Revenge (2017)
Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Coralie Fargeat
Written By: Coralie Fargeat
Starring: Kevin Janssens, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchède
Genres: Suspense/Thriller, Action, Horror
Country: France
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Revenge belongs to 24 collections
1. Female Directors (collaborative: moderated by djross - 90 stars)
2. boobs (collaborative: moderated by Pickpocket - 51 stars)
3. Female protagonist (collaborative: moderated by djross - 25 stars)
4. Directorial debut (collaborative: moderated by djross - 16 stars)
5. Vigilante / Revenge (collaborative: moderated by td888 - 13 stars)
6. Car chase (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 8 stars)
7. Rape (collaborative: moderated by Moribunny - 7 stars)
8. Dream/Fantasy/Hallucination Sequence (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 4 stars)
9. Full Male Frontal Nudity (Yes, Dick!) (collaborative: moderated by iceblox - 4 stars)
10. edkrak films to see (public: edkrak - 4 stars)
11. Horror (public: horrorjames - 4 stars)
12. Graphic, Bloody Gore (collaborative - 3 stars)
13. Desert (collaborative: moderated by kangadoodoo - 2 stars)
14. Rape-and-revenge (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess - 2 stars)
15. !f Istanbul 2018 (collaborative: moderated by Johnny Mo - 2 stars)
16. vitamine.cineville.nl (collaborative: moderated by amsterdam020 - 1 star)
17. Topic: woman in jeopardy (collaborative: moderated by tipar)
18. Couple relationship (collaborative: moderated by tipar)
19. Vulture's 10 Best Horror Movies of 2018 (collaborative: moderated by jeff_h)
20. Dead Meat: Kill Count (collaborative: moderated by delollio)
21. Exploitation films directed by women (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed)
22. seen in 2018 (public: sproost)
23. Criticker has failed catastrophically its prediction (I loved those movies) (public: tipar)
24. Mini Reviewed (public: Adds)
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Paxton | 55 28th |
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She gets impaled on a tree and when she miraculously comes to, her first instinct is to set it on fire. This was the first (but nowhere near the last) of my incredulous laughs. I went in knowing it's more enjoyable if she's treated like a fictional angel of death, but that didn't help the fact that this was excessively unpleasant to watch. If you go that route though than the peyote as anesthesia for self surgery with a rusty beer can scene is unnecessary. Was that redundant?
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laika | 80 78th |
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Essentially a remake of 70s exploitation shocker I Spit on Your Grave, but transplanted to a gorgeously shot desert setting, dripping (literally) with excessive blood and gore, and ultra stylish. Suspend all disbelief before going into this one and go with the ride.
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guy piranha | 60 40th |
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now here's a woman whose #metoo-claims i can completely get behind. too bad the movie gets "ambiguity" mixed up with "confusion" and seems more like a student-project in terms of style and editing. and could we stop with the synthpop in violent indie-movies? every once in a while an original thought wouldn't hurt.
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moraesfelipe | 60 49th |
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Rape and revenge updated by French extremity. It works when it doesn't try so hard to be stylish - neo-western section -, but some stuff seems from a glorious 90s actioner - nightmarish bad trip with two beautiful headshots, beer can used to contain a wound. She starts by killing the man who let her be raped, then kills off the rapist - a man who needs air-con to endure desert - and finally the cynical lover. Script sometimes is too on the nose - "women always have to put up a fucking fight".
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bof | 78 77th |
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"Revenge" isn't the big, critical deconstruction/reclamation of the tired old rape-and-revenge plotline, as if that were something to be desired. Instead, it infuses it with new anger and wrenches the camera away from the traditional view, creating an intense, relentless, sun/blood/sweatsoaked thriller that never gets too skeevy about its subject (as opposed to object).
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eCitizen | 60 59th |
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Matilda Lutz provides stunning visuals as she is off the charts beautiful and gives a superb performance. The story is rough and raw and a few elements are WTF laughable. The writers laid it on thick with how events were set into motion and with the carnage that followed. I enjoyed the irony and bloody violence even though nothing much was convincing. It had too much spoken French, many bloopers and rivers of fake blood, but it was still better than the average gory thriller because of Lutz.
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| 2 | Zangin | 63 45th |
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A highly stylized film that elevates the otherwise generic screenplay into a very entertaining, but somewhat shallow, experience. Unfortunately, the film does have issues with inconsistent characterization and occasional editing that feels unnecessarily disjointed. It's definitely not the deconstruction of rape/revenge films that I had heard it hailed as, but it is a refreshing, modern take on the genre.
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Kojiless | 48 52nd |
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They don't make cliffs like they used to, and that's bad news for a rich CEO and his sleazy CEO buddies on holiday in [scenic video game desert area] when an innocent shove off a fifty-foot precipice ends (unsurprisingly) not in death, but in a broken iPod and a bubblegum-colored plot for revenge.
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AFlickering | 2 18th |
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regardless of the NFE influence and female director this hits pretty traditional rape-revenge beats, turning various symbols of machismo against their masters (including, most notably, a beer can grafted onto the heroine's bleeding stomach) but never truly rejecting all the leery michael bay music video slickness, which along with the shitty writing prevents it from landing as straight up exploitation either, although the acts of vengeance themselves are well shot and staged.
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Obdurate | 70 40th |
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During the build-up it got silly and cartoonish sometimes, like zooming in on the guy eating. But there were other dumb parts like that and it didn't fit the subject matter. The actual revenge part is better; it doesn't do anything new and the desert setting gets a little bland (instead of becoming a character itself), but ultimately it's satisfying and bloody. Despite my criticisms, it at least had a fairly intriguing style, even if it didn't always work. A good, but not great, revenge film.
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JSchlansky | 60 42nd |
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The English for hearing impaired subtitles when she takes peyote were wonderful "weird deep manic laughter, increasingly high pitched buzzing, electrical bird-like sounds". When she's impaled on the tree and reaching for her earbuds, I was like, sure she wants to go out to some tunes, I get it. and dude, use your other foot to press the gas pedal!
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ikkegoemikke | 73 86th |
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A revenge-movie at best. Bloody with stylish footage. More reviews here : http://movie-freak.be
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RuruSmasher | 85 50th |
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At first look, this follows 'revenge movie' (get it?!) tropes fully. But it's actually an interesting dissection of the male gaze. All of those other revenge movies were directed by men. This one is done by a woman with much potential. There is a lot of gender commentary here, plus a lot of stylish shots to boot. Hunter becomes prey becomes hunter, becomes prey and so on. Not too shabby.
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tipar | 70 90th |
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If you like the idea of "I Spit on Your Grave" and the aesthetics of "The Bad Batch".
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Adds | 60 40th |
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Revenge had so much going for it. The acting was surprisingly good. The symbolism was well done. She actually looked like she'd gone through hell in the desert with dirty hair and grime. Camerawork and the setting was outstanding. Unfortunately I wanted more relatable believability and less pointless gore.
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| Average Percentile 46.67% from 544 Ratings |  |