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Revanche
Directed by
Götz Spielmann
Not Rated
2008
2h 1m
Crime
,
Drama
,
and more
7.5
96%
83%
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Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
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Cast of Revanche
Johannes Krisch
Alex
Irina Potapenko
Tamara
Michael-Joachim Heiss
Tagportier
Andreas Lust
Robert
Hanno Pöschl
Konecny
Ursula Strauss
Susanne
Johannes Thanheiser
Der Alte
Linde Prelog
Magdalena Kropiunig
Toni Slama
Rainer Gradischnig
Johannes Zeiler
Max Schmiedl
Nicoletta Prokes
Revanche Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
A 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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Revanche involves a rare coming together of a male's criminal nature and a female's deep needs, entwined with a first-rate thriller.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
There's real biblical tragedy, and redemption, in Spielmann's fine, sad, suspenseful film.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
The title Revanche means 'retribution,' and this Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film is a European extract of neo-noir, like a Bavarian Body Heat or a Teutonic 21 Grams.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
The performers do terrifically understated work. Even in a scene of angry, anguished coupling, silence and stillness persist.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Spielmann's deft storytelling is coupled with immaculate compositions that constrain the characters as confidently as any prison bars.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
An unbearably taut, slow-simmering noir transposed to the vast countryside and its patient, drawn-out rhythms.
Film Comment Magazine
Nicolas Rapold
"It works because Spielmann has established that we're not watching belabored dramatic trajectories collide, but an encounter between two people in miles-away mindsets."
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
So few characters in Hollywood thrillers ever feel real. The true achievement of Revanche may be that Spielmann's characters sometimes feel too much so.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Writer-director Gotz Spielmann (Antares) avoids the clutter and manipulation of most thrillers, escalating tension almost solely through the characters' turbulent emotions.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The 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.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The uniformly crackerjack cast keeps things electric, yet always believable, even when behaving in ways that are shocking.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Intense and emotional.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Revanche is, first and foremost, a good story, craftily told.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Revanche 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.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
A tidy, glum thriller that aims for a tone of sour humanism, perched just on the near edge of cynical despair.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
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.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
There's a moral beauty in the movie's consideration of violence and vengeance.
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