"REVANCHE is, first and foremost, a good story, craftily told....Speilmann conveys the movie's most important information with economical images and actions that gain in meaning as they accumulate." -- Grade: B+
Rating: Not Rated
Rating Reason: n/a
Runtime: 122 minutes
DVD Code: Region 1 US, CA
Genre: Foreign Films
Color: (unknown/unconverted)
Criterion Collection
Rating: Blu-ray Disc Features:
Region [unknown]
Note: New Video Interview with Spielmann
The Making of "Revanche," a half-hour Documentary Shot on the Set
Foreign Land (Fremdland), Spielmann's Award-Winning Student Short-Film, with an Introduction by the Director
U.S. Theatrical Trailer
Plus: A Booklet Featuring an Essay by Critic Armond White
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
DTS HD Master Audio - German
Subtitles - English
No information is available at this time.
"REVANCHE is, first and foremost, a good story, craftily told....Speilmann conveys the movie's most important information with economical images and actions that gain in meaning as they accumulate." -- Grade: B+
A.V. Club "[A] darkly compelling film....Its carefully plotted, convincing scenario will leave you with a lot on your mind."
Los Angeles Times "[A] riveting, Oscar-nominated thriller....The uniformly crackerjack cast keeps things electric, yet always believable, even when behaving in ways that are shocking."
Washington Post 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "All of these actors create characters who are above all people, not performances. That's why the film is peculiarly effective; it's about their lives, not their dilemmas."
Chicago Sun-Times Included in Chicago Sun-Times's "The Best Foreign Films Of 2009" -- "A 2009 Oscar nominee."
Chicago Sun-Times 4 stars out of 5 --[I]t's a hypnotic, twisty-turny exercise in suspense -- the setting may be idyllic, but doom is never far away."
Empire 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he deliberate pacing lets us look deeper into these lives than most crime movies would trouble to do. REVANCHE is that rarest of things -- a thoughtful thriller."
Total Film "[A] restrained, somewhat creepy tale of characters whose otherwise unremarkable lives are disrupted by a traumatic event..."
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