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Revanche

Criterion / Year: 2008

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Skinopsis

Let's just say this: if we had a girlfriend who looked as absolutely fucking incredible naked as Irina Potapenko, we wouldn't think twice about killing to avenge her death. She shows off her soon-to-be legendary Austrian chest globes playing a steamy hot hooker who accompanies her small time hood boyfriend on a small town bank robbery that doesn't go as planned which leads him to contemplate some very hot-blooded revenge, but not quite as hot-blooded as we felt as she strutted about their room wearing nothing but dental floss-sized string bikini bottoms.

-- Rick Stanko

Review

A nominee for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year, this stark but gripping thriller from Austrian writer/director Goetz Spielmann is a tale of desperate love, revenge, guilt, and the fate that unites two dissimilar couples. Ukrainian-born Tamara is a prostitute in Vienna working at a brothel where the sleazy owner has the hots for the sad-faced beauty. She thinks she finds a way out of her hellhole when she begins an affair with the owner’s assistant and ex-con Alex and together they escape to the countryside. Living on a farm there, Robert and Ursula are happily married but find themselves increasingly stressed when Ursula fails to get pregnant. Needing money, Alex robs a bank but the scheme is bungled, ending with the police in pursuit of their car. When a shot (from policemen Robert) is fired at the escaping car’s tires but misses, it propels the future of the two men inexorably together. This is a masterful, thoughtful psychological drama that asks the question, “Whose fault is it if life doesn’t go your way?” (German with English subtitles)

-- Raymond Murray

Awards

- Best Foreign-Language Film

Product Format Information

DVD Widescreen: $35.99

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days
Region Code: 1
UPC: 715515052115
Catalog #: DL2812592

Studio : Criterion

Languages: German (Primary) , English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 1.85, Widescreen
Extras: Trailers
Features:
Interview(s): New video interview with Götz Spielmann
Documentaries: The Making of “Revanche,” a half-hour documentary shot on the film’s set
Short film: Foreign Land, Spielmann’s award-winning student short film, with an introduction
Booklet: featuring an essay by critic Michael Wood

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Blu-ray : $35.99

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days
Region Code: 1
UPC: 715515051217
Catalog #: DB2812593

Studio : Criterion

Languages: German DTS-HD (Primary) , English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 1.85, Widescreen
Extras: Trailers
Features:
Interview(s): New video interview with Götz Spielmann
Documentaries: The Making of “Revanche,” a half-hour documentary shot on the film’s set
Short film: Foreign Land, Spielmann’s award-winning student short film, with an introduction
Booklet: featuring an essay by critic Michael Wood