A gripping thriIIer 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
falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate pIans for
escape unexpectedly intersect with the Iives of a rural cop and
his seemingly content wife. With meticulous, elegant direction,
Spielmann 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. |