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Descent
Directed by
Talia Lugacy
NC-17
2007
1h 50m
Drama
,
Thriller
4.7
35%
33%
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A college co-ed is brutally raped and struggles alone to rebuild her life.
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Cast of Descent
Rosario Dawson
Maya
Chad Faust
Jared
Marcus Patrick
Adrian
Vanessa Ferlito
Bodega Girl
Jonathan Neil Schneider
Archeology Professor
Nicole Vicius
Melanie
Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine
Nadia
Charlie Hewson
Usher
Rachael Leigh Cook
Allison
Spencer Grammer
Stephanie
Kristen Ruhlin
Maya's Friend from High School
James A. Stephens
Professor Byron
Paul Sado
Downstairs Guy
Scott Bailey
Upstairs Guy
Tracie Thoms
Denise
Alexie Gilmore
Seline
Johnathan Tchaikovsky
Tyler
Aisleagh Jackson
Construction Girl
Scott Porter
Brooks
Jacqueline Duprey
Celeste
Wilson Jermaine Heredia
Diego
Tommy Guiffre
Danny
Aaron Staton
Jared's Friend
Matthew J. Walters
Tim Banks
Peter Bongiorno
Football Coach
Adam Mucci
Football Player
Phoebe Strole
Innocent Girl
Kevin Cannon
Gruff Hood
Sergia Louise Anderson
Christie (uncredited)
Melissa Fumero
Dorm Girl
Descent Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Though a clearly gifted new filmmaker, Lugacy doesn't get a handle on the combustible material, and she gets scalded in the process.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
It's indie provocation trapped between shock and blah.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
No moviegoer has done anything to deserve the images that director Talia Lugacy would throw in their face.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's been a while since we saw a demagogic feminist exploitation revenge drama, and Descent, while top-heavy with 'agenda,' is shrewdly done.
New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
[Dramatizes] the experience and the psychological aftermath of rape with a vividness I've never seen in an American film.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Look-at-me-I'm-a-filmmaker photography, pacing that has all the thrills of waiting in line at the post office and an utterly predictable plot combine to make the movie even worse than the hacky chick revenge fantasy now showing on channel 186 of your box.
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
Dawson, armed not with a whole lot of dialogue but her endlessly eloquent face, makes each note of the character's journey pierce, whether with pain or ecstasy.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
A daring, sometimes provocative work, director Talia Lugacy's debut motion picture is still nonetheless an exhausting foray into horrific degradation devoid of either context or meaning.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Each section of the film is a heady and artful consideration of Maya's torment, which Dawson conveys as a wounded puzzle of shame and denial.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's a lot like a '70s exploitation movie, with its determination to seduce and shock the viewer with alternating currents of electrical stimulus, and its weird combination of arty arch-decadence and neo-Victorian moralizing.
Village Voice
Ernest Hardy
A well-acted trifle straining to be a hard-hitting morality play.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
You'll want to avert your eyes from this intense and intensely unpleasant drama about rape and revenge.
Variety
John Anderson
[Rosario Dawson] could have provided a 100-minute closeup and revealed more about human nature and anguish than all of Descent.
NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
Revenge is less than sweet, to say the least, in particular for the audience, veering between sickening and pathetically pornographic.
Film Journal International
Frank Lovece
Sludgy and slack [...] pointlessly vague and abstruse.
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