Hard luck conspires with bad sex in this unspectacular Austrian tale of crime and punishment.
Revanche
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Austria · 2008
2h 1m
Director Götz Spielmann
Starring Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Michael-Joachim Heiss, Andreas Lust
Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
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An ex-con goes back to his old ways and robs a bank, hoping to steal enough cash to give him and his girlfriend a fresh start. While laying low after the crime, the two inadvertently befriend a woman whose husband is a policeman, forcing them to make drastic decisions.
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What are critics saying?
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The characters and situations are interesting enough, and the filmmaking is sufficiently skilled to provide a measure of reasonably thoughtful entertainment.
From the film's opening moments you won't be able to guess where the whole thing ultimately ends up and that's one of the many endearing qualities of Revanche.
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
Mr. Spielmann's film is full of surprises and, in its distinctive way, full of life.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
A darkly compelling film from Austria, can be viewed as either a thriller with psychological overtones or a psychological drama with thriller elements.
Revanche is, first and foremost, a good story, craftily told.
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.
Revanche was a foreign-language Oscar nominee this year, and it's a better movie than most of the films in the main race. The word "revanche" means "revenge" in German, but "waiting" would have been just as good.
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