 CriticGoetz 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
Writer-director Götz Spielmann doesn't hit you over the head with what he's trying to say. Instead, you have to pay attention and grasp the nuance of the story.
05/10/09
Intense 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 CriticSpielmann urges his actors in the direction of emotional credibility by way of impressively, intently physical performances.
05/03/09
A mesmerizing masterpiece which eloquently meshes the raw, super-realism found in Eastern Promises with the manipulative, mental chess moves of David Mamet's House of Games.
05/01/09
The 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
In Austria's submission for the 2009 Foreign Language Picture Oscar, writer/director Götz Spielmann works a tricky little bit of business
05/01/09
This modern-day morality tale feels remarkably tethered to the present, introducing plot twists in a crisp, matter-of-fact manner.
05/01/09
A tidy, glum thriller that aims for a tone of sour humanism, perched just on the near edge of cynical despair.
05/01/09
Top CriticAs it unfolds, it constructs a parable of crime and punishment, redemption and revenge.
05/01/09
There is nothing predictable or pat, something many America films are guilty of, and this is the charm.
05/01/09
Intelligent, compelling and elegant with as many surprises and ambiguities as a great suspense thriller.
04/30/09
An existential parry to Todd Field's magnificent In the Bedroom
04/30/09
There's a moral beauty in the movie's consideration of violence and vengeance.
04/30/09
Top CriticRevanche is, first and foremost, a good story, craftily told.
04/30/09
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