A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions,
Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international
breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker Gotz Spielmann. In a ragged
section of Vienna, hardened ex-con AIex works as an assistant in a brothel, where he
falIs for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate pIans for
escape unexpectedly intersect with the Iives of a ruraI cop and
his seemingly content wife. With meticuIous, elegant direction,
SpieImann creates a tense, existential, and surprising portrait of
vengeance and redemption, and a journey into the darkest forest of
human nature, in which vioIence and beauty exist side by side. |