2008 · thriller · crime · drama
Revanche
Directed by Götz Spielmann2h 1m2008
Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt, grief, and the desire for redemption.
Our read: Revanche (2008) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded thriller · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
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